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Pretty good so far!

What's the point of ~finally~ launching an official YT channel and then only having 3 music videos?...

Imai is That One Drunk Aunt at Thanksgiving/Christmas.™

New band pic: Cover art (again, one of the versions is done by Aquirax Uno just like their upcoming tribute album)

Looks like it's actually an excerpt from his current one, haha.

It will probably just be some live announcement, I don't think we're realistically getting a new album from them at this point (but let them prove me wrong! heh).

Nice! Ever since their latest mini album thingie they've had a support keyboardist.

Only the material from 2003 to early 2006 is real, the rest is just different shades of embarrassing imo.

Never dealt with M-cards before, but I'll let you know for sure!

Nice, thanks for the info, @sads123! Also I just noticed that the version being sold at CDJapan has an extra CD-ROM that features the 6 tracks of the mini album but mastered differently (geared towards smartphone / portable music players). I'm kinda lost at this point what the differences are between the types, but if this is the one that's sold by CDJ then this is the one I'm gonna get.

Here are the samplessss Actually the Hernia tracks sound pretty different from each other (unless they purposefully show different parts of each, lol) So far this does a have more indies / weird vibe, I'm cautiously optimistic! also me @ cover art:

Tracklist: 01. LUCA 02. PHILIA 03. Closer 04. THE BEYOND 05. You’re knocking at my door 06. 宇宙の詩 (Sora no uta) 〜Higher and Higher〜 07. anagram 08. 悲壮美 (Hisoubi) 09. Pulse 10. 静寂 (Seijaku) 11. so tender… Cover art:

Finally had time to catch up on some metal releases. Nile - Vile Nilotic Rites: Pretty massive album, for me it was a step up from their previous one (which I didn't hate but didn't love either). Solid stuff. Blood Incantation - Hidden History of the Human Race: Just overall amazing and intricate. If you want more proggy death, this is the way to go. Cattle Decapitation - Death Atlas: Their most ambitious release yet. The songs kinda blur into each other for me, but it's one giant slab of awesome. Cradle of Filth - Cruelty and the Beast (Re-Mistressed): It's okay. That's it. Still have to check out the latest Mayhem and Obsequiae...

Lookin' cool.

That video might just be one of my favorite VK vids this year. The song is decent enough / nothing special, but the visual style is on point! edit: yikes, those samples tho. 3 or 4 of them sounded pretty nice, the rest I'd rather forget. Oh well.

I wasn't really paying attention to this project before, but this latest single is pretty cool! MVs for both songs:

Not sure if this was posted/noticed before, but here's the cover art by Aquirax Uno (who previously designed B-T's "RAZZLE DAZZLE" album art)

It's an old song they played back before their debut album days, but then re-recorded in 2009. Also, seconding that sukekiyo suggestion, would have been cool~

Just going to leave this masterpiece here: The new album release is close!!

If they do 'em right, these should be interesting! The rest didn't really grab my attention artist- or song choice-wise.

Collab song is okay for me, should be cool.

Small extra info mentioned in that cali-gari × deadman collab news article: apparently aie does guest backing vocals on one of the mini album's songs!

This is gonna be interestinggggg

Managed to catch a rare screening of The Lighthouse. Amazing atmosphere, visuals and acting all around. I couldn't have hoped for a better 2nd movie from Robert Eggers, great job! Completely sucked me in, and after the movie was over it was a really weird feeling to leave the theater and go back to the 'real world', haha. Also, in a perfect world Willem Dafoe and Robert Pattinson would get nominated for (and win) an Oscar for what they did here.

Greatest 2-man tour ever.