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I think they were already around when I stopped caring about vk, and I didn't like them very much back then. But might give them a new shot.
 
Thank you! I forgot to say that I like Diru very much, some days ago I was listening to DUM SPIRO SPERO and thinking "wow, this guys are really so good, how come I haven't listened to this album in such a long time?".

I think I tried some MUCC back in the day and I only listened to their softer songs. If they have anything heavy, I might go after it.

For the other bands, thank you very much for the recommendations, I will try to look them all up.

About new Trivium songs: when they released Catastrophist my first impression was of a weak song with songwriting between SITS and TSATS. Good drumming and some nice riffs, but still kinda boneless like the whole SITS album. Then I listened to it again and again and it grew on me. I know think it is very good and much better than SITS, but still something is missing. And just the same with the last single they put out. I guess it will be a good album overall, just not one of the best like Ascendancy, Shogun and The Sin and the Sentence.

Welcome back!
The most obvious recommendation for you would of course be DIR EN GREY. If you are more into the metal than start with their THE MARROW OF THE BONE era.
Also MUCC would be your kind of tea but their discography is huge and it's hard to overview it. Start with the classic Homura Uta album for some great tunes.
One of the most hyped bands here in the last years were DIMLIM. They released a banger with their CHEDOARA album. But they kinda lost the track and their new album is ahem different..
A band which is also on the run at the moment are Kizu (キズ). They have a great mix between some core elements and crazy other stuff.
If you were into BORN I would recommend you gulu gulu. They are kinda new to the scene (in this formation) but they generated some hype.
If you want to follow up the DEATHGAZE, AI has a new band called DARRELL.
 
Hope there is something for you.
Btw how do you like the new Trivium songs?
 

Hello there, folks.
 
Between 2010 and 2014 most of the music I listened to was Japanese, especially visual kei. After some time I started diving into metalcore, and now my favorite genre is prog metalcore, my favorite bands are Trivium (this one isn't prog but I love them since 2014), Northlane, Periphery, Polaris etc.
 
But in the last days I have been revisiting some songs from D'espairsRay and -OZ- and I wondered what new visual kei bands would please my ears. I want you guys to fill me in the new visual kei metal bands. Back in the day my favorite band was DELUHI (I still hold them dearly!), and I also liked very much D'Ray, which I already mentioned, ALSDEAD (but nowadays I think they were kinda bad musicians haha), BORN (same as ALSDEAD...), the GazettE (I still like them), GALEYD (still like them), the more metalcore-ish phase of girugämesh, some of lynch., MEJIBRAY, some DEATHGAZE tunes... Well, I think that right now you  guys know what is the type of music I like. Please let me know what is hot right now! 

Limited edition (3850yen) will include CD (16 songs) and DVD including 「惡」(Aku) recording documentary +member interview
Regular edition (3300yen) will include CD (16 songs) only
 
[CD tracklist]
01. 惡 -JUSTICE- (Aku -JUSTICE-)
02. CRACK
03. アメリア (惡 MIX) (Armeria (Aku MIX))
04. 神風 Over Drive (Kamikaze Over Drive)
05. 海月 (Kurage)
06. Friday the 13th
07. COBALT
08. SANDMAN
09. 目眩 feat.葉月(lynch.) (Memai feat. Hazuki (lynch.))
10. スーパーヒーロー (Superhero)
11. DEAD or ALIVE
12. 自己嫌惡 (Jiko Kirawanai)
13. アルファ (Alpha)
14. My WORLD (惡 MIX) (My WORLD (Aku MIX))
15. 生と死と君 (惡 MIX) (Sei to Shi to Kimi (Aku MIX))
16. スピカ (Spica)
 
 

Yeah, this is the one famous pic. Although it's taken inside a store kyo still looks very surprised. The bangyas at tanuki mainly hated on his girl for being a kuso gaijin uwu

Luna Sea - Luna Sea (1991)
Luna Sea - Luna Sea (2011) Premium Box including "Shade" cassette tape replica
Dimlim - 離人
gulu gulu - 首輪教育のすすめ (Type 大衆盤)
ルヴィーユ - in tears... (free single)
ルヴィーユ - insane (free single)

Hi there, fellow Luvielle fan ^^

Great set!

Luna Sea - Luna Sea (1991)
Luna Sea - Luna Sea (2011) Premium Box including "Shade" cassette tape replica
Dimlim - 離人
gulu gulu - 首輪教育のすすめ (Type 大衆盤)
ルヴィーユ - in tears... (free single)
ルヴィーユ - insane (free single)

love that they're optimistic that they're gonna be around until september

Covers
TYPE A

 
TYPE B

The title of the new album is 『惡』(Evil) and will be released on May 20.
It will be sold in 3 types and the tracklist contains 16 tracks.
 
Seems like the live distributed singles will be part of it as well as the (rerecorded) demos.
 





 

The title of the new album is 『惡』(Evil) and will be released on May 20.
It will be sold in 3 types and the tracklist contains 16 tracks.
 
Seems like the live distributed singles will be part of it as well as the (rerecorded) demos.
 





 

Sho is too pure for sticking with Lets

ザアザア (Xaa-Xaa) new single "ホラー (Horror)" will be released at 2020/4/22. (2 Type)
 
Type A will be CD (2 tracks)+DVD ("ホラー (Horror)" MV) and Type B will be CD (3 tracks) only.
 
[track list]
1. ホラー (Horror)
2. トラウマ (Trauma)
3. サイコパーティー (Psycho Party)
 






 
 

Let's is a maniac. Just look at this video. Hiroshi is taking the piss, he can barely take the questions seriously himself (see 55 secs, just after they cut off a child's scream lol) . This video series  was without a doubt Let's's idea. 
 
Hiroshi was asked why they chose Shibuya Womb as a venue and Hiroshi literally said because it was the only venue that wasn't fully booked LMAO (also they wanted a venue with a screen). He was also asked why there was a 3 month gap between the release of MISC and their first gig and his answer was because all venues were booked... I can't. 
 
1:54 - What the fuck? I can't tell if this is supposed to be funny or what. Who's filming this and why are they having a stroke? This band's tone is so skewed between their essence and suits and wanting to get away from the corruption of visual kei and these shitty, amateur attempts at marketing. 
 
1:54 - 2mins "why do you think 'What's Up?' was the hardest song to record?" 
 
"Ride cymbal is xxxxxx CHIN CHIN" 
 
WHAT
 
Last question "what does love mean to you?" 
 
"the putty in-between... "  He doesn't believe a word of what he's saying, let's be honest. 
 
Get Retsu away from these men before they're humiliated even further. 
 
 
 

Thank you so much!
Haha I'm curious too. Their stage-look is actually very nice and nearly the same as on their Anime-counterfeits (They only have those animal outfits for promotion).
The singer did some kneeing in front of the bassist and touched the guitarist inappropriately at his chest.

Thanks for the report, it was fun reading it  Glad to hear xaa-xaa are still crazy live. I wonder when mother will reveal their proper looks. Are they waiting to gather more fans so they can buy higher quality outfits? 
 
When you say fanservice, what do you mean? Members winking at each other or something? 

As per the official announcement on Twitter, kazari has left gulu gulu today. 

February 27, 2020 - Luna Sea - Utsunomiyashibunkakaikan dai hōru
 
The final post of my concert cycle actually should have been a pure fanboy report as Thursday was the big grand finale with the Luna Sea concert. Yeah should...
One day before the concert  it was announced that the concert will be rescheduled because of the fucking Corona virus.
You can‘t image how shattered I was after reading the news. For so many years I was dreaming of seeing them live on day and the concert should have been the pinnacle of this trip.
But yeah it is like it is. Fortunately I was able to get a quick refund for the tickets.
What saved my day was that the acquaintance who bought the tickets for me gifted me a tour pamphlet from the last date of the tour she visited as a little encouragement. So cute! 😭
She also sent SUGIZO a personal tweet telling him my story for traveling that far etc. and told him that Luna Sea has to come to Germany as a compensation. Let’s see if he will reply lol.
Sorry that I can‘t give you a lively live report.
I hope that the Corona madness will end soon.
 
So tomorrow will be my flight back home. The two weeks were awesome and full of new experience. Thank you for reading!

February 27, 2020 - Luna Sea - Utsunomiyashibunkakaikan dai hōru
 
The final post of my concert cycle actually should have been a pure fanboy report as Thursday was the big grand finale with the Luna Sea concert. Yeah should...
One day before the concert  it was announced that the concert will be rescheduled because of the fucking Corona virus.
You can‘t image how shattered I was after reading the news. For so many years I was dreaming of seeing them live on day and the concert should have been the pinnacle of this trip.
But yeah it is like it is. Fortunately I was able to get a quick refund for the tickets.
What saved my day was that the acquaintance who bought the tickets for me gifted me a tour pamphlet from the last date of the tour she visited as a little encouragement. So cute! 😭
She also sent SUGIZO a personal tweet telling him my story for traveling that far etc. and told him that Luna Sea has to come to Germany as a compensation. Let’s see if he will reply lol.
Sorry that I can‘t give you a lively live report.
I hope that the Corona madness will end soon.
 
So tomorrow will be my flight back home. The two weeks were awesome and full of new experience. Thank you for reading!

February 27, 2020 - Luna Sea - Utsunomiyashibunkakaikan dai hōru
 
The final post of my concert cycle actually should have been a pure fanboy report as Thursday was the big grand finale with the Luna Sea concert. Yeah should...
One day before the concert  it was announced that the concert will be rescheduled because of the fucking Corona virus.
You can‘t image how shattered I was after reading the news. For so many years I was dreaming of seeing them live on day and the concert should have been the pinnacle of this trip.
But yeah it is like it is. Fortunately I was able to get a quick refund for the tickets.
What saved my day was that the acquaintance who bought the tickets for me gifted me a tour pamphlet from the last date of the tour she visited as a little encouragement. So cute! 😭
She also sent SUGIZO a personal tweet telling him my story for traveling that far etc. and told him that Luna Sea has to come to Germany as a compensation. Let’s see if he will reply lol.
Sorry that I can‘t give you a lively live report.
I hope that the Corona madness will end soon.
 
So tomorrow will be my flight back home. The two weeks were awesome and full of new experience. Thank you for reading!

Hey it‘s me again!
So after a few amazing and exhausting days in Tokyo the next scheduled concert was approaching:
 
February 18,2020 - MEME (oneman) - Tokyo Higashikōenji ni man den'atsu

What started as a joke a year ago I never ever would have imagined that I would see this „band“ live in my life. We only started listening to them because of that ridiculous name but L‘s new project really convinced me with some amazing songs. So it was a now brainer that we wanted to take the chance to see him live. 
 
Long story short we missed the most part of the concert because of getting stucked in Tokyo... (maybe it wasn‘t a good idea to try to get a seat in the Kirby Café on the same day as the concert lol)
I was so angry at those big metro stations with those ridiculous never ending line change hallways but we couldn‘t do something about it.
 
So we arrived half an hour after the start at the venue and earned those (well deserved) stupid Gaijin looks. But they let us in and we entered a not so full but hot room. We saw like 4 songs and it was good! L seriously knows hot to entertain and those Bangyas worshiped him with wild Furis and screams. 
He had a great look with some extended hair and a white dress. 
His backing band was also on fire.
So we did the best to enjoy the short rest of the concert. 
Next time I will definitely watch my time better..
 
So Monday I will go to the much anticipated little hearts Taiban with gulu gulu, Mother, Scapegoat etc.!
 

For the next 2 weeks I will enjoy my very first Japan-trip. As I will visit 4 concerts in this period I thought you may be interested in a report of the shows.
 
February 15, 2020 - Buglug, Arlequin, Kizu (Man only) - Meguro Rokumeikan

 
So this will be it: My first concert on Japanese ground! I was beyond excited. The concert was scheduled for 5:30. We went there early to avoid any troubles. In front of the venue a nice guy from Israel spotted us and gave us some useful tips for attending a concert in Japan (the entrance system, behaving etc.) Thanks for that man! He also told us that this venue is legendary one. Especially known for X Japan shows in their indies. 
We entered the venue after climbing some stairs down. It was much smaller then I expected. I would say it has a capacity of 150~200. There were no boundaries in front of the stage so the atmosphere is really  intimate. 
 
Arlequin (アルルカン) started the evening. Of course I am familiar with the name of the band but never dared to listen to them. But wow - they were great! They really really had fun with the man only gig. Aki pumped us with shouting Otoko!! several times. He even grabbed his guts lol. He did some stage diving between one song. I really liked his stage performance and the rest of the band was great too! I will definitely get into their discography. They played around 45 minutes. I can‘t report a setlist, sorry. 
 
Second band was (finally) Kizu (キズ). They were the main reason for choosing this concert as I really ship them! So this report will be very long. 😁
As not being the headliner you could see that most of the fans came for Kizu. So as their intro started the venue was pumped!
Lime‘s outfit was a mix between a vampire and the Joker. He had a long black cape, joker makeup (the Heath Ledger one) and hair extension. 
Reiki looked as usual with his short trousers. But his hair is grown much longer. 
Yue had a very dandy look with his hair combed back. He wore a black suit which was open so you could see his upper body. 
Kyonosuke had an interesting look with combed back hair too and a black ruffled indefinable top.
 
They started with Heisei which is so much better live! Lime played a second guitar. 
Next song was Buta also a very nice live experience. 
Then Jugo - and omg what a madness. So much headbanging and Furi. Same with the following Elise.
I‘m not a big fan auf Kuro ame but I have to admit the song is beautiful live. Lime sang the first verse without microphone and that gave me shivers. You could also see that the song is very emotional for the whole band.
The silence after Kuro ame was short as they played Oshimai - fuck yes! It was wild. Reiki did his guitar flip and the crowd was insane. 
Last song was Kizuato - forget what I was saying about Oshimai... this song was insane! That breakdown in the end. 😱 I hoped that they play it and I was so happy. 
And this was it. A 45 minute concert which felt like 10 minutes... If you have any chance to watch them, do it!
 
Setlist キズ:
平成
豚
十五
ELISE
黒い雨
おしまい
傷痕
 
And last but not least BugLug entered the stage. They were the headliner for the show. I‘ve never heard one song of them so I was excited to see what they may deliver. Light went out and a SE started to play as someone tiped my shoulder. It was the lead singer lol. They surprised us and came from the entrance straight through the audience to the stage. They shouted something with a megaphone. That was really cool. Next surprise: Before they started to iniateted a wall of death. Neat!
They did a really good and entertaining show with stage diving, moshing, fan service etc. While the last song the singer came right into the audience and sang the whole song there and even started to mosh. 
Great band but their music is not my cup of tea. (Please don‘t kill me dear BugLug fans!)
They also played 45 minutes. I don‘t know their songs but I took a picture of their setlist if someone is interested.
 
So this was it! A great concert with left us all with smiling faces. next one is the Meme Oneman on February 18.
 
I hope you liked this review and didn‘t fall asleep while reading. I will soon write again after the next concert.