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Considering how this happens with other music scenes(post punk and synthpop lo-fi bands showing up recently, for example) I'm still surprised some lo-fi kotekote kei scene hasn't started. I believe it would be a decent way to revive the scene: going back to the basics. No dance-metalcore-electronic-nu-metal stuff, just oldschool with shit recordings all the way.

Thanks! I wish I could hear his solo stuff but I can't find it on the web :/

Well, miyavi tweeted the other day he wanted to make Skin happen again, so I really doubt skin is happening now, maybe they're going to reunite. X Japan has been recording their album for quite a time, same goes for Violet UK. Violet uk is composed by Yoshiki + female vocals from many different Yoshiki-girls, and they're all not-japanese, if I remember well. This is more or less a Yoshiki solo project. So you'd probably expect some pretty random musicians to join the album, I guess.

The song in the trailer was awesome. Now if it's actually going to be released is what I doubt. By the way it's really reminding me of X Japan's more industrial stuff but with Sugizo's guitar on it - wonderful. I really hope Yoshiki gets his ass out of his chair this time

tiuY-GCYrLQ Does anyone know the origin of this song?

the cover/ band picture is cool I don't think they should be called vk anymore, though. Their look is as visual as Crossfaith or coldrain. The song is better than IC, I didn't find it anything special though

Minato is a weird guy. He left Dead End because they went on a direction he didn't like, but then he comes and plays on Creature Creature's album which has a style that isn't that different from Dead End's

On setlist.fm it says the last time they played it (Sangeki no Yoru version, even) was on 2001. Maybe you're confusing it with Karma or Myaku, which they played on recent years

They will probably make the song death metal like they did with zan you never know with these guys though

I love the standard, the other one is retarded lol

With Mucc it makes sense considering two of the last singles also went with similar themes (Arcadia and Nirvana titles)

New album "Shangrila" release on November 28th. Mother single cover also available on their homepage.

DFM6Kkk2cXw Mother short radio rip, sounds great

Oh man, the way they recorded this... lol, house recordings so 90's poorman's vk

I liked the keyboard solo and guitar solo. Cool stuff

A movie filming one of their lives could be cool, but a biographic movie about their early days would be even better

This. +1 this. Also, he played hanabi during the billboard live: https://vimeo.com/49540253 Sounds good already. Will probably be even better with shamisen and flamenco style guitar

His voice always manages to amaze me. Here it's almost kind of scary.

damn I remember these guys

Damn, that's quite a lineup. He did manage to get artists from lots of different genres there. Awesome to see Takeshi Hosomi, Seiji Kameda and Hiromitsu Agatsuma(shamisen player), for example. Guess I'll need to buy this one.

Sorry for the double post, but longer Gloria preview E0zttCwCPM4

I liked Created Beauty(My favorite actually, I hope the rest isn't just hizaki guitar-fapping, pls), Holy Grail -Amoroso-, Brave. So yeah, almost all those new tracks. Funny how I disliked almost all single songs with exception of Illusion and now I like this.

there's a preview on this thread already... and it's more of a symphonic power metal song.

they had announced this on twitter some months ago there's also a split with a folk guy no release info about any of them though

Man that Yasou song is good! I don't remember them doing this kind of thing for quite a while.