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Avidit. will revive for one-day at Avidit. vs AvelCain 2-man live "兄弟対決！〜ツバサの折れたエンジェル〜(kyoudai taiketsu!〜tsubasa no oreta angel〜)" at Nagoya ell.FITS ALL at 2015/08/20

it is announced at Royz one-man live tour final "N.E.S" at Zepp DiverCity Tokyo at 2015/03/01 that their new maxi single "THE BEGINNING" will be released at 2015/05/06 (4 TYPE)
 
limited edition TYPE A (1,944yen) will include CD (2 songs)+DVD (including "THE BEGINNING" PV & off-shot), limited edition TYPE B (1,944yen) will include CD (2 songs)+DVD (including "THE BEGINNING" all-member multi-angle PV), and regular edition TYPE C & D (1,620yen each) will include CD (3 songs with different track 3 & corr. 3 karaoke) only
 
 
btw they will hold their one-man live tour "The 47th Beginners" since 智也(tomoya) birthday live at Shinjuku BLAZE at 2015/05/11 and up to tour final 6th anniversary one-man live "6HEAVENS" at Nanba HATCH at 2015/09/28
 

 
 
SET-LIST at 2015/03/01:
 
01.洗礼(senrei)
02.witch in the HELL
03.マーブルパレット(marble palette)
04.囁姫遊女(shoukiyuujo)
05.REVELATION
06.JOKER
07.夢空(mukuu)
08.twilight memory
09.aqua
10.疾風迅雷(shippuujinrai)
11.ALIVE
12.ブギーマン
13.@bnormality
14.ESTROUS SPIDER's
15.RISK_144000
16.ACROSS WORLD
 
EN1
01.クロアゲハ(kuroageha)
02.LILIA
03.MASK
04.Supernova

Wow.
 
After 9 and then Supernova I became much less of a fan of the band, which was possibly my favorite up until (and including) Gemini.
 
From then on I saw that the band changed a lot, and always seemed overworked while having uncharacteristic output gaps in content (same as SuG before they left).
 
Now I see that they are making a statement about themselves and how they feel, and I not only like the music more, and have that old feeling back where I can`t wait to see what they do next, I also respect them much more.
 
Rebellion is obvious in terms of what they are saying, as is the Phoenix title. But I could also interpret the mask he is wearing as another form of `rebellion` as they started really pushing Shou as a pretty-boy for fans, and started heavily marketing their looks more and coming out with different editions of CD`s with designs based only around each member`s faces (similar marketing started for ViViD, based all around their good looks). So I find it cool that they made a PV not showing his face, putting more emphasis on the music.
 
As for the crowd-funding, I was not sure how to feel, since I know they are still a huge draw in terms of CD sales and tickets as well as merchandise, so I wondered why they needed to do this, and checked out the official page for it as well as some more info.
 
On the page itself, they talk about not agreeing with the way sales are done, getting people to buy the same stuff, and charting etc... And that they were being moved away from what they felt was an emphasis on making good music, to an emphasis on something else. So it seems they are using crowdfunding to have more control over their own work, and develop a new kind of relationship with their fans.
 
My main issues would be that we are kind of paying twice for the product, since we already buy the albums, tickets, etc... And that some fans would pay larger amounts, although it`s their own money and their own decision, and due to the size of their fan-base, if theoretically 50k people put in 100 yen each, then the project is fulfilled. I`ll see how it develops.
 
Just my thoughts on the news.
 
EDIT:
 
Crowd-Fund Project is to fund the recording, PV shoot, and other things like promotional material, so they can do it all independently. When they reach their target they will also make an additional PV. Any additional funds raised will be used to `increase quality` of their works in terms of recording, equipment used, etc... They will show all financial data, and gifts for supporters include early access to tracks, HD tracks, track data (such as vocal only, drum only tracks, etc...) And I just noticed the page has an English option so everyone should be able to read it.

A9(Alice Nine) SHOW OHARA & TORA AMANO new project "DIAWOLF" will hold their first live at Shibuya SOUND MUSEUM VISION at 2015/03/15, and their new one-coin single "Rebellion" will be released at 2015/04/12 (500yen)
 

 

 
http://diawolf.com/
 
 
A9 Crowd Funding Project has formed with target funding amount 5,000,000yen, and their START-UP EP "銀河ノヲト(ginga no oto)" will be released in 2015/08
 

 
http://a9-project.com/

VIJUARU SENTAI
VIJURANGER !

FULL PV

their new mini album "魔女狩り(majogari)" will be released at 2015/05/20 (2,160yen, limited 500), which will be sold in advance at their presents live "魔女裁判(majosaiban)" at Shibuya REX at 2015/05/01, at which their live-distributed PV DVD (title not yet finalized) will be released
 
"魔女狩り(majogari)" [track list]
01.-Iron Maiden-(SE)
02.魔女狩り(majogari)
03.Dependence
04.-Pendulum-(SE)
05.極彩(gokusai)
06.rain
 

I hope the surgery goes smoothly!

Now I get why they don't have a bigger fanbase, even tough they look so flawless and sound pretty good in the CDs. Turns out their vocalist sucks in lives. I bet his voice is heavily edited in the studio. I'd rather believe this video is an exception. Maybe he had a sore throat when it was recorded or something like this, but I doubt it. They still Have potential, since there are many sucessful bands with bad vocalists out there.

support Gt.ゆうた(yuuta) has officially joined Serah at their live at Shibuya REX at 2015/02/25
 

what is this

I don't mind the engrish at all. I don't think I can imagine putting in the Japanese equivalent of the word they're using, replacing the lyric at all. Like if Panic Channel Re-Recorded Pink Cherry or SPARKING into entirely Japanese. Like I replay different variants of what they could be saying in Japanese, in my head, trying to fit it into the melody of the song and it doesn't work out at all. Though it does get weird when they combine the words into one non-existent weird.

-explodes with excitement-

I only have sex to yakety sax

I mostly keep it in kanji and all of that fun stuff but in my folders I have the romaji next to the titles. That's what works for me.

that preview was so much more than I expected!

SET-LIST at 2015/02/11:
 
01.激愛メリーゴーランド
02.MEGATRON-UPPER VERSION-
03.愛の唄
04.インドラの矢
05.クロノス
06.one day
07.一億のパルチザン
08.LOVE IS DEAD
09.Prism
10.春夏秋冬
11.浪漫飛行
12.With
13.銀狼
14.LAST EMOTION
15.道の空
 
EN1
01.夢風車
02.聖～excalibur～剣
03.Murderer・Death・Kill
04.REMEMBRANCE

They look and sound nothing like グリーヴァ at all. As soon as the vocalist from a band has platinum and spiked hair, people immediately say they copy グリーヴァ. It's amusing though how at first everybody complained that bands didn't have an image related to the Visual in the Visual Kei, and now that they have they start comparing them to each other again. #VisualKeiSceneNeverSatisfied
 
Either way. This is a nice preview, I am always in for a more cult-like military look and sound (the announcement in the beginning), so I am all up for this.

Wondering when Mötley Crüe are going to sue them for plagiarizing their album covers.