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The single sounds perfect and I am dead. Acoustic! And I wasn't even hoping to see from the Halloween live!

I know... On the one hand, their last albums got some criticism for half of them appearing on singles first, so if they are saving their song ideas and an album appears soon, it will be fine. If they simply can't come up with anything though, that spells trouble.

I know... On the one hand, their last albums got some criticism for half of them appearing on singles first, so if they are saving their song ideas and an album appears soon, it will be fine. If they simply can't come up with anything though, that spells trouble.

Only one new song ? I need more new MERRY !

Ikr?? It's weird how they recently stopped with the B-side songs all of a sudden.....;w;

The single sounds perfect and I am dead. Acoustic! And I wasn't even hoping to see from the Halloween live!

MERRY and rain usually means retro-goodness. Let's see just how much the new single changes in the studio version.

The title of the single has been finalized as "傘と雨" (kasa to ame) and it will be released on February 1, 2017. It will come in 3 types (type A ￥2,315, type B ￥1,800, regular edition ￥1,204)
 
Type A tracklist & DVD:
CD
1. 傘と雨
2. 傘と雨 -Acoustic version-
[DVD]
＜ライヴ映像＞
Merry Halloween Party 〜Trick or MERRY〜
2016.10.29 クリエイティブセンター大阪
 
1. イエローガール (Yellow Girl)*
2. 赤い靴 (Akai Kutsu)*
3. バイオレットハレンチ (Violet Harenchi)*
4. ビニ本２丁目八千代館 (Binihon 2-chōme yachiyokan)
5. 絶望 (Zetsubou)
6. Carnival
7. 千代田線デモクラシー (Chiyudasen Democracy)
8. 平日の女 -A面- (Heijitsu no Onna -A men-)
OFFSHOT
*O.A.  スーパーメリーズ (Super Merries)

Type B:
[DVD]
傘と雨 (MUSIC VIDEO)
MAKING OF 傘と雨
 
Regular edition tracklist:
[CD]
1. 傘と雨
2. Happy life -幸福論 Acoustic version-
3. Zombie Paradise ～地獄DISCO mix〜
 

tfw ur so picky that u refuse to eat anything while touring in another country......................except mcdonalds
 

 
he's such a queen i s2g

It's not silly, that's why I have the videos as unlisted and only link to them - I want them to be found by the same people who care just enough to buy the official release anyway. Though I may just be trying to put my conscience to sleep.

(IDM doesn't work for me at all, trying out kakoroku now...  Edit: kakoroku worked! Thank you for the help, sads123!)
EDIT2: Here's the result of today's efforts, mega.nz link for the concert in original quality.

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... 

@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. 
 

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

They are pausing activities to appear apologetic and to take responsibility? It would be in bad taste to continue as if nothing happened,  or something. It's a cultural thing, not first band nor last done that. 

akn has been their support bassist for some time,
and as soon as they announced he'll be permanent member during "mirrors",
i was screaming in joy! i loved him, he suits lynch perfectly.
 
they can have their time,
shit, they needed their time so they dont copy-paste another new album anymore.
i think this will be a good moment to re-assess themselves and comeback with a new image.
 
just dont, never cut him loose.
free akinori!

Consider it a sister thread to the oshare kei one. I think this is a delightful dualism to make, and I am all about that vkei history anyway so I'll take any excuse to make another one of these. 
 
The adoption of the nu metal riff and attitude into visual kei's musical framework happened just when the scene changed forever with the implosion of the old labels and bands. In the usual visual kei fashion we were late to the party just about a good five years too. It snuck itself in slowly, making cursory appearances at such places as MUCC's Antique from 1999, Kagerou's Biological Slicer from 2000, Aliene Mariage's farewell album 21st Century from 2001 and probably in retrospect most importantly, Dir en grey's Six Ugly from 2002. By the year 2006 ( which saw the release of both eight's ILLATIONAL and Girugamesh' 13's Reborn ) the nu metal riff had fundamentally transformed the landscape of visual kei. Below are some examples of the development that took place.
 
Before I get to that though, I have to say that there's not many scenes that can even begin to rival the longevity that visual kei bands, venues and its marketplace have enjoyed throughout its history. Still living both in the underground and occasionally even willing to take the L of performing at a half empty Budoukan, it ceases to amaze the spectators that stumble upon it; all the while all the goths of the bat caves, punks of 77' and dadrockers of the whatever, live out their legacies either through grandfathers or hack retro acts that suck by default. Granted it doesn't look the same, but indeed the willingness of its adherents to assimilate new currents have kept the hangman at bay and those nails off its coffin at least for now, which has allowed visual kei to remain a relatively recognisable brand for just about a few years short of three decades. 
 
This thread while also about the seminal bands that managed to break through, is just like its oshare counterpart moreso dedicated to honor and celebrate those little bands that everyone other than south american blogspots from 2007 forgot. If you were that angry young man in your mid teens back in 2008 you ought to know this stuff by heart
 
 
If anyone can name an earlier instance of a just straight up nu metal riff I'd appreciate it greatly. Early Mucc is of course classic vkei and Tatsurou puts in just a canonical performance as the narrator of desperate hearts. Their nu metal sound would get thicker and thicker up until 2004, when they went literally out the deep end, supposedly almost disbanding by the sheer weight of the recording process. My preference however remains the very earliest releases up to 2002.
 
 
From the band that made one of the best visual kei albums of all time comes a ripoff  of "Eyeless" by Slipknot - that's the sound of Aliene imploding into disbandment. While I think it's undeniably shit especially considering merits of their career up to that point, they lowkey took part in pioneering the nu metal sound in visual kei. Keep in mind that at the time of this recording Slipknot's s/t wasn't that old, and it is a sound that vk bands would keep on ripping off for almost a decade afterwards. Another thing of note was that the vocalist Kyoka also ditched the frilly dresses and adopted the nu metal fashion! While his sins are numerous, this has to be his worst offense. Either way an important document for visual kei's metamorphosis.
 
 
If the disease had only previously been a cough, after Dir en grey got through with it the scene quickly became hospitalised by it. They would continue riding roughshod over the genre until 2008's Uroboros where they'd go on to do more of the scene's pioneering work. Say what you will about them, they've continued to stay relevant through all these years and I think it's only very recently that the scene has stopped riding their coattails as much as it has. 
 
I'll keep it at that, though rest assured there's certainly numerous other examples of the early usage of the nu metal riff from around 99 to 2002 of varying importance in the canon.
 
Early Girugamesh is what most people have their fondest memories of, and everything up to 13's Reborn is as good as gold as far nu kei is concerned. Their suit wearing while certainly not the first time it had happen in vkei, it was probably the context in which girugamesh presented it that made all the difference for the future: the blackclad angryman playing just nu metal influenced visual kei. Oddly enough I despised Girugamesh as a child EVEN THOUGH THEY SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME AS ALL THESE OTHER BANDS and it took me deep into adulthood that I finally warmed up to them at all. 
 
Unsraw was my Girugamesh in a sense that they were the filthiest band I knew in my seminal vk years. Hearing Unsraw sent me on a quest of finding the most rad nu metal vk band out there, and more often than not it just led me to the disappointments that contributed to the failure I am today. Yuuki's vocals made a huge impression on me and it was ever the more bitter pill to swallow that they got very boring very quick. Their Core the Child hits being contemporary with Girugamesh' early ouvre, they can also be considered of relative importance. 
 
This is what this thread is about. Look at those clothes, that breakdown from 2.10 that lasts for an eternity and Since1889 was in general just the quintessential nukei vk band. So bad it's good.
 
 
Despite this band having just about eek'd past the 2010 limit, they deserve mention being one of those final bands at the tail end of this fad. The look is still very much 00's and not the glitz of the 10's, and more or less free of the soon scene dominating metalcore riff. Glorious vocals as well.
 
There's a million of these bands, AND THEY'RE ALL GREAT. Post favs, early specimens in the scene, anything that fits within the parameters.

MUCC will be releasing a new full album on January 25th 2017. The album is set to have 14 tracks including, "Yue ni, Matenro", "Heide" and "CLASSIC."
Full track list and cover art TBA. Will come in 3 types, 2 limited editions and 1 common type (Type A: CD + DVD + Art Book, Type B: CD + DVD, and Type C: CD only).  

Getting some kicks from the thought of Lobotomy (acoustic!) on what appears to be a Christmas single. Well, with them who knows where this might go. Wonder if Hoshi no Seijaku will be one of those pairs with Hoshi no Haguruma from Hatsumei. In any case, they are on a roll this year, so I think I can get excited.

Their new album "脈拍" (Myakuhaku) will be released at 2017/01/25 (3 types)
 
Limited edition A (6920 yens) will include CD (14 songs), DVD and Artbook (limited to 3000 yens)
Limited edition B (3800 yens) will include CD (14 songs) and DVD
Regular edition (3000 yens) will include CD (14 songs) only

What a great band.... They've come a long way from 我、在ルベキ場所. Time flies. Feels like they were celebrating their 15th not too long ago.
 
Like others (I guess) I hope their tribute lays off younger bands and has contemporaries/friends instead: Merry, Plastic Tree, ROTTENGRAFFTY, ROACH, jealkb, caligari, SID, heidi, etc. Now that I think of it, shame Giru disbanded before this was released...

I could see Merry contributing, possibly covering one of MUCC's more wanky songs like Saishuu Ressha. 

would be funny to see things go full circle and have cali gari cover a mucc song

If "tribute" means we will get various acts covering MUCC songs, we can also question the possible selection of artists involved in case that happens - small Danger Crue names with some other possible indie vk names? Their fellow bands? "Senpais"?
 
I am intrigued.

LIPHLICH new single "星の聖寂" (Hoshi no Seijaku) will be released at 2016/12/25 (3 songs, 1200 yens)
 
[tracklist]
01. 星の聖寂 (Hoshi no Seijaku)
02. ロボトミー (Lobotomy) (acoustic)
03. Give me Chill me Killing me(acoustic)