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I've arrived back in the States after two very fun and eventful weeks in Tokyo. Leaving was so hard, but I've made it my New Years resolution to start planning to move to Japan permanently this year. I haven't cried this much in a long time.

ロマン急行 will be releasing a single this February: "ハロー" (HELLO) and "グッバイ" (GOODBYE). It is unclear at the moment if this is a double-A-sided single, or a two-type single with different names for the #aesthetic, but both releases have different serial numbers. (eg: xxx-01a + xxx-01b vs xxx-01 + xxx-02) Both will be released on February 26th. Further details surrounding price and tracklist have yet to be announced. http://romankyuko.net/discography/single/321.html

Hello all! I vanished for a few years but I decided to come back since my favorite group of all time (deadman) is active right now. Hello again!

Ah the very american tradition of indie bands having their shit broken into and stolen

New song:

I've followed Seika from (discovering) bis to Blu-Billion, so I'm really gutted that he can't perform anymore (reminds me a bit of how Yukimi left the scene.) My interest in the band has tapered off over the years, but they've had some really iconic releases. ;_;

Guys, there’s not much science as to why these bands are popular. They are fun and charismatic live and that is it. No one wants to see a boring, insipid artsi-kei band perform coughDimlimcough, but if you have a blast live who cares is they are “repetitive”. Yes, marketing can be a thing, but ultimately it’s the band that sells themselves live.

New band "ルヴィーユ (Luvielle)" has formed and will start activities from 2019.11.10. "ルヴィーユ(Luvielle)" members: vo. シンク(Sinc) (ex.ヒル(Hiru), MELI-MELO) ba. 曄香(Youka) dr. chinari gt.sp. 崇syu (MELI-MELO) gt.sp. syoki (ex.AiDeal) Individual look: vo.シンク(Sinc) ba. 曄香(Youka) dr. chinari Twitter ohp

ex-DAMY Vo.椋 (Ryo) solo project "鴉-カラス- (Karasu)" has formed. http://karasu-web.com/

Xavat announced on twitter that they will be releasing a new mini-album. Further details, other then it being live-limited in pre-sale, have not been announced.

You guys better not think we forgot about this! ✨ Coming back for the 3rd year in a row, MH will once more be hosting the MH JRock Awards for 2019! ✨ Now, before you start voting, read the rules provided in the spoiler below, otherwise Yuyo is gonna be mopey about it. Once you have read the general rules, here's how to vote: 1. Copy the list of categories below into your reply 2. Fill in your votes (you can skip as many categories as you'd like) 3. Submit. Try to keep your votes organized under spoiler tags in order to save space for other voters. Your posts will stay hidden until the end of the voting. Here are your categories to choose from: Voting will last until Monday, January 13th of the New Year (2020) This will allow everyone to take their time, since some of us are still waiting on some final releases to come out this month. Note:  "Album" includes both full and mini-albums. For simplicity reasons, we follow the "Once Visual Kei, always Visual Kei" rule. So yes, that makes bands like Dir en grey or L'Arc~En~Ciel a Visual Kei band, just for the purpose of this voting. If you missed/skipped 2018 or are just joining the forum and have never heard of this, then take part this year! If you have any questions about the 2019 MH Jrock Awards, feel free to contact me or any of the MH Staff! Happy Voting!

are grainy webcam photos and nasal tip piercings vk?

Because (MAYBE?????) SUI isn't the boss of CULA 😕 Probably he was invited to take part of CULA but 70 holds all the rights of the band. (???????) PS: As far as I remember, David attended to Starwave Records events as a "guest".

Ok thank you for telling ^^ This just could not be him xD But i thought maybe he changed his name like they often do. I will think about your hints but i am pretty sure i don’t know them xD

Sui has his own label, Resonance. He opened it as soon as David really started activities (apart from a stint at Chateau Agency for like 5 minutes).

Art Cube always underappreciated legends imo.

Kiwamu is fluent in english and replies to his emails so we could probably get an answer if he chooses to respond

NEW ADD "The Cloak" Vo.JiN(ex.ZeeD) Gu.HIZMI(ex.雫…) Ba.YOHMA(ex.雫…) Dr.ツトム（ex.Kill=slayd)

I think I was confused because they seemed like with their last band they would enter BP and then disbanded and then started under BP to leave them but I'm guessing it was to give them a boost in popularity. Hope they can keep going

Its from 2019's FC membership gift; there's 1 CD (or 2) every year. Here's the link to its release: https://www.kyakusitsu.com/content1/?no=OUV9sn6RC3VXsQc23Psgcrs Here's the translation for the tracklist: 1. Time Capsule (Original song for this release) 2. Kimi to boku [cali gari - (2002.10.30) 舌先3分サイズ] 3. Kaminari ga saitara [FIGURE'71 - Live Limited CD] 4. Shitsuren planetarium [FIGURE'71 - (2005.09.14) 東京負け犬エレジー] 5. Koibito wa ramune iro [FIGURE'71 - (2005.09.14) 東京負け犬エレジー] 6. TOWN OF SIREN [Lab. The Basement - (2006.02.14) Town of Siren] Oh, its available for 9900yen for 2nd hand: https://puresound.co.jp/user_data/sp_artist_product_detail_purchase.php?pid=101021181&aid=kurotoao&bck=%2Fuser_data%2Fsp_artist_product_purchase.php%3Faid%3Dkurotoao I got mine for 5000yen at mandrake though :X You beat me to it!!!! XDDD

Managed to find the info in an old Trombe news thread, heh (songs listed are not in order but they are the same tracks).

Mejibray remains on “hiatus”. 8P-SB keeps on its current trajectory, has another Halloween look that makes fans think for a hot minute that they’re going back to vkei. Yuutaro keeps hanging out with the Liraizo guys. When Pentagon disbands, he and Yutori do a new project together. Razor goes to Europe for a convention or a fan club trip. They release a few more singles, maybe a mini? MeteoroiD says “fuck it” and decides it’s too fun to play together, so even if it’s only for one show a year, they decide to stick together. Maybe they even come back to America for a con. (This is wishful thinking on my part but meh.) Kizu keeps releasing singles that they want to release with sometimes mixed reactions from fans. They release at least one solid heavy A-side that keeps people invested. Reiki keeps having drunk Insta lives.

lmao, finally found my turntable.fm and last.fm profiles that I screenshotted ages ago...

Video Gayton is selling for cheap (less than 1000 yen) in 2nd hand VK hands like Closet Child so I suppose there's a large print of it? You can get it as long as you bought a copy of 艶℃ at HMV or Tower Records: http://gbunof.web.fc2.com/xavat/disc-en.html Be glad you don't follow goatbed; they will 90% release a live limited CD ALBUM at any of their concerts like this: and as of now, the number of live limited/mail order only releases are much much more than their public releases. And their website don't even bother documenting all these releases. I'm trying to collecting all of Ao Sakurai's releases (including Lab the Basement's) but its hard when he has a couple of CDs (on CD-Rs!) given out for free on his yearly birthday concerts where he remake some of his old songs, including this beauty: https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/m271448939 But no way am I paying 22000 yen for that!

Only a week left to submit your votes for the 2019 MH JRock Awards! Make sure to get them in before the deadline!

New website :http://zerohz.tokyo/ New look in big : Individual looks : ROY : Rio : Leo : Gaga changes his pseudonym in TAIKA Colo changes his pseudonym in RYOGA

They really are huge and have presence in Brazil and Chile. Here's the list of Japanese groups they have brought: (A lot of Kpop too but I'm not puting in it) °C-ute ( 2015 and 2017 ) VAMPS Jupiter DIR EN GREY ( 2015 and 2019 ) ASIAN KUNG - FU GENERATION ( 2015 and 2017 ) SuG BAND-MAID ( 2016 and 2018 ) GALNERYUS DO AS INFINITY Juice=Juice MAXIMUM THE HORMONE PLASTIC TREE SPYAIR Rookiez is Punk'D Morning Musume '18 THE GAZETTE (2019) MIYAVI MAN WITH A MISSION ANGERME

Kizu will release 2 singles Dimlim new album will be diferent but good, their concert in Mexico will have enough success but the band will go on a "undefined hiatus", Retsu will become a Trap producer, Hiroshi joins a random band, Sho disappears till 2021 New The GazettE album DEG continues on tour and at the end of the year they release a new single, with a remake of Saku or any old song idk Sukekiyo new single too MUCC releases 10 demo tapes and 4 random sinlges, why MUCC, just why? Gulu gulu new stuff will be awesome Mejibray reunion concert without MiA, Koichi forgets how to play bass Dadaroma will release the same fucking song again Xaa-Xaa will release an awesome single, a good and a meh one Dezert will have an anime opening and become more famous but more appart of the vk scene Yoshiki will do everything except release the new X Japan album, a colaboration with BTS for sure Jiluka and breakin' holiday will tour together again Madmans Esprit new single but more problems with the band Diarua will continue being Diaura Nazare good singles with the weird Issei's production 3 new bands that sounds exactly like D.I.D, bc 2 of them are produced by Issei Deviloof becomes more succesfull in the western audience and do a tour in the US with some random american metalcore/deathcore bands and leave the makeup behind It's all I have for now, I need to remember more bands

No Switzerland

They'll hold a nationwide tour to promote the new release. New look, for this year's Valentine's day oneman live: There's also this other one:

u b tripping luv x tragic dir en grey abomination doesn't account for every other band men out there

New aesthetic, same tired Ruki compositions.

Damn I remember when I was in high school and they first debuted

WE NEED A MV WITH THIS LOOK OMG! THE BEST LOOK EVER! Hopefully David will continue to release stuffs for Long time

I'm praying starwave either goes bankrupt and their band catalog is picked up by forum, ains-style or they upgrade their studio mastering station and stop butchering CD releases idk if I'm asking too much tbh

Nightmare officially revives, AINS will sign another band, but soon flop as a whole as Yukika will have been taking out too many loans. Gulu Gulu will release a full length and it will be awesome Mitsuki Sakai starts a solo career, covers Kurara Zeroshiki, Kiryu and Mizelia songs Mamo will sell his pee to fangirls Still no god damn X Japan album

Kamijo will continue to be as fabulous as he already is. The Ghost inside of Me will gain more popularity. Still no X-Japan new album realease, but Yoshiki will be photographed in the vicinity of the Pope.

the avoided sun is in my top-3 VK albums ever don't try it sweatie x

I don’t like all the synth work in the background. Also think Nero needs to work on his phrasing. A lot of the lines sound really awkward against the music

Some time in 2020, NéiL will revive. Not sure if it's one-time, but it's confirmed by their bassist and some other old-school guys

support members: Gt.凪紗(Nagi) (ex.失墜とアサナギ(Sittui to Asanagi)) Gt.Kairi (ex.ART ELICIA) Ba.れの(Reno) (ex.Tokami.) Dr.潤(Jun) (ex.REVINE)

https://www.gofundme.com/f/acme-tour-van-break-in-support?fbclid=IwAR3k-Gji5VKjUHqT4xRAFrgx1vnkDwY8rY6rMbY1nAoYFwdnyizMUAfU95U Acme has started a 2nd gofundme because their tour van got broken into and their merch / equipment got stolen.

I guess there should somebody here who know who this dude is It's a really big big hint. And if you know who he is, you can 100% discover who ASTAROTH are!

cali gari's official website do feature their live-limited/buy A, B & C to get D/lucky-draw only (I'll elaborate on this later) CDs like: http://www.missitsu.com/disco/ZAVY.html http://www.missitsu.com/disco/digitable.html but they stopped updating since 2017 and its missing a few releases. I have my own list, which is by no means exhaustive: [2002.04.03] ただいま。enf disco dub MIX edit (live only) [2002.03.14] 極秘 (FC only; basically songs from a live gig) [2012.XX.XX] 初恋中毒 (Kenjiro Vocal Version); live only [2013.06.22] 『1』 （狂信盤）; FC only [2013.11.01] 『2』 （狂信盤）; FC only [2014.02.01] Kenjiro instrumental track (buy 10000yen worth of kenjiro goods at a gig and you'll get it for free; see link below) [2014.02.01] 非金属の夜 (given out free at their live; recording of their live gig of the same title) [2014.03.16] 俺≠俺 (instrumental track; buy 10000yen worth of goods at a gig and you'll get it for free) [2014.09.27] トゥナイトゥナイ ヤヤヤ (Demo version), given out free at their live [2015.11.07] みんなの発狂 (Demo version), given out free at their live [2017.09.02] マグロ－電車は急に止まれない篇－, given out free at their live [2017.09.09] 舌先3分サイズ ver.2.0, given out free at their live [2017.09.23] 青春狂騒曲 凌雲立志篇, given out free at their live [2018.03.14] 『3』, limited release [2018.04.04] 『4』, limited release [2018.09.11] オヤスミナサイ～2018新録, comes with preorder of concert DVD [2019.01.14] 二十五周年記念贈呈盤「0」, buy "14", get a coupon inside and exchange for the CD at "14" concerts [2019.06.23] ヘルニア (comes with 3000yen pamphlet) [2019.12.13] ある職業病への見解と、それに伴う不条理な事象とか” <椎間盤> [2019.12.23] Secret Demo (Lucky-draw only) https://twitter.com/sakurai_shouten/status/1209033210614542337/photo/1 I'm not including the live limited DVD releases (there's ALOT) and CDs that are sent to your address, as long as you are a FC member and re-recorded version of cali gari songs by Ao that he releases only at his birthday lives and collaboration with book releases (yes, its a thing. He did 2 so far, from what I know). You can find photos of some of the releases mentioned here: https://item.mercari.com/jp/m93776161440/?_s=U2FsdGVkX19gthRZeMjGDdI_ZTdFA9j17kBfA0MKTaVmafMiqwmR7n92z6TU1Hvd5LKNZF0-UD9low0oatdW5n6aACYIfTxbgfc0t3g32a2jx4OymyPdfoj0oaXrOW1c https://item.mercari.com/jp/m97179718757/?_s=U2FsdGVkX1-qyFN8FF7xkY5MCRl9S97JaArEq6EZhYtnb9GpWF1k7OkySH0T99ugK4ZI4oKRS34M8Nb6w25p75SvwfNGn3aw7NFLQeYKwPJA9cnwJJl_NwquGM3WRO4A

Totally looks like they're still under B. P. records... And could they use ONE website? And this single will be released last year? What's happening???

can't wait for his new stuff mastered on starwave to drop on my ears like a sonic bulldozer 😍

At least this many lmao