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UNDER FALL JUSTICE New Single『肯定』(Koutei) 2020.04.13 CD 1.肯定 (Koutei) 2.君の悲痛..僕の悲痛 (Kimi no hitsuu..Boku no hitsuu) 3.赤い日記帳 (Akai nikkichou) DVD 1.肯定 (MV) 2.肯定 (MV Making)

Leetspeak monsters will release their fourth maxi-single titled "Beltane" on 2020.04.15 in two types. Limited Edition (CD+DVD, 3 songs, 1,900 yen +taxes) Regular Edition (CD, 3 songs, 1,500 yen +taxes)

been a while since i showed my desktop. i recently transitioned from a laptop (about time!). also pretty excited for the ffvii remake i still can't keep a clean desktop, it was way more chaotic on my laptop Dx

guys, listen i love luna sea

Sawano's music is always a treat to listen to~ Love his works! I really enjoy the music he made for the Xenoblade Chronicles X game.

I've been thinking about this all day since I read the news on twitter and I think there may be some inner turmoil within the band. Kagami keeps doing side-projects and session lives and such, and even on here people complain that they're the least sounding VK band in the scene. So my guess (and this is all conjecture of course) is that Naoki wants to do something more visual and the rest of the band is still digging the Western metalcore vibe, so Naoki peace-d out. This is also taking into context how quickly he left. On the website, the full comment said something about a difference in the production of the album as well, so maybe he wanted to take his leave before something was released he didn't want to fully endorse. The suddenness is the most shocking bit of this news.

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since nobody cares to translate Dr.Naoki will depart on February 29 due to differences in direction. Dexcore will continue activities.

AOT soundtrack is too fucking insane. Hiroyuki Sawano couldn't have made a better OST

盲目ダイアリー(Moumoku Diary) has published a new look and his first MV. "盲目ダイアリー(Moumoku Diary)" members: vo.ちせ (Chise) (ex.DIFFER.) gt. Takuya key. 潤 (Jun) (ex.missconduct, ex.VELOCE, ex.棕櫚-shuro-) ba. Yukari (ex.Noire Neige) dr.屑希 (Kuzuki) (ex.Metis Gretel, 革命前夜(Kakumei Zenya)) ohp

lynch. will begin a special project to commemorate their 15th anniversary. There will be 10 acts for this project (11 if you count act zero). As of now only the first four have been revealed. They have also opened a special website for this occasion. http://pc.lynch.jp/lynch._XV/ Here you can find details on the acts and comments made by others bands.

Bandmen: *leaves band* Tanuki: IT'S BECAUSE HE GOT A GIRL PREGNANT WHILE SMOKING HEROIN AND BEAT UP THE BABY WHILE PUNCHING HIS FIST UP A MITSU'S ASS

and this time he's half naked on the streets, izumi is amazing lol. totally loving this! they also released a new look

I hate so much the fact that no one from -OZ- went to another band. I also miss Natsuki's voice so much, but I'm glad he's doing what he likes!

The sad thing is, this is so true. haha.

He would make so much money, it's not even funny.

Finally got to see Kælan Mikla yesterday ❤️ + ルヴィーユ's stuff 💕

If it's a full-on war, Kyo's going to branch out into more than just 'video and audio compilations'. Perhaps have his own erect penis cast as a dildo to release with the next album. Rammstein did it (NSFW, obviously).

Very cool. Banging indeed! And yeah, I can't believe Ice T is 62 either. Such a cool guy, albeit a low tier bad (but funny) actor.

The band is currently doing a short 2-man tour with gibkiy gibkiy gibkiy titled "GIVE ME BLOOD". Here's the setlist from the 2nd stop (2020.02.21 名古屋SPADE BOX) 01. 25 02. lunch box 03. 溺れる魚 04. monster tree 05. 盲目の羽根と星を手に 06. follow the night light 07. ドリスからの手紙 08. Through the looking glass 09. quo vadis 10. re:make (with Kazuma [gibkiy gibkiy gibkiy]) EN 01. additional cause for sorrow 02. 蟻塚 And here are some recent pics and a live snippet of them playing "lunch box":

TYPE 全身全霊海賊盤 Pirate Limited Edition 12 Tracks + 13.曼陀羅A (Instrumental) 14.不夜城 (Instrumental) 15.閃光花火 (Instrumental) 16.金魚蜂 (Instrumental) INFO http://www.d-out.info/discography/album/3065/ Cover 1012x1024

CD Tracklist 1.礼拝 (Reihai) 2.曼陀羅A (Mandala A) 3.不夜城 (Fuyajyou) 4.KAIGAN 5.私生活 (Shiseikatsu) 6.輝夜に満ちて勿忘草 (Teyo ni michite wasurenagusa) 7.閃光花火 (Senkou hanabi) 8.金魚蜂 (Kingyo Hachi) 9.狂喜乱舞 (Kyouki ranbu) 10.失神 (Shisshin) 11.般若 (Han'nya) 12.ドラマチックパレード (Dramatic Parade) DVD ・「曼陀羅A」(Mandala A) and「不夜城」(Fuyajyou) MV+MAKING

For the record, I thought it would be cool to interview these guys because of the Revival Judith connection. For various reasons the interview did not turn out like we planned, but we had already agreed to post it by that point. Once we make a promise, I would rather post one weird/bad interview than break that promise. We’re in a position right now where we’re so small that negative word of mouth from one band could fuck us, I feel. If the concern is that we will just be posting interviews from “jrock” bands: I understand, and I agree. But I want to assure you that’s not the case. I discussed with Brengun at the beginning of this that I would rather post nothing than post non-VK stuff. I think VK-only spaces are rare, and I want to remain one. Brengun has her own website for “jrock” things. We have three interviews which are confirmed and scheduled. All three bands are firmly VK. Our list of bands that we’re reaching out to is all firmly VK. This particular interview was an exception. As for the bands being small: yes, we will have to start with very small bands. I think that’s more interesting anyway, but we also have to be pragmatic and realize that a large band isn’t going to respond to us. I’m not sure if anyone has a problem with that, but I just wanted to put it out there. Our current schedule is a new interview every other Tuesday. So our next will be on 3/3. I think that everyone will be more satisfied with the next ones. But if that’s not the case, keep letting us know.

"Third Act: July Fourth Act: August Fifth Act: October Final Curtain: November" According to his most recent flyer I got with the memorial CD.

A lot of Kisou’s lyrics read like they were coming from a 15 year old struggling with inexplicable boners and angry feelings.

I agree people are gonna mostly rely on the main track when judging a work but I mean at the end of the day for me it's just a single track from an entire release. I do think in terms of ballads it is very average, the ballads on Steroid and Heisei were much better, but I still think the bsides on kuroi ame show the band still has talent and potential because for some reason people seem to have written them off in the past year and think they had some steep decline after 0.

Maybe Kyo is about to take on Till Lindemann in a fight of musical/art sex war shenanigans. Kyo, the porno, pending....

Yep. It's the reason I skip the majority of new bands and just stick with those that are a bit different and continue doing cool stuff (for the most part), so unless a band really starts making waves and gaining popularity they'll more than likely be passed here. However, at the few VK shows I've been to, that's actually a nice way to discover the bands as well, something about seeing the performances sometimes can make a band that bit more interesting even if the music isn't that special. Like "well I enjoyed watching them so I'll get a CD" or whatever.

First Act : his live-limited / webshop-limited new single "Gothculture -Nightimage-" will be released at 2020/04/29 (3 songs, 2200yen) Second Act : his live-limited / webshop-limited new single "Gothculture -断章-" will be released at 2020/05/27 (3 songs, 2200yen)

[CD tracklist] 1. ULTIMA 2. XERO 3. BARRIER 4. EROS 5. ALLERGIE 6. IDOL 7. ZINNIA 8. IN THIS ERA 9. RUDENESS 10. MACHINE 11. ASTER 12. EUREKA [CD2 traclist] * deluxe edition only Instrumental CD1 [Blu-Ray tracklist] * deluxe edition only ・「XERO」MUSIC VIDEO ・「XERO」MUSIC VIDEOメイキング映像 ・[XV]act:1 –XV BIRTHDAY- SHADOWS ONLY 19.12.27 NAGOYA CLUB QUATTROライブ映像収録予定 [DVD tracklist] * limited edition only ・「XERO」MUSIC VIDEO ・「XERO」MUSIC VIDEOメイキング映像

Day 10000 I still miss signal, unsraw, d.i.d., and 12012.

Infinity MV

Yeah I am pretty sure that kyo lost his virginity just before the time they released anima, not that they have no sexual themes before that but they certainly doubled down around that time

A trilogy: Anyway it's a months old purchase: SARIGIA - Insult Kiss (with all band member signatures =^-^=) SARIGIA - Halloween single Chaos Side SARIGIA - Halloween single Dark Side SARIGIA - bonus SE CD and the Dir en grey tour ticket as an afterthought~~

Riku LUNA UMIセッション (2020/02/14) Vo.戮 Gt.弥妓(ピサロ) Gt.歩夢(ex.トキノキト) Ba.渡辺ゆう Dr.渉(ピサロ)

Why do these bands keep forming if all they're going to do is the same mediocre stuff that's been done a billion times over?

this looks like it could be the tracklist of an early mucc album

Limited Edition ＜CD＋DVD＞ [Disc-1] CD (12 Songs) 1.INFINITY 2.ハラペコ狼 3.Tokyo Underground Fxxk 4.SAKURAサムネイル 5.AGAIN (Go to INFINITY mix) 6.D.A.I.Z.Y 7.4GET ME NOT 8.エンドレスリピート 9.HIDDEN PAIN 10.iro 11.碧 12.∞ DVD 『INFINITY』MUSIC CLIP 『INFINITY』MUSIC SLIP 『INFINITY』MV.MAKING 『INFINITY』REC.MAKING Regular Edition ＜CD＞ [Disc-1] CD(12 Songs) 1.INFINITY 2.ハラペコ狼 3.Tokyo Underground Fxxk 4.SAKURAサムネイル 5.AGAIN (Go to INFINITY mix) 6.D.A.I.Z.Y 7.4GET ME NOT 8.エンドレスリピート 9.HIDDEN PAIN 10.iro 11.碧 12.∞

As far as I can remember, most of this drama was due to Yumehito getting married, engaged, or whatevs. Looks like his wife (who's an idol) gave him delusions of grandeur or some shit. He then formed Belle, which's dope IMO, but never attempted to sing again. I heard fans used to bully him for his singing. Intetsu said he'd retire by then but acted as a support member and composed for WING WORKS and Piko as well as composing some stuff for Sanrio and some game OSTs. Just like Aoi, KENZO also tried a solo carreer and some other projects but they all flopped. Takehito is the only one that never tried anything not related to Ayabie and their current revival is his idea, so there's that.

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Hey guys! As you may have noticed, the news section is more active than ever before since a certain character has departed, and more and more users are able to contribute their findings without any disruption or intimidation. With more contributors than ever, we each have our own writing style; some of us simply copy and paste band announcements and then translate them - whether by machine or on our own - to the best of our ability, and some of us take a more journalistic approach by adding more details rather than the standard news format of the past. To keep our status as one of the leading J-rock news sites/forums, we've decided to add in some rules and regulations to keep the forum in order and to help future contributors post without any issue: REQUIREMENTS: - intelligible English - As English is the default language of this forum, all topics and posts should be in English, excluding the International Lounge. Also, by posting and translating into English, it is possible for Monochrome Heaven to gain more exposure and recognition worldwide as an overseas news source to sites like JROCK NEWS and Shattered Tranquility as English is one of the most common languages in the world. With this in mind, think about how you'll make your post: make sure to proofread spelling, grammar, etc., so that it can be more coherent and understandable to the reader. - Translations to romaji are required mainly for band and release names, since most of our users are not proficient in Japanese (Google Translate is fine, but you are free to request/suggest alternate translations for the sake of accuracy, especially since song titles are a bit more challenging) As elaborated further down below, vkdb or Google can help decipher any names if you need to double-check. *If there's any issues with making translations using Google Translate, I suggest using RomajiDesu! Not only will it romanize the kanji you want to translate, but also show an English translation for each character used (if you're interested ^^). - Please be sure to update the title of the post after a significant update has been announced. For example, if you start off with the topic, "MERRY new single" and the name is announced later on, please change the title to that of the release itself, ex. "MERRY new single, "Kasa to Ame" release". This gives the threads more variety and it's better than skimming thru topics that all have "MERRY new single" in the title. **Highly recommended for topics whose releases are announced after the creation of a thread. Ex. "Plastic Tree to perform OP" turns into "Plastic Tree new single, "Inside Out". This prevents any confusion, skimming through extra info, and especially unnecessary duplicate threads. - Please Please PLEASE use the report button if there's a double-post or issues in the thread. (the first thing I do when I get up in the morning is to check up the news and try to find some things that are out of order. Some days, I won't be around, nor will the rest of the staff, to do that as we do focus on our own lives too. Reporting a post is a much easier way of getting our attention rather than simply posting in the thread about the error, or even worse, unnecessary drama...) - Speaking of cooperation, this is NOT a competition. If someone else posts what you originally left out/posted seconds ago, or the reverse (some info is left out because they didn't see/understand it), don't make a big fuss (unless it's a double-post of course) ; after all, providing news is a team effort, so it's better to work together and to help each other out! ♥ - Please refrain from making any offtopic posts. This could clog up the thread with more unnecessary posts and less valuable information, especially when that escalates to drama. 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This can prevent double-posts of topics (such as accidentally making 2 threads about a band's new single), and confusion/competition between users. - When making a new topic, please don't copypaste the original Japanese text onto your post, as it looks out of place and completely lazy. At least make an effort to translate it into English so that everyone can understand it. (2019.3.19) - If you want to make any posts about an artist in general, please do so in their appropriate thread in the Artists section (or make one if necessary). This will prevent any clogging of release threads and saving some of us the trouble to going through page after page to find more relevant information about the actual release. - Put some effort in how you actually research and post news. If a band is disbanding at the beginning of 2018, and the actual date of their last live has been posted, please post that date instead of "so&so will disband in January/February 2018". Most news topics don't need a lot of digging, but for posts like these, it'll totally save up a lot of time and stress. **Also, not everyone can keep up with a certain band/release (and understandably so), so threads often tend to go dead even though new stuff is being announced via the official source. 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Some unfortunate news that just arrived in the e-mail newsletter from the band / Canou: ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 2/7公演にて発表しましたが、ギターのKLEが脱退します・・・。 卒業公演は、4/27(moon)[顔面とサウンドが究極にかっこいいダンスパーティー part_01]公演と成ります。 最後まで応援よろしくお願いいたします。 ※4/27以降、ライブ活動は休止予定です。 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Guitarist KLE announced during munimuni's 2/7 gig that he is leaving the band. He will be there until his 'graduation performance' on April 27th after which time the band pause live activities. This band's lineup had one of the longest runs together? Maybe as long as that initially lineup when the band first started. And I don't recall if they outright said in the past if they would pause live acitivites after former members left. They usually just had a new guitarist / bassist / drummer lined up already to make a seamless transition. What does that mean for all of those new songs? Did they even hit the studio to record them or will several of them go unused if they were written by Kle? Also there was one new song that was frequently the setlists recently: 薔薇色の夜 Barairo no yoru / Rose colored night