SUBLIMINAL

Have my brother and sister repeating this now. 8D

KATZE: timeless, funky music that helped keep a smile on my face through tough times. fantastic band. Same goes for D'ERLANGER, sans the funk. Sophisticated, sultry music that will never get old. D'espairsRay for a second time, because I haven't stopped loving them or MONSTERS. ;D Presence of soul for lulling me to sleep last night when I was stressed and being fronted by a imposing and powerful woman. ???? extremely skilled pianist and composer who ages like a fine wine. ??? for not dissipating like 80% of VK, for spewing out one enjoyable chaotic release after another and staying true to what they are, for being wild, wired and weird and a blast to support. ????? , a vastly underrated young man with supreme talent and a stunning voice.

Me too

Dragon Age Origins: Awakening (Xbox 360) Resonance of Fate (Xbox 360) Lost Odyssey (Xbox 360) Infinite Undiscovery (Xbox 360) Alpha Protocol (Xbox 360) White Knight Chronicles (PS3) Mass Effect Volume 1: Redemption Queer As Folk US Season 1 - 5 & tickets to Eurogamer Expo

HOW DARE ANYONE MAKE MONEY DOING SOMETHING THEY LOVE FUCK THEM.

I'm totally going to a gaming convention here in a couple of months, so I hope I'll be playing all the new, upcoming releases there. Looking forward to trying out PlayStation move, new Castlevania, Fallout: New Vegas and Hunted: The Demon's Forge most. I pray there'll be BioWare announcements there. 'Til then: Ninety Nine Nights Left 4 Dead, still DeathSpank and Dragon Age: Origins again, because I have to get all my achievements again.

Is this still going on?

Shamefully, if this didn't run out two days before I got paid, I'd be all over that because I love Yuu. Alas. :'(

I'm going to add everyone who left their handle here. Currently playing lots of Left 4 Dead, Red Dead Redemption, Borderlands, and TF2.

Presence of Soul are an awesome post-rock band from Japan, too.

I am a woman.

Left 4 Dead with some buddies.

Watch TW fall apart while you're gone!But have fun and return safely!

Even though I'm not a big fan of Enter Shikari, I have to confess that I love their lives. A friend dragged me to one in Glasgow at a dingy, claustrophobic venue with a roof so low you could jump and punch the ceiling. It was cramped, sweaty, the whole room might as well have been a pit. I love intense/violent lives, where the band dive into the crowd and rock out with their fans. There was strobe lighting, everyone was chanting the lyrics, everyone in the hovel of a livehouse was ordered to come up onstage to dance around with the band. I had a blast and left with no broken bones. We saw the band in a pub after the show, too, and they were all so friendly, which was cool. Um. D'espairsRay, of course, are excellent live. I love them equally as much on CD, but the majority will tell you that they are better live. The experience was ruined for me somewhat by silly sixteen year old girls who come to steal spots at the front, molest the band members, and bitch when someone so much as accidentally knocks them from behind or messes up their hair. In my opinion, what makes D'espairsRay lives so brilliant is how much the band get into it, how they interact with the crowd. I saw Rammstein and it was wild. Then again, I am impressed and dazzled by lights and fireworks. I went to see Bon Jovi with my mum when I was thirteen, which was quite cool. And Katatonia, because the atmosphere is immense and the band and most of their fans are really nice. The amount of utterly chill guys I met at their live is astounding. I wasn't expecting it. Finally, The Prodigy, who were fantastic, although I did get elbowed in the face that night and drank so much I fell and grew a bruise the size of a beach ball on my shoulder. Alcest and The Gathering were both wonderful live. However, I would have loved to have had the chance to see The Gathering live when Anneke was still with them. Aural Vampire, too, amazing live show. I expect Blind Guardian to be good next month. As for favourite live DVDs, D'espairsRay's murder day and LIQUIDIZE, no contest. My billy live DVD, the name of which I can't recall at 12:00am, comes second. And for the sake of discussion, a couple of bands I didn't enjoy live as much as I thought I would: Plastic Tree and the studs :/ For the studs, though, the fault lies with the fans. Shit. That got long.

12:59AM in the grand ol' UK.

I wish someone would have told me a while ago that my sexuality could wipe out entire species.

http://www.twitter.com/nanaremilamina |D Mine is public and I tweet mainly in English, but sometimes I revert to Spanish or German and, less frequently, Japanese.

I was a lurker at Tonberry for a while, don't remember the year. Didn't post, didn't even download much, just read the posts, had a hearty chuckle, yadayada. That either got hacked or died and I stopped going to j-rock forums and stuck to socialising with like-minded individuals at LJ, one of which directed me to Tainted World. But I forgot about my account for a year, posted an -OZ- single once and then couldn't remember my password by the time I returned. Signed up again, voila.

It was okay in Toronto.

My name made Karyu giggle.

That's a tricky question! I wouldn't want to be, so I'd probably call it off. But I wouldn't want to upset anyone, either What would you do if you could mentally control someone and order them to do your bidding?

That right there? Generic metal, buddy. The only thing that makes it "stand out" is the fact that the vocalist is singing in Japanese.Regardless, I agree with the above, for the most part. Particularly

DELUHI RENTRER EN SOI ????? Megaromania Jinkaku Radio Kalimero SWEET MADONNA Lamiel D'espairsRay THE PIASS Közi

Not specifically, no. I was referring to the original post, yours, and any that might follow. If you can't find anything unique or "epic" outside of Japan, you aren't looking hard enough. I guarantee most of your favourites rip off American or European bands. DELUHI, for example, borrow riffs from thrash and heavy metal acts overseas. Versailles, dozens of European symphonic metal acts. Even I'm not so oblivious to my favourite band lifting from Marilyn Manson, KoRn and Edguy. That's not "unique." In addition, the most unique bands I have discovered thus far happen to be from Canada, Sweden, the UK and America, respectively. I'm not saying it's impossible to find a good, unique band within Japan. I'm saying the examples given are bad and this post is going to breed more "no one makes music like the Japanese, ehehe" and that mentality is close-minded. Since OP asked for opinions, there's mine.

NIER's soundtrack is the best. It's almost fact. Apart from that, there's also Castlevania: Lament Of Innocence and Symphony of the Night Shadow of the Colossus The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion Star Fox :X Final Fantasy IV and VIII (fuck VII, man) Silent Hill 2 Kingdom Hearts 2 Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath And Tekken 3 - 5, 6 sucked.