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Jin can still sing with the flu... he's been doing it for 10 years...

They lost a very good opportunity to name it "masTOURbation".

On 2017.03.22, the band will release a new single called 『ジョーカーゲーム』(Joker game). It will cost 1230 + taxes. Furthermore, a DVD called 『少女-ロリヰタ-23区完全復活記念ONEMAN「起動区」at Zepp Tokyo』 will be released in late April. The DVD will include 2 DVDs + live photos + unpublished photos + a T-shirt. It will cost 13.284 yens. You can order it from 2015.01.15 to 2017.01.23 here : https://falling-dust-639.stores.jp/items/5878d6ed41f8e850ff00a031 They also opened their fan-club and you can register here : https://lolita23q-fc.com/

RAZOR will release their 1st single 「DNA」at 2017.02.22 (2 types) Type A: 01. DNA 02. 嫌、嫌、嫌。 (Iya, Iya, Iya.) DVD: DNA MV ￥1,800- ( tax out ) Type B: 01. DNA 02. 嫌、嫌、嫌。 (Iya, Iya, Iya.) 03. ネイキッド (Naked) ￥1,500- ( tax out )

The pond in my neighborhood was frozen yesterday! So, I braved it and took a self-portrait on it. It was frozen pretty solid so I actually ice skated a little too (haha).

lmaoooo

indigo's unpopular favorites of 2016 It's a little after midnight here, so basically I missed the deadline, but it's still sunday somewhere! I'm not in it for the prize really, I just wanted to get this list out there for fun so I didn't really invest in creativity, it's just a simple list. I imagine these artists won't appear on many - if any - lists. It's good to have a bit of diversity too, right? Some of these videos might be blocked for you, my apologies for that! Here are the Japanese albums I enjoyed the most last year! #1 ムニムニ (Munimuni) - A KILLS A I feel like this album would be on a bunch of EOTY lists if it wasn't for the hmm... unique vocals. I have never been bothered by his voice, though. And he uses his lower register a lot more on this mini-album anyway. I must admit the vocal melodies and delivery can be for an acquired taste. Every time I hear someone say "I love the music but can't stand the vocals" about a band I enjoy, it makes me particularly happy for some weird reason. Few of us have been waiting for new Munimuni material for ages and finally we got a new mini-album! A KILLS A is only 17 and half minutes long but it's still something. And that something is 17 and half minutes of quality music: melancholic rock with fucking awesome atmospheric, wailing shoegazey guitar. Just listen to it on BIG MONEY or NEO SONG, for example. Third song &4 is the weakest point on the album but it's still good. Sample song Highlights: BIG MONEY, NEO SONG, KOGEN #2 Age Factory - LOVE I'm not entirely sure, but I like to think that this album is about a summer, two teenagers and first love. As you know, everything feels 10 times worse when you're a teenager, especially a break up. This album has that whole bittersweet, exaggerated end of the world atmosphere. You could almost cut these feels with a knife. I simply adore the vocalist's voice, I just want to give him a man-hug and say "it's alright". It's near impossible to pick a favorite song, they're all my favorites. This album needs to be listened to from start to finish as one consistent piece of music. For me "LOVE" hit hard, one of my favorite rock albums in a long time. Sample song Highlights: EVERYTHING, maybe with the exception of Veranda #3 iri - Groove it I stumbled upon iri's music randomly. I saw the cover art and was intrigued. A few youtube song samples later I was excited. After the full album I was hooked. The album is influenced by urban music; R&B, soul, funk, hip-hop. The production on the album is smooth and groovy. The list of producers include mabanua (ナイトグルーヴ), STUTS (Wandering) and Kenmochi Hidefumi (breaking dawn, フェイバリット女子) among others. iri's voice is soulful and despite her young age she sounds mature. There's even some parts where she is rapping but she is comfortable with it, it doesn't sound awkward or try-hard. Perfect music for a night drive in the city! Sample song Highlights: breaking dawn, Wandering #4 友川カズキ (Kazuki Tomokawa) - 光るクレヨン (Gleaming Crayon) Tomokawa has been around for a long time. He's been churning out albums regularly for 40 years and I think we're close to 30 studio albums by now. He's known for his avant-folk style of music and Gleaming Crayon continues on the same line. The most well-known characteristic of Tomokawa is his idiosyncratic voice, I'd describe his technique as "coughing-your-lungs-out". It's desperate, disgusting, intimidating. Most of the time his voice is accompanied by acoustic guitar. There's also some occasional instruments; distressing drums, scary strings, sporadic saxophone, you name it but which ever the instrument, it's always a harrowing feat. Sample song Highlights: つつじ, 愉楽 #5 SALU - Good Morning I remember when I saw the PV of first single Tomorrowland and thought to myself "this is trash". Well, since then I have changed my opinion a bit, it's still my least favorite song though but the rest of the album makes up for it. The opener "All I Want feat. Salyu" is a strong one. It's nothing like "Tomorrowland". It's an emotional song, with a piano-based beat. The subdued "la la la's" which serve as a chorus are beautiful and last minute lets Salyu shine. The production on this album is great for the most part, it's soulful. There's jazzy horns, piano aaaaand I just noticed that I love to list instruments. SALU flows on these beats effortlessly and he got some good hooks. There's surprisingly lot of singing too, like on "How Beautiful" and "Lily". All featuring artists do a great job, there aren't any rappers but singers Salyu and Mika Nakashima and trumpeter Kuroda Takaya. Especially Salyu almost steals the show on her feature. Sample song Highlights: All I Want feat. Salyu, How Beautiful, タイムカプセル #6 Yellow Studs - door There are bands that I wish would evolve with every album, and then there's bands like Yellow Studs. They have basically been doing the same thing since forming - garage-ish rock with hints of jazz - never really changing their sound, and damn I'm glad they haven't! They have nice melodies, raspy vocals and great instrumentation with catchy guitars, cool upright bass and some lovely keyboard/piano. I've always enjoyed their faster tempo songs the most, and this album proves it true again. おはよう (Ohayo) is a great example, it might be one of the best songs they've done so far and it's one of my favorite songs of 2016! It's simply a fun album which never fails to lift my spirits. Sample song Highlights: ガラクタ, おはよう

it pisses me off when it's the opposite you had to choose one song and you chose the worst one!!!!!!!

In no order (although Tokage is No.1 in my book) 1.)@Tokage 2.) @itsukoii 3.) @CAT5 4.) @emmny 5.) @Elazmus 6.) @nekkichi 7.) @ghost 8.) @plastic_rainbow 9.) @Zeus 10.) @doombox 11.) @Shir0 12.) @nostalgia 13.) @Seimeisen

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I got new lights today so immediately I had to use them on something....

Good day, It has been many years since I have been active in the Jrock/Visual Kei scene. I was provided this forum name as a suggestion from a friend when I inquired about certain music I was searching for. I am a little hesitant to emerge again in the community after being absent for so many years, but I wished to at least say hello while I am here. Thank you for having me.

It was announced at DADAROMA 2nd Anniversary One Man Tour Final 「造花とカラシニコフ」 (1/14) that they will release their 3rd mini-album '「dadaism♯3」' on April 19. In addition their tour 'MASTURBATION.' will begin on 5/20 (SAT) at Shinjuku RUIDO K4 (Yoshiatsu's birthday live) until the tour final on 7/9 (SUN) at Shinjuku RENY. Pictures on Twitter but I'm too lazy to copy them. If anyone has the setlist from tonight I'd love to see it.

Kiryu will release its 16th single called 「私ハ傀儡、猿轡ノ人形」(watashi ha kairai, sarugutsuwa no ningyô) on 2017.04.05 ! 4 types will be available. TYPE A : 1944 yens CD : 1.私ハ傀儡、猿轡ノ人形(watashi ha kairai, sarugutsuwa no ningyô) 2.[title not yet decided A] DVD : 1私ハ傀儡、猿轡ノ人形(watashi ha kairai, sarugutsuwa no ningyô) (clip and making-off) TYPE B : 1944 yens CD : 1.私ハ傀儡、猿轡ノ人形(watashi ha kairai, sarugutsuwa no ningyô) 2.[title not yet decided A] DVD : 1私ハ傀儡、猿轡ノ人形(watashi ha kairai, sarugutsuwa no ningyô) (multi angle PV ) TYPE C : 1620 yens CD : 1.私ハ傀儡、猿轡ノ人形(watashi ha kairai, sarugutsuwa no ningyô) 2.[title not yet decided A] 3.[title not yet decided B] 4.私ハ傀儡、猿轡ノ人形(inst) (watashi ha kairai, sarugutsuwa no ningyô) 5.[title not yet decided A] (inst) 6.[title not yet decided B] (inst) TYPE D : 1620 yens CD : 1.私ハ傀儡、猿轡ノ人形(watashi ha kairai, sarugutsuwa no ningyô) 2.[title not yet decided A] 3.[title not yet decided C] 4.私ハ傀儡、猿轡ノ人形(inst) (watashi ha kairai, sarugutsuwa no ningyô) 5.[title not yet decided A] (inst) 6.[title not yet decided C] (inst)

How many projects this dude have ?!

mourning Asagi/Kisaki talent peak r.n.

i am terrified, what the fuck is THIS

[G O T H P U S S Y]

Idgaf about anything mejiblay tbh, but I literally can't decide what's more disturbing, a dude with confirmed bpd still fucking around while being fully aware of his antics spilled like canned sencha on tanuki, or tanugya being disgusting morally decomposed pigs, living off a person's mental health struggle. can we speculate on the odds of him passing away to wrong combo of meds and alcohol to bring some dignity back to this thread?

i guess hiroto's started a youtube channel and will be posting drumming videos? i'm all for it, especially if we get more snippets of songs like LOVER that have only been played live (although it's pretty hard to pick up on the rest of the song when the video's focused on the drums...)

Yoshiatsu already had one pregnancy scare. He doesn't need another. Stick to masturbation boys.

Me and my deer eyes, but I guess that's fine anyways.

Asagi was diagnosed with temporomandibular joint disorder 9 years ago. It's a chronic desease that makes it very painful to speak and sing at all. Asagi, being the workaholic he is, he pushed his own limits until by the end of 2014 he couldn't sing anymore due to the pain on his jaw. They went on hiatus from november 2014 until around september 2015. It should have been a longer hiatus, but I'm pretty sure Asagi pushed himself again so he could go back to singing. For anyone who cares about this piece of information, the whole Alice in Wonderland theme is either over or momentarily paused, or at least that's what D is leading us to believe with the latest announcements on twitter.

the fragile's god children new previews since 2013's full album "Espiazione" are available on his official youtube channel. No further details announced.

Guys, is this REALLY real?? I still can't believe that they're back *-* looking forward to it!!

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I trimmed it down even more now. I think these 15 are my top 10 (:P) in 2016. Cultes des Ghoules - Coven, or Evil Ways Instead of Love I can not praise this album enough. Evil black metal with an occult atmosphere. Love the Mortuary Drape (87-94) and Necromantia (92-93) vibe it has. The perfect soundtrack to an old black and white film about witchcraft. Alcest - Kodama Alcest doesn't reinvent the wheel with Kodama, rather it's a step back sound-wise from the shoegaze album that was Shelter. It's not black metal again, but it's darker, it's blacker and much more metallic sounding. Beautiful from begining to end. Tarot - Reflections Tarot released three fantastic EPs in 2014 and grabbed my entire attention that year. They've manage to mix the occult and mystic feeling of Pagan Altar, the epic side of Uriah Heep and the rocking feeling of Deep Purple and Rainbow. 2016 saw the release of their debut album, and it does not stand back to the EPs. A bit more psychedelic perhaps, but as good. Pure heavy rock! Vektor - Terminal Redux Vektor has always had something about them, but they've never managed to quite hit the nail on its head. But with Terminal Redux they sure as hell did that and got all of their potential out. This album is a progressive thrash metal masterpiece! Blood Ceremony - Lord of Misrule Blood Ceremony is a band that doesn't seem to know how to fail. As they've gotten more psychedelic rock-esque and less doomy and metallic with each album, they've also gotten better and better. Their best one yet. Moonsorrow - Jumalten aika I'm one of those who thought Varjoina kuljemme kuolleiden maassa was a bit of a disappointment. Don't get me wrong, I love the album and tink it's great, but for a band who took such big steps into a unique direction filled with dark, progressive and epic black metal and semi-folky pagan metal, it was a a disappointment to see them go back to a less progressive, dark and epic sound closer to their older stuff. But with Jumalten aika they're back to the dark, epic, progressive and black path, and this is how i prefer my Moonsorrow. Occult Burial - Hideous Obscure This raw and furious thrashing black metal trio capture the essence of the genre, and the feeling of the past. This sounds like a mix of old Bathory, NME, Sodom and Nifelheim. Brilliant album! Thangorodrim - Taur-nu-Fuin This is not a metal album, but because the dungeon synth genre is so closely related to black metal I will choose it anyway. This album, heavily inspired by old Mortiis, is just glorious, and the atmosphere is that of a black metal album released in 1994. This album is breathtaking! Bròn - Ànrach Three tracks and 57 minutes of beautiful atmospheric black metal in the vein of Evilfeast. It's not quite as dark as Evilfeast, but this is just as good. Beautiful album that's just perfect for a beautiful winter day. Demon Bitch - Hellfriends This is easily the heavy metal album of the year. They're not as classy as Borrowed Time, not as epic as Manilla Road or as dark and occult as Mercyful Fate, but they kinda sound like a mix of these bands. This album is a must-have imo! Ithaqua - The Black Mass Sabbath Pulse This EP sounds like a mix of Rotting Christ and Varathron ano 1993. You can hear that this is greek. Another brilliant release by these guys. Like the demo it's more or less perfect! Cradle of Filth - Dusk... and Her Embrace - The Original Sin This is an album we've heard talk about for ages, and finally getting to hear this was incredible. It's an album we've dreamt about for so long, but it's always seem to be just a dream. The Original Sin sees a darker, rawer and blacker version of Cradle of Filth's best album, Dusk... and Her Embrace, with less gothic atmosphere. Musically speaking this was a dream come true, and I think this is as good as the "original". Feels like two very different albums, though. Hail Spirit Noir - Mayhem in Blue I heard the debut on its release day and was totally blown away by Hail Spirit Noir's unique brand of psychedelic rock and progressive black metal. The debut saw an unmature band which was all over the place, but the sheer power of the music dressed in it's warm production won me over. Oi Magoi! was a bit disappointing. A good album, but it saw a more mature and focused band. Musically not all over the place, and the mixing of the genre wasn't as random as on the debut. Fantastic albu, just not as good. Mayhem in Blue sees the band move a bit away from black metal and sees a more progressive band with folk elements and whatnot. It's not as good as the debut, but it's fantastic anyway! Hexenslaught - Demo 2016 1987 saw the release of three death metal demos that also happens to be masterpieces. Necrovore's "Divus de Mortuus", Incubus' "Incubus" and Morbid Angel's "Thy Kingdom Come". In 1994 these three demos was released on a compilation by Slayer Mag! This demo, both sound-wise and quality-wise, would've been perfect on that compilation. It simply sounds like a brilliant demo from 1987. Howls of Ebb - Cursus Impasse: The Pendlomic Vows A lot of bands are heavily inspired by H.P. Lovecraft and tries to capture that feeling in their music. Some have succeded, and some have not. But the closest thing you'll come to Lovecraftian metal is Howls of Ebb. As unique as it is original, as dark as it is twisted and as impressive as it is crazy. Hear this is you like black/death metal with a twist! Also, Satan's Fall need a mention. Both the demo and EP are fantastic. Will come back with that later!

Read some of his interviews...he reveals that he's very..manipulative, And he thinks everyone in Meji is annoying as hell but appreciates what they can do together as musicians

SETLIST on 1/14 Tour Final: (CBA to copypaste the Japanese names XD) 01 Risley Circus 02 SEX 03 Saishuu Densha 04 Morphine 2 05 Morphine 3 06 Apathy Human -MC- 07 Kusatta Mikan no Houteishiki 08 High and Low 09 Tokekomenai Zarazara na Geijutsu... 10 Lucid Dream -TT- 11 Zouka to Kalashnikov 12 KURT (Live Ver.) -MC- 13 Intro 14 MONEY 15 Trend Identity 16 Yume Tarareba 17 Quiet Red -MC- 18 Oboreru Sakana -ENCORE- 19 Tsuki no Uta -MC- 20 Velka & Strelka 21 KIDS WAR

we'll finally be able to pay yoshiatsu for his masturbation, just like he wanted......... & new music yaaaay

They'll ~play their instruments~

That would explain why all of Jin's clean singing sounds like he's holding back a sneeze.

Initial'L - Moon Light Down (all types) Inception of Genocide - do not despair Victim of Deception x Last Day Dream - VoD vs LDD

D A M N . . . 殺 さ れ た

RAREZHUT last stream order arrived. Always thanks to Waru for forwarding it~ Also the cat tape is amazing~ @Biopanda@Valicious@Waru Chibi

Yoshiatsu really does have a thing for that word huh Anyway... Great news! Wonder how many songs in dadaism #3 will be past material?

it's two minutes of t-shirts and other tour merch shilled dramatically w dozing green playing in the background, u arent missing anything

long time no see and late merry christmas from stupid fawn

lmao who even cares about looks, what is this, visual kei or something? this is ART

HYPEEEEE i'm still so happy to see them back!!

The sun hot, water is wet, kiryu's new single is going to sound like the one before it. Decent new look though, but oscillating between darker and brighter colors, and doing accordingly so musically, is still par for the course. Enjoyed the last single tho so w/e

yathhhh maman, scald ha

They do play Faizh but they don't play it at event lives very often because they have more active songs they prefer to play (ie ZONE, Lethal Affliction, Raison detre, Twisted Pain, DOJ). Don't get me wrong, Faizh is great but it's not that fun live compared to a lot of their other songs. Also re: Ricko's voice live, while he does use a backtrack (Sena also does backing vocals for a few songs) his voice is just as great live as it is on CD imo.

Details: Type: A Edition: limited Price: 2500 yen (without the taxes) Code: TRCL-??? CD: 5 songs DVD: PV Type: B Edition: regular Price: 2000 yen (without the taxes) Code: TRCL-??? CD: 6 songs

Giving me "I've been doing drag for 3 days." realness.

Top 5 - Albums/Mini Albums 1. BORN - Independence Black 2. DADAROMA - スタンチク 3. SCREW - Brilliant 4. ギルガメッシュ - -鵺-chimera 5. 白日ノ夢 - 白き記憶 Top 5 - Singles 1. DADAROMA - 螺子 2. BORN - SUICIDE MARKET 3. アンフィル - アクア 4. ギルガメッシュ - Period 5. アンフィル - パロニリア