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This is a multiple choice question. MH POLL OF THE WEEK #22: What languages do you speak? To submit a poll for the MH POLL OF THE WEEK, P.M. either @CAT5 or @beni with your poll question, choices, and state whether it's multiple choice or not.

Ik ben sugoi in English sprechen. Au revoir! Dutch, English. Took some French and German classes but forgot most of it.

The baby swans are here again. Born about 90 minutes ago! The fluffy things look utterly confused just following the big white ships around. There's 7 of them this year, 1 less than last year. So cute!

We just became best friends. Also, WHATS THE DEAL WITH NO US RELEASE OF ARCHE?!

I "tHiNk" "with hate" all the time and I don't "Regret" it. It's because there's "Filth in the Beauty" that's always "°C+1".

Setlist is underwhelming and it has nothing to do with ARCHE. It's the fact that they feel like they can shorten their already very short setlists just because they can get away with it overseas... plus lazily just throwing together the encore by squeezing all their most overplayed tracks together. I'm surprised dead tree isn't in there. If they don't play Fukai on any of the gigs I'm attending I'll throw the VULGAR scorebook in Kaorus face at the last gig.

(long list of words I have decided to keep censored, but in general my overall mood about this is beyond furious) I've waited so long for 'knight' to return.. now he pulls this.. this... gah! I hope Jun and the others will be able to find a decent replacement.

I thought that was a can of easy cheese in the back

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I'm pretty good in English (I want to believe in it lol) but I use it online only like nostalgia does. In my real life I speak the most difficult and weird language in the world - Russian.

JUST LIKE THAT! loll and yeah It still surprises me to no end!

YES!

As someone who honestly didn't understand why The Inferno was written at first... ...I am now probably one of it's biggest supporters somehow loll

I have done a course in both French and Spanish a few years back in school, but I don't really remember most of it anymore... ^^;; So I guess that doesn't count, however... I'm going to be a kiwi and tick them anyway. >: 3 Hopefully I can come back to this in a few years time and can click on Japanese, Korean and Chinese. x3 Apart from the first two I've said, I can do Engrish/Beni-ism. Because not even my mother language is right most of the time. x'D Dat gif. <3

I just assumed it was common knowledge that the overseas encore sets were basically the "overseas best of singles" set.

My Slod - Melt to water arrived, and again thank you Para for surprising me with Mopera flyers, a signed A4-poster and the clear file originally distributed with the limited edition of Justice to put all of my Matenrou junk in. Luv ya <3<3

I hope they will come back with at least a mini, or a full album as 8 different type singles tbh.

To quote what has been said earlier: IPS4 will have a "Mention"-feature, and we will upgrade to IPS4 once it has a stable, full release. At the moment there is only a release candidate availible, and we don't want to break the forum, so please be patient until the full version is released.

Ordered these the other day. Should be here in a week and a half or something: I should look pretty god damn sexy in those.

Native other. It hurts And also Engrish

Yeah. I'm not really knowledgeable on band activities with labels and all that stuff; but at first glance it looks a little convoluted. Something like their contract with The End Records could have only consisted of a requirement to release a few albums, tours, and then they'd be done; but who knows?

That setlist just went to the shitter once the encore came about. Why? Is it really that hard to switch out The Final and Hageshisa. It'll still be great to see but a lot of us are very familiar with that ending.

French is my mother tongue. And I speak english with difficulties lmao (I wish I were more comfortable with it; I try my best everyday but it's not easy). I learned spanish at school too but I can't remember shit (ok, maybe a few words actually, but that's it).

English majorily. But my family is Hispanic and I can understand a great deal of it though I can't always answer in it. >_>; and I've studied Japanese for a year. So solid English and partial for the other 2. But I marked them since I do speak them I'm just not fluent...

They have a bunch of singles too. I don't know many of their live distros, but I think these are all of their for-realz releases. Singles: -「眩暈に死んだ部屋」 -僕の「秘密」と冷蔵庫 (This eventually ended up on the compilation album) -僕の「誤解」と右折禁止のルール違反 (Also on the compilation album) -「ぼくの死骸と君のチョコレート。」 Mini-albums: -精神科医(拒食症)のスナッフフィルム集 -特製・脳味噌絶倫スープ〜生クリーム仕立て〜 Album: -「タイトルなし」 -「暫定的オカルト週刊誌①」 Omnibus: -hide TRIBUTE III -Visual SPIRITS-

happy birthday anakuro

Stray Cat Rock: Sex Hunter - I'm not quite sure about this title to be honest. Sex hunter? Where? The title makes this seem like a proper, sleazy exploitation film, but it's nothing like that. Not at all. While it's an exploitation film, it's a film that deals with serious subject. It's a socially relevant film dealing with things racism and war, and the film carry a stron anti-war message. Anyway, for the third entry in the series Yasuharu Hasebe, director of the first film in the series, takes back the director's chair, brings back the exploitation of the first film, and more important than anything else, he brings back the badass attitude, styliized, almost psychedelic visuals, the coolness that totally lacked from the previous film and a really cool soundtrack. It's well-paced, well-acted with Meiko Kaji in the lead and several of the same actors as in the two previous films. The addition of Golden Half, a five piece hafu (biracial?) j-pop group of the 70's, is much appreciated. Not only because their great music, but also because of the themes the film deals with. A smart move by Hasebe. Not quite as good as the first, but it's only a small step behind. While the first one was a 9/10, this is a 8,8/10. Close. Great films!

Happy birthday @anakuro!

Happy birthday to our dear anakuro !!! And also to evenor (27) and jinnangel24 (34) !

Yes, "arrived" = you picked it up from my place. :D

Mad Max: Fury Road - Finally a big budget, mainstream film that lives up to the hype. What a fucking movie, guys. When I first heard they were getting close to shooting a new Mad Max without Gibson I got sceptical, when I started seeing pictures from the film I got super exited and over the last half year or so my expectations had gone sky high. So, there's not much substance here to be honest, but it nails everything aside from that. Fantastic action, stunts, cinematography and badass characters. It's full on action from begining to end, but it's made in such a way that it just gets more and more fun with each god damn scene, one after one more over the top, cheesy, ridiculous and cooler than the previous one. I thought they really managed to capture that good Mad Max-feeling as well. It didn't just feel as another post-apocalyptic film. It felt like Mad Max. Brilliant work. It's damn nice to see a film without too much CGI as well. As far as I could see, the majority of the special effcts, stunts and all that was the real deal. If it wasn't, then it's some of the best CGI ever because I could not tell that it was CGI. That's awesome! Tom Hardy and Charlize Theron was great too. Mad Max: Fury Road is simply a film the lives up to the hype. Badass to the core.

Camwhoring 5/5. Me and my Siamese twin.

Early birthday wishing because... HAPPY BIRTHDAY @paradoxal-CHAN!~ : 3 May you have a terrific birthday, gurl! ;3 And a very happy birthday to @nacchi, @SleepWalkIntoTraffic and @ZXHZK!

Artist: Foxpill Cult Album: 邪宗門 (Jashumon) Score: When the voices in your head provide backing vocals Better late than never! Back in January, Foxpill Cult released their latest album 邪宗門 (Jashumon – Heretic Religion, a term used to describe non-Shinto religions). Like their previous efforts, this album reaches deep into Foxpill’s bag of tricks and manages to come up with an album that is deeply varied, yet cohesive. While the variety is there, a more critical examination from someone familiar with their previous releases might yield that they are still relying on the same kinds of tricks, but the overall presentation has enough innovation and charisma to make that observation seem nitpicky. What works really well for 邪宗門 is the recurring theme of multiple presences—be it in a schizophrenic kind of way, or in a supernatural sense. Throughout the album there are interludes and outros of static noise and a very distorted girl’s laughter. In addition, many songs feature multiple layers of vocal harmonies from what sounds like people who are not the actual vocalist. Could I be reading into this too deeply? Possibly. But if this ~sing along with the voices in your head~ motif is what they really were going for, then I would say they were successful. If you’re completely new to this band, the most succinct way of describing them is basically Liphlich’s punk cabaret meets all the weird shit Buck-Tick has done (see also). 邪宗門 opens with a strong number, “サイコキャンディー" (PSYCHO CANDY), which for our intents and purposes is the “Moura” of this album in the sense that it is a playful gothic, yet new wave-inspired, song that also received a music video. This is definitely the most accessible track on the album, as well as one of the catchiest. However, it is solid enough to hold it’s own while still sounding like it belongs with the rest of the songs in the album—all to often I hear albums with strong or weak singles that end up being rather out of place when put into the context of everything else (take D’s “Tightrope,” for example). During the middle of the song there is a bad acid trip and a bit of 女王蜂 falsettos going on, which plays on my interpretation that this album is about some sort of super natural phenomenon. “サイコキャンディー” ties in well with the next song, "米を与えど、子は聞かず" (Kome wo Atae do, Ko wa Kikazu) as it is very similar in nature but with a more rock’n’roll approach. I don’t have too much to comment on with that song, but it is a “if you like one, you’ll like the other” sort of deal. Track 4, "ファウストと異邦人" (FAUST to Kotokunibito) is the second instance of strange laughter and a mysterious woman’s voice, which is used as an introduction snippet. The song itself is much less creepy, and its main theme is quite playful. This song uses a lot of distorted guitar, bongo-sounding drums, and frantic time changes between 4/4 and 6/8. What I find fascinating here is that there are a ton of influences going on all at once: at times the drum structure sounds like a march while the vocalist yells over very pretty guitar work and bizarre keyboard samples. This sort of treatment is used quite often throughout the album as well—while most of their music is technically intensive, there are many many layers of different ideas happening all at once, but somehow they all come together in way that’s enjoyable and fun. "秋霖ヒソム▲神隠し" (Shuurin HISOMU ▲ Kamigakushi(?)) s song that caught my attention at first listen: each of FOXPILL’s albums have some sort of dark-wave track and this one is it. ▲ also throws in noise, a bit of folk, and ties it together with a staticy sounding drum loop. While this song does come of as being deceptively heavy or dark based on the first few seconds, it ends up being pretty simple and sweet up until the end. The last few seconds they turn up the creep and add in the sounds of something being drilled, followed by a much more distorted and warped sound of the same woman’s laughter that has been used throughout. What I enjoyed about this song is the mix of both harsh electronic elements and the very gentle sounding chorus. Ultimately ▲ alls into middle for me: there’s enough good here to attract me back to the song, but it isn’t the pinnacle track on this album. "僕は宗教" (Boku wa Shuukyou) is the sleeper track on this album for me—a near perfect fusion of cali=/=gari and XA-VAT if both were going through a mall goth phase, FOXPILL CULT combines a lot of new wave synthesizer with female vocals backing the chorus and quirky vocals commandeering the bridges. There’s much less synth going on here than XA-VAT used, but the 80’s throw-back sound is definitely there. It is also interesting that they recycle the gang vocal melody from the album’s opening track, "鎖国した一寸法師" (Sakoku Shita Issunboushi). This song, "サイコキャンディー" and "ファウストと異邦人" would be the three songs I would recommend trying first if you are new to FOXPILL CULT. For the sake of brevity, the last song I’m going to expand upon is "啓蒙されぬ" (Keimousa Renu). This is one of the more electronic-heavy songs, but what is really interesting is that the chorus is like a gothic sea chantey (to be more than honest, I never thought that was even a possible mix of genres, but here we are… think Moi Dix Mois covering and you wouldn’t be too far off.). Quirky and innovative, "啓蒙されぬ" plays a lot to FOXPILL’s strengths and shows that even if their bag of tricks is finite, they know how to get the most out of it by mixing what they know with influences that would otherwise seem out of place.this song While not every track on this album is fantastic, overall I thought FOXPILL CULT really delivered with this album and it shows that they are well seasoned in what they do. The filler in this album is minimal and their influences range from new wave, to dark wave, to rock’n’roll, to even funk. While I prefer their more new-wave tracks, which they proclaimed their last album was focused most on, I liked a greater amount of tracks here. 邪宗門 was a like at first listen, but it was also a grower. I am still unsure if this is the top contender of album-of-the-year for me quite yet, which is why I am rating it 4 stars out of 5.

It makes it seem like they are supposed to be watched together, which doesn't make a lot of sense since they aren't next to each other on MIMIC XD BTW I know you all saw that shoulderblock tension.. KnS Taira vs Oetsu Taira no DQ for the championship. booking it.

somehow I've missed the 5/7 show. my bad guys. 5/07 大阪府 オリックス劇場 01. Intro (New) 02. 咀嚼 / Soshaku 03. Chain Repulsion 04. 鱗 / Uroko 05. Unraveling 06. Midwife 07. 懐春 / Kaishun 08. 輪郭 / Rinkaku 09. 濤声 / Tousei 10. Phenomenon 11. 禍夜想 / Magayasou 12. Behind A Vacant Image 13. Cause Of Fickleness 14. The Inferno 15. Revelation Of Mankind Encore 16. Un Deux 17. しさと、この胸の中で絡み付いた灼熱の闇 / Hageshisa 18. THE FINAL 19. Sustain The Untruth 20. 羅刹国 / Rasetsukoku

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2015/06/27 participating artists: LUNA SEA / X JAPAN / 9mm Parabellum Bullet / coldrain / SIAM SHADE / DIR EN GREY / DEAD END / the telephones / TOKYO YANKEES / Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas / LADIES ROOM / LUNACY(opening act) 2015/06/28 participating artists: LUNA SEA / AION / [Alexandros] / KA.F.KA / GLAY / D'ERLANGER / BUCK-TICK / minus(-) / MUCC / 凛として時雨(ling tosite sigure) / ROTTENGRAFFTY / LUNACY(opening act)

[track list] 01.INCUBUS 02.神風型駆逐艦・闇風(kamikazekata kuchikukan yamikaze) 03.黒鶏式葬送曲第壱番-ドウベ-(GALLO-shiki sousoukyoku daiichiban-dubhe-)

Happy birthday, CAT5!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY to MHs resident BAD BOY, neko no. 5

HAPPY BIRTHDAYY FOLKS CAT5 (28) kagerou (29) No.47 (26) neko (23)

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Early happy birthday shout out to the one and only absolutely incredible and utterly wonderful @CAT5. <3

Hpbd CAT5

haha, whut a gloomy pic - being badass must be a hard full time job