Peace Heavy mk II

I'm assuming you still have to get a ticket to see it or there's a first-come-first-serve admission, so there are still a limited number of spots.

yaass guy on the left

Yoshiki's snack line Screw breaking up Grieva's passion for design Masashi and Yuki quitting Jupiter

Much less obvious, but Lapis Lazuli's "SaveR" has a few lines that are lifted from Gackt's "Nine Spiral." They aren't even on YT, but just something I noticed while checking them out.

Added two more examples for Avanchick

According to their twitter, they are selling the following items at their July 8th show between 4:30 and 5:30pm: -"IDOL" : 5,000 yen -Live photo: 500 yen -Lighters: 200 yen -Towel: 2,000 yen -Checki Folders: 1,000 yen -Old Checkis: 500 yen each Not 100% familiar with what the deal with "IDOL" is, but I think this is what that previously mentioned Lucky Bag for $50 is. (Hopefully it's good!!!) Album art for it is ace tho

I just saw that too. They have a new site here: http://devilkitty.wix.com/official which doesn't have anything really all that new on it... Maybe they made their own site in order to keep it easily updated. A lot of RR sites haven't been touched in months, and their own website gets updated 4 times a year, at best.

Frozen is "Anna and the Snow Queen" in Japanese. #theMoreYouKnow

Oooooohh

imo their shorter releases tend to be a lot better than their big ones, so I have some optimism

5/14 songs as remakes isn't so bad. I wonder how different they'll sound when he's in complete control of everything

Been meaning to do this post for a while, but never got around to it. I just wanted to highlight how Yuuga, of Devil Kitty / DEViL KiTTY / GOKIBURI is basically the Taco Bell of visual-kei. For the non-american members here, Taco Bell is a fast food chain that basically takes the same ingredients and reforms them into different shapes and sizes to make a “new” product. Since most people don't follow him as closely as I have, here's a breakdown of his bands in chronological (and color-coordinated) order: ~Bands he was in in high school that no one has the music to~ ---> Chateau La Tour ---> Kar'MariA ---> DEViL KiTTY ---> DEViL KiTTY / Deadly Sanctuary ---> Deadly Sanctuary / Solo Project / Ki=/=Ga ---> Retired ---> Unretired and started a session band named THE. ---> THE. becomes GOKIBURI ---> GOKIBURI / DEADLY (a revived version of Deadly Sanctuary) ---> Devil Kitty (NOT the same as the first DEViL KiTTY) As a note, I will refer to the first DEViL KiTTY as DK, and the second as dk. Knowing that, you'll begin to see how amusing this list of...eh...reusable musical components becomes. "Smile"originally was released by Chateau La Tour and came in two distinctly different versions--a single and an album version (which is actually kinda cool and pretty rare for vkei). Here is the single version of the song that I've added to YT for you: This later became: Kar'MariA - 奇形の笑顔 (which sneakily means “Malformation’s Smile” in Japanese ;o ) And again released as a cover by GOKIBURI, but renamed again to just be "SMILE." I have uploaded it to youtube here: Next, let’s move onto a more famous song. DEViL KiTTY was arguably Yuuga’s most renounwn band as it was around the longest and released the most material. To the best of my knowledge, it is the only band to have revived more than once + release material at a revival live, and it had an unprecedented reformation in a the form of a band that used the same name but totally swears it’s something completely different (I’ll get to this later). Their most popular song, as indicated by both Last.fm plays and number of times it was released, is “Hello Katty.” However, this song did not originate from DK--it actually started off as a song from Kar’MariA called “さよなら妄想ちゃん,” which roughly translates to “Goodbye Little Miss Delusion” in English. This song was released on a live distributed single at one of the band’s last lives and my guess is that this was just a demo version. The lyrics are different from the DK version and it only features one guitar, but the song structure and switches in time signatures remain the same. Because of that, I am going to infer that Kar’MariA released the demo version of this song and DK produced the real one. “Hello Katty” was released on DK’s first album, on the Jukebox omnibus as a live track, and again on a later single. This song was then again covered by GOKIBURI under the name “痛い子ちゃん“, which was officially released as a live version as well on their first album Kurosuisei -G-. Although this features yet another name change, it seems to be pretty similar lyrically to the most popular version. The name is also a common lyric during the bridges of the song. I’m not entirely sure what the name means, but it seems like it translates to “sore kid-chan” (is this Japanese for calling someone “Butthurt?”). You may find the GOKIBURI version below. Kar’MariA also released a song called “Yakusoku,” which is a pretty generic romantic 90’s title (it means “promise,” so). This song was later covered by GOKIBURI and distributed at a concert for free. I have yet to see this turn up in auctions. After DK disbanded, Yuuga briefly had a small solo project. Much like GOKIBURI, this project was mainly a big tribute to himself. He did put out a good deal of new material with it, while also performing with side project Deadly Sanctuary, but his only full album is mostly cover songs. These songs include: 出愛隊 (DK), ホモダチの輪 (DK), セフレ。(DK), 覚醒剤のすすめ (DK), DQNなエセ麺カノ (DK), ヒルドラ (DK), 残骸残想残酷な貴方へ (Chateau La Tour), カツアゲ (DK), among a few others. This recycling nonsense did not just strike with his first bands, however. While Yuuga was still hanging out with Kisaki and Yayoi on the Eternal label, he formed a side project with the latter called Deadly Sanctuary which, to date, has been his most lo-fi and punk-ish band to date. In that group, he released a song called “Deadly Circus” which was later rereleased under his solo project as the song “MK5.” GOKIBURI also covered this song, but they went with the 2nd name. At this point, you may be thinking “Wow, did GOKIBURI even write music themselves??” The answer to that is “Sometimes!” This band’s history is easily broken up into two pieces: before and after Kizuto joined. Once this guitarist joined the band, GOKIBURI became much more death-core oriented in sound and began releasing original material at a much faster pace. However, the first half of GOKIBURI’s life was essentially solo project pt.2, except it was mostly self covers instead of new songs. These covered songs, aside from the few previously mentioned, include: 肉便器 (solo work), Love Waros (solo work), 蜜カノLOVER (DK), ROCKSTARの恋 (DK), Karma (DK), DQNなエセ麺カノ (DK), Cobra (DK), セフレ。(DK), ホモダチの輪 (DK), W to (solo work), and possibly some others as two of their singles’ tracklists are hard to come by online. You know what would make this so much better? If Yuuga decided to make a new band, but picked a name he had already used! Sounds silly right? Except, he actually did and this for real happened ?___? . Now, a lot of people seem to consider DK and dk to be the same band. While they share a name, stylistically they aren’t that close (with the exception of their latest single). When the band formed, Yuuga also mentioned on Twitter that this was not a revival of his old band but a completely new one. Surprisingly, dk has not made any DK covers. According to his Ameblo (thanks @Uglymouthfor this), GOKIBURI was kind of a fun joke band for him to just cover himself while making money, where as dk is meant to be a return to srs bsns. While no covers have been made by dk, they’ve done the next best thing. Originally, GOKIBURI was supposed to go major and become the next Dir en Grey, take Yoshiki’s 401k, duet with Mariah, etc, but they broke up rather abruptly before anything could actually happen (supposedly because of their 2nd bassist, but idk if that’s true). Before this happened, GOKIBURI had a whole mess of material played at lives that was never released. What better way to make use of those songs than to just release them as dk and act like they were newly written all along!! “Chlammy,” “I’m knot bitch,” “I am bitch,” and “2nd Virgin” are all GOKIBURI songs that just never made it onto a CD ~officially~ until dk formed and sold them under Rockstar Records. Yuuga left his joke band to form a serious band that just remade old joke songs, but seriously now. While not a cover per say, thematically “Chlammy” is akin to Deadly Sanctuary’s “Suck my Dick!!” due to it’s centralized focus on falacio, or in “Chlammy’s” case, not receiving it in over 2 weeks. “Suck my Dick!!,” like other songs mentioned before, was released more than once but under two different names. On an early omnibus, the demo version of this song was named “奴の唄.” TL;DR-- Generally, anything that Yuuga is in has some sort of recycled element to it. He's basically built his whole career off of 10 songs and ran with it. This was mostly for fun, and inspired by @inartistic's -AINs- post, but it is probably much less informative and harder to read haha. Color coordinating everything took a lot longer than I originally though too ;(

Can't even watch the pv in the US

This doesn't really surprise me and I wouldn't be dumbfounded if Betty followed suit. They've been around for a year and have only released 2 omnibus songs.

At least that one is more thematically aligned to their music than a smoking cat.

Kidpix album art yaasss

this band is ridiculous

I actually kinda liked the first FEST VAINQUEUR song. Nothing else really appeals to me, but I'm glad this omnibus series is continuing.

Idk when they re-wrote Red Carpet Day it was great, so I'm not complaining about rerecordings. Maybe they'll fix the awkward piano cut-offs in Love From a Dead Orchestra~ Could do without Serenade / Destiny / Shout and Bites though.

blaze it yeeeeeeee ah

Their PV is already removed

omfg