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He's working for Free-Will these days? I thought he used to be in cahoots with Kiwamu??? wtf how much did i miss?

It feels like Dada has announced he's disbanding Velvet Eden p. much every time some Russian fangirl's roasted him online though, did they actually 100%-fo-real-and-in-real-life disband this time? I can never tell when Dada's just throwing a tantrum for the umpteenth time and when things are actually serious. Girugamesh is pretty much the only band on this list I've ever felt any true connection to. I pretty much grooved to everything up to & including MUSIC, and despite the slew of shoddy releases they released after that, their last few releases showed a pretty promising return to form. I feel like they had the potential to go even higher, but they called it quits instead. Disappointing, but I guess it can't be helped. They had a pretty good run with a couple of absolute bangers. They also looked like they were absolutely amazing live. For some reason I genuinely thought Screw and DuelJewel both disbanded back in like 2012 or something already. I appreciate the fact DuelJewel managed to stick around for as long as they have, but it feels like they truly were the kings of 'everyone forgets about us'-kei (at least in the west..) Screw often teetered that line between 'the physical incarnation of forgettability' and 'laughably bad,' tho for some reason I heavily fucked w/ that VANQUISH song back in the day. I feel like even their labels saw them as more of an afterthought than anything else, but maybe I'm getting the wrong impression. BORN peaked when they were still known as Renny Amy imo, I never really could get into any of their later stuff.. As it stands, the only things I'll remember them for are that ridiculous kool-aid vampire look the singer rocked once & that embarrassing Stalin-666- song

Man, those lyrics are like peak angura lol Thanks again for your work!

I beat Silent Hill 2 today. I think the game holds up pretty fucking well, even despite some of the jank that seems to come naturally with the survival horror genre. Honestly, the combat and voice acting are the only questionable parts. Everything else is g o o o d (esp. the soundtrack, the original four Silent Hill OSTs are the only ones I got on my PC at the moment)

how were 太平洋ベルト btw?

this band really got hit HARD by the anime OP meme ...

Based on his FB post, it appears Full (ex-Guniw Tools/Nookicky) is somehow involved in the production for this thing. From what I gather, he at least worked on the video or something like that. Explains the Nookicky vibes @Senedjemmentioned

went on a holiday to my home country for a couple of weeks & i think i've spent most of my money on cds and food so far lmao

Hope they won't have any more attempts at going metal like with The Cry AGAINST or w/e to be honest, that experiment kinda failed. Heijitsu no onna & Kasa to ame were both pretty good classic Merry-type songs, so I hope those two singles are representative of the rest of the album. . 2nding the high hopes for gaudy (& also 犬型真性MASOCHIST)

RIP, but also... Mothra was actually also a person in a suit? wait what? for some reason i always thought it was a puppet for some reason...

> lynch. /「XXX for YOU」 NO

i want samples..............

Yeah, this song seems a lot... kinder/sweeter than the title suggested, actually. Thanks for the translation once again!

There's no way these dudes aint gonna end up getting roped into some sort of conditional disbandment scheme with such a crazy schedule

Can't imagine the dude is anywhere over 30.. @TakadanobabaalienKGF & ハッピーサッド (vocalist's band prior to KGF, Kazuya from deadman also played in that one) both definitely do have something going on that feels 'anguraesque,' more so than, say, KtK. Both bands resemble Merry in a way, but funnily enough KGF feels more like Merry's punkier side, while the latter feels more like Merry when they're doing their kayokyoku-inspired thing. Death March used to rock the shironuri at least, and a couple of their album covers were drawn by eroguro sweetheart Suehiro Maruo. I guess it counts for something in terms of angura cred. I'm not entirely sure they have any ties to the VK scene either.. I do know that at some point they changed their name to 百怪ノ行列 (Hyakke no Gyoretsu). They remade at least one of the old Death March songs under that moniker. Even later, they changed their name again to Asakusa Jinta. Their sound roughly stayed the same since they changed their name for the first time, heavily toning down the more unhinged psychobilly vibe they had before, but the music's still pretty fucking fun nevertheless. They did some songs for the live-action adaptation of Kazuo Umezu's Cat Eyed Boy under the Asakusa Jinta moniker.

& all of this just because they didn't play ash this tour, smdh guys

Mirror is like 50% hell yeah and 50% dreck, there's some banging tracks on there for sure but I feel like the first signs of 'sterilizing' their sound became visible roughly during that era

honestly, everything up to coll:set at least was rather decent. things started to go downhill FAST after that.

Samurai NEWWAVE: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

殺(KILL): EDGY AS FUCK hardcore punk-type music with an industrial twist. They remind me of that one video with the guy going TOO MUCH BROOD (you know what i'm talking about). They've been around since 2011 at least. Have played with Benizemi, Ozomaseeds & Kasumi Tori in the past. CUTTING HIS BOTH ARMS

空想革命 (Kuusou Kakumei): Calling them a 'recent' band is a bit of a stretch, considering they appear to have been around since like 2006 at the least. Sound-wise they fit straight into the bleep-bloop camp of things. They did a cover of Tama's 'Sayonara Jinrui' at some point. If I remember correctly, Idenshi Kumikae Kodomokai covered one of their songs. I thought these dudes vanished ages ago, but apparently they're still somewhat active, considering the fact they too appeared on that shironuri comp. from last year. OHP (i guess?) here: https://kuusoushop.thebase.in/ all their cds appear to be sold out lol

リトルツイスターズ (Little Twisters): Seem to have disbanded in 2016, according to their twitter account. As far as I can tell, it seems they were an all-girl group playing some sort of folksy-sounding stuff. Pretty cute. Their OHP only lists a single two-track single and no other releases. Don't know if that's really all they ever release or not, but I hope not. Here's a vid of them playing with some dude wearing nothing but a cape & thong:

White Z Company: Pretty much Maria Cross-tier. Just look at all those fans going wild. They appeared on that shironuri v/a that dropped last year as well. Besides that, they thankfully only have a maxi-single to their name.

オゾマシーズ (Ozomaseeds?): They describe themselves as a 'white painted hardcore punk band'. Again, due to my basically nonexistent knowledge of Japanese, I barely know anything about these guys. They've released 2 one-track live dist. singles and one 4 track live dist. maxi-single so far. They also appeared on the 白い群衆 v/a that came out in January 2016. I'm guessing they're still active, since they performed together with 霞鳥幻樂団 & 燭台(怪) in March.

燭台(怪): Probably known to most as 'that one band that had a dog as a member,' these guys inexplicably ended up signed to Starwave Records, immediately increasing the amount of 'at least moderately listenable bands' to 1. Besides the dog they have like a gorillion other members as well, and I'm not entirely sure if they all actually DO anything, or whether it's just some sort of Muchi Muchi Anago-style 'let's just throw everybody on stage and have them dance around'-type of procedure. Their music sounds extremely amateuristic and messy, so I guess it's a bit of an acquired taste. They released a full-length album earlier this year, and they also performed together with 霞鳥幻樂団.