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Acid Black Cherry 4th album. A release which is better than my first exceptions.
This album came in 3 versions; I’ll decided to review only the CD only (itunes) version.
Acid Black Cherry, “Janne Da Arc” vocalist yasu solo project is around our hearts for many years already. He creates good music he creates perfect music. This release brings you more calmer songs with a taste of heavy rock.
With “L” yasu proves again that he is a true musician who can write true music. Music which is written with the heart. Music which has a story. Music which is written with time.
 
What about the already released tracks?
On this album again there are only 4 songs which we already know, for myself I didn’t like 3 of them. Well I liked INCUBUS but, INCUBUS felt as it was not “ready”, not finished. Since it was an introduction to this album. I really did do like GREED GREED GREED, which has such cool rock feeling. The 2 others, Kimi ga inai, ano hi kara… and Kuro neko ~adult black cat~ didn’t get my attention at all, when they where released as a “single”. I didn’t like them.
 
But are the single songs now enjoyable?
My answer is “YES”. Somehow this album made all 4 single songs good songs. songs who flow easy inside the album. songs who you won’t put off, even if they aren’t liked as “single” songs. It’s a bit strange, but this is what happens more often if you listen to the work of Acid Black Cherry.
 
What about the new songs? are they enjoyable?
Of course they are, I’m glad that yasu did choose to create more calm rock songs. The music is a bit more lighter. But still with a beautiful rocking sound. There is only 1 new songs which I don’t really like and that song is “Versus G”.
I truly love; Round & Round “L-Eru”, liar or LIAR, Loves, &You. Those lyrics and sound are splendid, very beautiful, songs which really though your heart. And who really made me fall for this album. Also it was a very good choice to put “Round & Round” as the first track on this album. It introduce you calm but with a rock sound inside this album. You won’t get enough of this album after you put this one on!
 
How does the album really feel?
Even if some of us prefer more the harder rock songs, I still think that everyone can enjoy this album highly. Since this album has so much inside. hard rock, light rock also a slight of pop sound. It has cheerful tunes, it has sad tunes. The lyrics are sad, are happy, it can let you cry, it can let you smile. It is a love album. Some tracks even let you remember of “Janne Da Arc”, but that’s cool! Since some of us really miss them and it always gives a good feeling when those tunes turn up. Also yasu’s voice, it really though your heart in this release. Those who didn’t bought this album, really will regret it.
 
A slight detail to the sound, song by song:
♪♪♪ heavy rock | ♪♪ hard rock | ♪ soft rock
♪ 01.Round & Round
♪♪ 02.liar or LIAR?
♪♪♪ 03.S&M
♪ 04.Kimi ga Inai, Ano Hi kara…
♪ 05.L-Eru-
♪♪♪ 06.Greed Greed Greed
♪ 07.7 Colors
♪ 08.~Le Chat Noir~
♪♪♪ 09.Kuro Neko 〜Adult Black Cat〜
♪♪♪ 10.Versus G
♪ 11.Nemurenu Yoru
♪♪ 12.Incubus
♪ 13.Loves
♪ 14.& You
As you can notice it is a very calm album with a few more heavy rock tracks.
This album has also not the “electric rock sound” which many visual kei and other kind of bands add to their music. Which I’m really happy with. Because creating an album which sound like “L” is much more special and showing your fans that you really can “create” music.
Which I also did notice by listen to this album over and over is when “& You” ends it actually flows again inside the first track “Round & Round”. You don’t really notice that the album has ended. Which also makes it impossible to put the album off, because if flows over and over.
 
Album rating:
♥♥♥♥♥
I never did expect such great album after I did listen to the 4 previous singles. I never thought that this album could be so great. Its the best work yasu has given us in his solo carreer. Acid Black Cherry did it again, to publish a great album. It’s not strange that more and more people will like them, because they deliver again and again good music.
 
Also posted at Japanese Music Strike

If you could reupload the CD iso, I'll get a try to rip it

Awesome! Glad to hear that both of your orders arrived just fine

And look!~~

 
 
I will review and post unbox photos later today! look forward too.

Moved.
 
Feel free to continue discussing.

You cannot see theirs, but they still can see yours as.so long you don't block them too and they don't use twicca.
Thats for twitter.
But I don't like the new vocalist... i miss riku!

Nice ? This is...noise.

and arrived in perfect condition
 

the latest photos

I actually didn't watch the last CD's because I was faceboooking about Kiwamu. XD
 
But didn't one CD go (ja know with that card an keychain for $20?) Which I still don't know which band it was. no clue who they are.
 
Still damn currious what was all sold form the box in these 3 days of fun. (I even forgot what I've bought yesterday)

because not everybody is 16+  I guess.
 
 
and after weeks of silence...
The dude contacted me YESTERDAY while PANDA's auction. =_=
I to him, DUDE you are silence to me for weeks and then you come up with the question "SEX?!. I'm busy, I'm watching the rarezhut auction to buy CD. NO time today. also its to LATE to go to you.
But he did keep trying for 2 hours or so.. to get me to his house.. haha. he failed XD
I did promise him for next week... 
But I'm actually so not in the mood to see him. (-__-)/
My mood is more inside Japanese RARE MUSIC. 
so I don't know...

Valicious kept a spreadsheet of all the sold items, so maybe in the next day or two I can get together a list to post everything that sold. As Rob mentioned we'll be doing the last bit next Saturday. We've got ~150 items left to go in the box, so I think we should be able to get that done in a 5 hour stream or so.

why is "sex" censored in the title like it's a bad word, wtf?

Misaruka limited CD [-Kono sakura ga maichitteyuku koro ni-] on sale via online shop and live venues only

On sale at live venues from March 31 through May 7, 2015, and via the online shop for a limited time

DVD number: SWMRD-8
Label: Starwave Records
Price: 2,000 yen (tax included)
Format: CD+New artist photo set
Limit: 50 copies

*Disc is a CD-R.

CD Playlist:
01. -Kono sakura ga maichitteyuku koro ni-
02. -Kono sakura ga maichitteyuku koro ni-(Voiceless version)

only 5 copies in the oversea store
http://darkestlabyrinth.ocnk.net/product/651
 

I think this really depends, even for big bands. While trying to get the latest live-distributed DVD from Kameleo, it took me nearly a year to even find a copy being sold even though it was given away at a sold-out oneman. There's been plenty of other instances where I've been trying to find live-limited things that were never shared online(or even in the hands of traders) that are well over 5-7 years old by now. Had these been available even by mail-order, I would have ordered them without hesitation.
 
Besides that, I think the biggest problem is with live-limited/live-distributed DVDs. While live-limited music generally does get online in one form or another, DVDs almost never get uploaded(I guess because it's a bit more complicated and time-consuming then tossing a CD in a drive and ripping in itunes?) and given the medium, I don't think I've ever seen an instance where the content from a live-limited DVD ended up on any other release so if you don't find a copy of the DVD then you're completely SOL.

Maybe that dezert music video??
Kinda creepy pv.
But if you love horror, goth music, metal music simply nothing will shock you that fast.
To get a real answer, ask your parants to give their comment. They will be shocked by some videos.
And at least they will say.
Why that dude dress up as a woman? Σ(゜Д゜)
People get simply shocked because its not normal for them or unknown.
But the visual kei now... its not shocking because nothing is that original.

They would maybe make more money.
But they simply don't want to try it out.
They simply only want to sell/give for free to those who attent the lives.
All we can do is accept such thing.
 
sometimes we can be lucky that they will SELL it to you. But 99,999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999% they simply say "no. please don't ask again, please don't ask japanese fan for help"

Yell you can be sure, if they take care about other country, they will diband after their first month... because how fan around the world can have a band like Gretel (actually disbanded) ? How many people has bought their single for exemple ?
Seriously, it's ridiculous to think than the fan around the world have more power to support the band, if you're not able to going to their live. Ok they can open their mind and try to sell their music for oversea fan.. well imagine they are more popular in other country, how the band can survive if nobody go to their live ? no way ! because they survive only because poeple buy their live ticket, and they attire more pople to their live because they sell cd only for poeple who come to see them in live...
Theu didn't care anything about you or other oversea fans, because it's not you who give them the money who they need to continue the band... it's is not the three/four idiot in oversea who can give them a chance to survivre more than one month... If you can't understand that, maybe you are as close-minded than they...
 
 
LOL ! I mail a lot of band and, (the one who answer me) never same me "'don't ask again" or "don't ask japanese band for help" xD do you already try to contact a band ?
Off course, I receive a lot of "sorry, it's only avaible in live venue" and I can understand. But some of band answer me yes (like Gretel or Liberal) they send me the mp3 of their music.

Acid Black Cherry 4th album. A release which is better than my first exceptions.
This album came in 3 versions; I’ll decided to review only the CD only (itunes) version.
Acid Black Cherry, “Janne Da Arc” vocalist yasu solo project is around our hearts for many years already. He creates good music he creates perfect music. This release brings you more calmer songs with a taste of heavy rock.
With “L” yasu proves again that he is a true musician who can write true music. Music which is written with the heart. Music which has a story. Music which is written with time.
 
What about the already released tracks?
On this album again there are only 4 songs which we already know, for myself I didn’t like 3 of them. Well I liked INCUBUS but, INCUBUS felt as it was not “ready”, not finished. Since it was an introduction to this album. I really did do like GREED GREED GREED, which has such cool rock feeling. The 2 others, Kimi ga inai, ano hi kara… and Kuro neko ~adult black cat~ didn’t get my attention at all, when they where released as a “single”. I didn’t like them.
 
But are the single songs now enjoyable?
My answer is “YES”. Somehow this album made all 4 single songs good songs. songs who flow easy inside the album. songs who you won’t put off, even if they aren’t liked as “single” songs. It’s a bit strange, but this is what happens more often if you listen to the work of Acid Black Cherry.
 
What about the new songs? are they enjoyable?
Of course they are, I’m glad that yasu did choose to create more calm rock songs. The music is a bit more lighter. But still with a beautiful rocking sound. There is only 1 new songs which I don’t really like and that song is “Versus G”.
I truly love; Round & Round “L-Eru”, liar or LIAR, Loves, &You. Those lyrics and sound are splendid, very beautiful, songs which really though your heart. And who really made me fall for this album. Also it was a very good choice to put “Round & Round” as the first track on this album. It introduce you calm but with a rock sound inside this album. You won’t get enough of this album after you put this one on!
 
How does the album really feel?
Even if some of us prefer more the harder rock songs, I still think that everyone can enjoy this album highly. Since this album has so much inside. hard rock, light rock also a slight of pop sound. It has cheerful tunes, it has sad tunes. The lyrics are sad, are happy, it can let you cry, it can let you smile. It is a love album. Some tracks even let you remember of “Janne Da Arc”, but that’s cool! Since some of us really miss them and it always gives a good feeling when those tunes turn up. Also yasu’s voice, it really though your heart in this release. Those who didn’t bought this album, really will regret it.
 
A slight detail to the sound, song by song:
♪♪♪ heavy rock | ♪♪ hard rock | ♪ soft rock
♪ 01.Round & Round
♪♪ 02.liar or LIAR?
♪♪♪ 03.S&M
♪ 04.Kimi ga Inai, Ano Hi kara…
♪ 05.L-Eru-
♪♪♪ 06.Greed Greed Greed
♪ 07.7 Colors
♪ 08.~Le Chat Noir~
♪♪♪ 09.Kuro Neko 〜Adult Black Cat〜
♪♪♪ 10.Versus G
♪ 11.Nemurenu Yoru
♪♪ 12.Incubus
♪ 13.Loves
♪ 14.& You
As you can notice it is a very calm album with a few more heavy rock tracks.
This album has also not the “electric rock sound” which many visual kei and other kind of bands add to their music. Which I’m really happy with. Because creating an album which sound like “L” is much more special and showing your fans that you really can “create” music.
Which I also did notice by listen to this album over and over is when “& You” ends it actually flows again inside the first track “Round & Round”. You don’t really notice that the album has ended. Which also makes it impossible to put the album off, because if flows over and over.
 
Album rating:
♥♥♥♥♥
I never did expect such great album after I did listen to the 4 previous singles. I never thought that this album could be so great. Its the best work yasu has given us in his solo carreer. Acid Black Cherry did it again, to publish a great album. It’s not strange that more and more people will like them, because they deliver again and again good music.
 
Also posted at Japanese Music Strike

Do you trust Crowd-Funds?
Depends on which kind of Crowd-fund it is. But I never would trust a Crowd Funds of musicians.
 
 
Have you ever given money to any form of Crowd-Fund?
Nope not yet. I've not even the money to spent to such things.
 
What band`s do you think you would support if they had a Crowd-Funded project?
0 bands. I would only donate like that if they would spent the money to some good cause. (or how do you call that in English, ya know those projects to safe people in the world because of a nature disaster or something)
 
What do you think your donation range would be? (Be honest, you don`t have to worry about being seen as a cheap-skate, and don`t have to be Mr. / Mrs. Moneybags.)
20 euro maximum. (because they should be happy, that you give them SOME extra money)
 
Are special awards or gifts valuable to you? (Early access to tracks, special messages from the band (or whoever), other perks, etc...)
Depends on what they will give you. But for Alice nine, you really get less for ya money.
 
Do you think crowd-funding is a sustainable practice (can it be used often or only on occasion), and that many bands can use it at the same time, or does it present an even greater price-tag to fans?
I think bands who try this, simply want to gain lots of money from fans... its still stealing from us, because they never use it for MUSIC  only
 
If Crowd-Funding became more popular, would that create a greater wealth gap in the music industry, where more popular bands can sustain more releases and advertisement, while smaller bands can not succeed or compete, and labels are not as profitable so fewer bands can actually exist on a visible level?
HAHA no no no no no no really NO.
 
What do you think of Alice Nine`s project so far?
I know which label they are under now... I don't know if it should stay secret? But they could better find a different label with more money. Even Kiwamu would have been better
 
But there first song is nice, so lets see what they will give us in the future.
 
Any notable musical crowd-funds you want to mention (worldwide or Japanese, though they are different markets)?
- I don't know any...
 
Should a Crowd-Funded release be free? Or should it only be free for those who donate? Does crowd-funding affect your view on downloading a release?
Yes, Crowd funded releases should be free. Since they got the money for FREE. they didn't spent their own money inside the whole project.
And those who donate should get lots for free before the actually release date.
But still it won't affect me at all.

Acid Black Cherry 4th album. A release which is better than my first exceptions.
This album came in 3 versions; I’ll decided to review only the CD only (itunes) version.
Acid Black Cherry, “Janne Da Arc” vocalist yasu solo project is around our hearts for many years already. He creates good music he creates perfect music. This release brings you more calmer songs with a taste of heavy rock.
With “L” yasu proves again that he is a true musician who can write true music. Music which is written with the heart. Music which has a story. Music which is written with time.
 
What about the already released tracks?
On this album again there are only 4 songs which we already know, for myself I didn’t like 3 of them. Well I liked INCUBUS but, INCUBUS felt as it was not “ready”, not finished. Since it was an introduction to this album. I really did do like GREED GREED GREED, which has such cool rock feeling. The 2 others, Kimi ga inai, ano hi kara… and Kuro neko ~adult black cat~ didn’t get my attention at all, when they where released as a “single”. I didn’t like them.
 
But are the single songs now enjoyable?
My answer is “YES”. Somehow this album made all 4 single songs good songs. songs who flow easy inside the album. songs who you won’t put off, even if they aren’t liked as “single” songs. It’s a bit strange, but this is what happens more often if you listen to the work of Acid Black Cherry.
 
What about the new songs? are they enjoyable?
Of course they are, I’m glad that yasu did choose to create more calm rock songs. The music is a bit more lighter. But still with a beautiful rocking sound. There is only 1 new songs which I don’t really like and that song is “Versus G”.
I truly love; Round & Round “L-Eru”, liar or LIAR, Loves, &You. Those lyrics and sound are splendid, very beautiful, songs which really though your heart. And who really made me fall for this album. Also it was a very good choice to put “Round & Round” as the first track on this album. It introduce you calm but with a rock sound inside this album. You won’t get enough of this album after you put this one on!
 
How does the album really feel?
Even if some of us prefer more the harder rock songs, I still think that everyone can enjoy this album highly. Since this album has so much inside. hard rock, light rock also a slight of pop sound. It has cheerful tunes, it has sad tunes. The lyrics are sad, are happy, it can let you cry, it can let you smile. It is a love album. Some tracks even let you remember of “Janne Da Arc”, but that’s cool! Since some of us really miss them and it always gives a good feeling when those tunes turn up. Also yasu’s voice, it really though your heart in this release. Those who didn’t bought this album, really will regret it.
 
A slight detail to the sound, song by song:
♪♪♪ heavy rock | ♪♪ hard rock | ♪ soft rock
♪ 01.Round & Round
♪♪ 02.liar or LIAR?
♪♪♪ 03.S&M
♪ 04.Kimi ga Inai, Ano Hi kara…
♪ 05.L-Eru-
♪♪♪ 06.Greed Greed Greed
♪ 07.7 Colors
♪ 08.~Le Chat Noir~
♪♪♪ 09.Kuro Neko 〜Adult Black Cat〜
♪♪♪ 10.Versus G
♪ 11.Nemurenu Yoru
♪♪ 12.Incubus
♪ 13.Loves
♪ 14.& You
As you can notice it is a very calm album with a few more heavy rock tracks.
This album has also not the “electric rock sound” which many visual kei and other kind of bands add to their music. Which I’m really happy with. Because creating an album which sound like “L” is much more special and showing your fans that you really can “create” music.
Which I also did notice by listen to this album over and over is when “& You” ends it actually flows again inside the first track “Round & Round”. You don’t really notice that the album has ended. Which also makes it impossible to put the album off, because if flows over and over.
 
Album rating:
♥♥♥♥♥
I never did expect such great album after I did listen to the 4 previous singles. I never thought that this album could be so great. Its the best work yasu has given us in his solo carreer. Acid Black Cherry did it again, to publish a great album. It’s not strange that more and more people will like them, because they deliver again and again good music.
 
Also posted at Japanese Music Strike