The following announcement was posted on the band’s OHP as well as the member’s blogs:

An important announcement from meth.

At this time, we have decided that meth. will disband after our oneman live on September 4th at Nagoya Music Farm.

We have started to notice a gap between things such as our opinions in the future direction of the band, and after numerous meetings between the members and staff, the result we arrived at was to disband.

We are sincerely sorry to the fans that have been cheering us on and to everyone connected with the band that this is how things have turned out.

We will carry out with our currently announced schedule as planned.

Although this is a truly unexpected announcement, until the very end, we plan to completely devote ourself to our performances.

Until then, we hope that together with everyone, we can create the best lives possible, so we please continue to support us.

All the members of meth.

meth.’s last live will be called 「END OF STORY」 and it will take place on September 4th at Nagoya Music Farm. Tickets cost 2500 yen a piece and go on sale starting July 31st.

The members have yet to update either the OHP or their blogs with any comment on the decision.

Source: OHP, Member’s Blogs

Well, at that same event, the Nagoya based band, 苺６９。(Ichigo Rock) who disbanded October 30th 2005 due to a “gap between the members” and musical differences, will also be having a one day revival!

Ichigo Rock members were as follows:
Vocals - いお (Io) [ex-Holic, ex-Pashya]
Guitar - ゆいな☆ (Yuina) [ex-Under, ex-Mellow Pinky]
Bass - 連 (Ren) [ex-The Pumpkin Head, ex-Holic]
Drums - そら (Sora) [ex-Melloy Pinky, now in meth.]

Source: Ren’s Blog

On August 22nd, meth. will be sponsoring an event, however, on that date HATED will also be having a one day revival! The event will be called 「GOOD LOOKING MUSIC PARK Vol.2」 and will take place at Nagoya Music Farm.

HATED was akito and tomoya’s former band, which was around from 2003 until January of 2006. The band featured the following line-up:
Vocals – シキ (Shiki) [Now akito in meth.]
Guitar - 躯 (Mukuro) [Now Ryohei in EAT YOU ALIVE]
Guitar - Kill [Now tomoya in meth.]
Bass - 怜 (Ryo) [ex-Yuuya of meth.]
Drums - タケデ (Tekede) [Now in Neo]

Tekede will be unable to perform that day.

On the 22nd, not only will EAT YOU ALIVE and M be playing, but there will also be a session band with Tomozo (ex-Sulfuric Acid).

Source: Tonight’s Live, akito, enter brain OHP

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

akito -> http://ameblo.jp/meth-akito/
tomoya -> http://ameblo.jp/meth-tomoya/
AkN -> http://ameblo.jp/meth-akn/
sora -> http://ameblo.jp/meth091-sora/

Source: OHP

January 23rd HOLIDAY SHINJUKU
Performing: KYOUKUTOU GIRL FRIEND, cocklobin, 次世代エキサイト (Jisedai Excite), THE MAD SIMPSON, トーマス (THOMAS), gaudie.
Tickets will be 3000 yen in advance and 3500 yen the day of and are on sale now.

January 29th Fushimi HeartLand STUDIO
Performing: KYOUKUTOU GIRL FRIEND, cocklobin, amber gris, meth., gaudie., EAT YOU ALIVE
Tickets will be 2800 yen in advance and 3300 yen the day of and are on sale now.

January 30th Nishikujou BRAND NEW
Performing: KYOUKUTOU GIRL FRIEND, cocklobin, amber gris, Cla vi us, アヲイ (Awoi), exist†trace
Tickets will be 2800 yen in advance and 3300 yen the day of and are on sale now.

Source: KYOUKUTOU GIRL FRIEND OHP, cocklobin OHP

First, they will be playing a show on February 28th, 2010 at Nagoya Bottom Line entitled 「NAME OF NAGOYA」. Playing at the show with lynch. will be DEATHGAZE, ClearVeil, Juliette, Lycaon, meth., and ハートレス (heartless). There will also be a special session band performing. Tickets will cost 2010 yen in advance and will go on sale December 26th or can be purchased the day of for 2510 yen.

Second, lynch. will be having a mini-tour in spring 2010 which has been dubbed the “Quattro tour”, entitled 『QUATTRO 3 NITES』. The tour dates are as follows:

March 30th, 2010 Nagoya CLUB QUATTRO
March 31st 2010 Shinsaibashi CLUB QUATTRO
April 8th, 2010 Shibuya CLUB QUATTRO

Tickets go on sale January 30th, 2010 and will cost 4000 yen.

Source: OHP

Yokohama, Japan – October 14, 2009 –  Ever try meth.? Worried about the side effects? Worry no more. HearJapan is encouraging all users to try meth., at least once. HearJapan is now slinging hits of meth., globally, at only 200 Yen a hit. Worried about your meth. getting intercepted at the border? Forget about it. HearJapan is all-digital, no customs to deal with.

As of today, HearJapan is proud to boast 19 varieties of meth., which include the debut of 3 new hits: Street name “at WILL”. Fresh-cooked from the super-lab, today! meth. is mixture composed of many ingredients; however, this batch of 19 features an exceptionally high level of metal.  HearJapan guarantees customer satisfaction. After one rail of meth. you’ll be thrown into a euphoric frenzy. Warning! meth. is highly addictive.

In addition to the 3 new doses of meth., HearJapan is simultaneously releasing older hits from 4 different batches. Full releases come with bonus artwork, lyrics and liner notes. Don’t be shy, you know you want
to try it. Slam meth. sonically into your bloodstream.

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Links

meth. – at WILL
http://www.hearjapan.com/store/album_info/at_WILL
meth.
http://www.hearjapan.com/store/group/meth

Source: cocklobin OHP

The single will be called 「at WILL」 and will contain three tracks for 1260 yen:
1. at WILL
2. BLACK [666] SCHEME
3. 結末の紅 (Ketsumatsu no Beni)

Source: Official Mailmag, OHP

You can check out his profile on the site.
The band has also posted a new photo with their newest look, and newest member:

Source: Official Mailmag, OHP

The event will take place at HOLIDAY NAGOYA on June 21st. The event costs 2500 yen to attend and tickets go on sale starting April 12th.

Source: meth. OHP

I would go for the title alone. (And, I do love meth.).

This will be a three track single that costs 1260 yen:
1. THE LAST SLEEP
2. WHY AM I HERE
3. NO ONE CAN STOP ME

The band will also be sponsoring an event on April 12th called 「GOOD LOOKING MUSIC PARK」 at HOLIDAY NAGOYA. Alongside meth. the other bands that will be performing are Heartless, Light Squall, Azel, GREIVER, Dirty x Dirty and others. The event costs 2500 yen to attend and tickets go on sale starting February 19th.

Source: Official Mailmag, OHP

Well, sora from meth. has reached a record on his iTunes! He posted the following journal entry the other day:
 

At last, my iTunes song count has past 10000!

 

If all of the data was to be erased… I think that my sliver of life would cease to exist. (Laughs)

 

I agree. If my Yanni collection ever got lost, I wouldn’t know what to do with my life. I would whole up in a dark corner and wither away… no Yanni, no life. 

 
… think those Britney’s are Britney Spears?

So let’s see here.
tomoya, says his my boom is the U.S.A.
sora is into Monster Hunter.
And akito’s is most interesting. Recently he’s into mimicking the YuYu Hakusho character, Younger Toguro.

Here’s a description from Wikipedia:

Younger Toguro is a very muscular demon who takes an interest in Yusuke Urameshi. He constantly feel emptyness within himself, which he attempts to fill with power. He originally is the teammate and lover of Genkai. They participate in Dark Tournament fifty years prior to the series, joining to kill a demon who slaughtered their disciples, and after emerging as victors, Younger Toguro wishes to become a demon. He gains the ability to manipulate his muscles depending on what percentage of power that he uses. When at 100%, he must devour the souls of those nearby to keep his almost indestructible body energized.

Can you picture it? On the left, Toguro… on the right, akito.

Adrienne also wanted me to note that she is having some severe internet problems and therefore the Survivor recap will not be available until later this weekend. We apologize for the delay.

Random but ex beaU drummer (from their last line up) – Kaji has been playing support drummer for Zip.er and wil be playing at this event.

Source: Kaji’s blog

Anyways, love it. Love the suits. I think this new look really suits them and I totally prefer sora like this than all dressed up in decora and pink like when he was in Ichigo Rock. (As you can tell, I’m a big sora fan).

What does everyone else think? Hot or not?

The names for the members of meth. were slightly different… so I thought, that’s weird and headed over the the OHP. While there’s no official announcement on there about it yet, except for in the blog, a couple of the boys have decided to change their name.

シキ (Shiki) has changed to akito (陽斗 if you want it in kanji) and キル (Kill) has changed to tomoya.

akito said that when they made changes in the band (Yuya leaving) that he also wanted to change his name. The reason for his change is because he wanted to start using the name his parents gave him. tomoya hasn’t written a reason or anything as to why he changed, but they have got a new blog now up on their OHP.

Sweet sora is the same as ever, and kept his name just as it is — minus the change from kanji (空) to romaji. He should change it to katakana at some point so that it’s been written every different way, haha. I’m glad he didn’t change because I honestly can’t even picture him as anything else.

Source: enter brain, OHP

meth. has announced via their official mail magazine that their bassist Yuya will be leaving the band on June 7th. The reason is that they are having a difference in opinion on the musical direction of the band and they therefore came to the conclusion that he should withdraw.

They apologize to everyone who has been cheering on the band and everyone connected to them. They also mention that they do still plan to continue on with their summer tour and the release of their newest mini-album, so please keep on supporting them.

There’s new news yet on what Yuya will do as far as music is concerned after the 7th, but they do ask that you watch over him warmly.

Source: Official Mailmag

EDIT:  Shiki has updated the meth. blog, so I thought I’d just include a couple of the things he said there. He says that Yuya is NOT leaving due to being on bad terms with the other members, but they feel that they can’t go on being together in the band and still remain friends.

Well, I can sure say I did not see this one coming. Definitely disappointing.

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Although, they could have Hijiri, Yamaji or Rai join the band which would make me happy beyond belief. We’ll have to see what happens after the seventh.

But never fear, it’s great news!
First, they announced another oneman live! It will take place on August 29th at Nagoya HUCK FINN and is called “IT BECOMES B.N.M TOUR FINAL ONEMAN「BRAND NEW B.N.M FINAL」”. The live will cost 2800 yen, open at 6:00 and start half an hour later.

The second piece of news was that on August 6th they’ll be releasing their very first mini-album! The title will be “THE OLD ONE ENDS,IT BECOMES BRAND NEW” and it will cost 1890 yen. It’s a six track album which includes the following songs:
1.NEW ENTRANCE
2.Just Keeping Me
3.HUSK
4.終わりなき闇よ (Owarinaki Yami yo)
5.change of music
6.GOOD BY to MYSELF

Source: OHP

I’m really excited! I love this band and I was disappointed in their last single, “by all means / BELIEVER” so I really hope that this mini-album surpasses that.