Apparently Yoshiki is doing things again. He looks remarkably good given that he's 42. Of course, when I first got into jrock I though he was the most beautiful man I'd ever seen.

To go with his new on-the-music-sceneness, he just did quite the photoshoot. Blood, straightjackets, cutting and dead...women. Bloody pianos, blood-filled bathtubs, and all sorts of fun stuff like that.

Scans of the magazine are behind this cut. Totally NSFW and if you have trouble with blood or suicidal imagery, or the Malice Mizer Illuminati video, you're going to have trouble with this.

Just...Not worksafe. Take note of that.

( 42 and still beautiful. Heavily made up, but when aren't jrock artists made up? )

Not entirely sure what I think about this X-Japan reunion thing, though. The old jrock bands seem to be doing a nostalgia thing, or are trying to hang onto their youth. Or something. Buck-Tick, X-Japan, Luna Sea.