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It will cost 1620 yen.
 
 

キズ (Kizu) will release their 6th single "平成" (Heisei) on 2019.3.19, it will comes in two types (1,620yen, 3songs each).
 

Toru from Sex Android? YES. 
OMG YES

And here I was wondering why I hear such strong Sex-Android vibes...

Super early announcement but makes sense since its 2 months prior to their one man at TSUTAYA O-WEST. 2019.08.17 This will generate some hype so hopefully it sells out. 
 
Super Excited for this hope they record it as well. They need a DVD asap.
 
Side note: If anyone has the opportunity to go please see them. Its an amazing experience and this will be the bands biggest show yet so it will mean a lot to them.

They are really on a tear right now. A couple of their recent singles got picked up by Family Mart radio, so it was being played around konbinis all over Japan and that really helped them. I think every show from the last tour, plus 雨の日, sold out. Keep it going, guys! Just give me a 2nd album next year, ok?

Of course its great to sell out a venue regardless of size, however, they legitimately sold out bigger venues when Roji was still in the band and before that crazy girl started coming. I don't think they'll ever reach the same level of popularity they had around the time they released 雨に殺される.
I wouldn't go so far as to call them scummy but speaking as a long time fan I don't approve of some of the ways XAA-XAA are selling themselves recently, ie having more instores than lives, raising oneman ticket prices when they're still not a big band, having a 50,000 yen ($500)  fanclub trip to Nagano when bigger bands like Royz and Diaura have better trips for around the same price, etc. 
I still wish them the best, though. 
 
As for An, yes, he's not as popular as the other three but the old fans have warmed up to him and he has gotten a few more fans besides those who followed him from Elm. 
I personally still don't like him but I was a big fan of Roji.

They are really on a tear right now. A couple of their recent singles got picked up by Family Mart radio, so it was being played around konbinis all over Japan and that really helped them. I think every show from the last tour, plus 雨の日, sold out. Keep it going, guys! Just give me a 2nd album next year, ok?

Not the exact order but I can tell you what they played
 
青いレインコート
コワいクライ
死にたい
カミソリ
排水口
大雨警報発令
不感症 
青空やめて
人間界からの手紙
雪時計
どす黒い
ピストル
アサガオが泣いてる(but they cut it? It seemed to be on purpose because Kazuki made a joke about it but it was weird)
ラブレター
マザレナイ
感電、けがの恐れがあります x2 (first time normal, second time just instrumental until the chorus and then Kazuki had us do wall of death then the usual mosh)
 
Encore 1
寄り道
のろいうた
チューリップ
うそつき
 
Encore 2
反骨ドッグ
(This was definitely unplanned cause the camera crew was already packing up when they came back out. Also about half of the crowd had already left to line up for buppan so everyone was pushing and shoving to get back in. I honestly think that was a bad call on their part.)
Timely paid for the Family Mart radio promos. Dadaroma and Razor also got them for almost all their releases since last fall. Idk how much that really helped them, though. I saw two big changes in the crowd this year, but rather than the radio promo I think it was because they played with Dadaroma, Razor and DOF a lot. There are a lot of Dadaroma fans that started coming from the twoman tour last year and the kaenbin tour this year. 
 
Also no, not every show from the last tour sold out. Both days in Nagoya, Osaka and Tokyo and one of the days in Sendai  were sold out but for the whole tour they only played at super small venues that hold around 100-130ish people. So yeah, sold out but they only played to a small crowd.
Yesterday was technically "sold out" in that all the tickets were sold but the venue wasn't completely filled. There was a crazy girl who bought 70 tickets and definitely didn't sell all of her extras. The same girl did this shit on Halloween as well which was also "sold out".
XAA-XAA also likes to say lives are sold out when they're not so don't trust them on that. (speaking as a fan)
I've been going to XAA-XAA's lives for almost 3 years and I can tell you with confidence they will never play Belmosaic songs. They have no reason to.
名も無き空へ, however, was originally a song from 6-sense (Kazuki, Reiya and Haru's band before Belmosaic) but I haven't heard them play it since Roji left the band. 

They are really on a tear right now. A couple of their recent singles got picked up by Family Mart radio, so it was being played around konbinis all over Japan and that really helped them. I think every show from the last tour, plus 雨の日, sold out. Keep it going, guys! Just give me a 2nd album next year, ok?

beleza!
 
o NINTH eu ouvi uma vez e não curti. DOGMA também, mas tô pra ouvir de novo do tanto que me recomendaram de um tempo pra cá. fora que deve ser bonzão ao vivo, né. tô ansioso pra sair a setlist dessa turnê logo!

me fala por aqui/tw/ig se rolar de você vir! 
 
eles provavelmente vão tocar coisas um pouco mais antigas. MAS, eles são muito bons ao vivo, mesmo que as músicas mais novas não sejam as que eu mais gosto.  E eu gosto do DOGMA e do NINTH. Confio que vai ser divertido porque os caras são muito profissionais no palco.

Finally some info about the mini and the tours; Aaand, apparently they are also planning a "surprise" for fanclub members oh New Years' Eve or around that time, maybe an impromptu concert.
 
I'm not sold on sheeple, but the other new song they played last month was really, really cool. I'm looking forward to that one.

The title has been finalized as "for Japanese sheeple" cuz fuck us gaijins I guess xD
 
They will also hold a twoman tour from March 2 to March 22:
 
 
They will also hold their oneman tour from May 5 to May 26, and will hold their tour final on June 14.
 
 

tô pilhado pra ir sim! dependendo de algumas coisas por aqui, talvez dê certo. e se tocassem Filth ou alguma outra velharia boa já valeria a pena

bora? vou no show da AURORA no dia anterior e já emenda o GAZETTÃO DA MASSA.

the amount of dick sucking dezert did in order to be buddies with mucc like this is honestly inspiring

I'm kinda late to the party but WOOOOOOOOOOW that was a messed up video. Haven't seen anything that disturbing in a good while. Still need a couple more of listens to have a better grasp of the song, but from the first listen, it's good. I like the production and the inclusion of djenty rhythms is pretty cool. Interesting how Lime (sorry if you care about capitalizations because I don't) doesn't jump the "make weird noises with your throat during the heavy parts even if you don't have the hability to do so" bandwagon and stays within his clean vocals range all the way through the song - it's a pretty fresh thing in my book.

their new live-limited single "sheeple" (1000 yen) will be released on November 7 at their 17th anniversary performance at Ebisu Liquidroom.
 
 

BAROQUE announced the release of the new single, YOU. More details will be disclosed at a later date.
 
 
New tour [FALLING FOR // YOU] announced aswell. details: http://pigmy.jp/live/#falling_for_you
 
a bootleg live version of YOU was leaked last year:
 
 
I do hope they improve the song on the recorded version, cuz this one is a bit bland, tbh
 
 

Kizu just released various announcements through a YouTube video and Twitter.

Amongst them, today's live at Zepp TOKYO's DVD and their new single 「0」will be released on 2018.12.11 with two original songs
1.0
2.悪い夢
 
The band will also perform at Tokyo Kinema Club on January 11th, then go on with a one-man tour 「天罰」X「天誅」in Osaka (天罰)  at IMP Hall on March 31st and Tokyo (天誅) on April 7th at Kokusai Forum C.
 
 

Idk man a band in Japan where they’re willing to put the band on hiatus so they can maintain their lineup without replacing her - I kind of wish there were more situations like this 

アルケミ (ARCHEMI.) new mini album "阿吽 (Aun)" will be released at 2018/12/5. (5 tracks, 2200 yen)





 

I think that is part of it, yes. But ken always seems to have a blast on stage no matter where or who he is playing with. Dude is mad cool. 
If they go on, great. I love L'Arc~en~Ciel a lot. If they don't, that's ok too. They had a great career so far. I also think the band ran its course, a lot of their songs since the first hiatus sound like solo careers leftovers, with a few exceptions. But that's me. I feel the same way about LUNA SEA ever since SHINE.