...the reverse side of beauty..//..Mantified

With all this hype going on with VAMPS' world tour starting on October at Los Angeles, I might as well jump on the band wagon!

Although I'm not as big a fan on VAMPS, I do enjoy their music style time and again with the fun rock: more of the jump up and down type. It's a really good time to catch Hyde (the vocalist) in VAMPS at this time before he goes back to L'Arc En Ciel activities. I guess VAMPS is about appealing to the Western audience since the lyrics are in English? I'll leave that for you to decide.

I love Revolution. The video sequence reminds me of Michael Jackson's Leave Me Alone. It's almost like a parody of something important.

BANG! ON! STOMP EVERYBODY!

Jrockrevolution.com is doing a free ticket give away! So if you have no money to go watch VAMPS, or just want some freebie tickets, sign up! Of course, provided you're in the North Americas...hahaha.

Free tickets here!

The new VAMPS album BEAST is out now! I did order it, but I'm waiting for some of the other releases to come out first before letting CD Japan ship it to me. Really excited to hear Hyde's awesome voice and singing though!

And I haven't talked much about gaming lately, but one thing worth mentioning is that Starcraft II: Wings of Liberty is in stores in the US now. I'm more of a Diablo person, but I truly believe that the campaigns are worth playing to get ahead with the storyline. In the mean time, I'm waiting for all the expansions to be released (and a computer upgrade) before making my move on the purchase. I wonder what Kerrigan's up to?

Technically, I shouldn't even be typing this, but it really has been bugging me as I haven't updated this section in ages.

I've got a sort of new obsession: VAMPS' new single Devil Side. I totally love the chorus (particularly when Hyde sings "I'm in a trance with you").

Technically, despite the fact that it's my first proper VAMPS song, it's not the first time I've heard Hyde's voice - he was previously in L'Arc en Ciel and did one of the ending songs for the Rurouni Kenshin anime 4th Avenue Cafe, but it didn't last long as it was found that their drummer was associated with drugs and immediately dropped the single (reverting back to using T.M.Revolution's Heart of Sword).



In other news...the GazettE's releasing a new single AND a PV compilation AND doing, not 1, but 2 live tours! this is one of those times when I wish I were in Japan...but maybe I'll get to see them at the end of the year...hopefully!

Fingers crossed and here's to hoping!