beni

These selections of mine are ones that have not been mentioned before on any project of the ORZ, so not all of my favourites are gathered here (save for a few select song favourites from some albums that have been previously mentioned in BNTs). To check out the rest I enjoyed, see the Staff album selections.   Because I have so many picks for this year since I got to a lot more music than in 2014, I'm going to be posting a handful of releases one by one within two days, preferably in a weeks amount of time. That's 70 picks! After picking out from what I had gotten to throughout the year and enjoyed, I ended up with a good 112 releases I adored from this rather 'weak' year alone (laugh with me, go ahead!), so I just HAD to feature an honorable mentions for the lot I was forced to remove to whittle down the ever growing list.   Be sure to look out for the bold yellow text = HONORABLE MENTIONS and bold red text = TOP TIER ALERTS (top tier means I found the whole release to be perfect) whilst you're at it! Every release has bolded tracks that indicate my favorite songs on the particular release and a shortish description of the sound/genres.   This list isn't ranked but in alphabetical order. Click the first spoiler tag for my honorable mentions or don't if you want to check them out with the list when they're called out in the blurbs for references. Not all will be commented on though!   Without further ado, enjoy~  

 

AKINO with bless4 - Decennia


 

[Alexandros] - ALXD




 

あまざらし (amazarashi) - あまざらし　千分の一夜物語　スターライト (Senbun no Ichiya Monogatari Starlight)




 

雨ニモ負ケズ (amenimomakez) - 結い (Yui)




 

Atlantis Airport - A[ ]Passport-EP+2




 
BENI - Undress


 

BIGMAMA - The Vanishing Bride




 

BiSH - Brand-new idol SHiT
 



 

ボンジュール鈴木 (bonjour Suzuki) - さよなら。また来世で (Sayonara. In addition, in the afterlife)
 



 
Tune in on Sunday for the second batch~

These selections of mine are ones that have not been mentioned before on any project of the ORZ, so not all of my favourites are gathered here (save for a few select song favourites from some albums that have been previously mentioned in BNTs). To check out the rest I enjoyed, see the Staff album selections.   Because I have so many picks for this year since I got to a lot more music than in 2014, I'm going to be posting a handful of releases one by one within two days, preferably in a weeks amount of time. That's 70 picks! After picking out from what I had gotten to throughout the year and enjoyed, I ended up with a good 112 releases I adored from this rather 'weak' year alone (laugh with me, go ahead!), so I just HAD to feature an honorable mentions for the lot I was forced to remove to whittle down the ever growing list.   Be sure to look out for the bold yellow text = HONORABLE MENTIONS and bold red text = TOP TIER ALERTS (top tier means I found the whole release to be perfect) whilst you're at it! Every release has bolded tracks that indicate my favorite songs on the particular release and a shortish description of the sound/genres.   This list isn't ranked but in alphabetical order. Click the first spoiler tag for my honorable mentions or don't if you want to check them out with the list when they're called out in the blurbs for references. Not all will be commented on though!   Without further ado, enjoy~  

 

AKINO with bless4 - Decennia


 

[Alexandros] - ALXD




 

あまざらし (amazarashi) - あまざらし　千分の一夜物語　スターライト (Senbun no Ichiya Monogatari Starlight)




 

雨ニモ負ケズ (amenimomakez) - 結い (Yui)




 

Atlantis Airport - A[ ]Passport-EP+2




 
BENI - Undress


 

BIGMAMA - The Vanishing Bride




 

BiSH - Brand-new idol SHiT
 



 

ボンジュール鈴木 (bonjour Suzuki) - さよなら。また来世で (Sayonara. In addition, in the afterlife)
 



 
Tune in on Sunday for the second batch~

These selections of mine are ones that have not been mentioned before on any project of the ORZ, so not all of my favourites are gathered here (save for a few select song favourites from some albums that have been previously mentioned in BNTs). To check out the rest I enjoyed, see the Staff album selections.   Because I have so many picks for this year since I got to a lot more music than in 2014, I'm going to be posting a handful of releases one by one within two days, preferably in a weeks amount of time. That's 70 picks! After picking out from what I had gotten to throughout the year and enjoyed, I ended up with a good 112 releases I adored from this rather 'weak' year alone (laugh with me, go ahead!), so I just HAD to feature an honorable mentions for the lot I was forced to remove to whittle down the ever growing list.   Be sure to look out for the bold yellow text = HONORABLE MENTIONS and bold red text = TOP TIER ALERTS (top tier means I found the whole release to be perfect) whilst you're at it! Every release has bolded tracks that indicate my favorite songs on the particular release and a shortish description of the sound/genres.   This list isn't ranked but in alphabetical order. Click the first spoiler tag for my honorable mentions or don't if you want to check them out with the list when they're called out in the blurbs for references. Not all will be commented on though!   Without further ado, enjoy~  

 

AKINO with bless4 - Decennia


 

[Alexandros] - ALXD




 

あまざらし (amazarashi) - あまざらし　千分の一夜物語　スターライト (Senbun no Ichiya Monogatari Starlight)




 

雨ニモ負ケズ (amenimomakez) - 結い (Yui)




 

Atlantis Airport - A[ ]Passport-EP+2




 
BENI - Undress


 

BIGMAMA - The Vanishing Bride




 

BiSH - Brand-new idol SHiT
 



 

ボンジュール鈴木 (bonjour Suzuki) - さよなら。また来世で (Sayonara. In addition, in the afterlife)
 



 
Tune in on Sunday for the second batch~

These selections of mine are ones that have not been mentioned before on any project of the ORZ, so not all of my favourites are gathered here (save for a few select song favourites from some albums that have been previously mentioned in BNTs). To check out the rest I enjoyed, see the Staff album selections.   Because I have so many picks for this year since I got to a lot more music than in 2014, I'm going to be posting a handful of releases one by one within two days, preferably in a weeks amount of time. That's 70 picks! After picking out from what I had gotten to throughout the year and enjoyed, I ended up with a good 112 releases I adored from this rather 'weak' year alone (laugh with me, go ahead!), so I just HAD to feature an honorable mentions for the lot I was forced to remove to whittle down the ever growing list.   Be sure to look out for the bold yellow text = HONORABLE MENTIONS and bold red text = TOP TIER ALERTS (top tier means I found the whole release to be perfect) whilst you're at it! Every release has bolded tracks that indicate my favorite songs on the particular release and a shortish description of the sound/genres.   This list isn't ranked but in alphabetical order. Click the first spoiler tag for my honorable mentions or don't if you want to check them out with the list when they're called out in the blurbs for references. Not all will be commented on though!   Without further ado, enjoy~  

 

AKINO with bless4 - Decennia


 

[Alexandros] - ALXD




 

あまざらし (amazarashi) - あまざらし　千分の一夜物語　スターライト (Senbun no Ichiya Monogatari Starlight)




 

雨ニモ負ケズ (amenimomakez) - 結い (Yui)




 

Atlantis Airport - A[ ]Passport-EP+2




 
BENI - Undress


 

BIGMAMA - The Vanishing Bride




 

BiSH - Brand-new idol SHiT
 



 

ボンジュール鈴木 (bonjour Suzuki) - さよなら。また来世で (Sayonara. In addition, in the afterlife)
 



 
Tune in on Sunday for the second batch~

These selections of mine are ones that have not been mentioned before on any project of the ORZ, so not all of my favourites are gathered here (save for a few select song favourites from some albums that have been previously mentioned in BNTs). To check out the rest I enjoyed, see the Staff album selections.   Because I have so many picks for this year since I got to a lot more music than in 2014, I'm going to be posting a handful of releases one by one within two days, preferably in a weeks amount of time. That's 70 picks! After picking out from what I had gotten to throughout the year and enjoyed, I ended up with a good 112 releases I adored from this rather 'weak' year alone (laugh with me, go ahead!), so I just HAD to feature an honorable mentions for the lot I was forced to remove to whittle down the ever growing list.   Be sure to look out for the bold yellow text = HONORABLE MENTIONS and bold red text = TOP TIER ALERTS (top tier means I found the whole release to be perfect) whilst you're at it! Every release has bolded tracks that indicate my favorite songs on the particular release and a shortish description of the sound/genres.   This list isn't ranked but in alphabetical order. Click the first spoiler tag for my honorable mentions or don't if you want to check them out with the list when they're called out in the blurbs for references. Not all will be commented on though!   Without further ado, enjoy~  

 

AKINO with bless4 - Decennia


 

[Alexandros] - ALXD




 

あまざらし (amazarashi) - あまざらし　千分の一夜物語　スターライト (Senbun no Ichiya Monogatari Starlight)




 

雨ニモ負ケズ (amenimomakez) - 結い (Yui)




 

Atlantis Airport - A[ ]Passport-EP+2




 
BENI - Undress


 

BIGMAMA - The Vanishing Bride




 

BiSH - Brand-new idol SHiT
 



 

ボンジュール鈴木 (bonjour Suzuki) - さよなら。また来世で (Sayonara. In addition, in the afterlife)
 



 
Tune in on Sunday for the second batch~

HEY i dont have an intro post so i thought it would be appropriate to make one now
 
hi im Chi, the koichi enthusiast, i live in the wild lands of Brazil
i like a bunch of bands so please just go on http://last.fm/user/nine-headsto check out what ive been listening to
my posts are 2/10 not even IGN would recommend me
 
please celebrate w/ me and bring some food & beverages 
lets party 

 

I would seriously buy a book with Jig quotes.

seu rong but seu right
(Couldn't do w/o a pun, sry not sry)

PARTY'S OVER. Hellspawn confirmed:
 


Away with you!

Happy Birthday @Spectralion!!
Dude, is really you here?

AAAHH i was thinking work only in one

MH's Disappointments: Worst of 2015

Welcome to the ORZ spitroast where the only flavor is salty:
far east dizain lycaon disbanding and nearly breaking the forum DIM 2.0 didn't happen Femme Fatale's name was too accurate Yohio/Disreign did Gazette better than Gazette R.I.P. art kei (Moran, yazzmad, etc. disbanding)  mejibray's entire 2015 career Just Eiki... er.. Paradigm Paradox DECAYS' "secret mode" probably should have stayed a secret D's one-man venues keep getting smaller and smaller. By March, they'll be curb-side next to Maria Cross kisaki breaks another body part. fans ask for hospital records Another year, another one of Tenten's bands goes on hiatus... That one time Matenrou Opera tried and failed to rock body paint like Rihanna the best song released this year by nocturnal bloodlust was a cover of a taylor swift song Deathgaze breaking up and Tanuki's reaction was essentially "Just listen to Static-x" toe only being really good Haisuinonasa-induced blue balls ling tosite sigure's EP chouchou merged syrups. somehow being mind-numbingly marginal nestle x gackt collab announced next year DOAK happened How hard DuelJewel tried this year Kamelot released an album, which means a new Matenrou Opera album will soon follow DEVIL KITTY's mini-album calmando qual retired for duty Shiina Ringo thought using autotune was a good idea YUKI's PV for 'Sukitte Nandarou' looking like a trippy interpretation of BEYONCE's 'single ladies' and sounding even worse A.L.B.U.M.S -With Titles Like This- AKB48's "Halloween Night" was truly nightmare inducing the core of Jupiter broke apart this year. hizaki and teru promise to keep the music just as boring as before What were your disappointing moments of the year?

Totally random and spontaneous question: how would you guys like to do a live DVD viewing session tonight on dub? We did something once on plug before, and it was pretty fun (even if only a handful of people came). I'm in the process of uploading the video, should be ready in about 30 mins.
 
Since it's Xmas and all, I figured I'd make it something special & extravagant: we'd be watching UNDER CODE's omnibus live DVD "Nihon seiatsu -2005.11.30 TOKYO LIQUID ROOM ebisu-" (already 10 years have passed, wow!), with the following performances: Kalen, Pashya, Siva, Dali, KuRt, Himitsu Kessha Codomo-A, 12012, Vidoll, Phantasmagoria - and a special ending session! Each band plays around 2-5 songs, and there's a nice variety of styles. All in all it makes for three whole hours of indies-vk fun from the golden age of UC, how about it?
 
My proposed starting time would be approx 3.5 hours from now, so 8.30PM GMT.

Okay, Youtube says the video is too long, so I'll try re-ripping it in 3 parts, hopefully that'll do. ;w;

What a way to close it all, yesss <3
Interesting list now that I look back on the whole thing in its entirety. Nice and varied - even though I could only agree with about 4-5 choices personally. Thanks for all your hard work in compiling this & making it fun to follow.

keel slayed but uh WHERES DOGMAAAA

Very glad to see that the staff appreciated the KEEL albums. I feel like the way Ito reviewed it sums it up very well, it does bring you back to the early 2000s when you were really excited about all things visual kei and good bands were plentiful. To feel that just for a bit again, after being jaded from many years of mediocre musicians alienating you from the things you used to like, is the greatest musical gift this year, to me.

cool list+reviews! thanks all the team for the compilation and all!
so with my predictions I stay at 75% and am totally happy with that^^ I can live very well with the not-inclusion of dogma

You know when you are designing your top tracks well, when @Zeus made the same as you *-*
From 50-41, a Yes for Perfect Blue by Wagakki Band and insert memory by DOF.

Just xmas time.

Me with ONE OK ROCK ;'D

the pillows new album "STROLL AND ROLL" will be released at 2016/04/06, although details have not yet been announced
 
 
their B-side collection album "B-side Collection「Across the metropolis」" will be released at 2016/03/02 (2 TYPE, 22 songs)
 
limited edition (5,400yen) will include 2CDs+DVD, and regular edition (3,780yen) will include 2CDs