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sukekiyo will release a new Blu-ray + CD, entitled "PASSIO" on February 18, during the sponsored live "二〇一九年公演「異形の間 弐」". Contents: DISC 1 [Blu-ray] sukekiyo 二〇一八年公演「嬲り地獄」 2018年1月14日(日) 横浜BAY HALL kisses 純朴、無垢であろうが マニエリスムな冷たい葬列者 艶 首吊り遊具 されど道連れ 12時20分金輪際 耳ゾゾ 黝いヒステリア 死霊のアリアナ vandal anima sukekiyo 二〇一八年公演「逆襲の嬲り地獄」-漆黒の儀- 2018年5月15日(火) CLUB CITTA’ 黝いヒステリア グニャ結論。そして血眼。 襞謳 死霊のアリアナ 艶 首吊り遊具 leather field vandal anima 嬲り ◆documentary footage DISC 2 [CD] 論外な生き物として (Demo Ver.)

The album "TABOO" was released in 1989, exactly 30 years ago today (18th January)! One of the most excellent old-school J-rock albums imo with many great highlights such as ICONOCLASM, ANGELIC CONVERSATION or JUST ONE MORE KISS. My favorites are TOKYO and FEAST OF DEMORALIZATION tho (the latter being one of only two songs whose lyrics Toll wrote in B-T history!). What are your faves from the album?

Their drummer is pretty hot

The fact I have to re-purchase games from my childhood because of disk failure is a stark reminder that I won’t have those games in my life forever Today was the deepest blow, I had to reorder Super Smash Bros. Melee, my current copy has formed a crack on the disc hole

New band "L'eveil en Roseraie" have formed on 2018/11/11. Next live will be at Nishikujou BRAND NEW on 2019/01/27. The first single "静寂の闇に舞う愛と悪戯の遁走曲" went on sale on 2018/12/31 in his live at Kyoto MUSE. "L'eveil en Roseraie" members: vo. Neue -ノイエ- gt.&pi. Renée - ルネ - ba. 忍(ren)(support) dr. 拓郎(takurou)(support) (ex.Larme d'ange) "静寂の闇に舞う愛と悪戯の遁走曲" CD TrackList: 1. 静寂の闇に舞う愛と悪戯の遁走曲 2. フーガ ト短調 -Organ Choral- ohp

Another chapter has been written and filed away into the ever growing library of visual kei history, so we resume our customary annual review of all of the great albums that saw the light of day in 2018. Unlike previous years, we elected to wait until the middle of January so the stragglers of the year had their fair chance to weigh in. This list is also not in any specific order, although DIMLIM's CHEDOARA deserves a mention for getting the most votes internally and therefore kicks the list off with a bang. Even in our most challenging years, there's always something fresh and new around the corner waiting to be discovered. Like always, this isn't an exhaustive list and plenty of the hidden gems slip through the cracks, so if you have anything to add to the list tack it on at the end so the entire community can find something new to enjoy. Without further ado, here are some great J-Rock albums of 2018. DIMLIM -- CHEDOARA @The Reverend @emmny @helcchi Sigh - Heir to Despair @The Reverend @helcchi Dir en grey - The Insulated World @emmny emmurée - lightless @The Reverend キズ - 「傷痕」 @platy Mass of the Fermenting Dregs - No New World @The Reverend @Zeus 陰陽座 (Onmyo-Za) - 覇道明王 (Hadou Myouou) @Zeus The GazettE - NINTH @Zeus グリモア - プシュコマキア @platy DADAROMA - dadaism#4 @helcchi @platy lynch. - XIII @YuyoDrift Thanks for reading!

Haha, I can get that...usually I can't stand Engrish either (most especially in rock/metal) but somehow knowing what an influence David Bowie had on Atsushi, I dunno somehow makes it feel endearing instead of forced? Not sure if that makes sense. Just like THE IMMORTAL live, addressing the audience almost entirely in English making an atmosphere of a real punk-goth live. (I think B-T / etc is the only place I've made an exception 😂)

I may be alone here, but EMBYO. It's just such a Sakurai song, it's truly cool how we can see the continuity of his lyrical themes from back then, and EMBYO is in some ways more powerful for being so direct too. Then ICONOCLASM is the classic, though I prefer the rerecording.

SILENT NIGHT (even though I can hardly listen through, cause, sad), TABOO, and JUST ONE MORE KISS, honestly I prefer this album on live.

^ I feel ya, sometimes I feel like JUST ONE MORE KISS is too syrupy and upbeat for my liking, haha. The music video is perfectly cheesy tho.

All the recent live footage that’s on the internet is fucking awesome. Anyway, Adoratio is imo the best vk album of 2015-2019 so far so it’ll be golden in any shape or form

Amazing album! I wouldn't have realized today marked it's 30th if you hadn't posted, about to go listen to it in a bit. I may be an outlier, but I can't stand JUST ONE MORE KISS, something about it always made me uncomfortable lol. The rest of this album is great tho, with my favorites being ICONOCLASM, TOKYO and TABOO.

^Definitely JUST ONE MORE KISS, SEX FOR YOU and FEAST OF DEMORALIZATION. Wow I'm older than this album. 😑

EDIT: It's only the last live 🙃

The single letter ones are bad no matter if it's a band name or a member's stage name. There's way too many K's out there.

This is giving me discount E'm~grief~ vibes, hah! At this point tho I'd rather take this than "new br00tal kei band #2423". edit: lmao, check their snazzy OHP intro guys, 10/10

When you look back at the time you have spent here, no matter how long it has been, what is the album that has defines Monochrome Heaven for YOU? It can be the album you feel encompasses the mood of the forum, the album that meant the most to you during your time visiting here, that rare album that you finally found, or any other possible reason. Make sure you explain why it is as well! For me, that album HAS to be D'espairsRay's Coll:set. The dark and edgy mood mixed with excellent song writing was just what teen Ito craved and was looking for more off when he was setting up the the forum. I mean, if it wasn't obvious, just look at the forum's original name - Tainted World. Gee, I wonder where we came up with that idea from...

Starting from March 2019, both bands will merge to become 「ブリキのサーカス団」 (Buriki no circus-dan) ! A CD will be released at these lives. Lives : 2019.03.02 at Abeno ROCKTOWN 2019.03.03 at Nagoya E.L.L 2019.03.08 at Takadanobaba AREA Members : Singer : 景夕 (Keiyu) Singer : 団長(Dancho) Guitarist : Kyrie Guitarist : Shinno Bassist : 結良(Yuura) Drummer : K Twitter : https://twitter.com/burikinocircus Website : https://ブリキのサーカス団.com/

Most of them are the worst

@Jigsaw9 Not even My Baby Japanese type II? And yes!! about Hyper Love + Taboo. I remember just playing these performances on repeat (+Narcissus, Taiyou ni Korosareta and Kiss Me Goodbye) for weeks when I first became a fan.

One of the first songs that got stuck in my head years ago was actually リンチ from 第3実験室, really dig that sucker. But their discography is so extensive that it's good to have some direction, so thanks a lot for the recommendations! I've already enjoyed 10 quite a bit actually, so I guess I'll continue with the other albums you mentioned 😁

@karai · ebi I gotta confess, I could never take SILENT NIGHT seriously because of the Engrish (so I have a bit of a different experience with it), lol. @crossparallel EMBRYO is a cool track! I love ICONOCLASM to bits, it's interesting to read some ppl prefer the rerecording. I've always adored the original, and come to think of it, I have to think really hard to find a rerecording by B-T that I like more than the original... tho the duo of the rerec'd TABOO and HYPER LOVE is pretty awesome, especially live!

I'm a little ashamed to admit that much like BUCK-TICK, cali≠gari has always been one of those bands that I download every new release of and then it's just sitting on my hard drive like a useless piece of furniture that I don't know what to do with but also don't want to throw away because it might be good for something someday. In the case of cali≠gari, that day has finally come. With the release of their new album I finally sampled some songs from their past couple of albums and something just clicked (initially while listening to a live version of シャ.ナ.ナ which has been stuck in my head ever since). I'll still have to work my way further through their catalogue but I feel like I finally "get them", I guess. Having said that, I didn't get much enjoyment out of 14, except for maybe three songs: 天国で待ってる for its upbeat quirkiness and fun bassline, いつか花は咲くだろう for its mellow, airy vibe and most notably 死は眠りを散歩する for its groove and suspenseful structure and flow.

I like what you got out of it with GIMP...it made it look like an encaustic.

It's pretty clear they've been struggling for quite a long time. Production on most of their recorded music has been spotty at best. Waka sounds great at least, she has real talent.

Vo.唯人 (Yuito) is ex-honey drop-->Miss Rainy and Ba.ICHI is ex-REIL, VII-II AUME (support)-->De:Vi6 (support gu.)

Or talking about Laputa to a Spanish speaking person.

I'm loving this band. They give me serious Da'vid shito:aL vibes with their concept (though more aggressive music most of the time) and I stan for days....weeks...possibly years.

I love it

From 2019.01.25, during their tour 「14-需要-の【大罪】と【美徳】ツアー」, they want to make a documentary. It will include live images, backstage videos when they go to the different cities and where they stay. To pay for this project, they will use cloud funding. You can help them by crowdunfing via the link below. You can chip in from 2019.01.23 and it will end on 2019.03.17. If I made some mistakes, please tell me. https://www.muevo.jp/campaigns/1760 0 yen : Video message from the band ツアー記念オリジナルスマホ待受画像 ツアーの様子を活動報告よりお届け 5000 yen : Video message from the band ツアー記念オリジナルスマホ待受画像 ツアーの様子を活動報告よりお届け Complete video footage from the tour (DVD-R) Listed at the end of the documentary 8000 yen : Video message from the band ツアー記念オリジナルスマホ待受画像 ツアーの様子を活動報告よりお届け Complete video footage from the tour Listed at the end of the documentary Original T-shirt 12.000 yen Video message from the band ツアー記念オリジナルスマホ待受画像 ツアーの様子を活動報告よりお届け Complete video footage from the tour Listed at the end of the documentary Original T-shirt Live CD (CD-R) off-shot + documentary 20.000 yen Video message from the band ツアー記念オリジナルスマホ待受画像 ツアーの様子を活動報告よりお届け Complete video footage from the tour Listed at the end of the documentary Original T-shirt Live CD (CD-R) off-shot + documentary Letter from one member of your choice (you can specify a topic) Video message from a member of your choice (you can specify a topic) OR 25.000 yen Video message from the band ツアー記念オリジナルスマホ待受画像 ツアーの様子を活動報告よりお届け Complete video footage from the tour Listed at the end of the documentary Original T-shirt Live CD (CD-R) off-shot + documentary Event in Tokyo from April to May 2019 30.000 yen You will be invited to one of their rehearsal during their tour (you can choose one song, if they have too many people, they will choose the most selected songs) 50.000 yen Video message from the band ツアー記念オリジナルスマホ待受画像 ツアーの様子を活動報告よりお届け Complete video footage from the tour Listed at the end of the documentary Original T-shirt Live CD (CD-R) off-shot + documentary Secret invitation to one live (April-May) (You can select the songs which will be played...) 100.000 yen Everything above + Special gift from the band 200.000 yen Video message from the band ツアー記念オリジナルスマホ待受画像 ツアーの様子を活動報告よりお届け Complete video footage from the tour Listed at the end of the documentary Original T-shirt Live CD (CD-R) off-shot + documentary The band will come to the city of your choice to perform

^I'm also looking forward to new material but considering that, as you say, their live shows are really high quality and generally even sound better than their studio recordings, I'm not mad at all. The cover art looks beautiful, too.

put some respect on kylynn's name! the look is good and as far as we know he ain't a literal pedophile

Just dropping in to let everyone know that I got the order I placed today. Everything was perfect and safely packaged and organized. It was a VERY large order. Hiroki was super patient with me and very helpful. Really pleasant to work with. I hope to order again soon.

Great, my dog chewed up a MALICE MIZER Mana guitar pick.... I'm happy he didn't choke.

really love your dark style, hope to see more from you! ^^

i like your mom xx

I don't always listen to Matenrou Opera, but when I do it's this gem 💖 Loving that they're still around, now I'm going to have to play catch up to everything released since ANOMIE.

Kind of got back into art, still lacking talent, but I'll show off the last thing I finished working on and then I got really bored at work and tried to add to it with gimp, results are mixed at best

RESULTS! Thanks to everyone who participated this year! Judging from many of your recommendations, there definitely still exists some talent in the scene! Without further delay, here are the RESULTS! By recent request, I have added the runner-ups for each category! __________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Best Overall Artist/Band Best Album Best Single/Maxi-Single/EP Best Cover Art Best Look Best Newcomer Best Veteran Best PV Saddest Disbandment Most Overhyped Band Most Overhyped Release Most Underhyped Band Most Anticipated Release Band that Changed their Sound for the Best Band that Changed their Sound for the Worse Band that you spent most of your money on in 2018 What the hell were they thinking!? Award Best Revival/Returns An amazing display of results if I may say 😎. Definitely some close calls there, I'll tell ya. Thanks again to the participants of the MH JRock Awards 2018 for your contributions. The staff and I here at MH hope to see you and more future voters here again at the end of the year! Until then, enjoy 2019 😁!

Blessed born day, bruh! Miss you!

Happy b-day fit! ❤️

That has to be the most creative thing Yoshiki has done in years ... a true artist at work

This makes me extremely sad. I am their fan since 2008, saw them live two times and now miku is the only person who left in the band... But there's a little hope because it's not disband already, but it's hiatus. If they will become another SERIAL NUMBER changing members million times it will be not nice.

Well, if everyone but the vocalist is leaving, then....yeah, might as well be the end.

this was my nickname in prison x

I'll give this a go. I'd say that 12012's XII Mini-Album would best represent Monochrome Heaven to me. "Timeless", would be the word I'd use to describe the connection to the two. No matter how long time goes by, neither one will leave my memories. To think, each member put a piece of themselves into a final composition for each track, just like we all do for this site everyday. To some, it was a polished POS. To myself on the other hand, it was one of VK's greatest gems. Oh, the memories of telling people to go fuck themselves. Seems like just yesterday.....