Inkstone Castle

...and now for something completely different: J-Metal - yesss!>:)
Onmyo-Za . Strong female vocal. Some influence from Japanese folk-music, and a ton - of "the dark side" of Japanese folklore: oni, yōkai, yurei, ryu, etc... Cool costumes too -Heian period kimonos. Very picturesque, very loud, very nice. I highly recommend them - for a change, one can't listen only to j-punk, you know...;)) Though j-punk rules, of course!>:D
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...и вот то самое, чего вы давно боялись (даже если вы пока не подозревали об этом:) : Ж-метал! -Круть!>:)
Onmyo-Za . Женский вокал. Некоторое влияние японской традиционной музыки, и огромное - японского фолклёра (преимущественно "тёмной стороны" его): ёкаи, юрэи, они, рю... Костюмы тоже классные - кимоно периода Хеиан. Красиво, громко, и вообще приЙатно. Рекомендую - для разнообразия, нельзя же сплошной ж-панк слушать...;)) Хотя панк, конечно, рулит!>:D

more classic metal sound:

♥ Happy Birthday, CHIBA!!! ♥

I thought I'll write a huuuuge post about my favorite musician of all the times, about how great his music is, and how impossible his vocal is, and about his groups and projects, all that jazz punk-rock... But I am not good at writing, so I made a Chiba Yusuke tribute collage instead:))


As for the fan-post... well, I can't imagine a person from my f-list who has no idea who Chiba Yusuke is, but suppose if a stranger will drop by... ;)
チバ ユウスケ - Yusuke Chiba) is the most interesting figure on Japanese rock-scene. His biggest and most known groups/projects are: Thee Michelle Gun Elephant (TMGE) (1991-2003), ROSSO (2001 - 2006) and The Birthday (2006-present), but there were a ton of other cool music and crazy projects, of course. The styles are mostly punk-rock, and garage rock, occasionally with a blues-rock motives. My favorites. Loud and dirty - yet melodious and not-so-simple guitar sound+vocal. Well, it's the thing you either understand, or not. It's the style, I am sure, Jim Morrison would choose to express himself, if he'd live a quarter of a century later....
Chiba's music is aggressive and influential. His vocal is something special as well. He is the type that musical observers would call "a lead-screamer", but since I've never heard about a musical journalist who's not an extremely shallow-minded sucker, let's leave the clichés aside. Strong, broken, emotional - that's the clue words for Chiba's vocal. His voice is the voice of my soul - I knew it as soon as I've heard it for the very first time.
What else? Well, punk-rock is kinda suggests a sort of simplified lyrics, a bit of the primitivism here - because the words are not necessarily "the heavy artillery" of a punk-rocker. Guess it goes to most of the punks around the world. Not to mention, that a lot of Chiba's songs are a sort of a spoken Katakana, so to say - you know, the japanese manner to write foreign words. Sorta... Right, J-rock is a special genre :) And yes. I always was wondering how people can confuse "primitive" and "primitivism" - but it's a whole special punk-rock-lyrics theme - and one of the main reason why I hate pop-music so much.
Geeeee... I said I am not intended to write an article! But I did. he-he. Sorry guys;)) Now it's you turn to laugh, because now I have to translate it all in russian:)
Okay, the post won't be complete without the birthday-boy's song! So here we go! It's my favorite song by The Birthday" - in case if somebody doesn't now yet;) - yes, both Chiba and yours truly are fuckin' romantics inside.... now shut up!:) - Not the best video, I know - guess I'd posted all the best ones earlier...;)
So yeah, Mr. Yusuke...Otanjou-bi omedetou gozaimasu... Da suki da yo, you know...;)))

And... you know what? I't a bit depressing strange to realize all of a sudden that your idol - a freakin' recognized and famous rock-star - is just a few years older than you are...
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( С днём рожденья, ЧИБА ЮСКЭ! - по-русски )