Volume Two is out!

 

Volume Two of Psychedelic Violence: a Visual Kei Fanzine is now available at our BigCartel store with the first orders shipping this Friday, the 30th of July! 

Volume Two covers the years 1992 and 1993, the years Visual Kei really start to ramp up towards what many recognize as the 90's scene, and include tracks from Luna Sea, Kuroyume, Malice Mizer and many others!  It will be 50+ full-bleed pages of pictures, narrative, album reviews, and more and, as always, comes with a digital and optional cassette mix tape.

I understand that for those of you that are purchasing from outside the US, shipping is pretty spendy, so in order to make it a little easier on you, I've added a "bundled shipping" option where you can order issues as they are released and I will set them aside so I can ship three or four issues at a time to save a ton on shipping. For example, shipping one issue to England or Germany is around $16USD, but shipping four issues would likely only be around $18USD. If you're cool with waiting to save some money, I'm happy to help out. Simply choose "Antarctica" as your shipping destination and I'll start bundling shipping for you.

Volume Two coming soon!

First of all, thank you to everyone who picked up a copy of the first issue of Psychedelic Violence! I sold through my initial print run and had to reprint to fulfill all the interest, which is super awesome! I see this zine project as a contiguous narrative, so I plan on keeping every issue "in print" so that folks who want to read the whole thing but didn't find it until later aren't locked out.

I've been hard at work on making Volume Two even better than the first, and it is nearing completion. I'm targeting a release date of July 26th for International Zine Month at our BigCartel store with the first orders shipping that Friday the 30th. 

Volume Two covers the years 1992 and 1993, the years Visual Kei really start to ramp up towards what many recognize as the 90's scene, and include tracks from Luna Sea, Kuroyume, Malice Mizer and many others!  It will be 50ish full-bleed pages of pictures, narrative, album reviews, and more and, as always, comes with a digital and optional cassette mix tape. See you on the 26th!

Psychedelic Violence Volume 1 released!

After too damn long, Psychedelic Violence Volume 1 is finally complete! Psychedelic Violence is a fanzine history of visual-kei, a uniquely Japanese musical movement that pairs punk, glam, and goth rock sounds with amazing and sometimes over the top aesthetics. I've been working on the conceptual bones of this project off and on since about 2013 and decided in 2019 to convert it over to a quarterly(ish) zine format and share it with the world!

This inaugural issue is 40 pages of narrative history, photos, album reviews and more, tracing the genre's inception from 1982 to 1991, starting with Boowy and the ensuing '80s "band craze", the advent of Japanese goth, the emergence of VK pioneers X and Buck-Tick and their rise to stardom, and concluding with the debut of Luna Sea. 

The zine comes with an accompanying cassette mixtape so you can follow along on your stereo, and also includes download instructions for a digital version of the mixtape and for loads of other bonus content.

If you're here because you ordered the zine, thanks for reading! If you have any comments, questions, corrections, or have a submission for any future issues, shoot me a line at psyvifanzine (at) gmail.com. Stay tuned for updates on Volume 2 (1992-1993), which should be released later this summer. I'll be posting about my progress as it happens.

If you're looking for a copy of the first issue, you can send me an email at the above address or slide into my DMs on Insta @psyvifanzine and we'll work out how to get it into your hot little hands. I've also set up a BigCartel shop where you can get issues, but contacting me directly will save you $0.50 an issue since I won't be paying processing fees with Swipe.

I'm always looking for any content anyone would like to contribute for future issues, be that photos, fanart, collages, stories, poems, makeup tips, crossword puzzles, cosplay; anything that you think might be fun to include, send it my way!