Zeus

I can now officially say that's happened in Visual Kei XD

I hope this band will stay together and release a fair amount of material, including something beyond a handful of singles. I don't want another Chaos System-esque band with less songs than the revolving door of members the band has had.

GREGORY

Metal Safari

THE EIGHT (except that small period of time where RYO was guitarist)

MAXIMUM THE HORMONE

precious kitty and nekkichi, you guys are hilarious (srsly) but I'd rather not spark some drama if Lady decides to read this topic ;D

Here's hoping Sono finally learns how to sing!

also, this

Child Forest was a bit of a forgettable mini so this album better be in the vein of the first two singles.

Hoping that this one is a step back towards Dark Design Catalog, although I highly doubt it will be. Therefore, I hope it's a lot like "black".

Let me guess...musical differences amrite?

Even though I stopped listening to them I'm still saddened by this news .

lol Why are people still holding out on a Synside member? I'm pretty sure 3 or 4 of them will form a new band or two in a few weeks.

I lol'd heartily. You'd think that the VK bands would double spell-check their English before they press anything, especially considering they usually don't have the funds to re-press it.

I never actually heard U's voice ; o ;

I'm still confused as to why they stopped THE EIGHT if they're going to form another band with all the same members - U + another female vocalist. This makes no friggin sense .____.

Didn't Jun have his own band? What happened with that?

^ Well that's what's written on the OHP. Maybe they're being generous (or just mistyped it, lol).

the price is correct...and regular edition will be released after limited edition is sold out

That makes more sense then. I was wondering if that was intentional or not. Guess all we can wait for now is a tracklist

They pulled this shit before with the "SHOW UP TO OUR TWO LIVES AND TOUR FINAL, GET SPECIAL CD".

Depending on the ticket prices, I'd say that sounds much more reasonable than spending 8400yen on three copies of the same album for some 'special CD' that's probably just a comment-track.

(2500 x 3) + 3500 > 8400.

I researched it again and it turns out it was three lives and not two.

They pulled this shit before with the "SHOW UP TO OUR TWO LIVES AND TOUR FINAL, GET SPECIAL CD". Hardly anyone did it. Bet anything it's the same exact CD because they have leftover presses.

Lycaon, leave the obscene marketing ploys to bigger bands that actually have enough rabid fans to pull it off with reasonable success.

Their compositional skills have also improved. They're adding more textures and more elements into their songs. I can't find anything on their first album that compares to NEO SCREAM, for example. One of the reasons why I didn't like Abnormal Head Machine is because of the awful transitions. Something like Dust Pain or Think doesn't work when you have these heavy as fuck verses with a poppy chorus, and A.H.M was just a succession of track after track after track that followed that formula. Once they dropped the "omg we hare metalcore VK" and experimented more with different soundscapes, they've improved consistently. Up until DOGMA was released they haven't had an in your face, every-track-is-extremely heavy-for-no-reason release (which DOGMA is). Every release has a variety of hard rockers, some nicer ballads and some mid-tempo pieces. DOGMA feels like cold leftovers in comparison to the BLACK- mini's.

So do I. They've only gotten better since they've joined PSC, even though DOGMA shows signs of it being rushed.

it better sounds like vanessa's brutality=p

Genki better have improved if he's going to try that route again. With that said, I wouldn't mind if they went that route, as long as they didn't sound like the millionth pseudo-metalcore VK band that's formed this year.

1) wtf kind of name is MEJIBRAY

2) any info on support musicians?

If it is, the scene's going to die extremely quickly. They could chop that number down to 1200 and I STILL doubt they'd be able to sell that many.

I was reading about purple Heavy Rocks earlier today. Glad to see that it's a completely different work. What I'm most curious about is seeing if they're still sticking with their analog lo-fi recording or if they're going to stick with what I *think* I heard on Partyboy and have clearer production.

I actually read this as if OP was asking if he could upload releases by bands from other countries. In case he was (or even if he wasn't) uploads go in this forum. European/American artists are allowed only with the permission of the artist though, so you'd have to check to see if it's fine. Otherwise, it's just like Champ said.

And I wasn't aware that Visual Kei was a phenomenon outside of Japan o_O

I'm guessing Eversince is going to be the ballad version this time?