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.

Megurine Luka - Keep your faith

A debut work of “A Range of Style” project lands somewhere between post-hardcore and heavy metal and feels good enough. Moreover, there’s MetaLuka – a failproof choice! :) Great start, guys, congratulations!

Youtube:

Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm29331770

Video’s art by Kemurihana.

Megurine Luka - stalker behind

A new piece from TOSHI-san. Very aggressive and fast-paced sound set up with top quality mix. Somewhat psycho keyboard shrills add quite an unusual taste together with somewhat psycho Luka. Not very ‘friendly’ but definitely novel tune.

Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm29057989


V-v-very nice manicure, Luka. Just don’t bite me, okay?

Megurine Luka - dogma

An unusually heavy piece from ShoPen-san. It’s full-armed metalcore with dense and atmospheric sound. Only the lyrics (in English) seem to be quite the opposite of the common angst. Hmm, am I missing some new trend in this genre? :)

Youtube:

Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm28964982

A peaceful death - album review

Seven months. The pace chosen by Okame-P (Calvi Taro) for releasing new full-length albums. The pace that surely must evoke reactions like 0_o , ‘Whoa!..’ and maybe a few short strong-worded praises. On a personal level there’s more than that, here is a confession: VMW is officially envious of Calvi-sama’s productivity. I mean, like, this very blog only managed to post 9 updates on the same time span :p And my other personal achievements are even bleaker…

Megurine Luka - Parallel Dreamer

Good news: Caz still remembers us poor souls craving for grand metal sound. Bad Shocking news: the character of  “Parallel Dreamer” could be quite far from what you expect from this renowned producer. Seriously, the last piece presented by Caz, “Valkyrie Dance“, brings in melodic metalcore of epic, no, EPIC awesomeness! So you’re prepared to be blasted by roaring whirlwind of music… and… and…

…And, as track starts on, a slight feeling of weirdness emerges. Like, you know, you suspect you’re being fooled :) Well, can’t say there isn’t blasting whirlwind of music, if a bit less of roaring type ;) The drums are no less energetic than in earlier producer’s songs… But, damn, it’s PLAIN J-ROCK! And yes, sparky, intense and joyful j-rock. The mood reminds that’s of “Foolish "13" People” – only you should remove all metalcore from there. (And I know there’ll be little left from “Foolish "13" People” if you’ll remove all metalcore :)

At least Caz keeps allegiance to Luka Megurine. Though it’s a bit unusual, again, to listen to his work without screaming vocals :) On the other hand, I must notice a greatly improved quality of Luka’s clean singing, so I think the developments are not that bad. The video and illustrations (featuring a couple of bishoujo VN characters, Luka desperately addicted to them, and, finally, Luka with bazooka) are deftly made by achikoaco.

Luka with bazooka. The song is actually about hardships of excess virtual world engagement, but that doesn’t diminish the prominence of the concept a single bit.



Youtube:


Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm24997169

Megurine Luka - M7

Guess who's back? You won't believe me, but mstk-san (masataka, for the sake of clarity) has released his next Vocaloid work! Yeah, the second one, and three years after the first. You might have heard it – called “Hiatus”, which somehow explains the long hold-up :)

The new work’s genre is different from the past – it’s nu metal, not post-hardcore. But the upbeat chorus continues to be producer's distinct mark. The guitars sound particularly evil here. And Luka’s vocals are just outstanding – a rare example for this vocalist and therefore very appreciated.


Nicovideo link:

Nicoviewer link: http://nicoviewer.net/sm23683265


Those eyes…

Video by Mogelatte.

Megurine Luka - Haru shigure

An excellent HM/HR piece by SHINDEHAI (lyrics by (V)・∀・(V)-san). Great arrange with mighty guitars and a lot of attention to Luka’s vocals. The title translates as "Spring drizzle".


Nicovideo link:

Nicoviewer link: http://nicoviewer.net/sm23676541



Video’s art by (V)・∀・(V) as well.

Megurine Luka - Akatsuki no sora

Stylish and hulky industrial rock by Sweet Revenge. Luka sounds splendid.

There’s also a version with Ahirutama’s vocals.

The title translates as “Dawning sky”. By the way, the song with exactly the same title was created half a year ago by KingBack. Yeah, Luka sings it as well, but the style is heavy metal. Recommended.


Youtube:

Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm23555163


Hey, I’ve spotted a zebra!.. :)

Video’s art by Jinbee.

Megurine Luka - x no senritsu

Speed metal from reon.

Nicovideo link:

Nicoviewer link: http://nicoviewer.net/sm23531651


Video’s art by Nyak-kun.

Megurine Luka - I am a N.E.E.T.

Two years ago Mr. 69P posted a couple of works (choose your fav: nu metal, screamo, deathcore), and showed what proper sound environment for Luka should be. Sadly, the producer kept a grave silence since then. We’ve already lost our last hope, but the MIRACLE has happened – 69P-sama is with us again, and his new song is no less fucking brilliant that the old ones!

Well, we’re facing some losses, of course. The song cries badly for re-mastering. It shouts it right in your ear! In fact, you have to have some decent audio equipment to squeeze the maximum from this sound mess, but damn! Even this way it sounds fantastic! A perfect storming screamo, raging and loud yet deeply emotional.

So Luka is a NEET despite she can make quite the different impression :) Oh yeah, and Yuyoyuppe’s song “I am a superman” comes to the mind quite naturally. Both songs has similar harsh sounding. Only ‘Yuppe’s piece has quite the opposite meaning :) So can 69P’s work be a kinda answer to Yuppe’s? ;)


Nicovideo link:

Nicoviewer link: http://nicoviewer.net/sm23506091

Megurine Luka - Kyokugei joou-sama

I think without Metaluka this evening wouldn’t be perfect. Yeah, some metalcore would serve the best, but we live in a real world and not in some fairy tale, so power metal will pass as well :) So here it is: traditional shredding and percussion, some keyboards… and Luka-sama of course. Luka sounds pretty decent and handles higher notes excellently, much unlike in majority of her other songs.

The title translates as “Queen of acrobatics”.


Youtube:

Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm23387284


Mistress Luka-sama. She wants you to call her ‘Queen’. I’m wretched thing, I know ;)

Video’s art by Tonobito.

Megurine Luka - Vocalo-holic

Only now I have realized it is very easy to surprise me. The video’s title doesn’t contain the name of Vocaloid singing it, so… My first thought when I’ve heard the clean vocals was: “Luka…” My second thought was “Fuck…” My third thought was: “Damn you Yuyoyuppe for five fucking years you DIDN’T GIVE A FUCK on quality of vocals now what? an enhancement? what have you been waiting for BASTARD I FUCKING LOVE IT” In this very moment my Caps Lock has died so I was forced to stop the hysteria. I mean euphoria… ;)

This song is lighter than average for Yuyoyuppe but keeps his style as well as quality. The shift somewhere into j-rock is rather substantial, especially in chorus. But many of post-hardcore elements are still present, including vicious-tuned guitars. The movie isn’t my thing actually, I’ve grown up on more mighty stuff ;)
For all I know, this can be the announce of a new circle. But the information on this topic has been pretty scarce so far…


Youtube:


Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm23291416

Megurine Luka & Hakaine Maiko - Future

And another screamo work, this time closer to mainstream standards. Much like the previous one, it lies heavily on Engrish lyrics. On the one hand, Luka handles English faaaar better than Lily does. On the other hand, she sings it instead of shouting, which undermines greatly the former point. To sum it up, the situation isn’t *that* bad. Luka’s vocals are honed well enough, and she sounds rather nice.

There isn’t any synthetics here. Hyahyao’s put great efforts in mastering, the sound quality is excellent. Mainstream standards mean we’ve got mighty double bass drums support and pretty hard breakdown. Maiko tries to step in here, but there’s not much space for her actually…


Nicovideo link:

Nicoviewer link: http://nicoviewer.net/sm23169861

Megurine Luka - Yuishin-ron

For a long time Yuyoyuppe has been keeping silence on Nico. More specific, his last post-hardcore work dates back one and a half year ago. So ‘yuppe’s fans must be very eager to meet the new video! “Yuishin-ron”, which translates roughly as ‘idealism’, is a closing track from a recent compilation album “VOCALOUD 01 - Breaking of the Emotion –“.

It must be amusing, because the song isn’t that loud by itself, though it has a fitting character for a final composition. The song features quite complicated percussion along with developed and intricate electronic melody lines. The guitars are toned down notably, they are on some fourth plane, behind synths, drums and Luka. All of this makes “Yuishin-ron” an unusually bright song for the general Yuyoyuppe’s style.


Youtube:

Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm23099675



Video’s art by meola (well, who else ;) )

Megurine Luka - Plastic Canvas

Heavy metal with pronounced melodic lines, both lead guitar’s and keyboards’. Don’t be fooled though, Zenith delivers some nice rough breakdowns as well. Add Luka to this and you get pretty intense and pretty… just pretty :) musicpiece.


Nicovideo link:

Nicoviewer link: http://nicoviewer.net/sm22968995



Video’s art by naoto.

Nekomura Iroha & Megurine Luka - SnowWhite

A rare duet. Ukaku (the producer) jests at yuri immediately. C’mon, man! 95% of Vocaloid duet songs are female/female, now what? :))) The situation is worse only in UTAU duets where 95% are Ritsu/Teto, which means trap/chimera. Still no one seems to give a fuck :)))

OK, OK, more crude matters... Ukaku-san has a considerable experience on the Vocaloid scene. “SnowWhite” is power metal, mid-tempo variety, quite characteristic for the producer.  Both girls sound well, and Luka does *notably* well, though that may be my personal preferences…


Youtube:

Nicovideo link: http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm22866892

Chibi.

Video’s art by sora.

Megurine Luka - Ano shiten kara kyo utsushite

Some neat and easy progressive rock from Samidare-P. The music style is fairly distinctive, it changes tempo rather easily, with drumbeat breaking the rhytm all the time. I only wish the drum machine was a bit more adequate ;) Luka is very nice here, and I always admired her participation in progressive rock songs…

Nicovideo link:

Nicoviewer link: http://nicoviewer.net/sm22828455

Megurine Luka - Nyoudou Riot

That’s exactly the kind of song you wish for a birthday present ;) Thank you, Yellow Squadron, you’ve made my day! ‘Nyoudou’ translates as ‘urethra’, just for your information, and I’d say nothing more, watch the video! So yes, we’ve got pretty interesting topics for power metal, much unlike those western retards :)  Yellow Squadron keeps its character, even when dealing with such delicate matters :) Fervent guitar shredding, speedy drum support and bright melodies are present, as always. Not to mention the superb guitar solo. Luka is just fantastic, especially given the circumstances ;)))


Nicovideo link:

Nicoviewer link: http://nicoviewer.net/sm22775044
MP3 download: http://nicosound.anyap.info/sound/sm22775044


It could happen with everyone… Be strong, Luka! ;)
 
Video’s art by yugami.