SMILE blogs
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 11:51 pm (1 Comment)
Just when you thought the new blog thing had cooled down, all the boys from SMILE have opened up their own official Ameba blogs.
Kasumi : http://ameblo.jp/smile-kasumi
Nana : http://ameblo.jp/smile-nananana
Tsubasa : http://ameblo.jp/smile-tsubasa
Yugi : http://ameblo.jp/smile-yugi
Source: SMILE OHP
Tokyo Shitei Project “T”
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 11:44 pm (No Comments)
The members of 東京指定 (Tokyo Shitei) have just launched a new project called 東京指定プロジェクト「Ｔ」 (Tokyo Shitei Project “T”)! So far the band has a couple of lives planned in July, but nothing as far as releases go. (However, they did just launch the OHP for the project today).
The members of Tokyo Shitei Project “T” are as follows:
Vocals - 渋谷 (Shibuya) from Tokyo Shitei
Guitar - Ren from Tokyo Shitei
Guitar - 爛丸 (Ranmal) of ex-Plum
Bass - 23 from Tokyo Shitei
Drums - hajime of ex-Rosario
If you want to keep up with the band, make sure you check out their OHP at http://tokyo-sti.com/t/.
Source: Tokyo Shitei OHP
Tags: New band
Tags: Tokyo Shitei, Tokyo Shitei Project "T"
AILE - One last DVD
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 11:41 pm (No Comments)
Although AILE has disbanded, there will be one more release put out in their name and that’s a live DVD of their very final live. The release date is set for July 9th and the cost will be 3990.
The DVD is titled 「LAST FEATHER〜君が望む永遠〜20080509」 (Kimi ga Nozomu Eien)… and I’ve pretty much already said what I can about it. It’s footage from their final live that took place at Shibuya O-EAST on May 9th.
Source: Brand-x
… and totally unrelated, every time I go to type AILE, I type Ailea first.
Tags: New release
Tags: AILE
お遊戯ゎが魔々団×【PaRADEiS】 - New single
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 11:33 pm (6 Comments)
お遊戯ゎが魔々団×【PaRADEiS】 (パレード) (Oyuugi Wagamama-dan x 【PaRADEiS】) (Parade) are releasing two new singles; one in June and one in July! But first, a photo for good measure.
The one in June is called 「パンドラの箱」 (Pandora no Hako) and is a three track single priced at 1575 yen.
The tracklist for that release includes:
・お姫様の赤い薔薇 (Ohimesama no Akai Bara)
・Mrs。トビューラの毒杯 (Mrs. Tobyuura no Dokuhai)
・溺愛通行物語〜片思い編〜 (Dekiai Tsuukou Monogatari～Kataomoihen～)
The second single is out on July 2nd, will also cost 1575 yen and is called 「残された欠片の戯曲」 (Nokosareta Kakera no Gikyoku). It will also contain three tracks:
・Lolitaの憂鬱 (Lolita no Yuuutsu)
・ピノキオと砂時計 (Pinocchio to Sunadokei)
・風にのせて (Kaze ni Nosete)
Source: Brand-x
Tags: New release
Tags: Oyuugi Wagamama-dan x 【PaRADEiS】
SEED’s new single!
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 11:25 pm (No Comments)
SEED will be releasing a new single on the oh-so-popular day, July 23rd! It’s a three track single called 「Heaven’s Bell」 that will cost 1575 yen.
The tracklist is as follows:
・Heaven’s Bell
・Song for you
・Another world
Source: Brand-x
Tags: New release
Tags: SEED
Random Fact of the Day
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 10:59 pm (2 Comments)
You know, how in a lot of the Expect Rush interviews they ask the artists what they would name a child? I’ve always found these interesting, for some reason.
But this one, is a new kind of special.
ANGEL-TAKA from Imitation PoPs宇宙戦隊NOIZ said that he would name his child TAKA Number 2 Special Space Meteor.
. . . (of course it’s a joke… right?) that kid is going to get killed on the playground.
Tags: Random Fact
Tags: Imitation Pops Uchuu Sentai NOIZ
Dio keeping busy
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 10:06 pm (No Comments)
Dio announced that they will be having a 3-man live on Saturday, July 5th at shinjuku RUIDO K4. The live will consist of the band, RENTRER EN SOI, and one more band that hasn’t been announced yet.
Also, Dio mentioned that a new single will be released on August 6th. A name for that single has yet to be released.
Source: OHP
Tags: Lives, New release
Tags: Dio
Diablo News
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 9:10 pm (No Comments)
This is a little late, but unfortunately I haven’t checked up on Diablo’s site until now.
Now back in April, we wrote about how Diablo’s bassist Kou left the band on April 25th.
… turns out Yousuke and Naoya did as well leaving them with just Haruto.
You can see what Kou wrote about it in the previous post.
Yousuke has said that there are various reasons to why he left the band, but his biggest reason was that he had strong thoughts about starting a new band. He does say that Diablo will continue on, apologizes to the fans and hopes that everyone can understand.
Naoya says that even though it was a short time that he was in the band, he thought about it on his own and reached this decision. He does apologize to everyone who’s been supporting him and says that he’s not sure if it’ll be difficult for them to accept or not, but hopes that everyone can keep cheering Diablo on. He does plan on continuing on in music, and asks for his fan’s support when he finds a new band.
Source: OHP
Well, that’s disappointing. From the looks of it Haruto will keep going with the band so I hope he has some new members lined up or in the works. Guess we’ll have to wait and see what happens.
Separated at Birth
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 9:08 pm (12 Comments)
I think I started a post like this before, but let me start by saying Mamo from R指定 (R-15) is one of my favourite band members out of any visual band.
Now with that in mind, I bring you a brand new separated at birth. Sadly, when I saw these photos of him this is the very first thing that came to my mind.
Mamo. And a BooBah.
Since the BooBahs are so hot and sexy, here’s an awesome video for you to watch.
D on Oricon!
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 8:52 pm (1 Comment)
Now, I’m not going to post every single time a visual band makes it onto the Oricon charts, but I do think this is post-worthy.
D’s major debut single, “BIRTH” on May 16th reached 8th on the Oricon Weekly Charts!
That’s pretty awesome for those boys, especially it being their major debut. I know a lot of fans were especially worried that D would change by going major, but I’m glad they found a label where they can still be D and don’t have to make unnecessary sacrifices to both their image and music.
So yes… congrats to them.
Source: D OHP
A new book about vk
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 8:35 pm (1 Comment)
There’s a new book about visual kei that has just come out called 「さよなら「ヴィジュアル系」～紅に染まったSLAVEたちに捧ぐ～」 (Sayonara “Visual Kei”～Kurenai ni Somatta SLAVE-tachi ni Sasagu～) written by Ichikawa Tetsushi, who is known Japanese music critic.
This book is actually a collection of two books he has previously written on the subject, titled 「私が「ヴィジュアル系」だった頃」 (Watashi ga “Visual kei” datta goro) and 「私も「ヴィジュアル系だった頃」 (Watashi mo “Visual kei” datta goro).
I’ve never read the books myself, but from what I’ve read about them, they’re about the impact that earlier visual bands such as X JAPAN and LUNA SEA had on the rock scene and the social impact of visual kei. I think they seem pretty interesting… which actually makes me tempted to pick up a copy.
Anyways, the new book is 800 yen and you can order them at either HMV or Amazon Japan.
Tags: Cool, New release, News
Scuber Dive again
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 8:21 pm (No Comments)
We first mentioned SCUBER DIVE here and later on we posted the list of bands particpating. Not too long ago, we updated that list in this post.
They’ve now made their third announcement of bands that will be participating:
12012, えんそく (Ensoku), the studs, デンジャー☆ギャング (Danger Gang), heidi, BRANCH
And in Tokyo only:
DaizyStripper, キャンゼル (Canzel) and vistlip
Source: BMA, Scuber Dive
Tags: Event
M.cry
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 7:18 pm (8 Comments)
I was going to post this a week ago already, but I’ve been working waaay too much, so I didn’t have time to finish the post until now. Anyway — here’s an introduction to a brand new band again!
M.cry
Left to right:
Ba. ゆき (Yuki), also support ba. for ○なるど (Marunarudo)
Dr. りょう (Ryou) ex.フルリレロ (Fururirero) [遊/Yuu]
Vo. 皇 (Kou) ex.ミュール (Mule), ex.AnCafe roadie
Gu. 亜怜 (Asato) ex.ティアラ (Tiara)
Not in picture: Support gu. さち (Sachi)
The band was formed very recently; they had their first secret live on May 5th, and they opened their site to the public on May 10th. From now on, they’ll be doing secret lives for a limited period of time, but you can keep up to the lives through their mail magazine.
I don’t know what they sound like, but I really like what they look like; they’re not that special, but it looks like they’ve really put some effort in their looks, which I always find a good thing among visual kei bands. There’s just so many bands out there with cheap-looking outfits and smudged make-up, that this kind of bands with nice costumes and high quality pictures always pique my interest even if they don’t look that original style-wise.
Now, if you’re wondering why I’m posting about such a random new band whose members aren’t from any well-known bands, it’s because I saw the vocalist live with his old band and he’s HILARIOUS. He’s got an awesome sense of humour. It’s a shame he deleted his old blog some time ago, as well all his posts in his ameblog when they were about to open their site, because he’s written some really hilarious entries in the past.
Once, for example, he wrote a long post about how he wears his keychains in the front of his pants instead of the back, and then one day he was crossing the street and the red light went on, so he had to run the last few steps, which made the keychains bump against his groin. He said it didn’t hurt, but felt uncomfortable, and that girls can’t know how it feels like but they can imagine how it would feel like if they wore their keychains on their chest.
In another post, he told about a crush he had for a girl in junior high school, but then at a gym class, he had accidentally seen that she had hair in her armpits and his love for her grew cold very quickly after that.
So yes, his blog is definitely something worth checking out. Haha.
If anyone knows anything about the other members, do speak up! I couldn’t find any information on them, other than what’s on their OHP.
Source: Kou’s blog, official site
Tags: Introduction, New band
Tags: m.cry
Flashback Friday: baroque
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 6:19 pm (2 Comments)
This band isn’t as old as the two that I did last week and the week before, but someone requested them, and they are a band that really made me remember some good times in my life. Baroque began in June 2001 and ended in December of 2004. They were an S’Cube band, and these days they manage bands like Ruvie and Tokyo Michael.
Final Members:
Vo. 怜 [Ryou]
Gu. 晃 [Akira]
Gu. 圭 [Kei]
Ba. 万作 [Bansaku]
Ryou and Kei have since moved on to kannivalism, and Bansaku as well as Akira are now members of Boogieman. And an interesting fact that I found on vkdb is that all of the members of るう゛ぃえ/Ruvie were roadies for baroque at some point, as well as Tsunehito who is now playing bass in D.
This video I’m sharing with you totally made me cry a year ago when I first saw it. I’m a pansy when I’m on my meds though, so it’s excusable. It has clips from their last live.
Anyone have any good memories about baroque that they’d like to share? Comment, we want to know what or who you miss most. Also if you have a request for next week’s Flashback Friday, let us know and we’ll try our best to make it happen.
Tags: Flashback
Tags: baroque, boogieman, kannivalism, Ruvie
Vidoll’s newest release
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 4:04 pm (1 Comment)
Vidoll fans will be excited to know that in July, we’ll get to hear a new release from the band! On July 2nd the band is putting out a brand spanking new single called “Blue star”.
There aren’t any other details on it, except of course the cost.
The first press edition will be 1500 yen and the regular press 1260 yen.
Source: Jishubanclub
Tags: New release
Tags: Vidoll
Arc and Dali - Collectors CDs!
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 4:01 pm (4 Comments)
If you’re a Dali or an Arc fan, you’ll be excited to know that two rare CDs by each band are being released for sale at CD stores such as Brand-x and Jishuban Club!
The Dali CD is their one track free distrubtion single called 「イタミワケ」 (Itami wake) that they gave out at their oneman on January 11th at OSAKA MUSE. The cost for it now is 1050 yen.
For Arc, they’re actually doing this for two different releases. The first is for their free CD that was given out on March 15th at their oneman at OSAKA MUSE called 「空。いつか」 (Sora. Itsuka) which contains one track and also costs 1050 yen. The second is for a DVD that they gave out also at their oneman called 「-Be addicted parade- Be addicted film - DIGEST DVD」 that contains footage from their lives on January 19th and February 16th. The cost for this one is now 1575 yen.
As there is a limited number for all of the items, they’ll only be taking reservations until May 18th.
Source: Brand-x
This is kind of a cool idea for people who couldn’t go to the lives but wanted the CDs… especially anyone who’s a huge fan and really wanted them. However, I think asking $10 for something that’s only one track and that was given out for free is kind of a crime.
Tags: New release, News
Tags: Arc, Dali
2nd Press for Kiryuu
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 10:26 am (No Comments)
If you remember, back in March we talked about Kriyuu’s most recent single「アナザーサイド〜流通盤〜」 (Another Side～Ryuutsuuban～) that was supposed to come out on May 20th. Good news for the band — the single is already sold out!
Due to it’s quick selling out, the band is releasing a second press of the single on July 2nd. The second press is 1890 yen and contains the same three songs, however, it also comes with a special live clip DVD.
The tracklist wasn’t available at the time of the first update about the release, so here it is:
・アナザーサイド (Another Side)
・白濁セシ蝶 (Hakudaku Setsu Chou)
・愛シクモ仄甘ク喘グ其ノ声ヲ… (Itoshiku mo Soku Amaku Aegu Shi no Koe wo)
Source: Brand-x
Tags: New release
Tags: Kiryu
Zoro’s First Full Album
Posted on May 16, 2008 at 9:04 am (1 Comment)
On August 20th, Zoro will be releasing their very first full length album! The title is yet to be determined as of yet, but they’re release two types.
The first press edition which costs 3676 yen and comes with a special, long awaited fan DVD.
The regular press is 3150 yen, and instead of a DVD comes with two bonus tracks.
Source: Brand-x
Tags: New release
Tags: Zoro
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