• Interview with Kaya

    In 2002, Kaya made his vocal debut in the Mana produced two-man unit, Schwarz Stein. In 2004, Schwarz Stein disbanded, and departing from the label the band was signed to, Kaya became a free singer. Using “aesthetics” as his main theme, Kaya conducts his activities with the goals of “the revolution of the aesthetic senses” and the “liberation of sexuality” in mind, and manages his own lyrics, CD jacket designs, make-up and costume designs as well as the organization... Read→

  • Cure on your iphone!

    You can now catch up on the latest news, styles and interviews all in the palms of your hands AND … in English! Cure is proud to present a totally new way to read and review Cure Magazine. A free issue of Cure Visual-Kei, “Vol. 0”, is now available. Get your hands on 31 complete pages of visual-kei information! “Vol. 0” features… Special article – Versailles-Philharmonic Quintet : “Born of Death, a new story begins here” Special article 2 – Matenrou Opera: Towards... Read→

  • Interview with born

    born is a five member band that began together under RENNY AMY, which was active from August 2005, until December 31st, 2006. Shortly after, the same five members created D&L, and eventually changed their name to ‘born’ on April 9th, 2008 with the sponsored event at Takadanobaba AREA called “born presents 「bug scremo vol.01」”. About a week later, they released their first demonstration single, entitled 「Dust pain」, which was followed by the tour, 「Abnormal skin’s」. Since... Read→

  • Interview with Satsuki

    砂月-Satsuki- began his solo career on February 14th, 2009, after spending seven years as the vocalist for RENTRER EN SOI. His first solo release, 「AWAKE」 came out via his online shop on May 9th, and that month he also started his 「AWAKENING TO MOONLIGHT」 tour, which even made a stop in Los Angeles, California. His next release, 「CRYSTAL」 was out on August 21st, which was followed by his 「PEER INTO YOUR CRYSTAL HEART」 tour, where he preformed in both Tokyo and Las Vegas, Nevada. ... Read→

  • Q & A with a:Vout

    The staff at Shattered-Tranquility.net is proud to bring you another new interview, this time with the young visual band α:Vout! α:Vout is a Tokyo-based indies band signed to the Speed Disk record label that started activity in March of 2009 as a 5 piece band, with the lineup of Joy on vocals, MIROKU and Sou on guitars, yu-ma on bass, and Sin on drums. Their first live was in late April, just before they released their first maxi single, 「BLACK OUT」, on May 20th. They wasted no time in putting... Read→

  • Q & A with Misaruka

    The staff at Shattered-Tranquility.net is very proud to bring everyone a brand new interview with the up and coming band, ミサルカ [Misaruka]! Misaruka is a relatively new visual indies band based out of Tokyo. They started as a session band, and flourished into a full fledged band on June 12th, 2008. Just a little less than two months later, they released their first single 「-amakusa-」 on August 2nd, 2008. Their music and aesthetics have made them fairly popular witin the visual scene in... Read→

The holiday season is upon us and to celebrate here at Shattered-Tranquility.net, we’re having a contest! There’s nothing like winning some visual goodness around the holidays.

So here’s how it works. We’ve created a little advent calendar. You know, those awesome calendars that usually come with chocolates? Well, instead of chocolates you get a trivia question. Every day from December 1st until December 24th a new trivia question will be available.

Answer the question correctly and you will be e-mailed a ticket to our holiday raffle that will take place on December 26th. Please note you are only allowed to submit one answer per question, per day. After your initial submission, other entries will be deleted.

There is a catch. The questions will all be posted at midnight EST and be available for answering for a period of 23 hours and 59 minutes. The form will close at exactly 11:59 EST every day, so if you don’t get your answer in within that time frame you will not be eligible for that day’s ticket.

But never fear, there’s 24 days and 24 chances! The questions are all based around visual bands and there may be the odd one about the site thrown in for good measure. Some questions will be easy and others will be hard.

Advent Calendar

We even went as far as actually making our own little advent calendar. Days that are black and white have already ‘been opened’.

 

 

 

The Prizes

At last the prize amounts have been decided, so you know what exactly you’re going up for in the raffle.

As it is the Christmas season and due to the number of participants, we’ve decided to have a total of five prizes. Each prize can be redeemed as either a gift certificate at CDJapan or through Paypal. If you win and neither of these options work for you, we can always figure something else out; we’re more than happy to work around what you can do and what you’re comfortable with. 

With that said, the five prize denominations are as follows:
2 x 3000 yen
2 x 4000 yen
1 x 7000 yen

If anyone’s curious as to why we decided to go this way, we figured by giving away money instead of specific prizes everyone who wins has a chance to get something they actually want.

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  • Jinx: Yay! I’m excited to hear something new from them. ♥

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