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ex-EAT YOU ALIVE members session band "THE SPANKERS" will perform at NAGOYA HOLIDAY NEXT at 2015/01/12

"THE SPANKERS" members:
Vo.ヒロ(Hiro) (ex-EAT YOU ALIVE)
Gt.亮平(Ryouhei) (ex-EAT YOU ALIVE)
Gt.tomoya (ex-meth., now in Sacred Aeolia)
Ba.HISAYOSHI (ex-ClearVeil)
Dr.真(Makoto) (ex-EAT YOU ALIVE)

at least they look better than sound

A very old photo with Stevo from Impetigo.  It was taken at Stevo's house in around 1990. I was probably 20 or so. We went to the vinyl hunting and I remember getting Mercyful Fate's fist 12"EP just for $4.


A very personal fire breathing practice scene. It says 1992. Yasuyuki from Abigail and I were often practicing breathing fire with a cigarette lighter, I mean without a grandiose torch. Thus you can breathe fire almost all of sudden on stage.
 

This one is from 1992, the second gig with this line-up. Pre-Scorn-Defeat day. One of the guys we knew back then was claiming "Playing cover songs is very amateurish. If you want to be a professional musician, you should play your own songs." So we did all-Venom setlist.
 
 
Mirai and Stevo.

Also, Sigh are back in Studio Moopies and are now recording the upcoming album.
 
 
 
And for all P lovers: Blood Music will re-release Gallows Gallery in a standard version now. Will be up for pre-sale from next week. The original is a beauty beyond words, so I am looking forward to this. Will grab one meself, two if there's two different colours as I expect it to be.
 
This is what the first press looked like:
 

 
Was limited to 200 copies, with a black one limited to 100. So 300 in all.

^ Sounds like fun! First (and to this day, last) time I saw Mayhem they played at some hole in the wall club here, and everyone else was so tall (and there were so many people) that I practically couldn't see a thing and the sound wasn't the best either. xDDD They have a cool live presence tho, that's for sure... at least from what I could gather.
 
My last gig was 2 days ago, saw Cannibal Corpse for the 2nd time. I couldn't get there for the first opening band (Aeon -- I didn't mind), only the second one, which was Revocation. I liked their last album and some of their other tunes but they were a bit weird live. I mean, they weren't bad, just kind of all over the place in terms of sound/style and kinda lame in contrast to the awesome br00tality that followed. Cannibal Corpse was of course excellent, even more so than last time I saw them! The mixing was unusually good too, very punchy and powerful without being obnoxiously loud and overdriven. Also, bonus points for the setlist: the bulk of it was different than what they played here last time. All in all, a cool show.
 

Thought Mayhem gave us a good gig. The setlist was great, with 10/14 or 11/15 songs being pre-Chimera stuff. Hellhammer is Hellhammer and the drum sound could've been much better, but it wasn't as bad as I'd thought. Not very good, but not annoyingly bad either. Whore, Illuminate Eliminate and Psywar didn't work at all live, but apart from that they did a good job.
 
Necrobutcher seemed to have an absolute blast on stage. Seemed to really enjoy himself and Teloch seemed to enjoy himself, but you couldn't see his face as he's joined the latest tend in black metal, following Mgla and Svartidaudi as far as his image goes. Which is a bit of a problem to be honest. Attila being the only one with corpseish paint works well because he's the vocalist, but Teloch wearing his stuff looks a bit out of place considering what the rest of the band looks like. He did look awesome, though, but perhaps a BIT cheaper looking than mentioned Mgla and Svartidaudi.
 
And Charles Hedger looked like he was hating it. Just stood there and did his job, and that was it. Didn't look like he was into it at all.
 
 
But the highlight oh the show was Attila. He looked great and his theatricals were awesome on the night. He looked like a relaxed, black metallic version of a cybergoth dancer with his arm movements, with both a skull and inverted cross in hand. A lot will hate this, but I thought it worked really well, even though it shouldn't.
 

 
That was Attila like, just without the leg movements. It was so corny, yet so fucking cool. No idea how he pulled it off.
 
 

What I like the most in this band is probably the way they manage to stay creative and at the same time they prevent their sound to go generic, which is not something easy when you're a deathcore/metalcore band. After their debut I've been a bit worried because they started to suffer of a lack of inspiration but thankfully they fixed that problem. Because yeah, usually, a deathcore band's originality doesn't tend to last long enough... That said, I just hope that GENESIS won't be the only good song coming from the album.

What I like the most in this band is probably the way they manage to stay creative and at the same time they prevent their sound to go generic, which is not something easy when you're a deathcore/metalcore band. After their debut I've been a bit worried because they started to suffer of a lack of inspiration but thankfully they fixed that problem. Because yeah, usually, a deathcore band's originality doesn't tend to last long enough... That said, I just hope that GENESIS won't be the only good song coming from the album.

NAMBA69 "21st CENTURY DREAMS" NAMBA69 ALBUM Special Web Site：http://namba69special.com/ Directed by UGICHIN(FOOLISH GRORY STUDIO)   2014/12/10 ON SALE!!! Album comes in 2 types, regular edition CD only, and limited edition with DVD. 【CD+DVD】 CTCD-20013/B ￥3,300-(+tax) 【CD】 CTCD-20014 ￥2,500-(+tax)   【Tracklist】 -CD- 1. INTRO 2. 21st CENTURY DREAMS 3. TRUE ROMANCE 4. SUMMERTIME 5. ON THE ROAD 6. STRAY DOG 7. STARTING OVER 8. THE WORLD IS YOURS 9. JUST BECAUSE 10. NMFN 11. GHOST 12. TRASH 13. FOREVER KID   -DVD- MUSIC VIDEO 01. TRUE ROMANCE 02. TAKE ME TO THE STREETS 03. 21st CENTURY DREAMS 04. SUMMERTIME    

GENESIS Full PV 
 

lol @ dat pretty nice riff that pops up at 1:18 only to never appear again
 
...ARCHMEH.

It looks totally awesome to me, keep it up!

The atmosphere of this song is just perfect!

Thank you!  (#^ ^#)
They're all birthday cards for friends and family.
Here's the latest one I did for my sister this year (she's in art school).
 

So I started working on something new...
Unfortunately I wasn't really impressed with the band Call Me, however I thought that the theme of Minpha's look was really cute and it was a kind of image I'm not used to drawing so I wanted to try and capture the different textures in his clothing and head piece as well as take this opportunity to practice drawing objects in peoples arms. I haven't gotten to those parts yet, but here is the rough outline so far. 
 

 
I still need to refine things and clean it up, but that takes so much time so I'll just get the whole sketch out and then I'll make things better looking. 

As for the previous drawing I was doing... I lost the file somehow so I won't be finishing that one. sorry ;___;
 
EDIT: I did a little more, I still need to redraw the head piece better and go over the outline of the hair and add more texture... I may just scrap the color all together and start over =___= but here is kind of something headed in the direction. Still kinda poop though.

I discovered them from the japanese metal documentation (on youtube) and the distributed songs weren't that bad. They have definitely potential, didn't listen to their new stuff though.
 
Yet, they're not like DA BOMB of japanese metal. Infernal revulsion, defiled and GxSxD are like my biggest hopes of j. extreme metal right now. None can surpass Vomit remnants though..  nerdnerdnerdnerdnerdnerdnerd

I finished reading Blame! some weeks ago, it's really an awesome manga. I loved its chaotic/shambolic art and the "story", even if I'm not sure of having understand the end... But whatever. I should check out more stuff from Nihei Tsutomu, this guy is awesome.
 
Currently I started reading Devilman and Defense Devil, I finished the first tomes of both mangas and I'm liking them so far.

I've had a massive kick on Necrophobic the last days. Swedish black/death metal which at times goes into both melodic death/black and thrash metal territory. The earliest albums are my favourites, but Death to All, released in 2009 are pretty fucking cool as well. But it lacks the awesome production of the two first albums, and isn't as strong song wise either. But still awesome. This shit is highly recommended. The second, Darkside, is probably my favourite right now.
 



 

This probably isn't of much interest to peope here, but there's finally a official comp with their demo, EP and album out these days. This shit is heavily recommended. Raw, brutal and occult black metal of the filthiest kind. Sarcofago meets Beherit. It sounds absolutely disgusting.
 
 


 
 

 
 
 
 
I don't buy CDs anymore unless it's something special, and this most definetly is. This is getting a spot in my collection. Masterpiece!

NBL FUCKING TOLD YOU TO BUY THEIR ALBUM YOU LITTLE SHITS NOW LOOK WHAT YOU'VE DONE

Two pictures this time!

It's too early for this kind of poll I think.
 
We can't judge because there are DIR EN GREY's and MERRY's albums on December !!!

So yeah, those who have played any MGS game (preferably MGS4 too - even if it's not pleasing most people out there) know the drill.
 
Thoughts about fifth installation so far? Yea, TPP isn't even out yet (the release date would be far, far away) but I am pretty sure that certain people have got their claws on prologue, a.k.a Ground Zeroes.
 
I finished GZ pretty fast at my friend's - and eh, there isn't really anything outstanding/amusing for now...except for short-lived gameplay :/ Hope TPP will be more "full-length"-y (if that is even correct)