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😭😭😭

one of my favorite bands ever

hope he finds happiness in his new career, whatever it is

it sucks but it was the right decision

hang in there, guys! stay safe

10 was 10 years ago. I'm still trying to process that.

they don't really tour that much, so it's not like they are being overworked by their label. a single every 3 months is ok, it's important to keep a steady flow of releases in this scene to keep the fans engaged. i just think they have what it takes to come up with a nice album. OR, a concise killer mini. i'll take that.

it's really impressive how cool and clear-cut their art direction is.

just give us an album already, you cowards!

and tour during the fall, pls.

Have fun, record hunting in Japan is awesome. Just a reminder that th PureSound store in Tokyo has changed quite a bit. They are now also renting/selling movies and idol stuff. It used to be bigger but still has a lot of stuff by the major bands. Selection for indies groups dwindled a lot.

The Osaka store is my fav one. It's huge and it pretty much had everything.

Can't go wrong with Closet Child and the Shinjuku branch of Book-Off has a pretty nice visual selection. Avoid Disk Union like the plague! Overpriced af. 

ugh, this is amazing! his first solo album is one of my favorites records from '09.

Oh, I like where this is going. I have a ton, but here a couple of really safe picks that I need to name:

the GOAT

X has a ton of really, really memorable solos, but this is my favorite.

X - Silent Jealousy

One of my all time favorites. Kouichi is a GOD. Don't ever forget it.

Laputa - Breath

PIMP SUGIZO THE GAWD

SUGIZO - SUPER LOVE

and lastly (oooooh, I should have included LASTLY...)

華月 gives us a solo to remember in lost graduation

oh boy, they look gorgeous. きょうのすけ is just too cool, man.

 TøRU, 和泉, 華凛 AND my boy 豪? Sign me up!

edit: not really feeling this song. It's like 和泉 and TøRU's styles got jumbled together and nothing really good came out of it. But I'll keep my eye on them, for sure.

And it hurts seeing TøRU listed as ex-SEX-ANDROID

They look good. I've been trying to get back into them just because 葉月 and co. are pretty chill guys. I might try to see them again next year.

This was a very insightful post, thanks @Duwang!  And yeah, of course Timely Records is paying for the radio promos, that's exactly what a good label should do in order to push their artists. Still, I think it helps walking in FamiMa and listening to ラブレター every 2 hours. More exposure means more potential fans.

And scummy ticket tactics aside (which apparently has more to do with obsessive fans than with the band itself), selling out venues, no matter how small they are, is a great thing for an indies band. It helps them gather momentum. And btw, did the old fans warm up to 亞ん yet? When I saw them last year he seemed to have a couple of fans.

They are really on a tear right now. A couple of their recent singles got picked up by Family Mart radio, so it was being played around konbinis all over Japan and that really helped them. I think every show from the last tour, plus 雨の日, sold out. Keep it going, guys! Just give me a 2nd album next year, ok?

Finally some info about the mini and the tours; Aaand, apparently they are also planning a "surprise" for fanclub members oh New Years' Eve or around that time, maybe an impromptu concert.

I'm not sold on sheeple, but the other new song they played last month was really, really cool. I'm looking forward to that one.

me fala por aqui/tw/ig se rolar de você vir! 

eles provavelmente vão tocar coisas um pouco mais antigas. MAS, eles são muito bons ao vivo, mesmo que as músicas mais novas não sejam as que eu mais gosto.  E eu gosto do DOGMA e do NINTH. Confio que vai ser divertido porque os caras são muito profissionais no palco.

On 12/23/2018 at 1:38 AM, saishuu said:

alguém pensando em ir pro Gazette? nem curto muito eles, mas tô até animando com a ideia de ir, ainda mais se rolar um meet-up

bora? vou no show da AURORA no dia anterior e já emenda o GAZETTÃO DA MASSA.

I was hoping for a new album, not a single

I love everything about this. Bless this beautiful band and all the people involved with this.

omg that setlist! 

17 hours ago, meat said:

I'm guessing the "-7" is for the years they went on hiatus?

correctamundo!

I've always loved that メト had no idea they would be around past 2005, much less 2018, thus rendering the whole "time travellers" gimmick useless.

really digging this look.

and it looks like i might see them in sendai or tokyo, yes!

they look so adorable wearing the ponchos and the sombreros! They all looked so happy to be there from the twitter pics I've seen. Especially 太朗!

I remember reading somewhere that hyde and ken had sided with DC/MAVERICK and wanted to keep doing stuff as L'Arc~en~Ciel, but I can't remember an exact source. I do think they are closer to the management office than tetsu and yuki, especially if you look at their other activities.

I guess they don't mind doing one or two singles every two years and playing a concert every now and then. You could also interpret that as "I'll do it, as long as it doesn't interfere with my solo career/VAMPS/producer duties." 

21 minutes ago, Kiyoharu is God said:

I'm assuming because they enjoy being in the band, but if not then them scheduling two shows at the TOKYO DOME explains it. HYDE is popular, but I don't think he's going to pull off any shows of that size alone. Neither is ken.

 I think that is part of it, yes. But ken always seems to have a blast on stage no matter where or who he is playing with. Dude is mad cool. 

If they go on, great. I love L'Arc~en~Ciel a lot. If they don't, that's ok too. They had a great career so far. I also think the band ran its course, a lot of their songs since the first hiatus sound like solo careers leftovers, with a few exceptions. But that's me. I feel the same way about LUNA SEA ever since SHINE.

So they finally squashed that beef about the money split with DC/MAVERICK? Cool, though I feel the impending end is coming very soon. hyde and ken still want to go on, god knows why, but tetsuya always seems SO bored with the band. yuki probably doesn't mind if the band disbands either.