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Seems like decent melodic BM, not bad!

I like the sorta chaotic atmosphere the preview is going for, but somehow the whole execution and production just sounds like ass... Ray deserves better than this.

Oh boy, I'm hyped up just searching for and re-listening to these. Here it goes. BOØWY - DRAMATIC? DRASTIC! ~ from 1:48-ish I love Hotei so much. This solo is very much him: fun, melodic, sprinkled with technique and memorability too. CLICK HERE to watch cuz embedding is disabled for this vid BOØWY - CLOUDY HEART ~ from 2:24-ish GodDAMMIT, I love Hotei SO much. One of his simpler ones, but DAT FEELING, MAN (couldn't find my fav performance but this will do). CLICK HERE to watch cuz embedding is disabled for this vid LUNA SEA - STORM ~ from 2:29-ish YOU. CAN. NOT. TELL. ME. THAT. THIS. IS. NOT. THE. BEST. BUCK-TICK - 細胞具ドリー:ソラミミ:PHANTOM ~ from 2:10-ish Imai is one of my top fave musicians but he's pretty shit at guitar solos and goes off on random tangents most of the time live after the first few bars (kinda feeling like "ok, let's get this over with" xD), but occasionally he does something unexpectedly hilarious/brilliant like here. The studio version of this solo is pretty meh but I love how he goes into the "Mary had a little lamb" melody here, which is especially clever seeing how the song is about cloning, cyborgs and questions of identity. BUCK-TICK - NATIONAL MEDIA BOYS ~ from 2:37-ish Again, a case of the live rendition of the solo being more random and fun (but the studio ver. is good too imo).

Valetina makes for some good TV this season, but boiiiii am I irritated by her most of the time too, haha. Also lol @ this all-too-obvious 'suspending All Star rules' buffoonery just to keep some ppl in and bring some other ppl back...

Apparently I didn't have anything better to do yesterday so I watched the 'extended version' of the original Swedish The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (a.k.a. Män som hatar kvinnor), which was like a 2-part movie in 3 hours total. I haven't previously read/seen any of the books/movies so this was my first encounter with this franchise. It was a pretty cool crime thriller that took its sweet time fleshing everything out but it didn't give me a chance to get bored thankfully. In other words, it had a good pacing, great characters, and I'm glad that basically all questions were answered by the end. I'll probably check out the sequel(s) too, and eventually the US remake/reboot thingies, even though I heard they aren't as good (tho I did hear praise about the David Fincher one).

I watched this a few months ago, great flick! Didn't expect much, but it really impressed me. Lately I saw two horror movies with some friends, with some interesting results. While I expected the Indonesian Satan's Slaves (Pengabdi Setan) to be amazing, it was strangely baffling and ridiculous for the most part. Not in a good way. It had its moments but ultimately we either found ourselves being bored or laughing at stuff that was supposed to be serious (there was particularly one hilarious 'scare' but I suspect the filmmakers intentionally made it funny, that was a good one). The other one we watched afterwards was Incident in a Ghostland made by the writer/director of the infamous Martyrs but I didn't have any high expectations... and sure enough, it turned out to be a pretty awesome flick! Excellent tension and visuals, an intriguing story and some neat twists and turns. Also, I only realized at the end that Myléne Farmer starred in this, haha. All in all, very solid horror (not as shocking or cathartic as Martyrs but still a good one).

I love it when Imai uses his MIDI effects! I wish he did it more often or wrote more compositions that utilize them, it always makes the songs that much more interesting (like the eerie 'bells' in Taiyou ni korosareta or the synth lines in Chikashitsu no Melody). @RaeDesu Dress is a good gateway drug to B-T! I remember when Trinity Blood aired, it was a good time to be a B-T fan, new or old, especially how "13kai wa gekkou" just dropped so the #goth was eeeverything. Alice is a really fun song too! I like how it references Diabolo from the "13kai..." album in the beginning and with Imai's quirky little verse.

I love how they call literally one concert a 'tour'. Good for them tho!

THIS. Was fun while it lasted, too bad.

I love that song so damn much. ♥ The 2nd press/remastered version of that release, 第3実験室 改訂版, is actually the only "Shuuji 1" release that I own physically (mostly cuz all the other old stuff is expensive as hell for my wallet on auctions lmao), all three songs are excellent and show very diverse sides of the band.

Fair enough, I can see your point. @crossparallel NOPE, haha (it's not bad tho).

@karai · ebi I gotta confess, I could never take SILENT NIGHT seriously because of the Engrish (so I have a bit of a different experience with it), lol. @crossparallel EMBRYO is a cool track! I love ICONOCLASM to bits, it's interesting to read some ppl prefer the rerecording. I've always adored the original, and come to think of it, I have to think really hard to find a rerecording by B-T that I like more than the original... tho the duo of the rerec'd TABOO and HYPER LOVE is pretty awesome, especially live!

Good start! Welcome to the 'gari family~ 8D Yeah, I agree that 14 isn't too hot, at least compared to some of their other recent stuff. シャ.ナ.ナ is from the "10" album so if you enjoy that type of sound you can't go wrong with that album! You can find a bit of a similar vibe on the album "8" and the mini album "≠" (released after "10"), too.

^ I feel ya, sometimes I feel like JUST ONE MORE KISS is too syrupy and upbeat for my liking, haha. The music video is perfectly cheesy tho.

I want a new Mykki album... ;w; ♥

Ao has posted some of the design layout for the special live-only "0" rerecording mini album. Looks pretty nostalgic and badass~

The album "TABOO" was released in 1989, exactly 30 years ago today (18th January)! One of the most excellent old-school J-rock albums imo with many great highlights such as ICONOCLASM, ANGELIC CONVERSATION or JUST ONE MORE KISS. My favorites are TOKYO and FEAST OF DEMORALIZATION tho (the latter being one of only two songs whose lyrics Toll wrote in B-T history!). What are your faves from the album?

The band has announced a special 2-days gig titled "Locus Solus no kemono-tachi" that will be held on 2019/05/25 and 26 at Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall 9・10・11. They put up a cool trailer for it too, I suspect the video footage might be teasing the "TOUR No.0" DVD/Blu-ray too. Random trivia on the 'Locus Solus' reference here~

This looks cool 'n' all, but I hope we'll get a more substantial release with new music from them this year too (as opposed to these '1 new track' or '1 new demo track' joints). In any case, they seem to put on a sweet live show so it's not too bad that they milk it so much, lol. Gotta collect dat money for studio recordings somehow I guess.

^ Daaaaamn, that was a great deal!

This mini album mmmmm yes. Perfect from start to finish, gotta love the reworked songs. Fun fact: "701125" most likely refers to 25th November 1970, the date of famous author Yukio Mishima's death (who died by ritual suicide after attempting to carry out a coup at a military base).

This is giving me discount E'm~grief~ vibes, hah! At this point tho I'd rather take this than "new br00tal kei band #2423". edit: lmao, check their snazzy OHP intro guys, 10/10

inb4 it will actually become their last live until we get there

This was pretty much me too. Loved their early stuff on UNDER CODE, then soon as they became major... BIG NOPE. This song was my jammmm