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Welcome to the forum! You have an excellent taste in bands. If there's anything you need to know, you can always approach someone with a blue (mods) or red (admins) name. I hope you'll enjoy your time here, and don't hesitate to pay the chat a visit, or (judging your music taste) the non-VK indie music thread! We're always happy to have more people there!

I'll write reviews to my list later (when I'm not burried in schoolwork), but here's an initial list of full albums that I enjoyed: Japanese AI - MORIAGARO (pretty standard pop-album, but AI's voice makes it just a little different. VOICE is what pop music should be) Boris - Präparat (Boris going back to good old droning after a couple of experimental albums. The result is great, with Bataille de Sucre being the gem on this album) cinema staff - 望郷 (not their best stuff imo, but still very enjoyable. I just love cinema staff's vocals, they're great) downy - 第五作品集『無題』(I only recently discovered them through CAT5 so all I can say that this album is great?) LAGITAGIDA - TUTELA!! (instrumental album from the new band of school food punishment's ex-keyboard. This wasn't what I expected when this band started out, but I'm all glad that they chose to do what they are doing now. This album is structured, yet all over the place and it just WORKS) LEO今井 - Made from Nothing (only got into this guy about a month ago, but this is probably my favourite album of the year. The first two tracks are a bit delusive of how the actual album works, but all in all it's such a great album that I can forgive that part) M-Koda - Generating Arrow Diagram (ambient electronics that really aren't for everyone, and also not for any time. You need to be in the mood for this kind of stuff. If you're into it, this is simply a magnificent album. Abyss is probably the best song off the record and is haunting yet relaxing. This guy gets better with every album) NICO Touches the Walls - Shout to the Walls! (I already reviewed this one in the staff list, so you can go read my review there) ONE OK ROCK - 人生x僕= (not OOR's best album, but enjoyable enough to make the list. Plenty of catchy tracks, a couple of nice ballads, not too complicated. It's nothing groundbreaking, yet it's OOR's most mature album yet) Vegpher - PLUS (also electronics, though a lot less ambient that M-Koda. It took me a while to get into it, and towards the end it has the tendency to get a bit boring (due too the track lengths in the middle, most tracks are over 5 minutes long), but overall it's still a very sollid record) アルカラ - むにむにの樹 (basically this also made my list of favourite releases, yet I don't think this is Arukara's best release. It's a bit weak compared to Drama and BOY NEXT DOOR, but it has a couple of nice tracks that I can't just disregard) 凛として時雨 - i'mperfect (really? It's Rin Toshite Shigure, end of review) Non-Japanese Brian Tyler - Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag OST (I'm a sucker for folk elements and good game OSTs. Brian Tyler combines both in his OST for the new Assassin's Creed game. Even though the game hasn't been my favourite of the series so far, the OST is probably the best OST AC had so far, on the same level on Lorne Balfe's work for AC3) EXO - XOXO/Growl (debut album by Korean boy band EXO. Great amount of catchy tracks and fun songs, just give it a spin) f(x) - Pink Tape (SM Entertainment nailed stuff so hard this year jfc f(x)' album was as flawless as EXO's album. Probably the best f(x) release so far) G-Dragon - Coup D'Etat (preferred it over Heartbreaker. Not my favourite K-pop album of the year, but good enough to be included on the list. GD knows how to write non-catchy pop songs and still make them work). Girls' Generation - Love & Peace (my flawless queens are back in Japan, which means it's time to kick ass and bitchslap everyone off the charts with another amazing Japanese album. And they did. Idk what's going on here but can GG just stay in Japan and release everything there because it's just so much better than their Korean stuff) Rhian Sheehan - Stories from Elsewhere (one of the few non-Korean albums on this list, lol. Completely instrumental album, basically a giant OST, but one for the world. Rhian Sheehan writes his compositions on places he's been to, which makes this an incredible experience) SHINee - BOYS MEET U (SHINee released 3 albums and a mini-album this year, what have you been doing. Their Japanese album BOYS MEET U is a lot better than their previous Japanese album and is filled with catchy tracks, original content, and all ballads are actually really interesting for once) SHINee - Dream Girl - the misconceptions of you - (not as good as BOYS MEET U imo but Spoiler is such a great song that I couldn't leave this album out. Dream Girl is typical SHINee, better than Why So Serious imo)

This is...1400$ so 18 live DVDs were released on Blu-Ray (now Blu-Ray is usually like 2000yen more expensive than a DVD) so that makes 1400/18 (approximately) 175$ for each Blu-Ray with a matching live CD. holy shit

This probably made me more curious than what I'm in for

VISUAL KEI IS DEAD

I can access the OHP, but when I click Information or Profile I get a 503 error? So yeah, can't check it that's true or if it's an error.

Same thing as hyura. They probably picked previews that were either too short, or just presented a wrong part of the song (like Versailles was always capable of picking the worst possible parts for their previews). Only looking forward to 2 or 3 songs, really

They haven't released anything that wasn't live-limited ever since Phantom of the Snow/SAKURA, so tbqh I'm not surprised. I hope this won't lead to a real disbandment though.

New list, yada yada. GOOD Boris - Präparat EXO - XOXO/Growl M-Koda - Generating Arrow Diagram THE NOVEMBERS - Fourth Wall ONE OK ROCK - 人生x僕= SHINee - Boys Meet U SHINee - Dream Girl - The misconceptions of you 凛として時雨 - i'mperfect downy - 第五作品集『無題』 AI - MORIAGARO B.A.P - BADMAN Block B - Very Good Brian Tyler - Assassin's Creed 4- Black Flag cinema staff - 望郷 LAGITAGIDA - TUTELA!! LEO今井 - Made From Nothing NICO Touches the Walls - Shout to the Walls! Rhian Sheehan - Stories from Elsewhere Vegpher - PLUS アルカラ - むにむにの樹

Users themselves can't delete their accounts. An administrator will have to do it for you, so you have to contact any of the staff who have a red name, which would be Ito, Champ213 or Zess. They will delete your account for you, though we prefer to put accounts on inactive. If you really want to have it deleted, make sure to state it clearly.

I still need to buy X or Y, but can I reserve one? :'D

Pretty rad of them to feature and thank us!

4 songs for 2,800yen is quite lackluster indeed. I hope the bonus CD will at least have a few more tracks, otherwise this is a pretty big rip-off.

yasu basically just vanished one day without prior notification, so not even the staff knows where he is or what he's up to. Since his last.fm is abandoned and he deleted his YouTube account simultaneously with leaving here I assume he just lost interest.

Actually, January 19 was for the US, my bad. The first episode of season 3 of Sherlock will air in the UK on the BBC on January 1st! The other episodes will air on January 15th and January 22nd afaik.

Season 3 of Sherlock will debut on January 19. Apparently it'll be broadcast at 10PM (Greenwich time) on PBS. So I guess it won't be aired on the BBC then? (afaik season 1 and 2 were aired on the BBC) Anyway, really excited! I'll probably be able to watch the episodes online if I can't watch them on the BBC.

They showed a new trailer for season 3 last Saturday after the 50th anniversary of Doctor Who with the hashtag (urgh what do people have with hashtags) "coming soon". So yeah, shouldn't be too long now.

I watched that Eiken video Zess posted (or well, snippets of it) and jfc it really is as awful as he's describing.

First playthrough: Assassin's Creed 4: Black Flag (I am only on sequence 4, I just don't have the time to play it lol) (on XBOX360) The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim (on XBOX360) Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (on PSP) Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney - Dual Destinies (on 3DS) Planning on starting asap: Kingdom Hearts Dream Drop Distance (on 3DS) Final Fantasy VII: Crisis Core (on PSP)

THE FIRST EPISODE OF FREE! IS AS DEEP AS THE SWIMMING POOL THEY WANT TO USE. IT'S EMPTY. /thanks to Ito-sama for this quote

Sad to see TT go. It was a pain in the ass to get on when not from the US, which I think was always one of their biggest weaknesses. They've been saying for two years they were working on making it accessible for every one, but I guess that just never happened. I think they sort of started going downhill when they forced people to use SoundCloud. Then again, it's quite possible they did that because uploading of all the songs resulted in a lot of license costs from all sorts of record companies for them. Using SoundCloud as an external source would solve most of this problem. Afaik TT was non-profit, so having to pay actual licences for the music in their catalogue is probably what did them under. Like Champ, I find it ridiculous that someone needs to pay an amount of money to play a song in front of your friends. That would be the same that if I bought an album irl and invited my friend over to come listen to it, I'd have to pay the record company a fee to let my friend listen to the album I purchased. I guess you don't really purchase music anymore? You just sort of...rent it? I guess with all this current copyright asshattery it's really hard to share/enjoy your music with your friends/others (downloads, okay, but I would think playing the songs in front of your friends is pretty harmless).