CAT5

Not my recent but I love this one



And this one's new. 

The only thing I know in there is Radiohead (and what a band !)
 
1. Coldplay - A Rush of Blood to the Head (Live)
2. アンティック-珈琲店- - 巡り逢えた奇跡
3. 9GOATS BLACK OUT - in nirvana
4. MUCC - OMAKE
5. 9GOATS BLACK OUT - nocturne [ remix ]
6. Coldplay - Yellow (Live)
7. Versailles - Aristocrat's Symphony (Live)
8. MIKA - One Foot Boy 
9. E'm～grief～ - Le soleil de l'oasis
10. Thirty Seconds To Mars - Escape
 
Even though it's only an intro, it's really powerful, so I'll go with it!

↑ Would go for the TBH song on your list....which was CATS before someone else posted lol.  9GBO - Nocturne for the list directly above mine.
 
01.Binecks - Desert Rose
02.クロウズ - 悲時雨
03.Hossam Ramzy & Rafa El Tachuela - Rafaga de Viento (Gust of Wind)
04.RAU DEF - Day One [feat. Vito (Squash Squad)]
05.WEAVER - 2次元銀河
06.風味堂 - Your Story
07.ダウト - 中距離恋愛
08.The Real Tuesday Weld - It's Time
09.轮回 - 只让爱你的人流眼泪
10.CHAGE & ASKA - 今日は・・・こんなに元気です
 
Hot damn this was a good shuffle.  Haven't listened to Binecks in forever, that Crows song has sick bass, RAU DEF!, great D=OUT song, etc.  Gonna go with RAU DEF however.

Adding on to my "good" list . . . I enjoyed the new Cinema Staff and Suiseinoboaz albums, though the latter release was a bit more sleepy/mellow and not as dynamic as I would have preferred from this band. I also loved all the Boris releases from March/April. Praparat was lovely, the new Vein was crazy, violent, and noisy as shit, and The Thing Which Solomon Overlooked Chronicle was a droney, sludgy masterpiece, with only maybe one or two "WTF" songs on that bonus CD. 

I think nearly everyone missed the point of this thread lol.  It's not about what describes your taste in music or what you look for in "good" music, it's about how would you tell someone else exactly why you like a band or a song without going, oh it's catchy electro-dance pop and that's my jam man.  It's not even necessarily about telling someone why a band should be considered good, but why YOU enjoy listening to them.
 
Good article, to sum up. 

"switch" PV could be watched through YouTube since 2013/06/10
 

aquarifa will release their second mini album titled "月明かりのせいにして" at 2013.07.10. Cover and tracklist:
 
Cover

 
Tracklist:
1. はじまりのおわり
2. Alice Blue
3. Self-harm
4. 水平線のむこうがわ
5. バーミリオンキッチン
6. 36.5℃
7. 幼い靴
8. switch
RCSP-0041　redrec / sputniklab inc.　￥1,890 (tax in)
http://aquarifa.net/
 
Very excited to this release

Not sure how long this has been news, but today I visited the MxBx website and they have a sticker up there that says they are now printing a 7th album to be released (hopefully) in the Fall. 
 
More info is promised to come soon, so keep checking on the website.  
 
http://www.geocities.jp/azaplink/mb/mxbx.html
 
 

Welcome to MH!

Nice, Dir en grey! Unfortunately, I don't think I've heard those songs yet. I'm somewhat of a new fan who used to be a casual observer. 
 
1. Dir en grey - 輪郭 (Eternal Slumber Mix) 
2. Onsa - H.T.M.
3. Anthem - Victim in Your Eyes
4. Number Girl - Brutal Number Girl 
5. D'espairsRay - Tainted World
6. Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Three Steps
7. Molice - Pale Wind
8. Eddie Vedder - No Ceiling
9. Dropkick Murphys - Victory 
10. Gackt - Flower
 
It's an obvious choice. . . but the song IS awesome haha. 

Beat his stylish, yet illegal, pet monkey

accidentally burned down a rainforest

remember when visual kei bands were making good music to grab attention

About BEAUTIFUL DEFORMITY (Shoxx vol.245)

BY heresiarchy on TUMBLR:

—How much has [the new album] progressed so far?

Ruki: Just a bit now and we’ll be done with pre-production, and the lyrics are still to be done. They’re still at a temporary stage.

—Do they change considerably from the temporary lyrics?

Ruki: Sometimes they do, and sometimes they don’t change that much. But they often do change.

—The album title, BEAUTIFUL DEFORMITY, has already been announced so that means there’s already an idea behind it?

Ruki: Yes. Because this time the concept was also to create a “the GazettE” album. In the beginning, everyone was misled by the word “DEFORMITY” but it’s not something focused only on that. The album’s concept is also that we wanted to make it an album with each member’s songs on it in the form that all members agree on.
(…)

—What kind of album will BEAUTIFUL DEFORMITY be in terms of composition?

Ruki: I guess there’s lots of variation. But, it’s not like TOXIC and DIVISION. Speaking of song variation, it’s closer to our older albums. Closer to STACKED RUBBISH and NIL.

—I see. And DIM was a conceptual album.

Ruki: Yeah. DIM was a thing for itself. This one is different from that. It might also give off an impression like, “This is what you’re doing in this day and age!?” Well, I’ll talk about the specifics sometime in the future.
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ASDFGHJKL. I AM SO EXCITEDDDDDD. I REALLY CAN'T WAIT TO HEAR WHAT IT'S LIKE IF ITS SIMILAR TO THEIR EARLIER ALBUMS ;AAAA;
DID I MENTION I WAS EXCITED?

As much as I hate to say it, Vola & the Oriental Machine (while they aren't technically a "newer" band, they've been around since '05) did very poorly these past two albums when compared with what they started with. They were never exactly original, but they had this bizarre, edgy charm to them that was strangely sexy and addicting despite the fact that Inazawa had a horrible singing voice. Then they lost the downy guitarist, who was really their biggest saving grace and actually gave their music some dimension, and got this new guy who isn't really that special at all. Second, they decided to go major with Universal and Inazawa started getting into the club/dance music craze and they basically turned into Polysics II: Electric Boogaloo. Of course that doesn't mean I don't still enjoy them but that "charm" is completely gone . . . which is incredibly disappointing. 
 
I would comment on some of the others like The Cabs and Caroline Rocks who I felt were also going downhill in their later releases but they already disbanded so I guess they were losing the feeling too, haha?

Cool. Back button is that way.

Preemptive victimization

LMAO...this was taken yesterday. And yes, I've kept that dinosaur of a monitor for a loooooooong-ass time. Had it since...'03 LOLOL

SOIL & "PIMP" SESSIONS & 椎名林檎(shena ringo) new maxi single "殺し屋危機一髪(koroshiya kikiippatsu)" will be released at 2013/06/26 (1,200yen)
 
[track list]
01.殺し屋危機一髪(koroshiya kikiippatsu)
02.ピンプパンサー(pimp panther)(instrumental)
03.Spy High(instrumental)
 

I like boys

Oh, I guess I should add more Japanese bands I've never actually tried:
 
Glay, Acid Black Cherry, Psycho Le Cemu, Dead End, Base Ball Bear, Kagerou, Kagrra,, Vasalla (although, I don't think they were all that big), Hide's anything but X, Buck-Tick, After Image, Janne da Arc, Siam Shade, NoGod (aside from their Kakusei single), ....does Sel'm count?
 
Also, for those not having tried 9mm Parabellum Bullet, try here:
 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1YshUij5iA
 
This was the song Cat5 showed me while bitching about their change of style, so naturally I really liked it