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Shattered-Tranquility.net is currently looking for a few new members to post news! We posted back in January, however, at that time only had one spot open. Now, we have a few more spaces open for new staff members wanting to post news! We [...]
Thanks to yuuki for the heads up on this!
Miyavi, on his official MySpace, has posted information on his North American tour!
THE NORTH AMERICA TOUR DATES & VENUES CONFIRMED!!
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NEO TOKYO SAMURAI BLACK WORLD TOUR 2010
-U.S.A.＆CANADA CIRCUIT-
《Schedule》
6/10 San Diego, CA / House Of Blues
6/12 Los Angeles, CA / Club Nokia
6/13 Anaheim, CA / The Grove of [...]
Thanks to everyone who sent this in!
UnsraW has updated their OHP, which now includes their new look and updated profiles including all five members, as both Madoka and Jin have recently joined their ranks.
Love it or hate it?
Don’t forget, the band will also be releasing their newest mini-album, 「GUILTY」 on April 21st!
Source: OHP
For anyone who hasn’t checked it out yet, Kagrra, have opened up a special page on their OHP in celebration of their 10th year anniversary and they have a lot of things planned in the upcoming months!
Probably the most exciting news for fans, is that the band has two new singles planned! The first will [...]
ダウト (D=OUT) have announced that their song, 「SUNRISE」 is being used as the ending theme for the TV Tokyo-kei series, 「ピラメキーノ」 (PIRAMEKINO) for the month of March! PIRAMEKINO is a children’s variety show, that airs every Monday thru Friday at 6:30pm.
If you’re interested in finding out more, check out the show’s OHP : http://pirameki.kids.yahoo.co.jp/
Source: [...]
As we announced back in February, kelli released their new mini-album, 「All Dirty,」 on March 16th!
If you’ve forgotten, the mini-album will be available for download for a limited time. They haven’t set a final date, but you should head on over and grab the tracks if you haven’t already!
It’s a four track mini-album, and [...]
Wizard will be heading out on a brief oneman tour this May!
The tour is called 「Survivor’s fate」, and the dates and venues are as follows.
May 5th @ Nagoya ell.FITSALL
May 7th @ ESAKA MUSE
May 9th @ Harajuku ASTRO HALL
Tickets are currently on sale and cost 3500 yen a piece.
Source: OHP
Secret Circus have updated their OHP with the announcement that they will be disbanding on April 3rd.
To everyone who has been supporting Secret Circus,
Thank you for your continued support of Secret Circus.
Although we only started our activities last year, we are announcing now that we have decided to disband after our live on April 3rd.
Our [...]
Remember this post last year about Ryonai looking for a new singer for the second coming of his unit – Blam Honey? Well he finally updated with a new picture and explanation on the new singer!
I found the “New vocalist “in December, 2009.
I work with the New vocalist for a new BLAMHONEY beginning now.
New [...]
ALSDEAD have announced that they will be releasing their first full album! The album will be self-titled (and therefore called 「ALSDEAD」), and is coming out on June 16th. It will contain a few “carefully chosen” songs from previous works, as well as new songes for a total of ten tracks.
To celebrate, the band is sponsoring [...]
On April 28th, ナイトメア (Nightmare) will be releasing 「NIGHTMARE 10th anniversary special act vol.1
GIANIZM 〜天魔覆滅〜」 (Tenma Fukumetsu) in three different types; a special box set, a DVD only version and a CD only version.
So, we’ll start with the Special Box set, which costs 10000 yen and is a limited edition.
As posted on CDJapan:
Live DVD release [...]
jubily, who we have introduced here, are going to release their first mini-album! It will be entitled 「覚醒カクテル」(Kakusei Cocktail) and go on sale on the 7th of April for 1890 yen. The tracklist isn’t known so far, but here is the cover:
Furthermore, the band will have its first oneman on the 29th of May! It [...]
ウツセミ (Utsusemi) will be losing their guitarist 智 (Tomo) after the gig on the 26th of April. Here is the official announcement about the fact:
To all those who have been continually supporting us,
As of the gig on 26th April, it has come to the fact that the guitarist Tomo will be withdrawing from the band.
We [...]
Ziggrat have updated both their OHP and the member’s blogs saying that their guitarist Kyo has been hospitalized due to catching pneumonia.
We apologize for the unexpected announcement.
Since the other day, our guitarist Kyo has been in bad health, and today as a result of being diagnosed with pneumonia, it is necessary that he is [...]
NEXX have announced that they will be losing their vocalist, Reia, after their sponsored event on May 15th.
They have updated the member’s blogs with the following announcement:
An Important Announcement From NEXX
Although this is unexpected, today NEXX has an important announcement.
After our sponsored event on May 14th at Shinjuku RUDIO K4, our vocalist Reia will be [...]
We have already written all the important details about the first dizSolid single – now just let me update you with the cover and tracklist, as promised:
01. prayer(Instrumental)
02. historical scars
03. Children’s Metamorphosis
04. 輪廻 (Rinne)
What is more, it will be limited to 500 copies only so make sure to pre-order the copy fast, if you want [...]
I’ve already mentioned it here, but for those who do not remember – ヴァルナ (Valluna) will be releasing their first mini-album on the 28th of April!
It will be entitled 「Distopia」 and cost 3150 yen. However, it will be limited to 500 copies only. The tracklist is as follows:
【CD】
01. Re:incarnation(SE)
02. 螺旋迷宮 (Rasen Meikyuu)
03. アイシア (Aishia)
04. Distopia
05. [...]
Thanks to Zetsubou for the heads-up!
With all these recent disbandments and departures it’s certainly nice to see a fresh band there, right? So, the totally new band I want to talk about today is called Keith. The members are:
Vocal: 慎 (Shin) (ex-D-ZEL)
Guitar: 葉 (You) (ex-ASYURA)
Bass: ゆきあ (Yukia) (ex-As If in the Darkness)
Drums: 景人 (Keito) (ex-D-ZEL)
The [...]
I’ve already mentioned the omnibus some time ago, but there are finally more details. As said before, it will be entitled 「Cure NEW AGE COLLECTIONS」and go on sale with the Cure magazine vol. 81 on the 21st of April. The tracklist is as follows:
01. Cu[be] – 閃光プロローグ (Senkou Prologue)
02. GallowS -「Masochist【K】
03. Six Bullet’z – Guilty
04. [...]
I’ve been meaning to introduce that band here for a long time already and I finally got the reason, when I randomly stumbled upon some great news I couldn’t resist posting.
So, the band members are:
Vocal: sho-ka | ex. Vogus Image as 昇歌 (Shouka)
Bass: Jun | from GaGaalinG, ex. Waive
The great news is the fact that [...]
There are some great news for VAJRA fans!
VAJRA will be releasing a new maxi-single on the 28th of April. It will be entitled 「CONCEALED PAIN」 and be sold for 1575 yen. However, it will be limited to 1000 copies only. The tracklist is:
01. ヘイト (Hate)
02. 剥離 (Hakuri)
03. 悦楽の乱反射 (Etsuraku no Ranhansha)
What is more, the band [...]