Silverhawk33

It's horrible to insult someone based on their looks, and it is absolutely not tolerated here in Monochrome Heaven. Any kind of bullying is extremely forbidden.

KAMIJO has participated in sakura-seeing meeting organized by 安倍晋三(abe shizou)

It was announced that the new maxi-single "teenAge dream/Luv it!!" will be released in 2015/07/15 (3 TYPES), although more details have not yet been announced.

Jupiter new instrumental CD "THE HISTORY OF GENESIS-Instrumental ver.-" will be released through their official web-shop and at their live since their one-man live "Temple of Venus FINAL" at Shinjuku ReNY at 2015/04/29 (2,160yen)
 
[track list]
01.The Birth of Venus
02.LAST MOMENT
03.Darkness
04.B.L.A.S.T
05.THE MOON
06.氷の中の少女(koori no naka no shoujo)
07.Church Candle
08.Red Carnation
09.絶望ラビリンス(zetsubou labyrinth)
10.Shining
11.ARCADIA
12.Luminous
13.The History of Genesis
14.SACRED ALTAR

Artist: Hora Album: Cocytus Score: EDM super producer, Hora, is one of the most unique figures in the Visual Kei scene today... And has been for over a decade. Where most visual rock stars compose songs that are largely based on electric guitar, bass, and drums; Hora only uses his homemade synthesizers to create some of the greatest dance music you'll ever hear in your life. While he prefers to remain as obscure and indie as possible, if he would open himself up to a more global market he would surely give acts like Tiesto and Afrojack a run for their money. /p>
Over these past 13 years, Hora has composed around 45 songs for darkwave/trance duo Schwarz Stein; but a staggering 119 songs for his solo career and all while using vocals so sparingly one would wonder how he could keep it so constantly interesting.... The short answer is that it isn't always interesting, I'll admit. Being a huge fan since day one of Schwarz Stein, I also follow Hora's and Kaya's solo activities quite closely and have always listened to Hora's solo albums no matter how disappointing they ended up being. However, it seems that he managed to reignite the fire of his solo project around 2 years ago when he released Cocoon and then kicked it up about 70 notches for Desolation Beauty last year, ultimately resulting in this year's splendid Cocytus.

 
This is the first album of material he's produced since Schwarz Stein's official return to the scene and it shows. This album is significantly darker than his last one and utilizes the same sort of synths that were featured in Schwarz Stein's most recent single "Sleeping Madness" and by that I mean the beats are hard and fast. The album opener is fairly typical for Hora, unfortunately. Very melodramatic and slow and ultimately just very repetitive. The song drags on way too long and doesn't provide the listener with much intrigue. Along with Underwater and Winter Blood, this song can be skipped to prepare yourself for the real meat and potatoes of the album.

The second track is one of the absolute best Hora solo songs I've ever heard. "Frost" has the dramatic Hora flair that one must appreciate in order to be a fan while also delivering one of the hardest beats of his career. Please, please listen to this song above and you will not regret it. Following up this magnificent song is the second best song on the album, "Babel," which is considerably darker and deeper than "Frost." This is also his first composition in a long time that utilizes his harsh vocals. The only lyrics on this song, or the whole album in general, are "Let there be light." Title track "Cocytus" is a lot like album opener "Chamber of Fear" in that it's rather long and drawn out and does sort of the same thing continuously for no real added effect. Additionally, the use of string instruments becomes quite gratuitous when you're trying to listen to a dance album, but I digress. This is all just opinion, of course. The use of string instruments is something I've appreciated over the years and can see why people would enjoy their existence, but sometimes it's just too much.

Tracks 5 and 10 are essentially a two part series known as "Pray to God." The former song "Doom" has the same spacey quality as "Without Words" but in a much lighter atmosphere. The beat takes a while to kick in, but once it does it's actually quite fast and played under the melody of the piano to produce something very lighthearted (ironic for a song called "Doom," right?) The second in the series, "Heir" has a very interesting introduction. It's super glitchy, meaning there's no beat but the synths sort of skip around and sound like a broken video game. The second synths kick in not long into the song and create a continuation of the spacey vibe that "Doom" sets up. When the piano starts in this song it immediately echoes the piano of "Doom" and finishes out by adding a slower version of the beat in its predecessor.

Other extremely notable tracks are "My Vendetta" and the aptly-yet-reduntantly-named "Without Words" which are heavy/dark and mid tempo respectively. "My Vendetta" is the shortest song on the album and packs a decent punch in just 3.5 minutes... Which is actually a great thing considering if it had gone on too much longer it would get into the too-repetitive category due to the fact it doesn't change it's beat that much and is sort of a lot of the same sound. "Without Words" is more elegantly composed and utilizes more than one sound to make it's point. While I could see how someone could describe it as "lengthy," it has an ephemeral and spacey quality that hasn't quite been prominent on Hora's albums since Prominence in 2006.

All in all, this is definitely among Hora's best solo works. I highly recommend it as a general piece of music and find that it could likely be appreciated by all walks of life as it isn't too intense in any one genre at any one point. That being said, I do hope that Hora's and Kaya's priority over the next few months is to create a full-length Schwarz Stein album. I find that Kaya and Hora work best when they're together even though their individual talents are something quite formidable. It's like combining the two best things to make something even more impressive. Hora is the chocolate to Kaya's peanut butter or the Sonny to his Cher. They're best when together.

Naitomea! I love them so much !! My favourite ones are: The World, Alumina, Raison d'etre, Naked Love and Drastica. Yomi vocals are very good and their music is so energic

DaizyStripper new mini album "SIRIUS" will be released at 2015/05/20 (4 TYPE)
 
limited edition TYPE A & B (3,240yen each) will include CD+bonus CD, regular edition TYPE A (3,780yen) will include CD+DVD (including PV, PV SLIP & making), and regular edition TYPE B (2,700yen) will include CD only
 
[CD track list]
01.酸欠革命(sanketsu kakumei)
02.DEAR MY SIRIUS
03.ヒステリカ(hysterica)
04.SUMMER VACATION
05.SWEET DREAM
06.La Vie en Rose
 
[limited edition TYPE A bonus CD track list]
"Winter Box Disorder" 2014.12.15 in TSUTAYA O-EAST LIVE Part I
Adam
G.Z.S.K.K
マネキン(mannequin)
Zero Crysis
Seaside Avenue
Sunday Driver
QUALTIER LATIN
色彩ヴィヴィッド(shikisai vivid)
aquarium
Piano Solo～即興演奏～
深海(shinkai)
 
[limited edition TYPE B bonus CD track list]
"Winter Box Disorder" 2014.12.15 in TSUTAYA O-EAST LIVE Part II
5×STARZ
STARGAZER
リリカルナイト(lyrical night)
Screaming Husky
GIRL HUNT
BLACK DROPPer
decade
G.Z.S.K.K
ARREST
キューソネコカミ(kyuuso nekokami)
STAY GOLD
Shooting Star
 
 
btw they will hold their one-man live tour "NEVER ENDING SIRIUS" since Shinjuku ReNY at 2015/07/03-07/04 and up to Shinjuku BLAZE at 2015/09/26-09/27

Track length is on tower records. Surprisingly Siva, the 1st track is the longest in the album (5:36), so no shitty intro in sight. Shortest song is the DOOL, at 48 seconds, confirming it's a full nod to The World Ruler's the FOOL wich was also a small bridge between tracks. The second shortest is TABOO at the usual 3:42. The rest clock it a solid 3:50 to 4:30. Looks like a substancial album and getting rid of songs like To be or not to be or scums is a step in the good direction.
 
Quints also lasts one good minute more than the preview video to a total of 4:26.

"昏睡(konsui)" [CD track list]
01.弔いの鐘(tomurai no kane)
02.ANITYA
03.NAMU AMIDA BUDDHA.
04.ARE YOU READY? (included in regular edition)
05.MAD MAX
06.REMEMBER ME
 
[limited edition TYPE A DVD track list]
01.ANITYA Video Clip
02.ANITYA Video Clip -鋲(byou) ver.-
03.ANITYA Video Clip -和己(kazuki) ver.-
04.ANITYA Video Clip -マナブ(manabu) ver.-
05.ANITYA Video Clip -ジン(jin) ver.-
06.ANITYA Video Clip -MAKING-
 
[limited edition TYPE B DVD track list]
<STUDIO LIVE SHOOTING>
01.Barbed wire
02.FUGLY
03.ANITYA
04.Teardrop
05.Get You Back
 

actually legit surprised they're using the saxophone guy so much, expected it to be like a 'yeah we got that shit on 1 track only, couldnt afford more'

I just came from the live.... Support drummer were Aki (Lc5). And members looked really nervous/worry. And they did no encore because Masato............

That is a marathon of a setlist!  I wish I could get the chance to see it live.
 
I'm also glad that this is a 10th Anniversary Release compilation and not the "We are about to disband" compilation that is all too common, especially in recent years.
 
Despite the mix of love and hate they got for the Gallows LP and Exodus EP, I loved both releases and can't wait to hear new material from them.  I really liked their recent Singles and B-Sides too - one of my staples I always look forward to.

Quints sounds amazing with that strong chorus and overall impressive looking video. It would be nice if the album could live up to this song!
 
Man, opinions must be a hard thing to comprehend for you OR even "impossible". xD I'm sorry to hear that you think your opinion is fact, but I'd imagine you have a close-minded way of thinking either way. Not because you have a different opinion from mine, but due to the fact that you had to point out that I was apparently wrong? lol Have fun replying buddy, I hate to lose any more of my time on petty arguments.

Here's the translation of their comments, sorry for my really bad english.
 
Vocal Yuuki   I have been working as a member of this awesome band called "Lycaon" for almost 7 years, as Yuuki, as one artist, but After the Akasaka Blitz tour final on 11/6, Lycaon will disband. We have been discussing for so many times, we exchanged words of our future from now so many times, but thats our conclusion.   The gratitude to everyone who have been liking us, the magnificence of our encounter, the miracle, a lot of memories, who gave me all of this are you and us [the band itself]. Certainly face the reality of a disbandment make you have a lot of feelings like anger and sadness. Its the same to me.   But now i feel like my heart was washed. Its our last tour but in the final i want to blur brightly. I want to give a spectacular end to the Lycaon who gave us a lot of encounters and memories. I want to let it die surrounded by a lot of voices. I want you to let it die. I wanna be bitten to the death. I wannt to bite to the the death. I wanna become one with you.  Now i have a lot of feelings like this. I never thought a day like this would come.   It was really funny. I was happy. Thank you.   --------------------------------------------   Gt. Zero   【Disband】   S u c h   a  s a d  w o r d  i s n ' t  it ?   T h e　【traces】　o f  t h e  w a y  t h at  w e  h a v e  b e e n w a l k i n g  u n t i l  n o w  w i l l  a l l  d i s a p p e a r   s o    W a s  i  a b l e  t o  b e c o m e  a  p i e c e  o f  e v e r y o n e ' s  h e a r t ?   ~Reason of disbandment~   I t  w o u l d  b e  g o o d  i f  w e  c o u l d  s a y "Its that, its it"  B u t ...   I f  i  s t a r t  t o  s a y  C e r t a i n l y  t h e r e ' s  a  l o t  of  r e a s o n s   【Discord】 【Disagreement about our music】   T h e r e ' s  n o  t h i n g s  l i k e  t h i s  a t  a l l   【Suddenly or Inevitable】   ～Disband?～   N o w  w e  s t i l l  h a v e  a  s c h e d u l e  l i k e  u s u a l, n o t h i n g  c h a n g e d ...   I ' m  s o r r y   f o r  s u r p r i s i n g  a l l  o f  y o u   【Lycaon】   I  n e v e r  l o v e d  a  b a n d  l i k e  t h i s     I t  w o n t  c h a n g e  e v e n  n o w     N o w , i t ' s  n o t  a  g o o d  b y e  y e t      N o w , i  c a n t  t e l l  y o u  a l l  m y  t h o u g h t s  h e r e    S o ,   I n  t h e  m o m e n t  w h e n  w e  w i l l  g e t  k i l l e d A l l  m y  m e m o r i e s,  I  w a n t  t o ..   【Tell you】   【Laugh a lot】 【Cry a lot 】   U n t i l  t h e  e n d 【Together】   I  c o u n t  o n  y o u   【In the end, let's cry more than we ever cried since we was born】   --------------------------------------------   Gt. Satoshi   I just can't tell my feelings in sentences. I'm the guitarrist who loves Lycaon. Let me tell you all my feelings by sound.   I'm Japanese Rock'n'Roller !!   ~ Satoshi ~   --------------------------------------------   Ba. Hiyuu    Lycaon will cease the activities after the tour final concert in Akasaka Blitz on 11/06. I have joined Lycaon in the middle of it, and in these 5 years i could keep walking thanks to the collaboration of a lot of fans and staffs. I thank you from my heart.   Encountering these members, experiencing a lot of things, encountering a lot of people i`m really grateful to everything what happened. So i think someday we'll be able to see this decision called disbandment as something positie... And follow to different paths. I'm really sorry that was announced like this.   But the result of disbandment came from each member thought. In the end its something we decided with "all members", so i want you to accept it. It may be impossible to do right now but... Until the very last day, like in the meaning of MASOCHIST RED, i want to make the world that just Lycaon can make with everyone, so i gonna devote myself with all my power in each remnant concert.   Let's the a landscape that we weren't able to see together.   Thank you for always give me a happy time.   Hiyuu    --------------------------------------------
 
Dr. Ichiro   I'm sorry for such an abrupt announcement. I should right it in a respectfully way, but i thought i wouldn't be able to express my feelings, so i gonna write like this. I don't know what to say.   Before i joined the band in the middle, i was a human that never went to a tour. But since've started as a support member in Lycaon i was able to go to a lot of places and experience many things, it was really fun. Keeping like this i wanted to enchant Lycaon in more and more big places. It became my dream.   We have discussed with the members a lot of times. How we could make awesome concerts? How could we take awesome pictures? How could we make our fans have fun?   If i count my time as a suppot, i have been a member fo 4 years. Being everyday with the members made me able to go through the same path with them. The answer gave by these members now was "disband". We have been worrying until the very last moment. I think there's people who thinks its not the right and can't agree.   We won't ever meet again.   It's not like this.   It was good to be able to meet everyone who have been supporting me on these 4 years. Thank you very much.   These are my honest feelings. I'll do it with all my power until the end. I hope everyone do it with complete devotion too.   Thank you.

Indeed. Let the fans mourn their band and stop being assholes. I just logged on, so I'll be removing any troll-y posts from this point forward.
Personally, I found this news to be pretty shocking.

NIGHTMARE new album "CARPE DIEM" will be released at 2015/03/25 (3 TYPE)
 
limited edition TYPE A (3,600yen) will include CD+DVD (including "Quints" PV), limited edition TYPE B (3,600yen) will include CD+DVD, and regular edition TYPE C (2,800yen) will include CD only
 
[CD track list]
01.Siva
02.僕の嫌いな君が死んだら、僕は笑うのだろうか(boku no kirai na kimi ga shindara boku wa warau no darou ka)
03.TABOO
04.恍惚(koukotsu)
05.Quints
06.入滅(nyuumetsu)-entering nirvana-
07.blur
08.Demand
09.NAMELESS
10.fade
11.the DOOL
12.極上脳震煉獄・弐式(gokujou noushin rengoku nishiki)
13.Tao (included in regular edition TYPE C)
 
[limited edition TYPE B DVD track list]
NIGHTMARE FC Limited Live 2015 @ EX THEATER ROPPONGI
01.blur
02.Such a Nonsense System
03.Buddies
 

[CD track list]
01.冬の終わる場所。(fuyu no owaru basho)
02.眼球(gankyuu)
03.マーチング・アント(marching ant) (included in TYPE B & C)
04.冬の終わる場所。(fuyu no owaru basho)(karaoke) (included in TYPE C)
05.眼球(gankyuu)(karaoke) (included in TYPE C)
06.マーチング・アント(marching ant)(karaoke) (included in TYPE C)
 

That had to of been the best song from them since missing!

That had to of been the best song from them since missing!

That's a shame to hear that.

YES YES YES YES FUQ YEAH THIS IS FUCKN R-SHITEI
 

This is really, really good. The 1st track is no big deal, but the 2nd is so cool, and the 3rd is so addictive...
 
Kiyoto is by far one of coolest VK musicians right now. Everything he does is always so catchy and the quality is always amazing too and he keeps the same style no matter how many bands of different genres he gets. Too bad none of his bands lasts for a long time, though. I hope this one does, because it's really good.
 
It made me glad to see him playing the guitar, which might mean he composes most, if not all of the songs from his bands, since I still get a touch of CELLT in all of his compositions. Maybe he should just try a solo carreer since none of his bands last for long. And I'm glad he keeps trying no matter how many times he fails.