We live in an age when exclusive content may as well just be pointed and laughed at; Metal Hammer is running a massive Babymetal feature in this month’s issue, complete with a track-by-track breakdown of the upcoming Metal Resistance album. For the smart people who pre-ordered, it’s already arrived in some cases; it hits newsstands tomorrow.
And of course Babymetal Newswire is already running with the track review. Continue reading
I almost forgot about the Oscars. I lived and worked in and around Hollywood for four years, but I’m mostly removed from that now and the Academy Awards themselves just weren’t ever that big a draw. So of course I spent most of the morning going “oh, right, Chris Rock and stuff. Stacey Dash what?”
The idolverse started off last week quietly, too, only to build and build and build, so there’s hope yet for this Monday morning, but I’ll tell you that, other than Lolisyn’s finale or prepping for Adopt-an-Idol, this is the most exciting thing going:
Earlier today for those of us in the West, Goho Lolita Syndrome, Lolisyn, held their farewell show at Twin Box Akihabara:
【Halu】ラストワンマン、ほんまにありがとうでした！！
本当に楽しかったし、やり切った感じと幸せな気分でいっぱいだよ。ロリシンとして活動できてみんなに出会えて本当に幸せでした。
本当にありがとうございました！ pic.twitter.com/D0jqujeAU3— 合法幼女症候群@228卒業ワンマン (@lolisyn) February 28, 2016
【Hiro】リリホリさん2マン、そしてラストワンマン本当に本当にありがとうございました！熱気で酸素薄い中、全力でやり切れた！悔いなし😊！みんなの顔見たら伝えたいことたくさんあるのにありがとうしか出てこなかったよ。本当にありがとう。 pic.twitter.com/tASva5AZkd
— 合法幼女症候群@228卒業ワンマン (@lolisyn) February 28, 2016
It has been fun as hell this week, gang, with all kinds of new music all over the place. But my in-laws are visiting and I have to fix and clean a whole bunch of things, so please do take this and enjoy what’s there. Tell a friend or two, “Hey, I really like this stuff going on at Homicidols.com, and I think you would, too.”
Remember Monday? Continue reading
As discussed elsewhere on the site, Homicidols.com was created to give me opportunities to bloviate about idols be a portal by which Western (or at least English-language) music fans could connect with the hard side of idol, the punk and metal and 10 kinds of -core performed by the Japanese cultural phenomenon, the idol.
It can be done. Just through some casual digging, I stumbled upon a bootleg rip from Zenbu Kimi no Sei Da’s album that a kind person had put on YouTube because Kiminosei lacked the good sense to give us a video with the release. It was good, so I posted about it, then was able to add another after an exchange with the, uh, publisher. This was the result:
@homicidols Holy fuck! I’m loving this. Where the hell do I buy this? \m/
— 安論 (@metalheadxXx) February 24, 2016
This is what this site exists to accomplish, and now that there’s been some time to breathe, maybe it’s time to try a little project. Continue reading
When last we left Kuronekonoyuutsu, they were releasing their single and had a stripped-down, behind-the-gym-after-school-weed-smoking-makeout video to promote it.
This came out yesterday:
Honestly, casually fishing seems like a perfectly acceptable activity
I would love to own a copy of this single, dude.
You know what’s always a nice surprise? When PassCode just drops another free album preview right into your lap:
I was the 62nd person to see this video! Continue reading
UPDATE: Currently available for download! iTunes says $1.29, but it becomes a free download if you pre-order the album (which, you know, you should).
One of the most anticipated single releases of the year so far, period, and something that the international metal community has awaited with dread both great and awful, “KARATE,” the first single off of Babymetal‘s second album, the upcoming Metal Resistance, has landed. Listen above, or dive deeper for the official Metal Resistance trailer and get a sneak peek at the soon-to-be-released music video for “KARATE.” Continue reading
I feel like it’s been a minute since Guso Drop appeared on here, and I saw this rolling through Twitter this morning and thought it’d be fun to share.
Here’s Saki (Guso Drop and 2&) doing her thing out on the streets:
間違いダラけ
何回目だろエンジン全開で終わった！ 80分くらいかな #ダブルアンド pic.twitter.com/fu3yHW4qrv— ごっち親方@3/13新宿ACBさき生誕 (@mkyk5) February 25, 2016
Look at that Twitter account or Saki’s for more.
We had seen before that Necronomidol is looking to crowdfund a video project for “Skulls in the Stars,” but a whole ton of details have just been released in English (praise Jeebus):
