Luna Sea news?!!??!?!?

I just read tweet about this and checked the official site but could't read the news because of flash + japanese encoding = "mojibake". Not metal news but since its Luna Sea I needed to write immediately update about it. Their song Slave impressed me long long time ago and since then I've been a huge fan of their art. Comeback news in 31th August?

Their unique style has also got other metal fans to become their fans and this cover is great prove of it:

Ningen Isu

First post in August - Finally

I've posted quite many faster metal genres. So I started
finding slow stuff since its gonna be autumn soon. So
Doom is todays genre and I find some nice slow stuff
but then found something very interesting and unique.

Japanese Doom metal with traditional music influence.
This is the band I have known from name only but never
heard their music before.
Always cool to find bands with originality and not sounding
too weird or artificial. But Ningen Isu's is much more than
doom. They have lot of different type of songs every one
filled with really nice rhythmic riffs. And I really like tha bass!

Here is some real wafuu metal and skip this if you want to hear modern music:

Some happy emo/screamo

It just fits to summer. No dark feelings for me now on this sunny day ^_^

Not the most original song but if you don't hate this genre this is quite good and singer is nice as the rest of production.

2side1BRAIN - Make your world :

Midnight Circus

Light Bringer relesead a new album  in the end of the May but I haven't have yet bought it. I have listened one song from nikonikodouga and it was quite different to the older songs. Promising but needing more time to get into. Someone had recently uploaded two songs from Midnight Circus to youtube. I really like what I hear. Sounds are great as expected and band has progressed so much from their debut album. I hope to see some live clips too...

Sound Horizon - Fantasy Metal

Japanese music scene doesn't stop suprising me - Always cool bands popping out from nowhere.
Sound Horizon started their career from Doujin circles and they have grown up into really big band releasing many major albums. Their very theatrical live shows are maybe not my facourite thing but it really shows what these bands can do. What amazes me is that Sound Horizon has managed to getso many  good singers into their crew. They are not as metal as many of bands introduced here but their sound have strong gothmetal elements and is very high quality in every aspect.

This is how they do their music live:

Girl Power 1

Aldious (Ultimate Melodius) is 5 piece girl powermetal/hard rock band from Osaka. They are releasing their debut album within few days (7th of July) so I thought its good idea to introduce them now. They are signed to Indie label BrightStarRecords so I'm not sure if they are known abroad at all. It's hard to say much of their music because they have only samples available on Youtube and Myspace. But definately strong band in Japans female metal band scene and hopefully they have bright future as their labels name forsees.

I  like  more the other preview video (Defended Desire)  but it was not allowed to embed so I put here the other available song Ultimate Melodious that is more hard rock:

Time flies

But I haven't forgot this blog. I've been just doing much better things like watching Soccer and listening to those infernal Vuvuzelas. Unfortunately Japan lost to Paraguay in PK's. There are many cool mathces to watch = no much updates before world cup is over. I also prepare for acoustic live gig and recording of EP so time is very limited. Just excuses for lazyness ^_^

Band of today is Ancestral. I no nothing about this but music is quite cool basic melodeath.