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An official release party for the Japanese Limited Editions of REAPER's 'Hell Starts With An H' and GRENDEL's 'Harsh Generation will take place on 07/05 at Club NEO in Osaka: at MIDNIGHT NECROPOLIS, Kansai's premier electro-industrial/EBM night.
It is always a good idea to get to Club NEO early on Territory club nights - to catch the excellent warm-up DJs...but this time we are offering an extra incentive to the first customers on the night. As this launch night celebrates not only the release of the REAPER and GRENDEL albums, but also the beginning of an alliance between DWA and Infacted Recordings, there will be a giveaway of various Infacted products! The first 10 customers will get a free CD randomly drawn from the following selection:
...and for the following 15 customers, a GRENDEL or INFACTED RECORDINGS vinyl sticker.
The official launch night of DEMONOID 13's 'Death To The Vulgar Lord' will take place in DEMONOID 13's hometown of Nagoya at a special instalment of the live event TORTURE TECHNIQUE at DAYTRIP on 7/13: with special guests BAAL, just returned from their Australian tour with ANGELSPIT.
Nagoya’s DEMONOID 13 is the only Japanese act producing tracks in the predominantly European/North American ‘Terror EBM’ style: a combination of hard dance beats/electronics fused with horror film themes.
After nearly a 2-year wait, DEMONOID 13 finally return with the long-awaited follow-up to their super-heavy debut ‘GATE OF DEATH’.
Released through Deathwatch Asia at the end of 2006, ‘GATE OF DEATH’ has now almost sold out its original pressing, with only limited stocks remaining.
The first pressing of new CD ‘DEATH TO THE VULGAR LORD’ is issued in a beautiful gatefold digipak, featuring dark artwork from Nagoya tattoo artist Ryuji (Ryuji Tattoo Design): and limited to 500 copies.
Already wildly popular outside Japan, DEMONOID 13 have been featured in #1 German alternative magazine ORKUS, and in September make their European live debut as the headline act of Eastern Europe’s largest industrial-gothic festival: ‘Chorna Rada’ in Kiev (Ukraine).
‘DEATH TO THE VULGAR LORD’ will cement DEMONOID 13’s position as a force to be reckoned with in the international industrial/EBM scene.
Release date: 2008/07/13
Product Number: DWA-803
Price: 1500 Yen
JAN-CODE: 4582237815634
Format: 2-panel gatefold digipak
Tracklisting:
01) Sacrifice 3.25
02) The Hidden Justice 4.17
03) Slaughter In Heaven 3.55
04) Infernal Forces 4.49
05) Iconoclast 5.03
06) Master Of D (2008 version) 5.22
The Japanese scene was shocked and saddened by the unexpected death of popular and talented singer Ana this March. Ana had just quit DESPAIR after recording 1 final track especially for the new DWA compilation DARKER WATERS, and given that this song - the epic and emotional 'Gash' - sadly forms her final recorded work, it was therefore decided that the release-date of DARKER WATERS should be postponed to coincide with a memorial gig being held in her honour at Tokyo Dark Castle.
'DARKER WATERS: deeper into the Japanese underground' goes on domestic sale 06/07.
Available across Japan from Tower, HMV, Territory and all other usual stockists: and of course on the night at Shinjuku Marz.
The Japanese Limited Editions of REAPER's 'Hell Starts With An H' and GRENDEL's 'Harsh Generation' will go on commercial release across Japan from 07/05.
An official release party for these CDs will take place that night at Club NEO in Osaka: at MIDNIGHT NECROPOLIS, Osaka's premier electro-industrial/EBM night.
As this celebrates not only the release of the REAPER and GRENDEL albums, but also the beginning of an alliance between DWA and Infacted Recordings, there will be a giveaway of various Infacted products to the first customers on the night! First come, first served!
Side-project of Swiss electro-industrial act BAK XIII, MUSIC FOR THE SPACE will play 3 dates in the Kansai area this week:
06/03 KOBE Otoya (Sannomiya)
with Osaka digital hardcore legend UTERO ZZZ AAA and DWA's own sawDUST IN ME in support. Doors open at 18.30, first act onstage 19.00. Admission 1500 Yen: or a mere 1000 Yen if you can
show one of the special 'NOSFERATU NIGHT' flyers to the door-staff. Plus 500 yen drink ticket.
06/04 OSAKA Socio (Shinsaibashi)
with BUDOU-YA and NANO KID. Doors open at 18.30, event starts at 19.00. Admission 1500 Yen in advance (or with a reservation): or 1800
Yen on the door. Plus 500 yen drink ticket.
06/05 KYOTO Oooh-La-La (Saiin)
with ULTRA BIDE, KURUPIA and POINT OF CONTACT. Doors open at 18.30, event starts 19.00. Admission 2000 Yen (includes 500 Yen drink ticket).
The tour then heads for Kanto, where HERR LIEBE will play a special guest DJ-slot at Tokyo Dark Castle:
06/07 TOKYO Marz (Shinjuku)
with DWA's own DESPAIR, THE NEUTRON EGO TAPE, DEMONS, gadget., AUTO-MOD. Doors open at midnight for this all-night tribute event to former DESPAIR singer Ana. Admission 3000 Yen in advance, or 3500 on the door...plus 1 drink ticket at 500 Yen.
The first of several upcoming DWA collaborations with leading European labels is now ready for release. In celebration of DWA's strategic partnership with German label Infacted Recordings, we are pleased to present special Japanese editions of albums from 2 of Infacted's best-known and best-selling artists: REAPER and GRENDEL.
GRENDEL is the dark dance sensation from the Netherlands,
now playing some of the biggest alternative festivals across Europe:
07/17 AMPHI FESTIVAL (DE)
08/22 INFEST (UK)
09/12 INFACTED FESTIVAL (DE)
10/02 DARK AREA FESTIVAL (DE)
Following 2 highly successful albums ('Inhumane Amusement', Prescription: Medicide') and EPs ('End Of Ages', 'Soilbleed') for German label NOITEKK/Black Rain, GRENDEL signed to leading industrial label INFACTED RECORDINGS.
With their INFACTED debut 'Harsh Generation' GRENDEL have had their greatest success so far: hitting #3 in the German Alternative Charts (DAC), and staying in the 'Top 5' for many weeks.
REAPER is the pounding dark-electro project of Vasi Vallis (FROZEN PLASMA, NAM NAM BULU), who recently hit #1 in the German Alternative Charts (DAC) with latest single 'The Devil Is Female'.
Now playing some of the biggest alternative festivals across Europe:
07/06 BLACKFIELD FESTIVAL (DE)
07/25 GOTHIC FESTIVAL (BE)
07/27 CASTLE PARTY (PL)
08/10 SUMMER DARKNESS (NL)
09/12 INFACTED FESTIVAL (DE)
'Hell Starts With An H' is the awesome full-length debut album:
featuring collaborations with guests such as SUICIDE COMMANDO and Mark Jackson (VNV NATION), plus remixes from the likes of SCHALLFAKTOR, PAINBASTARD and MODULATE.
DWA is proud to present special Japanese Limited Editions of 'Hell Starts With An H' and 'Harsh Generation'
Strictly limited to just 100 copies, these releases re-package the original Infacted CDs and 8-panel colour booklets with all-new tray-cards, obi and heavyweight collector's postcards (220gsm): redesigned by DWA from the original artwork.
And to commemorate the start of this historic relationship between Infacted and DWA, these releases are being made available at the incredibly low introductory price of only 2000 Yen!
A 'must buy' for collectors, these CDs will sell out fast!
We recommend pre-order NOW!
We are pleased to announce that DWA's titles are now available to order in Germany from InfraRot. InfraRot has been a market-leader in the supply of industrial, EBM and gothic CDs for many years, and probably needs no introduction!
DWA is pleased to welcome HERR LIEBE of Swiss electro-industrial outfit BAK XIII to Japan for a few live dates with his ambient-industrial side-project MUSIC FOR THE SPACE this June:
6/03 KOBE Otoya
6/04 OSAKA Socio
6/05 KYOTO Ooh-La-La
plus a special-guest DJ spot at Tokyo Dark Castle:
06/07 TOKYO Marz
Kobe's show will be a special one-off presentation of his soundtrack for F.W.Murnau's classic silent horror film NOSFERATU: which will be projected during his show. Naturally this version includes Japanese subtitles!
Nagoya's DEMONOID 13 are today preparing to enter the studio to lay down final vocal and percussion tracks for the long-awaited follow-up to their GATE OF DEATH debut.
New 6-track mini-album DEATH TO THE VULGAR LORD will feature 5 brand new floor-fillers guaranteed to satisfy all fans of hellektro/terror-EBM: plus a complete 2008-reworking of the classic MASTER OF -D.
Coming to you in limited edition digipak format this July: (un)naturally July 13TH!
Full tracklist and further details to follow...
After a couple of great last-minute additions, we are now pleased to announce the final tracklisting of the imminent DARK WATERS 2.
THE ROYAL DEAD (formerly known as PHANTASMAGORIA, leading to some confusion between them and the Visual Kei act of the same name) have just been on tour in the USA, and have a new mini-album out: from which we have culled a special radio-edit of the track THE COMMON BETRAYAL (OF GIRLFRIENDS) especially for this compilation. Usually known for a lighter trancey sound, this track features a darker distorted-vocal feel.
Also, we are pleased to give brand new Tokyo industrial outfit THE NEUTRON EGO TAPE a first release on CD. Their CD-R demo was so impressive, we had to include them! Marilyn Manson-esque vocals over meaty guitar riffs place this exciting act in the same Tokyo-heavy-industrial camp as their peers BAAL and DESPAIR.
01/ UTEROZZZAAA - Unknown Terrorist Reverse 01.44
02/ 2BULLET - Forest Of Traps 04.04
03/ BAKI SHO JI - Kyorai 04.20
04/ THE ROYAL DEAD - The Common Betrayal (Of Girlfriends) - radio edit 03.48
05/ GOTHIKA - Fata Morgana Android 04.03
06/ gadget. - Lost Avalon - Darker Waters version 05.00
07/ STRAWBERRY SONG ORCHESTRA - Boku No Ita Chizu 06.05
08/ SUNAO INAMI - Farm Machines And Implements 05.41
09/ sawDUST IN ME - Tiny 03.25
10/ consume - 04.36
11/ BAAL - Vermin (Destroyed RMX's rule version) 04.16
12/ THE NEUTRON EGO TAPE - Fake Aberration 03.43
13/ LILLIES AND REMAINS - The Fake 04.04
14/ SINS OF THE FLESH - (How Can I) Smile? 05.16
15/ DESPAIR - Gash 04.56
16/ UTEROZZZAAA - Ultimate Torture Regurgitator 02.00
DARKER WATERS comes next month in a sumptuous 3-panel digipak at the ridiculously low price of 2000 Yen!
First confirmed European show of the New Year for SINS OF THE FLESH will be a long-overdue German festival debut in September.
Further details of this and accompanying European tour dates to follow...
First release of the New Year for DWA will be the long-heralded sequel to last year's innovative J-scene compilation: the best-selling DARK WATERS. Featuring a selection of the finest established and new talent, DARKER WATERS presents another quality assortment of the various musical styles practised within the Japanese underground, including...
UTEROZZZAAA - Unknown Terrorist Reverse
2BULLET - Forest Of Traps
BAKI-SHO-JI - Kyorai
GOTHIKA - Fata Morgana Android
.gadget - Lost Avalon [Darker Waters version]
STRAWBERRY SONG ORCHESTRA - Boku No Ita Chizu
SUNAO INAMI - Farm Machines And Implements
consume - Alberta Eugenics Board [redneck biatch remix by LBM]
BAAL - Vermin [Destroyed RMX's rule version]
LILLIES AND REMAINS - The Fake
sawDUST IN ME - Tiny
SINS OF THE FLESH - (How Can I) Smile?
DESPAIR - Gash
UTEROZZZAAA - Ultimate Torture Regurgitator
Further details and confirmed release date to follow.
SINS OF THE FLESH will soon be heading back to Europe for further live promotion of 2007's stunning return THE DEATH OF THE FLESH.
The tour kicks off in the UK at premier UK festival WHITBY GOTHIC WEEKEND and the next day at LONDON ISLINGTON ACADEMY, where SOTF line up as main support to Canadian act THE BIRTHDAY MASSACRE.
UK regional club dates follow, after which the band head east to headline 3 nights of the prestigious RADIO INFERNO FESTIVAL in Finland and Russia.
27/10 - WHITBY SPA PAVILLION (UK) - Whitby Gothic Weekend
28/10 - LONDON ISLINGTON ACADEMY (UK)
31/10 - BLACKPOOL BLUE ROOM (UK) - Misery Of Sound
02/11 - STOCKTON FALCHION (UK) - Persecution
07/11 - YORK JUNCTION (UK) - Prophecy
09/11 - HELSINKI GLORIA (FINLAND) - Radio Inferno Festival
10/11 - ST.PETERSBURG REVOLUTION (RUSSIA) - Radio Inferno Festival
11/11 - MOSCOW RELAX (RUSSIA) - Radio Inferno Festival
Full details are now available for the new 9-track remix CD from DESPAIR.
Packaged as a full-colour gatefold maxi-single, this EP weighs in at a massive 39 minutes: 9 tracks of controlled industrial carnage, breakcore and abstract ambient EBM, at the bargain price of ¥1500/€10.00.
3 versions of MPD Conflict, 3 versions of Jarring God, and 1 version each of the remaining 3 tracks of the original DESERTED TECHNOLGY RIOT have all been mangled and reprocessed into a unique and unprecedented sonic cocktail that takes the trademark beauty and brutality of DESPAIR to new and unimaginable levels.
The official street date is 2007/10/03...but anyone attending the official launch night at Shinjuku MARZ in Tokyo on Sunday 9/23 can pick up an advance copy, hot off the CD-presses. Those reserving advance tickets for this event with DESPAIR can also get a limited edition cotton patch on the day: exclusively for those making ticket reservations! To get in line for one of these, register for advance tickets by e-mail with the DESPAIR Management Office: jail@despair-nation.com.
This launch event also features appearances from fellow DARKER WATERS contributors BAAL and GADGET, among others!
Can't get enough of SAWDUST IN ME? Well, with MORTIFICATION MADE ME now on general release, DEATHWATCH ASIA is pleased to announce provisional details of artists and material featured in the upcoming DARK WATERS 2 CD: which will include a brand new SAWDUST IN ME track 'Tiny' recorded exclusively for this compilation.
'DARKER WATERS - Deeper Into The Japanese Underground' will, as promised, take the best-selling DARK WATERS concept to new heights...or should that be '(previously unplumbed) depths'?
Casting the net wider than before, we have sought out a diversity of new and well-established artists representing the Japanese underground scene in its myriad musical forms: from the theatrical flavour of Kyoto's STRAWBERRY SONG ORCHESTRA 'Boku No Ita Chizu' (exclusive) to the industrial noise terror of Osaka's UTERO ZZZ AAA 'Ultimate Torture Regurgitator'/'Unknown Terrorist Reverse' (exclusive), the alternative rock style of Tokyo's GADGET 'Lost Avalon' (exclusive) to the experimental electronica of Kobe's SUNAO INAMI 'Farm Machines And Implements' (exclusive).
And of course DARKER WATERS is also awash with brand new material from Deathwatch Asia artists like DESPAIR and SINS OF THE FLESH, artists familiar to European audiences from touring like BAAL and GOTHIKA (ex-EUTHANASIE)...and the debut recordings from new acts like LILLIES AND REMAINS.
Proof-positive, as if any were needed, of the vibrancy and variety of the Japanese underground scene in 2007...
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SAWDUST IN ME’s debut CD ‘MORTIFICATION MADE ME’ goes on general release from 2007/08/04, from all our sales points in Japan and overseas: including the recently added NANIMATO (France) and GROUND UNDER PRODUCTIONS (Australia).
As with DESPAIR’s ‘DESERTED TECHNOLOGY RIOT’, this new CD will be launched with the support of TOWER RECORDS Shibuya: where the EP can be heard on the listening post. And in conjunction with some of the most famous underground club-nights in Japan, this release will be launched at a variety of events around the country:
First in Osaka on Saturday 07/28, 5 copies will be given away via lottery-ticket on admission to MIDNIGHT NECROPOLIS at Club NEO in Shinsaibashi: Osaka’s hardest EBM/technoise/dark-electro event. In addition, the first 50 paying customers will receive a promotional CD-R of a SAWDUST IN ME remix produced exclusively for this event!
Next, on the release date itself of Saturday 08/04, SAWDUST IN ME will be the only featured live act at TOKYO DARK CASTLE’s ‘DJ-CASTLE’ at Shinjuku MARZ: sandwiched between a selection of the finest DJs in the scene including DJ ACID KLUXX (Rieu: DESPAIR).
And the following Sunday, 08/12, SAWDUST IN ME will return to Tokyo to play ALAMODE NIGHT at STUDIO CUBE 326 in Shibaura.
Please check the relevant websites of all participating organizations for further information: and our thanks to all the people in charge for their kindness and help in making this promotional push possible!
Scenes from Tokyo Shibuya: the largest branch of TOWER RECORDS in Japan...consolidating our position as the only domestic force in industrial/gothic music.
DESPAIR sandwiched between NINE INCH NAILS and ZOMBIE GIRL!
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The debut E.P. from Osaka's SAWDUST IN ME is now complete, and slated for a revised August 4th release. The originally announced 5 tracks are now complemented with a 6th - the instrumental piece 'Heaven'. Audio-clips of MORTIFICATION MADE ME are available now on the MP3-page.
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2007/06/01:
the national release-date of DESPAIR's
DESERTED TECHNOLOGY RIOT and
DEMONOID 13's
GATE OF DEATH!
This means the entire DEATHWATCH ASIA catalogue is now available across Japan, from major chain-stores like TOWER RECORDS and HMV.
So: we did our part.
Now get out there and buy it!
* * * ! POWER PROMOTION ! * * *
These 2 releases will be featured on the listening posts in TOWER RECORDS flagship store in Shibuya!
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Anything successful invariably inspires imitation: as others try to cash-in on your innovation. DARK WATERS was a groundbreaking release that set an industry-standard for what was possible in the Japanese scene: and sure enough, copycat releases have not been slow to follow...but nothing that comes (in our humble opinions) remotely close in terms of quality and price.
If imitation is truly the sincerest form of flattery, we should perhaps be glad: and indeed we welcome both the competition and anything that helps promote interest in the Japanese underground scene.
But a word of warning to our would-be competitors: even as you try to catch up with what we already achieved, we are already preparing to out-do ourselves and set a new industry-standard.
DARK WATERS 2: deeper into the Japanese underground.
Coming this summer on DEATHWATCH ASIA.
Catch us if you can...
At DEATHWATCH ASIA, the attitude is 'Only the best will do'.
The best music, the best packaging, the best prices....
It's the policy that guides everything we do: from the acts we are willing to release material by, right down to the type of flyers we are prepared to print (full-colour heavyweight postcards).
And that means of course that we apply the same painstaking selection process to who we are prepared to be represented and distributed by around the world.
It is therefore with great pleasure that we are able to announce that our entire catalogue is now available from the UK's leading online retailer of industrial and alternative CDs, DVDs, magazines and concert tickets: MUSIC NON STOP.
With DESERTED TECHNOLOGY RIOT about to hit the shelves on general release in Japan, DESPAIR have been playing relentlessly almost every weekend across the country. Yet somehow, time enough has still been found to produce a full remix E.P. which takes the riot-sound to new extremes.
All 5 tracks from the original have been remixed into totally different styles for REWIRED RIOT TECHNOLOGY...
Coming soon on DEATHWATCH ASIA!
It has been a long wait, but DEATHWATCH ASIA's flagship J-Goth compilation release DARK WATERS is finally on general release throughout Japan.
Now available from all major retailers including Amazon, Tower Records, HMV and other non-specialist stores across the country.
Other titles will be following shortly.
Osaka's female duo SAWDUST IN ME is the latest sensation to hit the J-Goth scene. A combination of driving EBM, distorted breakbeats and powerful violent vocals, the band is already being talked about by luminaries like DJ SiSen, and being invited to play at venues around Japan.
While the look may remind of 80's icons STRAWBERRY SWITCHBLADE, the comparison ends right there: although there is an undeniably poppy and appealing element to SAWDUST IN ME's music, it is a primal and industrial experience. Their dancefloor-friendly sound should appeal to fans of DEMONOID 13, while the digital-hardcore elements and atmospheric ambience are more akin to DESPAIR. Overall, an essential addition to the DEATHWATCH ASIA roster!
A debut 5-track E.P. entitled 'MORTIFICATION MADE ME' is now in production, earmarked for a probable May release. Included will be re-worked versions of DEFINE and THIRTEENTH (of which demo versions can be heard now on SAWDUST IN ME's MySpace), plus the tracks SUBSTITUTE, MY WAY OUT and ENVY.
Production duties have been assumed by Jude (DESPAIR/SINS OF THE FLESH).
The new magnum opus from SINS OF THE FLESH as reviewed in the March 2007 issue of ORKUS.
2-page features for both SINS OF THE FLESH and DEMONOID 13 in the March 2007 issue of ORKUS!
DARK WATERS and DESPAIR's DESERTED RIOT TECHNOLOGY reviewed in the February 2007 issue of ORKUS.
Not many acts spend 16 years thinking about how to follow up their first album: yet that is how long the world has been waiting for SINS OF THE FLESH to deliver on the promise of 1990's seminal debut FIRST COMMUNION.
Hailed by fans and contemporaries alike as the great hope of the UK goth scene in the early 90s, SOTF seemed content to fade away into legendary status...until now!
Now featuring a hybrid Japanese-British line-up hand-picked from members of the best bands of an emerging J-Goth scene, SOTF have returned with the breathtakingly eclectic new album THE DEATH OF THE FLESH, and a sound which is classic and contemporary in equal measures: a musical tribute to the best of the scene itself, both past and present.
And a MASSIVE album it is too: made available now in a limited-edition double-CD format, with full-colour 12-page booklet. 28 tracks, 140 minutes of brand-new SOTF material...at the BARGAIN price of just ¥2000/€13.85!
Promotion in Europe is in full-force, with the album-version of F**K #1 included in the CD of the latest February issue of Europe's leading alternative music-magazine ORKUS, and an exclusive remix of JUDAS KISS (ALL I NEVER WANTED) included in the CD of the new ASTAN.
And of course SOTF are on tour to support the album-release:
02/02 - KYOTO Yaso (JP)
04/02 - KOBE Otoya (JP)
09/02 - UTRECHT Tivoli de Helling (NL)
10/02 - COLOGNE Underground (D)
11/02 - NORDHORN Scheune (D)
DEATHWATCH ASIA's professionally-packaged reissue of DEMONOID 13's 2005 debut GATE OF DEATH is now on sale.
Modelled on imagery from the original hand-produced inkjet packaging, this release is presented in maxi-single format, with a gatefold colour J-card and obi.
5 tracks of the hardest electro-industrial for which DEMONOID 13 are rightly renowned, topped with guttural vocals, dusted with a fine sprinkling of atmospheric keyboards...and battered into submission with metallic percussion.
Experience extreme death-rave now!
The long wait is over for fans of DESPAIR. Originally released in October, but withdrawn and re-pressed owing to dissatisfaction with the final masters, this is the definitive, re-mastered version: presenting DESPAIR in full sonic violence.
Featuring the live favourite JARRING GOD, this release is sure to appeal to fans of the group's 2004 debut 'Beautiful Japanese Sight': and the inclusion of the moodier, down-tempo FILTH PIG presents the more thoughtful, cinematic sound DESPAIR is also more than capable of.
'FUCK THAT SHIT'!
Myspace users can now hear the latest releases from DEATHWATCH ASIA, and leave comments at
www.myspace.com/deathwatchasia
MP3s on the myspace site are long-form mixes made up of 1-2 minutes of each track from the release, in 128kbps/44.1khz format.
Myspace allows a 6Mb maximum file-size per track:which equates to about 1 minute/Mb at this audio resolution...so the files are approximately 6 minutes in length!
Featuring a selection of the finest acts playing today in the J-Goth scene.
12 tracks ranging through harsh electro-industrial and EBM to industrial and death rock.
All tracks either previously unreleased, or previously available only on limited edition promotional CD-R format within Japan.
A real taste of the J-Goth underground, at mid-price (¥1500/€10).
Tracks from (in alphabetical order): 2BULLET, AGENT MURDER, AURAL VAMPIRE, BAAL, DEMONOID 13, DESPAIR, DESTRUCT SYSTEM, JET PEPPER TOWER, PSYCHO DREAM, SATANYANKO, SINS OF THE FLESH, SPEECIES. |
