Seimeisen

a decent 2014 mucc track woah wow coror me excited
 
the smd part was really unnecessary, is tatsuro's ween even that stellar? we need a tanuki investigation brigade involved

so this album title basically proves someome from the band is reading MH, right? 

Fucking took them long enough to make another album
I like how there's a shit ton of tracks and only two of them are singles. I presume the bonus tracks are intro/outro?
Anyway, looking forward to this!

it is announced at MEJIBRAY one-man live at Hiroshima NAMIKI JUNCTION at 2014/09/08 that their new album "THE "420" THEATRICAL ROSES" will be released at 2014/12/03 (2 TYPE)
 
limited edition (3,780yen) will include CD+DVD (including "Echo" PV), and regular edition (3,240yen) will include CD only
 
[CD track list]
01.IDEA (included in regular edition)
02.シアトリカル・ブルーブラック(theatrical blue black)
03.DiefiL
04.Hungry Psychopath
05.Mr.レインは死んだふり(Mr.rain wa shindafuri)
06.RAVEN
07.埋葬虫(maisoumushi)
08.Contagion
09.Echo
10.hatred × tangle red × hunger red
11.瞬間のアイディアル(shunkan no ideal)
12.BOWWOW
13.SUICIDAL WORD GAME
14.SERVANT
15.Cristate
16.鳥は泳ぎ方を知らず溺れ亡骸(tori wa oyogikata wo shirazu obore nakigara)
17.COPERNICUS (included in regular edition)
 
 
btw they will hold their one-man live "THE THEATRICAL SHOW 鳥ハ泳ギ方ヲ知ラズ溺レ亡骸(tori wa oyogikata wo shirazu obore nakigara)" at Shibuya Koukaidou at 2014/12/22

Other way around! The PV version is re-recorded. But yeah, I agree, PV version is way better.
As for my opinion on re-recordings as a whole, it's a band-by-band basis. I didn't really like any of the re-recordings of SUICIDE ALI (most demo versions were always way better), most DEATHGAZE re-recordings are really good (although Ai just can't do justice for DOWNER; Sou did a better job for once), I absolutely love it when Plastic Tree re-records something from centuries ago (though it's a rare occurrence), I absolutely hated the DIAURA re-recordings for the 失翼の聖域 2013 single so I assume that any re-recordings from them are going to sound like shit (although VIRGIN MARY 2013 was really good)...... that's all I can think of for now.

Preview for each track,I came *o*:
 

Fatal Error Race will be getting a release after all; D.I.D. is back!!

COCKTURNAL FUCKLUST (NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST; read somewhere on a tanuki tumblr)
NOCTURNAL BUTTLUST (read it somewhere on MH, I habitually call them this now)
Blunt Ass Nord (Blut Aus Nord; can't remember where I read it)
Oh, and my personal nickname for Royz is Slutz.

not necessarily a parody but
 
MejiBLAZE (came up during mine and Jig's conversation about Mejibray's "Decadence" PV during its release week - since it was the first time I/we noticed a bong mask in vk PV)
 
Spookykyo (Sukekiyo - I think Peace coined this first?)

COCKTURNAL FUCKLUST (NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST; read somewhere on a tanuki tumblr)
NOCTURNAL BUTTLUST (read it somewhere on MH, I habitually call them this now)
Blunt Ass Nord (Blut Aus Nord; can't remember where I read it)
Oh, and my personal nickname for Royz is Slutz.

arleqWIN [arlequin]
...cuz WIN

NoDoG

Cocturnal Cashlust fits even better.

COCKTURNAL FUCKLUST (NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST; read somewhere on a tanuki tumblr)
NOCTURNAL BUTTLUST (read it somewhere on MH, I habitually call them this now)
Blunt Ass Nord (Blut Aus Nord; can't remember where I read it)
Oh, and my personal nickname for Royz is Slutz.

Good English. (which is kinda understandable due to English not being their mother language obviously)
 
Some bands just like to try too hard to sing in English, and it's always terrible.

I found another store that sells Japanese iTunes cards at MUCH better prices:
OffGamers

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.

Before I tell you and Gaz to unbunch your panties and take it to PM, I want to address the part I've bolded. I want to do this because there's a misconception I want to clear up and it's something that's been proven to work on this forum.
Sharing your music with people who actually care involves three things: music, sharing, and people. The problem with it when restricted solely to visual kei is that the sharing is inconsistent. Some people hoard the rare music and it eventually becomes lost and no one can ever hear or find it again. Some people share everything freely. If you want to find other people who like the same music you do, you have to make it freely available. But even more than that, there has to be discussion about this music. There are two very underutilized forums in the Artist and Review sections whose purpose is to facilitate discussion. If you wonder why the type of visual kei you like seems to get no attention, go look for all the topics people have started about it and look at the last time someone uploaded an album by one of those artists and wrote a review for one of those artists. It's probably been a while hasn't it? Now switch gears and look at a lot of the K-Pop fans (a good majority of which came from visual kei) and estimate the size of the fandom in comparison to VK. It seems so much bigger because they all talk about it!
The key here is "out of sight, out of mind". I'll touch on that later.
But first, let's jump into some MH history. The year was 2010. Overseas attention for visual kei was on it's way out, as Champ touched on earlier. Activity was declining on MH because a lot of fans were jumping ship to the next fad, but there wasn't any musical spheres here to keep them interested. Thus, people spent less time here as they spent more time exploring new music. CAT5 and I had a problem with this. There is an entire musical scene outside of visual kei in Japan that was getting the shaft and we wanted to fix that. We started by first uploading a lot of new music to the download section. That had limited success. The turnover rate was so fast that by the it hit page two or three no one checked it out anymore. Out of sight, out of mind. So to fix that shortcoming, we tried something new.
This was an effort on the part of a lot of people, many of which went uncredited and who I will thank now because I don't think I ever formally did this at one point. CAT5, Aion, lukrecia, and I started "The Non-Visual Recommendation Thread" which grew to be a 30 page behemoth of a topic filled with sample releases by different bands in Japan that were all non-visual. The idea was that if it was always at the top of the forum and being constantly updated, people would check it out from time to time and find things they liked. There were some issues with it (disappearing posts, MU dying, etc.) but it had it's intended effect of people finding new artists that they wouldn't know that they liked. Because we made a place for it and occasionally wrote reviews in the section, we got all three components we needed: music, sharing, and people.
We expanded this base by starting the end of year lists at the end of 2011. CAT5 and I devised this as an idea to talk about really great albums we liked that didn't get the attention they deserved, got a lot of attention and deserved to be talked about more, or weren't even Japanese but was just great music overall. We got a lot of great feedback from lots of users because it was a combination of visual and not visual artists. There was something for everyone. The topics got hundreds, if not thousands of views and even attracted the attention of some artists we praised. This got more people listening, and more people talking.
Then the staff decided to do something really crazy and split the download forum about a year back. There was always talk about splitting it between visual and non visual music because of reasons, but we were hesitant to do it because we always felt the visual forum would just eclipse the non-visual forum and the latter would die off. By mid 2013, there were enough people here that enjoyed the latter for us to give it a trial run and see how it went. It was only supposed to last for two months. But because there was a clean separation between the two, non-visual music would no longer be buried in the unified download section as it once was. Visual kei music also benefited from this as well. Now that both were easily available for view, people began checking out more non visual kei music. Instead of failing, it's grown and now there's more of a balance here than there has ever been before.
So the moral of the story here is that if CAT5 and I had never decided to do something about the lack of attention non visual music was getting here that fateful day in 2011, MH wouldn't be the way it is today. If you want to promote your preferred style of visual kei, you have to discuss it. And continue discussing it and generate interest in it. Talking about how it's dying is a start but actually talking about the music is better. Music doesn't ever die until people stop listening to it, and the fastest way for that to happen is to have no one be able to hear it and have no place for anyone to talk about it.
Now I know this isn't directly on topic but I feel that it addresses the point being made in this topic accurately enough to belong here. Now you two go play nice.

Well, I wouldn't mind it Alice Nine turned a bit heavier...
 
I always liked the Yami ni chiru sakura side of the band.

They are, but they're managed by PSC. Also, agreeing with Perez that changing management may not have much impact on Alice Nine's sound, but it seems that everyone likes to blame PSC for everything (and I myself am guilty of this at times).
Slightly unrelated, and I never ever Ever EVER thought I would say this about any band in the universe of VK, but I kind of wish Alice Nine would go back to TOKUMA, the label that surprisingly published their best albums.

Management contract and its expiring won't do much for their sound imho - but either way, I hope they will still show signs of improving after mediocrefest called "Supernova" :/

Me. I am Daniel. The Elusive Art-Keiteuse.
 

I'm really starting to hate the weekends. No... I DO hate the weekends. My sister stays at my house, my fucking parents are home all the time too; it's so hard to put up with. I don't want to spend anytime with these people... And of course the aforementioned fucking sister just had to fucking wake me up this morning with her fucking making noise and talking and shit (just ONE day after my mom wakes me up with her fucking HIGH HEELS) because she's a bitch who fucking trashes my damn house and apparently I'm the only fucking person in my family who can speak without being SO DAMN LOUD and they just never fucking respect the fact that OTHER PEOPLE STILL CAN STILL BE ASLEEP AT 9 IN THE FUCKING MORNING!!! At least they aren't *making* me be around them, fucking family togetherness nightmare. At least they don't know how much I resent them. Wow, I have serious anger issues, okay! o_O
I don't understand what people mean when they say that "family is everything." I don't know if I ever will understand.
......
Damnit I'm 21 and I'm still complaining about my family; I feel so immature right now!!

Full music video was released on a channel that usually only does the underground/indie scene. Seems like they've finally fully shifted their attention there.
 

Inb4 420 Braze Et Uppu  Massafakka.