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Taken from http://www.visunavi.com/news/149461/
 
Pentagon is going to release their 2nd full album on January 27
It's a 3-type release
 
Limited type A 
11 songs
Special booklet
DVD including four songs performed at Akasaka BLITZ on 2015/11/22 (and some backstage stuff i guess)
(¥ 3,800tax out)
 
Limited type B
11 songs
Special booklet 
DVD including the PV + Making of
three songs performed at TSUTAYA O-WEST on 2015/05/30
(¥ 3,800tax out)
 
Standard type C
13 songs
(￥3,000tax out)
 
and they are going to have their 1st one-man tour 「ゴーストバスターズ」(ghostbusters) starting from february 6th till march 20th(FINAL)
 
new look-ish

 

 

 

 

 

 
(sorry if i made any mistakes im in a rushhhh)

Taken from http://www.visunavi.com/news/149461/
 
Pentagon is going to release their 2nd full album on January 27
It's a 3-type release
 
Limited type A 
11 songs
Special booklet
DVD including four songs performed at Akasaka BLITZ on 2015/11/22 (and some backstage stuff i guess)
(¥ 3,800tax out)
 
Limited type B
11 songs
Special booklet 
DVD including the PV + Making of
three songs performed at TSUTAYA O-WEST on 2015/05/30
(¥ 3,800tax out)
 
Standard type C
13 songs
(￥3,000tax out)
 
and they are going to have their 1st one-man tour 「ゴーストバスターズ」(ghostbusters) starting from february 6th till march 20th(FINAL)
 
new look-ish

 

 

 

 

 

 
(sorry if i made any mistakes im in a rushhhh)

According to Google Translate, it's because of a "printing deficiency" ...
I guess they couldn't make the booklet pages look basic/cheap enough?

The album sounds great. I can't wait.
 
 
btw

Setlist is ok. im excited because SuG lives are always awesome: )

im gonna marry everyone in this thread

im gonna marry everyone in this thread

[track list]
01.DEATH CAFE
02.ZERO
03.月-tsuki-
 

I CAN

tzk for rock and read 062
 

 

tzk for rock and read 062
 

 

虎徹(kotetsu) cheki:

ya lot of bands tweak and alter songs for their lives that can at times even drastically add to their character, while other times it's just the different sound and live energy that makes them worth having. There are bands all over rock spectrum who'd play songs in a different manner or just jam on whim, I mean some bands would do this to the point where they'd be almost unrecognisable from the originals. Then there are live albums that are generally regarded as classics that I don't know why anyone would go on skipping should they be into the band. This is just rock music too that's comparatively pretty rigid in structure, this definitely happens even more elsewhere in music where it starts living in performance. 
 
In visual kei there certainly isn't a wide array of bands to choose from that have documented instances of them really fuckin' wif their songs live, 's due to many factors one being that these fucking bands very rarely get to see two Christmases before they break up under the crushing financial burden - hence when they whimsically pull out a half baked live arumabu out of their arses to fund their drinking. Dir en grey is obviously the best example of the opposite, being a band with their exposure and stature ( thusly havin' a good amount of raibus in circulation )  that's known for having their old shit evolve with them. If I'm invested into a bands sound and their musical craftsmanship then yes I want to hear what happens in a live setting even if it's a minute difference. I at least used to have audiorips of every Gazette dvd on my computer just because I dig their live energy and stan furiously. These days I prefer to just listening to their lives instead of the albums that I've already listened to more than I would dare confess.
 
I don't know how common doing bootlegs is in the visual kei scene, but I'd honestly pay good money for recordings of gazette lives with rarer songs and the inevitably necro sound quality subtracts absolutely nothing for me bring on the hiss and fuzz. Looking at a bunch of early Luna sea and Kuroyume footage on the youtubes makes me sad that there aren't whole gigs recorded because these two bands at their rawest were phenomenal. 
 
I have a habit of hoarding live recordings definitely, officials and bootlegs and all from my favorites. The most I have is 13 gigs of Throbbing Gristle on my computer and most of that is bootlegs. Used to have a respectable David Bowie bootleg folder on my old computer until it passed on rip. In electronic music too you're nothing less than damn near obligated to get live sets that have been recorded along with shit like DJ sets so I got a lot of those 2 in 'ere.

スデソウ -> ウソデス(from right to left) -> it'a a lie

Ichiyon new album "スデソウ(sudesou)" will be released at 2016/04/18 (3 TYPE)
 
limited edition TYPE A will include CD+DVD (including "スデソウ(sudesou)" PV), limited edition TYPE B will include CD+DVD (including live scene), and regular edition will include CD only
 
 
btw they will hold their one-man live tour since Takadanobaba AREA at 2016/04/01 and up to tour final at Ikebukuro EDGE at 2016/08/14
 
 
btw such release news are fake (in view of website in top right corner)
 

Full PV for yuki tokei

did anyone post this?? i know the PV was posted, but this one has the making of
im sad they spent like 10 minutes with those looks because meto looks cute as hell

When I first got into Japanese music, I found a download site and downloaded basically everything on their first few pages. Maybe ~100-200 CDs or so. Then deleted whatever I didn't like. Then I found some English websites that gave recommendations based on the stuff I liked, and it expanded from there.
 
.. Later on, I would join Last.fm (RIP), where I got some mileage out of the "similar artists" stuff. Somehow this led to me getting into VK. 
 
.. Later on, I would create my lyric site. This (and my video games) has kept me so busy that I don't have time/willingness to check out new artists. If I get into new bands now, it is because A) somebody requested the lyrics and forced me to listen to it, or B ) the band has members from a disbanded band that I liked.

I prefer photosets over cheki. Photosets are at least professionally done, probably printed on better quality photo paper and sometimes bigger. I really dislike the cheap look of stupid blurry polaroid photos, where you often can't even see the outfit properly. I also see no point wasting so much money for a crappy photo instead of a well done one. Good, photosets don't have the uniqueness factor, but I am no collector anyway.
Do bands nowadays even sell photosets? VK groups used to sell a lot back in the day. But nowadays it seems all you get are chekis. Or sometimes a single photo as an extra bonus (at CDJapan for example).
 
 
Also agree with the opinion about the -core trend. There are a few I actually like (Nega, Mejibray to some extend), but overall I prefer even the mid 00s Nu Metal groups over that whole -core trend. The Nu Metal groups were already derivative with their chugga chugga beats and trashing the same chords on the guitar. But most Visual kei -core acts aren even worse.
 
First the vocals totally suck. VK vocalists just can't growl. Give me late 90s to early 00s screams and harsh singing, those were fine. But the vocal chord disrupting mess that has been popular since ca 2004? No, thanks.
Guitar work has become even more stale. Now it's just breakdown after breakdown, a few misplaced solos, the rest is chugga chugga crap. Occasionally there is the totaly unfitting dubstep-techno-bloop shit and poppy vocals. I feel most modern VK songs are disjointed and sound like two or more songs mashed together.
 
Ulitmately, and this is my own subjective experience, I feel bands like Deviloof and Nocturnal Buttlust are erasing everything that made VK kind of unique and seperated it from other japanese rock music. Now I know the eternal dispute wether or not VK is really a musical genre (with most people saying it isn't), but to me Visual kei has (or had) it's own sound. Yes, it changed several times throughout it's almost 30 years timespan, but certain elements were always there. And you don't have to look at revival bands like Grieva or Sibilebashir to find them. Even in groups like Keel, emmurée or even (early) Nega and Ayabie you have/had elements that went as far back as into the 90s.
But the more we venture further into the future, the more VK moves away from its roots. Bands like deviloof are just like generic deathcore. There is nothing in those groups' sound that hints at any Visual kei connection at all. Even funnier, some of these bands started out as Metalcore and only got into VK because they probably want to have some extra bangyas. They could do just fine being a regular deathcore band. Same problem with those unbearable host kei groups and same tactic. VK was always a bangya magnet, but it's sad to see how it has become only that.

>I dabble in a few different scenes and try to keep up with them.
>I listen to any and everything I can get my hands on regardless of genre!
 
sometimes i look at the newest releases and just listen to bands that have interesting names/covers regardless of being folk, pop, metal, etc.
i use last.fm's similar artists/tags to discover similar artists if i don't know a scene that well.
 
of course i keep up with VK, ~non-vk~ bands and some western acts i like

"mein führer..."
"yes?"
"the band announced the new release is live limited"
>

Agreed. I was surprised by his voice when I first heard it and it was what drew me into Belmosaic and then when they broke up it was one of two reasons I wanted to go to the session lives--I was so worried kazuki and roji would just disappear after a while(._.; 
kazuki continues to amaze me though with his vocals. I think it's better than his work in Belmosaic, too.

Maki just updated his Twitter.
Seems that they do plan on coming back
 
 
"To all our fans outside of Japan, thank you so much for the wonderful Flowers and message cards. 
Because you guys were here for us, ALSDEAD was able to go on for 7 years. We wanted to go perform in all of your countries, but we couldn't. So please forgive us. 
When we come back, we will make a band that will be able to go to the places you wish to see us. so until then, please wait(・ε・｀)"