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My friend did an interview with Lycaon recently, you guys can read it here (in English):
 
http://www.soundofjapan.hu/lycaon-exclusive-interview-english/

My friend did an interview with Lycaon recently, you guys can read it here (in English):
 
http://www.soundofjapan.hu/lycaon-exclusive-interview-english/

well

A new band called TRMTRM has just formed recently featuring this pretty fine roster of musicians:
 
vocals & guitar: Toru Matsumoto (Psysalia Psysalis Psyche)
bass & chorus: Nara Minoru (Lillies and Remains)
guitar & chorus: Takahashi Shinichi (HATE NO HATE)
drums & chorus: Takahashi Ryosuke
 
Their first EP titled "TRMTRM EP" will be released on 2014/10/01 (price: ¥1,800).
 
Tracklist:
01. アナタとナムさん (Anata to Namu-san) 02. 雨ノ曲たち (Ame no kyokutachi) 03. hegiRa 04. 海と性 (feat. ucary valentine) (Umi to sei) 05. ReTuRn To sender  
  Official site: http://trmtrm2030.tumblr.com/

New Anaal Nathrakh track from upcoming album "Desideratum":
 


 
Solid as always~

This has gotta be the worst news for me this year, J-music-wise. I'm guessing they couldn't rly keep up the band with the miniscule "popularity" and sporadic concerts.
 
They were one of my absolute favs. Gonna miss them so so much... ;___;

New live vid on YT~ ♥
 

I'm not so good in writing reviews.
But today I gonna give it a try for this album!
 
Album released at August 13th!
 
I already did hear a few of the songs at their LIVE and they truly blew me away, so amazing cool music. but then you still need to wait how it will sound on a CD.
So today, I finally received my CD in my mailbox.
 
dieS is a more dark image visual kei band. No happy unreal fun shit. It's music truly pure from the heart. Music which is made with real fun and feeling.
Once again dieS did it again and they delivered a way more perfect ALBUM.
You can hear the guitar influences of Calmando Qual TAK a lot. He didn't recored all songs which are on this album only [track, 2,3,6,8&9]. But you can clearly hear that his ideas are inside this album too.
 
This album has the perfect heaviness of rock music need to have. Everything fits in every song.
Vocal is really beautiful and fits the music so perfectly.
No idiotic scream or something you have a lot now in visual kei music. 
It's really easy to let the music inside your head that that you kinda fly dream inside the music.
 
 
TRACKLIST & RAITING
01 the night | A nice song for a first song of an album. But still it lacks something a bit. a 2min version would maybe have fit better.
02 SA・VA・GE-night slave- | Lovely song to play all night!
03 innocent taboo | Live version is way more fun, it's not really a CD song, I guess. at least not for me.
04 mirror | to much sameness with innocent taboo.
05 VICTIM | lovely Engrish! It has a nice beat
06 blind dance | a beautiful rock ballad!
07 dry | Also a more slow song. really beautiful. To bad that Tak didn't join this song. otherwise it would been more perfect.
08 smell | more heavy song in between.
09 パブリックセックス | First part of this song is... nyaaaaa... but it gets more fun and better.
10 太陽 | Also slowly song, so much perfectness. However they should have asked Tak to join this song recording.  
 
END RAITING

Even if the individual songs aren't always that great (track, 3,4,5), yet to play them all in this order it makes them fun and nicely to listen too, so I won't skip any of them!! 
Also the more slow songs are the best for dieS, Then "Dai's" voice is also so beautiful.
 
 
You won't regret spening 2500yen for this album (^o^)/

well, not sure if hearing more of the guitarstuffs would be better as that riff is another case of generic diarrhea that he had for years now regarding his riffage. it's the gazillionst variation of the "strong" + a couple of dozen other tracks lick he's been running into the ground.
 
plus while i'm all for singalongy gospel pop whatever, this is just a incredibly sad and unsuccessfull attempt at trying that. the melody itself is shit and it's accompanied by a shit groove, but then for good measure repeated 20x times. maybe if it's hammered into our eardrums enough times we'll occasionaly be forced to like it i dunno...

For a sec there I thought the 3rd track's title was gonna be WELCOME TO THE HOOD.

I'm not familiar with Belphegor's previous output (yet!) but the new album is indeed nice! Reminds me of Behemoth a bit (but still kinda different and maybe more "technical" has a nice atmosphere).

Just wait for their new look and cd covers.
expecting this :

For a sec there I thought the 3rd track's title was gonna be WELCOME TO THE HOOD.

The new track's not bad, although I enjoyed the first one more. This one has some sort of nice atmosphere to boot tho, even if it's a bit too long and tedious at points.
 
Anyway, album info time: title is .5: The Gray Chapter and the release date is October 21.
 
Tracklist:
 
01. XIX 02. Sarcastrophe 03. Aov 04. The Devil In I 05. Killpop 06. Skeptic 07. Lech 08. Goodbye 09. Nomadic 10. The One That Kills The Least 11. Custer 12. Be Prepared For Hell 13. The Negative One 14. If Rain Is What You Want 15. Override (deluxe bonus track) 16. The Burden (deluxe bonus track)   Cover:  

I did. He also told me they're gonna spend the hiatus debating whether to change their name to Alice Eight or Alice Ten.

22 Jump Street - Didn't have many expectations, cuz even though the first movie was decent, we all know how typical bromance comedy sequels are. Well, seems like I was proven wrong cuz this movie was pretty much kickass all the way. Okayish action scenes, fun/dumb atmosphere that pokes fun at the story being essentially the same again, and of course lots of laugh-out-loud moments (haven't heard so much laughter at the cinema for a long time, and this was a press screening even! lol). I totally recommend watching it if you enjoyed - or even just "somewhat liked" - the first one.

It's weird to think about how successful they are now. It feels like yesterday they just released their debut album that had "Blue" on it.

Frilly, out of tune, cross dresser shit recorded on a $15 budget by bandmen whom barely know how to play their instruments. The more chinchillas, feathers, && leathers, the better. Faux-french and / or clavichords are an added bonus.

"SEXIVIA" [track list]
01.SUPER CHARGER ROCK-A-ROLA
02.ナマイキロンリーボーイ(namaiki lonely boy)
03.BLXXK DANCER
04.MUZIK
05.VIA SEXIVIA
06.電装とクラッシュ(densou to crush)
07.TOKIWO
08.UN美者(UN bisha)
09.6年(6nen)
10.迷宮の麗夢(meikyuu no reimu)
11.PHYSICAL-MUSICAL
12.DANCE 4 the BOOGIE
13.WAYOUT

8th copy incoming

What if he's done this all purposely and the first person to confront him about it wins a UCP special bag + official bootleg DVDs and (another) copy of Phantasmagoria's Dejavu??
 
This is my moment

they have gazette, vivid and screw, and recently signed レイヴ to violently murder sug off-label career
 

 
slay grandmama

Cooool~
 
I wish they'd release some stuff... I need moar Hina in mai raifu~ ;w;

Reload, JyuLie and now these guys.. greedy Ains, but I can't complain, I love everything that label has thrown at us so far, this should be pretty neat too.

【EVIDENCE OF EXISTENCE】
Here's the evidence that I could find of these bands being *real*:
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https://twitter.com/KISAKI_OFFICIAL/status/297370748589338624
KISAKI played recorded versions of songs of Levia~LAYBIAL~SHËY≠DË at his 20th anniversary live. It's not really “proof” of anything, but this was a history live, so there should have been someone who was a fan of the bands that were ripped off (VICE∞RISK, 業, Levia[non-KISAKI]), and who would have noticed if KISAKI was playing those songs...
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As someone else mentioned, on 2007-11-19 in his HOLIDAY blog, he mentioned meeting ex-Levia member 美憂, who is married and has a child.
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https://twitter.com/KISAKI_OFFICIAL/status/154273353094537216
On 2012-01-04, he posted in his Ameba (now deleted) that he met Levia members again. Most of them married with children now. He also posted a pciture of 美憂's child this time (also on Twitter ↑), as well as a picture of that guy's shop. (Google/Tineye didn't return any results when I searched the images).
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http://music3.2ch.net/test/read.cgi/visual/1066131643/
Earliest web mention of these bands that I can find is on 2ch in 2003. So at least we know his *canon* band history included these bands way before BEYOND THE KINGDOM.
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Again, not proof of anything, but the canon lineup of SHËY≠DË features 紫緒, who was in HISKAREA. I automatically doubt that KISAKI would make up a fake band with a known musician in the lineup, if it weren't real...
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松本 博, the owner of Wakayama livehouse OLD TIME at which Levia supposedly performed a lot of oneman lives, actually commented in BEYOND THE KINGDOM about seeing KISAKI's junior-high band Levia as regulars who were popular. So that seems to confirm a lot for me, unless they faked that comment (I already checked―the 松本 博 is real.)
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【REALLY WEIRD STUFF】
This one is sort of reaching, but bear with me. Check out the cover of the Levia “滅びの序章” demotape again (which was copied from the Levia[non-KISAKI] “滅びの序章”, remember?).
Now check out this image by hyura again. The image on the left. I know it's near the LAYBIAL sign, but it's only 3 members (LAYBIAL had 4), and LAYBIAL didn't play a live on 1994-09-21... but Levia had 3 members and did play their first live on 1993-09-21. So could that picture be of KISAKI's Levia?
And if so... looking at that supposed Levia[non-KISAKI] scan, couldn't you see KISAKI on the left and the other two guys on the right (compare the eye-makeup, the hair, the chokers, the suit jackets)...?
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I can't claim anything from this, but you have to admit that it sort of looks like Levia and Levia[non-KISAKI] are one in the same, at least from comparing those two pictures.
That would be the ultimate mind fuck if that were the case, because the Levia[non-KISAKI] demotape has 5 tracks which, as far as I know, aren't stolen from anything...
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【CONCLUSIONS】
Personally, I think Levia~LAYBIAL~SHËY≠DË were *real*, since they've been mentioned for so long (at least since 2003), way before there was a book about KISAKI or he had some “legacy” of being a 15-year-old genius who was playing oneman shows. Also, I can't imagine KISAKI and FOOL'S MATE would be so bold as to fake a comment from the owner of a livehouse who knew Levia. And finally, I don't think KISAKI was lying when he posted about meeting ex-Levia members... but if he was, then he's been purposefully sprinking those things throughout his blog for 7 years which just seems to be way beyond his level of thinking IMO.
So like I said, I think the bands are *real*, but I'm not sure if the demotapes ever were... I see a couple of possible scenarios:
1. The *canon* demotapes were *real* but were also fake/stolen (even at the time of their release).
2. It's been so long that KISAKI has no clue what his early bands released, so he just made it up for BEYOND THE KINGDOM. In that case, there are *real* demotapes, but probably completely different from the *canon* ones.
3. There are *canon* demotapes are also *real*, but KISAKI's been seeding the net and auctions with fake copies, while he maniacally holds on to the only real copies that are left. In that case, the titles are still stolen from other releases... (This would fit in nicely with the crazy theory that Levia is the same as Levia[non-KISAKI]!)
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So I guess my posts didn't really give any clear conlusion, but I hope you've gained some more evidence to make your own (or at least see that the situation is even weirder than some simple lying).