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Thanks to the awesome @VkBrutaliaN I was finally able to see the lyrics for this super rare track. Signal was one of my favourite bands so this is quite an emotional song for me. I'm still looking to buy a copy if anyone has one to sell. I'll pay big for this one. Anyway, the song is about rebirth and meeting in another life, forgetting the sorrows of past lives and finding a reason to live. Based on the lyrical content and some old comments from Yuri and Shinya on Twitter, this seems to be a culmination of the band's work and a message of thanks to the fans. Original Japanese, Romaji and English translations are below. Crossing fate 闇に抱かれ闇の中彷徨う 終わり無き道 生きてる意味 死に向かう理由を誰か教えて 出会いを知り 別れを繰り返す 輪廻の中で 胸の傷に傷を描いた過去からただ逃げてた Deep sorrow After you cry Get over sadness 無口な君と愛し合えるの？ 笑顔ひとつを 心に咲かせよう 幾千もの眩しい過去よ 君の未来を輝かせて 此処で叫ぶ理由を君が教えてくれたね 俺の生きる意味を一緒に見つけてくれた Be living… 月日重ね繰り返す重みと矛盾の果てに 終わりの声 聞こえていた 心は砕かれて… Deep sorrow After you cry Get over sadness 無口な君をそっと抱きしめ 涙ひとつを 心に降らせた 幾千もの悲しい過去よ 君の未来を奪わないで だけど君はもう俺が側に居なくても 生きていけるから そっと目を閉じて… Open up your future 此処で叫ぶ理由は君に出会う為だから 泣き顔は似合わないよ Will we ever meet again? I'll never say goodbye… =========================================== yami ni dakare yami no naka samayou owarinaki michi ikiteru imi shi ni mukau riyuu wo dareka oshiete deai wo shiri wakare wo kurikaesu rinne no naka de mune no kizu ni kizu wo egaita kako kara tada nigeteta Deep sorrow After you cry Get over sadness mukuchi na kimi to aishiaeru no? egao hitotsu wo kokoro ni sakaseyou ikusen mono mabushii kako yo kimi no mirai wo kagayakasete koko de sakebu riyuu wo kimi ga oshietekureta ne ore no ikiru imi wo issho ni mitsuketekureta Be living... tsukihi kasane kurikaesu omomi to mujun no hate ni owari no koe kikoeteita kokoro wa kudakarete Deep sorrow After you cry Get over sadness mukuchi na kimi wo sotto dakishime namida hitotsu wo kokoro ni furaseta ikusen mono kanashii kako yo kimi no mirai wo ubawanaide dakedo kimi wa mou ore ga soba ni inakutemo ikiteyukeru kara sotto me wo tojite... Open up your future koko de sakebu riyuu wa kimi ni deau tame dakara nakigao wa niawanai yo Will we ever meet again? I'll never say goodbye... =========================================== Wandering in darkness along an endless road Someone tell me the meaning of life and death In endless cycles of encounters and farewells I'm just fleeing from the past that left scars across my chest Deep sorrow After you cry Get over sadness Can we really love one another even though you are silent? Let a single smile bloom in your heart Let your thousands of radiant pasts illuminate your future You taught me the reason why I'm shouting here You helped me find meaning in my life Be living... At the end of countless burdens and contradiction I heard a voice calling an ending My heart is broken... Deep sorrow After you cry Get over sadness I tenderly embrace your silent form A single tear fell in my heart Don't let your thousands of sorrowful pasts take away your future Now you can go on living without me by your side Softly close your eyes... Open up your future The reason why I'm shouting here is to meet you again That tear-stained face doesn't suit you Will we ever meet again? I'll never say goodbye...

Wow, manga LUNA SEA is terrifying. :'DDDD

I may be a little off in places but have tried my best, at least you have a good gist of what it means but he's saying something like: "Especially because this information has come late, I'm very sorry. As usual Kiryu's takemasa is here, but I don't expect to receive understanding/sympathy immediately but from now on throughout Kiryu's activities, things such as our words and behaviour, I think the only option is, from now, to report/show my sincerity the best I can." Some parts are difficult to make sense of as a direct translation into English so have basically given the "idea" of what he's saying instead of putting something that makes no sense whatsoever. haha. But if anyone else can give it a better shot then go for it. Hope this helps anyway.

FYI this is totally me. Bork?

sukekiyo uploaded 猥雑 Music Video, it's radio edit ver. ! Damn, why they cut it off when 毒毒モンスター part comes out... T^T

Speaking of Ohana's adorable look~ That blush and smile

I figured since this counts as creative id post it here... But here's my youtube channel! Its comic book centered and I put out new content every week! https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCp8hvpCX0NNxLdEKQng3yEA

meanwhile.... I wouldn't be half as annoyed at pitchfork, if they at least supported artists that are actually talented, creative, and empowering as much as they push this degenerative nonsense.

You really can tell when a band is actually enjoying what they're doing. This song's silly as shit but they sound like they're having the time of their lives.

Limited Edition Type A (Price: 1,389 yen + taxes) Illustrated by: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Limited Edition Type B (Price: 1,389 yen + taxes) Illustrated by: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko Regular Edition (Price: 1,389 + taxes) Tracklist 1. 宇宙の詩 ～Higher and Higher～ (そらのうた) [Sora no Uta] 2. 悲壮美 (ひそうび) [Hisoubi] If you purchase from the Universal Music store, it will come with extras. UNIVERSAL MUSIC STORE Limited Edition Type A (7,000 yen + taxes) CD: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko "Mobile Suit Gundam THE ORIGIN" design LP size DVD: 宇宙の詩 (Sora no Uta) ～Higher and Higher～ Music Video "Mobile Suit Gundam THE ORIGIN" Ver. T-shirt Yoshikazu Yasuhiko "Mobile Suit Gundam THE ORIGIN" artwork Link: https://store.universal-music.co.jp/product/d2cj6282/ UNIVERSAL MUSIC STORE Limited Edition Type B (6,000 yen + taxes) CD: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko "Luna Sea" design LP size T-shirt: Yoshikazu Yasuhiko "Luna Sea" artwork Link: https://store.universal-music.co.jp/product/d2cj6283/

Haha, I think that's the reason I like Subaru. He secretly has the heart of a softie even if he is boring xD But Reiji looks cool and sleek, not to mention I love his dark purple(?) hair~ For some reason, I remembered the main protagonist from the game, Amnesia. It's been a while since I played the game, but I remember her personality was kind of like a cardboard ^^;

i wouldn't say subaru is cold tho! he's typical tsundere imo, like, he tries to be cold but in fact he seems to care about things a lot, that's why he's always angry...while reiji is really cold most of the time, but such cold cool smart guys are kinda my type lol. speaking abt giving back and protagonist, she IS the most spineless thing AND the game only encourages such attitude. i don't remember how it was in the first game, probably same, but in more blood, if you choose answers that game considers "sadistic" (which are usually just a little less more feeble than "masochistic") you get bad ending lol

La'veil MizeriA x Crucifixion 「暁鴉」x2 らせん (Rasen) 「NIGHTMARE」 x2 「狂」x2 I waiting for the next coupling CD (蛇影)

Another episode that I liked, but...but...but...

Thanks! that blog is really useful Azusa's slowness is annoying, but at least his cuteness is distracting lol Shu is cute, but why reiji? He seems like the coldest one of the brothers. Subaru is cold too, but he's just damn boring. As to why I like Raito, if I were in the protagonist's place, I would give him back all the name-calling and mind fucking that he gave me. I mean, I think I'd be perfectly able to handle his personality type and put him in his place and it'd be a hot love-hate relationship kinda thing lol Speaking of the protagonist tho, she's in my top 10 worst main characters. She's so spineless and bland, jesus.

puerh at paella is the best ex-vk album title ever, we stan delicatessen connoisseurs x

らせん (Rasen) will release two new singles at their live on May 11: "Nightmare" and "狂".

エインフェリア (ainne feria) new look has been revealed. The band will make an announcement on May 21. They will also hold their sponsored event at Sugamo Shishio on July 2.

To celebrate their 30th anniversary, LUNA SEA's new double A-side single will be released on May 29 in three types with different jacket designs for 1389 yen each. This comes after vocalist Ryuichi was treated for lung cancer a couple of months back and is currently making his recovery. Both songs will be the opening and ending themes respectively for the anime, "Mobile Suit Gundam THE ORIGIN", which will premiere on April 29. [tracklist] 1.宇宙の詩 (Uchu no Uta) ～Higher and Higher～ 2.(to be announced) Limited edition type A jacket will feature Mobile Suit Gundam THE ORIGIN design Limited edition type B jacket will feature LUNA SEA design

I'm pretty new to the VK scene. Just started with Dir En Grey last year in October of 2018 and been hooked on VK ever since. I enjoy bands such as The GazettE, Malice Mizer, X Japan, Luna Sea, Sadie, LAREINE, existtrace and Versailles. I hope you all have a good day and thank you for greeting me XD

Jazz sounds freaking dope! I'll def check them out!

We should do another karaoke contest on this site again. We had one 4 years ago.

Ayy, thanks for the follow!

I love Noir fleurir but I admit a lot of their songs sound like they were just learning the concept of music; they sounded inexperienced in how to compose music I would say. Omocha no MIISHA stands out because it really was a well conceived song musically. I wonder what the impact of the song was in the Visual Kei scence was back then. Their music matured clearly in their last releases before disbandment although it lost the Visual Kei style.

There was this guy selling (really good) hand/nail products on the street today. He gave me a free sample then asked if I wanted to buy some. He said the usual asking price would be £110 (oof), but he was selling them for £70. Nevertheless, I managed to haggle him down to £25 😏 I'm usually quite frugal but I'm always a sucker for sweet-talking street vendors, so I'm actually pretty proud that I managed to do that.

sugizo looks like the guy from kiryu with the big chin lmao don't do him dirty like that!!

Mustachio-kei - Check. The KKK - Check. Naked gyrators - Check. Maguro 2.0. Love it.

Where have The Novembers been all my life?! ❤️

Well hey, at least Kyo looks like he's having fun.

You can double click the image to adjust the dimensions. But I for one welcome nose pics.

Hmm, I'd say they had comparable performances in terms of length, but I had to leave early so I'm not 100% sure. I do know his entire setlist for the show though: Fake Divine, After Light, Inside of Me, Out, Don't Hold Back, Zipang, Who's Gonna Save Us, Underworld, Another Moment, Sick, Mad Qualia, and Ordinary World.

…。【サイレンス】 - …。【ACOUSTIC】 Tokyo Shoegazer - Revive got these two from a friend. hit me up if you're interested in buying

After the abomination that was their last album, they're going to have to pull something pretty amazing out of the bag to win me back

Rebel hell Go to yell (XA-VAT - XANADOoM)

It feels better as a package, sure, but when you start picking it apart, it starts to show the same issues as the full-length. Messy compositions, unnecessary out of range singing, guitar-wanking solos just for the sake of it and Mio sounds even more like a pterodactyl in places. Despite it all, I still love it to bits, same as Jingai, but more so for what it could be, not so much for what it actually is.

Oh yes, my name is Chrismas tree. KAMIJO (for Lareine)- Lyrics genius Translation: *Vocative* *affirmation*, those who raised me were so gracious to give me the legal name of Abies alba or maybe Picea abies. Alternative translation: Yes, my parents were d*cks. Alternative translation n° 2: I'm stoned as f*ck.

This. No matter how we look at it from a rational, western point of view, it's easy to understand why a teenager who is constantly fed a fantasy and actually has a relationship of sorts with the artist (sometimes even sex and phone conversations in exchange of money) would get upset. Also, there's lots of artists who get openly jealous if their gyas have actual realtionships outside of the scene, I've heard from a few people that their honmei has asked them not to date or a fellow bandmember has told them not to tell that member about their relationship. So we can't only blame fans for that sort of culture.

I mean lyrically they're on same level so aEsThEtiC porcus latinus really adds nothing to sukekiyo and their value; it's been grating enough in Deg. they do x it does x

ppl out here gonna act like 90s band names like ✝Le+Rêve:DuCroissanT✝ are fine but a band using latin terms as album titles is too pretentious

but the frequent use of butchered French/English is ok?

Yeah I'm not sure if this is the right spot to write this but I'm just going to write it anyway because I think it's a real issue that is worth talking about (since I haven't seen anyone ever talk about it). Perhaps it should be moved to one of the music sections since it is music related, but I wasn't sure how the rant would end. What do you think of indie visual kei bands? Or indie bands in general? I'm talking about really new young bands that may not have that much talent or skill, but still play their damn hearts out and pour their soul into the music. I'm talking about bands that belong to unpopular labels if at all, often comprised of a bunch of kids 18 or 19. I'm talking about people who really just got into the business. Think Jui from Vidoll during De-vine for example. I've noticed for years now that there are music elitists / snobs / parasites / whatever you want to call them in the VK community, and in musical communities in general. They're WAY too harsh when they criticize music, nearing delusion but are rarely called out on it. The other day I listened to an indie band's final release, and it was full of passion and emotion, and the vocalist improved before that band disbanded (they were really bad at the beginning lol). The band I'm talking about is called ReivieЯ and the song is called Dears. Basically they had a final release that was really good in my opinion, and it was very emotional, then I went to read reviews of the album and everyone was talking absolute shite. People were saying that the release was bad and that the vocalist sucked or didn't improve (which is bullshit), and I was just thinking to myself something along the lines of "Wow. This release (Dears in particular) was full of so much emotion and I can really feel the music and enjoy this. I want to see you detractors put out something even half as good as this. Why do people just talk shit and ignore every good aspect of the release to say negative shit instead?". The vocalist has since joined a band called Fixer and has improved immeasurably since RevieЯ's first release but anyway I knew for a while now that music critics are often overly harsh to the point of just being plain delusional. They ignore every good aspect of a song just to shit on it because vocals might be a little off at one part, or for any other petty trivial reason. I've noticed that these people tend to dislike nearly everything that isn't produced by extremely talented and highly trained artists. I thought that music was supposed to be an artform, a canvas to express emotion and feeling and share it with others. I didn't know that music was supposed to be monopolized by only extremely skilled musicians with very difficult to achieve levels of skill, innovation and talent. I was always surprised by this attitude. The irony is that here in America, a lot of the popular music that the majority of people listen to is music that requires little to no no talent aside for in some instances so-so vocal training. It is not hard to sing a really basic pop song, it just requires a little bit of basic vocal training. You don't really have to use many vocal techniques to sing basic pop songs. Singing in a good power metal band and actually sounding good requires far more technique, time, training, ambition, dedication and effort, yet people eat mainstream pop / hip hop up like it's the best music on the planet. With visual kei I have had the exact opposite experience. In the end I don't really know what this rant achieves, but this is coming from someone who has loved indies visual kei bands for a decade now. I think that the attitude that a lot of people have towards musicians, especially singers discourages them from releasing their covers to the public, because criticizing towards us is usually very harsh and unconstructive.

Giving thought to why you like or don't like certain bands or music and then putting that opinion on the table--that's all well and good, and an essential part of any healthy music community. Most of the time though, I feel it's not so much the fact that there is someone out there who dislikes music that you love (these people exist no matter how popular/well-regarded a band is - and I think that's something everyone will have to accept); but rather, it's the way in which their opinions are expressed. Anyone who has been on MH longer than 3 days would have realized that '"criticizing" a band here (for some people at least) means articulating your opinion in a way that's as offensive/tactless as the rules possibly allow for, even if the same point can be made as effectively without insulting anyone. And that's not counting posts that aren't even proper opinions (e.g. going into a thread of a band you simply don't care for and saying 'just disband now', or going into a disbandment thread and gloating over it). So I kinda understand where OP is coming from. For the most part MH has been a valuable resource and a great community, although at times I wish people would actually spend more time on the bands they enjoy and leave the others alone if they have nothing valuable to say rather than just looking to provoke. There's always the "let's just turn the other cheek" attitude, but while that's always appreciated (and necessary for staying sane on the internet), surely the responsibility for a mature/critical community doesn't lie squarely with these people if there are others bent on being intentionally inflammatory all the time.

I've seen this occur ever since I got into visual kei, and that wasn't long ago. I've always appreciated indie bands, but I think many people have their reasons for disliking certain vocalists, bands, etc. (me included). But I understand what you're saying. Some harsh critiques are really out of ignorance, but let's remember art and music is all subjective. I can see why some veterans have much higher standards for these newer bands, and I wish a lot of people can write the positives and negatives they see in something rather than bash, bash, and bash more. Even if bands lacks skills or have mediocre vocals (like many vk vocalists have actually....I mean. let's be real here), there is usually something good there for somebody. So those people that truly enjoy their music, despite the lack of skills that may, objectively be there, should speak up a little louder. Also I think some of this blatant bashing is just because a band does not pander to someone's taste, and unfortunately, I may fall into that pit sometimes...but I'm in no way a snob. Generally, I think with any fandom were people have been in it a long while or are super serious, as most of us are here, they tend to come off snobbyish or close minded. So I think this phenomenon is unavoidable, and people (like me) with soft hearts should endure better and still talk freely about this music. Support these musicians with your money and your comments, likes, whatever, so they are not discouraged :)))) I'm a little emo that you mentioned Jui because I've seen him bashed here a ton and I love him to pieces. By the way, who's that cutie in your sig?