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New visual rock band started in the US! https://www.facebook.com/pages/DiVOID/1417608438556359?__mref=message_bubble Our first single MOTH is currently available on Bandcamp! Please check it out! Members: Kiyoshi Part Vocal Nero Part Guitar Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nerodivoid

Preview "Voyage"

it is announced at vistlip one-man live tour "Left side LAYOUT[idea]" at Shinjuku BLAZE at 2015/04/24 that their new single "OVERTURE" will be released at 2015/08/05 (3 TYPE) limited edition (1,620yen) will include CD (1 song)+DVD (including "ROUGH THE vistlip"), vister ver. (1,620yen) will include CD (1 song)+DVD (including LIVE CLIP from Ⅶth anniversary tour "Progressive Jack Pot" at TOKYO DOME CITY HALL at 2014/12/21), and lipper ver. (1,080yen) will include CD (2 songs) only [CD track list] 01.MONOGRAM 02.BABEL (included in lipper ver.) btw they will hold their 8th anniversary live "OVERTURE" at Zepp Tokyo at 2015/07/07

Thank you everyone! We will also release 2 more songs on Bandcamp later this week! Around June, we will release another new single called RAIN.

Ryutaro tweeted that he had gotten better and his fever was gone now.

I'm hyped

We have a punk thread so I thought we should have a metal thread as well. Post everything japanese and metal, old or new doesn't matter. General talk about japanese metal. Simple as that. https://hellsheadbangers.bandcamp.com/track/satanik-holocaust-2 The rocking motherfuckers in Barbatos has a new album out soon, Straight Metal War, their first new album for 9 years. I'm a fan of Barbatos and their black/thrash/punk metal, so I am looking forward to this. It's more of the same, but when your usual output is great there's no need to change so who gives a fuck about that. I love the vocals on Goodbye High School Girls. Sounds like an improved Shigeyuki Koide (Gorgon) or something. Should be cool, and I hope we hear more of that on the album. Sludge gods Corrupted has a new EP released a month ago called 喪失：Loss. Looking forward to hear this one, as it's always exciting with new material from these guys. Couldn't find any of the songs online after a quick search though.

I'm already liking this so much better than anything I heard on GANGSTA. I'm glad they're releasing something great before they take their break.

Bought and subbed! I dig it. Keep up the good work!

Nice song, indeed! Keep up the good work.

Went to the woods with a metal detector to search for stuff. Now I'm doing nothing.

I thought this was pretty great and bought your single a few days ago when my friend linked them. You guys are pretty awesome :v

Dr.アル(aru)(ex-LAGING-->Vior gloire-->the:Ø) will commence to act as their support Dr. since their live at Shibuya REX at 2015/05/04

I got this today ^^ (Malice Mizer flyer, Gab2003 vol 4, signed Amongst Foolish Enemies, The Abyss of Despair and a D message disc)

It's good to some some activity in this thread. I'll join in with some great bands that's not been mentioned yet. Sabbat https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfF1S4Ga-Zw Cult black metal band formed in 1983, and one of my all-time favourite black metal bands. They're on of those bands that releases a shitload of useless compilations, splits, live albums and EPs all the fucking time and have a huuuuuuuuuuuuuge discography, but they've released 9 full-lenghts and 5 EPs that are must have's for any fan of black metal. None deserves a score worse than 9/10. A truly great band. Magnesium https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U4pYugANabo Formed back in 1992, but since then they've only released three demos, three splits, two live albums, a single and a compilation, so it's not all that to dig into. But the little they have released is great, and Time Tells No Lies / Over the Rainbow stands as one of my all-time favourite heavy metal releases. Passionate and real. Abigail https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvQtAcUuiEQ I mentioned Barbatos in the OP, and Abigal is the main band of Barbatos' sole member Yasuyuki Suzuki. Started out as a standard black metal band, but after their debut, which is fantastic, they turned thrashier and kept playing black thrash until now. Fastkill https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q0tj4Y64JJ0 Brutal thrash metal in the vein of old Kreator, Morbid Saint and Dark Angel. Straight-forward, brutal thrash metal with nothing new to offer, but what they do offer rules. Doom https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSYNPSJeQWE Started out as a really unique progressive thrash metal before moving more towards the realm of avant-garde rock with later albums. Their first two-three albums are great. Gnome https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1093lRDqeo Japanese black metal with a strong Burzum-vibe to it. Under the Black Moon is something beyond a masterpiece, and sadly one of the most overlooked gems in history of metal. Magnificent band! Coffins https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ptl1BF6PDPU Death/doom gods. They're like a mix of Autopsy, Winter and Celtic Frost. Brilliant band! Transgressor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NgE4Z5ZcOOo Great band, and the debut album is a forgotten Autopsy and Death-influenced death metal gem. It's nothing original, but it's something very, very good. Messiah Death https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJjTchnTHBk This band formed in 86, but only released three demos between 87 and 89 before they called the quits. Shame, because the demos are amazing. Raw death metal. Anatomia https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8bwPR9hp6c Death/doom in the vein of Autopsy and Coffins. There's nothing original to be found anywhere in Anatomia's discography, but they're doing what they do really good so there's no need for originality. Will come back with more later.

their 4 more new songs will be available for listening to soon 01.bad rubbish 02.FREAK SHOW 03.Duality 04.Gain

well, there used to be a huge thread about touhou and tons of touhou bands/circles somewhere on this forum, but i think it got deleted at some point. i'll try the short version here in the spoiler, zess can probably give lots more insight.

I don't know that much but I'll just post some great tunes Already mentioned but this song is very intensifying! the ending solo ohmylord!! short lived band. loved their only album. plus that promo song or whatever it was. pretty good I enjoyed this song a lot when I first heard it. I'm not so fond with the metal sub genres and what not, but this is power metal right? I think I found this song on the DeG Pandora station or most likely could be X. but yeah I dig this. oh dude i use to look around youtube vids of touhou, which i still dont know what that is basically. like is touhou the band or an anime. and they are epic!

PSYCHEDELIC YODELING

GUNIW TOOLS will release their first single in 15 years, which will be sold at their one-man live at Koenji HIGH on May 18th. FLARE UP STARE tracklist 01. FLARE UP STARE 02. カタルシス詰まり

glorious cover art: https://fbcdn-sphotos-d-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10409247_841309422585658_3372834943822805034_n.jpg?oh=1ee0c5c49645e8b7ffc4b42b88a63b52&oe=55A1F996&__gda__=1440179452_3b2485ad06fc38ef095745495e5ccd6d

lol, u mad bro? don't worry, here's help for your spontaneous, incoherent bursts of anger and inferiority complex http://www.amazon.com/X-Cream-Penis-Enlargement-Cream/dp/B00G9GIKTW more on topic the already mentioned "church of misery" are obviously magnificent, and in a similar territory "boris" is a pretty safe bet (although most of their material probably is more on the "experimental/noise" side of things) on the blackmetal (well, post-blackmetal-hardcore-sthsth) frontier "COHOL" is a splendid ensemble, great guitarwork and drumming coupled with some complex, yet easily digestable songwriting. A+ this band "Cyberne" is probably from somewhere in the grind kind of things, which is probably more punk than metal, but whatever. their own genre description range somewhere between "intellectual hyper-extreme" to "tokyo noise ultra terror" or something, i call troll regardless the music is great, they sometimes feature a grad total of three drumkits to blast you with super fast odd timesignature goodness with insane amounts of energy. good stuff funnily enough the truest "metal" thing from a musical standpoint here is some touhou. most of the time i'm not a huge fan of these, because of either some pisspoor production or lazy songwriting (well, -arrangement) or both, but "Demetori" sure is something worth checking out. some of the most epic shreddy kitsch-laden melodic instrumental powermetal one can imagine. there probably won't ever be a post about japanese metal where i don't mention "knellt" super unknown osaka psychedelic doom entity with massive sound, great songs and superbe musicians and vocals. (unfortunately no studio stuffs on utube, but the live gives an impression...)

dieS has opened their official twitter https://twitter.com/official_dieS

"ララララ(lalalala)" lyrics: はらはら 胸が苦しい どうにも ならないけれど あの時 こうすればとか ああすればとか 馬鹿みたいだ あいつがそっと言った話も 上辺だけの関係性も 愛想笑いに疲れたことも 耳鳴り止まない そうだずっと 溢れ出す ララララ ああ パンクしそう ララララ 今日も繰り返すんだ ララララ また 意味無いこと ララララ 頭をぐるぐる回って 眠れない そろそろ 終わりにしたい 今さら 考えたって 何にも 変わらないのさ 変わらないのさ 「変わらない」 無意味な意味 もがくほどに 絡みつく 壊れちゃいそうだ ララララ こんな夜だから ララララ 眠れる薬が欲しい ララララ 羊が増え過ぎて ララララ 頭から溢れ出した お手上げだ

I need to keep my eyes on this thread real bad. So embarrassingly out of touch w/ metal in general, I was into a lot of black metal as an early teenager and I reaallly miss it. I like the new sigh stuff though! That's a start right?

im sorry but i loved the obscure remake ( its lazy as hell but tbh obscure needed the BR00TAL remake and while they didnt do much other than detune their guitars and sound more evil i think it works rlly well for a simple song like obscure. i think tsumi to batsu is a lil too weird and shifty to just metalify (??) like obscure

Dir en grey are best when they're at their most progressive and serious/grown up/what the fuck you want to call it IMO. Goes for both the old and new Dir en grey.

I agree. Where was THIS Sadie hiding! It sounds pretty nice.

3 more weeks till summer......................... waiting always kills

Really enjoyed their 1st and 3rd albums, and this new direction of theirs is sounding fantastic so far! Definitely looking forward to this one!

Brilliant. Will make sure to check this out as soon as possible. Thank you for bringing us this great news!

I think Ghostly Me was the first thing I heard from them, and I love everything else I've heard since. So I'm excited for this too.

Don't listen to male versions. KARA - Step 2PM - Go Crazy f(x) - Step Hyuna - Bubble Pop, Red 2NE1 - I Am the Best SHINee- Lucifer Most T-ara songs, but especially Sugar Free B.A.P. - Hurricane BoA - I'll Eat You Up Lip Service - Yum Yum Yum Girl's Day - Female President Block B - Her BTS - Boy In Luv

Literally...snaps? XD

I like both. The live version of the original was pretty intense. When I first heard the remake on the DS single I thought like this was the most evil song I've ever heard in my life and it was awesome.

The remake was 10x better imo. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fQjnTMzniUM I always found the original a bit....bland. This specific performance, as well as the ones on the AGE QUOD DVD....masterpiece.

echoing what ender-ender and rocketeer have said above.. i don't intend to change your mind (nor can i), but it's difficult for me to agree with how emotional attachment to the band or musicians behind the music is somehow a residue of childhood we must banish or the emblem of adolescent naivety that we all ought to eventually grow out of. ok fine, flesh and soundwaves are different things; but psychologically they aren't as separable as two disparate words on paper. after all music doesn't just fall off a tree - especially the sort of music that resonates with one on an extremely intimate level, and which profoundly affects him/her for a long time (maybe even the rest of their lives). it seems obviously logical then, at least in one's mind, to feel like the musician can speak to you (or a part of yourself) in a way that your parents or closest friends or the person physically beside you never could and never will. i should also add that lots of people i know capable of this experience lead perfectly normal and well-adjusted lives without the tiniest bit of delusional fantasies about the musicians themselves. if anything, i've always felt that any dogged insistence on uncoupling music from the people who made it is precisely the kind of thought that drives some people to happily decide that the music is all they care about, as a result of which they couldn't care less about supporting the musicians behind it since these 'strangers' are so remote and divorced from their emotional investment anyway. speaking for myself, i definitely enjoy the company of fans who are more intense (i.e. 'insane') about musicians whom they don't know in person but who means a great deal to them - and no, i see nothing 'weak' about that - over those who discuss bands and music matter-of-factly with a straight face as if they are being interviewed for their professional opinion on global warming. this latter group of people gets me terribly tetchy and over time i find it tiring to associate with them. i guess if you really want to you could call emotional attachment to the bands irrational, but for me this kind of irrationality is a lot more humanly valuable than the 'stoicism' you demand of people as if grieving a disbandment is somehow a betrayal of our own intelligence. because we are more than that.

can't wait for tracklist, cover artwork, previews etc. - new NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST stuff always makes me excited!

will someone please stop visual kei bands god why even...what kind of mess...

Alright so my confirmed watches for this season are: Arslan Senki - Since it's medieval fantasy, it's a guaranteed watch for me. Kekkai Sensen - The debut ep was a confusing mess that reminded me of K. However, it's getting better.

spot the paw-prints on my dusty mirror Hyura, you are painfully cute. XD I had some extra time in my works photostudio, so I played around for a couple of minutes

I understand people being upset with a band they enjoyed changing and playing different music compared to before but jeez at least respect that they lasted ten year's already, their ballads are pretty damn good, not "gawd awful". Sometimes fan's can just be plain jerk's, just at least give them the respect they deserve for ten year's of making music without completely calling them trash. Let's be a good community not one that other people can reference as a "At least we're not as bad as those people on Monochrome Heaven". Have an opinion please, but don't just be an absolute waste of time to anyone who genuinely want's to know about this album. Sorry for the rant and congratulations Sadie on surviving ten year's in the music industry!

Can't wait to receive this bastard at home!

here is an another reason, from the japanese vk forum tanuki, the translation is from fuckyeahtanuki.tumblr.com: "Lycaon's Breakup Okay Lycaon fans, I’ve been stalking the thread about Lycaon’s breakup, and the only thing I can come up with is that there is a lot of speculation that they’re breaking up mostly to get away from their management (Shimizuya Records), who overwork them and don’t give them enough money. There has been a lot of talk about how Lycaon is overworked and has no time to rest basically for years on tanuki, and the speculation is that they’ve finally reached a breaking point. There are some people who are skeptical of this explanation (like, “They’ve been with this company for so many years, so there has to be more to it than just that” etc. etc.) as well as a lot of people being hopeful that it’s true because they think that means Lycaon might come back under another management company, perhaps with a different name."

This kind of statement is the fastest way to start a flame war. Please refrain from doing that again.

Absolutely nothing. because Im lazy.