Pretsy

not necessarily a parody but
 
MejiBLAZE (came up during mine and Jig's conversation about Mejibray's "Decadence" PV during its release week - since it was the first time I/we noticed a bong mask in vk PV)
 
Spookykyo (Sukekiyo - I think Peace coined this first?)

I don't mind them. As a matter of fact, when I hear that a bands wants to re-record some of my favourite songs, I usually look forward to it and am curious what they will do with it.
 
Some re-recording are better than the original, some are worse, some are pointless because they aren't much different at all.
 
 
 
I never understood that reasoning. Yes, some re-recording may be worse than the original. But who cares? It's not like the original song will vanish into thin air, or that some almighty power forces people to only listen to the new version from now on. Like the original better? Listen to that one and not the re-recording! Case closed.
 
I think a re-recording makes most sense if the original was done with poor production value due to the limitations of the band at that point. I know some trve kvltists find it sacrilegious to take a song that was originally recorded in the kitchen of vocalists' mother and re-record in a proper studio - but not me. XD Many bands re-record old song because they finally have the means to produce them they way the wanted to begin with, but just couldn't afford to.

Come on Kaoru, you can't just roll out of bed and take a pic

well, not sure if hearing more of the guitarstuffs would be better as that riff is another case of generic diarrhea that he had for years now regarding his riffage. it's the gazillionst variation of the "strong" + a couple of dozen other tracks lick he's been running into the ground.
 
plus while i'm all for singalongy gospel pop whatever, this is just a incredibly sad and unsuccessfull attempt at trying that. the melody itself is shit and it's accompanied by a shit groove, but then for good measure repeated 20x times. maybe if it's hammered into our eardrums enough times we'll occasionaly be forced to like it i dunno...

Livetune, a project by popular doujin music/vocaloid DJ kz, will release a new album called "To" - which will compile his latest collabs with various artists (vocalists from Sekai no Owari, Galileo Galilei and such) - and include some newer ones.
 
Release date is 10/9/2014, JIC.
 
Tracklist:
 
CD (romanized)
01. Fantasia / livetune adding Ikuko Harada（from Clammbon）
02. Take Your Way / livetune adding Fukase（from SEKAI NO OWARI）
03. Dear You / livetune adding YUKA（from moumoon）
04. Sen no Tsubasa -Alternative Mix- / livetune adding Takuro Sugawara（from 9mm Parabellum Bullet）
06. Transfer / livetune adding Megumi Nakajima
07. All Over / livetune adding Anna Yano
08. High And Loud / livetune adding Suzuko Mimori
09. Sign / livetune adding Yun*chi
10. Daisukina hitoda Kara / livetune adding Shou Kiryuin（from Golden Bomber）
11. Dreaming Shout / livetune adding NIRGILIS
12. Each and All / livetune adding Rin Oikawa（from Q;indivi）
13. Take Your Way -livetune Remix- / livetune adding Fukase（from SEKAI NO OWARI）
14. ray -livetune cover-（Presented by BUMP OF CHICKEN） / livetune feat. Hatsune Miku
 
DVD
01. Transfer -Music Video-
02. Take Your Way -Music Video-
03. FLAT -Music Video-
04. 大好きなヒトだカラ -Music Video-
05. HAL（東京・大阪・名古屋）TVCM PV Edit ver.
 
Samples/PVs for single songs:
 
source: http://natalie.mu/music/news/124763

B'z and LUNA SEA have the best ballads. Le ciel and Last Letter are also big favorites of mine.

It's arcade only because that just how it is in Japan with fighting games, Arcades are still extremely popular in Japan to the point where most new fighting games always come out in arcades there before consoles. One of the biggest advantages of releasing in arcades first is to allow them do what is called location tests and other things that gather data, so when they finally do release a console version they will have a lot of the bugs and problems ironed out. But yes since this is tekken and pokemon it's safe to assume we will eventually see a console version released here, sorry to break it to you though, because this definitely won't be coming to 3DS.

new PV.

I did. He also told me they're gonna spend the hiatus debating whether to change their name to Alice Eight or Alice Ten.

Kagero's new song is fucking AWESOME imo

Poorly rendered synth church organs, voices that do the errrr-ER-eeeerrrrr thing, long buildups, an atmosphere I like to call the 'gypsy crystal aesthetic', shit that sounds magical and mysterious, high pitched voices sounding sad

I can hear you all the way from here, gaz. Calm down or you're going to pull a muscle or somethin' brah.

Site is down right now.  
 
TL;DR

Frilly, out of tune, cross dresser shit recorded on a $15 budget by bandmen whom barely know how to play their instruments. The more chinchillas, feathers, && leathers, the better. Faux-french and / or clavichords are an added bonus.

FINALLY!
 
Dir en grey - GAUZE

 
It's time for some fresh views on essential pieces of VK/J-rock (sry) history! And what do we have here:
The (major) debut album of DEG - and pretty much their most popular album in the scene...or WAS at least (I didn't research much about popularity amongst certain J-releases).
Either way, the most atypical thing I am going to do here is "a goal" (which most reviews are not in a need for tbqh) - to knock on cliched claims concerning GAUZE that have passed
from one generation to another (as in "older j-rock fans" (~2006) to "newer ones" (2006~)), for eg. "the poppiest DEG album ever", "the safest DEG album ever" etc. So get prepared!
 
The first thing to mention is the fact that how they emphasize their members' skills in a whole album - there's room for guitarists their rhytmic co-operation
and jamming ("Raison Detre", "Mask"), bassist with powerful bass tone and complex riffing ("Yokan", "Cage", "304") and of course a small spotlight for band's drummer ("304"). I think this is a good way
to introduce a whole band's talent to newcomer in minutes or so - and I dare to say that this is unfortunately the only DEG album where this trait is "emphasized" 
(for instance, "WtD" almost isolated rhythmic players out of the mix). Thumbs up!
 
"Poppy" is an adjective that tarnishes listeners' expectations and lets GAUZE stay quite overlooked in most occasions - and for no reason. Like most people, who were involved with DEG for years, I am very aware
of the fact that DEG was always "abrasive" albeit constantly changing. For eg. The combo of Intro and "Schwein no Isu", "Mazohyst" and "Zan" are not "contextless tracks" at all, no - 
those and other non-single tracks are, in fact, the *actual* "main content" (= the sound that the album is supposed to revolve around). To support this statement, let's check out on album's build:
*MC = "Main Content" 
 
intro - MC - breather - MC - MC - breather - MC - MC - breather - MC - MC - breather/finale - outro
 
Of course, as you can hear it in certain MCs and breathers - "radio-friendly" accessibility is highly noticeable.It's accessible album if we rush a bit with my former comments, yes - 
but as I pointed it out already, GAUZE's main focus is not on the breathers at all, but on the dirty, old school vk rock worshiping, frantic rock sound with various influences thrown in 
(Kuroyume, Luna Sea, Vasalla - to name a few) instead. Take a note of songs they play off this album post-Blitz 5 days, and you will notice what I am talking about. 
 
Rambling aside, my actual views: thanks to its simple build - and figureable concept, or "the main content", I found myself liking and listening to this album more than to other releases. Many songs might 
feel quite apart to each other style-wise (newcomers hardly won't even try to tie such songs like "Mask" or "Akuro no Oka" into the same album), but they sure knew what to do with the flow - 
and kudos to them! I like how daring experiments were handled along the way, without radically weirding out on listener - cases in point, varying signatures role-wise in "Raison" and "MASK" + 
probably "intentional" offbeat/offkey frenzy in "Zan". Breathers are not bad either and should not be excluded due to bland "poppy"/"safe" statements - I might not be respecting the guy's deeds these days, 
but Yoshiki sure deserves a good pat on his shoulder for taking boys' musical influences and interests into account and "paving a way to the airwaves" without making them turn into total sellouts. It's no
wonder that his productions ended up as instant J-rock classics though - radio-hits, but with a taste! And of course, the high nostalgia value of album's sound (to quote myself: "the dirty, old school vk rock worshiping, frantic rock sound with various influences thrown in") deserves an honorable mention; no wonder that people here and there 
suggest newbies to go with GAUZE whenever it's about "being introduced to old school vk" !
 
Low points of this album in my case would be the small amount of "daringness" in "304" and "Mazohyst" for the most part; the latter is of course supposed to gloom and give some sort of "taboo shock value", 
but nine minutes of Kyo screaming over requiem-y minors is just too much. Thankfully they placed the most accessible song of theirs ("Yokan") after abortfest to give a proper breathing pause, Phew. This is just nitpicking though.
 
Final thoughts: some might assume that "I haven't even reached my goal" or so on - if you read carefully, you should have noticed through my instances that instant genre/mood-spewing is too risky here:
give a few more listens, take a look at my "build scale" I wrote above and think more...don't let the singles fool you when it comes to realizing the actual content. Apply this to some of your classic favorites,
and see it for yourself...
 
 
Some big favs worth mentioning and a rating, go:
 
- Yurameki: the poppy instance of Kaoru and Die's classic, fantastic ways of co-operation (which they don't unfortunately utilize these days)
- Raison detre: interesting rhythmic approach and tasteful ways of using electronics
- Tsumi to Batsu: the bastard child of glam rock reject and noise-y maniac banging? Yes!
- Yokan: very accessible, but at the same time one of the loveliest, hummable songs DEG has ever done
- MASK: odd but cool way to approach ska punk sound + that jam ending
- Zan: something what you might think as a "lousy attempt at thrash metal" suddenly ends up as something ingenious
 
 | It'd be quite dumb to round up "4,75" (minuses for Mazohyst - nitpicking again, I know), so let's make it go that way. Brilliant, classic Japanese music release - a total must for those who want to have "their own bite" on old skwl

I can't find any fitting topic here for this but explanations aside:
 
http://www.uta-net.com/user/ichiran.html?pnum=1&Keyword=Charisma.com&Aselect=1&Bselect=3&kashi=&TNO=&allcount=22&sort=2
 
Credits for their songs (incl. DIStopping) - apparently Train HELL's composer is a...vocaloid DJ? W/e.

is it just me or ジェンガジェンガ sounds like a die antwoord parody? 
 
train hell, 100%ブービー & sodaiゴミのkoi are my jams for this week & I like that this album is better than their debut one

People have been saying it for over 600 years in regards to Classical, so I think VK will be just fine.
 
 

 
full size if interested: http://blog.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/killing-classical-music-large.jpg

8th copy incoming

into his life? all this stuff revolves around his (supposed) public band member activities, which he attributes to his own past as an entertainer.
 
there's no private life intrusion, or anything, which could be exposing ha. (his private life must be boring af tbh)

What if he's done this all purposely and the first person to confront him about it wins a UCP special bag + official bootleg DVDs and (another) copy of Phantasmagoria's Dejavu??
 
This is my moment

Management contract and its expiring won't do much for their sound imho - but either way, I hope they will still show signs of improving after mediocrefest called "Supernova" :/

they have gazette, vivid and screw, and recently signed レイヴ to violently murder sug off-label career
 

 
slay grandmama