DIR EN GREY shows us a new world with upcoming single release!

Popular heavy metal rock band DIR EN GREY announced a brand new single titled “The world of mercy”  September 18. “The world of mercy” will be the latest release from the band since their single “人間を被る” (“Ningen wo Komuru”) back in April of last year and will be their thirtieth single overall. The single will be released with four editions: a CD-only standard edition, a CD + DVD limited edition, and a CD + DVD/Blu-ray special edition. While the limited edition will include behind-the-scenes footage of the album and three tracks from their The Insulated World  Tour that took place this past April in Tokyo’s Shinkiba STUDIO COAST, the special edition will include the behind-the-scenes recordings on top of the full set list of the concert.

 OVERSEAS (EUROPE) TOUR20 This Way to Self-Destruction

2020年1月25日 Russia’s Moscow・Glavclub

2020年1月26日 Russia’s Saint Petersburg・Aurora Club

2020年1月28日 Finland’s Helsinki・The Circus

2020年1月29日 Germany’s Munich・Technikum

2020年1月31日 Germany’s Dortmund・FZW

2020年2月1日 Germany’s Berlin・Astra Kulturhaus

2020年2月3日 Poland’s Wroclaw ・Concert Center A2

2020年2月5日 England’s London ・Islington Assembly Hall

2020年2月7日 France’s Bordeaux・Le Rocher de Palmer

2020年2月8日 France’s Paris・Elysee Montmartre

DIR EN GREY also announced that they will be starting a brand new European tour starting from January to February of next year. Dangerously titled This Way to Self-Destruction Tour, it will span six countries and ten different venues (more info about the tour located to right).

Pre-order all of the lovely editions for “The world of mercy” in the links below! 

Standard edition  

Limited edition 

Special DVD edition 

Special Blu-ray edition

Track listing:

DIR EN GREY「The world of mercy」

CD

01. The world of mercy
02. DOZING GREEN（Acoustic Ver.）
03. GRIEF［LIVE］（※Live Take at SHINKIBA STUDIO COAST on April 16, 2019）

Special Edition Blu-ray / DVD

「TOUR19 The Insulated World 2019.04.15 Shin Kiba STUDIO COAST」
01. 谿壑の欲
02. 人間を被る
03. 理由
04. Ash
05. 赫
06. Ranunculus
07. 軽蔑と始まり
08. Values of Madness
09. 鬼眼
10. THE DEEPER VILENESS

「IN-STUDIO FOOTAGE」
・The world of mercy（Scenes From Recording）

Limited Edition  DVD

「TOUR19 The Insulated World 2019.04.15 Shin Kiba STUDIO COAST」
・Three Tracks

「IN-STUDIO FOOTAGE」
・The world of mercy（Scenes From Recording

Music Corner Week 12: Rude-α

Rude-α (alpha) is a rapper who got his start on the streets of Okinawa. In his first year of high school he started performing street dances and would make various appearances in dance battles. The next year Rude-α started doing freestyle rapping in the nearby park. During Rude-α’s third year of high school he participated in the 6th National Highschool Student Rap Championships and finished in second. That June he dropped his very first EP, 098 ORCHESTRA. In April of 2016 Rude-α left Okinawa and moved to Tokyo and two years later dropped his first EP since moving there: 20. 20 placed number one on the iTunes Hip-hop  album chart.

On May 29 this year Rude-α dropped his major debut EP, 22, which is his current age. We recently wrote about how he will be providing the ending theme for the upcoming anime Dr. Stone, which you can read here.

Rude-α has a really fun rap style that has good rhythm and cadence that is full of energy, along with an ability to write pretty catchy tunes. Not only does he have very impressive rap capabilities but he has a great singing voice to go with his music. Rude-α’s music has a fun way of getting into listeners’ heads. You can quite poignantly hear his unique style in “Good Bye Baby”, which you can check out below.

You can follow him on Twitter and Instagram and check out his official website to keep up on all his most recent news. And if you’re excited for his upcoming single “Life”, pre-order your copy here and purchase Rude-α’s recent major debut EP 22 here.

Burnout Syndrome says Good Morning World!

Three-member rock group Burnout Syndrome has revealed that they will be doing the intro to the highly anticipated season one of the upcoming shonen anime Dr. Stone. The song Burnout Syndrome will be providing is titled “Good Morning World!” which will be released August 21. “Good Morning World!” will be dropped in three editions. The standard edition will come CD-only while the limited edition will come with both a CD and a DVD. The limited edition is to also feature the music video and Making Of for the video while and the anime edition, also featuring CD + DVD, will include the credit free opening of the anime opening. You can pre-order your copy of “Good Morning World!” below.

Standard edition

Limited edition

Anime edition

If you want to check out “Good Morning World!” then you can watch this preview of Dr. Stone below, which features the upcoming song. As usual, you can also check out the track listing at the bottom of this page.

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Burnout Syndrome [Good Morning World!]

Standard Edition

CD

1 Good Morning World!

2 Ms.Thunderbolt

Limited Edition

CD

1 Good Morning World!

2 Ms.Thunderbolt

3 Good Morning World! (Instrumental)

4 Ms.Thunderbolt (Instrumental)

DVD

1 Good Morning World! -Music Video-

2 Good Morning World! -Music Video MAKING-

Anime Edition

CD

1 Good Morning World!

2 Ms.Thunderbolt

3 Good Morning World! (Anime Size)

4 Good Morning World! (KARAOKE)

5 Good Morning World! (Anime Size KARAOKE)

DVD

TV ANIME「Dr.STONE」Opening (Non-Credit)

Wagamama Rakia is turning over a new leaf with new album!

Three-member idol group Wagamama Rakia announced that not only will they be joining the music label Walhalla but they will also be releasing a brand new album titled Starting Over July 9. This will be the latest release from the group since their former member Reina Aitani’s graduation back in December of last year. As the new album name implies, with all of these changes happening at once it feels like Wagamama Rakia will be starting a new beginning with this new album. Starting Over will be released with a standard CD-only edition and will include every song the group made since their debut back in 2016. Boasting a massive twenty-song track list, Starting Over will include several re-recordings of past hits to match the new member lineup.

 Wagamama Rakia「StartingOver」

2019年6月29 Tokyo’s Shinjuku Marui Men

START 19:00

2019年6月30日Tokyo’s Shibuya Marui

START 15:00

2019年7月4日Osaka’s HMV&BOOKS SHINSAIBASHI

START 19:30

2019年7月15 Furuoka’s Tower Records Fukuoka Paruko

START 18:00

20197月16 Aichi’s Tower Record Nagoya Parko West Wing 1F

START 18:30

2019年8月10 Aichi’s Tower Record Nagoya Station

START 16:00

Wagamama Rakia also announced that they will be running several release events leading up to and after the release of Starting Over (see right for details).

Check out Wagamama Rakia’s latest music video “The Reason” along with the pre-order link for  Starting Over below!

Standard edition 

Track listing

Wagamama Rakia 「Starting Over」

・ゼッタイカクメイ
・Precious Time
・My life is only once
・Sing with you
・Be light for you
・In The End
・To be Continued
・There is surely tomorrow
・Reboot with...「 」
・Days
・Trash?
・I'll never forget「 」
・The Reason
・We'll Keep Raising The Frag
・Leaving

・Melody

Necry Talkie talks about the up and downs in life with Tsurezure tribute song!

Popular band Necry Talkie dropped the music video for their track “波のある生活” (“Nami no Are Seikatsu”) on their official YouTube channel. A part of popular beverage maker Suntory Tsurezure’s Tribute campaign, Necry Talkie joins other popular artists Fredricks, tofubeats, and Saucy Dog to ponder how one would conceptualize the idea of “being oneself”; the concept of this idea must be taken from the famous book Tsurezuregusa. Necry Talkie crafted the lyrics and feel of “Nami no Aru Seikatsu” from story 243, whose theme revolves around the sigma of children being praised for asking the more honest questions while adults practicing the same thing results in the exact opposite—being chastised. With “Nami no Aru Seikatsu”, Necry Talkie’s unique and atmospheric compositions possess such a complex theme of the passage that they have chosen and made them into a more inspirational track. The music video also has the band hanging out with a child in the middle of moving, and while the child looks sad and conflicted regarding the idea of moving, she finally comes to accept it.

No word on whether or not “Nami no Aru Seikatsu” will have a physical release or not, but one might think that it will wash on up in a future release later down the line. In the meantime, check out the music video for “Nami no Aru Seikatsu” below!