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I am beyond jealous! Did you get the hoodie off of their webstore?

Wow, that's a ... tad bit pricey. Thanks!

I'm not a fan of MERRY, but that's quite the snag for $60. How was shipping? I'm considering their DIR EN GREY lucky bag now.

I mentioned in another post that he's actually teaming up with fellow Cardia bassist and playing a session band as DI3SIRAE. So it doesn't look like he's done with music.

I think they were being sarcastic ...

"These" ... What is that supposed to mean?

Kyouki's voice sounds really ragged in this release. He's got the raspy yell-sing thing going on and I fear for his health if he's going to record music like that. But overall I liked the single. Happy Birthday NEW Mother Fucker's sing-talk reprise that the band does reminds me a LOT of ISABELLE (which is a good thing).

Given that this is happening, I don't know if Shiki would be involved in a new project AND be doing a session band from his old band. It seems a bit counter-intuitive. EDIT – also, digging through their source code yielded no juicy results, but there is a bigger version of their photo where you can make out some facial features (eyes on the dude on the left and a flat-looking nose on the dude in the middle) if you want to play Sherlock some more!

This thread is dedicated to instrumental metal music. I have quite a catalogue of good instrumental metal bands, from djentlemen music to technometal and figured I'd spread some of that over here for people who don't particularly care about vocals. Are there MH people who dig this too? Here's some picks of not-so-widely-known instru-metal (I skipped the obligatory Animals As Leaders, Russian Circles, Cloudkicker, and Pelican).

In the same sing-yell-talk way they do in the song? It sounds so much like ISABELLE.

Happy birthday NEW mother fucker. Really Grieva?

If you've ever read American Psycho (and if you haven't, don't), her ordeal sounds very much like it was taken from a scene in the book—almost to a fault. Something about this seems fishy, from the way it all just disappeared to how much detail she put into it, yet remained anonymous. I won't pretend that I know the truth or that Gackt did or didn't do this, but it just seems very fishy indeed.

So they announced their "names" ... So their names are just 1-5 in kanji, but phonetically pronounced differently (with the exception of Dr. Go).

The only Lolita23Q song I ever liked thanks to you being on an omnibus WAY back in the day.

I agree. That dude cannot sing.

Wait ... what happened?

Oh, I definitely won't resort to "all Koreans are racists," in fact, quite the opposite. I don't think that an entire ethnicity is racist, but it just surprised me that a person of her stature would constantly remind me that I'm a white male (as if I didn't already know) and how that means when studying another culture. Pretty much, she told me that my thesis paper proposal was bullshit because I was born to caucasian parents and with a penis. Because I had any choice in that matter. I'm really just frustrated because my paper's grading pretty much presides in personal opinion and I feel that since she's already decided to knock me down a peg based on my race and gender, little of what I say about my chosen subject will do anything to impress her. I honestly thank you for your comments, though. I legit have nobody to talk to about them because I fear pissing off someone higher up and them tanking my GPA or whatever. I just can't wait until teacher evaluations roll around.

As much as I can't stand mystery bands and countdowns, the sample sounded quite good. The guitars kinda reminded me of Sadie.

Who would have guessed that the most racist person I would meet in my life would be a Korean woman ... and she's my instructor and my graduation resides in her hands.

Feeling in a slump, I decided to take a risk on something last night. So I gave Teenage Cocktail a shot on my brother's recommendation. Usually we don't gel with our movie taste, but I gave him the benefit of the doubt and dove in. I like the show Superstore (don't laugh at me) and saw that the film starred Nichole Bloom, so I was in. The plot follows 17-year-old Annie who moves to a new town with her parents and younger brother and can't quite find her place in school, until she meets Jules—a slightly rebellious don't-give-a-fuck lesbian loner. They get involved in some mild webcam-ming activity with the hopes of getting enough money to move to NYC so Jules can dance and Annie can live away from her slightly-picturesque family. Things go a bit haywire, but it takes a bit too long until things start getting rough. Annie comes off as a winy teen with no motives behind her rebellious stage other than Jules' influence. Jules also has an absolutely barebones backstory; all we know is that her mother left her when she was young, yet her family still hangs LOTS of pictures of her mother on the wall. Speaking as someone who has had a parent abandon them at a young age, I don't have pictures of him at all, let alone a whole wall dedicated to the person who fled my life ... For a film about (portrayed) under-age teens performing illicit activities on webcam, the film is surprisingly lacking in an nudity. I was glad that they decided to avoid the typical route when depicting sexual acts and the film even teases us in an earlier scene. The camera is focused on Annie's face in a medium-close up as she moans and squeezes her eyes together, lying in bed. As the camera starts to pull back, Annie writhes and moans a bit more and we see that Jules is leaning over Annie's crotch. The camera pulls out further and then cuts to Jules' hand on a makeshift tattoo "gun" as she inks up Annie's hip area. The scene was crosscut with a mechanical clock that had two toys kissing. I appreciated this playful attempt at teasing with audiences minds, as if any scene of two lesbian girls alone in their bedroom would instantly depict them as fornicating. However, the film's depiction of the girls slowly deteriorated as the film went, showing the two "play" with each other in front of the webcam, often in slow motion with the audio on their kissing pushed really high (like ASMR levels). I instantly checked to see who was the director and saw it was a man (John Carchietta) and this is his first feature directorial credit. Instantly I'm split on how to feel on the film. Of the four writers of the film, two of them were women, but according to auteur theory, the director is (arguably) the true author of the film. Without diving into feminine film theory or anything like that, let's just say that I'm completely unsure what to think of the Teenage Cocktail. It was entertaining and respectful at first, then felt a bit exploitative, then ... well, if you're interested, I won't go any further. It won't be winning any awards or turning any heads, but it is what it is—just another potentially throwaway indie drama. Goddam I wrote a lot ...

I was just jamming this band yesterday and thinking to myself "didn't they have a PV in the works?" Even though it's a pretty simple PV, I'm glad that it finally got released. Now release more music ARCHEMI.!

Oh wow. That's incredible! Not everyone can do that type of work. I didn't mean to downplay what you do. I just figured it was like an office job or something that let you chill when things got slow or something.

I guess I'm in the minority, but I'm not as enamored with Tenten's vocals as everyone else here seems to be. But I figured I'd give his new project a shot. Lack-co is lacking for me. They don't know what kind of band they want to be and their songs lack any consistency. They have potential, but just like their look, they're all over the place. I do find their choice of lyrics is humorous in their first song. GOOGREY AIYZ!