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For the record, Babymetal are/begun as a sub-unit of Sakura Gakuin and have since graduated from the main group. Babymetal was only supposed to last until they graduated (possibly not even last that long) as members are supposed to be girls "up to junior high", and at one point they tried to graduate Suzuka, but the fans petitioned against it so they kept her in Babymetal and have now done the same with Moa and Yui. And as far as I can tell Babymetal is their cash cow so they'll probably keep the same line up until the girls themselves don't want to do it anymore or people stop buying tickets.

Because I haven't cried about this enough today

Yes! Also: girugamesh - chimera NoGoD - renovate Xaa xaa - したいだけでしょ？ (it's a single but idc) HATE/Howl At The End (nothing announced yet but I'm assuming something has to drop this year) LOST - Back & Forth sever black paranoia - ELIZA abstracts - HOLOGRAM MAN WITH A MISSION - The World's On Fire SiM - tba There's probably like 20 more I just forgot about. But those jumped to mind right away...

Coldrain's website also does not list them joining the tour until March 9th in Seattle.

I just woke up to read about this. I'm still pretty stunned. RIP Bowie. We're gonna miss you like crazy.

I heard none such tracks on DOGMA. I haven't heard any growth from them since Stacked Rubbish.

I haven't had as much time to dig into Korean music in the last few months. Both of those songs sound great! I should work on catching back up this year.

Awesome!!

METAFIVE <3

Sorry I couldn't log in earlier to answer your question, but Cat got it for me. It's not themed or anything, just playing japanese music videos and having a good time. And since Cat wrote 8 in the thread but 10 in the header I'm hanging out in the room for any early birds!

WOW I can't believe I missed so much activity in this thread! D; I have tons of extra food if you come back and need to feed your dragons so don't be afraid! <3 The holiday was okay for me. A lot different from last year but I guess I'll get used to it. At least I was able to get pretty much 1 of everything. They will always complain. I have been rather upset with the drop rates for a while, but I still managed to get at least 1 of everything from the event (and many multiples of some) so all-in-all it went pretty well for me. The "too coli dependent" argument has been going on for every single event as long as I can remember since I joined. As far as I'm concerned... it's a game. You have to play it. They made chests available through Swipp and Baldwin this year so you didn't have to depend solely on the coliseum, as well as the usual addition of chances to find them during scavenging. I'm not sure what to say about the outmoded complaints. The site isn't exactly high-tech in the first place. I guess since NotN went so well and they changed over that server hardware they feel confident that we can handle a load more people. Which works for me, I have a bunch of stuff to sell from the event lol. I'm waiting to see if by next year we're in totally open registration mode. It's gotta be in the works sooner or later.

I like the title track more than their last video already. Hopefully this single pops up too.

Hey everyone, I just wanted to post a note here that I have a dubtrack room for Alternative Japan that's open invitation for anyone to hang out in should they want. https://www.dubtrack.fm/join/alternative-japan All MH staff are welcomed to have mod positions in the room (I'd love help keeping an eye on things when I'm not around to be quite honest). So if anyone is looking for a secondary place to hang out feel free to stop by!

I love the layout and I'm grabbing a good number of releases from this, because you always post good stuff. I didn't know about Robin and Doldrums. That sounds great! And Hiatus Kaiyote, I've been waiting to see what release I should start with from them. This sounds like a good one~. I just need to hunt down that PLAY DEAD SEASON split now...

I can definitely agree there too. It's a pretty consistent release as far as song quality. I was just in love with it right away. XD

It's my soooooong yyyesssssssss <3

SCAPEGOAT better stick around. They seem fairly active so I'm optimistic we'll hear more from them. It's a great album to start with, tbh! a lot of people got into OOR though this album since they really shopped it outside of Asia for the first time with some big tours over here. BRADIO are fabulous and you need to just give in and love them. lol. I was really happy to hear Mizuki still active in the September BNT! But I'd love to see the rest of the band come back with something too. I thought they all were really talented.

I need whatever that black outfit Demi is wearing in this. Dayumn.

They're already 12 years in, I think they're over the "we're not popular yet" hump. Then again xTRiPx did that so... I do feel like them hanging it up will more likely be due to Manji's back injuries than their popularity, but I am still worried for them.

All that Xaa-xaa, Dadaroma, Hysteric Panic~~ <3 lol that Oneness video how the drummer gonna be the one to lose the beat. XD too cute

Ah that sucks. They were pretty cool. :/ Welcome to the tumultuous seas of visual kei fandom.

Oh cool!! Can't wait to see who will be the rest of the band.

Sure! I can teach you, it's really simple. Shinitai is good too! It was hard to pick a favorite. XD DADAROMA sounds so different from Crazy Shampoo and NAINE. Their first song was really surprising for me too! Maybe in the future they will have a song where Yoshiatsu can sound more like Crazy Shampoo, they still have a pretty small discography so there's room to explore. VENA CREW~! LOL So you were paying attention! (I wasn't sure if people would read the blurbs so I had some fun lol) I'm glad you like SEKAI NO OWARI too. DAT LLAMA GIF! Too perfect hahaha. <3