暴~Baku~ - 05/2008
Welcome to the first issue of the monthly Visual kei overview on Rockerica: 暴~Baku~!
Baku is like a summary of every month's posts and reviews on Rockerica, but it even goes more than a step beyond offering the most notable Visual kei news, facts, announcements and more. So I hope you will enjoy Baku. For those who don't know Baku means outrage, violence, outburst on Japanese, symbolizing the raw energy of Visual kei.
And on the first cover of the BAKU magazine are D'espairsRay! The Visual kei veterans have earned it! Speaking of cover this is actually the first time I have made a cover for a magazine sorta and I'm really glad how it ended up. The purple color scheme really fits the mysterious and serious appearance of D'espairsRay.
But D'espairsRay aren't only featured on the cover. They're in the cover artist section of BAKU and you can also read the review of their latest single BRILLIANT inside. And if that isn't enough, BAKU also features the lyrics of their recent song BRILLIANT! Ideal for singing along while listening to it here on Rockerica.
Lucy also made it on the cover as the featured artist of the month. This young Visual kei band released their first single this month and have proven that they have great songwriting skills.
Also I have summed up the most interesting news of this month which include big names in Visual kei such as the GazettE, alice nine. and Versailles...
And what would be a monthly overview without some nifty music reviews? The reviews on BAKU have been summarized to bring you the raw core of the single: 30 words and a star-rating system will bring the essence of the reviews to you as fast as possible.
Of course to get a more clearer picture of the single be sure to read the reviews in full: uncut and unabridged.
Full versions of this month's reviews featured in Baku:
Single: メリー -
Midnight Shangri-la/空っぽな唄~final cut~ ☆☆☆
Single: D – BIRTH ☆☆☆☆
Single: ルーシー –
Discord ☆☆☆☆
Album: SuG - nOiZ stAR ☆☆
RELEASE OF THE MONTH
Single: D'espairsRay –
BRILLIANT ☆☆☆☆☆
FEATURED ARTIST: ルーシー (Lucy)
OHP: Lucy
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Lucy on Rockerica
Founded: 2007.
Label: Unsigned
Status: Indie
Vocal: 榊 (Sakaki); Guitar: 健斗 to); Guitar: 広未 (Hiromi); Bass: 泰介 (Taisuke); Drums: 憐華 (Ren)
EYECANDY PV
Nightmare - the LAST SHOW
A fun PV announcing the great show that will be on their new album KILLER SHOW. And as such the LAST SHOW has made it to be the first EYECANDY PV in BAKU.
I'm not sure if I'm going to do a special PV review for this (though I have the PV; but reviewing PV's is often a time consuming thing because you have to do screencaps and such so...) but I hope you'll watch it and enjoy it nevertheless.
I wonder how their new album is? I haven't listened to it yet.
Listen to the Top 5 songs of the month
1. DELUHI – Vivid place
2. ルーシー - ~歪~ (Ibitsu)
3. D’espairsRay – BRILLIANT
4. D’espairsRay – Cocoon
5. ルーシー – HADES
So this is it for the interactive part that will bring the content of BAKU even closer to you. That is the concept of BAKU. You read the content in BAKU and check the audio and video samples on Rockerica.
Have fun and I await your feedback!
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i really cant help but my mouth wont shut!! very very good work!!!!! :D:D:D:D
I design these papers with the good old Photoshop ^___^. Just put a bit here and there and so. Though I've done better inside design of a magazine, this isn't bad actually. Good enough for a template so maybe with time I'll make the template a bit better ^____^.
Still very glad you like it o(≧▽≦)o.
The new issue of Baku is already in preparation but I'm waiting for Ayabie to release their single so I can put it in Baku.