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AIOLIN new album "Stardust Crystal" will be released at 2018/6/27 (2 TYPE ("Stardust Side" and "Crystal Side"), 3000 yen) [track list] 1. ANTITHESE 2. Over The Destiny 3. Stardust Crystal 4. Rage On 5. From Here 6. Landscape (Stardust Side only) 7. From Here (Crystal Side Ver.) 8. Home 9. Precious 10. Precious (Crystal Side Ver.)

new band "LAY ABOUT WORLD" has formed. They will release their live-limited mini-album, "DROWN DEEPLY" (2300 yen, 5 songs) at their first live on May 25. [lineup] Vo.狂太郎 (kyotaro) (ex-Volark-->√eight-->Black:List-->COCKROACH.-->LAST OF FATE) Gt.イザナ (izana) (ex-トランスノート (trance note)) Gt.Takuya Ba.真悠 (mayu) (ex-トランスノート (trance note)) support Dr.みちゃき (misaki) (ex-1年4組-Ichiyon-) OHP Twitter

Smh we just had this topic.

UMMMM CAN WE GET A -OZ- REVIVAL?

@The Reverendyes, i did go!! it was amazing, everybody was ripping the floor after seeing/hearing news that tetsuya was back! this is probably the biggest april fools joke in jmusic history. i think they planned this way ahead.

Their first live will be on 2018.05.05 at 難波Mele. Members : Singer : 死にたい。(Shinitai) 6-strings : 怖い。(Kowai) 6-strings : 見て。(Mite) 5-strings : もういい。(Môii) Drummer : 嫌だ。(Iyada) Twitter : https://twitter.com/nakimushi_offi?lang=fr

Called≠Plan and Jackman will revive for one day at Planet CHILD Music 11th anniversary live at Shinsaibashi soma at 2018/7/14.

Hey everyone! It's been a while since our last Recommended Tracks segment since we moved from a monthly release to a quarterly release. That means there's plenty of new music for us to nerd out over, and so far 2018 has not disappointed us! New format, same good quality of thoughts and music. Hopefully you see something you like and find something new too! @Zeus' picks "THE IIID EMPIRE" by Dir en grey "無礼王 (Burei Ou)" by Develop one's faculties "The Gate To My Funeral" by Earthstream @tetsu_sama69's picks "傷痕" by キズ (Kizu) "アンインテリジブル" (Unintelligble) by Develop one's faculties "LOVELESS" by DARIAN MARIAN @fitear1590's picks "ヴィーナスの恋人" (Lover from Venus) by クウチュウ戦 (Koochewsen) "Shedding" by The fin "貴方だけを壊して飾ってみたい〜Chantyの世界へようこそ2〜 ver." (Anata dake o kowashite kazatte mitai〜Chanty no sekai e yokosou 2〜 ver.) by Chanty "偽りのシンパシー ft.アイナ・ジ・エンド(BiSH)" False Sympathy ft. AiNA THE END (BiSH) by MONDO GROSSO "Sanfransokyo Girl" by Satellite Young "掌で踊る" (tenohira de odoru) by そこに鳴る (sokoninaru) @emmny's picks "Chocolate Passion" by 凛として時雨 (Rin Toshite Shigure) "毒苺" (Dokuichigo) by ヴァージュ(Virge) "Invisible Individual" by IIII-Ligro- @plastic_rainbow's picks "this is 芸術" (this is Geijutsu) by Develop One's Faculties "Merry Ghost Land" by 爆烈ストーム!! ( Bakuretsu Storm!!) @doombox's pick "Modrý sen" by UQiYO @helcchi's picks "輪廻" (Rinne) by リベリオ (RIBELIO) "Garden in a Lost Place" by Narumi "ROTTEN ORANGE" by アクメ (ACME) @YuyoDrift's pick KISS OF DEATH (Produced by HYDE) by 中島美嘉 (Mika Nakashima) @qotka's picks "「リストカットして」" (risutokattoshite) by ゴシップ (Gossip) "やさしくしてね" (yasashiku shite ne) by ゴールデンボンバー (Golden Bomber) Guest Contributions @Ada Suilen's picks "Falling" by The GazettE "エンド" (End) by Reol @Mamo's pick こわれはじめる by SWARRRM

Just post the songs here bro same thread after all. Doesn't really matter if it's in the OP or not if you like them and want people to hear them. Like @Chidid with her picks.

@fitear1590is such a cultured person, always bringing koochewsen to da spotlight x my personal picks are kato miliyah - i hate you i realize i havent listened to many new japanese releases yet lmao

[important announcement] . . . . 🎶エイサイハラマスコイ~ 🎶

Can't believe the full song is finally up. It's a bit tricky but I found it at [THE CONTENT OF THIS POST IS FOR PREMIUM MEMBERS ONLY. YOU NEED A MONOCHROME HEAVEN PREMIUM ACCOUNT TO ACCESS THIS POST]

Hibiki Shiraishi is the session drummer for Matenrou Opera's new single "Invisible Chaos" and will be filling in for all announced concerts. Source:

Memento Mori will be reviving on August 17th at Birth Shinjuku. Guitarist Tsubaki will be coming out of retirement to preform with the band. The event will be called "メメント・モリ死月のふる" (Memento Mori Shigatsu no Furu) and tickets will cost 42069 yen.

I met Game Grumps today, and asked Arin to sign the picture of Gackt in the Merveilles booklet since he said he wanted Gackt to fuck him in the ass. Here's some notable things: - Arin remembers saying he wants Gackt to fuck him in the ass - Arin enthusiastically took the booklet and signed the picture of Gackt whilst saying aggressively "Damn right I'd let Gackt fuck me" -Arin exclaimed how beautiful he finds Gackt upon Dan saying so himself -Arin knows of Malice Mizer -Upon asking Danny to sign whoever he found most beautiful, he chose Mana, despite struggling to pick. Here's the beauty itself (they loved my partners Danny Sexbang cosplay, Danny said she was "Dressed for success" xD)

Awesome list. Kizuato was the stand out this year so far imo. Last year, many people commented on how Lime's limited vocal ability could be the downfall of kizu, but I think the title track should discard any doubts on that matter.

Wow, this is quite the list! I'm gonna have a lot of fun going through all of these. @fitear1590That koochewsen, that the fin. that chanty, that sokoninaru... come through!!

Happy Visual Easter ! Karma (Nightmare or Dreams SweetHeart )

Glad to be once again part of RT! Nice to see Develop One's Faculties (Untelligible has been a true surprise for me), Chanty, The fin., Darian Marian and Kizu If I had the chance, I would have add Kamijo's Emigre/the whole Sang song to this list, top-notch tracks of his latest work (listened to it after having made my picks) Sad to not see Pura, Buck-Tick and Nocturnal Bloodlust.

@nostalgia's legendary banner is back! The first one is my signature btw

Heaven in Her Arms dropped a new song, and it's (predictably) awesome. https://youtu.be/pG38a3bsQvQ

title of their new maxi-single is finalized as "BRILLIANT" and the release date is 2018/05/09 (2 types) TYPE A (1944yen) will include CD (2 songs) and DVD including "BRILLIANT" PV TYPE B (1620yen) will include CD (3 songs) only [tracklist] 1.BRILLIANT 2.HONEY 3.PINOCCHIO [TYPE B only] they will hold their 4th oneman tour "BRILLIANT CUT" since 2018/08/03 at DUCE SAPPORO to 2018/09/24 at Shinjuku BLAZE

Vo.狂太郎 (Kyotaro) is ex-Volark-->√eight-->Black:List-->COCKROACH.-->LAST OF FATE

So glad to see the recommend tracks make it's triumphant return! And so many good songs to choose from. Also I like the new quarterly format that way, with the larger amount of tracks we're getting we'll have plenty of time to listen to them all every 3 months.

Totally agree. Best album since ARCHE for sure. Much meta in concept. So memes. It's good to see them poking fun at themselves for a change instead of taking everything so seriously. My personal favourite tracks are 'Self-Indulgent Pretentiousness' and 'WE MADE VK BRÖÖTAL'. I'm sure I'm not alone in thinking that 'Another Song About Suicide' is absolutely the greatest album closer they've done to date, seconded only by Taiyou no Ao. The cover of TOOL's 'Maynard's Dick' is just icing on the cake. Even though 75% of this album is just remakes, I still feel it'll go down as one of DEG's finest works. Hearing the entirety of Lindbergh's speech in the new MASK is especially poignant, especially after the crushing brutality of the new shovel-djent version of Zakuro. Don't know about you guys, but I absolutely love that they gave The Domestic Fucker Family the JEALOUS -reverse- treatment. I wonder if they would have performed 'INWARD SCREAM pt. 524' live the same way as it appears on the album or whether they'd have just continued on with 525 in the next show. Shame we'll never know. The coolest thing is that if you take all 523 previous INWARD SCREAMs and play them back-to-back at 325 times the speed, they actually make a demo of this song. It's sad we'll never see them live again. But hey, I guess being on the road for over 20 years will do that to a band. I'm happy we were able to get one final great effort from them before they disbanded.

It's official, I'll be in Japan 5/22-6/04 ... let the money hemorrhaging begin

and support member from DIMLIM too

the single was 'friendship' all along... think about it... so many different dir en grey opinion's, all set aside to discuss a new release....

i like it cos is Kaya, but the song is a little bit off, id rather have Hora or Kalm ro produce a amazing darkwave song as presentation card to a moremainstream world as this pretends to do, the pv is quite good, but i imagined faboulous being more pop and glittery tbh

Vo.ルカ (ruka) new solo project, "Team-R" has formed and he will distribute his first single "Tear" starting on March 2 at various shops. He will also hold his first live on May 17. Twitter

Vocal:YUZUKI Vocal&Chorus:SAIKA (BLOOD STAIN CHILD) Guitar:RYU (BLOOD STAIN CHILD) Guitar:G.S.R (BLOOD STAIN CHILD) Bass:Yakky (BLOOD STAIN CHILD) Drums:YASU (BLOOD STAIN CHILD) The 1st single ""Eyes Shut Tightly"" are avaliable on Itunes and Spotify OHP Ty Suji

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yea they really better sound that way! ;D

To fans of Psysalia Psysalis Psyche, On Instagram, we can see that a picnic was organized. There Shion, Toru and even Nobu (who had disappeared from internet for a long time). It's cool to see they're still pals (and maybe they talk about the comeback of PPP ahah.

the song is trash and does nothing for her voice, but I'm living for everything else don't disrespect yuhua hamasaki like this

Hey guys, saw that you’re actually selling CDs now. It’d be cool if I was part of the band again, you know, for nostalgia :^)

Thank you ! It seems to start at 18 o’clock (japanese hour) I would be happy if you could record this broadcast next monday ^^

Hello

I suppose I have a bit of a different perspective on this than most. I rarely ever download any music, and I buy the vast majority of my music via CDs (with some occasional digital purchases on Bandcamp). When I first started getting really into music in general, I did pirate a few things but even in those early days I mostly stayed straight. In high school I started collecting CDs, and I still do to this day. I can honestly say that piracy had very little to do with my taste in visual kei, Japanese music, or just music in general. For me, it was just grabbing a few albums here and there based off of a clip I heard on youtube (could be an official one or not). Over time I got very good at judging albums based off of a song or a trailer and I rarely get any misses. Hell sometimes I buy stuff blind just based off of the members in it. There are a handful of exceptions like when a band I like releases something that's just flat out impossible to get because it's live only, out of print for insane prices, or something like that. In those cases, I might grab a rip because I'm not going to just drop $100+ on a CD to some scalper on Yahoo Auctions (although I've done this before). In my case, I do have a pretty strong desire for a physical CD + booklet, so I'm extra appreciative of Japanese bands generally taking the time and effort to make sure their CD releases are really nice (a lot of western bands are hackjobs in comparison). Now, I understand that not everyone is necessarily in a position to drop hundreds of dollars on this stuff. My position is pretty fortunate since I have basically zero hobbies that cost money besides music and my expenses are very low. I won't pretend to be on a moral high ground either since I've got terabytes of anime rips on my hard drive right now. Hell talking to some other people around the world, the US actually has it pretty easy since we don't have to deal with ludicrous VATs/duty on imports which most of Europe seems to have. Those taxes drive the cost way up and make it even more unfeasible for some people. However, I think that if you are able to afford it, you should support the bands you really like. It could be buying CDs, merch or whatever you want. If you truly value what an artist puts out, then I think you should support them if you can. These days there are plenty of online retailers (Amazon, HMV, CDJapan, etc.) that are pretty easy to use and you can get decent deals (by Japan's standards anyway) if you know what you're doing. Hell, sometimes I end up paying more money going after western CDs simply because I usually can't buy those all from one seller and have to split shipping across a bunch of different people (that adds up). If a band's release is in print and easily available, I will absolutely buy it if I want it. I won't even "download a copy in advance" while I wait for the CD to arrive (I know someone who does this sometimes). Even if something is out of print and not exactly easy to find, 99% of the time I won't download it either. I'll generally put that album on the backburner and wait for a good time to lurk Yahoo Auctions or something. I suppose I also will differ from most people on streaming. I personally can't stand the idea of streaming in any shape or form. Even if there was the magical perfect streaming service that had every artist I wanted, I still wouldn't use it. Streaming isn't truly ownership to me because you don't have any real control over the files. You just get whatever the host serves you. Just on principle I dislike it. This also extends somewhat to digital purchases. I will not purchase any digital downloads unless they offer lossless (so Bandcamp basically). Not because I'm dumb enough to think FLAC sounds better (it doesn't against decent lossy encodes). But I don't like not having the freedom to use the codecs and/or transcodes I want (since lossy downloads basically lock you into that format). And yes, I have actually re-encoded my portable library before (switched to Opus from Ogg Vorbis a while ago). I don't feel I have the real deal if I don't have a 1-1 copy of what's on the CD. As for Japan's music industry, they're in the unique position where their music industry (for now) is still dominated by physical sales. This is rapidly shifting though. They never really got into downloads over there, but they're rapidly getting on the streaming bandwagon. Is this a good or bad thing for the quality of music? I'm tempted to think it will mostly end up being a bad thing overall if music gets driven by a more streaming-like market instead of a core base of dedicated fans. But maybe I'll be wrong. Japan has magically avoided a ton of trends that the West has gone through, so it's hard to predict what will happen.

Next event will be on april 2nd. As usual i guess it will be broadcasted on youtube ^^ Bands : SARIGIA, JILUKA, MISERIA, MIZTAVLA and Aiolin. I was wondering if someone would be able to record this Senka Ryouran vol 15, please ? I won't be able to watch but I would be happy to see SARIGIA, MISERIA and JILUKA (if they are broadcasted this time) performances, so if someone intends to watch and could record, i would be deeply grateful. Thank you in advance and sorry for asking again >_<

AHHHHH No thanks (#notoclowns)

I got this signed Malisend t-shirt from Mercari. ^^

Aaah thank you very much ;w;

https://twitter.com/hotaru20160604 Yes!