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Derp, my bad!

They were! A heretic sound music is what you're thinking of. But ALSDEAD graduated from Ahsm at some point and ended up going to Galaxy. Then Ahsm dissolved, but the thing is, ALSDEAD joined Galaxy, and the president of Ahsm formed a new label, FIREBALL, as a sublabel of Galaxy. Sooo essentially they just shuffled some names around, but everyone was still in the family more or less.

Changing labels isn't going to spontaneously make a band any more terrible or brilliant than they already are. And if you truly like a band for their music, I don't see why it would matter to you what label they go to anyway. Anyhow~ It would be awesome if they went to UNDER CODE because that's like guaranteed money (for the label I mean), but in my opinion there's like 10% chance of that happening. UNDER CODE just doesn't have a history of signing internet-god-tier bands! But hey, if it does happen, I'll eat my words and congratulate them. I just hope it doesn't affect Galaxy negatively, because it has potential to be a cool little label!

Welp. ALSDEAD needs to stop leaving their labels |D

I liked to think of your name as a secret spelling of Sound Demon.

Remember, they held that battle against NEP to see who would disband. Obviously NEP won x_x

You can usually fix this by switching encodings, if you didn't realize! But that's the number one reason why bands shouldn't rely on Flash for their websites; there's no way to fix it when Japanese comes out garbled like that! One of my major pet peeves.

See .syncl, know it's shit. Just like a certain cookie cutter flash template that was all the rage a few years ago. DragonWAPPPPPPER has always had terrible OHPs from a web design standpoint. But at the same time, they clearly tried pretty hard even though they didn't know what they were doing, so I can't give them too much shit. This basically applies to their cover art too. Can't really say much else; it's hard to say “this is terrible?? when most bands don't try that hard to begin with. Like, Golden Bomber's is certainly shitty, but I feel like that's just an extension of their joke personality.

Duhhhhhhhhhhhh Cool

Their server went down because so many people were trying to access the website! Good problem for them :B

Dali's to the core is a nice drum-focused SE! In fact, it's one of the few that I listen to as a standalone song. Also, track 2 and 8 aren't there because they're the singles that have already been released! Anyway, some of the previews sound cool and some of them sound average. I'm probably the only one, but I've been disappointed with D's albums since the first, so the middling previews/terrible covers don't excite or dissuade me either way. On the other hand, The name of the ROSE is one of the ultimate top-tier VK-VK albums in my opinion, in terms of being a 100% strong-all-around piece of work. So maybe I've just expected too much since then. But at least D's mediocre is still pretty good!

I hope not!! It would be a real shame to lose that piece of history But yeah, it wouldn't really be a surprise either, since Sequence has more or less been inactive since 2008. Byakura is a joke, GallowS is dead, TOMOZO isn't doing shit, and it's pretty obvious that Art Cube is the only thing that's made them any sort of money in years. The only newish bands I've seen Sequence handle are ZELGYER and ZABEL (who appear at every Sequence event for some reason), but they aren't even technically signed to the label as far as I know. Anyway, I haven't seen this news either, but it'd be an oddly specific thing for someone to come up with. They must have heard it at a live? (It would help if Ameba didn't go down for maintenance every other day!) Boo >;( (Sherow, on the other hand, isn't even worth worrying about. It's barely a real label, and KAMIJO's going to keep it technically alive for years and years, never doing anything with it--just like his last label. It's like a McDonalds that's been around for 30 years is closing down, but you're worrying about the two year old “Mr. Donalds?? down the street. Ain't no thing~~~~)

They're all re-recordings

Yes, is the old members (grassthread says all five, but only four are shown, so who knows). This is part of their 20th anniversary (!!!!!) revival period, pretty sure it's just temporary. They announced some 20th anniversary live events (featuring revivals by some other cool bands such as MIRAGE!) that will also take place in 2011. But they're calling this period “the last revival,?? and the Brand X description says “after this period, the name ??覇??羅】 will be sealed.?? So it seems like this is really it; enjoy it while you can. (Unless the members decide to come back as a new band, which would be awesome, but probably unlikely since they're so old ;x)

Last lives: session live on 2011-03-13, sponsored events on 2011-03-29 and 2011-03-30, and last oneman live on 2011-03-31. Free DVD distributed at last live, last maxi-single, TRUTH, to be released on 2011-03-02. Details here. Whether or not you liked their music (and I think most people only dislike the vocals, if anything), I don't think it has anything to do with “them not taking it seriously.?? Maybe for some of the members, but I know Rayka and Lin take their music very seriously (they are some of the few people to actually acknowledge their previous bands, rather than just glossing it over for the sake of image). Some of us were actually big fans of them, not because of image, not because of cult of personality, not because of record label, but because they produced some really good music. So yes, something of value was lost. It's sad.

Honestly, I personally think he committed suicide (But please don't repeat this as fact, it's just something I think) He didn't have any conditions (that I know of), and he wasn't sick lately or anything like that. Maybe he was just overwhelmed with the disbanding and everything... So so so sad

http://community.livejournal.com/under_code/247845.html Yoshi just posted about it in his blog. I've checked a million times, thinking I've somehow mistranslated horribly. What the fuck!!!

Yeah, it's mail-order only, so you'll need to use a Japanese shopping service.

Usually UCP privilege live DVDs are only one track though, so don't get your hopes up |D

Ok, I fucking HATE it when sites try to prevent you from copying basic information like that. Japanese especially are so draconian about lyrics, as if reading them in one location is somehow different from copy+pasting them onto a fansite and reading them there. So as such, I always do my best to copy stuff that they don't want me to. Most sites tend to use JavaScript solutions, which are easy as balls to turn off/figure out the source files/etc. ...Unfortunately, being a huge site, goo is smarter than that You were mostly right; they use a JavaScript solution that renders the lyrics primarily in an HTML canvas/Silverlight/Flash if your browser doesn't support canvas. And all of those things, by their nature, are impossible to make selectable. Of course, the JavaScript still needs to be fed the actual source file from somewhere; it's not as the lyrics can just appear out of thin air. Unfortunately, they beat us there too They use a separate JavaScript chunk which communicates the song ID to a PHP page, which I assume then pulls the lyric file from wherever it's stored. In most cases, you'd just be able to call up the PHP page itself (supplying it with the same ID of course) and get the results, but they even have that one covered! When not accessed from their script, the PHP page is blank. So basically, they are smart little assholes, and there's really no way around it, as much as I wish that weren't the reality of it ;( --- There is one shitty solution that I can give you, but it might not even be worth it to you: Take a screenshot of the page, and crop so only the lyrics are displayed. Upload the file here. This is an online OCR that will try to read the image and pull out the text. It's decent, considering the task it has to pull off, but you wouldn't want to rely on it for something important. I'd say it's maybe 80% accurate, aside from the occasional line that is completely wrong. (Alternative note: If you can find one string that looks perfectly accurate, you can try Googling that and see if the full lyrics have been posted somewhere. I already tried that for this particular song and didn't seem to find anything, but maybe you'll have better luck.) Once you have the text output, depending your skills, you can compare it to the original image and fix the disparate kanji by hand (I tend to use WWWJDIC's multi-radical kanji page to help with that). It's pretty intimidating, but you'd be surprised how well you can do if you just work hard at it. And then you just have to romanize the guy, but I'm assuming you can do that, and if not, there are tons of people who'll gladly romanize. --- Sorry for the super long winded reply, but man that pisses me off. I had a friend that did that once (although she used the Playskool ver. JavaScript only method that I mentioned earlier) at her fansite, as if her information was somehow exclusive and not fit for public consumption (thus defeating the purpose of a fansite, I would assume?!). Still haven't gotten over that shit. Anyway, so yeah, fuck goo and all the sites that do that, and I hope you persevere. And then post the lyrics all over the internet just to spite them. God speed.

Oh that's semi-good news! I would love for them to just reappear, spending a butt-ton of money on promotion and forcing everyone to love them. By the way, there's no way for you to go to the last show? When had you been planning to go see them originally?

Very very sad Not that they'd been as popular as long ago, but it's so sad to see them go after being around for so long. I guess the members might feel too old now/too disconnected, but I would love to see some of them return ;( Thanks for the news; I'm posting on S-T thanks to your tip. Were you at the live or did you just hear through 2ch/someone?

The problem (if I understand) is in the tagging system itself. There are three or four main tagging systems, and most files have information from all of them due to people tagging and retagging over and over with various shitty programs. iTunes recognizes bits and pieces of the information + some of their own proprietary tags (you wouldn't believe the stupid tags iTunes adds when you rip something through it!). So it turns out to be one big cluster fuck. The only way to really fix it is to download a good tagging program (I use Mp3tag) and delete allllll of the shit tags that are on the file, and then retag it yourself. Ensures that it will show up in iTunes correctly, and will preserve correct information for all future generations ;~; Postscript: the only program worse than iTunes for tags is Windows Media Player. Shit s-u-x-sucks

Everything with Michiru (or SANA) is time limited, whether they announce it or not!

Uhhh Ozawa Mai? I used her a lot a LONG time ago, but she suddenly disappeared. Had no idea she was back. Woah memories