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LM.C
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NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST
DEZERT
DaizyStripper
ダウト (D=OUT)
ASH DA HERO
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THE THIRTEEN
HERO
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THE MICRO HEAD 4N'S.

THE BLACK COMET CLUB BAND new album "El Camino, El Dorado" will be released at 2016/09/07 (3,240yen)
 
[track list]
01.The Sundance Kid
02.Border Line
03.Sanagi
04.El Camino, El Dorado
05.Kaminari Song
06.Unchain
07.Cosmic Surfer
08.Cry Baby
09.Cosmic Surfer 2
10.最終兵器(saishuuheiki)
11.Happy End
12.End Roll
 

TETSUYA 2 new maxi singles "Make a Wish" "Time goes on～泡のように～(awa no you ni)" will be released under EMI Record in Universal Music at 2016/09/07 (4 TYPE each)
 
limited deluxe edition (4,968yen) will include CD+DVD+goods, limited edition TYPE A & B (1,728yen each) will include CD+DVD, and regular edition (1,080yen) will include CD only
 
"Make a Wish" [CD track list]
01.Make a Wish
02.lonely girl Jazzin' Park Remix
03.Make a Wish-instrumental-
 
[limited deluxe edition DVD track list]
・Make a Wish (PV)
 
[limited edition TYPE A DVD track list]
・Make a Wish (PV)
・Make a Wish (making)
 
[limited edition TYPE B DVD track list]
・TETSUYA LIVE 2012「THANK YOU」2012.10.03 Shibuya Koukaidou
EDEN
wonderful world
 
 
"Time goes on～泡のように～(awa no you ni)" [CD track list]
01.Time goes on～泡のように(awa no you ni)～
02.lonely girl DE DE MOUSE winter park mix
03.Time goes on～泡のように(awa no you ni)～-instrumental-
 
[limited deluxe edition DVD track list]
・Time goes on～泡のように(awa no you ni)～ (PV)
 
[limited edition TYPE A DVD track list]
・Time goes on～泡のように(awa no you ni)～ (PV)
・Time goes on～泡のように(awa no you ni)～ (making)
 
[limited edition TYPE B DVD track list]
・TETSUYA LIVE 2012「THANK YOU」2012.10.03 Shibuya Koukaidou
Are you ready to ride?
蜃気楼(shinkirou)

Most likely.
Although, when L'arc en ciel released their albums on mora as 24bit 96khz, the remasters weren't completed blown out. It's hit or miss.
The dynamic range of their earlier albums got worse but for later albums (Ark-Ray onwards) it was actually slightly better than their CD counterparts.

If Yo$hiki actually cared about the fans like he pretends to do all the time, he would release a second disc with the demos from the Jealousy sessions. Most of them were released by Taiji on iX Rose and Blood and the Art of Life Demos are floating around out there. I'm still unsure if the Art of LIfe demo with Taiji on bass ever leaked or not. So a nicely 'remastered' version of that would be worthy of another milking of the fan's wallets.

it is announced at the god and death stars one-man live "recovery of the god" at Shimokitazawa SHELTER at 2016/05/06 that their live-distributed CDs (titles not yet finalized) will be released at their 3-month consecutive one-man live respectively as follows (different songs at different live):
 
2016/07/23 at Shibuya Lamama - "anniversary's～THE GOD 6Ts～"
2016/08/14 at Ikebukuro CHOP - "anniversary's～decade of the god～"
2016/09/25 at Shibuya CHELSEA HOTEL - "anniversary's～god of the shock age～"

I'm feeling this alot. I actually think a remake needs to be as far from the original as possible or else it's just a waste of time for the audience. Remakes for a band, even a very similar sounding remake, is probably an exercise of stretching creative muscles. Can you imagine playing the same thing-10-15-30 years like some bands do?
Elephant in the room sounds like a different song with just the same lyrics.
Addle apple is still my favorite Gods release and I find this, so far, to be pretty exciting and a worthy remake!

I'm feeling this alot. I actually think a remake needs to be as far from the original as possible or else it's just a waste of time for the audience. Remakes for a band, even a very similar sounding remake, is probably an exercise of stretching creative muscles. Can you imagine playing the same thing-10-15-30 years like some bands do?
Elephant in the room sounds like a different song with just the same lyrics.
Addle apple is still my favorite Gods release and I find this, so far, to be pretty exciting and a worthy remake!

I just received A_Kills_A in the mail the other day and I have to say I'm quite pleased. After so long without a proper studio recording, I thought maybe something might have gotten lost with the personnel changes. While not one track specifically blew me away like the title tracks for Fufuu, He and magaru sekai did, overall the songs are catchy and consistent and are definitely 100% munimuni.

Big Money maybe surprised me the most. It's their most upbeat track since Lovelovelove and it has that 90's visual kei poppy quality.
 
Now we wait for the doguu album! Which according to the liner notes of A_KIlls_A is 80% done.
 

I just received A_Kills_A in the mail the other day and I have to say I'm quite pleased. After so long without a proper studio recording, I thought maybe something might have gotten lost with the personnel changes. While not one track specifically blew me away like the title tracks for Fufuu, He and magaru sekai did, overall the songs are catchy and consistent and are definitely 100% munimuni.

Big Money maybe surprised me the most. It's their most upbeat track since Lovelovelove and it has that 90's visual kei poppy quality.
 
Now we wait for the doguu album! Which according to the liner notes of A_KIlls_A is 80% done.
 

I think we hear Toshi's voice in the trailer?
I still think Toshi's lost / brainwashed years as a 'healing singer' makes the most compelling story of all of the X members. He can back from all that and his biography made it sound like he went through hell and back. Whereas the passing of Yoshiki's father - how much can Yoshiki / the film director milk the tragedy as being the genesis of every little thing X has done as a band?

Here's the link to that Yoshiki AMA. It might be the least insightful one I've ever read:
https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/4a9o6b/i_am_yoshiki_pianist_drummer_and_leader_of_x/
 
Can you imagine the rest of the band doing Pata's guitar parts?! Sugizo, maybe, but Yoshiki?!

ZEUS MACHINA (MADAME EDWARDA+YUKINO(AUTO-MOD)) will perform at Shinjuku LOFT at 2016/04/02

This documentary about X JAPAN YOSHIKI will be more like:
 

Yes, he did mention that he would try and finish the Doguu album. However at this point I can't tell if he's being serious or not.
I'm sure the revenue generated by the latest mini album will go into the doguu album. 
 
It is a good sign that two of the songs from A_Kill_A were originally composed with previously lineups. I had thought he might shelf those songs because they might've been composed by a former member.

[002:NEO SONG]
◎CANOU 「自分／眩暈／EDEN／アイシTELL
 
[003:& 4] PV映像あり・・・
◎CANOU 「自分／アンクー／EDEN／チャージ

I'm liking the song and it makes me excited for the new mini album. But there's so many things that could've made this PV better. Especially their first PV!
-16:9 letterboxed into video that was uploaded as 480p 4:3?!? I've not even sure if any software out there really does this by accident anymore. You really have to go out of your way to make the software export at SD size now. 1080p would make this simple performance video feel at least a little more produced.
-More cutting of angles, The set could feel like alot more with twice as many cuts.
-More motion graphics. Incorporating the band's amazing flyer design (which I think is done by Canou) would give some other quality to the video.
 
btw, the band posted liner notes to the album:
http://munimuni.ciao.jp/akillsa_linernotes_2016.htm
 
Disk union order page:
http://diskunion.net/portal/ct/detail/1006985788
 

ASYLUM will resume activities at their live at Shindaita FEVER at 2016/06/18
 
ASYLUM current line-up:
Vo.&Gt.Gazelle
Gt.HIROSHI
Ba.&Cello.sharmin (紅ノ桜(beni no sakura))
Dr.KANNO (COALTAR OF THE DEEPERS, Demons)
 
http://asylum-official.com/

Well said. Yoshiki spent the week or so just chilling at Sundance for promotions for the doc schmoozing with random celebs. He hardly looked like a guy trying to make an album deadline. Considering his supposed perfectionist qualities, you think he'd be behind the mixing desk everyday for the last few months stressing about their first album in 20 years!
But any X fan who's been following the band knows this is what happens time and again. So while unfortunate for Pata, you damn well know the delays they use in his name have nothing to do with him really. They could've still released the album if it existed but as most of us said above, it mostly was never close to being done.
And it's long been said that Yoshiki burned alot of bridges when he forcible broke out of the Sony contact. You member how they went major with a big splash with blue blood? Well most bands sign a record contact for multiple albums. How many did X release with Sony? Just two. Blue blood and jealousy. Of course he tried to sell art of life as an whole album of music but sony wouldn't accept that. Then yoshiki and x had dreams of being international or breaking into America with art of life, remember the Rockefeller center NY press conference, so they forcibly got out of the Sony contact and switched labels to go to Atlantic. Since then they've been somewhat blacklisted and known for being a difficult band. Rock music doesn't sell that much in Japan anymore, physical album sales are a fraction of what they were, so it didn't surprise me that they haven't found a label for all of these reasons. Who wants to sign a contract for what every music company knows will only be for one album with a difficult diva-musician?

Well said. Yoshiki spent the week or so just chilling at Sundance for promotions for the doc schmoozing with random celebs. He hardly looked like a guy trying to make an album deadline. Considering his supposed perfectionist qualities, you think he'd be behind the mixing desk everyday for the last few months stressing about their first album in 20 years!
But any X fan who's been following the band knows this is what happens time and again. So while unfortunate for Pata, you damn well know the delays they use in his name have nothing to do with him really. They could've still released the album if it existed but as most of us said above, it mostly was never close to being done.
And it's long been said that Yoshiki burned alot of bridges when he forcible broke out of the Sony contact. You member how they went major with a big splash with blue blood? Well most bands sign a record contact for multiple albums. How many did X release with Sony? Just two. Blue blood and jealousy. Of course he tried to sell art of life as an whole album of music but sony wouldn't accept that. Then yoshiki and x had dreams of being international or breaking into America with art of life, remember the Rockefeller center NY press conference, so they forcibly got out of the Sony contact and switched labels to go to Atlantic. Since then they've been somewhat blacklisted and known for being a difficult band. Rock music doesn't sell that much in Japan anymore, physical album sales are a fraction of what they were, so it didn't surprise me that they haven't found a label for all of these reasons. Who wants to sign a contract for what every music company knows will only be for one album with a difficult diva-musician?

Well said. Yoshiki spent the week or so just chilling at Sundance for promotions for the doc schmoozing with random celebs. He hardly looked like a guy trying to make an album deadline. Considering his supposed perfectionist qualities, you think he'd be behind the mixing desk everyday for the last few months stressing about their first album in 20 years!
But any X fan who's been following the band knows this is what happens time and again. So while unfortunate for Pata, you damn well know the delays they use in his name have nothing to do with him really. They could've still released the album if it existed but as most of us said above, it mostly was never close to being done.
And it's long been said that Yoshiki burned alot of bridges when he forcible broke out of the Sony contact. You member how they went major with a big splash with blue blood? Well most bands sign a record contact for multiple albums. How many did X release with Sony? Just two. Blue blood and jealousy. Of course he tried to sell art of life as an whole album of music but sony wouldn't accept that. Then yoshiki and x had dreams of being international or breaking into America with art of life, remember the Rockefeller center NY press conference, so they forcibly got out of the Sony contact and switched labels to go to Atlantic. Since then they've been somewhat blacklisted and known for being a difficult band. Rock music doesn't sell that much in Japan anymore, physical album sales are a fraction of what they were, so it didn't surprise me that they haven't found a label for all of these reasons. Who wants to sign a contract for what every music company knows will only be for one album with a difficult diva-musician?

Well said. Yoshiki spent the week or so just chilling at Sundance for promotions for the doc schmoozing with random celebs. He hardly looked like a guy trying to make an album deadline. Considering his supposed perfectionist qualities, you think he'd be behind the mixing desk everyday for the last few months stressing about their first album in 20 years!
But any X fan who's been following the band knows this is what happens time and again. So while unfortunate for Pata, you damn well know the delays they use in his name have nothing to do with him really. They could've still released the album if it existed but as most of us said above, it mostly was never close to being done.
And it's long been said that Yoshiki burned alot of bridges when he forcible broke out of the Sony contact. You member how they went major with a big splash with blue blood? Well most bands sign a record contact for multiple albums. How many did X release with Sony? Just two. Blue blood and jealousy. Of course he tried to sell art of life as an whole album of music but sony wouldn't accept that. Then yoshiki and x had dreams of being international or breaking into America with art of life, remember the Rockefeller center NY press conference, so they forcibly got out of the Sony contact and switched labels to go to Atlantic. Since then they've been somewhat blacklisted and known for being a difficult band. Rock music doesn't sell that much in Japan anymore, physical album sales are a fraction of what they were, so it didn't surprise me that they haven't found a label for all of these reasons. Who wants to sign a contract for what every music company knows will only be for one album with a difficult diva-musician?

Signing a deal would also mean signing a contract agreeing to actually turn in an album by a set deadline. Yoshiki hasn't done that in twenty years.
 
 
It's not about just the UK show. A lot of fans are being hostile towards Yoshiki because, regardless of Pata's condition, they've known for months, well before Pata took ill in January, that the album wasn't coming out. The album doesn't even have a title, which means it doesn't have artwork, Yoshiki was still mixing it a few weeks ago, and above all they don't even have a record deal. It was never coming out in March.    No one is saying Pata didn't take ill. But even the official announcement says that he's on the mend, just isn't ready to fly yet per doctors orders. This begs the question, had Pata been able to play the gig, were they really going to do this X Day event and alleged world tour (that they coincidentally hadn't got around to even booking yet) promoting the album without the album being ready? Come on.
 
If Pata is actually seriously ill, why is the show already rescheduled? If he died or was left impaired from his illness, wouldn't they need to cancel the gig again and disband? They're full of shit, and pushed it back a year because they have no album finished and no tour booked. It's the same old song and dance from Yoshiki going back 20 years.

Guest musicians of the mini album have been revealed recently: YUKIYA (D≒SIRE) and aie (the god and death stars).
 
https://twitter.com/giboaiko_japan/status/695965128718614528
 
Pre-order at HMV: http://www.hmv.co.jp/en/artist_MUNIMUNI_000000000401644/item_A-Kills-A_6893423
Pre-order & cover art at Amazon: http://www.amazon.co.jp/dp/B01BF0X08M/

^ If you don't succeed, the album (plus all those re-releases listed in their official store) is available at CDJapan, that's where I ordered my copy from at least.

They simply added soundboard quality audio to their subpar video. I hadn't seen these clips and Zin and the band sound really amazing still, like nothing has changed technically in the last 30 years.
And I applaud their choice of using SBD audio as too few Japanese bands make any attempt at sharing live concert video, let alone live video with good audio, on youtube. Unless of course they simply tease a clip to sell a DVD. Low quality audio will simply make the best looking video feel like garbage to a viewer. However the opposite can't be said as most people have come to expect / accept low quality video sources and can look past pixelated poorly encoded sources if there's audibly good sound.
And here's another live clip which is listenable once I did some simple normalizing and duplication of the left audio channel to give a balanced sound. I might have done some noise reduction too, don't remember:
Madame Edwarda 1984 - Tokyo Battle Days
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9EQDhJ7dXc
Madame Edwarda 1984 - Tokyo Battle Days - Audio rip 'Remastered':
https://mega.nz/#!9YJRSAzQ!d4EzTVCnEhjbbZ1T_eubSSV0SXZXlLgTgNTXexa1x88

I've missed the last few updates and just saw the mini album news!
What happened to all of those doguu mini album tracks?
Did the band seriously go to LA - Los Angeles - to record this album or are they playing up the whole X Japan thing? X largely records in LA since Yoshiki relocated in the 90's.
Canou mentions it again on this blog post: http://yaplog.jp/sakujojo/archive/1141
 
 
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And here are slightly updated lyrics (just the ending english) to the song Big Money from today's munimuni e-mail newsletter:



[bIG MONEY / CANOU]
太陽の影。
好奇心が僕らを染める。
口付けは甘い舞踏会の始まり。
似ている残像の色紙。
映写機は動かない。破裂するシャボン玉。

夜へ飛び込め。
祝福の蛇は禁断。
木の葉ひとつ魔法の指先を充てて。
髪の毛、切り落としふわり風に舞う。
黄金の季節。咲き乱れて。

キミを守りたい。金で守りたい。
強欲なんだ。強欲なんだって！！！
マネープリーズ・・・。マネープリーズ・・・。
マネープリーズ・・・。ビッグマネープリーズ・・・。

街中の明かりが消えて、ランプに灯を燈すんだ！
大金握り締めて。僕らの夜へさあ行こう！

I also twilight...
I walk in the moonlight.
Dancing in the moonlight.
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