SHOKI

This lineup is amazing. The project should now switch from being SUI's solo project to a full band. 

lmao @ all the bands not being able to choose between Decadence and Decadance so Sui be like fuck it Decadeance

this is fucking DOPE
 

He could definitely release a full album x')

We have big news for our fans all over the world!

Lovebites will unleash the sophomore full-length album called 'Clockwork Immortality' on December 5, 2018!!

It has mighty newly recorded 10 songs. We also release very limited editions including live Blu-ray/DVD 'Battle In The East' that was recorded in Tokyo, June 28 this year.

Regarding release dates in other territories than Japan, we'll announce more details soon...

TITLE: Clockwork Immortality
STREET DATE (in Japan): December 5, 2018
Mixed by Mikko Karmila
Mastered by Mika Jussila - Mastering of the Universe (Finnvox)
Cover art illustration: The EasyRabbit CreArtions

>>LIMITED EDITION A-TYPE<<
CD + Live Blu-ray 'Battle In The East'

>>LIMITED EDITION B-TYPE<<
CD + Live DVD 'Battle In The East'

>>STANDARD EDITION<<
CD
NOTE: Incl. one of 6 stickers randomly (a first pressing only)

Here are the new tour dates for Japan 2019!
- January 12: OSAKA - Club Quattro, Umeda
- January 13: AICHI - E.L.L., Nagoya
- January 27: TOKYO - Mynavi BLITZ Akasaka
- February 10: FUKUOKA, DRUM SON
- February 15: MIYAGI - MACANA, Sendai
- February 23: HOKKAIDO: Duce Sapporo

He seems to actually vibrates each time he attempted vibrato. 

No one's posted White Veil from his youtube channel yet? I'll do the honors then.
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZXa4hombas

Split personality disorder?  One personality is captain America and the other is XVII century maiden maybe? 

We're trying to build a community for visual kei influenced musicians. The stated goal is to create a place where people can post their stuff for feedback or find other musicians to collaborate with. It might be too niche of an idea so we might have to include other alternative styles of music like darkwave, gothic, black metal and etc. The idea is to get like-minded musicians together in one place. 

Wings Flop
 
jesus I can't so funny

苑 (Sono) (摩天楼オペラ(Matenrou Opera)) solo project "運命交差点" (Unmei Kousaten) has formed
 
his debut solo single will be released at his live tour "見上げた空はどこまでも現実で、東京がうやうやしく僕の形を縁取っていく" at 2018/10/12 at Aoyama Tsukimi Rukun Soufu and at 2018/10/19 at Kichijouji ROCK JOINT GB
 

 

 
http://www.unmeikousaten.com

he's looking like a random european doing a "visual kei" photoshoot for likes on Facebook, things have truly come full circle
 
(jk I'm curious to see how this'll be)

I reckon she'll see the light and at least put it out digitally at some point.
She retweeted some Eng translation of the announcement and people went nuts for it.

I lived in Tokyo and went to all their local shows and many of the away ones too during their second period in the 2000s. Something that I think isn’t fully appreciated among international fans is just how unpopular and broke Lareine was during that time, and how desperately and passionately they worked despite the obstacles. But every concert was magical. It had to be. There was no reason to do it otherwise, and a million reasons to quit. It felt like borrowed time, and I was always so happy and grateful to be able to see them despite the bittersweet feeling they would have been better off doing something else.
 
They always looked exhausted at events, rarely had new costumes, rarely even had new goods because I think they had trouble coming up with deposits. Cheki didn’t start to become a thing until late in their history (2005-ish?) when they’d already spent years grinding away with little return. I suspect the reason why they were able to put out as many releases as they did is because back during Lareine’s Sony days Kamijo invested in buying a bunch of his own production equipment. I think normally an indie band at that level wouldn’t have had those resources.
 
But time to write and rehearse seemed like a scarce commodity too back then. There were times when Kamijo looked half dead. And every time Lareine did a little tour we could watch Kamijo perk up day by day, at the same time as us fans with normal lives were getting more and more tired as the tour went on. It always made me wonder what on earth kind of awful schedule he normally had in Tokyo, juggling the band and probably a part-time job, that going on tour would feel like a vacation to him. (Later on when I read Versailles interviews, they mentioned that Kamijo and Hizaki first met while working at Third Stage.)
 
Unfortunately by 2003 Lareine was already perceived as old, out of date, and uncool. A ‘90s band. If they hadn’t paused in 2000 maybe things would have been different, maybe they could have built a solid base like Dir or Pierrot. But coming back in 2003 it was too late, the trends had already changed. Lareine had few fans back then, and it seemed like all of us were fans from before. I never met any Japanese fans who said they were new. (only international fans) Young VK fans didn’t care. Lareine wrote some of the currently trendy themes into their music in ways that were interesting instead of pure copy/paste, and us old fans had fun, but nobody else cared. They did some amazing experimental stuff on stage, and nobody saw it except us few old fans. To give you an idea of how young fans perceived them, there was a big outcry when Versailles was announced because people didn’t think a pansy weak vocalist with a thin high voice like Kamijo should be playing with awesome (but unknown) guitarists like Hizaki and Teru. They really got outraged when we heard Versailles was going to have a heavy sound. I got in a lot of arguments online at that time with people who clearly thought I was a delusional fangirl for saying that Kamijo’s voice is powerful enough to sing heavier music.
 
In February 2006 Kazumi announced that he was leaving Lareine and retiring from music. I never blamed him, I was thankful that he had done his best to help bring us great music for so long despite the hardships. But this was really the beginning of the end. Lareine put out big ads in the major VK magazines looking for a new drummer, and they even went out of their way to explicitly write that they would take applications from anybody regardless of age or sex or nationality, as long as they could play and would love the band. I think that would be shocking to see in a band’s want ad even today, and this was in 2006 before the explosion of international tours had happened. But they weren’t able to find a drummer, and then during the summer Mayu vanished again. Honestly I can’t even blame Mayu either for wanting to quit under the circumstances, but it was terrible that he vanished without communication or warning. The Club Citta live they did in October was originally supposed to be a Halloween Party event live with multiple bands, not their last live.
 
I went to as many of Kamijo’s anniversary tour dates as I could, since it was so special. The Tokyo final with everyone was amazing. So glad I went.
 
p.s. “Drama” was so great live that to this day I can still half-hear the performance in my memory, even though they only played it twice in Sapporo in February 2006 before Kazumi left. It was so powerful. Kazumi and Emiru were much louder than on the studio version; this song actually has a really sexy rhythm when you can hear them. Mayu took the electric part instead of the acoustic one. They came together solid and strong booming on the beat in that last chorus on the song, Kamijo singing powerfully instead of gently, and hard on the beat like the others. I regret not bringing my MD recorder to Sapporo, but I never imagined that those 2 nights would be the last times we could enjoy Lareine normally.

I also love Lareine, I think kamijo's voice sounds more natural when he is singing lareine's songs.
I wish we could watch this concert but it was a fanclub only release: https://puresound.co.jp/user_data/sp_artist_product_detail.php?pid=102020068&amp;aid=lareine&amp;bck=%2Fuser_data%2Fsp_artist_product.php%3Faid%3Dlareine
 

I feel the same way, for me the best Kamijo work will always be Lareine, it was very unique.

Tbh Versailles is more my style musically (I love power metal), but I think I'm so fixated on Lareine because their music had variety. There's nothing in Lareine's discography that makes me go "Oh, this sounds like a rehash of another song, still good though" and I catch myself doing that with Versailles a lot.
 
Anyway I want to hear Billet live and afaik there's no recorded footage of it. ;; 

Welcome to the magical realm of visual kei~

you must be new here

Ever since he started gaining some attention in the drag queen world his music turned to absolute garbage. So it’s been two or three years since he released something decent. Pity. 

Will be honest, both myself and my girlfriend absolutely hate this Kaya. Bring on Schwarz Stein! Don't disappoint pls. 

schwarz stein are literally releasing an album this fall tho
 
 

This! I wish he would stop trying too. We all know (have known for a long time) that he has more talent in one of his front lace wigs than any queen out there. I am all for more exposure, just without this western assimilation mess. The song isn’t bad and Kaya looks amazing as always, but I want my Goth synth queen back

Chocolat's cuteness was nice but this is 2 much
 
I can't say the song isn't catchy though. And the gay storyline is sweet. I really wish Kaya would quit trying so hard to appeal to Western drag fans though; it's too forced.