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You're welcome! They have lot of additional information that you only know if you go to instores/read interviews, so I try to share it as much as I can to the fans who doesn't have access to that or don't speak japanese. It makes the band way more enjoyable

VIP-limited edition : 5000 yen + taxes CD : 01. 壊れたピアノ(Kowareta piano) 02. サイコ(Psycho) 03. アイリス(Iris) 04. ヴァンパイア(Vampire) 05. In the shadows 06. 積想(Seki sou) 07. 百合と翼(Yuri to tsubasa) 08. カウントダウン(Countdown) 09. Living Dead + Special booklet ( live pictures from their tour 『壊れたピアノとリビングデッド』(Kowareta piano to living dead) and 『壊れたピアノとリビング デッド feat. 殺シノ調ベ』(Kowareta piano to living dead feat koroshi no shirabe) Regular edition : 3000 yen + taxes CD : 01. 壊れたピアノ(Kowareta piano) 02. サイコ(Psycho) 03. アイリス(Iris) 04. ヴァンパイア(Vampire) 05. In the shadows 06. 積想(Seki sou) 07. 百合と翼(Yuri to tsubasa) 08. カウントダウン(Countdown) 09. Living Dead

If you dislike RANDS you probably like THE RAID

Their live on 2019.03.25 at OSAKA MUSE is free but if you buy a ticket, a DVD (5 live songs from that live) will be sent to you later on. You will have to fill the application form so that they will be able to send it.

Keeping the memory of this band alive. People on this board and elsewhere definitely like worse shit so I'd call them underrated. Totally unique sound, even when they were doing "fillers." Tzk's and MiA's interplay is something that happened once and will never happen again. Tzk's lyrics too are so particular to him even in translation

It's alright; pretty nondescript and formulaic. A+ to whomever at double river suggested that they should have 1 guy ghostwrite for 2 bands at once.

It's keyboardist Tooru Yoshida.

people who hate jazz music probably like THE RAID

I can't believe that guy on the left photobombed MUCC

I hope not, some of us like "shit-kei"

That’s great and appreciated! I know for me personally, I haven’t been so interested in a VK band as much as I am them in a long time

#JapaneseFemaleBassistsKillinIt!

This kind of music mades me hate his voice. It fit well in stuff like PSYCHO, but in this song it sounds awful. One of the most overrated vocalists in the whole scene lol

here everyone

carefully dropping a jinkaku radio comeback by the end of next year, the og art-kei legends are wasting their time separated. kisaki selling bootleg nintendo handhelds is one thing we def deserve as a fandom 👏👏👏

Their new mini album 「窒息に遊ぶ」(Chissoku ni asobu) will be released on 2019.06.05.

Their new album 『壊れたピアノとリビングデッド』(Kowareta piano to living dead) will be released on 2019.02.13. Vip members will be able to pre-order the album which will come out in two types.

Omg I totally love iDA version He has so beautiful and powerful voice

Into it

yeah, and this is good-kei. looks could Maybe be better but sound is really good. nothing wrong with it.

It's those two new members they had for like 5 minutes a while back fused together DBZ style

lynch. will release an album/EP, lest the world ceases to exist Mysterious bands will continue to be mostly trash, but the fad will show no signs of stopping DISREIGN will release another single or two and then go into hibernation mode, again, until The GazettE release something fresh JILUKA will release an acoustic EP, with breakdowns NCBL will recruit some unknowns, ditch the visuals and release an uninspired metalcore album (Cazqui's guitar wankery shall be missed) B.P.R. bands will form a union and seize the means of production NAZARE goes on to be bigger than DIMLIM (quite undeservedly) Yoshiki will proudly announce another signature product (I dunno, cheese, maybe) Ryo will FINALLY release original music, either in a band or solo

you're appointed as that one last stan nogod needs more than ever r.n., keep it up x

The DVD set will include both full lenght performances! Hence the price! I was expecting a regular edition with only the last live, but it's clearly not happening now.

- Kiryu plays in Yoyogi National Gymnasium or another arena (makuhari maybe) - Another BP band plays in arena (Maybe Royz in Budokan) - vistlip play budokan - a band to resist records disband - GazettE release one single

I was actually trying to say it's garbage but nice attempt @emmny

Thank you for the additional information. I guessed there had to be something about those ages, but it makes sense now. You can just feel it, but my Japanese isn’t good enough to fully understand, so thank you 😁

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I like it, I look forward to listen to the full mini. They had their first live today at 高田馬場AREA

Woah, the last live set list is actually pretty good ! Obviously because it is mostly old songs. I hope they release the DVD with the actual full length performance of the last live and not the one before that.

I know right! That gives a lot of meaning to the words "Maybe I've thrown away my life once, but I was saved by music and managed to survive" before singing that song. I love how he write songs about the ages that "marked" him. Juugo is about when his classmate passed away, and he started to question God when he was 15. I hope he write more "age" songs 😮

I've been obsessed with 呪縛郷 from La'veil MizeriA lately, although if they want to do like old bands they should shoot in run-down buildings and forests. Those sets where all bands film are getti tired angnd contribute to no dramatism.

thank you! now the kizu concept makes even more sense. of course what happened to him is awful, but it's nice to understand that the whole "we want to save people" idea is not some fake shit.

I showed Dir's "Cage" to a friend to isn't remotely aware of VK or even J-rock, and he said "Wow, this sounds like Iron Maiden". VK always sounded very unique to my ear. But in the last year, since I was not very fond of the (Western) classics of punk, grunge, gothic, metal, and their respective subgenres and "post" scenes, although I always knew that theorically VK made itself over Western artist, the gap between VK and Western artists came up as much shorter than I tought, with only few elements of it (musical, visual, lyrical, performatic) keeping actually "unique". In the case of "Cage", since I haven't heard much from Iron Maiden, what can you say about what my friend said? Are you agree with him?

I wish Discogs let people mute certain sellers notifications (I'm looking at you scalper putting the same stuff on again and again spamming my alerts with your 10x overpriced stuff).

I'm just gonna also point out for many of my friends that fit the narrative of jumping from J-rock to K-pop, and not just J-pop itself... I can tell you the number 1 reason was accessibility. Japan labels started closing many inroads to the west, region blocking their channels, having all the fan videos deleted, and making it very hard to buy stateside unless you went to a type of convention. Where when the "boom" of interest happened that wasn't the case. And also.. the price. K-pop is DRASTICALLY cheaper to collect. So in a way, yes it fills their need for ~exotic Asian musics~ because it's still fun and brightly colored without being so time consuming and wallet draining. I won't even go into the difference in fandom cultures here. But I don't think a lot of J-music fans see it from the other side and how much Japan intentionally shut out a lot of the more casual western fans.

Well, back to college tomorrow. It's not gonna be fun getting up at the ungodly hour of 7:30am tomorrow, but I gotta do it

Skipped the best album but definitely gonna buy this

Yeah, Moi Dix Mois is pretty much 'Programmed Harpsichords Non-Stop: The Band'. Not sure whether they had an influence on these newer bands tho.

Just got around to checking out the MV, I'm always a sucker for "We Live In A Society" darkness so I translated all the questions and adverts. 1234 for the contestants, () for notes, [] for vid boxes.

so does it become a "reveal" or an "unboxing"?

Let me guess, this is gonna be another 'mystery band' trying to drum up hype while having totally unknown members, who are gonna end up dropping a '0th' release and vanish into the great beyond within the scope of 2 years tops

@darkindastad "It was fun. But there are still things that I have to do, my duty, my mission. Maybe I've thrown away my life once, but I was saved by music and managed to survive. Thats why, I don't know if I will be able to sing for the rest of the limited days I have, but thinking that I want to save people with music, I was able to go on till today. I really mean it. I'm glad that I'm alive from the bottom of my heart, but please, let me keep singing"

即ち性。(sunawachi saga.) will release a new visual in February 2019. Later on, they'll distribute a new single at their free oneman live on March 30, and will release their official first maxi-single (3 tracks) on April 20.

Yooo, like my status if you're down to participate in another trade-off!

Kizu gonna come out with a full length album. It’s time, lol.

mahiro is me going through Kiryu's tracklists x

Friend of mine was recently in Japan and was watching a cooking show and Natsuki showed up. Apparently he now owns or works on an avocado farm, if I remember correctly?