In 2002, Kaya made his vocal debut in the Mana produced two-man unit, Schwarz Stein. In 2004, Schwarz Stein disbanded, and departing from the label the band was signed to, Kaya became a free singer. Using “aesthetics” as his main theme, Kaya conducts his activities with the goals of “the revolution of the aesthetic senses” and the “liberation of sexuality” in mind, and manages his own lyrics, CD jacket designs, make-up and costume designs as well as the organization... Read→
You can now catch up on the latest news, styles and interviews all in the palms of your hands AND … in English! Cure is proud to present a totally new way to read and review Cure Magazine. A free issue of Cure Visual-Kei, “Vol. 0”, is now available. Get your hands on 31 complete pages of visual-kei information! “Vol. 0” features… Special article – Versailles-Philharmonic Quintet : “Born of Death, a new story begins here” Special article 2 – Matenrou Opera: Towards... Read→
born is a five member band that began together under RENNY AMY, which was active from August 2005, until December 31st, 2006. Shortly after, the same five members created D&L, and eventually changed their name to ‘born’ on April 9th, 2008 with the sponsored event at Takadanobaba AREA called “born presents 「bug scremo vol.01」”. About a week later, they released their first demonstration single, entitled 「Dust pain」, which was followed by the tour, 「Abnormal skin’s」. Since... Read→
砂月-Satsuki- began his solo career on February 14th, 2009, after spending seven years as the vocalist for RENTRER EN SOI. His first solo release, 「AWAKE」 came out via his online shop on May 9th, and that month he also started his 「AWAKENING TO MOONLIGHT」 tour, which even made a stop in Los Angeles, California. His next release, 「CRYSTAL」 was out on August 21st, which was followed by his 「PEER INTO YOUR CRYSTAL HEART」 tour, where he preformed in both Tokyo and Las Vegas, Nevada. ... Read→
The staff at Shattered-Tranquility.net is proud to bring you another new interview, this time with the young visual band α:Vout! α:Vout is a Tokyo-based indies band signed to the Speed Disk record label that started activity in March of 2009 as a 5 piece band, with the lineup of Joy on vocals, MIROKU and Sou on guitars, yu-ma on bass, and Sin on drums. Their first live was in late April, just before they released their first maxi single, 「BLACK OUT」, on May 20th. They wasted no time in putting... Read→
The staff at Shattered-Tranquility.net is very proud to bring everyone a brand new interview with the up and coming band, ミサルカ [Misaruka]! Misaruka is a relatively new visual indies band based out of Tokyo. They started as a session band, and flourished into a full fledged band on June 12th, 2008. Just a little less than two months later, they released their first single 「-amakusa-」 on August 2nd, 2008. Their music and aesthetics have made them fairly popular witin the visual scene in... Read→
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This interview is quite a few years old, I believe, but it’s not from too far back. It’s the TV interview from ‘BtrueTV’ with The GazettE members Ruki and Uruha, where they talk about everything from how GazettE formed, their gigs overseas, foie gras and Nintendo DS.
I have also occassionaly added notes to further explain some of the translations in small print in []s.
I really enjoyed this interview – hope you all do too 
Presenter: I will now introduce today’s guests; two members from the very popular Visual-kei band, GazettE!
Ruki: I am the vocalist, Ruki.
Uruha: I am the guitarist, Uruha.
Presenter: I always listen to your songs and watch you on TV, so I’m very happy to have the chance to meet you!
Uruha: Thank you very much.
Ruki: (laughs)
Presenter: I’m not lying!
Ruki: Oh, really?
Presenter: You looked at me as if to say I was lying.
Ruki: Well, yes.
Presenter: Of course not! I always enjoy watching you.
Ruki & Uruha: Thank you very much.
Presenter: You fit with the mood of my cafe very well today!
Ruki: Yeah, I think we did alright. It’s a good job I didn’t come in a t-shirt!
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The new band I want to talk about is ネオン (Neon). There are unluckily not many details known, since the band hasn’t announced their OHP yet, but here are the band’s members:
Vocal: りくと (Rikuto) | ex. Ansem Elliott.
Guitar: うらら (Urala)| ex. ポワトリン (Poitrine)
Guitar: 茜 | ex. umbrella
Guitar: 少年カズハネ (Shounen Kazuhane)| ex. ZiL (Support)
Bass: 銀。 (Gin.)
Drums: しかの (Shikano) | ex. デルフィニウム (Delphinium)
It seems that the band will have their first official live on the 16th of February at Ikebukuro CYBER. We will keep you updated once more details about the band are available.
Source: Old Rikuto’s blog
I have talked about FLOPPY’s album 「PROTOSCIENCE」 some time ago, but now the tracklist is finally available, so here you go:
01. 黎明 (Reimei)
02. 春風 (Harukaze)
03. パポピ (Papopi)
04. meta色吐息 (Meta Iro Toiki)
05. サーフトロニカ (Softronica)
06. 哲学堂心中 (Tetsugaku Dou Shinchuu)
07. PROTOSCIENCE
08. meta色吐息（remixed by 中野テルヲ） (Meta Iro Toiki (remixed by Nakano Teruo)
What is more, the band has updated another clip to their youtube after a few-months-long break and I think it’s worth seeing it. It contains footage from their live held on the 20th of November 2009 at Shibuya CLUB QUATTRO.
Source: Information blog, Official YouTube
SPEED DISK label is going to organize an amazing tour, kicking off in April. It will be called 「森羅万象tour’10#2」 (Shinrabanshou tour’10#2) and consist of 12 gigs all over Japan:
Date: April 8th @ Nagoya e.l.l.
Performing: R指定 (R-Shitei), アンド (And), ViViD, SCREW, Dolly, HERO,【_Vani;lla】
Date: April 9th @ Osaka BIG CAT
Performing: R指定 (R-Shitei), アンド (And), ViViD, SCREW, Dolly, HERO,【_Vani;lla】
Date: April 10th @ Okayama IMAGE
Performing: R指定 (R-Shitei), ViViD, SCREW, Dolly,【_Vani;lla】
Date: April 12th @ Kagoshima CAPARVO HALL
Performing: R指定 (R-Shitei), ViViD, SCREW, Dolly,【_Vani;lla】
Date: April 13th @ Hakata DRUM Be-1
Performing: R指定 (R-Shitei), アンド (And), ViViD, vistlip, SCREW, Dolly,【_Vani;lla】
Date: April 15th @ Kanazawa AZ
Performing: UnsraW, アンド (And), ViViD, vistlip, SCREW, Dolly,【_Vani;lla】
Date: April 16th @ Nagano CLUB JUNK BOX
Performing: UnsraW, アンド (And), ViViD, vistlip, SCREW, Dolly,【_Vani;lla】
Date: April 17th @ Niigata CLUB JUNK BOX
Performing: ダウト (D=OUT), アンド (And), SCREW, ゾロ (Zoro), Dolly,【_Vani;lla】
Date: April 19th @ Kooriyama CLUB#9
Performing: Administrator, アンド (And), ViViD, SCREW, ゾロ (Zoro), Dolly,【_Vani;lla】
Date: April 20th @ Sendai darwin
Performing: Administrator, アンド (And), ViViD, vistlip, SCREW, Dolly,【_Vani;lla】
Date: April 22nd @ Sapporo KRAPS HALL
Performing: Administrator, アンド (And), ViViD, vistlip, SCREW,【_Vani;lla】
Date: April 22nd @ Sapporo KRAPS HALL
Performing: UnsraW, R指定 (R-Shitei), Administrator, アンド (And), ViViD, vistlip, SCREW,【_Vani;lla】
Tickets for each concert will cost 3800 yen in advance and 4300 on the day of the event.
Source: Visunavi
SWEET MADONNA are going to release a new single on the 1st of March. It will be entitled 「CANDY/Decadence」 and cost 1000 yen. No official details, but probably it will contain the 2 songs mentioned in the title.
Source: Jishubanclub
It seems that VELGREED is going to lose another member. Kei has decided to leave the band, according to the announcement on the band’s OHP.
To all the fans of VELGREED, thank you for continuous support.
It has been decided that our bassist Kei will be leaving VELGREED due to family circumstances.
Our performance on March 1st at Namba ROCKETS will be his last.
We are truly sorry for the sudden announcement, however, we hope that you can understand.
We are sorry for bothering you with repeated announcements, however, we hope that you will continue to support VELGREED.
Source: vkdb, OHP
AZu, the drummer of レイラ (Reira) has left the band on the 6th of February according to the following announcement, which was posted on the band’s OHP:
We have an important announcement for all of the fans who give their support to Reira.
Since April 24th 2009, we have been doing our activities with four members. However, due to personal circumstances our drummer AZu has found that it is difficult to continue on with Reira’s activities, and as he has no intentions to continue on in the band, he decided to leave Reira on February 6th.
We are truly sorry to all of our fans and to those connected with the band for having to announce [his departure] like this, however, we hope that you can understand.
We will be welcoming a support drummer into our ranks for our scheduled performances from hereon out, including our oneman live.
The three of us will continue on, and we hope that you can continue to support us.
All of the members of Reira
Source: OHP
I bet that you’ve been always wondering whom do the visual kei bandmen respect, am I right? Well, Big Ern has found the answer to that question concerning Valgana members:
Ayame – Kōshi Inaba (B’z vocalist)
Shun – Kazuki (Raphael’s guitarist)
Trash. – Taka Kato (AV actor)
Ruu – hide, Ni〜ya
Haku – Ikuzo Yoshi (famous enka singer)
Big Ern respects Yanni, that is obvious, isn’t it… But whom do you respect? Tell me!
Art Cube is going to release a brand-new single on the 28th of April. It will be entitled 「花陽影〜Petal〜」 (Hanabikage〜Petal〜) and come in 2 types: Type A will cost 1890 yen and contain 2 songs plus a bonus DVD with a PV, whilst type B will cost 1050 yen and also contain 2 songs, but also an original bonus sticker.
The single will be pre-sold at the band’s organized event on the 16th of April at Takadanobaba AREA. The event is named 『Art Box』 and those who will participate in it will get a live-distributed DVD with footage from the band’s oneman from the 22nd of December. The bands participating among Art Cube are: VII-Sense, Kaya, E’m〜grief〜 and L’eprica. Tickets cost 3000 yen when bought in advance and 3500 yen on the day of the event.
Source: Visunavi, OHP
It’s time for some new band’s introducing, isn’t it. The band I want to talk about today is LIV’ERT. The members are:
Vocal: 骸 (Mukuro)
Guitar: 冥 (Mei)
Guitar: 璃緒 (Rio)
Drums: 朋弥 (Tomoya)
Bass (Support): 雛 (Suu)
They’ll have their first live at Takadanobaba AREA on the 12th of February, at the event called 「THE PARTY IN FEBRUARY Vol.1」. What is more, the band will distribute their first CD then, entitled 「Invaded rot」.
Source: visual_esthesia @ LJ, OHP
After losing their drummer トーマ (Tooma), who left the band on the 22nd of December after their live at HOLIDAY OSAKA, Valgana has finally found a replacement! The new drummer’s name is 貊-HAKU- and he has joined the band officially on the 21st of January, it seems. His picture is not available yet, but if you want to follow him, his blog is located here -> http://ameblo.jp/girugames
Source: vkdb, OHP
That is what I call an amazing 3man tour! M, meth. and 東京ヒーローズ (Tokyo Heroes) decided to team up for a short tour together, entitled 『CRACKAJACK SIGHT』. What is more, at each concert there will be some amazing sessions happening, so if you have an opportunity to go there, do not miss the chance. The tour dates are as follows:
March 18th @ Ikebukuro RUIDO K3
March 19th @ Nagoya ell. SIZE
March 21st @ HOLIDAY OSAKA
Tickets cost 3000 yen if you buy it in advance and 3500 at the door.
Source: Visunavi
Do you remember when we’ve mentioned that Mix Speaker’s,Inc. will be releasing new stuff this April? We finally have details.
The mini-album will be entitled 「ANIMAL ZOMBIES」 and go on sale on the 7th of April for 2625 yen. It will include 6 songs:
01. ANIMAL ZOMBIE ZOO
02. HAPPyyy!!LAND
03. Woody Nightmare
04. Mix Theater~ANIMAL ver.~
05.「SOS」Toy’s Factory
06. 春。恋しい人 (Haru. Itoshii Hito)
What is more, on the same day the band will start selling their new DVD entitled 「[BIG BANG MUSIC!]~線路は続くよどこまでも~」 ([BIG BANG MUSIC!]~Senro wa Tsuzuku Yodoko made mo~). It will cost 4980 yen and contain footage from their live, held on the 23rd of December at SHIBUYA C.C.Lemon Hall. However, it will be limited only to mail-order and lives.
Source: OHP, Brand-X
VII-Sense are going to release their first single entitled 「BLACK BIRD」 on the 24th of March for 2000 yen. More details to follow.
Source: Brand-X
Let’s talk about charm today, right? Few XI members have shared theirs with the fans:
Haku – his mood
Rulu – lips and… upper arms!
yuki – eyes and lips
syun – his pink bangs
mutsuki – eyes
Share your charm points with Big Ern, I’m very curious!
LICKER have announced that they will be losing their drummer yato after their live on March 12th.
The following announcement was sent in their official mail magazine:
As we announced at our live on February 4th, our drummer yato will be leaving the band after our performance on March 12th at Nishikujou BRAND NEW.
We only have three lives left with our current line-up, however, we hope that you will continue to support us as you have been.
yato hasn’t said anything in the band blog about her decision, but Cra did write the following:
As MASA said in our MC, [yato leaving the band] is a result of numerous conversations.
Honestly, with all the changing of the support bassists, and now this, we’re probably making you upset.
I’m really sorry.
But this decision, was the one that we felt that we had to make for both yato and for the band.
We will both be going down separate paths now.
Therefore, there are only three more performances left with yato on stage:
March 1st
March 2nd
March 12thPlease call out yato’s name with all your heart.
Thank you.
Source: Official Mailmag, Cra’s Blog
First of all, Seven have released a new single, entitled 「ステイ」 (Stay), which I believe, we have not mentioned. The release consists of a CD with the title song and a DVD with footage from the band’s first live, held on the 3rd of October 2009 at Shibuya C.C.Lemon Hall. The CD is only available to buy via Fool’s Mate and what is more – includes a colorful 16-pages booklet plus a signed photo with message from the band members!
The DVD tracklist is as follows:
01. キラーチューン (Killer Tune)
02. ハナ (Hana)
03. ステイ (Stay)
04. ダークネス (Darkness)
05. インペリアル (Imperial)
06. ソウ (Sou)
07. ハナ (Hana)
Secondly, the band will release a new normal single on the 22nd of March under the title 「インペリアル」 (Imperial). More details to follow.
Finally, Seven will have a tour named 「Seventh Heaven」, which has even a subtitle of sorts – “We change a dream into reality!”.
February 14th @ Takadanobaba AREA
February 28th @ Osaka MUSE
March 1st @ Nagoya CLUB QUATTRO
March 13th @ Osaka MUSE
March 22nd @ Shibuya O-EAST
April 10th @ Nagoya E.L.L
April 29th @ TOKYO (Venue not specified yet)
ハルシオン (Halsion) will be releasing their 1st mini-album on the 7th of April. It will be entitled 「ANGEL_DUST」and cost 2300 yen.
The mini-album will contain 6 songs:
01. DOPE
02. 9㎜口径のティティー (9mm Koukei no Tity)
03. fallen
04. THE MASS
05. 細雪 (Sasameyuki)
06. エンジェル・ダスト (Angel Dust)
Source: Jishubanclub
Virulent is a very fresh band, which will have their first live today actually at Ikebukuro Cyber. The band consists of 3 members:
They will distribute their first single on their few first lives, beginning today. It will be entitled 「wolf」.
01. wolf
What is more, if yu are curious how the band sounds, you should check their MySpace! You can listen to 3 song samples there – let us all know what you think about them too!
Source: Visunavi, OHP
rice will be having a 2-months consecutive single release campaign!
The first single will be entitled 「Lovers」 and be released on the 10th of March in two types, limited one for 1800 yen containing a bonus DVD with a PV to the title song and a regular one for 1200 yen. CD tracklists:
Limited type: (Pre-order)
01. Lovers
02. リルゴ・マキアート (Rilgo Macchiato)
03. ハナミズキ (Hanamizuki)
Regular type: (Pre-order)
01. Lovers
02. リルゴ・マキアート (Rilgo Macchiato)
03. wipe
The second single will be entitled 「Sing you」 and go on sale on the 14th of April, also in 2 types. The limited type will cost 1800 yen and also contain a PV to the title song and the regular one will cost 1200 yen and have another 3rd track, the same as with the first single.
Limited type:
01. Sing you
02. 砂と風 (Suna to Kaze)
03. STAY(Acoustic Ver.)
Regular type:
01. Sing you
02. 砂と風 (Suna to Kaze)
03. 星に願いを (Hoshi ni Negai wo)
Source: OHP
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