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For me, it's the mixing that's keeping me from being super hyped up. The vocals always sound the same: there's no change in dynamic or delivery and that makes it feel flat.

I don't understand why they feel like firing someone is "selfish?" Like, he's fucking up your shows, which in turn annoys your fans and hurts you sales + live attendance. If he's dead weight, drop him.

can't live without porn ;v

Translation kinda like this. Thank you very much for always supporting LAVANS. This time we have not such good news. It's a pity that our live schedule doesn't give us more time, however we tried to get in contact with Vo. NANA however we couldn't get any contact with him anymore. Because of this the 4 of us have decided to fire NANA from the band. Although it's really disappointing and very selfish, we hope to not to worry our fans and everybody who involved any future. We sincerely apologize for this inconvenience. Regarding the currently scheduled live schedule, vocal support shion (ex.LIEVRE CLAY) will join us. And we hope that everybody will welcome him warmly, thank you in advance. As LAVANS will continue unchanged in the future We appreciate your continued support once again. ____________ So another silent; -I leave the band- happening.

Tracklist : (2160 yen, 666 copies) 1. 歪屍形(ibitsu ningyou) 2. 眩暈 (Memai) 3. 揺籃(Yôran) DVD : 1.歪屍形(ibitsu ningyou)

LONG TIME NO UPDATE!!!! here are some wips from the beginning of last year that i'll most likely never finish, unfortunately... i miss drawing so much and i hope to get back into the swing of things~

are they gonna be the new ADAMS

fixed, seriously, as much as i love the guy's music, in almost all the footage i've seen of the dude he looks like an alien who just crashlanded on earth and accidentally ended up as a vocalist for a rock band

That's the shitty thing about Starwave, now that I'm actually getting into some of their bands. The mixing is always ass and that just kills my hype altogether. Also offtopic, but that's what's been killing Labaiser's music lately. Their mini-album sounded *really* good, but their singles always sound like shit :/

I expected something more... but ok

Thank you. ( : Tonight's post is, a wip from an abandoned commission project, and more eyes. Also now I have a new job interview on friday, it would allow me to make more personal stuff and not have to shell out all my energy on boring still-lives. I'm both excited and filled with fear lol.

I swear that was the vibe i was getting from it!

I think by the time the guy arrived in Japan, Diru were already a major band. I think I read somewhere in his blog that he was really only interested in the underground indies guys.

Can't live without Marijuana. Legal where I'm at btw.

anything is better than continuing with Mia and Meto I like the calm voice of tsuzuku. If it was something like that, for me, they can bury Mejibray forever.

Bizarre. They're gonna feed the dreams of yaoi fangirls for decades.

New look

Yas! my copies just arrived!

Suddenly remembered a live stream, it was around 2013 or so, and Sharaku got drunk, it was extremely fast, after one or two "strong zero"... and when he went to the toilet he forgot to turn off his microphone.

I agree so much. Though, I feel the mixing on this is much better than the mixing on 悲哀囀ル調べ (or at least the mixing on the song Farwell, as I haven't checked out the other songs on it). The mixing on Farewell was 90% treble. Like... I know Kiwamu isn't the best producer, but I at least expect him to eq some midrange and/or bass

Anything new from them is major, but like was stated above, i also expected a little more. Sounds like a softer single, which is not bad but a little mediocre. Won't be judging till i hear the whole thing tho, haha. I'm kind of happy with Miria's blonde fantasy, i was tired of him not popping enough in the MV's because of black on black on black.

+1 for shion officially joining

I'm happy to see you getting into 3D yesss! Pls post images of your mesh too if you can

When can we finally have hypersexualized male figurines like we have big titty anime girls?

I forgot to post these, so here's what I got last week! More stuff coming~ @Seimeisen @Sparrow i gave in!! 💦

According to Koichi's Instagram, it's pronounced like in English.

HAKUMEI is now available on iTunes, Amazon, and Google Play (JP only tho, I will check tomorrow if they are made available elsewhere) Edit: Of course its not available elsewhere. Silly me!!!!

Can't really be anyone's Sukekiyo seeing as that is a supergroup made of members of popular bands collabing and this is... half of ONE band, but it sure as hell looks like ADAMS. They ARE the best members of it so I can't not excite..

Very curious to hear the musical direction they will go for!

You're so fuckin lucky

All this hype for kids war and it was just an average song. The new mini is barely passable and THE KINKY and innocent holic are the ones that stood out for me as songs that I would come back to. Regardless, the bass sounded great in every track so props to Tomo for including some good slapping.

There's raw as in sushi, which is good for consumption. Then there's raw as in water, which isn't good for consumption. Raw as a descriptor for music isn't always a good thing for me. It has to bring together the intended effect and the actual effect. Tsuzuku may have been going for seductive, sensational, or even some weird mix of sexual and creepy, but he was unable to execute what he heard in his head. Terrible execution does not get points for trying in my book. This is a problem I've had with MEJIBRAY for as long as they were active, and is why I fell off the MEJIWAGON early. They have plenty of ideas - ideas I wish the rest of the scene would have - but they are barely ever able to translate those ideas into results for whatever reason.

Can't live without fucking up my friendships.

The levels of pretentiousness certainly are there. But this just doesn't give me "music project" vibes. Honestly seems like a perfume advert. At the most I can see this as a performance art project lol

Would be nice to hear something different from the "MEJIBRAY style" Tsuzuku,this can be your "Sukekiyo".

Excited to see what they're all about. Anything's better than Mejibray.

Daaaamn! Did not see that coming. Doesn't make me any less interested, that's for sure.

tonight's post is... expression prompt and the joy of hypnagogia

To begin, we must pleeease understand that the correlation of piracy = loss of a sale is FALSE. People pirating releases ARE NOT making musicians lose money, period. If people hadn't shared, I don't know, batsu game's latest release, I would NOT buy it. I would simply go on without listening to it, because I don't care enough for them to go out of my way to buy a physical copy of something that would cost me 3 USD if it was an itunes release (btw the single sucks). This is true to 95% of the vk listeners, and has been widely discussed in sample pools much larger than a niche japanese music scene, like videogames for example. People buy what they like, period. If you do not let them at least try, why the hell should they buy your music? That being said, people vastly, VASTLY overestimates the importance of western fandom to the scene. We are not the main target, we are not their main income source, the music isn't made for us. We are a plus in the scene, and every single release a westerner fan buys, it's an EXTRA income for the band. They are not counting with our money, people gotta understand that most of the bands simply don't care if we are listening to them or not, as long as their onemans are filled with japanese girls doing dance steps at their songs. Very few bands have the desire for more international exposure, and if that's the case, they sure have to adapt to our ways, as we are not obliged to accept their 90's thinking in the age of streaming. IF japanese fans started pirating instead of buying, THEN we would have a problem. Music is dogs eating dogs everywhere in the world, why would be different for japanese boys in make up? Bands that are actually good, or at least are able to gather interest in their music will flourish, no matter what. People fail to understand that the scene is small because of it's characteristics, because boys dressing like girls and shredding guitars is niche and most importantly, it's foundation is what holds it back. No ammount of western pirates will make or break a band, period. fun fact, UNiTE. shared most of their discography on Spotify, I don't know if it is restricted in japan (which would be a smart thing to do). Yeah they are bigger than most vk acts around, but that does show they are not following the outdated tunneled vision most bands are, and see us as what we are. Extra income, if they get to book a concert here and there, fine! If not, fine aswell, their focus is where it should be, their growth in Japan, without closing their doors to us, the outsiders.

they're going far with that band name

01. a holy terrors 02. Barking the enemy and 03. Rock and rock stinky people Back art

Tonight's post is...Bloodborne fanart. I'm not really a fanart kind of person but the game inspired me enough to. The Snatcher The Orphan of Kos growing up, and Mother Kos (I like those blacklight fuzz boards) Also, just after one day of different / positive interaction I've already made arrangements with my cousin that I will do a variant cover for a comic for his friend. One step forward two steps forward

Sloppy, but at least he has the budget now to afford an extra in the music video

I don't know japanese and Google Translate is not helping me with their tweets. I just found they were in a band called LucaRia -with Tomo from Dadaroma and another guys I don't remember- I read about on fb. So, is it true? I'm curious

Here are the lyrics to Ogre by Cuartet along with what I think the structure is. Are you reaching cry of people 「Burst city」 you made is about to collapse <Violence><Politics><Crime><Disaster><Weather> be upset of all!! you made 「Burst city」 in these state foolish people do disturb of order (an atrocious crime) pretend ignorance is 「Burst city」 (a prosperity city) disregard of law is useless social 「Tell me your opinion of you!!」 note: at the bottom is a square, x, triangle, a komejirushi (※) and a circle, all of which are in between two hyphens. I have no idea what any of this means. Perhaps it's some weird symbolism? Or it's probably there for A E S T H E T I C Interestingly enough, there is a note at the bottom. 〜全英訳、咲〜, which basically says Saki wrote all the English himself. Yeah, that's kinda obvious. So determining the structure for this song is hard, because Saki gives even Ruki a run for his money on how badly they pronounce English. The first lyric really is "Be upset of all", then after the main riff ends, the first line is sung, 4 times. Only, he seems to end the first 3 ones at "made" (which he pronounces like mah-deh). Only the 4th repetition is sung fully. The words in <> are most likely the growling behind his singing. Then he says "Be upset of all" again. Now, the next lines are extremely hard to pinpoint. The line "you made 「Burst city」 in these state" is most likely what he's repeating 4 times in this part, until the growling kicks in. Then, "foolish people do disturb of order (an atrocious crime)" is growled 4 times. I don't think "An atrocious crime" is actually said though. But I could be wrong. Ditto with the line under it. Then finally, he screams "disregard of law is useless social". The final line, may be what the high pitched voice is trying to say, or the voice is just random, and the lyric is not actually said. IDK, I want to see if anyone has a different interpretation. Saki's grammar isn't as bad as some of the Vocalists from then, but his pronunciation is very lazy. I'll post the other lyrics I have sometime later