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    I had to give it some thought and came to the conclusion that only one of my favourite Japanese bands is disbanded (merry go round), although plenty of others are now on hiatus. Most of them are quietly active and continue to release fresh material.

    It doesn't matter to me if a band is disbanded, stagnant, or on an indefinite hiatus. Sure, I'm sad when I find out there won't be any more music, but I can love and listen to what they have released with zeal. I can still find pleasure in purchasing their CDs because I'm a shameless collector and, more often than not, I can follow their new bands. The excitement of a new release is the only thing missing, really.

    But music is timeless.

    Favourite musicians retiring from music, though. That blows.

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    Thy Catafalque - Neath Waters (18:43)

    Kauan - Sokea Sisar (12:35)

    夢中夢 - 祈り (10:27)

    :wub:

    +

    The Gathering - Probably Built in the Fifties (7:26)

    Alcest - Printemps émeraude (7:20)

    Ayreon - The Sixth Extinction (12:18)

    Fen - End of the Dream (8:13)

    Agalloch - In The Shadow Of Our Pale Companion (14:42)

    Devin Townsend Project - Awake!! (9:44) & Heaven Send (8:54)

    Cult of Luna - Dark City, Dead Man (15:49)

    Gojira - Flying Whales (7:45)

    There are more, but my laptop is about to run out of battery, so this'll do for now. Usually if I'm that into a song, I never even notice the length!

  10. Posted

    Feel your pain

    unseen pain and longing for solitude | under a sky engulfed in ashes

    the end may have brought you peace | but your bitter laughter still fills my mind.

    A translation of what's written in the booklet. English lyrics aren't written down, so that's all I can get.

    Unless you mean you want a romanisation...

  14. Posted

    I don't have an mp3 player anymore. I used to have an 60GB iPod but I gave it to my mum, now I use my phone, which only has about 4-8GB of space for music, I forget, but artists I can't bare to leave off it include:

    D'espairsRay, naturally

    The Gathering

    Katatonia

    Ayreon

    Devin Townsend Project

    Sneaker Pimps

    Utada Hikaru

    KOKIA

    Rurutia

    Ellie Goulding

    David Sylvian

    More recently, XA-VAT because they make for awesome ringtones.

  18. Posted

    what symbol is that on the dvd cover? (the one with transparent red colour)

    arrows?

    There is a lot of historical and religious symbolism in MONSTERS-era releases. .... In all of D'espairsRay's releases, actually.

    For example the instrument fans joked about being a vuvuzela was, if I remember correctly, a horn used to signal death, which Hizumi used to lead his "parade." The masks they wore in the LOVE IS DEAD video/photoshoot were based on masks worn by doctors during the Bubonic Plague (Black Death) to spare them from infection. The crossed arrow is a mixture of (or their own interpretation of) Latin/Christian symbols that mean death or that the person marked with it had died in battle, which makes sense since the song CROSSED ARROWS relates to war and death for love. I think the symbol has sort of been modified to form a "D" and "R."

    All in all death seems to be a theme throughout. :oshi:

  19. Posted

    on the other hand, HMV orders seems to be delayed...

    My HMV order arrived a day before it was scheduled to. D:

    really!!?? =O

    Did you order it before or after the earthquake? xD

    Two days before! But I have a friend who ordered during and her order arrived fairly quickly as well, maybe a little bit later but quicker than expected given the circumstances. Did they announce that things would be slow or something?

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