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The album will also be released through Like an Edison on 2017/02/15, so you can grab a copy via a shopping service

VAMPS will release a new single named "Calling" RELEASE DATE: 2017/03/22 ●LIMITED EDITON PRICE: ￥1,944 TRACKLIST M1. CALLING M2. TBA (LIVE SONG) M4. TBA (LIVE SONG) M5. TBA (LIVE SONG) ●REGULAR EDITON PRICE: ￥1,080 TRACKLISTL M1. CALLING M2. カヴァー曲予定 http://www.vampsxxx.com/contents/4052 https://twitter.com/VAMPS_JPN

Taking all the b-sides in a compilation and calling it "COUPLING BEST" is dumb. A lot of those tracks are junk! The only one I'd say is worth being referred to as a "coupling best" is Monopoly, which should have just been thrown in on "THE END OF THE WORLD." I never listened to the remixes, I'm sure those are junk, too. As for the BEST OF MUCC II discs, it's nice that they include Diorama, 暁, and those three songs that came with the live DVDs, but everything is in exact chronological order, which is lazy af. Wanna do a best-of compilation, do it right! Get your shit together (lol) Also, "yens" is not a word. The plural for yen is actually yen. Better yet, just use the actual yen symbol (¥), as in: ¥6,920+tax

CLØWD new single "バタフライ・エフェクト(butterfly effect)" (3 types) will be released on 2017/04/12. Limited Edition A ＜CD＞ 1. バタフライ・エフェクト 2. NEVER ENDING STORY ＜DVD＞ 1.RUDENESS RESORT（LIVE at 日本武道館「JACK IN THE BOX 2016」) 2.CLØWD 1st ONEMAN TOUR 「Happy Birthday 2 You」 FINAL at Zirco Tokyo密着ドキュメント Limited Edition B ＜CD＞ 1. バタフライ・エフェクト 2. 息吹 ＜DVD＞ 1.CLØWD Theater Regular Edition ＜CD＞ 1. バタフライ・エフェクト 2. エルゴ領域 3. バタフライ・エフェクト（KØULess Ver.）

lmao of course

2017/02/05 【山口県】 スターピアくだまつ 01. New Intro 02. BUGABOO 03. 慟哭と去りぬ / Doukoku To Sarinu 04. DOZING GREEN 05. 蜷局 / Toguro 06. 咀嚼 / Soshaku 07. 禍夜想 / Magayasou 08. GLASS SKIN 09. VINUSHKA 10. INCONVENIENT IDEAL (With an Unplugged Ver. intro) 11. 凱歌、沈黙が眠る頃 / Gaika, Chinmoku Ga Nemuru Koro 12. 冷血なりせば / Reiketsu Nariseba 13. Revelation Of Mankind Encore 14. 空谷の跫音 / Kukoku No Kyouon 15. RED SOIL 16. STUCK MAN 17. Sustain The Untruth 18. 詩踏み / Utafumi

For me personally aside from otherwise "relaxing" flow and other phonetic mumblejumble it was also about unorthodox vocal-arrangement combinations in otherwise rather casual genres (who would think that fitting baritone/nasal-ish vox with symphonic/power metal would work well as a case in point?) AND allow me to recap myself: (Carm's note: you gotta thank folks like Beatles and earlier black Jazz musician figures for playing around with this progression - as we speak, gospel music often plays around with same chording ideas, funny huh?) Skip the intro and check the ending - there's a huge pool of subtopics related to this subject Friedman was discussing what I would call "Japanese progression". Not saying this would be literally EVERYWHERE (e.g. my standom for Pura merely started out from Britpop fanboying and affinity for special phonetic stuff) but I could honestly say nowadays that this pretty much separates my "palatable japanese taste" from "palatable western (my culture) taste". Speaking of some western figures usually slamming us into "deluded, closed-minded listeners" because of such affinity - lemme counter this with my own take: Japanese way of conveying otherwise "western" genres helped me to look and keep my *EAR* on nuances I usually either missed or never paid attention to in otherwise very "familiar, palatable" english/mother tongue-based music. But then again, that is if you allow yourself to evolve with your tastes per se (whether you "progress" in your taste or not is not dependent on whether you represent the "weeb" culture or otherwise "palatable" culture). I could go on and on about this variety of examples that reformed my musical aficionado self into more "curious" one but that would be just pure thread derailing. So to summarize in a bit more coherent way, two things: 1) "unorthodox, yet oddly palatable" approach in regards to flow, pop songwriting 2) "Same, familiar basis but different interpretation and nuances". I might express my thoughts rather oddly as some may point it out but I am hands down sure at least some "matured " (not to belittle younger generations ofc) J-music listeners get what I am saying...

I'm just curious if they still have the 5k dedicated stans to buy that AYCE edition alone, considering their physical sales been plummeting a.f., and best-of releases typically sell shit in comparison to the actual albums. those other 2 types are legit direct2landfill material, I hope their label invested into some biodegradable plastics for this release batch.

Despite having filed for bankrupcy last year, the magazine just announced the issue of a special edition featuring Nightmare and Plastic Tree on the cover, to come out on February 14th. Other featured bands are MUCC・Angelo・vistlip・D・アンティック-珈琲店-・DaizyStripper・HERO・ユナイト・RAZOR・ザアザア・The Benjamin・グリモア Source: http://shoxx.jp/ Let's remember that Shoxx was one of the biggest and longest-lasting VK magazines in the scene and their bankrupcy was seen as a clear sign of the industry's decline. If even Shoxx is rising from the ashes it's hopefully a sing that VK isn't dead yet and that 2017 will be a better year than 2016.

9GOATS fans on twitter thirsty af

The way the thread OP was worded made me think they'd come back to do a 'very special episode' dedicated to spreading anti-drugs awareness or some shit tbh....

Just to be honest.... i'm a fan since the beginnging and i have 0 hopes.

i cook a lot for my family.. here are some stuff we had for lunch/dinner this past week

LOL exactly, or he could make his goons carry him around the stage all concert like he did in his solo this was hilarious the first time I saw it

I think I 'd like to point out something everyone here has seem to have overlooked. This is a Japanese music forum correct? Could this be a reason for the preferences and biases mentioned in this thread? Also from my personal experience American's tend to do the same with music of other languages and almost seem to only enjoy a band if they speak English but as mentioned here perhaps that in itself is also merely a "phonetic" preference on their part. But let's assume we were on an American music forum. Would you not expect the same type of biases?

Cheers.

Why not just make your own? All you need is glitter and drapes.

because sometimes technical proficiency isn't the most important reason, and definitely isn't the only reason, why people listen to the music they listen to and fall in love with the bands they fall in love with. this thing we call "taste" is nothing but an amorphous placeholder for an incredibly complex web of factors including instincts and temperament, environmental and psychological factors, linguistic/cultural affiliations, etc. that no amount of theoretical analysis can ever hope to untangle. even in the extremely rare instance that you can find another person who agrees with you on every single point you make about a band both of you mutually enjoy, i'm willing to bet that the basis for your value judgments about the band will still diverge, simply because, if nothing else, you are two different people. if i'm to push this even further: many people seem to think that 'technical proficiency' is a clear-cut term that requires no further explication. that's far from true. while it's the case that fans would be deeply relieved to find their favorite singers hitting the notes they're supposed to hit and their guitarists executing their tremolos and harmonics competently, it's too easy to name instances where artists who do things generally not recognized as 'proficient' actually making a difference. the pianist claudio arrau, when he was still alive, was constantly ridiculed by musicologists and critics for how slowly he plays his beethoven sonatas (check out his "walden" for starters), but he's now posthumously credited with reading beethoven insightfully with an introspection no beethoven specialist had possessed. likewise, in the realm of art, when henri matisse became bound to his wheelchair in the later part of his life and could no longer hold a paintbrush, he began making 'cut-outs' as art (hardly the pinnacle of artistic virtuosity, you would think...), yet on hindsight his technique directly spawned at least three different art movements in the mid-late 20th century. so if there isn't even a ahistorical standard of what qualifies as 'technical proficiency' in the realm of high art where you'd think experts would have come to some sort of agreement after centuries of bickering debate, attempting to hold it up as some governing authority that ought to adjudicate people's tastes in popular music seems to me rather presumptuous. but to quote you again: and with this you basically just answered your own question. even though music traverses linguistic boundaries, its cultural influences remain unique. musically that's definitely the case (just look at how prevalent the major 7th chord is in japanese pop, compared to western pop). then there's the issue of language that comes into play. it would take a separate long post for me to defend why some people find lyrics to be important, but suffice to say, a song by definition has words, so unless we are going to pretend that all songs are operatic arias in disguise, it's only to be expected that some prefer how meaning is communicated in one language to another (which again has to do with a whole bunch of linguistic features: syntax, structure of address, sociopragmatics, and so on). you might not find the words in the song to be particularly important to your enjoyment of the music (and ofc there's no reason why you should), but it shouldn't be alarming that there are people who attend to that aspect of the song because it's important to them. there's also the phonetic aspect that some people above have already mentioned.

They should re-release COVER PARADE, but as a general release this time. Could probably toss in a bunch of their other covers since I doubt people want to buy every single tribute album. That would have made a cooler disc 4 than a bunch of remixes.

I'm not so sure about the release guys. I read the announcement as 'We were originally planning to release an album', but can't because of Akane's health and the member changes. With the hiatus this will be postponed. I also read this as 'We were originally planning to continue with Shinya as a member, but as of now, can't continue at all' -> therefore, hiatus. I don't expect D.I.D. to be back very soon, then they wouldn't call it an indefinite hiatus. And no band releases an album during their hiatus, without any promotion or tour going along. My Japanese is rusty, but I really wouldn't get my hopes up at all.

Few minutes ago zoisite posted to their twitter 2 previously unreleased photos of deadman! They also mentioned that they hadn't forgotten about the new photobook. The work is going so slow because of the huge number of photos. Moreover, they are going to add not only live photos to the book.

Here's an easy guide to tricking gya into giving you their turborarez (it's worked for me in the past) (sorry its in japanese) STEP 1: 私が踊ったとき、彼らは私を時限式:uadjet 「碧落の暁り」 そして、SPECIAL FRIEND彼らが言う大男ブエナ 彼らはすべCDて私を欲しい 彼らは私を持つこtwitterとができない だから彼らはすべて私のそばに来て踊る STEP 2: 私と一MIKE TYSON緒に移動 私と一緒にチャントwwwwwww あなたの善が私と一DVD緒に帰宅する STEP 3: 私と一DQN緒に移動 私と一緒にチャント あなたの善が私animated gifと一緒に帰宅する STEP 4: [REDACTED] STEP 5: rarez

AllS (ex-ALSDEAD) will perform at "牙音 act.2 (Kibaon)" at Kawasaki CLUB CITTA' at 2017/4/1. btw the official ALSDEAD twitter has changed its handle to "official_alls" and their name to "AllS", so possible comeback with name change?

A first best album called 「BEST OF MUCC Ⅱ」 will be released on 2017.03.29. It will cost 3500 yen + taxes. Disc 1 : 01. ファズ(Fuzz) 02. 梟の揺り篭(Fukurou no yurikago) 03. アゲハ(Ageha) 04. 空と糸(Sora to ito) 05. 咆哮(Hôkô) 06. フリージア(Freesia) 07. ジオラマ -20th 飛翔 Ver.-(Diorama-20th Hisyou Ver.-) 08. フォーリングダウン(Falling Down) 09. 暁 -20th 飛翔 New Take Ver.-(Akatsuki -20th Hisyou New Take Ver.-) 10. アルカディア featuring DAISHI DANCE(Arcadia) 11. ニルヴァーナ(Nirvana) Disc 2 : 01. 風と太陽(Kaze to taiyou) 02. ブレア・ラビット(Blair Rabbit) 03. ステラ(Stella) 04. MOTHER 05. Mr. Liar 06. G.G. 07. HALO 08. World’s End 09. ENDER ENDER 10. 睡蓮(Suiren) 11. TONIGHT A second best album called 「カップリング・ベスト Ⅱ」 will be released on the same day. It will cost 2500 yen + taxes. Tracklist : 01. 終止符(Shûshifu) 02. 楽園(Rakuen) 03. 瓦礫の鳥(Gareki no tori) 04. イソラ(Isola) 05. 月の夜(Tsuki no yoru) 06. 蛍(Hotaru) 07. NAME 08. FUZZ -Thunder Groove Ver.- 09. バルス(Balls) 10. ネガティブダンサー(Negative Dancer) 11. あすなろの空(Asunaro no sora) 12. テリトリー(Territory) 13. Monroe 14. 自演奴 15. WateR 16. モノポリー(Monopoly) 17. Conquest A third best album called 「BEST OF MUCC Ⅱ & カップリング・ベスト Ⅱ」 will be released on the same day. It will cost 6920 yen + taxes. (5000 copies) It will gather the aforesaid releases, so three CDs, plus a fourth CD : Disc 4 : REMIX OF MUCC 01.ファズ -electro cruisin’ mix- (Fuzz) 02.フリージア -Electro Mix- (Freezia) 03.約束 -Warehouse Flavoured Mix- (Yakusoku) 04.最終列車 -Warehouse Flavored Ver.- Saishuu ressha) 05.ニルヴァーナ -Moonbug Remix- (Nirvana) 06.狂乱狂唱 RMX for 不安の種 (Kyorankyosho RMX for Fuan no tane) 07.MOTHER -RYUKYUDISKO REMIX- 08.Mr. Liar -JaQwa Remix- 09.HALO -HIGH FLUX Remix- 10.Libra -TeddyLoid Remix- 11.ハイデ -TeddyLoid Remix- (Heide)

AWAKE will release their new single (title not yet confirmed) at 2017.04.12

Rare-sama just posted a pretty awesome and quite lengthy old live video on his YT:

Dude, yes yes yes. I'm so excited. And a cover song as a b-side?! I love cover songs omg.

K U ROY U RIT O K A GE

mm.. filled with mucc, angelo... ancafe.. seems they gonna back to the old style. I would only grab it for RAZOR・ザアザア・グリモア but 1200 yen is simply too expensive. not sure if it will last long. depends on if always the same bands will future the cover.

So we're going to have four compilation albums total, and none of them have Daikirai on it.

弾丸 NO LIMIT (Dangan NO LIMIT) announced at their free one-man live "FREE the BULLET" at Shibuya REX on 2016/12/11 that new maxi single "BULLET" will be released on 2017/02/08 (2 TYPE). Limited edition (1,800yen) will include CD+DVD, and regular edition (1,500yen) will include CD only.

promoting their free oneman on 2/11 vivarush-style LOLOLOL

marty freedman copied aie

I imagined you saying everything in a "pirate's" voice. lol Welcome btw.

I feel like Finnish and Estonian both most definitely belong to that category of melodic languages, and in fact I've had more than one Estonian tell me that they believed some perceived similarity in ' linguistic flow' actually helped them to acquire Japanese and/or Korean at a faster & easier rate

■通常盤 <CD Only>　 PRWC-31 ¥ 3,000(+tax） 《CD 13曲》 01.Destruction 02.ENVIOUS 03.断罪〜Black or White〜 04.The Emperor's New Clothes 05.ピエロ 06.バタフライエフェクト 07.ALEXANDRITE 08.HIGH!!!! 09.Only You 10.THE NEXUS 11.あの日のナミダ 12.Regeneration --Bonus track-- 13.NANIWA DANCE NIGHT FEVER https://www.festvainqueur.com/contents/82487 all songs new as usual I think I should like track 3

i adore Purple Stone, i actually discovered them when i went to a random visual kei show in tokyo last summer (super visual night in shibuya rex), and it was such a treat because they performed in their own shifuku (private clothes) ie not costumes *o* but they still had eye makeup and amazing hair and they were hotttttt. ahem, that aside, watching keiya do the panic panic dance just turned me into a puddle of happiness XD i just have to say, keiya sounds AMAZING live, he really does. poison chocolate hasn't grown on me yet, got to give it another chance.

how fucking dare u

updated with sold items. Also finally added prices to all of them

This af. I'm not denying the OP's observations about a certain bias some fans may have, but at the same time, I think a lot of people downplay the uniqueness of different languages themselves. When it comes down to it, it's extremely difficult to find bands singing in different languages that actually manage to "sound" like each other. Even if a German-language band existed that sounded, musically, exactly like THE NOVEMBERS or something, I highly doubt I'd ever enjoy listening to them as much as Japanese NOVEMBERS, just from a phonetic standpoint. And this is coming from someone who studies/teaches/otherwise loves German. But there's all kinds of biases. There's fans that never go beyond English-language or Anglo/European music. There's Japanese music fans that don't dare touch VK, because it would ruin their cred. There's VK fans who put the blinders on to any other scene or country's music.

cheers to you spilling some tea (your argument is leveraged toward an audience who probably doesn't care to acknowledge their own biases i mean how many intelligent nokubura and deviloof stans are on here tho)

I saw Tenten's video, he was filming himself fucking a girl.

Ah, too bad it's a live version... They had some pretty awesome tracks that they never officially released, and the few they did never were reissued at any point, Break the Darkness (they had two versions back in the day, both pretty good), Only Way, Tuneup Baby, Right Now, Stop Bloody Rain, Feel Me Tonight, Steal Your Heart, Lady in Tears, Install and even more than that. It's not likely to happen, just saying it would be incredibly cool if he even considered any of the above, since he's got so many old X songs laying around.

^ It's okay dude, take all the time you need, it's just for fun after all. I'm glad that have some good words for Setentia even though their music isn't especially your thing. I'm looking forward your review on the album! @KaleidoscopeDer Weg einer Freiheit are brilliant, and their latest album is nothing but fucking Stellar. Need to dig more into their discography though, I'm sure it'll be worth it! I'd say In the Nightside Eclipse is a good album to start with tbf. And since you enjoy some modern sounding black metal and we're talking about Emperor, I'd recommend you to check out these guys from Germany. This album is so good, I've listened it so many times that I'm just hoping they'll release something soon. They got some Emperor influences on their music and some brilliant symphonic arrangements. Not to mention the vocals, which are absolutely brilliant:

Recording this was difficult because the old master tapes accidentally had curry spilled over them

"JAPANESE DEMOCRACY" IS FINALLY BEING RELEASED, YAY

After seeing this thread I looked up Killing Stalking. I'm caught up, what can I say? I hate gore and I despise yaoi for the exact reason that most girls go crazy over it, gay relationships + abuse = THEY LOVE EACH OTHER SO MUCH hnghhr I had one look at a few fan pages and backed away in disgust. But, apart from that I'm waiting for more. I haven't read something that made me feel this anxious and scared in a long time. The art is cool and characters keep surprising me. I'm just on edge all the time. Can Sangwoo just die ,please?

Some people are pathetic.. My Japanese is very bad so maybe I translated it wrong but goods have been stolen at today's live in Nagoya also earlier with the Festtoke festival?? They will try their best to keep an eye on the thefts, if this continues they will inform the police and might temporary stop the sales of the goods.

president trump grabbed our dl section