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For anyone who still wants to download a rip of the sampler CD, here's the link to the entry, and you can register here.

(Or obviously you could just watch it at niconico, but I have to hustle where I can!)

Could someone post the video with the previews here or could, any of you who saw it, tell me if it's sounding more like their latest singles or their initial stuff, up until the first album?

Thanks.

A rip of the sampler CD is up at the weloveucp.com blog if that helps

I still don't get why Advent was cancelled, because it seems that it was pressed already... what a massive waste of money if so!

Oof that song is tragic. I love the set used in the PV though!

Eeeeeew. I was extremely interested in this band before reading this.

Btw, according to their OHP, カメレオ (Kamaleo) is now under that shitty label too.

Seems that they're using kameleo's costumes too!

But on a serious note, I wasn't interested in this band to begin with, but good for them for getting that money honey

I don't think it's that big of a deal that they want to disband with the lead singer. It would be like if led zeppelin(figuratively speaking, blah blah Unsraw aren't that great to do that) was disbanding and Robert Plant was not there and everyone else was there, would you be happy that if you attended that concert??? I don't think so amirite?

Agreed, this is really not a big deal.

Tons of bands officially disband long after they've stopped being active. You have to remember that band members are real people, not mythical beings; they can't always plan everything out, and sometimes change their minds.

were you dropped on your head as a child

I think they just saw that he was the vocalist of HIDEAKI's session band

^ the vocalist on the album would Kijin?

Vocalist should be KYOHEI

The album is being released through Virgin AIR entertainment. I guess they will join that label?! (The label already has a band recruitment message up at its website.)

I don't hate autotune, but it doesn't sound good in this sample.

"DIAMOND" and "mar maroon" are their best albums, they actually were pretty bad during their UNDER CODE-era (just like the other UC bands), now they're just getting better and better and I never thought they were gonna be signed to FIREWALL! Dream came true!

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I'm not defending 12012 or the song preview, but I'm not too sure why 12012 is getting crucified for doing what every other band in the scene has been doing since 2004. If you're going to rail on 12012 for resorting to bland, watered down metalcore for attention from fans be sure to poke a stick at the rest of the bands in the scene that do this too.

Then again 12012 has always been all over the place as a band. I saw this coming.

suicide is meh.

I disagree! There have always been scores of new bands who play shitty hardest rock we can think of, but that's a far cry from DEG's transitional Agitated Screams of American-emulation burpfest bullshit. That's somewhat uncommon, and it's especially uncommon for a high profile band to switch like that. So the attention isn't unwarranted, at least in my opinion!

At any rate, even if every other band in the scene is doing the same thing, 12012 still deserves ridicule because they fucking suck at it!

Edit: LOL @ the live video already being deleted.

Egg-fucking-xactly

Lame/out of touch/uninspired jrock packaged as vk by way of hair dye. They'd make a killing if they toured overseas!

Someone needs to rip that from YouTube because one day Yuuga will probably have a meltdown and delete it.

This. A certain percentage of vk guys get sticks up their asses and delete their entire internet personas (I've seen it happen in less than two days!), and Yuuga seems like the type 8D So get downloading!

Yeah, they were most likely inspired to use those latin words because of DIR EN GREY, but at least that's where the “inspiration” stops. Aside from that blatant rip off “guilt trip”, NEGA is thankfully not a slave to DIR EN GREY's whims. (Not to say that NEGA doesn't take lots of inspiration from other bands, but their music really has nothing to do with DEG)

I was surprised to see that they are nearly seven years old already and have only released one album prior to this. The impression I have gotten is that UCP bands don't release new material too frequently?

It's not that they release material infrequently per se (although some bands are slower than others), but full albums are extremely rare.

copypasta from weloveucp.com~

VANITAS will be released May 30th, in two types (A type with PV / B type with bonus track). The core album will be 13 songs:

- FABLE IN THE COLD BED (ALBUM VERSION)

- DELUGE (ALBUM VERSION)

- 躊躇うことなく「 」を傷付けた指先は,途惑うことなく穢れた「 」を飾る (Originally planned for DELUGE)

- 虚しき「生」の寓意≒「死」の真意 (Munashiki 「Sei」 no Guui ≒ 「Shi」 no Shini) (A TYPE PV)

- REASONANCE (B TYPE bonus track)

Inside the album will be a special “draft paper”. Anyone who presents the “draft paper” at NEGA's special 7th anniversary oneman will receive two privileges:

- MMFP, a new song which was deemed “too extreme” for inclusion on the album.

- OMNIA VANITAS, a booklet of poetry and photography which gives insight into the world of VANITAS.

Finally, those who purchase both types of the album from the UNDER CODE official web shop will receive a one-of-a-kind personalized comment DVD and a making of DVD of the PV from the A type.

And if you don't love this promotional picture, you don't love visual kei >|

To those who are confused:

With most coupon privileges, you must wait until you receive both copies of the CD, and there will be some sort of coupon (proof of purchase) enclosed within each. You mail both coupons to the record company, and some time later the bonus disc will be mailed to you. 99% of the time this is limited to residents in Japan.

Of course this case could be different, but that's the general scenario that I've experienced. It would be wise to contact the shop directly and ask them if/how they can get the coupon privilege to you. If they can't, you can always use a shopping service.

But it's weird that RIKU calls them GUEST PLAYERS when I thought chariots was coming back as a formal band. Also, Kentz' profile lists a different lineup, but I guess his profile is out of date...? And finally, his profile says to contact UNDER CODE for tickets, even though it is not chariots event but rather Kentz' event. Kind of strange (although I understand Kentz did support for chariots at one point, it is strange that he would not be included in the lineup for this live).

Well it's because their last live in 2003 was only an activity pause. Just like MALICE MIZER technically isn't disbanded either.

By the way, Trombe, did you find the OHP that they mentioned? I don't see it! ahaha

It's just weird. I can understand finishing up the album he had planned. But where did the single come from? If there was two extra unfinished songs just lying around, I would have expected them to be released with the album. And it's not as if Isshi is as popular as hide was, so it doesn't make sense to be scraping the barrel to find random stuff to release.

Just weird!

But I'll resist the “he isn't dead!” theories until he posthumously releases something else.

Euro is just so weak nowadays, it must affect ticket prices too. Euro's value has actually gone down like 40% compared to yen in past 4 years. Needless to say that's a lot o.o.

Ah, so it's not just the USD? That makes me feel a bit better

btw ミサルカ(misaruka) has covered Secilia Luna song "Crescent" and Secilia Luna has covered ミサルカ(misaruka) song "Merrow-Sin-" at ミサルカ(misaruka) presents live "Dedicated to Rosary" at Ikebukuro BLACK HOLE at 2011/12/01

lol! This is going to sound stupid, but that just reminded me that MISARUKA and Secilia Luna aren't the same band. For some reason I've been reading all their news items as one band for the past months.