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shame, i enjoyed their album

Another illustration. I call this one zen-ith.

Finally got a Sony PS-HX500 and have been busy ripping vinyls. instagram.com/rippin.wax

Vistlip will release a best album on 2020.12.23 and will be released in two types Type Vister (2CD+DVD) & Lipper (2CD). Tracklist is the same for both types. Artwork: Vister Lipper Disc 1: 1.EDY[2020ver.] 2.偽善MASTER 3.alo[n]e[MEMENT ICEver.]　 4.LIFE[MEMENT ICEver.] 5.Legacy 6.EVE 7.Princess Dizzy[MEMENT ICEver.] 8.影鬼 9.-OZONE- 10.TWISTER[MEMENT ICEver.] 11.THEATER OF ENVY 12.FIVE BARKIN ANIMALS[MEMENT ICEver.] 13.Dead Cherry 14.CLASSIC OPERA[MEMENT ICEver.] 15.STRAWBERRY BUTTERFLY[MEMENT ICEver.] 16.NEXT Disc 2: 1.Hameln[MEMENT ICEver.] 2.想い出CG 3.SINDRA 4.chapter:ask 5.GLOSTER IMAGE[MEMENT ICEver.] 6.夜 7.HEART ch. 8.Recipe 9.Dr.Teddy 10.MONOGRAM[OVERTURE] 11.Underworld 12.Timer 13.BLACK MATRIX 14.CRACK & MARBLE CITY 15.DANCE IN THE DARK 16.July Ⅶth[Re:birth] DVD: 1. ALBUM RANKING 2. MINI ALBUM RANKING 3. SPECIAL 1. -STAFF SELECTION- COUPLING RANKING 4. SPECIAL 2. -MEMBER SELECTION- SINGLE RANKING

I suppose something great is happening soon...

emmurée has announced the release of a new maxi-single for March 2021 and the sixth album for June 2021.

Fact check the fact-checkers.

My fave V Kei band right now has done it again

I wonder if theyre gonna start over a third time now

The latest munimuni newsletter has lyrics of the new song 'Jigoku' with notes by Matenrou: ★一緒に歌おう！(美ネオソング系) 「地獄」曲：CANOU 今宵はムーンライトパーティー・・・。 誰もが死ぬ。思い出を抱いて。 横顔が刹那飛んだ。 自由と鼓動と統べる手がファンタジー。 春の門、眞夜中に。 鈍く垂れるるる河は黒の鐘。 三千世界、アンダーザムーンライト。 幻想と酒、裂ける眼に・・・。 何度でも愛が救うはずも無く。 陶酔の上で、 輪に成って遊べば。 目が眩むほどの世界だ！ 絶望に恋をする道化。 定めよ、焔を取れ！ 地獄が瞬き、星を貫く。 秘密の夜は、今も夢を見る。 ★加納から 「2020年4月「グッドラックKLE公演」用に新曲を2曲準備していたのですが、その内の一曲です。 夏の終わり頃に、サビ以外のメロディや歌詞を大幅に変えまして、 きっと歌詞は気分で変え続けるでしょう・・・。」 ================================================================== Cleaned up auto translation from deepl.com ================================================================== Sing with me! (Beautiful neosong kei) The song "Hell": CANOU Tonight is a moonlight party... Everyone dies. With memories. Their outline flew by in an instant (translation note: outline or facial profile) A fantasy is the hand that controls freedom and heartbeat. The gate of spring, at midnight. The river that hangs dully is a black bell. Three thousand worlds, under the moonlight. Fantasy and liquor, the eye that breaks. Love can't be saved over and over again. In euphoria. Play in a circle. It's a dazzling world! A clown in love with despair. Settled, take the flame! Hell twinkles and pierces the stars. Even now, I still dream of a night filled with secrets ★ From Canou. "We had two new songs prepared for the 'Good Luck KLE' show in April 2020, and this is one of them. Towards the end of the summer, we changed a lot of the melody and lyrics, except for the chorus. I'm sure he'll keep changing the lyrics to suit his mood...

It was absolutely brilliant, everything I hoped for. Didn't top Divine Error and The Purge is vocally just too strained to be enjoyable, but still, they've been killing it these last two years.

Love this mini album. May go down as my favorite release from them.

Individual shots: Kakeru (vo.) You (gt.) Rin (gt.) Shian (ba.) Yo-hey (dr.)

Honestly for this band i wish they dropped there power metal vibe on some songs. Then again thats just me nit picking this release isnt bad. Ignite i feel like its a song meant to be played live for some reason i get that vibe from that.

That's Menace you are looking for. I was so surprised they graced us with some dirty shredding again. It's a great, great track. But ye, I tend to agree, although this album feels much more "old JILUKA" if you get my point.

Lol to be honest I'm beginning to feel we have a discussion like this here monthly, only with a few different words maybe To answer the beginning question well obvious... VK bands often don't last more than 2 or 3 years, so yeah it's not like you can just go back after years and your old fav is still kicking. There is going to be at least a drummer in jail for doing drugs or fighting in a bar or hospitalized or something lol. Which brings us to it: VK is, well, usually not very gentlemanly. It's not the kind of culture you'd want to show your (japanese) kids or anything, so it's prone to not being very popular in general I guess ; and whenever it did get popular, that was because a few bands and bandomen took upon themselves to spread the word even worldwidely (which is a lot of work in itself and not one many bandomen would be up for honestly) and then they started appearing in variety shows and whatnot, which is ... what kpop stars do every single day. They wake up to plastic surgery, handcreams (trust me those feel marshmallow-y), learning english (which in itself is a bit easier for Koreans I feel due to sounds and letters ...), global marketing strategies, perfect waifu/husbando image tm and variety shows with groups they are (not so) buddy-buddy with. It's just, well, a lot of marketing. Besides, k-pop sounds all the same which is positive for it as a "culture", while calling vk a "genre" means lumping X Japan and Purple Stone in the same box. And of course, well, not everyone who likes one would like the other. Now on a more personal level I have never been a "typical visual kei fan" , as I never liked bands such as Malice Mizer / X Japan / Dir en Grey / old L'arc en Ciel / the Gazette / (insert here any ~cool~ popular vk bands), I just liked some bands I heard in anime first (particularly Nightmare but also the occasional SID/PIERROT/MUCC/abingbon boys school ...?) OR knew through friends who liked "bigger" bands and acts, (such as alice nine/Miyavi idk) which is how I first knew about visual kei while never being a "typical fan". And I guess many weeb kids are/were on the same boat lol which is why there is a lot of "turnover" ; it's not like they can go on gigs with a lot of bands so they can get to know other bands and buy cheki and live-exclusive albums and merch or anything, so yeah once their fav bands are gone (no matter how big they are/were,) they're done with it. Because, again, there is no "global marketing strategy" unlike, say, k-pop, so less accessible materials = you tend to be less obsessed about it and/or know less bands = more turnover as there is nothing to take that place (and, again, saying "if you like X Japan you may like Purple Stone lol" is ... not a thing. ) it requires a lot more effort in a sense so, unless you're reeeeeally obsessed with the whole cultural aspect of it (which is... very localized anyway,) you're prone to getting over it - and, well, the rebellious emo phase (fortunately) doesn't last forever for everyone I guess. (not saying everyone who likes vk is ANGSTY but yeah it takes an appreciation of an alternative aesthetic which is usually ... something you like when you are young ??). As for me I am definitely in that boat - I don't think I have ever considered myself a vk fan though if you ask me I'll say "oh yeah, I know it, it's ok", I've probably heard most popular bands at least and I was definitely a Nightmare fan by most standards for quite some time In short, I guess I liked vk for the rock but also for the hand elephants and Mana variety shows, in which sense kpop definitely pales in comparision but I'll still take kpop over RAHFJSNDNNRRK *guttural noises* anyway. 🙊 Edit: It's worth mentioning I got back to vk because I was bored&unemployed and my kpop faves made a MV with Golden Bomber Jun as I translated Japanese videos for the fanbase, so of course I knew everything that was going on and I was rather surprised vk in itself was Still A Thing. So in my case that was The Call Of The Bandomen and not the other way around ironically

disrespect has one of the weirdest choruses I've heard in vk in like past ten years I didn't care for their past releases but that would be one song on repeat for a while for me tbh