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This is such a nice compliment considering I really like the old school manga style and I've always been inspired by that in my drawings as well ;u; Thanks a lot !!  

DIE'LIZE new mini album "アルケーの揺り籠(arche no yurikago)" will be released at 2016/02/11
 
[track list]
01.揺り籠(yurikago)
02.絶望少女(zetsubou shoujo)
03.故意(koi)
04.Jealousy
05.夢魅ル共鳴(yumemiru kyoumei)
06.桜公園三番地(sakurakouen sanbanchi)
 

 

So we all know the GazettE's awesome second single, Kichiku Kyoushi (32sai Dokushin) no Nousatsu Kouza, but does anyone know who the guy on the cover art is?

Glad if I was of any help! Yup, that sounds like the right approach It's always good to analyze one's recordings (even though it becomes bothersome if you start regretting uploading something after you find more and more flaws ahaha), sometimes it also helps to look at your notes in a program like Melodyne, for me it helped to see where I usually go flat or sharp!
Ah yeah, with the throat singing you probably mean the false chord stuff, lots of singers use it for growling - I find it rather uncomfortable and prefer to use fry screams (there's lots of tutorials for that on YT, it's pretty cool because you can transition to raspy and clean singing very quickly with it), but it sounds pretty brutal if you can master it.
 
I haven't listened to AvelCain that much, but from what I remember he sounded fine. I think it's good to pick up bits from all singers you come across and like, there is always something you can learn even from singers who are technically not that good

This is probably the most helpful thing I've seen all day~. Thanks so much!
I really do wish to get a teacher someday to help me reach my full potential. The way I try to notice my flaws is I record myself and I see what I need to improve on. I also try to research the techniques as much as possible, and learn different techniques that even if I may not use, will still really help me. Like, for example, I learned Tuvan Throat singing because I knew it would help me learn to scream and growl correctly (Also I happened to go through a small phase where I had an interest in Mongolian and Tuvan music xD)
I can actually hit the high notes of Saku without falsetto, but I prefer to use it since it makes me sound more feminine, though I can also hit a pretty lavender sounding tone without falsetto, but it involves me singing similar to how Karma from AvelCain sings, and I don't think I should try to sing like him, since I'm not completely sure whether he sings correctly. 

Personally I'm thinking a PV like this style:
 
 
 

I think it'd be cool if they did a live PV. Kuroyuri does describe themselves as a "Live Band", and they haven't done a PV in a LONG time. I hope it's full live footage though. Perhaps they may release the full live on a DVD someday. 

I don't think it's the same interview. This one only has Mei, Kuro and K, the other had Koyomi and Mutsuki

At today's one man "「くろゆりとかげのみなさんのおかげでした」" in IKEBUKURO Chop, they gave free t-shirts to all attendances. It was a black t-shirt that 便所 in pink. Everyone had to wear it because they were shooting the live. Mei announced during a MC that they were going to put the footage on Youtube. Presumeable it's a live pv or live footage (duh).
 
Here's today's setlist (as confirmed by K):
 
1. 捜索願い (Sousaku Negai)
2. チョコレート階段 (Chocolate Kaidan)
3. 吐瀉物 (Toshabutsu)
4. キミの薬指はボクのシチュー。(Kimi no kusuriyubi wa boku no STEW)
5. 蜥蜴-トカゲ- (Tokage)
6. すてきな唄。 (Sutekina Uta)
7. 「洗脳」 ("Sennou")
8. ヨコハマメリー。 (Yokohama Merry.)
9.  断崖地獄喉輪落とし (Dangai jigoku nodowa otoshi)
10. ギチギチ (GichiGichi)
 
ENCORE
 
1. 「未遂」 ("Misui)
2. チヒロちゃんの眼球舐め (Chihiro chan no gankyuuname)
3. 「便所」("Benjo")
4. 「便所2」("Benjo 2")
5. 児童公園 (Jidou kouen)
6. 液状部屋 (Ekijou heya)
7. 断崖地獄喉輪落とし  (Dangai jigoku nodowa otoshi)
8. 「腐乱腐乱」 ("Furan Furan")
 
Quite surprised to not see their signature song, Yokusou there. Maybe they stopped playing it after Koyomi and Mutsuki leaving?
Great setlist eitherway, I hope the footage they upload is pure live footage, although I don't think they'll upload the entire thing.

New Kuroyuri album (Hopefully)
Kyo, being the eternal teenager he is, gets over his deathcore scene phase and decides to go Emo and tour with AFI. (Ok, not a real prediction, but I felt like making the joke xD)
Kiryu releases a few singles, and then another album. 
Kon (La'Mule and Cell) will probably start another project, since he occasionally still preforms both La'Mule and Cell songs with Nao. 
New Kisaki project with a bunch of people who are 10-20 years younger than him, but somehow look a little older. 
Karma and Zen from AvelCain return with another project. 
Sibilebashir disbands, then reforms on Kuroyuri's label (There have been multiple rumours around about them joining Kuroyuri's label)
Yukika snipes another band, puts them on a sublabel
Kebyou releases first non-live distributed single
Yoshiki decides to do another business venture, and epicly fails
A bunch of small Tokyo based Vkei bands that look like Meteroid and Diaura play the stylish wave countdown, and become popular, and we won't stop hearing about them for the rest of the year as labels pick them up. 
CrowXClass still doesn't return, or even give any clues to whether they've disbanded or not. 
(The next predictions are just jokes)
AKB-48 releases their 666th single, with so many versions, that there aren't enough letters in the alphabet to label them all, so they use IPA letters. But it turns out just to be the same stuff, as usual, because.. well.. it's AKB-48. 
Some big JPop scandal that honestly is nothing huge, but people gotta complain over anyway, fills all the J-music news sites. 
AvexTrax will start losing more money, as Nightmare goes on hiatus, and a bunch of other Avex bands will decide to follow Nightmare and do the same.  (I mean, have you seen how Avex treats their bands?)
And finally, Hide rises from the grave, just to say "Ok, look, the Vkei industry is not the same anymore. There is something that the industry lacks. I think we all know what it is. La'Mule should have never disbanded"

100% this. Kyo is a singer who has always used techniques before had learned to control them. I personally like this approach and follow it myself, but it is sometimes risky and often shows at live performances if you do songs that you can only sing in the studio.
 
As to your issue, I went throught really similar thought processes too when I started with singing - thinking that my range and voice might be extraordinary, talking about it a lot and feeling the need to express it. And I think it's not necessarily a bad thing  Especially when you just started out singing, it is important to have some confidence and believe in your abilities. However, a tip I can definitely give you is to look critically at your vocals and not lose sight of all the flaws you have - and I assure you, just as I still have them, you have them too. Without a teacher, it's actually fairly hard to notice them if your ear is not yet trained and accustomed to what your voice does, so it definitely helps to get some professional feedback on your singing!
 
To answer your initial question: Yes, it is easy for trained tenors who have the basics of belting (basically powerful singing if you are not familiar with the term) down to hit most of the notes in Saku, it's not exceptionally high except for that high part towards the end of the song. In general, as you said, pretty much everybody can theoretically learn to hit high notes with certain techniques, but it will sound different depending on your voice type. I have a fairly low voice and my voice gets a fairly piercing and thin sound when I go really high - the trick is to use your head voice and mixed voice for the very high notes (not falsetto, every guy has that by default and it's usually weak and disconnected). From my experience, I'd say that it's actually harder to learn to hit super low notes (like actual low notes, Asagi from D doesn't sing very low most of the time, he just has a dark timbre). I can sing around Kyo's highest notes (you can hear it from 1:16 onwards in my example, sorry, it's a fairly old cover since I don't have any recent high ones), but I cannot keep up with his super low notes even though I'm a baritone.
 
Turns out I wrote a whole essay, but I hope it helps! Good luck and have fun practicing
 

IMHO Kyo's whole singing style comes from having this^ thought and then throwing that thought out the window XD

Well Memento Mori and Kuroyuri To Kage are basically that. 
Memento Mori never focused on releasing singles (Or full albums) and have only 4 full singles, half of them having years in between releases, only one full album with barely 9 songs. (There was almost a 10th one named "Mosaic Jishukisei", but for some reason that never made it on their only full album) and 2 mini albums released a year apart. 
Then when they reformed into Kuroyuri To Kage, they only have one full album, 2 Mini Albums, and a few singles, and went silent for a long time until it was announced Koyomi and Mutsuki would be leaving, and Kuroyuri would be kicked from Ains. 
Memento Mori has only made 26 unique songs (Including their demo to Aka-On records, which they preformed live and have on live DVDs)
Kuroyuri so far has only 34 unique songs. 

So we all know the GazettE's awesome second single, Kichiku Kyoushi (32sai Dokushin) no Nousatsu Kouza, but does anyone know who the guy on the cover art is?

I give 90% that Karma is working on new projects. 
He seems to be a friend with many of bandoman, So who knows.... I'm not sure if he would like to come back together with Zen and Byou. They looked cold among each other.
I bet that they were planning to disband for a long time because when Byou was joining a band... Something  was happening inside of them. I red tweets from fans during that time. Band acted weird.... Maybe they already wanted to disband back then before Byou joined.... or idk. 
But Karma without a stage is not Karma. He loved his fans. 
And remember how he said that he will take AvelCain together with him even AvelCain would be gone... Or something like that.
 
Damn, I miss his emo tweets .

Same. I still listen to them all the time~

Jesus, I have this doubt too. When this question popped in my mind for the first time, I thought he was an emperor, because of the themes they used at that time. So I searched about it and... nothing.
So, I think it could only be a generic (32-year-old???) teacher of the 50s, since the education at that time was more rigorous ("nousatsu kouza") and has all the discipline thing ("dame na otona ni wa narimasen").

So we all know the GazettE's awesome second single, Kichiku Kyoushi (32sai Dokushin) no Nousatsu Kouza, but does anyone know who the guy on the cover art is?

I always wonder what happened to them, since i love visual kei i love them :(, and i will love them forever <3 :'(

With me, a band can get away without an official drummer as long as they have someone who plays it in studio, or use good samples. Meanwhile, I think they definitely need 2 guitarists. I mean, yes, they could go the AvelCain way by having Kuro record two guitar parts, and have a prerecorded track of the 2nd guitar live, but that makes them feel a little fake. 
And you're right, Kuro and Koyomi were like Kaoru and Die. Partners that can't be separated.

tried to google it but didnt get anything (i did only search fast though, ill try again later)
 
given their early themes (similar to gossip) my first guess is some japanese politician. 

I have no idea but would love to know! 

thanks jig, happy you enjoyed it as much as i did! can't wait to see your eoty lists this coming december, no pressure wink WINK!
 
heh i cut toshabutsu and moved it here for that purpose specifically. killing two birds with one stone ^>^ i was long overdue for a review so i combined an old draft of zouki and a mini review on toshabutsu. and im with you on the bass, its soooo kickass when its up on max in your ears and you're walking down the street and brandish a knife from your red backpack, and go onto find some innocent schoolgirl, corner her into a fast food restaurant and go poke poke and then write a song about it (hopefully not).  thank you, and you'll see some more in the future ^>^
 
U BETTER. I SAID SO.
 
thank you! im surprised y'all drop memento mori so much, they aren't all that notable a name for me. you really seem to love name dropping angura kei whenever the situation even vaguely calls for it, hehe. they could be a more creative band, its not so much the constraints of the genre, rather the choices of the musicians. that said, i hope they show some more flexibility in their sound with coming releases, and go back to the more diverse sound of their earlier works.
 
thank you! i don't compare memento mori with kuroyuri as they're entirely different bands, different members, sound, concept, etc. interesting opinion though!
 
thank you for the kind words! you'll see a lot more of my blurbs come december (aka now, LOL).

Yeah that sucks I remember them, female vocalist right? Damn and they were good. Like and angura metal band. lol

They went on hiatus back in March of 2013 (you can see an announcement posted on vkdb). When I saw them live in January of 2013, there were only maybe 5 other people at the concert and out of everyone, I was the only one there for them :x I know they had been active for quite a long time (since 2005, I think), but it seems like they just never gained any popularity at all and decided to call it quits. As far as I can tell, all of their members retired from the music scene as well.