Tokage

LIPHLICH and DISH are the only bands worth listening to on this tribute album smh

you just need to know the right people is all there is to it to be honest
 
also, from my own experience, 95% of rarez are rarez for a reason (they suck ass/they're random live-dist comment cds of band members reviewing hamburgers), but there's always the 5% of stuff that is legit good and impossible to get..

you just need to know the right people is all there is to it to be honest
 
also, from my own experience, 95% of rarez are rarez for a reason (they suck ass/they're random live-dist comment cds of band members reviewing hamburgers), but there's always the 5% of stuff that is legit good and impossible to get..

If I had to pick solely based on those lists of artists posted by Re:pli:cant up there, DC wins for me personally by a major landslide. They have a much more appealing lineup of artists, which are (mostly) solid in terms of musical output as well. Like, I can sort of vaguely see how bands like Screw or D=out could appeal to people, but I personally feel like they don't deserve to be on a semi-major label at all.
The fact that DC actually embraces their foreign fanbase instead of trying to push them away, as PSC seems to be so desperate to do, also helps to establish DC as the superior label in my eyes..

凛として時雨 - i'mperfect
DIR EN GREY - THE UNRAVELING
downy - 第五作品集『無題』
八十八ヶ所巡礼 - 0088
The Novembers - zeitgeist
LEO今井 - Made from nothing
Protest The Hero- Volition
SEX-ANDROID - ギャクシンセサイザー! !
Shilfee & Tulipcorobockles - The Right Are Each Other
Shilfee & Tulipcorobockles - Kiri Rearrange E.P.
実験台モルモット - 見開キ こころ❤断面図
kamomekamome - BEDSIDE DONORS
GalapagosS - Run like fury
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
the unknown forecast - オークション
Perfume - LEVEL3
 
are the first ones that come to mind.

「Probably you are agonized about V-rock band」 lyrics:

Even temporary joy is empty and,
in the band, does not have a meaning
I run the band which never major debut and sell

Go down

I am not mad
I still continue a Visual rock band
the mad is you
I only want to major debut

It is the cold-blooded member
He said "I already leave it"
That fellow is a lukewarm human being

Call me Call my name
So loud like an old time
Approach me at the live concert
So hard like an old time

The band which is transitory like a mirage
Is the band dissolved now?
Why... What...! How...!

''Though we got approximately ten fans with many efforts,
the member said that musicality changed, and we withdrew
I am the band reader　I am an elder most
When I run a worship of visual band like
Europe in the Middle Ages, I promised it first
I worked as the follower of the band of old scary V origin for ten years
I was hit and was made to make naked dance
I acquired a bottom in accord with terrible eyes and did it and tried it hard
My spirit is superior to your thing''

Because I am thirty years old, I cannot make a new band
I cannot run the pretty band because I am old age

give up debut of band, and find a job
already cut hair, and give it up

''I never give up debut of band
so that it is cried how many times by Momma
so that I am scolded how many times by father
But the parents said nothing to me anymore
after I became 30 years old

I brought a woman in the parents' house and fucked in old days
Then the younger sister e-mailed me
"Hey Bro go out house"
But I do not talk with the younger sister for several years either

The capsule which the photography that closed forever
in a desk and the blood paste which were always taken
care of live entered has all thrown away clothes

It would pass from that how long
The band-gal said good-bye one by one
Even if I left the band, I believed that there was only you together
But you leave me I am alone
Time not to come back I can not live without you
The memory makes pain for me
Start of drama''

The cold world I lost my job
Lukewarm thought
I thought the world to be easy

Find a job before you get old
Give it up before becoming irreparable

I stopped my breath by my hand
I stopped my sigh by my hand

My Dream of the major debut...
I run a band until I die
If I give up debut of my dream and commit suicide

I am not mad
I still continue a Visual rock band
the mad is you my father
I must succeed　I get popularity

I am not mad
I continue even if I will solo
I am not mad
I do not give up the Visual kei band

Go down

Time not to come back I am living without you
The memory makes pain for me
The lyrics flashed from there

does it mean that the 6 track mini will cost $ 120 because his stans would anyway

yo dude hit me up w/ that ヒトツメ mini and the jinkaku radio thing

after departure of Ba.根本コウヘイ(nemoto kouhei) and being on hiatus at 2013/12/01, DISH will resume activities at their live at Imaike CLUB 3STAR at 2014/02/27

オワリカラ(owarikara) new album "サイハテ・ソングス(saihate songs)" will be released at 2014/02/26 (2,500yen)
 
[track list]
01.踊るロールシャッハ(ALBUM MIX)
02.マッチメイカー
03.黒歴史にOK！
04.サイハテソング
05.MUSIC SLIDER
06.NO SHELTER(for strangers)
07.～通路～
08.SINIBASYO A GO! GO!
09.はなとゆめ
10.マーキュリー
11.L

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-BF6q6Hc6A
 
 
「金-kane-」lyrics:
 
I borrowed large money
Pallor of the face　No...
It's high interest
Tie-down bond of debt

Heartlessness increases
Short period, high interest
Finally the money which I watched
Fukuzawa-Yukichi money

Debt　While debts increase
Debt　To accumulate

Debt　Consumer finance
Debt　Daily deposit finance
Debt　"090" finance
Debt　Oni-kinyuu

Debt　There is no money
Debt　There is no home
Debt　There is no food
Debt　There is nothing at all
No No No No No No

I want to eat roasted meat
I want to eat sushi
There are only cup noodles
I want a lover

It's not just a mini-album or a live album but an actual full-blown thing to be honest. It's about time for them...

Aw yis, I Am Robot And Proud is great. I couldn't get into Braids' latest thing at all, though despite how I heard part of it live last summer. It didn't really captivate me for some reason.. On the other hand, I remember hearing some of Local Natives' new stuff live and really liking it, but I haven't managed to listen to the studio version yet... Should really get around to it. I'll check some of the hip-hop stuff on your list out too, I feel like I haven't listened to enough hip-hop in the last year.
 
In terms of japanese artists, I agree wholeheartedly with all the ones I actually know. Especially 88kasyo and The Novembers continue to sweep me off my feet every year with what they manage to release..

Nice titles! Philip Dick is one of my fave sci-fi writers. Pynchon is interesting too, though Gravity Rainbow and Against the Day took me a couple of attempts to finally get through lol. 

amber gris already saved vk yall SLEEP 

Schwarz Stein will do another one-day revival on 2014/03/23. Further information coming soon.

TK from 凛として時雨 will release new EP "contrast" at 2014/03/05
 
source:http://sigure.jp/tk/info/
 
excited!

Hey, CAT. What's your favorites? I'm expecting your reply, and Zess' as well.
 
Also, seconding Dylan on which the god and death stars release is the best. The others need some more time for me to process, whilst addle apple is an instant love.

I feel like, sure there's a lot of negativity but it's from people overreacting to some of the most mild comments. Even if the comment is pretty unnecessary like making fun of Mia's fake nose or bitching about Dir en grey playing Western metal. The responses from the cray crays are pretty over the top.
 
I think some of it is just due to people being pretty obsessive and unrealistic when it comes to their band worship. Any sort of criticism, even the most mild like, the kerning in the font on this album cover looks bad. Will receive responses with pretty outrageous comments because people take it as a personal attack. I think that's pretty common with VK, I'm not trying to put metal fans on a high horse (because they're pretty fucking stupid too) but it's the only fandom I interact with that I can use as a comparison. Yet a thread on say /r/metal with mild criticism like the above examples if anything would be mostly ignored but if you mildly criticize say MEJIBRAY or Dir en grey, the fans just come at you like you're some KKK dickwad Holocaust denier or Osama Bin Laden.
 
So really I don't think people are so negative, it's just a few loudmouths that will ruin a topic because they can't accept anyone saying anything but praise regarding their favourite artist or band.
 
***I kinda don't like using metal fandom as an example because comparing the two is like comparing shit to shit.

凛として時雨 - i'mperfect
DIR EN GREY - THE UNRAVELING
downy - 第五作品集『無題』
八十八ヶ所巡礼 - 0088
The Novembers - zeitgeist
LEO今井 - Made from nothing
Protest The Hero- Volition
SEX-ANDROID - ギャクシンセサイザー! !
Shilfee & Tulipcorobockles - The Right Are Each Other
Shilfee & Tulipcorobockles - Kiri Rearrange E.P.
実験台モルモット - 見開キ こころ❤断面図
kamomekamome - BEDSIDE DONORS
GalapagosS - Run like fury
CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe
the unknown forecast - オークション
Perfume - LEVEL3
 
are the first ones that come to mind.

I have long list, because I enjoyed much albums this year!
 
Full album
-PF AUDIO- - The storyteller of sound
八十八ヶ所巡礼 - 0088
downy - 第五作品集『無題』
Ling Tosite Sigure - i'mperfect
NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST - GRIMOIRE
Vermillion-D Alice Syndrome - 狡猾なる混沌の仔と至极たる黎明に捧ぐ葬敛の剧诗
BIGMAMA - 君想う、故に我在り
青葉市子 - 0
Cyclamen - Ashura
Pay money To my Pain - gene
Maaya Sakamoto - Singer Songwriter
[Champagne] - Me No Do Karate.
Yanagi Nagi - Euaru
Melt-Banana - Fetch
MergingMoon - Kamikakushi
Tetra Edge - Asymmetry
Furhter Ahead Of Warp - The Never Ending Story
Vassline - Black Silence (korean)
Noeazy - Land of Abomination (Korean)

Mini Album
A Ghost Of Flare - Kodou
NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST - OMEGA
宇宙コンビニ - 染まる音を確認したら
Lost in the Fog - アインズヴァッハの墓
a crowd of rebellion - Zygomycota
Translations - STORM CHASER
Tam Tam - Polarize
木と魚 - 星と命の森
レトクオリア -  Little Sign
Another Story - Signs
Tokyo Shoegazer - Turnaround
Another Stream - Future Tantric Engraved 
The Twisted Harbor Town - ENCOUNTERS
 
will update the list until 2013 ends, because there are albums that I looking forward in the end of year

My favorites are, in no particular order:
阿部芙蓉美 - How To Live
Kojoe - 51st State
Nayuta - Miraklo Rakonto
downy - 第五作品集『無題』
Local Natives - Hummingbird
LAGITAGIDA - Tutela!!
八十八ヶ所巡礼 - 0088
The Novembers - zeitgeist
Moving Mountains - Moving Mountains
승리 - Let's Talk About Love
The Internet - Feel Good
The Novembers - Fourth Wall
Yuck - Glow and Behold
LEO今井 - Made from nothing
Köttur - トマト帽のベレー
SHIZUKA KANATA - Snow
EXO - XOXO/Growl
miss A - Hush
Jinmenusagi - ME2!
Nell - Escaping Gravity
Block B - Very Good
Norikazu Chiba - The Songs of the Circling Stars
f(x) - Pink Tape
 
That's all I can think of... might add some more releases as I still have plenty of music queueing up in my playlist. 2013 has been amazing so far, so many discoveries!

LILLIES AND REMAINS new mini album "LOST" will be released at 2014/02/12 (1,890yen)
 
[track list]
01.This City
02.You Stand Alone
03.Composition IV
04.Slowdown
05.Don't Go
06.Peak Experience-extended ver.-