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I can't get into the newer bands, since most of them are screamo nowadays. Not my thing. Plus, many of them are uninspired, copying off of other bands.

煉-LEN-(THE BLACK SWAN) photobook "煉と虎徹(LEN to kotetsu)" will be released at 2016/03/29 (80 pages, 1,080yen)

There are only a few Visual Kei groups that can still interest me. However, those bands consist mostly of musicians who have been active in the scene since the early or late nineties. I honestly cannot be bothered with all those feud and borderline metalcore formations who are incapable of creativity and only beckon so-called fans with their looks and so-called 'br00tality'. For me, the scene is over. A miracle must occur first before anything in it might grasp my attention again.

delete this!!!!!!!

Someone on Tanuki posted that Yoshiki is going to give me 50% of his money for my birthday

im not gonna troll this time but keep in mind that tanuki is a gossip forum thats really hard to navigate properly without the slang/know-how and that you should take everything with a grain of salt
anyone can lie over the net..but if a bandomen has like 3 topics dedicated to scummy behaviour it doesn't mean they're all lies. use your judgment and a healthy dose of skepticism.

all of it is 100% true, even the stuff about Juka being into scat

Do you mean that Seth is producing the goods that are being sold, or is he selling fruits and vegetables? 

their maxi single "Ruin" will be released through indie CD stores at 2016/02/10

their bassist ran out of kawaii

they will hold their member produce live at Shibuya duo MUSIC EXCHANGE as follows:
 
2016/05/06 - "平日のガラ～THE ZOMBIE RETURNS 蘇（かえ）って来た野郎ども～"
2016/05/09 - "平日の結生～オーディエンスはカメラマン！～"
2016/05/16 - "平日の健一～[bURST] again～"
2016/05/24 - "平日のテツ～漆黒仮面密会～"
2016/05/31 - "平日のネロ～ライブハウスは法廷だ！セットリスト裁判！～"
 
 
they will hold their summer tour "-15- Sheep" since Takasaki club FLEEZ at 2016/06/10 and up to LIQUIDROOM ebisu at 2016/07/27-07/28

Hope I wasn't the only one who tuned in today, because it was amazing! Killer setlist and also very emotional, since it was the first full live for Tetsu in over two years. The other members seemed almost happier about him being back than he did himself. So sweet. Don't think there was a dry eye in that venue by the end. At least there's one good thing about the Europe tour being postoned. If they do make it over here next year, then hopefully Tetsu can join them!

Imo the look is very “babby's first vk band starter kit” (zippered face mask? top hat?) but kudos to them for trying to create some mystery and shit. Will keep an eye on them~

Well the album just sucked. In retrospective we know they just did it to be done with it.
 
 
As far as this "disbanding" goes, well... I didn't notice a thing. Because Ai's solo project is Deathgaze. It's the same fucking thing, same sound, same composer, same vocalist. And I for my part do not expect naything relevant from this band to come, so they might as well disband. Their greatest songs were almost all plagiates.

please note concerned readers that this is the trash anemone and not the good angura anemone

Well said. Yoshiki spent the week or so just chilling at Sundance for promotions for the doc schmoozing with random celebs. He hardly looked like a guy trying to make an album deadline. Considering his supposed perfectionist qualities, you think he'd be behind the mixing desk everyday for the last few months stressing about their first album in 20 years!
But any X fan who's been following the band knows this is what happens time and again. So while unfortunate for Pata, you damn well know the delays they use in his name have nothing to do with him really. They could've still released the album if it existed but as most of us said above, it mostly was never close to being done.
And it's long been said that Yoshiki burned alot of bridges when he forcible broke out of the Sony contact. You member how they went major with a big splash with blue blood? Well most bands sign a record contact for multiple albums. How many did X release with Sony? Just two. Blue blood and jealousy. Of course he tried to sell art of life as an whole album of music but sony wouldn't accept that. Then yoshiki and x had dreams of being international or breaking into America with art of life, remember the Rockefeller center NY press conference, so they forcibly got out of the Sony contact and switched labels to go to Atlantic. Since then they've been somewhat blacklisted and known for being a difficult band. Rock music doesn't sell that much in Japan anymore, physical album sales are a fraction of what they were, so it didn't surprise me that they haven't found a label for all of these reasons. Who wants to sign a contract for what every music company knows will only be for one album with a difficult diva-musician?

I don't like their first single. This band looks and sounds like a big mess and it seems that they don't know how to look like and how to sound like.

Not sure where to put this, but Merry just announced that they'll be broadcasting their tour final this Sunday live on nicovideo. Tetsu is making a comeback as well!
 
So if you're starved for some live Merry, here: http://live.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv251251670

ebola is spreading fast those hospital masks are no longer a prop shit's real!

Couldn't have said it better desparejo, I totally agree! I feel like it's also sort of incredibly disrespectful to Pata to make it seem like it's his illness that's causing the delays and not Yoshiki's lack of effort.

Awwh D: they posted a selfie together just the other day
I wonder who infected whom lol hope the both of them get well soon!

Signing a deal would also mean signing a contract agreeing to actually turn in an album by a set deadline. Yoshiki hasn't done that in twenty years.
 
 
It's not about just the UK show. A lot of fans are being hostile towards Yoshiki because, regardless of Pata's condition, they've known for months, well before Pata took ill in January, that the album wasn't coming out. The album doesn't even have a title, which means it doesn't have artwork, Yoshiki was still mixing it a few weeks ago, and above all they don't even have a record deal. It was never coming out in March.    No one is saying Pata didn't take ill. But even the official announcement says that he's on the mend, just isn't ready to fly yet per doctors orders. This begs the question, had Pata been able to play the gig, were they really going to do this X Day event and alleged world tour (that they coincidentally hadn't got around to even booking yet) promoting the album without the album being ready? Come on.
 
If Pata is actually seriously ill, why is the show already rescheduled? If he died or was left impaired from his illness, wouldn't they need to cancel the gig again and disband? They're full of shit, and pushed it back a year because they have no album finished and no tour booked. It's the same old song and dance from Yoshiki going back 20 years.

I'm quite shocked to be honest.
I wasn't their biggest fan, but their most recent MV and track record pointed the band seemingly toward greater things.
With how saturated VK is, even some of the "best" sounding bands can fall short with audiences : /. (xTRiPx *gentle sob*)
 
To Zeus' point, I too would also like to see sales figures, although I don't know what sites keep up with that. 
 
(also as I type this 2 of their venue limited ABSOLUTE WORLD CDs are up on ClosetChild; seems like they got wind of the news)

mana > kisaki