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avaritonista, I actually uploaded the album that has the Toluene track on it in lossless ^__^.


And here's perhaps a thread killer, a track from probably the most hated band I ever uploaded on my channel: The Bunnygirl Piss!
 
 
 
And here's something really crappy  errr, interesting from my personal collection: a track by the marvelous everDream.!

https://mega.nz/#!mFk3ERaZ!qbqYq78JTNdzVZGDk0EtgpbUDv_l6ZT63oiPs5a6MlM

Ohh, and here's some plain Japanese rap rock.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

avaritonista, I actually uploaded the album that has the Toluene track on it in lossless ^__^.


And here's perhaps a thread killer, a track from probably the most hated band I ever uploaded on my channel: The Bunnygirl Piss!
 
 
 
And here's something really crappy  errr, interesting from my personal collection: a track by the marvelous everDream.!

https://mega.nz/#!mFk3ERaZ!qbqYq78JTNdzVZGDk0EtgpbUDv_l6ZT63oiPs5a6MlM

wow this is just like when martin luther king invented protestantism

Got an issue of Shoxx which happens to feature CASSIS, and apparently they formed in March of 1997, so probably 1997 through 1999. And yeah, LECHESIS either seems to be their label or fanclub since its address is also featured in the Shoxx article.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


My dad will probably join me in being psyched about Metronome's comeback! XD

Ok this one is for @emmny
 

 
So as you can see above, Emmuree actually posted the lineup order (with set beginning times!) the day before the show. Given how long a lot of these event concerts can be, that’s a very nice move on their part. I wanted to see both the first and last band, however, so I was in it for the long haul.
 
Today’s show at AREA had a much better crowd than the other day, but it was still far from its capacity.
 
Shout-out to my new friend from Finland (whose name I forget I’m sorrrrrrrry) who was the only other white dude at the Kimi wa Surudoku show the other night, and was here again at AREA for this show. He came over and we chatted a little bit about shows we’d seen or were going to see (he had just seen SibileBashir who I planned to later). He said he’d read my report of that previous show which of course made me smile…. M-H is bringing people together worldwide!
 
紅蝉 (Benizemi) - I think all these concerts in a row is starting to affect my hearing a little bit (though Japan’s clubs haven’t been so loud I’ve pulled my earplugs out of my pocket yet… I wish tiny 100 person venues in America had the light and sound set up of these Tokyo spots) because I’m not sure if the singer for Benizemi walked out to just a little feedback static or if there were faint ocean waves playing. I kept hearing waves, but then I would chalk that up to my brain just trying to find patterns in the noise.
 
Anyway, he came out looking all goth-y with a sleep mask (I’m not sure what better word for ‘mask that just covers your eyes is, ha’) full of flowers and performed the first song with it on. He (and most of the band) were very animated and the singer especially enjoyed spazzing out on stage. Hold up, is this girl bassist the same as the bassist from Karabinka the other night? I mean, it kind of looks like her (the makeup is way different) and how many gothy/angura girl VK bassists can there be??? If it is the same person, unnh what a cool chick… marry me please?
 
The two guitarists for Benizemi had very defined stage personas. The stage left (audience right) guitarist was the cocky/aloof one while the stage right guitarist was the goofy/smiling big- happy to be there one. The goofy one threw a pick into the audience at the end of the set with way too much gusto (with the flat side up for way too much wind resistance) and his arm rocketed forward but the pick just stopped in midair and fell back onto the stage, hahaha.
 
I liked that they had the courage in such a short set (and they have no shortage of songs to choose from) to do an out-and-out ballad…. Though they did obliterate it from our memories quickly by following it up with a super fast, noisy track.
 
A short anecdote about why when you’re in an indies band you should hang out by your merch table: I stopped by their merch table later in the set to get a live DVD for a friend, and since the singer was there talking to people and I enjoyed the set…. I figured I’d pick up a CD for myself as well. The vocalist was super nice, despite the language barrier, and when I asked which CD was best he was quick to pick one out for me and thanked me for the purchases. (He also was the only person so far in Japan who stuck out his hand for a handshake, I liked him.)
 
Foxpill Cult - This band (who I would not call VK… but neither was another band we’ll get to later) had a really weird lineup. There was; drummer, vocal/guitar, keyboard/guitar, and single snare/tiny keyboard thing that wasn’t powered but he had to blow into (or melodica apparently). They had some real diversity in their sound based on what instruments the members were manning for that particular track. One track was veering heavily into like dance rock and then the next would be really punk-y. It should be noted however fun he was on stage, that you definitely couldn’t hear melodica dudes tiny little wind powered keyboard though.
 
The keyboard/guitar dude had a bright red lip outline on his cheek, I wonder which band member had the privilege of putting that there ;).
 
Noticed during their set there were both lots of dudes in the crowds compared to most VK shows (it was probably 35% male at its peak.. Whereas most VK shows are maybe 5%?). The audience also skewed older, though that makes sense considering the bands were mostly middle aged guys themselves. It was a different feeling for me not being wildly out of place because I’m 30.
 
2 - I guess this was a revival of a 90s VK band (that were not named 2)?? It was refreshing to hear some old-school, golden age VK that wasn’t full of breakdowns or acting psychotic on stage (though I love those things, don’t get me wrong). It was just some old dudes having fun, rocking out. I wouldn’t want to see it all the time, but I enjoyed a little dose. I feel like @robkun would dig these guys’ sound.
 
Between sets they were playing some French woman singing songs that were definitely recorded in the 1940s or earlier. I liked it.
 
Phaidia - Another band that wasn’t VK at all, but rather straight forward goth rock. Also these guys were capital O OLD. They were probably rocking when goth was first a thing in the 80s.
 
This is going to sound much meaner than I intend it, but the vocalist looked like if Asagi had a picture of Dorian Gray in his attic. Straight raven-black hair, black corset with spiderweb-y mesh underneath. He also would just randomly hold very goth-y props for effect (he actually walked onstage holding a skull on some real ‘Alas, poor Yorick’ shit) such as a sword, candelabra, that skull, one of those catholic incense holders that swing. He probably had a bit too much echo on his vocals for my tastes, but it fit with the haunting atmosphere of their set.
 
Bassist was locking into some good grooves with the drums while the guitarist mostly provided *noise* rather than riffs.
 
I noticed one chick up front for their set who was fucking *enraptured*. Hair everywhere, just losing it to the music. I wish I was able to forget about my inhibitions like that sometimes.
 
So the bands were running a little late by this point and Phaidia didn’t end their set until 9:15. Isn’t it like a rule that these shows all end by ~9:30? I hope Emmuree didn’t have to cut any songs they planned to play because of this.
 
Emmuree - Obviously I wasn’t the only one who noticed the show running over time as the curtain was whipped open with the band in place but the background French lady still singing for about four seconds. Oops.
 
Of course Emmuree were dressed in all black, with Sou rocking a trademarked by this point slinkly black sweater. The guitarist’s long bangs were shorter than I’ve seen (I think). And of course the bassist looked like an Italian widow with dense black covering his whole body and a giant black floppy hat so that we could never see his face (the whole band was actually lit from the rear a lot… so we couldn’t see any of their faces a lot of the time).
 
When Emmuree perform the guitar and bass are somewhat reserved, moving around to the music but mostly staying in place while Sou puts on the show. And he is one of the most expressive/emotive singers going at the moment. He also thrashed around and ad-libbed some vocals more than I was expecting (at one point he repeatedly yelped like a puppy who had his tail stepped on, and at another he threw in some ‘lalala’s while miming scissors in front of his face). Sou’s favorite move of mine was when he pointed one finger straight up high above his head to mark a rising swell in the music and then jerked his arm around incrementally to mimic the movement of a clock. (Unfortunately this did not indicate that “I Hear the Clocks Counting Down” was coming.)

I could gush a little bit more… but I’ve covered the highlights. Besides, when they played the first track from their new album (a song I love) I was lost enough in the sights and sounds that I was not focusing on remembering what was happening but rather just enjoying it.

And as far as to how long CASSIS was around for, I'd think they split in 1999 since Yuki formed Double Volante in March of 2000. So maybe 1996 through 1999?

Yuuuuup, their name seems to be written as Crime Hate, from what I can find at least.The show they were on featured other VK bands like Decameron, Ladies Room & (early) Tokyo Yankees. But unlike those other guys, Crime Hate stuff has not surfaced anywhere online. The only bit of info that is up about Crime Hate is that they appeared on the "Blue Blood" album of X Japan as backup vocalists on the tracks "Orgasm" and "X", along with a few other Extasy-related bands. Titles of demos or singles didn't come up at all, but I'm sure they exist somewhere. Sorry I couldn't be of more help, but that's all I got :/.

Yeah, I know. But since that's the only kinda punk I listen to on a regular basis, thought I'd unload some lol.

Ordered again from Hyura, and everything came perfect once again! Nicely packaged, great stuff, total happiness all around! Will probably order something for the third time too! Thanks once again! ^__^

Other: An Cafe. Ughhhh.

My TAFUCA CD just came in today! Decent shipping time (took about a week-and-a-half from Italy to the US, not bad! lol), awesomely packaged and terrific communication! Totally recommended seller all around! Thanks again! ^__^

ooh I forgot about Jack off Jill and Mimori Yusa <3

Owarikara's pretty cool. One track that particularly stands out in my mind is "Door Tachi". Now that song shreds something hard.

Owarikara's pretty cool. One track that particularly stands out in my mind is "Door Tachi". Now that song shreds something hard.

"MICHAEL Summer Night Circus 2015" will be held as follows:
 
2015/07/10 MICHAEL vs BULL ZEICHEN 88 vs Mitsuru Matsuoka EARNEST DRIVE
2015/07/11 MICHAEL vs JUN SKY WALKER(S)
2015/07/12 MICHAEL vs 荒木宏文(araki hirofumi)
2015/07/14 MICHAEL vs MUCC vs Sadie
2015/07/15 MICHAEL vs ROOT FIVE
2015/07/18 MICAHEL vs N.Flying
2015/07/19 MICHAEL vs ゴールデンボンバー(GOLDEN BOMBER)

it is announced at MICHAEL (SOPHIA members band) one-man live at Nippon Seinenkan at 2014/12/23 that their new album "Archangel" will be released at 2015/03/25 (3,240yen), which will include CD (12 songs)+booklet (20 pages)
 
 
SET-LIST at 2014/12/23:
 
SE.この素晴らしき世界(What a Wonderful World)
01.Amazing Grace
02.Overture
03.Lucifer
04.みにくい反逆児
05.かくこそありしか 合縁奇縁
06.Merry X'mas MICHAELの詩 第九番
07.new world satisfaction
08.僕の場所
09.be tomorrow
10.イケナイコトカイ
11.東京
12.way to go
13.こころ
14.東京テディベア
15.Archangel
16.White
17.Amazing Grace
18.SURPRISE-DRIVE(feat.TATSUO from EARNEST DRIVE)

^Yay makes me happy to hear you enjoyed it so much! : D
Thank you very much for the nice review.

Everything came today, and it is all in awesome condition. It was even personalized with a note from Hyura saying she hopes I enjoy it all, which I did immensely! Awesomely packed, great communication, happiness all around! Highly recommended! ^__^

I hate that VK has given birth to the abomination that is a good chunk of "swed kei."
 
A lot of the stuff in that scene is an ear sore to listen to and watch. And its very bothersome to see that many of the bands/acts don't have to try hard to get some kind of a fan base. They can just slap on the VK look, which is a quick way to sucker in fans and they can just fly by with dropping borderline mediocre music. 

Introducing a new type of shopping service!  One without prohibitive shipping charges!  This is primarily geared toward people in the USA, but there is a way to make it work for those outside the US.
 
It operates in the same way as a regular shopping service in that you email us your desired item, we'll send you back a price quote, you'll send us the money over PayPal, and we'll buy the item.  (We plan on making a webpage with a fee calculator to minimize back-and-forth messaging.)
 
At the cost of slightly-higher per-item fees, customers in the US will pay shipping from New Mexico rather than Japan.  We only charge an extra 3% fee to help cover PayPal fees, as well as a nominal 100 yen per CD and 200 yen per VHS.  (On top of what FromJapan charges)  The customer ends up saving a lot of money because the additional per-item fees pale in comparison to international shipping costs.
 
As with other RarezHut services, we can provide the digital copies service if the buyer would like.
Digital copies: Along with any cassette/VHS purchases, we offer high-quality digital copies made with professional-grade equipment free-of-charge. We realize that not everyone has the means to play these aging formats, but we aim not to let that get in the way of you being able to enjoy them!  
Q: How are you able to do this?  How do you make money from this?  This seems too good to be true.
A:  The short answer is, we don't expect to make money from this.  We have been brainstorming ways to make owning VK easier for the average fan for over two years now.  While RarezHut's webshop and streams do help this, it doesn't help the fan who wants newer releases.  Leveraging our existing relationship with FromJapan, we are able to charge the smallest-possible per-item price increase over multiple orders in order to pay for international shipping.
Is this a lot of work for absolutely no profit?  Yes, but we believe it will benefit the health of the community.  Could this spectacularly backfire and end up COSTING us money?  If we only get one of two orders then it very well will, but I believe it is still worth pursuing.  Great reward (a service to MH and the fandom as a whole in this case) has never come without that initial leap into the unknown.
 
Q: Can I only buy stuff from certain places? What types of items will you buy, just CDs/DVDs/VHS/tapes?
A: If we can place an order through FromJapan, then we can get your stuff for you.  This includes (but not limited to) PureSound, band webshops, Amazon.co.jp, and more.  While CDs/DVDs/VHS/tapes make up the majority of our orders, we will certainly work with you if you want to order clothing or toys for instance.
 
Q: How do you handle auctions?  Can I still buy from Yahoo Auctions through you?
A: You absolutely can!  For auctions that involve bidding, simply tell us the amount of the bid you want to place (or you’re max bid), and we will place it.  We will make every effort to place a bid the moment we receive your email, but we ask that you do keep in mind that we are humans and still subject to that pesky habit called sleep.  If the auction ends at a lower price than your max bid, we'll refund the difference.
Q: How much longer would this whole process take compared to if I were to just order things by myself?
A: One of the ways we get a lower per-item shipping cost is that we end up shipping giant crates with hundreds of items.  Our giant crate shipments are typically once/month, so we will announce a date when our next shipment will go out, and people have up until a week before that date to place their order.  We use FedEx priority to get the package stateside, which only takes about 3 days.
 
 
LET'S NOT FORGET OUR NON-US CUSTOMERS
Paying a higher-per item fee PLUS shipping from the US doesn't make sense.  What some of RarezHut's EU costumers have chosen to do is have us order their items like normal, then include them in the shipment that they buy off our streaming auctions or our store.
The offer to combine shopping service orders with stream and store orders extends to our US customers as well of course.
 
 
 
 
ORDER SCHEDULE 
THE DEADLINE FOR ORDERS TO GO OUT IN THE NEXT SHIPMENT IS October 24TH, 2016
WE WILL BE SHIPPING EVERYTHING TO NEW MEXICO ON November 5th, 2016
If you don't make the deadline for this shipment, don't despair.  A new shipment window will begin as soon as this one ends.
 
Please email us at [email protected] to place an order, and we will respond as soon as humanly possible.

***The RarezHut store is temporarily on hiatus until January. We are busy creating a snazzy new site with many new exciting features. Make sure to follow this thread, as well as our Facebook and twitter for updates and events!***
 
 
Monochrome Heaven discount: Enter MH05 at store checkout to receive 5% off your order!
 

 
I'd like to present to you all: RarezHut!
We are the largest internationally-based store for used Japanese Rock and visual kei music. We have been working hard to deliver a store to meet the needs of the international visual kei and Jrock community, offering a wide selection of products at a very low prices.  We've got a total inventory of well over 2000 items, each of which includes a listenable/watchable sample, and will be working hard over the coming months to deliver timely updates with as many items as we can stuff in there. Currently available are a multitude of CDs, DVDs, VHS, and cassette tapes spanning well over 200 bands.
 
http://www.rarezhut.net/
 

"Fuzzy search" system:
When you search for a band, it'll pull up any other items available by bands with members from the band you searched for in addition.
Listenable/watchable samples for every item to give you a little idea of what to look forward to.
 
Newsletter:
If you create an account, you can opt-in for our (mostly) bi-weekly newsletter which details all of the newest additions and will be sent out the moment they're added to the site, allowing you to get first dibs on any new goodies! Remember: once they're gone, they're gone for good~
 
Digital copies:
Along with any cassette/VHS purchases, we offer high-quality digital copies made with professional-grade equipment free-of-charge. We realize that not everyone has the means to play these aging formats, but we aim not to let that get in the way of you being able to enjoy them! In an effort to make sure that buying goes smoothly, all items added will have the digital copies ready before addition so that packages can be shipped out on the next business day.
 
 
 
We decided start a new program last year, namely livestreaming auctions.  We unbox giant orders we've had shipped in from Japan, and let people bid on the rarest of the rarez using our automated bidding system.
 
With few exceptions, our livestreams are Saturday and Sunday on the 2nd and 3rd weekends of every other month. (January, March, etc)  Concerned about shipping costs?  We’ll hold your items from the first weekend, combine them with those from the second weekend, and ship everything out together.  
 
Invoices will be sent out after each weekend, and payment via PayPal is due within 3 days of the invoice.  Pay for the item only after the 1st weekend, then the 2nd weekend’s invoice will contain a shipping quote as well.  Orders are shipped off within 3 days of the last day of streaming provided payment has been received.
 
 

We have the greatest customers in the world, and we want to continue to give back. For every $200 we sell during the livestreams, we will raffle off a free CD. Simply be in the chat when the milestone is reached, and you’ll automatically be entered. (There will be a meter visible that shows how close to the next giveaway we are.)
  
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(Releases from all these bands will appear at some point during the four days of streaming, but the exact time is a mystery.)

 
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He is in gay baby jail and will make his triumphant return at the end of February.