Silverhawk33

This is a sudden announcement,
but ZORO will disband on 2015.05.05.
There's no regret in this decision,
since it had been made precisely because ZORO is more important than anything else and is what we love most.
This definitely wasn't an answer that I can give alone;
it's one that Tatsuhi and I came up with together.
I'll make a promise here.
Until our final live on 2015.05.05,
ZORO will become even better [than we've been].
We'll end in the best way we can.
To all who have been supporting us,
thank you.
-Ryuuji
For 7 years we've kept things going till now.
Thanks to the support of various people,
and most importantly everyone who has cheered us on,
we could continue ZORO hitherto.
I also won't have any regrets in our decision to disband.
We'll keep going till the end.
And we'll continue to bring great music to everyone till the end.
-Tatsuhi
(took some liberties with certain parts as it's real difficult to type on mobile..)

Angelo new album (title not yet finalized) will be released at 2020/11/11 (10 songs)
 
their new live DVD/Blu-Ray "Angelo Acoustic Live circuit & Streaming「NEOPHASE Ⅲ – The quantum method -」" will be released through their webshop since 2020/10/03 and will be delivered at 2020/10/23 (Blu-Ray: 11600yen / DVD: 9600yen)

リムキャット(rimcat) will disband after their live at Shibuya WWW on 9/28.
 
Vo&Gt.栞 (shiori) will end musical activities.
 

Sadly the guy is too well established in the VK scene, despite his shitty behavior. Imo it's not just that japan thinks differently of people like him, but guys like him have so much support behind their back they really can get away with a lot of shit. See also Marilyn Manson or Chris Brown. They too did some horrible, abusive shit and still have so many people cheering them on and excusing their acts. 
 
And this is why idolizing people, really any people, in the media and entertainment industry is wrong.

Kazami posted a demo file of his part of one of the songs from the new album that will be available for a limited time, if I understood this correctly. He's mentioning 60 days but on that download page there's 2020.02.29 stated.
 
 

REIGN new single "Hidden" will be released at 2019/12/11. (2 TYPE)
 
Limited edition will contain CD (3 tracks) +DVD (includes "ME" MV and offshot) and regular edition will be CD only
 
[track list]
1. ME
2. sin
3. Ray
 
Limited edition jacket:

Regular edition jacket:






 

NEW ALBUM発売決定 「FAUST」 2019.11.6　Release
10 songs include
 
 
 

REIGN will release a new single titled "Absolute 14" on 2019.07.17 in two types.
 
Limited Edition (CD+DVD; 2,200 yen)
CD
1. Envision
2. Gnarly
3. Petrichor
 
DVD
- Envision Music Clip & Music Clip off shot
 
Regular Edition (CD; 1,600 yen)
CD
1. Envision
2. Gnarly
3. Petrichor

here are the band comments (not individual ones from member )
 
 
i can do the rest after work if no one else has done it by then

I like " Voice of Cradle ", kind of rock ballad. And " the crime to Cradle" .
 
I like Takeo drum playing, his style is not complex but hé always find original rythm. But i admit during Pierrot his work was even more good because he mixed acoustic and electronic sound, which gave something pretty unique to Pierrot. To me Pierrot was more famous simply because the musical alchemy  between the members was deep. They perfectly fit together. Electronic drums, guitar synth, Aiji unique guitar lead. All those elements together were amazing. 
Angelo is a good band , but they are not " great" because it's too simple. They should take more risk and experiment.
 

>be a bandman
>play shitty american cons for years
>no one cares about you in japan
>finally start to come up, band does well
>almost make it to your 20th anniversary
>vocalist gets a bunch of absolutely heinous vocal conditions
>forced to disband
>over two years later, he's finally better and you can keep doing what you love
>some guy on a forum calls you cringey for taking a cute photo with your bandmates

http://dueljewel.jp/pc/zepp.html
 
Duel Jewel announced their return live on March 1st, 2019, at Zepp Tokyo.
Hayato has apparently made a full recovery from the variety of conditions (functional dysphonia, vocal dystonia, vocal yips) that caused them to disband.

yes, it's fucking awesome the way they're supportive of her.

^To be fair, they didn't say it's because she's pregnant again yet, people are just assuming. 
 
Dude, she has what, two kids? Three kids would more slightly more than average, but it's really not that many.
 
She also mentioned when they went on hiatus the second time that the reason she wanted a second child so badly was because she enjoyed growing up with a sibling so much and she wanted her child to have the same experience.

@nekkichi is correct, and it is also important to consider the culture of the boards as well. Even in the English-speaking world, a report of rape or murder or suicide will be presented in a much different way on Twitter or Tumblr than on say, 4chan or Encyclopedia Dramatica. Tanuki/2ch are extremely blase and candid about sordid topics and sounding "self-pitying" (for lack of better words) would be extremely frowned upon given the board's culture. It is not a nice place. People mock suicide victims and eagerly discuss their desire to commit child abuse. While I understand the reports are just as unverifiable as anything else on Tanuki, it seems irresponsible to make judgments on what a woman's report on this type of thing "should sound like", especially for those who are not familiar with the posting culture & for those who haven't experienced or witnessed the societal and scene-specific issues mentioned in the post above.

I think it's supposed to be ハード (Hard, like hardcore?) + コンパ (Konpa = mixer), similar to ヤリコン (fuck+mixer, basically a party for hookups). But no one seems to know the origin of the name for sure.
 
I'm not really sure what to say about it. On one hand, it seems like the roadie system had its benefits and the relationship could be very important to both parties. I was watching the last lynch. blu-ray that came out with the commentary on, where the roadie system came up in conversation. They talked about Ai from DARRELL/DEATHGAZE's previous band, Otogi, and Hazuki mentioned that Otogi had literally a dozen roadies onstage at their disbandment live all crying hysterically because they genuinely cared about the band. Reo (who is older than the other members of lynch. and has a lot more connections in the '98-'04 era VK world) mentioned that he thought that the roadie system allowed for a lot of learning experiences, however it also made a lot of bitter memories when it was basically a glorified way of hazing and abusing people. He implied that he didn't want to cause any of his kouhai to have the bitter memories many people seemed to have from the roadie system. (I should relisten to the commentary later since this is just from memory.)

I also think the near-elimination of the system means fewer talented people being railroaded or turned off of the genre just because a senpai doesn't like them, or because they can't "handle" being treated like a whipping boy, or because they may not otherwise fit in. These girls could be right that it means that even shittier people aren't being weeded out though, or that the barrier for entry is too low for bandmen with no ambitions aside from mitsu money and fuckbuddies... Especially if you do consider that there is more an emphasis on selling yourself as available directly to fans than there used to be. (Imagine any of the bands from this era doing "hug sessions".)

I think the internet would have mostly killed the band vertical hierarchy anyway even if visual kei hadn't started adopting more and more "idol-ish" tactics (i.e. selling personal rapport or the illusion thereof to fans) -- it's happening everywhere now, people are able to just create and distribute music from their homes without much budget or equipment and enter a niche without outside help or an "in". It's still not totally gone though... just look at Tsuzuki/Genki and Koichi's blacklisting from venues.

I translated a bit from a talk between Die, Gara and Boo here: https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/topic/115-merry-fka-メリー/?do=findComment&comment=606026
 
Gara mentions about the hardcore drinking sessions DEG does and he had to go along with it, whilst Die mutters that it's Kaoru who forces shots on people. What I didn't translate was a large section in the video where Die and Gara talked about some of the senpai/ kouhai bullshit they have had to put up with. It's been a while since I watched that vid for a while now so don't quote me on this. But I seem to recall Die saying that him and Kaoru were expecting to clean Yoshiki's toilet upon arriving at his LA home and was told (by someone from Luna Sea or X Japan, can't remember) that it's alright and they should drink some Dom Perignon and chill. Die told it as a positive senpai story
 
If bandomen can be so awful to each other, I wouldn't be surprised at the horrors gyas have to put up with. When especially considering the conventional way for Japanese people to get to know each other, or just to have fun, means copious amount of alcohol.  Mixing that with gyas and kouhais who want to impress, I wouldn't be surprised if 100% of those tanuki posts actually happened.

@platy I thought I explicitly acknowledged this when I brought it up. Let me reiterate that I understand that, and that my point is not that you have to believe in all rumors or believe in no rumors. My point is if you're going to smugtweet about how correct and smart Dir en grey is to have ditched Kisaki you should at least demonstrate a semblance of awareness that the Dir house isn't exactly clean when it comes to allegations even if you don't weigh them the same. (This should probably extend to trying to hold up "vk celeb you like" as moral over "vk celeb you don't like that has been implicated" in general because you don't fucking know them or what they've done anyway.)

Literally just now hearing about rape allegations towards Kyo and Daisuke, but I do remember someone talking about a select group of dudes (Kyo, Daisuke, Tatsurou, a few others) that participated in questionable behavior. 
 
But there’s no doubt people just have it out for Kisaki. Of course his tax evasion bullshit and overall garbage approach to making money warrants the negative attention. But a few months back there was a “bad boys of VK poll/thread” and last I remember Kisaki was coming out on top over dudes that assaulted women. At the time, all we knew was about Kisaki’s poor business practices, but somehow he was getting more bad boy votes than Wataru, a guy that straight up fucking choked a woman. That has to be a case of serious blind fanaticism when assualt doesn’t register on your radar. 

I am aware that you are referring to me, but why do you want my opinion so badly? What exactly do you want me to say that will rile up your sensationalism about this? I’m not going to speak of the subject because I am emotionally drained about this enough as we speak. Please keep these jokes in your thoughts, I’ll just have none of them. 

That's the best look I've seen from them in years! I kinda want an album as much as the next guy but at least we're consistently getting new releases. That and I really love the instrumentals the singles comes with that the albums neglect.

YAAAAAAAAAAAS !
 
I hope they come up with something as epic as usual, unlike that shitty latest Kaya solo release.

the previews were awesome.
like i have said like million times,
you can never go wrong with mucc.
 
cant wait for this!