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Random Fact of the day

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Today’s random fact of the day comes from Yumehito from Ayabie. It is out of – Honesty ~ Cure’s MODEL REAL FACE. What is it about? Treasured items.

Q. What is your treasured item?
My large collection of figurines.

S-T readers, what is one item that you treasure?

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Wedday big announcement

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ウェンズデー(Wedday) made two big announcements on their homepage today. On September 1st they will gain a new member and Wedday’s first BEST ALBUM will go on sale! The name of the album will be titled 水曜ベスト・ア・ラ・モード (Wednesday Best-a-la-mode) and will contain the 12 following tracks:

1.君がX(Kimi ga X)
2.代弁者(taibensha)
3.アンチ2テーゼ(ANTI 2 THESE)
4.ブランドニューウエ~ブ(Brand new wa~ve)
5.虫我(mushiware)
6.BARGEN LOVE
7.妄想デジャブログ(Mousou DEJABUROGU)
8.バベルの塔(Babel no tou)
9.YESTERDAY
10.夏メロ~フ・タ・リ・ハ・カ・タ・オ・モ・イ~(Natsu mero~fu-ta-ri-wa-ka-ta-o-mo-i~)
11.VISUAL=JAPAN
12.∞(未発表Ver.)(∞(unpublished Ver.))

The cost will be 2,500yen and will come with a 16 page booklet. The only downside is that it will be limited to live hall sales only.

Source: OHP

LOGiQ and the bullet news

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LOGiQ and the bullet are teaming up for a two man live at Shinjuku Loft on November 3rd! The live will cost 3500 yen (or 4000 yen at the door) and the members will also be performing in a special session band as well as giving out a free coupling CD to all those who buy their tickets in advance. The twoman will be titled 「共鳴~白華蒼影~」 (Kyoumei~Shirobana Aokage).

LOGiQ and the bullet will both be releasing their second singles on October 1st! So far that’s all that has been set, so more details when they come out.

Source: Kranze OHP

M.cry starts officially + session

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Up until now M.cry has been doing lives secretly, but today at their live they announced that they will finally start official activities on September 10th! There’s still over a month to go, but Kou says that there’s a good reason for that and even though he can’t explain it yet, he asks everyone to look forward to it.

And for the curious, Ko-ki announced a quite interesting session band line-up and since there’s M.cry’s members I’ll post the information in this post! They haven’t yet decided on a name for the session, but the line-up is complete.

Vo. 亜怜 (Asato) / M.cry
Gt. さち (Sachi) / M.cry support
Gt. なつき (Natsuki) / レモンスカッシュ (Lemon☆Squash)
Ba. IV / exキス&ネイト (ex Kisnate)
Dr. ko-ki / Novelis

The session live takes place on August 25th at HOLIDAY Shinjuku, and tickets go for 2800yen in advance and 3300yen on the day of the live. This session is quite interesting because as you might remember, Asato is actually M.cry’s guitarist, but he’s doing vocals for this session.

There’s also many other sessions at this event, by members from bands such as Dennou Romeo, VelBet, Ruvie and RAVE!!. I’m pretty excited about the latter because RAVE!!’s vocalist Yaina hasn’t updated his blog in over a year but apparently he’s changed his name to Rin and is doing a session live at this event! Yay for band boys coming back after not being around for a while~!

Source: Kou’s blog, Ko-ki’s blog

M.cry’s official start is 5 days before my birthday, what a nice birthday present 8D;

Ren’s newest drummer

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恋 (Ren) has announced that as of July 27th they have a new drummer in their band! Their newest member is 沙彌 (Sami) who for a while was doing support for Rufina.

His photo is not yet available on the OHP, but you can check out his official blog: http://blog.livedoor.jp/ren_sami/.

So, Kazu left the band somewhere along the way. I can’t seem to find when that happened but at least the band is back to having a full time drummer.

Source: Vkdb, OHP

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4way Speakers

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4way Speakers, who are all ex-Scar. members and who we talked about before here, have set up their OHP and shown their new look. If you remember, 4way Speakers is just Scar., without Masami.

Okay, so they weren’t overly visual as Scar. (as you can see below)

But now they’ve completely gone off the visual path and look like just your every day boy band.

No news on what their music will be like… if it’ll stay similar to Scar.’s or go in a totally different direction but regardless, it’s nice to see the boys back!

What do you think of the new style? Love it or hate it?

Source: Mail Mag, OHP

INSANITY FRONTIER’s two month release

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One of the bands that I’m really into lately has just announced two new releases!

The band is INSANITY FRONTIER and come August they’ll be starting their two month consecutive release campaign! More details will be available later, but the first release comes out on August 29th and is called “THE DEAD OF MURDER SHOW”. The second will be out on September 29th and the title is not yet decided. Each CD will come with three tracks.

The band has also announced that they’ll be going on tour and the tour will also be called “The Dead of Murder Show” (they typed one in all caps and one not using caps as well). Details on the tour are as follows:

August 29th @ Fukuoka DRUM LOGOS
September 5th @ Meguro Rock May Kan
September 10th @ Nagasaki DRUM Be-7
September 16th @ Hiroshima CLUB QUATTRO
September 17th @ Osaka BRAND NEW
September 25th @ Kumamoto DRUM Be-9
September 29th @ Fukuoka DRUM Be-1

So if you’d like to read a bit more about them and check out some samples, make sure you check out the introduction post over here.

Source: Official Mail Magazine

Random Fact of the Day

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Yo yo yo. It’s the Erniator here again with your random fact of the day.

You may already know this, but for those of you who don’t, Tenten and Yomi are good friends and have been for quite some time. Recently Tenten and Yomi celebrated their birthday. Tenten’s on July 20th and Yomi’s on July 14th.   It must be pretty cool to be close to someone and have very similar birthday’s, huh?  Tenten and Yomi even had both their names on the cake. That’s true friendship right there.

Who’s birthday is October 9th?! Share a cake with me please!!!

MANNEQUIN PV + Tracklist

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MANNEQUIN has posted a clip of the “Secret” PV on their Myspace!

http://www.myspace.com/mannequinjp

Check it out~

The tracklist for their full album “Empty Flowers”, has also been posted on their OHP!

1.Pavane pour une infante defunte #1
2.CHAOS
3.MOON THE KERBEROS
4.Empty Flowers
5.SILVER KNIFE,SILVER RAIN
6.LOVE IS LOVE
7.JEWEL
8.ROSE IN THE DARK
9.KIZUNA
10.唯我
11.SECRET
12.Pavane pour une infante defunte #2

You can purchase the album over at CDJapan: MANNEQUIN – Empty Flowers.

Source: OHP, Myspace, MANNEQUIN LJ Comm.

This is a very nice surprise to wake up too! I’m really excited~

MUCC hits Europe

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If you remember, back from the very end of February until the end of April, MUCC, The Underneath and D’espairsRay all participated in the TASTE OF CHAOS tour.

Well, now TASTE OF CHAOS has announced that this autumn they’ll be heading to Europe! They’ve also announced that the new tour will be hitting Asia, South American and Mexico, however, details and bands for those performances will be announced at a later date.

The bands for the European tour are Atreyu, As I Lay Dying, Story of the Year, Horse the Band and MUCC (which is of course why we’re posting it here).

The dates and details are as follows:
October 9th – Hamburg, Germany @ Docks
October 10th – Copenhagen, Denmark @ KB Hall
October 11th – Stockhold, Sweden @ Arenan
October 12th – Helsinki, Finland @ Ice Hall
October 15th – London, UK @ Astoria
October 16th – Lincoln, UK @ English Shed
October 17th – Norwich, UK @ UEA
October 19th – Cardiff, UK @ Uni
October 20th – Nottingham, UK @ Rock City
October 21st – Birmingham, UK @ Academy
October 22nd – Leeds, UK @ Met Uni
October 24th – Hull, UK @ Uni
October 25th – Edinburgh, UK @ Picturehouse
October 26th – Dundee, UK @ Fat Sam Live
October 27th – Glasgow @ ABC
October 29th – Preston, UK @ 53 Degrees
October 30th – Manchester, UK @ Academy
October 31st – Oxford, UK @ Academy

Source: BMA, Taste of Chaos OHP

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Juka’s Return

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Juka, who took a pause from the music scene back in December due to a medical condition, will be participating in a session band on August 6th at AREA.

The line up for this session is:
Vo.Juka
Gt.RUKIA (ex.Metis Gretel)
Gt.Shun (ex.aka maru boyZ)
Ba.?
Dr.Hirogato

As you can see, they currently do not have a bassist and are looking for one, but hopefully they can recruit one before the live!

Juka also mentioned that he is starting to recruit members for a new band. No other details, but as soon as there are some we will keep you updated!

Source: Shun’s blog, Rukia’s blog, Juka’s Mixi

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Random Fact of the Day

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Today’s random fact is about Vict from the band LiZ. What is one place he has stated he would like to visit? Germany. I hope he gets the chance to visit someday.

Okay S-T readers, what is one place you would like to visit? I personally would like to go to as many places as possible in my lifetime.

Mist Disbanding

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Mist announced they will be disbanding on their live on October 31st at HOLIDAY OSAKA

Thanks to everyone who wrote us about it.

Their reason for disbanding was because their guitarist Rei left the band for various reasons and the members agreed that they couldn’t continue without all four members so they made the decision to disband.

Source: OHP

new look for LiZ

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LiZ has announced a new single will be in the works. So far no name or release has been set but until then they did leave us with a surprise! New costumes and they are having a 3 man live on August 19th! They look good, click for a larger pic!

Source: LiZ HP, LiZ lj comm

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Ruvie’s Greatest Hits & Last Live

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Ruvie, who disbanded July 14th, is releasing a greatest hits album titled, from end., due to release on October 15th. The album will contain 28 songs on two discs and cost 3500yen.
It is already up for pre-order on CDJapan

Along with that also releasing October 15th is the DVD of their last live, world end. 2008.07.14 Shibuya O-EAST. Cost is 4000yen and it is also up for preorder on CDJapan.
Thank you Aurora for poiting out the dvd release as well.

source: CDJapan

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Kagrra, cancels two European lives

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Kagrra, has announced that they will be cancelling their performances in both England on August 19th and Spain on August 25th due to circumstances brought on by the promoter.

They are currently making adjustments to their tour schedule and will announce the updates on their OHP when everything has been decided.

All those who have bought tickets and were planning to attend either of the cancelled shows are able to get a refund. For more information visit http://www.rockidentity.de.

They apologize to all the fans and hope that they can meet you at one of their other performances in Europe.

Source: OHP

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New Poll Monday

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Its that time again, a new poll has been posted. Please take a moment to vote on it. Now on to last week’s results…

What is the longest you’ve followed a musician / band?

* 5 years (58 Votes)
* 3 years (57 Votes)
* 2 years (28 Votes)
* 7 years (25 Votes)
* 9+ years (23 Votes)
* I can’t recall (16 Votes)

Total Voters: 207

Please take a moment to tell us more about what you voted. Tell us what band/musician you’ve followed for that period of time.

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