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Try-hard Kami? I don't follow - not nearly enough lace.

They've probably had whatever it is recorded for months - 345's been very quiet this year.

Now disbanded.

I call immaculate conception - Mana's God (obvs), Hora's Joseph, KAMIJO can be Herod.

Band to be renamed Y JAPAN.

Guess he got bored of filling DeG's downtime sessioning - not sure why we're predicting DeG's death: we've all heard of L'Arc-en-Ciel and LUNA SEA, right?

(S)he speaks!

Any insinuation that MALICE MIZER were in some way a metal band.

I suspect you can blame Final Fantasy VII for VK's JENOVA-load...

I was up in N10 and there were empty seats a'plenty up there.

Easy on the conspiracy theories there, sweetheart. Quite a few of the Japanese there had seniors and/or kids with them, so they were never gonna last the full 3 1/2* hours. Then there was like 15-20 minutes between encores, so other folks must've basically got sick of waiting. Also, it wasn't 100% clear there was gonna be a proper 2nd encore (they were running a bit late and London authorities get seriously bitchy about noise curfews). It was a bit like waiting for the post-credits scene in a Marvel film without the guarantee there was actually one coming. *4 1/2 hours if you include the film.

I went - was about 65-70% full for the main set - tons of people left between encores.

Had to double-check it wasn't already on Last Moon.

Ha! It like the man exists to make GACKT's shameless self-commodification look good. Elsewhere, looks like someone got pissed about Yoshiki getting all the credit for X: http://hayashixdeyama.tumblr.com/

Disqualia ba. MAI will be jumping ship on February 5th due to an increasingly bad case of stage-fright. Poor kid said she's been having anxiety symptoms since last fall.

Well whoop-de-doo Basil! Ironic how the cover is just Yoshiki standing below the word "We" - must mean him and his ego.

Still surprised they've reunited so quickly. I get that Jupiter's hardly been a runaway success, but KAMIJO doesn't seem to be suffering - he could release a single of him just farting into a microphone for 4 minutes and still sell 20,000.

What the fuck is going on with Miro's hair?

Stump? Certainly a step up from those has-beens Zebrahead.

Hora, surely.

Technically their last release was DVD "ドールズ・コレクション" (Dolls Collection) from summer 2014.

Didn't fancy sticking with Victor then, huh - guess Ettore Rigotti had no involvement this time.

16 days to go - how many more disbandments can they squeeze in? (Not that I'd even consider listening to most of these bands, but its becoming a spectator sport)

I forget, are old Jojo's high notes better or worse than Juka/Shaura's?

I expect high notes and plenty of 'em.