Tuesday, October 25, 2016

IA - Melancholy Dose

While the mood of this hard rock song isn’t exclusively melancholic, there are some certain somber notes around. Anyway, the visuals of ink dissolving in water may just set the right atmosphere… at least if you like to watch dissolving ink ;)

Youtube:

Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm29905155

Imperfect Animals - cover by Tomato & Datsuraku

A frenzied vocal cover of a frenzied song! Tomato-san revs up the clean parts while Datsuraku-san handles screaming (his job is obviously easier :). I must mention Utsu-P pitched the chorus quite high for an average human to sing :)

Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm29901672

Wednesday, October 19, 2016

GUMI - Oxygen

A debut work by SUISO laboratories. ‘Oxygen’ is a blissful hard/j-rock song featuring vivid GUMI’s vocals as well as a bit over the top instrumentals :) Enjoy!

Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm29861104
MP3 download: http://piapro.jp/t/ogV8

Who said chemistry is boring?..


Video’s art by T@k

Tuesday, October 18, 2016

GUMI - Living a Lie

A perfection in simplicity: the latest song from ensou is built so solid you won’t find a single flaw. The sound is absolutely delicious! The bass drums. Deliver. Punch. BOOM!  ;) Guitars are not so punchy (why would they?) but they put their weight rather well too :) Top this with  GUMI’s edgy voice and you get some pretty killer song!




Song download ($$): https://ensou.bandcamp.com/album/living-a-lie (also off-vocal ver.)

Nihil EP by shatehouu



Another latest release featuring Megurine Luka – Nihil by shatehouu. This EP got 4 tracks. The style is mostly post-hardcore with some metalcore sound here and there. Fast tempo and quite intense music coupled with lyrics full of angst (suddenly! :) Luka sounds quite good here. Check it out!

Bandcamp: https://shatehouu.bandcamp.com/releases

TREASON//REASON



Listening to TREASON​/​/​REASON album by idoyklik. One of the greatest releases of 2016! Atmospheric music with some prog influences. Made with taste and talent. Production is also good. Definitely recommend!

Bandcamp: http://idoyklik.bandcamp.com/album/treason-reason
Itunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/treason-reason/id1161554559
Also on Spotify.

Thursday, October 13, 2016

Namine Ritsu - Bokura wa zutto tomodachida

Jakkan Araki reinvigorates psychedelic rock using modern voice-synthesizing software (namely UTAU) as well as modern video production tools. To be honest, Ritsu’s parts in “Bokura wa zutto” are by far the least impressive of all the songs I’ve heard in a while. But they say that’s part of psychedelic scene aesthetics :) The visuals here are totally in line with the mentioned aesthetics. Which means you don’t have a single chance to understand what’s going on unless helped with a little friendly dose of acid. To sum it up, rather weird but rather interesting experience :)

Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm29827885

Thursday, October 6, 2016

GUMI - Hadashi no season

A little bright hard rock piece by Issun, one of the several tracks the producer uploaded has uploaded on Nico recently. Hope you like it :)