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Day 1: coldrain - VENA

 


Release Date: 2015-10-23
Label: Hopeless Records
Genre: Alternative Metal/Metalcore
 
Impressions from @doombox:


Impressions from @fictioninhope:


Sample song:




Buy the album:
CDJapan | iTunes

Welcome to the 25 days of MH-mas! What is that you might ask? Well, the MH official reviewers and the staff have gotten together in an attempt to create a list of out favorite releases from 2015 (excluding December). Every day of the month we will be posting a new album until we reach the number one release on our list on Christmas day. Each album will come along with a little blurb from different staff members explaining why the release made it on the list (and an occasional dissenting opinion). Keep in mind that it is impossible to really create a list that captures all of the diverse tastes of the our individual staff members, so you will have to wait for the staff member's individual lists if you really want to know a certain member's favorites. Also, the list was limited to only Japanese album (cause, I mean, this is a Japanese music forum).
 
This post will serve as the "directory" with all of individual albums being featured in each reply post. The discussion for this will go in THIS THREAD.
 
And without further ado, the list!
coldrain - VENA Chara - Secret Garden 水曜日のカンパネラ (Suiyoubi no Campanella) - ジパング (Zipang) PELICAN FANCLUB - PELICAN FANCLUB Kidori Kidori - ![雨だれ] (amadare) IX-NINE- - VIDYA グリーヴァ (Grieva) - 妄想主義者ノ背徳。(Mousou shugisha no haitoku.) for example you sell the sea - たとえば海を売るなら (Tatoeba umi wo urunara) FACT - KTHEAT Envy - Atheist's Cornea DEZERT - 「暫定的オカルト週刊誌①」(Zanteiteki occult shuukanshi (1)) COHOL - 裏現 (Rigen) The fin. - Days With Uncertainty SEKAI NO OWARI - TREE BRADIO - Power of Life BLU-SWING - FLASH THE NOVEMBERS - Elegance a crowd of rebellion - Daphne KAMIJO - Royal Blood ~ Revival Best ~ sukekiyo - VITIUM 和楽器バンド (Wagakki Band) - 八奏絵巻 (Yasou emaki) the piqnic - ZyouK Chanty - Chantyの世界へようこそ lynch. - D.A.R.K.-In the Name of Evil- KEEL - R'lyeh

This thread will be used for discussion on the Staff best albums of 2015 list. See the thread HERE.
 
A quick directory to each album:
 
coldrain - VENA
Chara - Secret Garden
水曜日のカンパネラ (Suiyoubi no Campanella) - ジパング (Zipang) 
PELICAN FANCLUB - PELICAN FANCLUB
Kidori Kidori - ![雨だれ] (amadare)
IX-NINE- - VIDYA
グリーヴァ (Grieva) - 妄想主義者ノ背徳。(Mousou shugisha no haitoku.)
for example you sell the sea - たとえば海を売るなら (Tatoeba umi wo urunara)
FACT - KTHEAT
Envy - Atheist's Cornea
DEZERT - 「暫定的オカルト週刊誌①」(Zanteiteki occult shuukanshi (1))
COHOL - 裏現 (Rigen)
The fin. - Days With Uncertainty
SEKAI NO OWARI - TREE
BRADIO - Power of Life
BLU-SWING - FLASH
THE NOVEMBERS - Elegance
a crowd of rebellion - Daphne
KAMIJO - Royal Blood ~ Revival Best ~
sukekiyo - VITIUM
和楽器バンド (Wagakki Band) - 八奏絵巻 (Yasou emaki)
the piqnic - ZyouK
Chanty - Chantyの世界へようこそ
lynch. - D.A.R.K.-In the Name of Evil-
KEEL - R'lyeh

Day 1: coldrain - VENA

 


Release Date: 2015-10-23
Label: Hopeless Records
Genre: Alternative Metal/Metalcore
 
Impressions from @doombox:


Impressions from @fictioninhope:


Sample song:




Buy the album:
CDJapan | iTunes

Welcome to the 25 days of MH-mas! What is that you might ask? Well, the MH official reviewers and the staff have gotten together in an attempt to create a list of out favorite releases from 2015 (excluding December). Every day of the month we will be posting a new album until we reach the number one release on our list on Christmas day. Each album will come along with a little blurb from different staff members explaining why the release made it on the list (and an occasional dissenting opinion). Keep in mind that it is impossible to really create a list that captures all of the diverse tastes of the our individual staff members, so you will have to wait for the staff member's individual lists if you really want to know a certain member's favorites. Also, the list was limited to only Japanese album (cause, I mean, this is a Japanese music forum).
 
This post will serve as the "directory" with all of individual albums being featured in each reply post. The discussion for this will go in THIS THREAD.
 
And without further ado, the list!
coldrain - VENA Chara - Secret Garden 水曜日のカンパネラ (Suiyoubi no Campanella) - ジパング (Zipang) PELICAN FANCLUB - PELICAN FANCLUB Kidori Kidori - ![雨だれ] (amadare) IX-NINE- - VIDYA グリーヴァ (Grieva) - 妄想主義者ノ背徳。(Mousou shugisha no haitoku.) for example you sell the sea - たとえば海を売るなら (Tatoeba umi wo urunara) FACT - KTHEAT Envy - Atheist's Cornea DEZERT - 「暫定的オカルト週刊誌①」(Zanteiteki occult shuukanshi (1)) COHOL - 裏現 (Rigen) The fin. - Days With Uncertainty SEKAI NO OWARI - TREE BRADIO - Power of Life BLU-SWING - FLASH THE NOVEMBERS - Elegance a crowd of rebellion - Daphne KAMIJO - Royal Blood ~ Revival Best ~ sukekiyo - VITIUM 和楽器バンド (Wagakki Band) - 八奏絵巻 (Yasou emaki) the piqnic - ZyouK Chanty - Chantyの世界へようこそ lynch. - D.A.R.K.-In the Name of Evil- KEEL - R'lyeh

Welcome to the 25 days of MH-mas! What is that you might ask? Well, the MH official reviewers and the staff have gotten together in an attempt to create a list of out favorite releases from 2015 (excluding December). Every day of the month we will be posting a new album until we reach the number one release on our list on Christmas day. Each album will come along with a little blurb from different staff members explaining why the release made it on the list (and an occasional dissenting opinion). Keep in mind that it is impossible to really create a list that captures all of the diverse tastes of the our individual staff members, so you will have to wait for the staff member's individual lists if you really want to know a certain member's favorites. Also, the list was limited to only Japanese album (cause, I mean, this is a Japanese music forum).
 
This post will serve as the "directory" with all of individual albums being featured in each reply post. The discussion for this will go in THIS THREAD.
 
And without further ado, the list!
coldrain - VENA Chara - Secret Garden 水曜日のカンパネラ (Suiyoubi no Campanella) - ジパング (Zipang) PELICAN FANCLUB - PELICAN FANCLUB Kidori Kidori - ![雨だれ] (amadare) IX-NINE- - VIDYA グリーヴァ (Grieva) - 妄想主義者ノ背徳。(Mousou shugisha no haitoku.) for example you sell the sea - たとえば海を売るなら (Tatoeba umi wo urunara) FACT - KTHEAT Envy - Atheist's Cornea DEZERT - 「暫定的オカルト週刊誌①」(Zanteiteki occult shuukanshi (1)) COHOL - 裏現 (Rigen) The fin. - Days With Uncertainty SEKAI NO OWARI - TREE BRADIO - Power of Life BLU-SWING - FLASH THE NOVEMBERS - Elegance a crowd of rebellion - Daphne KAMIJO - Royal Blood ~ Revival Best ~ sukekiyo - VITIUM 和楽器バンド (Wagakki Band) - 八奏絵巻 (Yasou emaki) the piqnic - ZyouK Chanty - Chantyの世界へようこそ lynch. - D.A.R.K.-In the Name of Evil- KEEL - R'lyeh

Day 1: coldrain - VENA

 


Release Date: 2015-10-23
Label: Hopeless Records
Genre: Alternative Metal/Metalcore
 
Impressions from @doombox:


Impressions from @fictioninhope:


Sample song:




Buy the album:
CDJapan | iTunes

Day 1: coldrain - VENA

 


Release Date: 2015-10-23
Label: Hopeless Records
Genre: Alternative Metal/Metalcore
 
Impressions from @doombox:


Impressions from @fictioninhope:


Sample song:




Buy the album:
CDJapan | iTunes

Welcome to the 25 days of MH-mas! What is that you might ask? Well, the MH official reviewers and the staff have gotten together in an attempt to create a list of out favorite releases from 2015 (excluding December). Every day of the month we will be posting a new album until we reach the number one release on our list on Christmas day. Each album will come along with a little blurb from different staff members explaining why the release made it on the list (and an occasional dissenting opinion). Keep in mind that it is impossible to really create a list that captures all of the diverse tastes of the our individual staff members, so you will have to wait for the staff member's individual lists if you really want to know a certain member's favorites. Also, the list was limited to only Japanese album (cause, I mean, this is a Japanese music forum).
 
This post will serve as the "directory" with all of individual albums being featured in each reply post. The discussion for this will go in THIS THREAD.
 
And without further ado, the list!
coldrain - VENA Chara - Secret Garden 水曜日のカンパネラ (Suiyoubi no Campanella) - ジパング (Zipang) PELICAN FANCLUB - PELICAN FANCLUB Kidori Kidori - ![雨だれ] (amadare) IX-NINE- - VIDYA グリーヴァ (Grieva) - 妄想主義者ノ背徳。(Mousou shugisha no haitoku.) for example you sell the sea - たとえば海を売るなら (Tatoeba umi wo urunara) FACT - KTHEAT Envy - Atheist's Cornea DEZERT - 「暫定的オカルト週刊誌①」(Zanteiteki occult shuukanshi (1)) COHOL - 裏現 (Rigen) The fin. - Days With Uncertainty SEKAI NO OWARI - TREE BRADIO - Power of Life BLU-SWING - FLASH THE NOVEMBERS - Elegance a crowd of rebellion - Daphne KAMIJO - Royal Blood ~ Revival Best ~ sukekiyo - VITIUM 和楽器バンド (Wagakki Band) - 八奏絵巻 (Yasou emaki) the piqnic - ZyouK Chanty - Chantyの世界へようこそ lynch. - D.A.R.K.-In the Name of Evil- KEEL - R'lyeh

Welcome to the 25 days of MH-mas! What is that you might ask? Well, the MH official reviewers and the staff have gotten together in an attempt to create a list of out favorite releases from 2015 (excluding December). Every day of the month we will be posting a new album until we reach the number one release on our list on Christmas day. Each album will come along with a little blurb from different staff members explaining why the release made it on the list (and an occasional dissenting opinion). Keep in mind that it is impossible to really create a list that captures all of the diverse tastes of the our individual staff members, so you will have to wait for the staff member's individual lists if you really want to know a certain member's favorites. Also, the list was limited to only Japanese album (cause, I mean, this is a Japanese music forum).
 
This post will serve as the "directory" with all of individual albums being featured in each reply post. The discussion for this will go in THIS THREAD.
 
And without further ado, the list!
coldrain - VENA Chara - Secret Garden 水曜日のカンパネラ (Suiyoubi no Campanella) - ジパング (Zipang) PELICAN FANCLUB - PELICAN FANCLUB Kidori Kidori - ![雨だれ] (amadare) IX-NINE- - VIDYA グリーヴァ (Grieva) - 妄想主義者ノ背徳。(Mousou shugisha no haitoku.) for example you sell the sea - たとえば海を売るなら (Tatoeba umi wo urunara) FACT - KTHEAT Envy - Atheist's Cornea DEZERT - 「暫定的オカルト週刊誌①」(Zanteiteki occult shuukanshi (1)) COHOL - 裏現 (Rigen) The fin. - Days With Uncertainty SEKAI NO OWARI - TREE BRADIO - Power of Life BLU-SWING - FLASH THE NOVEMBERS - Elegance a crowd of rebellion - Daphne KAMIJO - Royal Blood ~ Revival Best ~ sukekiyo - VITIUM 和楽器バンド (Wagakki Band) - 八奏絵巻 (Yasou emaki) the piqnic - ZyouK Chanty - Chantyの世界へようこそ lynch. - D.A.R.K.-In the Name of Evil- KEEL - R'lyeh

The sukekiyo one will probably be on there considering how well their previous album did on last year's list. THE NOVEMBERS' Elegance is a likely candidate too. Other than that, I'm not so sure. This has been a bit of a weird year for me, lots of decent releases but not many standouts. Perhaps toe's HEAR YOU or mouse on the keys' the flowers of romance are in with a shot? I think the latter of the two definitely deserves a shoutout. SCLL's ghost is dead might make the list too.

Piracy is universal and knows no borders. People stlil pirate in Japan they just have to be less obvious about it.
 
America (the country) is vast and largely empty. Europe (the continent) is small. It's roughly the size of half of America. Touring Europe is easy because you can visit one country and fans can visit from the surrounding country for a day or two because the trip is only a few hours. Touring Mexico and South America is a little more challenging, but the population there isn't spread so thin so it's easier to target fans by hitting major cities. Not so in America. We're technically spread across six time zones. I can drive for a few hours and not leave my state, much less the country. From my current location, it would take 10 to 11 hours of driving to reach Canada. It would take me near 20 hours by car to reach @CAT5 (trains are worse and planes are super expensive)! In the midwest, it can take hours to go from a small suburb to a decently sized city where a band might perform. If the show isn't somewhere within a few hours drive, I can't go.
No matter where they go or what city they perform in, 95% of American fans would have to "break the bank" or organize a trip out of a concert in order to go see them. This is why most (not all tho) Japanese bands that tour North America always hit the same cities. The GazettE may have a lot of fans overall in America but probably not enough to fill up venues consistently and make that money back. In addition they have to go from city to city and that's expensive too. It's not uncommon to hear of a Japanese "world tour" which totally skips North America.
We're lucky the GazettE even goes to Europe. There's a lot more to touring abroad than geography at play like work visas, working with promoters who can secure your venues, money, etc. I've heard of a lot of failed EU tours from visual bands after thousands of fans rallied together to bring UnsraW to Europe but only 100 showed up to the live house because "it was Wednesday and mom won't let me go to concerts on Wednesdays". I also vaguely remember the GazettE saying they hate touring America and won't come here but don't quote me without sources. But if I were to think of one good reason as to why Japanese bands run like hell from America, it's that it's so big it's difficult to tour.
 

Can we take a moment to pause and ask ourselves why this bothers bands? Like it's not like you are getting anything more than some shitty video with blown out sound - you can't sell it, you can post it on youtube and get like 10 views, or your could post it on facebook for your friends to like and your aunt to continue to think that your parents raised you wrong.
Only reasons I can think of is that either the band is incredibly vain so they only want the best (i.e. high processed and edited) stuff of them to be put out in to the world OR they just suck so hard that they don't want people showing the proof of it.

Thanks! And Oki-Cospi is awesome, I have shot with her a decent amount.
 
 
 
Thanks! Let's keep it going!
 
 

Thanks! And Oki-Cospi is awesome, I have shot with her a decent amount.
 
 
 
Thanks! Let's keep it going!
 
 

A "dude leak" sounds like a terrible euphemism lmao

Composite of 2 shots XD
 

Doesn't get much better than this

We once had Bleeding Cowboy in a banner (back in TW days)
 
 
 
 
 
NEVER AGAIN

Doesn't get much better than this

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