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no one outside of 5 foreign fans care about this meme debacle it had literally nothing to do with anything ps his english is clearly not good i dont think he was trying to say anything about ryuya

Summary: I'm an edgelord who bullies underage fans but I don't want to admit it, so I'm making a fake apology to make myself seem noble, but leaving out the fact that I bullied underage fans. Oh also, I'm shit at marketing and likes to address fans as "Motherfuckers" like I'm some sailor. But I also won't admit that, because I want to look like the victim, because I'm probably clinically a narcissist.

Translated Issei's comment bc it's rife for drama

So, um, I crossdressed some days ago.

LMAO. this pleases me

Yo I've been looking for this deadman CD forEVER. girugamesh - Kuukyo no Utsuwa (first press +signed by all members) deadman - no alternative (mail order edition) Screw - Venom Screw - Virus

i use r/Animewallpaper for all of my needs.

@AimiGen7 @emmny I understand there's a lot of hoopla with Issei's behavior, but don't resort to personal attacks on each other please. Save the dragging for Issei lol, ie. stay on topic

I was reading that part all wrong. He's pointing out that he wasn't nice to members of the band/staff (and fans) and he couldn't grow as an artist BECAUSE of the band. Not in-leu of the band. AKA: they kicked him out, but since he's the leader, he can't say it that way.

OH THAT ISSEI GUY?? Good, good riddance to that prick.... ...wait, isn't he the leader tho? cuz that's what i've been hearing from various ppl

From what I can gather, he got surgery(?) and hopes to return to the stage soon. A tweet from the band's twitter also seems to say that they'll be with four members next live(?) which is on the 10th.

My gf and I are fueling each other's Jiluka obession up to dangerous levels. send help

I feel bad for D's Orokashii Yuu no Yume PV. It's a gorgeous PV in 480p. LOL

I punched the computer monitor

Tracklist: 1. 蛙-Kawazu- 2. ラブソング 3. ELISE (Type-A only) 4. 十五 (Type-B only) ｜Prosaic, but with potential Should a band be held accountable for not living up to hype created by fans before they’ve released a single note of music or even revealed their identities? That’s the question I pondered as I listened to キズ (Kizu's) second, and newest, maxi-single 蛙-Kawazu-. The conjecture surrounding Kizu started near the beginning of this year when a red and black flier was handed out at VK venues with precious little information other than the name of the band, details of their first show, and a phone number prominently displayed. Callers of the phone number were greeted by a recording informing them that the band would listen to “your pain, your worries, displeasure, and anxiety”. All VK fans had to work with was a new, mysterious, melodramatic, emo as hell band that had left no direct clues about the members’ identities; not even a group shot in silhouette or with the faces obscured by masks! The biggest clue being that the other bands performing at Kizu's first show (DOGinthePWO, Unite) were popular bands in the scene, so this new band must be made up of people with connections… probably from playing in bands with some success themselves. This wasn’t a bunch of newbies who would be unknown whether or not their names and faces were public knowledge! Little by little more info leaked out of the Kizu camp (the vocalist of the band would actually answer calls to their number, more fliers with references to despair and scars and blood and loneliness) but still no one was quite sure who was in this new band. Theories about vocalists from all sorts of recently disbanded acts were entertained. One that gained traction that I hoped would turn out to be true was that this was Karma from Avelcain’s new band. The signs were all there: Karma is the queen of teen-angst-zetsubou and these promotional materials for Kizu had that in spades. When it was finally revealed that the vocalist was Lime previously of Lezard there was a collective “not bad… but I wish it had been *insert my favorite vocalist who isn’t in a band right now*”. By the time their first (extremely energetic and polished) PV came out many people had already come down from their speculative excitement. With all that being said, what about the actual songs? The music is not the backdrop for despair that their promo fliers would imply, which is a blessing because Lime is a capable vocalist but it’s hard to imagine him pretending to cut his wrists or mumbling to himself trying to quiet the demons in his head. In fact, the least worthwhile parts of this maxi-single come when Lime tries to showcase his harsh vocals. Too much of "ラブソング (Love Song)" is marred by Lime trying to contort his voice into shapes it just wasn’t meant to fit into. He’s much better highlighting his slightly staccato, higher range such as in the otherwise rather moribund "十五 (Juugo)". Kizu is at their best playing the frenetic, vaguely djent-inspired fast-paced VK you can hear in the title track "蛙-Kawazu-" or after the jarring Beethoven intro homage has ended in "Elise". When the big riffs and digital effects combine into some bouncy, undeniably fun rock'n'roll you can see why Kizu have scheduled a second oneman live at Tsutaya O-West less than a year from their formation and having released only two singles. Ultimately, I'd place my bets on the slightly brasher Razor or the even more scatter-brained Lack-co to be the 'winners' of these djent-kei experiments, but if Kizu can continue to channel the relentless energy of the performances in their PVs (shoutout to them for the throwback 'VK band in the woods' video) into their live shows and releases they should be able to make a name for themselves in the crowded and often staid VK landscape. Support the band: CDJapan

Thank you for letting me know

Waiting for the drummer to reform HATED any day now.

You're not the only one.. A lot of people seem to forget them Luckily there are still a few people left! This was already announced a few days before I posted it but I didn't had time top update here ^^;

well...this pleases me as well.Sho and Ryuya are the only ones who matters to me now i didn't like the production of DIMLIM at all,but the vocals were amazing hope they can make something different from their past releases and still keep it heavy (would be nice if Ryo trackmaker help them out like he did with deviloof)

Munich setlist 01. THE DAWN DEEP DOPE 02. Devil parade 03. Asprin 04. Selfish Russian 05. NECRO 06. Inside Decay 07. Everlasting 08. もしも黒い翼が生えたなら -ANGEL ver.- 09. DEVIL DEMENSION 10. BRAINPINK.AD 11. RIP 12. Underworld En 13. KILLING MYSELF 14. PARADIGM XISS 15. SUPERSTAR 16. XISS IN THE DARK

I hope they won't disband.... they're one of the most promising bands lately.

So, they getting rid of kusomen jr.?? Does it mean now there won't be a death penalty??????

tsubasa was a good bassist so im sad about this and issei's compositions were good...this a NO NO i wonder whether they'll become more or less visual, tbh issei's simple drumming was holding them back but tsubasa's bass work added that toshiya-style complexity and made them like....new DEG kohai band potential. interesting shake up overall

Thanks It was a lolita outfit day, so i went full kurololi lmao

@ghostGreat pickups! No alternative is, of course, a classic. I rather enjoyed those Screw eps back in the day, but holy crap that cover art is laughably bad.

heeeey cool stuff!! where did you study 3D game art, if you don't mind me asking? i've been thinking a lot about studying game art/design and am planning to attend an art university next year~ i already have a place in mind but just wanna know where you went. ^^ anyway, these look really great! have you been continuing any of these recently? i'd love to see more!

I wish he'd tattoo them on already 💦💦

you wont get it until you do them on yourself and see just how much slimmer and sexier ur neck chin and jaw look...can't believe ruki invented contouring

This incident was out of both Kinetic Vibe and V STAR PROMOTIONS hands, as we both had nothing to do with the control of electricity for the convention. the electricity went out around the whole area, the staff of the convention worked hard to restore electricity, but it is unfortunate that because of this the remainder of MORRIGAN’s set needed to be canceled. We greatly appreciate the honor to perform at Lucca Comic and Games, however at a large outdoor convention concert, things like this our out of our control. the remainder of the stops are in live houses organized by Kinetic Vibe, so we will not have the same issue again.

The weird part is that there was several unreleased Black:List songs that probably were recorded in some form or another... why not release those instead of pumping out the same three tracks over and over?

also @ZeusComing here to set the facts about Dir en grey straight: This is incorrect, Setsuna was a WIP project song by Dir en grey that developed over the course of 1997 (starting out as 5 minutes and evolving into a nearly 7 minute track) until finally being scrapped in the first half of 1998 for reasons unknown. Whether Setsuna was an official title or one given to it by fans is still subject to speculation. "Ai Murasaki Iro" Is in fact pronounced "Ranshishoku" based on a newspaper interview which I scanned and upped some year ago from a indie magazine made in early 1998. I know this due to the fact that the name was written out in katakana. It's the onyomi pronunciation of the same kanji. They played this song at every oneman live starting from August 1997 until their last indies live at the Budokan, after which it was scrapped due to poor audience response, supposedly. They had another unreleased longer track that they played throughout the second half of 1997 and on and off into early 1998 which then subsequently disappeared as well. No known title for this track. There was an early version of Mazohyst of Decadence played from 1997 which differed slightly. raison detre had a early quite different version which premiered at their oneman tour in late 1997 and evolved into it's current form during 1998. ZAN is also one of the earliest songs they wrote, and it was played from their first tour in april 1997 and onwards in various stages of evolution until it arrived at the GAUZE form in late 1998. Tsumi to Batsu was also performed during their last indies tour in a slightly different format. They also premiered two new songs at the DUM SPIRO SPERO and Kisou part of the recent tour respectively which haven't been mentioned or played since. I could go on but I think that'll do for now.

One of the elderly bandsmen I deeply respect told me recently, that he felt quite uncomfortable when he saw western bands trying to be visual kei. It makes him feel like the japanese visual kei is ダサい too. Well, sometimes it really is.

so you had an opportunity to ask for his opinion on the developing north korea nuclear crisis and its relation to the everyday lives of japanese people, but went for validation of die/may existence from the mouth of VK godmother herself? may your patreon always prosper, x.

THE BEST -LICHT- 1. Testament 2. Rise to Heaven 3. Profane gene 4. Current 5. lapis lazuli 6. GENEUINE -Recurrence- 7. transient 8. Emergence of Silence 9. Fleeting Beauty 10. HYPNOS -LICHT MIX-（arranged by Közi） 11. PREDICT -Rosen Clarion- 12. Perfect Garden -SK0520MIX- 13. New vogue children 14. Last Hallucination 15. Haven（新曲） THE BEST -DUNKELHEIT- 1. Blazing Darkness 2. Release me 3. Addictive Epicurean 4. Queen of Decadence 5. Lilith 6. the alternation of generations-expire- 7. Corroded cage 8. fester love 9. COCOON -Fallen- 10. CREEPER 11. Sleeping Madness 12. Syphilis and Disorder 13. Succubus -2014- 14. Apocalypse -eclipse ring-（新曲） 15. SIRIUS -DUNKELHEIT MIX-（arranged by Közi）

oh hey, someone mentioned ナイトメア on here and i get to be relevant again~ i'm taking a guess and assuming your copy of ジャイアニズム is the 2006 VAP remaster, which in my opinion sounds absolutely terrible. 通常版 is two jewel cases w/ tan booklets (& separate catalog #s) [VPCC-84156 & VPCC-84157] 初回版 is one jewel case w/ the same tan-coloured booklet in a black jacket w/ gold trim [VPCC-84155] They're the same audio/tracklist, only difference afaik is packaging & booklet contents. i don't know why they thought this was a good idea but this release was remastered to have a similar sound quality to メア's upcoming VAP albums, which i really don't think these songs sound nice with. i'm not 100% on where this PV actually comes from but i'm taking a guess & saying it was included w/ the first press of 自由奔放天真爛漫 [SDR-021], since that's the first release where the track shows up. So as far as getting the ~exact same~ audio that's on the PV, check out that disc. One thing you might want to look into is the 2003 Speed Disk 'original' ジャイアニズム [SDR-049 & SDR-050] (only 1 ver. of release across two jewel cases). I say 'original' bc every track that's on this disc is ALSO a remaster (except for 華談 & love tripper; they're new recordings here) but imho this master is miles better for every single track, compared to both their first appearances on various speed disk singles/omnibus and any later remaster/retakes. I'm a bit biased here but this is definitely my favourite release of メア's catalog, if you call it one release. I think the sound guy took every instrument's track & slammed a hard compressor on it & drowned Yomi's voice in a stupid amount of reverb, putting it kinda low down in the mix. Both the kind of decisions that should ruin a release but somehow it worked super well here, which is why i'm so pissed the later release went for such a 'normal' approach instead.

Takashi Miike live-action adaption of Blade of the Immortal looks so fucking sweet. Miike is the perfect director of a film like this too, as he's gonna make the entire film a big, fucking bloodbath. Can't wait!

ruki probably hates all their music on the dl and just wants to do trap and sell ripoff merch

Fuck this album was trashed by people back in the day, and now it's pretty much entirely forgotten about; all the while I thought it was great pretty much from day one and still spin it on occasion. The aesthetics have this sort of ill-dated charm to them now too.

KAMIJO has never changed though.

For me, it's the entire DIR EN GREY band members. DIR EN GREY in 1997 and nowadays are like complete different bands in every aspect.

Because he was mizerable.

Sui (Ghost Phobia ➡ Metis Gretel ➡ Megaromania ➡ lin ➡ David)

That project is finally finished. It was hell putting it together in Unreal Engine 4 and it's not my best work at all, but I'm happy that I managed to complete it and the outcome isn't as bad as it could've been. I'll be working on it as a personal project now in my spare time.

If Malice Mizer revived I think that would be such an awaited announcement that the band could not ignore a world tour. They are like our Spice Girls.

I was diagnosed with Charcot Marie Tooth (CMT) at 18 months old. CMT is a degenerative neuromuscular dirorder that effects the myelin sheath around the nerves. Motor signals don't get sent as well to the muscles, it bt becomes harder to use them, and eventually you forget what it was ever like to use them. CMT gets progressively worse and starts at the fingers and toes and works its way up over the years. I still have some function in my shoulders, hips, neck, and torso, but I can't use any muscles in my legs or arms. Things my specific type of CMT affects (We think it's all related) My vocal chords are partially paralyzed, so my voice sounds like the bastard lovechild of Gollum and Darth Vader. My eyeballs are broke. My vision without glasses is about 20/300 without glasses, 20/100 with. I'm legally blind. My diaphragm is slightly weaken, so I can't breathe in or out as strongly and pretty bad stress, anxiety, and depression from all this and knowing it's going to get worse. The cool ways I adapt and cope I use the tip of my nose to use phones/tablets/anything with a touchscreen. It works really well (especially since I have to be that close to see the screen anyways), and I use a toothbrush in my mouth to type on a regular computer. Playing video games is fun, and I play Overwatch a lot with @Zeus I sit on the floor in front of the monitor, use a mouse on the floor on my right (moving and clicking buttons with my palm), an xbox controller on the floor in front of me (using the left joystick to move/click in for an ability), and the toothbrush keyboard method to type/hit keys for abilities etc. I try to deal with all the anxiety and depression by throwing myself into working on RarezHut. I know I must seem to a lot of people that I only use MH to mostly promote RarezHut, but constantly working is how I stat (mostly) sane. I wouldn't be here today if it wasn't for @Biopanda though. He works as my caregiver, co-owner of RarezHut, and my best friend in the world. We've been roommates and he's been helping me since 2008, and I'm surprised we haven't killed eachother yet since we see eachother every day all day. Every day he helps me get dressed, eat meals, take a shower, even as simple as grabbing something from across the room. Panda has been there at my darkest moments when the weight of everything and the knowledge that there is no light at the end of the tunnel causes me to just collapse into a quivering mess of tears.

Is this really Sakrun? Sounds to me like solid vk speed metal. Is this their early song? Was it recorded on a demo? Any help is appreciated, thanks in advance. =D

Yes, this is very early SAKRUN. According to the description it's their initial line-up. I think the uploader of the video is actually their first bassist SHINGO. https://twitter.com/no_shingo Well, the video title says ディパーチャ so I'd say it's the songtitle? They had a demotape in the early days called 媚薬. I don't know the tracklist but maybe that song is on it as well.