L~Lotus~ is a five-piece band comprising of three ex. as milk members – 蓮華 (Renka) on vocals, saki and Takayuki on guitars, masato on bass, and YUJI on drums. They officially began their activities on March 6th and have released three digital singles to date: 「worry」 on May 19th, 「snow」 on May 26th, and 「tree」 on June 2nd. The members of L~Lotus~ sat down with us to answer a couple of questions, so give it a read to get to know them better! We’d like to thank JapanFiles... Read→
-LEON- is a five-piece band from Gunma comprising of Yuji on vocals, Shin and Koya on guitars, Yamato on bass, and Masashi on drums. Mixing Asian cultural influences with visual rock, -LEON- has a heavy, modern sound with a distinct, ethereal flavor. On December 13th, the band released their first three track mini-album, 「REGULUS」 along with a PV for their song, 「Kokou ni Tou Tsuioku no Kagen no Tsuki」. The members of -LEON- took time to answer a few of our questions, so take a read through... Read→
GLACIER is a five-member group from Okinawa, comprising of Makoto on vocals, Nao on lead guitar, Koujirou on rhythm guitar, Aki on bass, and Yuuki on drums. The band formed in July 2007 and made their major debut a year later on July 23rd. They have released a full album and six singles to date with their seventh single, 「愛の降る街」 (Ai no Furu Machi) which is the third installment of a 7-month digital release project, coming out on June 30th through JapanFiles and on iTunes. The members... Read→
O-PARTS is a two-man unit that started in June of 2009, formed by vocalist sho-ka (ex. Vogus Image) and bassist Jun (GaGaaalinG, ex. WAIVE). On August 20th, they released their first maxi-single entitled 「向日葵」 (Himawari) which included four tracks, all of which made it into the top ten of the Oricon Indies ranking. On May 26th, their second maxi-single, 「煌[kou]」 was released and will be available through JapanFiles from June 6th. Both sho-ka and Jun took time out of their busy schedules... Read→
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→
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→
Lets see, when Miyavi came to Houston he got a chance to show off some of his English skills. He actually was able to understand a few questions and reply back! One funny question went something like this:
Fan: “Whats your favorite American Artist?”
Miyavi: “American Artist?….ahhhhhhhhh Barack Obama!”
Okay well, he isn’t so much as an artist as he is kinda like…I dunno President? But the answer got a roomful of fans giggling and clapping, so it works I guess. Random Miyavi ^^;
Ah a question that is super easy since I like Az! I hope you are reading this Kazuto baby!
Q. oh great and powerful Ernie. i have tried several times to locate Az’s blog and i have failed. do you possibly know the url to her blog?
A. She has moved blogs a couple of times but she always keeps the title Straight Number. Her old blog was located here. But her current blog is located here. Also as a bonus, her personal site is here.
Also guys, calling me great and powerful gets you extra bonus points. This has been another edition of Ask Ernie!
Maru Music is now bringing Kanon to Cali! Lucky West Coasters gets to see Kanon at a couple of instores!
Following her performance at Otakon in Baltimore, the Japanese Visual- Kei artist Kanon Wakeshima announces two in-store appearances in California. These appearances will feature a exclusive in-store performance and a autograph session.
July 20th – San Francisco – Amoeba Music
July 21st – Los Angeles – Royal T CafeKanon Wakeshima supporting her latest release “Shinshoku Dolce” released in North America by Maru Music. This highly anticipated first album, demonstates Kanon’s talents as a Visual-Kei artist. Being the one and only cello player in the Visual-Kei scene, Kanon’s melodic voice and unique cello playing truly reaches the fans hearts.
For those in the Los Angeles area, Royal T Cafe will also be exhibiting Kanon’s artwork the day of the performance.
The locations again are:
JULY 20th
Where: Amoeba Records
1855 Haight St
San Francisco, CA 94117
When: 6:00 PM
In-Store Performance
Signing Session After Performance
July 21st
Where: Royal T Cafe
8910 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
When: 6:30 PM
In-Store Performance
Sighing Session After Performance
Exclusive to Royal T Café! Kanon Wakeshima Original art Exhibition. Gallary space will display several of Kanon’s original Drawings
Source: Maru Music
Thanks to my beloved Mikki for pointing this out! Earlier today Girugamesh’s official Myspace was updated with some new photos of the band! Go check it out!
Here are a few:
And there is now cover art for their new single we mentioned about back here.
It seems the title is “BORDER” and it will be released August 5th.
Source: Official MySpace
At their live on June 29th, ACTWEED announced the addition of a 5th member! They have gained a second guitarist named Izumi. No official picture or blog is available for him yet, but we’ll keep you posted!
Source: Member blogs
As we wrote about here, until Moran’s oneman tour in August, bassist Zill will be concentrating on getting well again, and in his place Moran will have a support bassist. They announced that for their next three lives (July 5th, 6th, and 12th), Haku (ex-BABYLON) will be supporting them. Past this, there has been no announcement, but we’ll continue to update you as news comes along.
Source: Soan’s blog
Neu announced their brand new lineup today! The new members are:
Vocal：みつ (Mitsu, ex-Lad)
Guitar：たくみ (Takumi, ex-Wedday (as Mint))
Guitar：華遊 (Kayu, ex-Kisnate)
In addition, on July 18th they will officially open their new site to the public, which will have member photos, the start of new members’ blogs, and an important announcement!
Source: Kayu’s blog, OHP
As of a few minutes ago, Para:noir, who we mentioned here, opened their official homepage to the public! Along with this comes a slew of announcements! First off being that on August 28th, they will hold their first sponsored event at Takadanobaba AREA called 『Gott ist tot vol.1』That same day, they will release a DVD, Merciless sorrow, containing the PV of that song. In fact, you can already preview the PV on their OHP! Unfortunately, the DVD will only be sold at that live. The cost will be 1000 yen.
According to their live schedule, they will start live activity on August 2nd with a secret live somewhere in the Tokyo area, followed by two demonstration lives before the big sponsored event.
They’re definitely a band to look forward to!
Source: OHP
Well, it’s been a while since we’ve changed up the poll and finally it’s time! So check out the sidebar on your right for a new question!
So, here are the results from the most recent question:
Have you ever been inspired to create an LJ community or forum for your favorite vk band?
Total Voters: 654
If you’d like to elaborate, we’d love to hear from you. Which communities do our readers own?
Remember, if you ever have a poll question you’d like to see featured on Shattered-Tranquility.net, you can send it our way by using the contact form! We’re always looking for new poll suggestions!
Though their tour is now over, n’DooL already has their summer live schedule listed!
July 15th (Wed) @ Kyoto ARC DEUX
July 19th (Sun) @ Osaka BRAND NEW
July 24th (Fri) @ HOLIDAY NAGOYA
July 25th (Sat) @ Urawa NARCISS
July 27th (Mon) @ Ikebukuro CYBER
July 30th (Thu) @ KYOTO MUSE
July 31st (Fri) @ Naniwa ga taihen//SCUBER DIVE ’09
August 2nd (Sun) @ HOLIDAY NAGOYA
August 12th (Wed) @ Shinsaibashi club ALIVE
August 17th (Mon) @ Hamamatsu FORCE
August 18th (Tue) @ Nagoya Heart Land STUDIO
Aside from that, they recently debuted their new costumes at their third oneman and will be updating their OHP with the new look soon!
Source: Rio’s blog, OHP
Back here we mentioned that the session band Moeru Konayuki would begin live activities again with the end of their second stage and enter their third stage. After their revival live on June 11th, guitarist SADY was the only one to remain and has moved to vocals and will lead the third stage of Moecona a bit differently. Instead of a set line up of members, the members will change now and then or from live to live. So far they have three lives scheduled and the members for those lives will be the following:
Vo.SADY
Gt.イサム(Isamu)
Ba.あっつtheデストロイ(Attsu the destroyer)(from Jin-machine)
Dr.ザロック(the rock)
And the live schedule with the reservation priveledges:
July 26th @ Morioka CHANGE WAVE
-reservation priveledge: 『約束』-DEMO Ver-(yakusoku)
July 29th @ Yamagata Sandinista
-reservation priveledge: 『あのね』-2009 Ver-(DEMO)(ano ne)
August 18th @ Koriyama #9
-(priveledge undecided)
Source: SADY’s blog, OHP
Great news for ゾロ (Zoro) fans!
The band has announced that on September 9th they will be releasing a full album!
The fine details aren’t set yet, however, it will be coming out in two types. The first press edition which contains the album and a DVD for 3675 yen, and the regular edition which is the album only for 3150 yen.
More information when we get it!
Source: OHP
You all know this week’s routine is about introducing new bands, so here are two very interesting bands :
華音 (Kanon)
Vo. Aki
Gu. Ryuta
Ba. Aya
Dr. Sou
You’ll think I only introduce bands from Osaka, but it’s nothing but a coincidence ! It may be hard to believe that 華音 (Kanon) formed only about 4 months ago in March, as they already look like a very solid band, not really like an obscure indie band. But the band is indeed 5 months old ! So far, they’ve been playing about once or twice every month, which is not that much but they’re just starting up. On July 23rd, they’ll be part of a nice event along with GRiST, LiCKER and Venus.
As for the CDs, the band has already distributed one, on May 7th, entitled 「未ダ空ハ晴レズ。」(Imada Sora wa Harezu.). Let’s hope we’ll have a chance to listen to them in the near future, cuz they just look badass !
OHP : http://58.xmbs.jp/kanoninformation/
ハルシオン (Halsion)
Vo. Shiz
Gu. Nobu
Ba. Mayu
Dr. Tatsu
Another very young band ! And this time, they’re hailing from quite an unusual place for a VK band : Sapporo ! The band had its very fist live on April 20th at Sapporo KRAPS HALL. And not even one week later, they sponsored their first event, at Sapporo MESSE HALL ! Quite a nice start, right ?
They’re now trying to perform more and more and they take advantage of being one of the rare VK bands from their city to take part in some big events that could help them gaining popularity. For example, throughout the whole month of July, they will perform with bands such as : 愛狂います。(Aicle), Ap(r)il, アンド (And), SuG, DaizyStripper, SCREW, イロクイ (Irokui), vistlip, or even SINCREA !
They’ll aslo have their second sponsored event on August 10th (向日葵Chainsaw – Himawari Chainsaw).
And last but not least, the band will also release its first CD in September ! So keep an eye on them !
OHP : http://www.halsion.jp/
DIO has announced that for a limited time (from now until the end of August), they will be selling their live only CD, 「Coma Gold」 via mail order through their official site.
As the band explains on their OHP, 「Coma Gold」 was released during their oneman tour, but came in four varieties of jackets, depending on the livehouse it was sold at. There are also two variations on the song itself.
1. Nagoya Version Jacket + Song A
2. Osaka Version Jacket + Song B
3. Sendai Version Jacket + Song A
4. Tokyo Version Jacket + Song B
Those who wish to purchase the CD must specify which version they would like to acquire, and will need to send an email to the address listed on the site with their information.
Source: OHP
As we mentioned before, on July 22nd DIS★Marionette are releasing a new single. However, this won’t be their only release of the summer!
Making a two month consecutive release, the band will be putting out a new single called 「897/13＝xx」 on August 26th.
The single will contain brand new music that hasn’t even yet been performed at lives, and will cost 1260 yen.
Source: Brand-x
We posted back here about Antic Cafe’s new singles, and also mentioned how they were going to release a new album in September.
Well, there aren’t too many details available quite yet, but the album is set to come out on September 9th. It’s coming out in two versions; a first press edition that will include a DVD with a music video, and the regular press edition.
Both are available for pre-ordering on CDJapan, so make sure you check it out!
First Press Edition – Pre-order your copy now (3800 yen)
Regular Press Edition – Pre-order your copy now (3000 yen)
Source: CDJapan
One more bit of Ryonai news, he has finished designing 2 new eye garments/patches. These are quite dark but pretty. You can visit the shop here. What do you think of the new designs?
Source: HP
Ryonai updated the main site with new images and redesign. Even though Tatsuya has passed, Ryonai does a nice job in honoring him. Again he urges people to send in demo tapes and images to audition to join Blam Honey.
AND the label sampler is out! Blam Honey has a new song featured on the cd, WITCH FLY IN THE AIR… Also has tracks from GPKISM, Takuya Angel (from his first album) and BLOOD. I believe you can get a copy from Risk Note.
01. Barathrum / GPKISM (from Barathrum)
02. Nightmare / Noir du’Soleil (from Into The Sky)
03. 禁じられた遊び / Seileen (from 禁じられた遊び)
04. Assassination / 2 Bullet (from ASSASSI-NATION)
05. Lost Sky / BLOOD (from Lost Sky)
06. Ima-Wa-Mukashi / Takuya Angel (from Ima-Wa-Mukashi)
07. 僕という有害な要素 / SUICIDE ALI (from 受け継がれた指輪)
08. Abaddon Came Alone / Spectrum-X (from Tea Party With Zombies)
09. WITCH FLY IN THE AIR… / BLAM HONEY (from Providence of Decadence)
10. 消失願望 / HimemaniK
11. Skinny Little Bitch / Angelspit (from Blood Death Ivory)
Source: Ryonai’s blog, BH OP
Sana’s birthday just passed and with that he has updated his site with new pictures and news of a new release called Eclipse! The release is set to come out on July 22nd and will come with a poster! From the looks of it, the style is really pretty! The cd will be 2,009 yen.
Source: HP
Guys have a new look with their new member! What do you think? Very unique – don’t forget to catch them at Nekocon.
Source: myspace
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