When Pure Idol Heart mentioned yesterday that the much-beloved-of-indie-fans Under Beasty was “reborn” (on the perfect weekend for it, natch), a whole mess of thoughts entered my head:
None of the above! Instead, what we got was something that I’m currently manipulating in order to get you to click the Read More! Continue reading
Pretty much as soon as you start to follow idols, you start to make friends with other people who follow idols. I think of you guys as friends, for instance! I’ve also been fortunate to connect with the man behind Pure Idol Heart, and he’s kind enough to throw new songs and videos and idols my way. The trouble is, I do get busy with things besides Homicidols.com, and I’m sometimes not able to follow up all that quickly, and sometimes things get lost in the wash.
For instance, this news from yesterday about Phantom Voice that I skipped right over twice:
先ほどHPで発表がありました通り、Phantom Voiceは5/20クラブチッタワンマンを最後に解散します。
あと2ヶ月、5/20を最高の日にできるように、スタッフも含め一丸となって尽力して参ります。
何卒、応援の程よろしくお願い致します。— Phantom Voice【公式】 (@PV_stuff) March 17, 2017
Yeah. Another pending disbandment. One-man live in May. Continue reading
Something or another prompted me to look up KeePXOUT the other day. Maybe it was a reference to visual kei, or a photo, I don’t know. But an amazing thing, something that I was yet to experience, happened instead.
Look at the official Twitter. Or the company’s. Or the staff account. Nothing for well over a month now, and not a single notice as to a farewell live, graduation, spontaneous human combustion, anything. Instagram? Deleted. Website? Doesn’t exist. One of the members has disappeared from Twitter completely (or, rather, that account did), and the other has moved well beyond the group (and loves cats!). It’s like walking through an idol ghost town.
Being the intrepid not-journalist that I am, I decided to look into this. Continue reading
There doesn’t seem to be all that much video available from MAWA LOOP’s big-ass idol festival over the weekend, but Mistress recorded their entire set, and we can be the lucky ducks to benefit. (Thanks to Pure Idol Heart for the find.)
The fine human behind Pure Idol Heart has been good to us lately, friends, and I can think of no finer way to embrace a little brutal beauty than to come back to one of this week’s best:
@homicidols mistress / Remember Mirage
https://t.co/1Mnuw7DIAe
mistress / H-ole
https://t.co/Gw6AloPbi6— PureIdolHeart (@Pureidolheart) November 2, 2016
The same newcomer hit the Idolmetal group in the same frame — we’re like a hive mind now!
So what’s the story with this Mistress? Continue reading
My favorite v-rock idol duo released this pro edit from a show a few weeks ago, and it pretty much sums them up — idol-ed up choruses, mixed harsh and clean vocals, ridiculous visuals.
Because we’re making a sandwich out of Death of Death Pop Sunday today here at Homicidols.com, it only makes sense to put something good and positive in the middle, like visual kei idols KeepXOUT:
【拡散希望】
KeePxOUT LIVE 動画前回の東京ライブでのワンシーンです！#Rock#V系#アイドル ？#拡散希望 #拡散ご協力お願いします#jrock pic.twitter.com/f4Yn73h7VL
— KeePXOUT_STAFF (@keepout_staff) September 2, 2016
Here’s a little tip: Somebody on their team can English, so tweet them encouragement and get a nice message back in return!
Remember the random discovery of KeePXOUT from a few months ago? I’ve been seeing them on some bills and in Twitter photos lately and thought I’d check in, and they very helpfully just recently uploaded some good live performance video:
It’s kind of amazing that there aren’t more visual kei idols; this stuff goes together like adenine and thymine. Sure, plenty of idols incorporate visual kei elements and philosophy (looking in your direction, Under Beasty), but I can’t think of anybody who’s as deliberate about it as KeepXOUT.
Happy Friday.
So there’s this thing that happens, totally coincidentally and not at all because of psychic powers, by which idols will come up as topical, in conversation or whatever have you, and all of a sudden they snap-release a new single and video and all feels right with the world.
I was trying that yesterday with Deep Girl, in whom I am very interested as to what they ultimately accomplish, to the point that my non-Maniac alter ego is involved in some extra social networking stuff around them, and I saw this posted yesterday:
昨日ご一緒させていただいたKeePXOUTさんとお写真を撮っていただきました！
ありがとうございました♪
本日のライブもよろしくお願い致します！#DEEPGIRL #KeePXOUT pic.twitter.com/6Wv9bSsiD9— DEEP GIRL (@deepgirlrock) May 4, 2016
Oh, who is this KeePXOUT (Twitter)? Obviously a visual kei unit, which … okay, we’ve come full circle if there are visual kei idol units (it’s kind of like deathcore or Reese’s peanut butter cups). That does carry a certain expectation for the sound, so: Continue reading
