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SALES POST: GRIEVA, NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST, BORN, etc.
I still have a couple of months left in Japan but am running dangerously low on funds, so after some consideration I am letting go a small selection of the items I have bought during my stay. I will sell anything left over to a used store.
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[Live Report] Sadie - MADRIGAL de MARIA TOUR FINAL at Shibuya-AX 2014.01.10
Sadie
MADRIGAL de MARIA
TOUR FINAL
Shibuya-AX 2014.01.10
At just after 6pm on a cold night somewhere between Harajuku and Shibuya, the doors to Shibuya-AX opened and the gathered fans of visual kei band Sadie started to enter the venue in its final year of operation. The largest purpose-built concert hall in the metropolitan area of Tokyo was ( Read more... ) -
Top Ten: 2013 Visual Kei and Japanese Rock Albums
The short list:
ALSDEAD - Separator
the GazettE - BEAUTIFUL DEFORMITY
Jupiter - CLASSICAL ELEMENT
NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST - GRIMOIRE
ONE OK ROCK - 人生×君=
Sadie - MADRIGAL de MARIA
Sujk - ARKHELISM 2
ギルガメッシュ - MONSTER
マキシマム ザ ホルモン - 予襲復讐
雅-MIYAVI- - MIYAVI ( Read more... ) -
Aster
壊れないように、忘れないように
静かに眠る貴方の手をそっと握って
瞳を閉じて 優しく告げた
最後の愛は儚い花の様に散った
さよなら
so as not to be broken or forgotten
I gently squeeze your hand as you quietly sleep
I breathe softly, 'close your eyes,'
and that last fleeting moment of affection
is scattered like a flower -
MADRIGAL de MARIA
Just a little post to celebrate Sadie's new album release. I've been listening to it a lot and it's my favourite from them in quite a while. I bought the regular edition and I'd say it was definitely justified for the unplugged version of face to face. While I love THE REQUIEM, a 3 minute PV is not worth swapping the extra track for. Why can't ( Read more... ) -
Japan Update
So far I'm really enjoying my time in Tokyo. I started up a blog over here especially for my time in Japan ( Read more... ) -
日本に来た!
Just a small life update. I've been thinking about making a new blog specially for this year's experiences, but in any case, I finally arrived in Japan ( Read more... ) -
[Lyrics] Signal - Awakening impression
This one was a bitch to do. Mainly because the lyrics are written in a small font that is stylized to look handwritten instead of printed, which made a lot of the kanji difficult to make out. I believe Japanese part is 100% correctly transcribed (after some effort), but as always the translation is up to interpretation.
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[Lyrics] Signal - Deadly...
Signal's last official single came out last month and it's a pretty epic track. The clean vocals toward the end of the song got stuck in my head so I opened up my copy and took them down. And then proceeded to translate the whole thing, which is actually largely in English. For the record, I currently have no intentions of translating the other ( Read more... ) -
[Lyrics] Signal - M・E・L・T
I've been meaning to translate this for a long time and just never got round to it. There's a version floating around the 'net already but the original kanji are inaccurate and I wanted to give it a go myself anyway. The lyrics here are transcribed from the original single, I haven't checked if they changed at all in the Undertake booklet for the ( Read more... )