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i don't think you understand how pissed their fans would be for just ignoring it. especially since the canceled shows were mostly their fanclub only shows. i would find it very inappropriate and fucking depressing to run the anniversary show without everyone there....
it was way too short notice to get anyone for COMMUNE, CDJ is a huge mainstream event that wants nothing to do with a band who's been on every dumb 2ch tabloid site in the last 24h under headlines like "tattooed bandman gets arrested! drugs? yakuza? sexual assault? hazuki's ex. gf is [prolific gravure model turned prostitute]!" with a bunch of people posting over and over about how he should have been arrested just for being tattooed in the first place.
also i know this hard to believe but they may actually like Akinori and be more concerned about trying to help him with his problems. weird but true

@platanityand @cvlticexplained perfectly well why they can't play without Akinori.  Understandably, it seems as if many forget that Lynch. is NO LONGER an indies band and Akinori is an OFFICIAL member, NOT a support bassist like before in their earlier years.  Akinori is visible in a lot of their recent PV's, is in promo pics with the band, and ON top of that during the MC's on their last two major lives, he's actually talked to the crowd alongside Hazuki and co. In the public eye, both fans in Japan and overseas see him in the same light as the other members. These are solid reasons alongside the others (that we do and don't know of) behind the band going on hiatus. Its not an issue of "hey they can just do XYZ" in the meantime. 
 
Guys it is NOT that simple. 
 

You guys who say they can just replace him and go on don't really understand how the Japanese society works. It's "you ride together, you die together". 
When Meto from Mejibray fell out of that window, it was the other three members crawling on their knees, begging for forgiveness and understanding from both the management and the fans and that was just an 'accident' ( yet self-inflicted, because drunk. So -> shame! )
Think of that one girl (I think from AKB or so?) who got caught sneaking away from a guy's home and shaved off her hair in public and nothing about that is illegal. 
If lynch. just continued, everyone would consider them highly inappropriate and rude. You have to publicly show remorse and step back. Has nothing to do with being dumb or not finding a bassist that quickly. It's the shaming-inappropriate-behavior mentality of the Japanese.
 
Yepp, us Westerns can't understand. We have fans who get angry if Justin Bieber does NOT perform after being caught with a blunt and I think there were some metal bands where members were convicted with serious crimes like murder and still toured until the last minute.
It's really just two different worlds colliding and @cvltic explained it perfectly. In terms of 'public decency' Japan shows no mercy and this is where their audience is located at.
 
I personally have tickets for their lives in March so ... I hope they'll be back on track until then... 

That's a nice news, pity that probably won't be able to hear this like the previous one.
 
Anyway the title of the single is: 碧落の暁り (ヘキラクノサトリ)
Tracklist:
1) 碧落の暁り
2) 鴉食
 
Whoever will be able to get this, good luck.

That's a nice news, pity that probably won't be able to hear this like the previous one.
 
Anyway the title of the single is: 碧落の暁り (ヘキラクノサトリ)
Tracklist:
1) 碧落の暁り
2) 鴉食
 
Whoever will be able to get this, good luck.

That's a nice news, pity that probably won't be able to hear this like the previous one.
 
Anyway the title of the single is: 碧落の暁り (ヘキラクノサトリ)
Tracklist:
1) 碧落の暁り
2) 鴉食
 
Whoever will be able to get this, good luck.

I must admit that I was avoiding them for a longer time. But finally give them a try and though sometimes Tzk's voice sounds a bit annoying I quite like them. I love in them that you can clearly hear the bass line and not only know that the bass should be somewhere over there.

These were the last CDs I bought.

Came with a poster.

Dark electro from Germany.
 
Oh my, where did you get it? I'd love to hear this song.

Hi everyone,
 
Looong time ago I heard a song from X Japan (Crucify my love) then some Dir en Grey stuff and thought that these sound OK, but... so after that I just gone back to listen to non Japanese bands. But few years ago again I've found some X Japan and lots of other Japanese bands and *boom* , I fell in love ;]. These days I'm listening to lots of different music, but visual kei and Japanese music in general have a special place in my heart.
 
Going to look around.
 
Have a nice weekend everyone.
 
 
 
 
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