r...

I can confirm this:
 
- Megiddo <--- "Megiddo no Oka" by PIERROT, therefore = PIERROT's the main act
- Acro <--- "Akuro no Oka" by DIR EN GREY, therefore = DIR EN GREY's the main act
 
Some genius titling  really.

Yazzmad will return for a revival live at 04/03!
 

 

From what I've seen and talked with fans, DIAVOLO brought them a new set of fans and they're getting a little bit more famous. EMPHASIS on little.
 
They are trying to play bigger venues and sponsoring events. But, their fanbase is still pretty small. Stable, yes, but small. Let's see if they can sell most of their tickets to their tour finale next month. ReNY is a bigger venue than they usually play, so it feels like a gamble. But, who knows...
 
The fear of disbanding always exists, but I don't think they will disband just yet.

Oh God, no. 

Love it! It's like 1998 all over again!  HA!
Does that mean we'll have some GAUZE-era goodness coming our way? Honestly, I doubt it, but one man can dream...
 
I like how the "hills" theme that the fans were calling it was kept. They should've invited Plastic Tree too, just for the hell of it.
 
I just wish I was there to witness it. This thing will sell out fast. Hopefully, both bands will interact with each other. Let the fans have a bit of fun with it.

I mean sure, you can use some older, ambiguous riot imagery to depict your early rivalship back in the day (as @r...pointed it out) but randomly selecting otherwise debatable event footages (e.g. Maidan 2014 was slipped inbetween and that education protest thing) is not necessarily striking the right note there...but this is Japan and their "well who gives a shit it's edgy though lol"-positioning lol.
 
What a buzzkill nonetheless.
 
JUST RELEASE THE ALBUM ALREADY, BOTH OF YOU.
 

Love it! It's like 1998 all over again!  HA!
Does that mean we'll have some GAUZE-era goodness coming our way? Honestly, I doubt it, but one man can dream...
 
I like how the "hills" theme that the fans were calling it was kept. They should've invited Plastic Tree too, just for the hell of it.
 
I just wish I was there to witness it. This thing will sell out fast. Hopefully, both bands will interact with each other. Let the fans have a bit of fun with it.

Haha, I love the title. I hope the song (and the video!) will be fun, just like 欲望の歌 and 水商売をやめてくれないか.

Yeah, that last live DVD is pretty sad. All those great songs sounded so hollow without a 2nd guitar. But at least they came back later and recorded Resurrection together. Still need to buy that box, but I WILL buy it.
 
Anyway, let's keep this thread for Creature Creature and all things related, then?
 
It's finally here, guys!

 
http://www.lacrymachristi.jp/
http://wardrecords.com/SHOP/GQCS30001.html
【1st Solo Album『Gale』収録予定曲】
01. 漆黒
02. Blood Moon
03. Like the Wind
04. Steppenwolf
05. Dear Phantom
06. 甘い罠
07. Fairies in the Forest
08. Bare Fangs
09. Vanity
10. 穏やかな風
This beautiful, beautiful man!
And all the gang reunited. Hopefully KOJI and HIRO will jazz up the place.

Yeah, that last live DVD is pretty sad. All those great songs sounded so hollow without a 2nd guitar. But at least they came back later and recorded Resurrection together. Still need to buy that box, but I WILL buy it.
 
Anyway, let's keep this thread for Creature Creature and all things related, then?
 
It's finally here, guys!

 
http://www.lacrymachristi.jp/
http://wardrecords.com/SHOP/GQCS30001.html
【1st Solo Album『Gale』収録予定曲】
01. 漆黒
02. Blood Moon
03. Like the Wind
04. Steppenwolf
05. Dear Phantom
06. 甘い罠
07. Fairies in the Forest
08. Bare Fangs
09. Vanity
10. 穏やかな風
This beautiful, beautiful man!
And all the gang reunited. Hopefully KOJI and HIRO will jazz up the place.

Yeah, that last live DVD is pretty sad. All those great songs sounded so hollow without a 2nd guitar. But at least they came back later and recorded Resurrection together. Still need to buy that box, but I WILL buy it.
 
Anyway, let's keep this thread for Creature Creature and all things related, then?
 
It's finally here, guys!

 
http://www.lacrymachristi.jp/
http://wardrecords.com/SHOP/GQCS30001.html
【1st Solo Album『Gale』収録予定曲】
01. 漆黒
02. Blood Moon
03. Like the Wind
04. Steppenwolf
05. Dear Phantom
06. 甘い罠
07. Fairies in the Forest
08. Bare Fangs
09. Vanity
10. 穏やかな風
This beautiful, beautiful man!
And all the gang reunited. Hopefully KOJI and HIRO will jazz up the place.

Yeah, that last live DVD is pretty sad. All those great songs sounded so hollow without a 2nd guitar. But at least they came back later and recorded Resurrection together. Still need to buy that box, but I WILL buy it.
 
Anyway, let's keep this thread for Creature Creature and all things related, then?
 
It's finally here, guys!

 
http://www.lacrymachristi.jp/
http://wardrecords.com/SHOP/GQCS30001.html
【1st Solo Album『Gale』収録予定曲】
01. 漆黒
02. Blood Moon
03. Like the Wind
04. Steppenwolf
05. Dear Phantom
06. 甘い罠
07. Fairies in the Forest
08. Bare Fangs
09. Vanity
10. 穏やかな風
This beautiful, beautiful man!
And all the gang reunited. Hopefully KOJI and HIRO will jazz up the place.

These guys were such a tight band. 
 
 
it got weird when Koji left and was never replaced, leaving Hiro with handling all the guitar work live. Made songs like Henseifu in particular sound kind of empty. 

The song Magic Theater can get a bit too repetitive given how long it is, but then Hiro busts out that solo and all is forgiven. 

You should seriously stick to trying out their very first releases (well, take say from 1993/1994 up until 1997 and something from 1998 if you don't mind obvious Luna Sea-iness) because Hiro used to be their most prominent songwriter until their bassist took the lead with his power pop/glam bops
 
So to list albums you should try: Siam's Eye (single), Warm Snow, Dwellers of a Sandcastle (WS' rerecording, superior version), Sculpture of Time and all of those respective A-side singles and parts of Lhasa if you learn to avoid pop bops (MH still should have some, I can up in case they expired)
 
I apologize for derailing this topic again but to exhibit what exactly was Hiro cooking back in his 20s:
 
 

Do yourself a favor and listen to their 2010 album 'INFERNO'.

What was once cool and new is destined to become uncool and old.
 
ANY movement is going to peak and then decline at some point.
 
It went from a huge movement/style down to a small niche thing in Japan. And like how there are still sleaze and hairmetal bands forming in Hollywood and playing the Whisky on Tuesday nights, just because there are new bands and an audience for it to a degree doesn't mean it isn't a dead genre. It said what it had to say.
 
Fans in the west were 5-10 years behind the times. We discovered Visual at the turn on the century, and spent the decade not only getting into the bands that were around, but all the cool VK bands from the previous two decades. Needless to say, there was a TON of great shit to discover.
 
But, eventually, the well ran dry. 
 
For most people I've met that were into the genre, VK was like Kiss: a gateway drug into music in general but for weaboo/nerdy kids. Some people got into goth stuff (guilty!), some got into screamo and numetal, some got into prog rock, whatever. But the common thread is that 99% of them left that shit (visual kei/kiss) behind once they discovered more music and refind their tastes.
 
What's left is us: the creepy Kiss fans still painting our faces and shit to come out and see Gene Simmon and Paul Stanley phone it in for the millionth time at our local casinos. Arguing about weather Kiss would have been better off to keep Ace around, speculating as to the whereabouts of Vinny Vincent, and debating what is truly the worst track on 'Hot in the Shade.' It's  the way things go. If you don't believe me, pop on over to the MetalSludge.TV message board and see old 80s rocker guys, now in their 50s, doing the same thing we're doing here.
 
I'm here because Visual Kei changed my fucking life, man. Defined who I was, what music I listen to (I own David Sylvian's Weatherbox FFS), how I dressed and wore my hair. Every smoking hot girlfriend, every cross country tour, damn near every good thing that happened to me can more or less be traced back to getting some shitty .asf and .rm files of Luna Sea, L'arc, and Malice Mizer music videos  back in 99 or 00. 
 
Look, we were there for it. Love it, accept it, talk about it, listen to the old albums that meant so much to you, maybe even find a cool new band or two (I like Xaa-Xaa), etc. but there is nothing sad about that graph. This thing, it was our thing. 
 
 
And that's all I have to say. Gotta get back to making fun of Yoshiki.
 

Especially because FREEZE was surprisingly consistent and GOOD. Hell, I was listening to it today again. It sounds better today than it did back in the day.

Especially because FREEZE was surprisingly consistent and GOOD. Hell, I was listening to it today again. It sounds better today than it did back in the day.

Pretty much anything except for HOT ROD CIRCUIT after &.U's release in La'cryma Christi's case.
 
The moment they thought it would be cool to ape Van Halen and Aerosmith in their duncurr phases was one huge, fat mistake. Oh, and I am not a fan of straightforward pop songs by them either really - guess I always liked my La'cryma *surprising*, *proggy*, *mysterious*...

ゴールデンボンバー(Golden Bomber) Gu.喜矢武 豊 (Yutaka Kyan) will perform as Inuyasha in the stage play of the same name, based on the hit anime series! The play will premiere on April 6, and will run up until April 15.