SHOXX
Sign in to saveShoxx (stylized as SHOXX) was a Japanese music magazine published monthly by Ongakusenkasha founded by Seiichi Hoshiko. It focused on Japan's visual kei scene, featuring its most popular bands as well as new ones. It is advertised as a "Visual and Hard Shock" magazine on each cover, a title that was influenced by visual kei pioneers X Japan and taken from their album Blue Blood.
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- Instance of
- magazine
- Field of work
- visual kei
- Country of origin
- Japan
- Main subject
- music
- Official website
- www.ongakusenkasha.co.jp/shoxx/sh_main.html
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- language of work or name
- Japanese
- title
- SHOXX
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 2016-11-00
- inception
- 1990-10-00
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Shoxx (stylized as SHOXX) was a Japanese music magazine published monthly by Ongakusenkasha founded by Seiichi Hoshiko. It focused on Japan's visual kei scene, featuring its most popular bands as well as new ones. It is advertised as a "Visual and Hard Shock" magazine on each cover, a title that was influenced by visual kei pioneers X Japan and taken from their album Blue Blood.
Different artists were featured on the cover every month, along with a 20-page feature which covered them through in-depth profiles and interviews, and a poster of the cover star. Regularly featured bands included X Japan, Miyavi, Mucc, Nightmare, The Gazette, Kra, Sid, Kagrra, Alice Nine, An Cafe and LM.C, among others.
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