It's been tough, but I've just about made it. In such a huge year for great releases, here's my top ten albums of 2011. They're listed alphabetically below, but if you want to see which made the top and my opinions on each, skip below the cut.

D - VAMPIRE SAGA
DELUHI - VANDALISM
defspiral - PROGRESS
DIR EN GREY - DUM SPIRO SPERO
the GazettE - TOXIC
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Sorry it's so late! I've been on holiday in rural Wales where the best internet access I had was two or three bars of signal on my BlackBerry xD Thanks also for the birthday wishes, again lack of proper internet had me very limited. It's good to be back, and finally my YFC report is here (I finished writing it up over a week ago during said holiday ( Read more... )

The more I listen to Holy Grail, the more I love it. I don't care what others are saying about it being a weaker release, I can easily listen to the whole thing through (minus "Faith & Decision") without complaints. Right now I'm loving "Thanatos ( Read more... )

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In case you don't understand his Engrish (*coughMasacough*) this is what he's saying ( Read more... )

Now's the time I want to upgrade my account for more userpics >.Anyway, I'm sure this has already been posted by someone else and probably to Dears by now, so I won't ask to x-post it there, but as of the press conference "YELLOW FRIED CHICKENz" is officially a band now. Or something like that. So anyways, rather than just GACKT we now have a full ( Read more... )

The big reveal finally happened at Nintendo's E3 conference yesterday, and understandably this new console and controller combination has the press divided. I can safely say it looks awesome. While many people seem to be under the impression that the control pad is in fact the new system, as you can see from the first promotional pictures below ( Read more... )

The E3 conference has been underway for awhile now, and soon it's Nintendo's turn to unveil their new home console. This reminds me why I'm going for journalism; music or games, it'd be awesome to attend an event like this as part of the media and witness it first-hand. A few announcements are exciting me so far ( Read more... )

So my report's finally done, I couldn't find the exact setlist but I'm pretty sure this is all the songs they played, if not in the right order. It's a little more vague around the specific songs, but still I'm glad I was able to make a memory of this amazing night - they truly exceeded my expectations. Please drop a comment if you read, and ( Read more... )

You can find the rest for yourselves, but Gackt's announced the dates of YFC in Europe this year. He's playing the HMV Forum in London on 27th July (a wednesday, luckily just before I go away ^^) - maybe there'll be some recording like for Miyavi? *hopes hard*


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Totally surpassed my expectations. Underworld is a tiny venue, I literally was able to touch every single one of them from like the third row. Yeah, tiny. Anyways, I'll do a proper report and all like usual when I get hold of the setlist - they played loads off the latest album "Vampire Saga" and a few old fan favourites like Vampire Missa, Yami no ( Read more... )