Necronomidol is a Japanese

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heavy metal group, formed in 2014. They have been on more than three international tours and have performed in over 12 countries.

Overview

The group is a prominent act in the

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and

kawaii metal Kawaii metal (also known as idol metal, cute metal, J-pop metal or kawaiicore) is a musical genre that blends elements of heavy metal and J-pop that was pioneered in Japan in the early 2010s. The genre combines both Eastern and Western influenc ...

movements. Their name is taken from the

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, the famous fictional

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featured in the work of H. P. Lovecraft, combined with the Japanese words for

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(魔, ''ma'') and

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(ネクロ魔, ''nekuro ma''), and "idol". Necronomidol has performed once at the H.P. Lovecraft Film Festival and twice at CthulhuCon, in 2018 and 2020. A number of composers have worked with them, such as Mr. Perkele, who has worked on tracks such as "Ritual" and "Dawnslayer". The group is managed by Ricky Wilson, an American expat living in Tokyo. They began with visuals inspired by a traditional Japanese " shrine maiden" look with "haunting" overtones, first seen in their earliest videos from 2014, but their image later incorporated elements of the Cthulhu mythos as well as modern Japanese and Western horror.

Musical style

Necronomidol's style has been described as fusing

J-pop J-pop ( ja, ジェイポップ, ''jeipoppu''; often stylized as J-POP; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as , is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the ...

with genres ranging from industrial music to punk rock to

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to witch house to

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to, most notably, heavy metal, specifically the style of

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. Because of this, they have been described as

and

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Discography

Studio albums

*''Nemesis'' (2016) *''Deathless'' (2017) *''Voidhymn'' (2018) *''vämjelseriter'' (2021)

EPs

*''From Chaos Born'' (2016) *''Dawn Slayer'' (2017) *''Strange Aeons'' (2018) *''Scions of the Blasted Heath'' (2019) *''l'appel du vide'' (2022)

Singles

*''Ikotsu Moufubuki'' (2015) *''Reikon Shoumetsu'' (2015) *''Etranger'' (2015) *''Exitum'' (2015) *''TUPILAQ'' (2020) *Santa Sangre (2020)

Members

Current

*Himari Tsukishiro (2017–present)

Past

*Kaede (2014) *Kagura Nagata (2014) *Aisa Miyano (2014) *Rio Maeda (2014) *Setsuko Henmei (2014–2015) *Rū Tachibana (2014–2015) *Karen Kusaka (2015–2016) *Hotaru Tsukumo (2014–2016) *Sari (2014–2019, left to focus o
solo work
*Hina Yotsuyu (2015–2019, left to join MANACLE) *Kunogi Kenbishi (2019) *Risaki Kakizaki (2014-2020 left to join MANACLE) *Rei Imaizumi (2016–2020, left to join MANACLE) *Michelle (2019–2020) *Shiki Rukawa (2020-2021, left to focus on solo work
her YouTube channel
*Roa Toda (2020-2021, left after originally going on hiatus, ha
collaborated with Shiki on Shiki's YouTube channel
*Maria Hoshizora (2021, left because of health issues) *Nana Kamino (2020-2021) *Towa Amou (2021-2022) *Hisui Kurogane (2022) *Meica Mochinaga (2021-2022) *Malin Kozakura (2021-2022)

Timeline

References

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