Tokage

i suddenly remembered this band & was surprised to find that a) not only are they still around but b) they sound like THIS now?

lol i remember how they started out as a noisy garage rock band

anyone else out here believe in 

∋elf gravity∈

you know your brain's been exposed to too much politics when your mind autofilters the bandname to THE BLACK LIVES MATTER BAND

never thought i'd see the day of a bootleg sandwich de 120pun lmao

20 minutes ago, carddass said:

Mugen Minus started in 2006 and was a 4 piece electro folk band started by vocalist Jinpei Endo after his previous band Cock Roach ended in 2005. Cock roach was a musically dark and heavy whereas mugen minus was quite the opposite in terms of sound. It was acoustic and folky. I consider both bands to be two different sides of the same coin. Eventually mugen minus added Cock Roach's bassist Honda Chuya in 2007 to become a 5 piece.

mugen minus released their first album '死んだはずの僕の旅行' or 'The journey in which I should have died' in 2006, from which shissha ressha was the opening track. The band released a single in 2007 with new member Honda on bass and then released another album 'Perfect World' in 2008. Unfortunately in 2010, percussionist 前川和磨 was arrested for internet fraud, the things I vaguely remember was that it might have been related to a pornography website, and in typical Japanese fashion, he left or was fired from the band, and the whole band paused activities.

In 2008, shortly after mugen minus released 'Perfect World', Jinpei and Honda released a work under the name '博士と蟋蟀',  hakase to korogi or 'The Doctor and the Cricket' which thematically was closer to Cock roach's harder and darker sound.

Eventually mugen minus reformed in 2014 or 2015 but never recorded anything again and only played a few shows before Jinpei and Honda started officially reviving their high school band Cock Roach in 2017.

More info here:
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCaEPaEUJYJf_F-QP00b3qDQ
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/COCK_ROACH
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/無限マイナス

(I just realized I should make an artist thread for these bands as there's virtually nothing about them in English except through this connection from munimuni)

So it IS the same vocalist as the one from Cock Roach!  I already thought they sounded familiar. Even more interested in this band now cuz I've really enjoyed everything I heard by Cock Roach so far.. Guess I know what I'll be looking into today lol

Holy shit! I remember stumbling upon that Mugen Minus band completely randomly ages ago and not knowing who they were. Nice to suddenly find them here of all places 

reeeeeee just fucking do it on youtube like everybody elseeeeeeeeee

Talking about SHAZNA/Izam - there's also this rather unfortunately titled endorsement:

thinking about that motherfucker Osama The Sucka & wondering why weebs worhip his ass. just because that dude may have made made astroboy doesnt mean its ok what he did to all those american soldiers!!!!

genuinely convinced at this point these dudes are stored in the same sweatshop where they leave the guys from kiryu in between tours

44 minutes ago, Jigsaw9 said:

@Tokage Yeah, looks like it. I also looked around a bit and it seems these songs are indeed mostly "older" stuff just remastered: track 1 seems to be new (?), while all the other songs were previously released on their 2016 "20th anniversary" demo CD-R (and three of those were already released even before that, on a 2014 demo CD-R). I guess it's nice to have these in an updated form now in one place.

Track 1 is indeed new - it was released about a month ago: 

Considering that those 2014 and 2016 CD-Rs are probably rather hard to come by in the first place it's nice to have this stuff compiled into a digital release!

To my knowledge their most recently released studio material before this became a thing was a song featured on the 白い群衆 V.A. album released in 2016

Friendly Reminder: BLUE 👏 LIVES 👏 MATTER 👏

"Bro this is just a one-time only thing. We're not reviving I swear!" *Releases brand-new single*

"Bro seriously I just said this is just a one-time only thing. We're NOT reviving!" *Releases new album*

real gamer shit only

My favorite part about the relaxation of the anti-corona measures over here is that it's apparently instantly become acceptable again for people to just open mouth cough without covering their face while out on the streets or something

proof once again that an endless well of raw talent and a set of good teeth can let you get away with almost anything

1 minute ago, Splendor of beauty said:

Yeah,but there are actually covers or re-rec (about singles, correct me if I’m wrong)

As far as I know that cover album is at least supposed to be a sequel to the FC-limited cover album they dropped last year (the one featuring covers of Depeche Mode / YMO etc.) so presumably it's in the same style. I -think- those singles are actually completely new songs but they've been releasing so much lately that i haven't 100% been able to keep up with everything ...

He's gonna start selling blank cd-rs so people can burn their Rentrer en Soi downloads onto them?

there's a rip of the mini floating around on slsk. just sayin..........

By the way - bonus fun fact: they've released like 4 FC-only singles and a FC-limited cover album this year already

''inThe time it took you to make this post we disbanded''

DRAMAtical Murder-related?

Keep it king

Can you why soul Oh my melty dance
It's so eat day calling fire house
Oh my tore nail see not loot they
Demo matter shoud tell they Mid night mountain
Comon all right

I've gotten around to beating Tomba 1 now as well. Managed to unlock 129 out of the 130 or so quests and completed around 126 of them. Pretty decent numbers I'd say. This is still a wonderful game! Highly recommended for fans of platformers and mildly metroidvania-esque games. Fuck that racing minigame hard though. (To be fair I can't think of almost a single platformer w/ racing minigames that are actually fun - those goddamn bike levels in Crash 3 also kinda kill the game)

Time to pick out something new.. Not sure if I should keep going and jump into Tomba 2 or if I should try and veer off my path and try out some Saturn games instead considering I've pretty much never played any of 'em...