I apologize for the super long absence. In my defense, I'll say that exams are coming soon and I get distracted by shiny things and stuff.
So now I'm coming back to the Tales with individual editions, starting with Nimo because he speaks less than the rest.


( Apparently now he only talks about lives. I mean, Feasts. )

And that took way longer than it should because I've lost practice o.o

Ahoy Hearties! ♥

Check out the cover art for the new album! All three types have a different cover! I put them under a cut due to size. A has also announced instore dates/places. I will put those up later.

( Album art is right here! )

Ahoy Hearties! ♥

A's OHP has listed what the DVD that comes with Tales for the Abyss type A will have on it.

1. Shangri-la
2. Night Of The Knights
3. Black Butterfly
4. NUDE
5. 夜明けのアンセム (Yoake no ansemu)
6."Shangri-la" OFF SHOT

EDIT: I forgot to add that Nimo posted some live photos too on FaceBook. Go HERE to see them.

Short & less funny than usual, sorrys

( scary Rookie pics ahoy! )

Most of these blogs have been translated already on the Dutch Streetteam, but I decided to join them all in a big edition of the Tales because it's easier for your lazy asses.


( long Tales are long, prepare to read )

*phew* That was long! I feel like I say this on every edition of the Tales .-.

Ahoy Hearties! ♥

A's OHP has listed the goodies that each shop will give out when you buy the new album Tales For The Abyss! I just woke up so there may be errors but I will correct them when I am fully functional!

Like An Edison -

Type A: Special guest FEST VAINQUEUR DVD Vol.1
Type B: Special guest FEST VAINQUEUR DVD Vol.2
Regular: Special guest FEST VAINQUEUR DVD Vol.3

Jishuban Club - (I'll finish this later, I need more info!)

Type A: Rookie (violin) - Partita of the darkness music video
Type B: Rookie (violin) - Partita of the light music video
Regular: Rookie produced Abyss piano performance karaoke style music video

Little Hearts -

Type A: Music commentary Vol.1 (all members)
Type B: Music commentary Vol.2 (all members)
Regular: Music commentary Vol.3 (all members)

Brand X -

Type A: Mucho tribute DVD
Type B: Comment DVD (I'll get back to this.)
Regular: Radio style comment CD

ZEAL LINK -

Type A: Commentary about "Shangri-la" music video Vol.1
Type B: Commentary about "Shangri-la" music video Vol.2
Regular: Commentary about "Shangri-la" music video Vol.3

Fivestars -

Type A: Live recording of A's acoustic gig @ Harmonic Hall Vol.1
Type B: Live recording of A's acoustic gig @ Harmonic Hall Vol.2
Regular: Live recording of A's acoustic gig @ Harmonic Hall Vol.3

Tower Records - (I'll get back to this as well, I want to get more info on it!)

Type A: Nimo's day (First part)  
Type B: Nimo's day  (Latter part)
Regular:

HMV -

All three editions will have different photos.

Neo Wing - (Including CDJapan!)

All three editions: Signed poster.

I'll finish filling this in & correcting errors later today. I just woke up from a 4 hour nap & I am having Japanese fail. D: I'll keep you all updated!

Hey Hearties!

A gig in France has been added to the tourschedule on july 28th in Paris! This gig will be hosted by Astan Magazin as well ^^

The schedule is now:

06.7 - Cologne, Germany / WERKSTATT
07.7 - Hamburg, Germany / HEADCRASH
08.7 - Utrecht, Netherlands / TIVOLI
27.7 - Linköping, Sweden  / TBA
28.7 - Paris, France /  Le Divan Du Monde


Source: http://www.facebook.com/SteffAstanMagazin

Hey everyone!

I have some good news for everyone attending the concert in Utrecht:
There will be 20 VIP packages available!

These packages will include a T-shirt, signed poster, meet&greet + picture with the band and early entrance to the venue.

As of yet there is no information on pricing and when they'll be on sale. I also don't know if these will be VIP tickets or upgrades, so you might want to hold off ordering your ticket until there is further information :)
Update: VIP Tickets (not upgrades, tickets) will be 45 euro! So 45 euro INCLUDING entrance to the venue.


Source:
https://www.facebook.com/SteffAstanMagazin/posts/289435761139349


On a side note, Astan Magazin will not be selling tickets for the show in Utrecht, you can get your ticket at the venue website HERE 
Importantant: It is not possible to order tickets from Tivoli with foreign bank account! I've heard some foreign hearties wanting to attend this concert, so just drop me (@gizorz) or @AceTranslations a message on twitter and we'll try to help you out!

Ahoy Hearties! ♥

This weekend many Hearties asked our dear Nimo about the interview that you all submitted questions for. Remember this? It's been a while!

Anyways, Nimo emailed me & told me, as well as on Twitter, that our exclusive interview will be coming soon! It's so exciting! I will update you as soon as I recieve it!

In other news, if you haven't heard already, we are currently working on a new website. This one has it's own domain & everything! It will be everything that axrock is but 1,000 times better! Don't worry, though! axrock will still be updated & we will still be here just as much as before! We're just branching out!

New features of the site:

Domain - We will have our own domain (custom url).
Up-time - axrock gets a lot of visiters, so much that LiveJournal seems to die everytime we post things, our new host won't die so easily so feel free to lurk as much as you want!
New crew - @Acetranslations, @shannibutterfly & gizorz have joined our crew! 
Translations - Thanks to our new lovely translators, we will have any translations you need all in one place!
Forum - A place everyone can unite, so if you don't have a LiveJournal account or if you just don't get or like LiveJournal you can still participate in discussions there! Our forum manager @shannibutterfly will be happy to show you around!
E-mail updates - You can subscribe to the new site so that way when we update it, you'll get an email!
Twitter - The new site has it's own new twitter account.
FaceBook - The site also has it's own FaceBook page for you to like.
Article archive - This will contain everything from interviews to live reports.
Everything A - We will have everything you could ever want that is about A. It'll be the ultimate fanpage!
& more! - We can't give away everything right now!

The new site will be announced sometime this week. As for now, it's a surprise! Stay tuned! ☆

So you all know by now that Rookie's blog tends to be the most interesting to read, right? Right. Everyone's ok with me starting from him once again.

( it's a bit more pics than text this time, oops )

Thanks a bunch to gizorz for helping me with my doubts~~

Ahoy Hearties! ♥

Toshi mentioned in his blog that A are in Cure Vol. 105. You can pick up a copy of the magazine at CDJapan. Go HERE to buy a copy!

Ahoy Hearties!

Rookie posted photo's from the Brand X instore the band just did. As with a lot of A's photos from lives & instores, their friend & super talented graphic designer Heloc took these awesome pictures. Check out his entry HERE.

There is also a photo of the boys from the instore on Brand-X's staff blog, HERE!

Ahoy Hearties! ♥

I'm doing my rounds right now & have noticed some changes/updates to sites that have information about A.

These are pretty minor updates but I figured that I'd let everyone know of the changes just in case anyone was interested.

Oricon Style: A's profile now has a group photo (NOTK era) & they have an updated list of the band's releases along with listings for all three Tales For The Abyss editions.

Visunavi: This change actually made me a little sad. They no longer list Mucho has a member of the band. They have also updated the group photo.

VKDB: They have an updated list of A's releases.

BARKS: Updated release info. Still no group photo!

Ahoy Hearties! ♥

A is on the cover of April's V-Splash magazine! Toshi had a picture of it in his blog! I guess that V-Splash is a little magazine that is free & is availible in record shops? I'm not sure since I've never actually read V-Splash. I'll try to get a copy of it & post it here!

HERE is V-Splash's ohp with has not been updated in what seems like forever.

V-Splash Twitter.
V-Splash ameba blog. Also has an entry about what stores/locations have the magazine.

Check out the cover at Toshi's blog!

Ahoy Hearties! ♥

I am excited to post this for you guys! 

Mucho was AWESOME enough to answer a couple questions for us. I know that I'm not the only one who misses him very much so I thought this would be an awesome thing to do with him! He is so cool for doing this! Please, do not repost elsewhere unless permission/credit is given, okay?



Q1: If you could only bring one thing while traveling, what would it be?
Mucho: Off course guitar!!

Q2: What countries would you like to travel to?
Mucho: All countries that I have never gone!

Q3: What do you think of A's upcoming Europe tour?
Mucho: It would be awesome! I guarantee it! Nimo,Toshi,Rookie is 
one of the best musician in the world!!

Q4: What is your favorite song or band at the moment?
Mucho: Ship"FRIEND OF MINE" This is the song that I recorded for the new album "Tales for the Abyss"

Q5: Do you have a message for your Hearties?
Mucho: I still miss you Hearties!! But you can meet me anytime at the new album "Tales for the Abyss". I mean you can hear my sound and feel my soul from "Tales for the Abyss"
I hope you like it!!

Gracias 州^^州


Make sure to thank Mucho for taking the time to answer these questions for us! Isn't he the best?!

As for the other interview, I still have not recived it back yet. ;~; Hopefully we will get to read that one too in the near future!

Ahoy Hearties! ♥

Today is A's second anniversary! This day, two years ago, A began. Be sure to send your good wishes to the band today!

Ahoy Hearties! 

I recieved an email from CDJapan today saying that Tales For The Abyss is up for pre-order on their site.

Type A Type B Regular

So, I checked a couple other sites for pre-orders. Here is a list of sites that have the new album up for pre-order.

Brand X

Type A Type B Regular

Amazon Japan

Type A Type B Regular

Jishuban Club

Type A Type B Regular

Tower Records

Type A Type B Regular

Zeal Link

Type A Type B Regular

Be sure to pre-order your copy soon! What copy will you be getting?! This is so exciting!

Ahoy Hearties! 

Kanzen Music has announced the 1st tour dates for A's European tour. It runs from July 6-28th.

July 6 - Hamburg, Germany
July 7 - Cologne, Germany
July 8 - Utrecht, Netherlands
July 27 - Linköping, Sweden

I'll update you when more dates are announced!

Thanks to kazukeii for letting me know!

A.K.A. Today's Tales of the Rookie
He wants us to understand what it is about and all, so he goes on Rookie-sensei mode once again.
I posted this on the Spanish twitter earlier (short version), and was going to repeat it in English here, but my internet connection decided otherwise orz.
Info down here
( cut here just in case it turns out long )

Please excuse if I sound weird, IT'S BEDTIME. Y'know.

Ahoy Hearties! ♥

For those of you who have not bought A's latest single Night Of The Knights, it is now availible through iTunes! The single is $1.38 USD for the whole single, 69 cents each song seperately! 

You can find the single on iTunes HERE!

Night Of The Knights is also availible on Amazon.jp. The single is 300yen & you can find that HERE.

A have also released WHITE ALBUM on iTunes too! The whole album costs $4.14 or 69 cents a song. You can find the album
HERE!

That's not all, you can also purchase Night Of The Knights, 夜明けのアンセム, NUDE, Black Butterfly & カナリア ringtones! Woo hoo! These are availible through iTunes & so you just open iTunes on your computer or iPhone to buy them. All of the ringtones are $1.29 each.

A link to all of A's iTunes releases is right HERE for your convienence.

Remember to support A & buy their super awesome releases!

Ahoy Hearties! ♥

A has posted the tracklisting & some other info about their new album Tales for the Abyss. The album will be released on June 6, 2012.

There will be 3 types.

Type A: Limited edition, 3,675yen, a "treasure" is included, DVD.
Type B: Same as type A but with different contents on the DVD.
Type C: Regular edition: 3,150yen, has all the songs the other two types have but there is a song before the first track & a song after the last track. Violin songs (light & dark?) & no DVD.

Tracklisting for CD (for types A&B):

1. Night Of The Knights
2. NUDE
3. 灰色の天使
4. Rhapsody in Black
5. LOVELESS
6. Abyss (Piano version)
7. Black Butterfly
8. 夜明けのアンセム
9. Shangri-la
10. Reel of Fortune (Instrumental)
11. NU WORLD
12. Ship"FRIEND OF MINE"
13. (Bonus Track)

The DVD will have (type A):

1. 夜明けのアンセム
2. NUDE
3. Black Butterfly
4. 残酷な天使のテーゼ
5. Night Of The Knights
6. Shangri-la ＋OFF SHOT

The DVD will have (type B):

1. Abyss (live recorded PV)
2. Some other acustic songs (more info later).

source

Be sure to check out THIS ENTRY for info on lives & "Tales"!

NEWS first:
These were announced at the gig
A 2nd full album release commemoration live (event organized by them, with more bands yet to be announced, by the looks of it)
「雨音の宴」 [Feast of the sound of rainfall]
2012.6.30
SHIBUYA BOXX
OPEN 16:00 / START 16:30
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A 2nd full album release commemoration One-man
「Abyss」
2012.7.1
SHIBUYA BOXX
OPEN 16:30 / START 17:00
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A(エース)2nd Full Album
「Tales for the Abyss」
2012.6.6 on sale！！<--date changed
It will include 「Abyss」 and 「灰色の天使」[ash colour angel], which are both ballads and both important to the title of the album.
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Gig things:

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All of this was from Rookie's blog btw.
Ok I *think* I haven't forgotten anything.

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Update here:


( here I said )


Ok, NOW I'm done.

Ahoy Hearties!

A will be selling some goods at their 2nd anniversary gig on April 1st. 

Here is a list of the goods:

Red towel (2,000yen)


Red stone cell phone charm (2,500yen)


Blue stone cell phone charm (2,500yen)


Night Of The Knights photoset (500yen)


2nd Anniversary gig/cosplay cheki (500yen)

Entry in a raffle for personal belongings of members (300yen an entry)