The Lost SEVENTH HEAVEN's Drivers High in the L'arc~en~Ciel Thread III
 

The Official L'Arc~en~Ciel Thread
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Current Status: Hiatus


Latest Releases:

Nexus 4/ SHINE (single)
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Release Date : 27 August 2008

Track List :
1. NEXUS 4
2. SHINE
3. NEXUS 4（hydeless version）
4. SHINE（hydeless version）

「DOCUMENTARY FILMS 〜Trans ASIA via PARIS〜」
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Release Date: 2009.3.25

「LIVE IN PARIS」

Release Date: 2009.5.20


Solo Projects

VAMPS (Hyde)
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Current Status: Working!

Latest Releases:

EVANESCENT (single)　
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Release Date: 2009.05.13

Tacklist:
1.EVANESCENT
2.LIFE ON MARS? (cover of David Bowie's "Life on Mars ?")

Debut Album: VAMPS
Release Date: 10th June 2009

Monthly VAMPS
Issue No. 1|2|3|4|5|6|7|8|9
Credits: gabyta-xan

VAMPS America Tour 2009
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For more VAMPS news, click the image to visit The Official Vamps Thread
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ken

Current Status: Working!

Latest Releases:

Debut Album: IN PHYSICAL
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Release Date: 2009.4.22

Tracklist:
1. Repose in Sound Sleep
2. “S”
3. In Physical
4. Spin Along
5. ETERNAL REST
6. Speed
7. Deeper
8. Gimme Your Name
9. Relax Over
10. My Angel
11. Save me

EDIT: OOOPPS!!! Spelling problem!! Can some1 ask a mod to fix that?

SEVENTH HEAVEN's 1 of the 1st few songs that I heard of L'arc & it's a great one

thanks for starting a new thread Alicia & here's the PV for VAMPS's EVANESCENT - http://listentheworld.wordpress.com/...evanescent-pv/

Cool new thread ^^
Thanks for the VAMP PV ^^

It's done for now. I might add tetsu and Yuki's solo work later....

oh wow a great job you have done Alicia , it's so informative :cool

love the group pic of the guys

hyde .....

@_@ :smitten

so, new thread is start...

Thanks for new thread. Will L'arc~en~ciel release a new single soon?
I think nothing it's out since Nexus 4/shine?

ugh that's the thing , all of them are currently doing their own thing

there's no telling if they will release something this year as L'arc or not

:(

I hope they'll never decide to dissolve the band Oo

O_O

omg I hope not man . I will be the 1st to cry bucketloads of tears should that happen NOW :weep

Be quiet! They said nothing at that moment. I'm sure I'm wrong!

their on hiatus until 2011, i think.

anyway, love the title, alicia! SEVENTH HEAVEN rocks (but hyde's hair in the PV....:irked)

2011 O__O nani???!!!!!

btw i love the title of this thread, my fav songs, especially Driver's High <3

WHAT

T_T T_T

that's waay too long of a hiatus man , I hope they will come back with something sooner than expected

PV for Ken's S - http://listentheworld.wordpress.com/...4/19/ken-s-pv/

LOL what does S stands for in here ? :laugh

has this been posted yet ?

L’Arc~en~Ciel Live in Paris DVD Cover and Tracklist - http://listentheworld.wordpress.com/...and-tracklist/

Content:

[Disc 1]

Get out from the shell
Driver’s high
Killing me
Drink it down
Daybreak’s bell
Winter fall
kasou
My dear
Forbidden lover
My heart draws a dream
Caress of venus
Revelation
Seventh heaven
Pretty girl
Stay away
Ready steady go

[Disc 2]

Neo Universe
Honey
Link
Anata

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awesome selection of tunes , YAY DRINK IT DOWN :luv2 but no NEXUS 4 or SHINE T_T

2011!!!!
Wow it's a long long long time

I don't like Ken's new song and pv!

Blurry Eyes's at #20 in CDTV - Debut song that you would like to hear again -- http://www.ahsforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=89056

I love cover for new dvd!

Awesome!! It makes me nostalgic when I hear that song!!

I'm not too crazy about VAMPS, but oh well, at least I get to hear Hyde sing. I've been listening to their older stuff lately and it's love allover again. They were my first ever japanese band...

they are NOT on hiatus 'til 2011
they will just no be on TV til 2011 but they will release their singles/albums/.. furthermore

still this's bad , I don't know how long I can take in waiting for something L'arc will bring to the music plate :(

ah i see. well, when will their next single be, then? :shrug

I don't think so. HYDE very busy with VAMPS and Ken with his own solo project...

^True. But I think their not gonna release anything new for a while. Hopefully they'll have another single out by end of 2009/ early 2010?? And THEIR NOTTT GONNA BREAK UP!!!! THAT IS TOTALLY OUT OF THE QUESTION!!! :grumpy

OMG! OMG! OMG!!! Laruku classics!!!! :luv2 :luv2 :luv2 I haaaave to get this!

So They isn't in hiatus XD

I hope they'll release something news! Even a little single!

IN PHYSICAL debuted at #3 today. I dont know how to calculate sales but acc. to oricon it's: 6560 ^_^

thanks Alicia & Oricon has already do away with the index system so Ken's album's 1st day sales which're 6,560 is the actual figures

^Ah. Thanks for telling me that. I'm so blank when it comes to sales :innocent

Anyways, IN PHYSICAL already dropped to No. 6!!! :weep. Not fair.

oricon even did a special inteview with ken. No translations though :( Link: http://www.oricon.co.jp/music/interview/090422_02.html

haha no worries

Alicia , Oricon has been doing that since the last week of Feb this year so yup

HYDE came in at #5 in Oricon's latest survey where the poll title's called Beautiful Japanese Celebrities

Men :

1. Hiro Mizushima
2. Gackt
3. Masaharu Fukuyama
4. Takuya Kimura
5. HYDE
6. Hiroshi Tamaki
7. Junichi Okada
8. Koichi Domoto
9. Hideaki Takizawa
10. Shosuke Tanihara

^Lol. Another "interesting" poll by Oricon. Good that he and Gackt secured one of the top positions :P

:laugh

it's quite something that most of the guys on the list are around his age like Koichi Domoto

I'm surprised there's no Akame on the list for once o_O

Finally found IN PHYSICAL!
Download: http://www.megaupload.com/?d=UROLIEDA

Credits: http://www.nautiljon.com

thanks Alicia

you can download a much smaller filesize (128kpbs) of the album via http://www.mediafire.com/?m2zwmynnnxz

credits - http://an-download.blogspot.com

Ken's IN PHYSICAL debuted at #8 this week

1st week sales - 14,937

A L’Arc~en~Ciel Museum ! - http://listentheworld.wordpress.com/...enciel-museum/

^Oh way cool!!! XDDDD

Which reminds me, i should ask a mod to fix the title of the thread now.... :o

L’Arc~en~Ciel Museum... sounds epic =)

ooh I saw Ken's Deeper PV earlier on MTV Asia

I squealed lmao :laugh

I like the concept of the PV , the song's only OK to me but it's a grower

Hyde is so handsome :heard so he deserves it :heart

btw does anyone know how much KISS has sold so far? I ask because i know they have a couple of albums in top 10 most selling albums in Japan.

speaking of KISS, i've been listening to it again. it's making me miss laruku's music :weep

I don't know for that sorry

me too :(

it kinda sucks that I got into their music just BEFORE they go on hiatus T_T

same here. i only followed them since MY HEART DRAWS A DREAM :weep

T_T :(

Top 50 Albums

45 *,*82,734 **1,038 HYDE / HYDE 09/03/18

Vamprose has revealed the tracklist of upcoming VAMPS's self titled debut album.

01. BITE
02. LOVE ADDICT
03. COSMOS
04. SECRET IN MY HEART
05. EVANESCENT
06. VAMPIRE DEPRESSION
07. REDRUM
08. DEEP RED
09. I GOTTA KICK START NOW
10. TIME GOES BY
11. SWEET DREAMS
12. HUNTING
13. SEX BLOOD ROCK N’ ROLL

Check the DISCOGRAPHY section to play previews: http://www.vampsxxx.com/

wow some of the song titles are just bad ass what can I say ? :laugh

NEOIPS-589
L'Arc-en-Ciel/a Paris BOOK
2800 yen US$28/100.34 Release Date:2009/05/26
Description:*Reissue. Photo book release from L'Arc-en-Ciel featuring tons of photos shot in urban area of Paris. (Not included photos from their live stage performance.) Includes four original postcards. Spec: B5, 136-page. (subject to change) *Order Closing Date: May 11, 2009.
URL - http://cdjapan.jp/d.html?KEY=NEOIPS-589

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NINKI Index :

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cool tracklist! and good NINKI for VAMPS :D

yeah. Those two albms are Ark and Ray.

regular edition cover for LIVE IN PARIS DVD :

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the 1st press cover :

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Catalog No.: KSBL-5913
Label/Distributor: Sony Music Entertainment
Format: DVD
Number of discs (or other units): 2
Release Date: 2009/05/20
Price: 7600yen (7980yen Tax incl.)
[EUR 61.47]
Item weight: 230 g

(L’Arc~en~Ciel – 「LIVE IN PARIS」 DVD)

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/detailview.html?KEY=KSBL-5913

http://www.yesasia.com/global/live-i...0-en/info.html

lol cool covers! they look so old fashioned.

true even though I was expecting something a bit more 'wild' :laugh

oh cool! i love those covers. :D

i was randomly playing my favorite L'Arc album today by random (i love "ray" :heart) & I MISS LARUKU~ :weep

EDIT;; LMAO KAREN UR USING MY ICONS AS A BANNER?! :laugh

:( I was playing KISS the other day & it still suck that I got into their music SO late man

I got onboard when after NEXUS 4 / SHINE was released T_T

:roflmao

I was looking at all 8 of them which you PM'd me & realised HEY it makes an awesome banner :bchuck

I still will use them for my music blog though :yes :cool

i got into Laruku somewhat late too (like around "New World"), but it does suck when your favorite j-rock band ever isn't as active anymore. :( i wish i was a fan during their peak (but i was like 7-10 years old, LMAO).

it does make a cute banner though. :lmfao

I know T_T

my younger sister kept pushing me to try their music xD & at that time I scoff at DRINK IT DOWN thinking that it was so creepy for my liking LMAO

it's funny that I really love the song now :lmfao

:laugh oh yes of course :yes especially with regards to the credits that I put under the banner :innocent :mischief

i admire your love for kame, irene. i thought you'd be jealous of how karen has kame 8 times in her set! LOL.

ugh, caffeine....:irked

umm...has anyone noticed that in the VAMPS album, there's a song called REDRUM? backwards, it's spelled MURDER. i got that from this really old movie called "the shining". i thought that was cool :laugh

.....that wasn't really L~arc~en~Ciel related, right? :o

:laugh :laugh

it's ok Lisa we somehow manage to come to a decision on sharing our my guy so it's fine :laugh

oh really ? I didn't notice til you said so O_O

yea, it's a really famous old movie, from like the 60s i think. i saw some of it waaay back, but it's so creepy :scry my mom loves it though, lol. maybe VAMPS didn't name it that intentionally, but i found it funny.

O_O

well I don't know maybe VAMPS got inspiration somehow or another from the shining , I wouldn't be surprised if it's true

Vamps- "VAMPS" CD + DVD cover:

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Heh.... badass cover... nice :D

^ woah O_O

is the CD only cover the same as the CD + DVD , Alicia ?

VAMPS in Europe ?

On their last comment for Barks:

http://www.barks.jp/watch/?id=1000025264

Hyde said: “This time, it’s an America Tour but there might be some jealousy from other countries, they should think “Why America?” isn’t it K.A.Z?“

K.A.Z replied he would like to come in Europe…

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L’Arc~en~Ciel 「Live in Paris」 will be broadcast on NHK on May 29th, 2009 (25:20~25:53).

According to the time schedule , 1/2 hour of the show will be broadcast .

Besides the Documentary will be available for viewing on Yahoo Japan! (Japan only).

Viewing period (配信期間):

From May 13th to June 12th, 2009.

(2009年5月13日～2009年6月12日)

DVD「LIVE IN PARIS」5月20日にリリースするL’Arc～en～Cielのドキュメンタリー映像をふんだんに盛り 込んだ特別映像を配信！
2008年5月9日に行われたフランスパリ公演がついにDVDリリース！　まさに伝説の一夜と呼ぶにふさわ しいライブがここに！　ドキュメンタリー映像満載の、Yahoo!動画のみの特別映像です!

nice! thanks for news
hope someone will record this concert

hopefully so & upload it on torrent/jpopsuki for everyone to download it :laugh

A New PV of L’Arc~en~Ciel – Driver’s High was aired yesterday !

「Driver’s High」 （LIVE IN PARIS ver.） P.V.放送決定！
5月14日（木）
Driver’s High (LIVE IN PARIS Ver.) / L’Arc～en～Ciel

SPACE SHOWER TV　「NEW CUTS」
May 14, 24:00～24:30
→ http://www.spaceshowertv.com/program.../new_cuts.html

MUSIC ON！TV　「サキドリ」
May 14, 24:00～24:20
May 15, 06:30～06:50
May 15, 17:00～17:20
→ http://www.m-on.jp/regular/detail2.html

A Spot of L’Arc~en~Ciel Documentary and Live in Paris is up here: http://www.larcom.net

Source - http://www.larcom.net/info/information.html

^A new Driver’s High PV ??? How random is that!!! :P

Nooo idea :thud

^ LOL I'm sure in due time , I will know about it :laugh

promo pic of VAMPS :

http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/pictures/l/11/36/XNVP-10.jpg

whee

^ scary :scry

haha

I'm looking at hyde more :innocent

^Thanks fo that!! The vid is cool! :D

ken appeared at L’Arc~en~Ciel Museum

http://listentheworld.files.wordpres...pg?w=207&h=310

会場に設置されている巨大モニター「Sacas400」での秘蔵映像上映が終了し、MCとして登場したTB Sの出水麻衣アナウンサーから「メンバーの一人 が遊びに来てくれてます！」というアナウンスに会場は騒然。黒のジャケット姿で登場したkenは、観客の大 歓声に包まれてステージに現われた。

出水アナとの軽快なトークで、パリ公演のエピソードを話しながら「このラジコンはパリでも走ったんですよ」 とミュージアム展示用に持参したラジコンも披露した。

On May 22th at ‘L’Arc~en~Ciel – Museum’ in akasaka Sacas, the projection suddenly stopped to make to a announcer who said “We’ve one member who came to visit!”. In the confusion ken has appeared by surprise on the stage!

He talked about Paris concert and of his radio controlled cars.

Fanvid: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DOawsH8xKm0

Source: barks ; http://www.barks.jp/news/?id=1000049598

dammit Ken looks great in that photo :luv2 :smitten

some updates yo

Yesasia offers $5 off new various new releases such as VAMPS album (http://track.webgains.com/click.html...0-en/info.html) and L’Arc~en~Ciel – Live in Paris (http://track.webgains.com/click.html...0-en/info.html)

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http://listentheworld.files.wordpres...pg?w=365&h=111

Ken & other artistes will be performing in this festival called Jack in the Summer 2009. It is going to be held on August 15th, 2009 featuring many artists under Danger Crue Label.

Artists :

1. acid android
2. Ken
3. tetsu
4. MUCC
5. SID
6. Girugamesh
7. Zoro
8. 44MAGNUM
9. cali?gari
10. BREAKERZ
11. Kinniku shoujo-tai
12. and more…

Event Details:

Date: August 15, 2009
Venue Makuhari MESSE
OPEN 11:00
START 13:00
Cost : 10500 Yen

All standing

Tickets available through CLUB MAVERICK starting tomorrow.

Credits: nanani

Source: jack-itb ; http://www.jack-itb.com/

MUCC & Girugamesh :luv2
hope we will see HYDE or all VAMPS

VAMPS Tour Dates:

VAMPS TOUR 2009 - HYDEIST Only (2009.05.08)
VAMPS TOUR 2009 - Under 18 (2009.05.09)
VAMPS TOUR 2009 - HYDEIST Only Snippets/Report (2009.05.08-12)
VAMPS TOUR 2009 - Vampire VS Androids (2009.05.14)

Also, acid android is yuki's band, so he'll be there too. "tetsu" is tetsu's solo name so they'll all be there!!!

got this from CDJapan :

NEOIPS-643
VAMPS/Monthly VAMPS#12 BOOK
1000 yen US$10/97.65 Release Date:2009/06/29
Description:Twelfth book release from VAMPS featuring HYDE from L'Arc-en-Ciel and K.A.Z. from Oblivion Dust.
URL - http://cdjapan.jp/d.html?KEY=NEOIPS-643

NINKI Index For VAMPS's self titled debut album :

ALBUMS
01 347.80 GReeeeN - 塩、コショウ
02 199.10 GLAY - THE GREAT VACATION VOL. 1 ~SUPER BEST OF GLAY~
03 76.10 VAMPS - VAMPS
04 71.80 RIP SLYME - JOURNEY
05 68.00 くるり - 魂のゆくえ
06 25.20 BRAHMAN - ETERNAL RECURRENCE
07 23.00 Sweetbox - The Next Generation
08 22.20 さだまさし - 美しい朝
09 18.00 曽我部恵一BAND - ハピネス!
10 17.90 藤木直人 - ∞ Octave

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next week's MUSIC STATION lineup :

YAY :D

^good, they'll be on MUSIC STATION soon!

Monthly VAMPS 11

YAY! *waiting for music station*

VAMPS LIVE 2009 at CLUB CITTA’ KAWASAKI 2009.05.11 - http://listentheworld.wordpress.com/...ki-2009-05-11/

that's amazing!!! One of my most favorite song from album

Their solo projects are boring to me. And unfortunatelly, Laruku won't be soon back with new stuff T_T I'll have to stick with KISS. It was amazing.

^I do agree that their solo projects can never match their work as band. But you never know, they MAY just return to Laruku soon. Maybe after the VAMPS album is released today, they'll all focus on the band more? It doesn't seem like ken, Yuki or tetsu are planning to do anything for their solo work atm.

It does kinda suck that their on a break. I'd want them to have more to show for their 20th anniversary than just one album of songs since their 15th anniversary.

Saying that, despite being disappointed in Vamps' output, I'm really enjoying Ken's album and hope Tetsu will put something out. Not sure if Acid Android are really my thing, but I'd check out their new stuff if they release anything.

mi|kshake~

Oh, you're disappointed? I kind of like the fact that HYDE's doing his solo thing with VAMPS. He seems to be enjoying himself and besides, I think he loves the freedom avex has given him and Kaz. Well, I'm waiting for my copy of their debut album and after hearing it, I'll decide whether they did a good job or not. Have you heard that album?

VAMPS debuted at #3 with their self titled debut album with 27,470 copies

http://www.oricon.co.jp/rank/ja/d/

wow against the 'giants's GReeeeN & GLAY o_O

#3 that's very good, but so far away from 2nd

yeah because for GLAY's case , it's a compilation & it contains quite a huge jumbo worth of their hits

Well, I had a feeling they wouldn't beat these two, so I was just hoping for good sales. And 27k+ is awesome for the first day!

#3 is awesome considering the competition. way to go VAMPS :cool

Well, I've only heard the previews - which I know is never the best way to decide whether an album is good or not. There's been the odd enjoyable tune Evenescent and Time Goes By, but the only tune to really grab me was the Life On Mars cover. So far the album doesn't seem to be shaping up to be as good as Faith. Also I'm not a fan of screaming lol. Saying that I may d/l a few tracks to see what I think. I do rather like the first press poster.

I like how they're with Avex though - kinda unexpected. Avex does seem to give people a lot of freedom for a big label. (How are they related to Avex? Is it just that Avex publish the CDs?)

Still to check out the Blood, Sex, Rock & Roll PV.

When is Ken touring? Would like to see some live performances of the album tracks!

mi|kshake~

VAMPS Live in USA 2009 Poster

http://img31.imageshack.us/img31/4660/65993451.jpg

To receive the flyer & poster of the group , you can e-mail their staff at staff@neubauhaus.net

Source: vampsliveusa ; http://www.vampsliveusa.com/index.html

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MUSEUM Reports at http://www.larc-en-ciel.com/jp/popup/museum/index.html

Go to the REPORT section to see photos.

Well, I just heard their album yesterday and I have to agree that it's not as good as his solo work, but it def. showed a whole new HYDE: daring, badass and CRAZY. I don't know about you, but I loved the songs where he was screaming. I've never heard HYDE do anything like that before and it was exciting! Yet I'll admit the album wasn't nearly as amazing as ken's.... But I just hope HYDE returns to Laruku soon...

Oh and Avex has agreed to give VAMPS their very own label through which they'll release their material (it's called VAMPROSE, I'm sure you've heard that name before).

VAMPROSE eh ? I like that name Alicia

too bad when you said Rose in Japanese , it sounds ugly & it's worst when comes to vegetables's names :dead2

Hyde is so... handsome. I can't stop looking at his beautiful face, i can be sure when i say he's one of the hottest male artists in Japan.

I thought Vamprose was a label Hyde set up himself. I wonder why he left Haunted Records? I really liked the name!

Unfortunately I've never been a fan of his screaming. I love that poster though!

mi|kshake~

^Maybe he left cause Avex was giving him more freedom? idk.... And yeah, Vamprose was started by Hyde himself but I think its being ummm.... "supervised" by Avex.

Hahahaa... yeah! H's still sooo handsome for his age!! :luv2 :luv2 :luv2

hyde still looks awesome even though he's 40 @_@

he's ageing well what can I say ? :laugh

VAMPS LIVE 2009 U.S.A. Announcement - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LxVRs...layer_embedded

anyone going for it ? :innocent

Hah!!! I wish!! :irked

VAMPS @ MUSIC STATION!!!

http://www.tetsu-tetsu.org/nijidrops...tion/#comments

There's a download link there if anyone's interested^^

Oh, and I just wanna say that I loooove the song REDRUM and DEEP RED! HYDE's screaming is soooo hot!!! :luv2 (Although, I can't understand a word he's saying....)