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New band "ヴァージュ(Virge)" has formed. They will hold their first live at 2017/05/06 at Ikebukuro BLACK HOLE. [members] Vocal：遼-ryo- (ex.メディーナ(Mediena)) Guitar：紫月-sizuki- (ex.MALISEND) Bass：沁-shin- (ex.MALISEND) 1st Mini Album Release!! 「UTOPIA」 1.琥珀 2.恨ミ言 3.夜明け、灰色の呼吸 4.ボクノ悪イ癖 5.蓮華 6.ユートピア

they got the wrong vocalist tho

It happens maybe once ever 7 months or so, sometimes a little more frequently. Some historical examples I can think of, other than the ones listed here, are: -NightengeiL: iirc they lost contact with one of their guitarists and just continued as a 4-piece band -S: Their first vocalist just stopped showing up to gigs, so they played a 4-piece band and had other members do vocals until they found someone else -2 of the Piass' 4 vocalists just stopped showing up at some point lol

girugamesh.jp is no longer accessible. glad i fetched the entire static site for later references two months ago.

Any fans of Esprit D'Air here? Apparently, they reformed last year, but that's when I found out about them. I'm going to their London show tomorrow at O2 Academy ! Here's their latest song If you haven't heard them before, you should check them out!

He dragged the band in general, which includes Yu-ki, and when Yu-ki talked about disbanding, he talked about putting everything into the band or something. I guess I'm putting two and two together here, but if I felt like I passionately put myself in work and then someone dragged me (even collectively with my other band mates) for being lazy or not serious enough, I'd be like "Man fuck that guy"

Honestly, I'm more surprised that they're still around... xD But my condolences for the fans.

I've been wearing a lot of wigs lately because I need my real hair done soooo bad

GE+IM new album "ステロイド(steroid)" will be released at 2017/05/31. (limited 500 copies)

On 2017/5/3 Nana Kitade will release her first solo album since 8 years titled "VIOLET BLAZE". Produced by Robert de Boron FBAC-022 / 2,700 yen(tax incl.) Tracklist: 1. Just A Day 2. Make-Believe 3. Saddest Song 4. One Night Story 5. Bad Babe’s Dreamer 6. Borrowed Time 7. Nasty Radio 8. Shed One Tear 9. Canary 10. Shine Drops 11. Violet Blaze〔Instrumental〕 The first press will come in a VIOLET JEWEL CASE and can be pre-ordered on Amazon.co.jp. The album will also be available on Itunes for purchase. https://www.nanakitade.jp/ @beni !

Some of the tweets/blogs they wrote around the time of disbanding weren't obviously directed towards each other, but Rino kind of dragged the rest of the band for being lazy and not seriously enough and having to do everything himself and was kind of good riddance about it, but based on Yu-ki's tweets around the time they were disbanding, he did take the band seriously and didn't want to disband. There wasn't all out drama, but just the general vibe that they didn't agree about things that were going on.

I don't know why I thought I'd be excited about this since I like Malisend but I really don't like Mediena and I knew Yu-ki wouldn't do another band with Rino, so I knew it was either gonna be Yu-ki's vocals with Mediena-ish music or Ryo's vocals with Malisend-ish music. Either of those is a compromise to me tbh.

Oh no another tomozo band that didn't release more than a few singles oh no I had a feeling they were either going to split soon or that Maijyu would leave and focus more on Devil Kitty. ((Moi dix mois album where????))

Made some soba with veggies, seaweed and shrimps ♥ Light and fast and healthy af

I know I should hate nihon ongaku cause they always upload things without credit. ...but they upped Kiryu's latest live DVD and that's kind of amazing

Moment of truth to come. I'm gonna see Ghost in the Shell live action movie tomorrow after work. Very curious to see how it'll turn out.

I'll try to get the limited edition on Rarezhut in 2 years for $7 since it does actually look kind of interesting

Bassists on the new mini album: T$UYO$HI(The BONEZ / P.T.P) YOSHIHIRO YASUI(OUTRAGE) YUKKE(MUCC) The first 3. A total of 5, so more to be announced. Hoping for HITOKI to join in.

probably just busy givin a fangirl the benis :-DDDDD ( or binging on booze / drugs )

Herb/mustard coated pork loin with a roasted apple/cranberry sauce served on potato pancakes. Maybe the best dinner I've made!

@itsukoii no problem I go to a lot of metalcore now which as you can imagine means i end up seeing a lot of deathcore too HOTOKE was pretty great live and tbh so is BDP. I think the recording lost a lot of the quality for BDP because the composition is actually quite good--the vocals arent my thing, though, as i mentioned before. They're young and have been around for like two? months so they just need time You might want to check out suggestions & like a corpse too if you havent. I think like a corpse calls themselves deathcore. suggestions is actually downtempo deathcore and as they like to say "sadcore" I posted a different video of suggestions before so here's a different one the vocalist of suggestions is very committed to creating the atmosphere ( @doombox I found a video of it) like a corpse has a very similar stage presence

More Phantasmagoria rip-offs please, tbh

wasn't the guitarist of Vexent also one of those missing musicians? didn't they kick him out because of this?

But is that even a Rino v Yu-ki thing then? or just business. I mean to say that if a competent lineup was assembled with Yu-ki as vo. I doubt he would turn it down, it just doesn't make sense to be doing ALL the work in a band that has no certainty of success..

Maybe Rino is tired of working with Yuki, which is understandable from that post of his but fuck ,baby ryo is good but YUKI WOULD SOUND WAYYY BETTER ON ALL OF THESE SONGS. Still this preview pleases my five senses.

this! >.>'' i'd be more happy with MALISEND's vocalist but anyways - good for them.

I'd be lying if I said I'm not dissapointed looking at the line-up (where's Yuu-kiii :[[ ) But I'm happy to see the rest of them being active again! Can't wait to check out their stuff

You're welcome 4 predicting the future you've all wanted

these are not demotapes, but re-release of their first 3 demotapes as live-limited singles. would be interesting if these will be re-recorded versions, tho in 99% cases i'd prefer crappy demotape quality.

I would let Sou from emmuree choke me. But is he a DILF? Discuss.

this doesn't look bad at all, i'm pretty excited~

BT's Hoshino might count as one if anything - I was going to put Laruku's Ken in his stead but then I realized that Ken looks more hyuk hyuk-ish compared to his days as a Blitz Kids' cosplayer back in '95-'96. Hoshino on the other hand became classier after being all coy with his fashion taste and stuff back in early 90s to mid 90s: He aged rather quickly but at the same time, he became even classier and less "d'awww""-ish which adds more to his mature charm. I know that folks are all about Atsushi but I just happen to appreciate something more than just Japanese Snapes, yikes. But yeah, a real damn shame that this concept of "maturity" in VK goes down to men in their 40s being all fancy-shmancy with their andrometro looks that make them look more languished if anything. Buff, bulk, maybe beards but otherwise actually manrii looks should be in now, seriously.

Plastic Tree's Inori is a cover of Turn! Turn! Turn! by The Byrds Original Plastic Tree

Classic

I watched Kimi no na wa/Your name at work some days ago... Brilliant movie.

oh right I colored my hair too some time back ^^

gosh i haven't listened to them in so long i've forgotten what a beautiful ballad this is

So.. I don't really know what to say except of how sad this is I really thought they have great potential as a band TOGETHER apparently that was not the case That proves how important communication is Rino seems very frustated in what he writes which is ofc understandable (assuming everything went like how he described it idk what was really going on behind the scenes) I hope he'll have more success in the future, all of them :/

Comment from bassist Rino (translated by fuckyeah-malisend) :

DIV - VANISH This fucking song you guys OMG The rest of this album isn't really something I'm into (all the EDM influence and such), but ... THIS FUCKING SONG OMG

Made some cookiiiiies. Hot Cocoa Cookies (with Mini Marshmallows!).

I made some pumpkin soup and chocolate chip cookies this week!

My parent's own a pizza restaurant and I befriended one of their customers. He's an engineer on an Alaskan fishing boat. He said he'd bring us back some salmon and one day he really did! So I cooked a little something. It's Wild Alaskan Salmon with garlic mashed potatoes and asparagus (topped with plain Greek yogurt and a crushed walnut and garlic topping).

Made some goulash for lunch today, it was very yummy.