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    死ね死ね団 (Shine Shine Dan)

    These guys have been around since somewhere in the early 80s. They're definitely certified Punk Grandpas at this point. AFAIK they still occasionally perform live here and there, though it's been AGES since they've had an official release of any sort. Used to be signed to the infamous underground label Nagomu Records until it disintegrated. After that they've sporadically had a handful of releases here and there, mostly in the late '90s and 2000s, including a split album w/ hardcore punk legends QP-CRAZY.  They're a punk band, but sound-wise I'd say that there's definitely crossover appeal for angura fans. Their sound at times has a similar vibe to that of bands like Kyokutou Girlfriend, Merry, 大日本意識革命軍狂暴 and such.

     

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  3. Posted · Edited by Tokage

    MUSHAxKUSHA

    These guys have been around since like 1997 apparently (and they're still going!) but seem to have almost no presence overseas whatsoever. I discovered their Myspace by chance at some point in the late '00s and was actually surprised to find they're still around. Their main 'thing' is that they have a dude usually wearing shironuri makeup who's basically just there as a 'dancer' (apparently he's also the lyricist?). A lot of their songs feature keys in some variety and the music occasionally has this kind of 'japanesque' vibe to it.. Not in the sense of "[woodblock sfx] YOOOOO" but when you hear it you'll understand what I mean. Their last couple of releases are available on Bandcamp and some of their more recent videos come with English subtitles so it seems they're trying to reach out more to a western audience these days.

     

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    Also @Jigsaw9: Droog vocalist's apparently in this band called Dudes now. Dunno if Droog disbanded somewhere down the line or whatever but yeah.

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    I'll dump a bunch of bands across the rock/punk spectrum. Starting off with バックドロップシンデレラ. They've been around since at least 2006 or so. Their music's mostly pretty energetic rock w/ folk influences. Seems like the type of 'party' band that would do well at festivals. At times they kind of remind me of MERRY or some angura kei stuff. They've dropped at least 7 full-length albums, a cover album, 5 mini-albums, a greatest hits album and a handful of singles over their entire career so they're quite productive. I 've listened to pretty much everything spanning from their 3rd album up to their 7th one and pretty much enjoyed all of 'em to varying degrees. I do feel like some of their newer stuff feels a bit more generic than their older material, but they still manage to deliver some fun tunes

     

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  6. Posted · Edited by Tokage

    30 minutes ago, BrenGun said:

    When was gibkiy gibkiy gibkiy actually formed? 2015? 2016?

    Kalavinka is formed in 2007 😛 

    Wait,  they've already been around that long?  Shit, didn't know that lol

    As for gibkiy, I guess it depends on your perspective. The project technically started off w/ just Kazuma and aie under the moniker 'highfashionparalyze' somewhere around 2008 - 2010 or so,  i don't remember when exactly. A couple years later they gained an official bassist and drummer and changed their band name to HIGH FASHION PARALYZE. To my knowledge they released at least 1 single under that moniker before rebranding themselves again,  this time as gibkiy gibkiy gibkiy. That was somewhere in 2016. As far as I'm concerned the latter two are pretty much the same band. To my knowledge the lineup remained the same, and some of the songs they did while they were still called HIGH FASHION PARALYZE appeared on the first official album they released as gibkiy, so make of it what you will. 

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    KEEL,  gibkiy gibkiy gibkiy, sukekiyo, Roman Kyuko,  gulu gulu, Matsutake Works, Kalavinka, La'veil Mizeria, nurié and Xaa-Xaa are the only post-2010 projects that spring to mind immediately. I guess you could add DIMLIM to the list for me too but at this point I'm following them more for the ''I came here to laugh at you''-factor than anything. I'm still halfway aboard the Kizu train as well. Aside from these I pretty much only pay attention to oyaji bands that have been on the scene for over a decade already. 

  12. Posted · Edited by Tokage

    The first time around they had Theatre Brook, Balzac, Masami Tsuchiya, Michiro Endo, Kiyoharu and ABS among others, the previous time around they had cali gari, Polysics, MUCC, D'erlanger, Merry, AA=.. This time they have what, Der Zibet, 88kasyo, Diru and Shiina in terms of talent and that's it? fucking rip lol

     

    Considering that DEG played at that one hide tribute fest as well i'm pretty sure they'd probably partake in a hypothetical B-T fest too, tho that hide thing was over a decade ago

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    Just now, seys said:

    I'd love to see them perform this live but that's probably never going to happen. 

    If BT ends up having one of those ON PARADE festivals again to support the tribute album there's a pretty solid chance it might happen. As far as I remember quite a few of the bands performed their cover track live at the previous one at least

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    9 hours ago, Lereku said:

    This is unexpected and surprising news that will be strange to see become a four band with a session guitarist or quintet again with a new member, I  hope it will have a last release with Kenichi on guitar.

    All songs composed by Kenichi per albums (except Beautiful Freaks which was composed at 100% by Yuu) :

    - Gendai Stoic : Bruisy Night, Yellow Girl, Dramatic Children

    - Modern Gate : Haraiso, Seishun Neurose, T.O.P

    - Nu Chemical Rhetoric : Kubitsuri Rondo, Dekiai no Suisou,Bara to Katasumi no Blues, Shambara, Karappo na Uta

    - Peep Show : Kyousou Carnival, Sentimental New Pop, Kimatteru Taiyou,Mado Kara Nigeta Love Song

    - M.E.R.R.Y : Blind Romance, LULULU LALALA, Shaite no Parade, Hirahira Tonderu, Komorebi Ga Boku Wo Sagashiteru, Utagoe Kiss Modern

    - Underworld : Piranha, under-world

    - Non Sense Market : Kurayami ni Pink

    - M-Ology : Happy Life

    Almost all of those happen to be among my fav tracks on their respective albums/in the band's entire discography. Damn 😕 Putting an extra hard F down in that case

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    1 hour ago, chemicalpictures said:

    IMHO this is yet another the case of the "NOT HEAVY = HORRIBLE" tired trope, similar to what happened with DEZERT.

    I don't think that's necessarily the case here. CHEDOARA had a handful of more 'atmospheric'/non-heavy tracks and people seemed to vibe with those a lot. I wouldn't even really call Rijin all that heavy and that one ended up on many people's ''best of the year'' lists (of course with some obligatory ''BUT WHERE ARE MY SCREAMS'' exceptions here and there but you can never really escape from those).  I feel like it's rather the fact that all the messy behind the scenes stuff ever since those 2 members left has already created quite a decent amount of bad will among people coupled with the fact that the sudden sound change is executed rather awkwardly in places. Like you said in your own post, if they'd taken some more time to develop their ideas a bit further I'm pretty sure the finished product would've already been a whole lot better, but at the same time, considering the reported state of the band I kinda feel like there might not have been any band left if they'd put things off for too long.

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