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JILUKA made several announcements after finishing up their 5th anniversary one man at TSUTAYA O West. We don't have a lot of details but the DVD is set to be released in May and the Mini album is set for October. Additionally JILUKA has annouced they will perform Overseas for the 1st time ever in May November. No other details have been announced. Setlist for the 5th anniversary one man and possible DVD setlist.

Sad/shocking to see. I really liked seeing the unity and longevity in bands like Merry and MUCC when other younger bands rotate through members like every few weeks. Anyway, I'm happy to see the band continue on. I've been very happy with their music. Even when I'm not fully on board with a release initially, I've always eventually gotten around to loving it. I think they really should seek a replacement. The duel guitars is something that I always felt was very strong in this band compared to most other bands and I can't imagine Merry without someone else in that position.

虹彩☆RaveL will disband this March after playing one more live in Tokyo and Osaka. More details will follow soon. I will update all details later on vk.gy. Please wait a little bit more until I receive more details officially! thanks : 3 ___ Own comment; I already expected this happen since last year; almost no lives; no design requests etc. Also fans suggested that they will disband soon since September or so.. So for me it doesn't come as a shock to.. I was waiting for it...

Such a bummer. I doubt there's anything dramatic behind it though, he's probably just sick of the band life after two decades. Can't really blame him. I can't imagine Merry with a brand new member after all this time, but I also can't see how they'll keep playing their old material with just one guitarist. Maybe they'll just hire a support member.

Their 1st minialbum スケアクロウ-1 (SCARECROW-1) will be released at their live on 20.03.2020 for a price of 2500yen. Tracklist: 1.蜘蛛の糸 (kumo no ito) 2.感傷教育 (kanshou kyouiku) 3.「ぬけがら」 (nukegara) 4.トラウマ (trauma) 5.-存在証明- (-sonzai shoumei-) 6.君の桜が咲く頃に。(kimi no sakuragasaku goroni.)

stockholm syndrome luv x

I just want to go home and listen to all Kenichi's songs on repeat... Jigsaw's onto something with his sparse credits on recent albums, but still I was not ready for this. I can't even imagine Merry without Kenichi. I hope he finds happiness and the band continue being strong - they've been through so much!

this is heartbreaking 😞 I haven't been feeling their music for quite a while now, I'm still hoping they can push through this.

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bitch what the fuck....:( 💔

congrats @ booking russia, p sure good sisters will sell it out we all know they abandoned VK because russian mitsu in tokyo cut off dumb leech that is Retsu sorry to burst ur bubble!!!

After being a longtime lurker, I decided to make an account. I've been a VK fan since around 2008, when I was 11. I kinda got out of it for a while but recently got back in after rediscovering all the music I listened to when I was a kid. Some of my faves are the Gazette, BUCK-TICK, Lareine, Versailles, Kamijo, Malice Mizer, early 90s LUNA SEA, cali gari, etc etc. I'm also a huge sucker for that old school Key Party aesthetic. Nice to finally be a member here. Thank you all for the laughs you've given me since I discovered this forum one fateful morning whilst looking for bandomen tea 🙏

second track is revealed as "Miserytail -proto-"

Soooo MERRY just announced that Kenichi (guitars) will be leaving the band in May 2020. A final tour is in the works as five-piece. Afterwards, MERRY will continue with four members (no word yet on whether they will recruit a support or fulltime 2nd guitarist). Announcement on YT: Message from the band: Jesus, this sucks... they've been practically together without any member changes for almost 20 years... Hoping for the best!

極東ロマンス (Kyokutou Romance) new digital single "3 Steps to the ultimate BLACK" has been released at 2019/12/22 (3 songs) [tracklist] 1. 白塗りの唇 (Shiranuri no Kuchibiru) 2. 壊れた浪漫 (Kowareta Roman) 3. 紙幣舞う降誕祭 (Shihei Mau Koutansai)

demo band モア (MORE) will change to new band "ゼラ (Zera)" and will formally commence activities at 2020/2/6. Vo.氷翠 (Hisui) (ex-MEL (on Gt.) -->テマネキ (Temaneki) --> 麺はコシが命 (Menwa Koshi ga Inochi)-->モア (MORE) (as ハヤト (hayato))) Gt.Aqui (ex-モノドール (Monodole)-->FORTE-->DIEALO) Gt.ミナギ (minagi) (ex-ジェミニア (Jeminia) --> 麺はコシが命 (Menwa Koshi ga Inochi)-->モア (MORE)) Ba.流 (ryu) (ex-Revine --> 麺はコシが命 (Menwa Koshi ga Inochi)-->モア (MORE)) https://kalmian-joker.jp/zera/

It would be awesome if they released a song called "Jiluka"

Bought all the shit except for the black tees because they looked like shit 😕

NEW AGE CULTURE

^ Yeah, honestly I hope they either go with a support member at the very least, and not end up like some lame-ass bands who have one guitarist and a wall of playback while playing gigs.

Death Note coming back in 2 days and NIGHTMARE is also back this year. how about we get a good old reunion here and have them do the theme song if the new Death Note story gets an adaptation 👀

The old albums had that info in the booklets iirc. I don't have my MERRY CDs with me at the moment so I just quickly ran through that one lyrics translation site, it has the composition credits for everything that is known I guess (probably also taken from the albums' booklets?). Also yeah, it's weird to imagine the band without Kenichi... I just hope both him and the band will find their ways that will make them happy.

Randomly decided a few weeks ago to go vegan. I've slipped up a few times and did vegeterian instead because I was just too lazy to go grocery shopping, but man honestly I dont feel like I'm missing out on much. I feel the exact same as before (which was usually pretty good lol)

Your twitter account closed 😵 Vocalist is ex GCMZｰガチマジｰ https://twitter.com/voice_yuma_0120?s=20

Maybe he wasn't feeling them either... I don't know about the last mini album and the full-length, but before those the number of Kenichi's songwriting credits were on a steady decline from album to album as far as I could see.

I haven't really been feeling most of their recent releases AT ALL but this still fucking sucks Hope they'll pull a cali gari and keep on trucking even in spite of the lineup change (or alternatively like @nekkichi said recruit sb who can give em some extra oomph)

Since no one here knows about it because the band only ever mentioned it like twice, theres a new Shiva single that came out at the beginning of the month, available everywhere digitally

not good 💔 I hope they'll pull an angelo with a replacement w. someone who can actually upgrade their sound though.

King zeebra, now with 0 artists.

they will hold their 1st anniversary oneman live "極東ロマンス 1st Anniversary Live" at 2020/04/11 at Takadanobaba CLUB PHASE

Hello everyone! I've compiled a little list of Instagram pages of artists I follow: Aryu (MORRIGAN) - @aryu_morrigan Ryo (kannivalism) - @kodavalism Hatch (SRASH NOTES GARDEN) - @hatch_bell RYO:SUKE (WING WORKS) - @ryosuke_wing Shiina Mio (UNiTE) - @shiinamio_ig Chisa (DIV) - @div_chisa Shogo (DIV) - @div_shogo Takeru (SuG) - @sug_takeru miyavi - @miyavi_ishihara HiLo (ex-NAINE) - @kvnc_hilo Tenten (MBHI) - @tairakazuhiro Shou (A9, DIAWOLF) - @a9_shou Ruki (the GazettE) - @ruki_nilduenilun Please post any other you may know and I've missed!

BONUS:

Yomi is the biggest asshole in this. Like there’s already a Gianizm collection, dude. What are you doing?

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Can't wait to see a low-res photo of the cover art a week after release! jk, looking forward to the single~

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I found some ~essence~ for retsu

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dove they're literally protecting themselves from getting gutted by a stray gya with a paper knife, western celebs can afford bodyguards x

Dumbasses thinking that they can get away with smoking Weed and then getting caught... This ain't the US. Stop it.

2 re recorded songs across 5 CDs. Great job.

1:43 NIPPLE (for those who care about that...) ôÓ

My two cent is that angura-kei is a music/ visual/ theatrical exploration of the post war Japanese identity. I think a lot of artists in the Heisei period (post-Bubble and pre-millennium, so basically the 90s), the so-called "lost generation", questioned their place in a post-modern Japan that went through a century of extremes of war and peace. Some found inspiration and identified with the existential anxieties expressed by the counter-cultural movements in the 1970s, led by figureheads like Terayama Shuuji and Shibusawa. And the raccoon people have carried that subversive and transgressive context on to the present time by toying with time: some like the Inugami, Guru guru eigakan, etc. deliberately dress in pre-1945 ways with ghost/ butoh white face paint and sing about folktales and myths, as if to remind their modern audience of an innate Japaneses-ness by digging into the past; whilst the bleep bloop raccoon people, such as Metronome, Shinjuku Gewalt, etc. are trying to reconcile the technologically fast advancing future Japan with the lost identity in the present. Of course, a lot of raccoon people feel the need to dress like characters from Terayama's films and make nagomu music is probably because many were born around the 1970s and be deeply influenced by all the social upheavels then. But I think it is because of their play on time, by the subversive questioning of the past and future in a transgressive fashion, that I think set angura kei bands apart from other bands that dress in kimono or sing kayoukyoku.

Looking forward to it ! Their first single is a banger

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Chain×maiL 1st single "DOUBTER" will be released at 2019/09/24.

Here's all the ones I follow that aren't already listed PELICAN FANCLUB - pelicanfanclub FAR EAST MENTION MANNEQUINS - femm____ Role - roleistheband DOGGY HOOD$ - doggyhoodscult Country Yard - countryyard Inception of Genocide - inception_of_genocide SWANKY DANK - swankydank_official MY FIRST STORY - myfirststoryofficial GRAND MASTER - grandmaster_jp ONE OK ROCK - oneokrockofficial THE MORTAL - the_mortal2015 TOWA TEI - towatei wrong city - wrongcity ARTEMA - artemaofficial COAST TO COAST - coasttocoastjpn WANIMA - wanima_wanima Parasana - parasanajp RIZE - rize_official MAKE MY DAY - makemydayjapan SURVIVE SAID THE PROPHET - survivesaidtheprophet CLEAVE - cleave_jp LOYAL TO THE GRAVE - loyaltothegrave LOST - lostjapan HER NAME IN BLOOD - hnibband Crossfaith - crossfaithjapan BEFORE MY LIFE FAILS - bmlftokyo coldrain - coldrain_official CRYSTAL LAKE - crystallake777 Ken LLoyd (Oblivion Dust/FAKE?) - kenlloyd_foa Kouryu (ex My BACTERIA HEAT IsLAND) - kry_u Reiki (LOUD GRAPE) - loudgrape_reiki Ryuichiro Narumi (HEAD PHONES PRESIDENT) - narumixhpp Hiro (ex FACT) - herovox Tomohiro (ex FACT) - factomo Adam (ex FACT) - adskillz Eiji (ex FACT) - ekkkkn Yuichi (SWANKY DANK) - swanky_dank_yuchi Shun (SWANKY DANK) - shun_swankydank Koji (SWANKY DANK) - koji_swanky_dank Kota (SWANKY DANK) kota_swankydank Taama (ROACH) - roach_taama Daisukie (ROACH) - daisuke_drums Godri (SiM) - simgodri Sin (SiM) - yureneiro Mah (SiM) - mahfromsim Yuki Miyamoto (Country Yard) - yuki1986miyamoto Hayato (Country Yard) - countryyard_hyt Masack (MY FIRST STORY) - masackdrum Nob (MY FIRST STORY) - nob_fromus_mfs Teru (MY FIRST STORY) - teru0528 Sho (MY FIRST STORY) fromus_mfs Tatsuya Yamamoto (Ender) - tatsuya_ender Atsushi Oj (Ender) - at_ender Morinaga (LOST) - morinagalost Daisuke (LOST) - lostchandai Tomohiro (waterweed) - tomohiro_ohga Kohei Ogawa (ARTEMA) - kohey_artema Kaz (ARTEMA) - kaztema Takeshi (SECRET 7 LINE) - ttv_s7l U-ske (MAKE MY DAY) - u_ske_mmd Yoko (UNLIMITS) - unlimits_yoko Alex (Parasana) - alex_parasana Masato (coldrain) - masato_coldrain Sugi (coldrain) - sugi_coldrain Katsuma (coldrain) - katsuma_drums Ryo (coldrain) - coldrain_rxyxo_bass Kaoru (Vision of Fatima) - iamreindeer After (Visuon of Fatima) - vof_after Tomoya (ONE OK ROCK) - tomo10969 Toru (ONE OK ROCK) - toru_10969 Ryota (ONE OK ROCK) ryota_0809 Taka (ONE OK ROCK) 10969taka Jose (TOTALFAT) - jose.totalfat Shun (TOTALFAT) - totalfat.shun Bunta (TOTALFAT) buntatf Takuma (10 FEET) - takumamitamura Hayato (MEANING) - evilhayato666 Shige (HARVEST) - harvestshige Yudai (SURVIVE SAID THE PROPHET) - yudai_sstp Ivan (SURVIVE SAID THE PROPHET) - kwongivan Yosh (SURVIVE SAID THE PROPHET) - yosh_sstp Hiroki (Crossfaith) - hirocrossfaith Tatsuya (Crossfaith) - tatsucrossfaith Kenta Koie (Crossfaith) - kencrossfaith Teru (Crossfaith) - terucrossfaith Kazuki (Crossfaith) - kazucrossfaith Sam (MAKE MY DAY) - sammmdvo Julian (MAKE MY DAY) - julian0114 Victor (wrong city) - itovictorkotaro Ryosuke (a crowd of rebellion) - ryosukeacor YD (CRYSTAL LAKE) - yd___ Shinya (CRYSTAL LAKE) - shinyahori Ryo (CRYSTAL LAKE) - ryo_crystallake Gaku (CRYSTAL LAKE/HONE YOUR SENSE/SOULJAPAN) - gakutaura Teru (CRYSTAL LAKE) - terutheproven Ikepy (HER NAME IN BLOOD) - ikepy_hnib Daiki (HER NAME IN BLOOD) - daikihnib TJ (HER NAME IN BLOOD) - tj_hnib Umebo (HER NAME IN BLOOD) - umeboshigeki_hnib Makoto (HER NAME IN BLOOD) - makotohnib Nob (BEFORE MY LIFE FAILS) - nob_bmlf Shinji (BEFORE MY LIFE FAILS) - shinji_bmlf Kazuki (BEFORE MY LIFE FAILS) - kazukibmlf May come back for a second post of even more no1curr bandmen/artist accounts but for now these are some of my faves.