マリア - 刺薬歌 / 神未知～カミミチ～

believe it or not, back by request is the ever confusing マリア (or maria cross). today i present to you another single, as well as an EP.


刺薬歌
luckily for us, this particular single has a stronger focus on マリア's terror/laughter inducing high-pitched warbling. on the A-side he squawks and and howls, and on the B-side he squawks and howls. the typical deep voiced visual kei voice is kept to a minimum.
my favorite of the two is the B-side, which opens with guitar feedback. delightful.

1. 刺薬歌
2. S・E・X


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神未知～カミミチ～
this EP focuses quite a bit on synths and super fast percussion. very few actual guitars can be heard here (i'm under the impression that they're all synth based guitar emulators). strange.


1. 誓い
2. 貴方だけに歌いたい歌
3. 神
4. 超音波的死歌





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マリア - FOR YOU

マリア (or Maria Cross) is a visual kei street performer. there are two things you have to know about マリア; 1rst thing: he has been to jail for molesting a second year high school student; 2nd thing: he had a career in the gay adult entertainment industry. he is . . . special, to put it lightly.

the music itself is typical visual kei sound; fast guitars and deep vocals . . . except, like i said, マリア is very special. every once in a while he breaks the baritone vocals to break out this high-pitched, off key screeching. i'm not sure if the "unique" vocals are intentionally off-putting or not, but it certainly gives this a very, very outsider feel to it. it's terrifying, and really must be heard to be understood.

you are not prepared for マリア. frankly, you can't be prepared for マリア.


1. For You
2. 性欲願望
3. 星の砂


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ローザ・ルクセンブルグ - ぷりぷり

ローザ・ルクセンブルグ (or, errr, "Rosa Luxemburg" . . . as in the the marxist theorist?) were an incredibly upbeat rock band who's style and sound are completely unlike anything i've ever heard before. they are the most playful, fun pop rock (for lack of a better genre title) band i've ever heard. if i had to compare them to something, i guess it would be to IPPU-DO, or maybe some of the stuff on Nagomu Records. as far as modern bands go, it's quite possible that Sakurai Ao of cali≠gari was inspired by ローザ・ルクセンブルグ.

they premiered with their song "Chinese Boy" (i think i translated that right) which is on this album (second track), so i'm going to assume this is their first album (information is very meager on the western internet; they don't even have a proper discogs). even though my japanese is greatly lacking (i can read it, but will have no idea what it means for the most part), i was still able to discover what might be a news article explaining that the vocalist died from brain trauma in hawaii.

i'm stunned by that album art, by the way.


1. おもちゃの血
2. 在中国的少年
3. 原宿エブリデイ~ブルーライトヨコハマ~
4. イヨマンテ
5. 北京犬
6. 大きなたまご
7. アイスクリン
8. バカボンの国のポンパラスの種
9. だけどジュリー
10. ぶらぶら
11. ニカラグアの星
12. 毬絵
13. 少女の夢(もろヴァージョン)


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