Hakoniwa

Whenever a band goes major I at least think "they can't possibly disband right now, they've JUST gone major" but seeing this kinda breaks my (illogical) logic... This is sad news anyway, just when I was thinking I should get to know them better too...
But dunno, maybe something good will come out of it, that's what I like to think. Maybe they'll come back with the exact same members and a new name after realizing going major is nothing like what they had expected. It's Japan, they do that. xD
 
2016 was a cruel, cruel year

I'm a bit late, but I just found this out. chouchou merged syrups. disbanded officially on November 23rd.
 
http://chouchoumergedsyrups.com/

lol this is fun.
MAXIMUM THE HORMONE releases new material, but not before tricking us again with a fake PV (it's about time they release something new.....) NakamuraEmi releases another amazing amazing amazing album that will again top my AOTY list for 2017 L'Arc~en~Ciel disappears again YOSHIKI announces new project. X JAPAN's album gets postponed. No Violet UK material. No S.K.I.N. A new best album is released under hide's name B'z releases best album because why not MUCC goes on hiatus 凛として時雨 goes on hiatus
the HIATUS goes on hiatus (just kiddin')
THE YELLOW MONKEY releases new album Superfly releases new album with a bunch of boring ballads and one good song Enon Kawatani ruins someone else's career Gesu no Kiwami Otome. disbands Indigo la end disbands JPOPSUKI FALLS Everyone cries

lol this is fun.
MAXIMUM THE HORMONE releases new material, but not before tricking us again with a fake PV (it's about time they release something new.....) NakamuraEmi releases another amazing amazing amazing album that will again top my AOTY list for 2017 L'Arc~en~Ciel disappears again YOSHIKI announces new project. X JAPAN's album gets postponed. No Violet UK material. No S.K.I.N. A new best album is released under hide's name B'z releases best album because why not MUCC goes on hiatus 凛として時雨 goes on hiatus
the HIATUS goes on hiatus (just kiddin')
THE YELLOW MONKEY releases new album Superfly releases new album with a bunch of boring ballads and one good song Enon Kawatani ruins someone else's career Gesu no Kiwami Otome. disbands Indigo la end disbands JPOPSUKI FALLS Everyone cries

lol this is fun.
MAXIMUM THE HORMONE releases new material, but not before tricking us again with a fake PV (it's about time they release something new.....) NakamuraEmi releases another amazing amazing amazing album that will again top my AOTY list for 2017 L'Arc~en~Ciel disappears again YOSHIKI announces new project. X JAPAN's album gets postponed. No Violet UK material. No S.K.I.N. A new best album is released under hide's name B'z releases best album because why not MUCC goes on hiatus 凛として時雨 goes on hiatus
the HIATUS goes on hiatus (just kiddin')
THE YELLOW MONKEY releases new album Superfly releases new album with a bunch of boring ballads and one good song Enon Kawatani ruins someone else's career Gesu no Kiwami Otome. disbands Indigo la end disbands JPOPSUKI FALLS Everyone cries

A few predictions.
THE NOVEMBERS will release either a new single or an EP. I don't think they'll be quiet, whatever the case. 八十八ヶ所巡礼 will drop an actual full-length album to make up for leaving us musicless in 2016. cinema staff will release SOMETHING. these guys have been putting out music like crazy. 凛として時雨 hopefully put out something redeeming. maybe a new single? ....or 凛として時雨 return just to disappoint us again. TK makes another anime theme. This time, his most annoying yet! siraph will drop another amazing EP. another new lynch. album [2] downy goes back into hiding for another 3 years.  
That's all I got for now. I do hope for new music from some lesser known bands that probably aren't worth mentioning, though.

* At least 1 of either Ryo's or Aie's current projects will bite the dust
* New Merry album
* New Metronome material
* DEZERT goes major [2] OR goes on hiatus/disbands
* X Japan album drops but it's just old songs but with English lyrics & 2 new piano SEs
* 1 or 2 new bands formed by Tenten, fold before the year ends
* One of the Ains bands disbands
* Kisaki """retires""" again
* Some literally who band nobody asked for makes a comeback
* Some literally who band nobody asked for goes to Europe
* At least one long lasting, well-established band will call it quits
* New Maximum the Hormone material
* New Dir en grey material
* Mana and Gackt get married
* Yayoi found dead in Miami

I think so, yeah!
I follow his twitter (satoshi_grgm) and he's been posting/retweeting a lot of stuff like these:

 

 

Bom, o MH está fechado pra novos cadastros no momento né

sim, só você e mais nenhuma das milhares de pessoas que conhecem DEG

http://www.last.fm/user/wesurii/listening-report/year
 
This is super neat!
 
downy completely taking over my year and siraph being my top discovery couldn't be more accurate. I don't really consider Aimer a favorite artist of mine, but she has just a few absolutely killer tracks that have pushed her very high in my charts - "us" being the major culprit here, haha.
 

http://www.last.fm/user/OriginalSaku/listening-report/year
 
this is actually pretty cool, god job last.fm <3

mine
http://www.last.fm/user/nine-heads/listening-report/year

I saw this earlier! Mine suuuuuuckks haha http://www.last.fm/user/yoreru/listening-report/year
Ah well, that's what you get for starting a new account and not scroblling much. But actually.................... my old account looks better (and more accurate too lol): http://www.last.fm/user/mimakinomoto/listening-report/year
 
Yeah, NakaEmi all the way. Now I'm trying to understand WHY I listen to more music on tuesdays.....it says so on both accounts. Weird.

Yahoo Auctions JP é UM PESADELO de site, tem muita coisa, algumas bem raras, e só dá vontade de chorar. O problema é que você não pode comprar lá se não for do Japão, ou pelo menos não podia até algum tempo atrás... claro que sempre existem hacks pra essas coisas, mas nunca tentei nada. Eu diria que é melhor no CD Japan mesmo, nunca tive problema e tem a questão dos pontos que você acumula comprando. Olha, eu entendo o drama do cartão internacional porque eu fiquei boa parte da minha adolescência sofrendo com isso (AINDA BEM QUE JÁ PASSOU), mas tu sempre pode usar uns cartões alternativos que funcionam como internacionais e não usam taxa de manutenção... eu nunca usei esses mas tenho amigos que usam e compram numa boa, sem ter problemas. Nubank, por exemplo. Dá uma pesquisada!

Yahoo Auctions JP é UM PESADELO de site, tem muita coisa, algumas bem raras, e só dá vontade de chorar. O problema é que você não pode comprar lá se não for do Japão, ou pelo menos não podia até algum tempo atrás... claro que sempre existem hacks pra essas coisas, mas nunca tentei nada. Eu diria que é melhor no CD Japan mesmo, nunca tive problema e tem a questão dos pontos que você acumula comprando. Olha, eu entendo o drama do cartão internacional porque eu fiquei boa parte da minha adolescência sofrendo com isso (AINDA BEM QUE JÁ PASSOU), mas tu sempre pode usar uns cartões alternativos que funcionam como internacionais e não usam taxa de manutenção... eu nunca usei esses mas tenho amigos que usam e compram numa boa, sem ter problemas. Nubank, por exemplo. Dá uma pesquisada!

took them long enough to release a song specifically for me!

| A promising band creates an instant classic with their first release.
I smell a rivalry brewing within the depths of indie pop.
 
It all follows from the implosion of the still revered pop quartet school food punishment. A source of joy for many, internal and external pressures slowly tore the band apart. There was an overt sense that during the latter part of their career some members of the band were restraining their talents. We hoped for the best, but we saw it coming when vocalist and lead composer Yumi Uchimura suddenly left the band to pursue her own vision of music via la la larks. For all intents and purposes, la la larks filtered out what remnants of early school food punishment were left, opting for a ho-hum sleeker major label sound.
 
I looked forward to the solo efforts of Masayuki Hasuo, but I never thought he would team up with Haisuinonasa's Yoshimasa Terui. Undeterred, the duo found Argentina-born vocalist Annabel, who is probably the closest sounding person to Yumi that isn't Yumi, and returned to their roots with siraph. Their self-titled release immediately brings to mind the soundscapes of riff-rain that I fell in love with many years ago. The similarities are more than uncanny. I would call them an almost outright challenge to Yumi's new band, except Terui's compositions take the band into places Yumi would only dip her toes into. siraph sounds as if you teleported air feel, color swim into 2016, with six cuts brimming full of energy and craving to be heard. "時間は告ぐ" (Jikan wa Tsugu) alone is enough to convince me a few of them were composed with a not-so-different vocalist in mind.
 
The mini album is an earworm of catchy tunes for sure. The unpredictable drum rhythms and thick bass suit Annabel's rougher vocals like a glove, so much so that I'm willing to overlook her vocal imperfections as just another element to the track. If the progressive opener "in the margin" doesn't snag you immediately, "時間は告ぐ" follows a more conventional song structure that is sure to please. My personal favorite is "thor", which combines the chillwave and pop elements with a progressive rock touch for one hell of an awesome track, but I'd be lying if I said they all aren't good. Even the mellow closer "想像の雨" (Souzou no Ame) leaves me immediately wanting more.
 
It's rare to find a band establish their sound so firmly with their first release, but it doesn't surprise me that siraph strike gold on their first try. la la larks is cool, but it never filled the hole school food punishment left vacant since 2008. siraph is the band I didn't know I needed. It remains to be seen if la la larks will respond to the challenge or remain in their hemisphere of electro pop. As promising as this is, I believe siraph has enough chops to grow into their own band and expand their sound into places we have not yet seen. For now, this band has my attention.
 
 
Support the band!

✹ This release is available for purchase online via JP iTunes. Thanks for the information @Pho! ✹

Eu já sabia, mas não estou inscrita porque... sei lá
Eu acho que às vezes ele exagera um pouco, mas eu geralmente já acho que muitos youtubers exageram um pouco, então né. Se as pessoas que assistem gostam, tem que continuar assim mesmo. XD
Mas ainda é surreal pensar em cantor de jmusic (pq não quero falar "cantor japonês" :v) virando youtuber assim o.o

Cara, eu não sigo o Joe Inoue, mas fui olhar agora e... acho que o cara tá finalmente ficando maluco o__o; (assista isso com fones, pls) (sério)
 
 
"Não uso droga porque não preciso droga" ...claramente hahaha
Mas né, de vez em quando fico pensando e acho muito surreal ele do nada ter começado a aprender português... na época que eu tinha ouvido falar dele na primeira vez foi em um fórum de ELLEGARDEN (ou algo assim) e na época nem sabia onde ele tinha nascido e tal. Só tinha aquela música lá que ele fica comendo Pocky. XD

Cara, eu não sigo o Joe Inoue, mas fui olhar agora e... acho que o cara tá finalmente ficando maluco o__o; (assista isso com fones, pls) (sério)
 
 
"Não uso droga porque não preciso droga" ...claramente hahaha
Mas né, de vez em quando fico pensando e acho muito surreal ele do nada ter começado a aprender português... na época que eu tinha ouvido falar dele na primeira vez foi em um fórum de ELLEGARDEN (ou algo assim) e na época nem sabia onde ele tinha nascido e tal. Só tinha aquela música lá que ele fica comendo Pocky. XD

can't stop crying when i listen this
 
 

Welcome! I came here basically because this topic's title was very interesting. lol
 
I gotta agree about the golden age thing, though I don't quite remember when it ended for me. I'm actually not much into VK nowadays, but I still like a few things here and there and keep my mind (and my ears) open to new stuff, VK or not! It's  worked pretty well so far. 
And yeah, I agree with @Delkmiroph, come to our plug sessions if you can~! It's great to find new music and get closer to members in general. I also recently returned to this forums after a loooooo....oooong time gone and I'm still getting used to it again, so I know the struggle. I hope you can get used to it and become active eventually! It's a nice community we got here.

Welcome! I came here basically because this topic's title was very interesting. lol
 
I gotta agree about the golden age thing, though I don't quite remember when it ended for me. I'm actually not much into VK nowadays, but I still like a few things here and there and keep my mind (and my ears) open to new stuff, VK or not! It's  worked pretty well so far. 
And yeah, I agree with @Delkmiroph, come to our plug sessions if you can~! It's great to find new music and get closer to members in general. I also recently returned to this forums after a loooooo....oooong time gone and I'm still getting used to it again, so I know the struggle. I hope you can get used to it and become active eventually! It's a nice community we got here.