AKAITSUKI

About

赤い月 · Red Moon

Akaitsuki — Japanese for “red moon” — is a Northwest blackgaze project, setting the wall of sound of black metal and shoegaze against piano, electronics and dark dance music.

It began in 2011 with Purpose of the Moon, a five-song EP recorded in Hollywood, California. In 2015 came the full-length A K A I T S U K I, an album about a man’s journey across the sea, with songs like “Ryujin,” “Welcome Sun” and “Ryukyu Islands.”

Since then the project has kept moving: the EDM/dark-metal EP Black Metal Dance Club (2023), an alternate cut of the 2015 album (2024), covers of Lebanon Hanover’s “Gallowdance” and Provoker’s “Rose in a Glass,” and the Air-inspired house track “La femme d’edm” (2025).

These days you can catch Akaitsuki live on Twitch: writing, recording and playing piano late into the night.