Well then, here I am.
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 24th, 2009
A website has popped up advertising that X Japan will be filming four music videos on January 9th 2010. The website says for fans to dress up and “bring signs”. It also asks fans to sign up for more information. So its not exactly clear yet if the filming is open to the public, or [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Dec 10th, 2009
If you’re hide plushie collector, this might catch your eye. There’s a new plushie coming out depicting hide from the 80s. Looks more Saver Tiger then X.
Source: Japan Discoveries
Posted in Uncategorized on Apr 14th, 2009
If you go over to X Japan’s homepage you’ll find that you can vote on the songs to be played at the upcoming Tokyo Dome shows. I voted for “I’ll Kill You”, personally I’d like to see some of the old songs played again. Even if it was just for one night.
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On May 12th Killing Red Addiction will play the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angles. The band consists of Dynamite Tommy(Color), Kenzi(Sister’s no Future), Tatsu(Gastunk), and of course Taiji(X, Cloud Nine, DTR, Kings, Loundness, etc). All respected names in the early days of VK.
Whether this is a limited time band or something meant [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on Mar 17th, 2009
I have word that X Japan’s manager is sure Heath won’t be leaving. He said the newspapers and tabloids really blew everything out of proportion. If I hear more I’ll update you of course.
Posted in X Japan on Feb 6th, 2009
Yoshiki has been discussing a new, heavy, recording inspired by hide for a few months now. Recently he brought it up in an interview with Nikkan Sports a couple weeks ago. I can’t speak to that song specifically, but I can confirm that X Japan has finished recording TWO new songs.
Not to stop there, [...]
Posted in X Japan on Oct 10th, 2008
Mere minutes ago, the entirety of X’s third album was uploaded to their Myspace. Interesting that they picked Jealousy over their other albums considering the band is still obviously in “Dahlia” mode. Could we see a new found respect for their own back catalog? I ,for one, would love to see Vanishing Vision up as [...]
Headed to a select few theaters and movie festivals is an interesting independent documentary titled “Global Metal”. “Global Metal” is the follow up to the 2005 documentary “Metal: A Headbangers Journey”. “Global Metal” documents a journey around the world exploring the global expansion and development of metal as a genre outside of the US, [...]
Posted in Jrock, Tokyo, X Japan, Yoshiki, concerts, hide, japan, x, youtube on May 5th, 2008
Fans are beginning to upload bits of the WOWOW broadcast of the hide memorial summit and related news clips to Youtube.
Among the clips currently available are the first news clips posted, Yoshiki playing guitar as Toshi sings Pink Spider (a must see: this is purely awesome), and X by the Muteki Band (part 1) (part [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 3rd, 2008
2ch via DarkCat @ X-Freaks: “seats were all full, stand was at 80% – 90%.”
No X members aside from Pata have been spotted as of now, so the rumor that X may be performing today is probably false.
UNCONFIRMED via verisimilitude @ X-Freaks: “I’ve just gotten an update on the staging for the show. Basically, to [...]
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