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the dude literally only wrote two songs (and they were credited to both him and hazuki) because hazuki constantly rejected his compositions as they talked about a few times. hazuki had almost 100% of the creative control and still does minus the handful of songs written by yusuke. and the bass was not the problem with their particularly same-y albums, in fact, akinori introduced slap bass to their repertoire which they promptly lost when he left. i love hazuki but he is 100% the problem with lynch.'s music being stale because he IS the sound of lynch....

Excuse me, but this isn't the "Best Jrock CD Cover" thread.

ROTFL the DIRU/kyo cult at it again. How much money do guys make discrediting other music. I guess cause grieva is dying and Rentrer en soi is dead so you guys been stalking the thirteen for a straw you can grab. And i stress the word "STRAW," as it seems you already know your off base here with agree that this is their main stream instrumental and their chorus but you gotta grab something right? but the way you phrase it with "maaan, I can't help but think about DEG" is straight up subjective, something your brain could have easily conjured up to keep Kyo elevated in stature. Plus going on like that, your so called "beef" is with "Mao" and you thinking about your god "Kyo." Not the bands. Furthermore you dig yourself deeper by saying "constantly trying to emulate him." "constantly?" So Mao does have his own thing and isnt "always" "emulating" kyo in his "10-year old career?" or is he always? Cause if so ima need a whole thread of Mao disco with every track and the Kyo track he is referencing. And even if what you are saying is true which im certain isnt considering how post undead 13+2 is hated and how commercial/MainstreamVK Mao's bands can get with Sadie's Redline, ever, daydream rain fall, Setsugekka (雪月花), The Gazette toying, and sadie's last album "Gangster" which continued on to be The Thirteen's Disco up to this EP, lets talk about Kyo. Are you not being a hypocrite? Kyo nor DEG is original for that matter. They copied Kuroyume, Luna Sea, BMTH, ECT. Kyo is definitely ripping of and failing at False chord which he stole from some western band along with those fry screams. Also on his Journey to be a Western Metal influence he copied their hair cut as well as fashion with the leather jackets and stuff. I would bring up marilyn manson but idk the timeline for his video's and Music VS Visual Kai's. but you get the point im trying to make with "plenty of minor details." Edit: back to the thread, if your not going to make it can you or atleast tell me if these are kyo byproducts WITH RECIEPTS PLEASE those are my fav for singing. Are you not familiar with Western music? Everything Trap, Mumble rap, all the females sounding the same and still on the charts? Anyway people need to get over sadie (The Thirteen is sadie[gangster]) wiping there asses with diru over the years and completely body them on bleach with Oboreru Sakana and Voice of pain remaster versions and not be mad the moved on to new greatness beyond upgrading like baby go for it.

Yo peeps. I wanted to talk about an issue that's very dear to my heart, and that's called planning a family, or a lack of it. Just like the title says. At my age, most women (and possibly also men) are, if not already totally at it, at least planning for their own family. You know. Husband, kids, golden retriever, stuff like that. Most women have silently agreed to have children, even if they don't particularly want them, just because society thinks they should. I stand at the other side of the whole concept: I don't want kids. Ever. I've been told ever since I was a tot that I'll change my mind and when I'm older I'll understand the need to have children. Bitch, I'm older now and still don't want any. In fact, I would gladly have my tubes tied into one hell of a knot to ever avoid even considering the idea that I might be with a child. The idea of pregnancy scares me. The idea of childbirth scares me. I don't like kids. I don't think babies are cute, not in the least. In fact, I believe children up to the age of 10 are, at best, a bore, and at worst, horrible spawns of satan I want nowhere near me. And yet, medical specialists argue I'm too young (nearing 30 here) to decide if I want kids or not, so they won't perform a sterilisation. Yo, people can decide on a sex correction surgery once they turn 18 but I'm not old enough to know I hate kids and don't want any. And I'm not saying this to mock anyone or say that transgender people shouldn't have the option to do that, but just that both are a part of body autonomy that I think one should have the right to rule over after a certain age. Are there other people who feel the same way as I do? Ladies and gents who just don't want kids, no matter what? Or people who want them but can't have them? Tell me your thoughts and give us some peer support.

zin's new band sounds great

Jumping in to say Deathgaze did it first on Enigma! This song is now 100% derivative XD

me every fucking day and sometimes

Are we really getting hype over some cowbell?

title track + MV is out! i heard about the cowbell from some japanese gya who heard it on the radio but it's still kind of surreal to hear lmao

Doll$boxx, the supergroup consisting of former Light Bringer singer Fuki and the baka girls of Gacharic Spin announced a 5 song EP for release on 11/18 Title: "High $pec" Details: 1. Shout Down 2. Sub-liminal 3. HERO 4. 世界はきっと愛を知ってるんだ 5. Dragonet 【初回限定盤(CD+DVD)】 ￥2,593+税（税込￥2,800） / VIZL-1240 [DVD収録内容] “Dragonet” Music Video　　 “Shout Down” Lecture Movie 【通常盤(CD)】 ￥1,667＋税（税込￥1,800） / VICL-64850 Covers: And a very gothic look for the girls. Seems strange on Tomo and Reona.

Hey there everyone! I'm pretty new to the forum sorta, I've lurked for years (lots of years haha) just keeping up to date with reviews for some of my favourite bands. I don't have the most uppity of tastes (SCREW used to be my favourite band haha) but that doesn't mean I don't appreciate quality. I'm currently hugely into bands like abstracts and (Yo can I get a shout out for Ryouga and RAZOR tho) the djent scene, though I do appreciate a lot of metalcore. I also listen to J-Rap but KOHH mostly so please introduce me to some more. I took a year of Japanese during my Biochem Degree and pretty much use podcasts/music to try and learn more and more. I'm not a huge manga reader but I read the mainstream ones (hence Kuki Urie profile pic). I lived in Hiroshima for a month as an exchange student and am planning on making use of the Japan-Canada holiday work visa to go see some shows next year. (All my favourite bands keep disbanding eg. HaKu, BORN, 7Years To Midnight, Story of Hope #fml) I recently discovered I have bipolar disorder so if anyone ever wants to chat about mental health, I'm definitely down for a convo. I play guitar, some covers might find their way on to Youtube, but I think that's all I've got for now. If anyone can point me in the direction of the 外国人 currently living in Japan part of the forum I have a few questions there, mainly where's the best place to be situated if I wanna go to metal shows every weekend while I'm there haha. Stoked to be part of this forum. Ciao. P.S if there's a how to guide on how to create an image or gif signature someone pls tell me. thx

More to come yesterday was amazing, yet again. Setlist was really cool. Seriously, go see MERRY at least once in your life. [human farm], T.O.P, バイオハレ、ジャパモダ、窓 (yea‼️）、躊躇いシャッフル (！！！)。And we got 2 extra songs because the crowd didn’t stop singing. We got Happy life and F.J.P twice. Which was cool because ガラ had technical problems with his mic during the first Happy life. He also forgot the lyrics to MASS CONTROL ( at 奈良, he forgot エムオロギー). Adorable. And MERRY’s fan base is friendly as fuck! Holy shit, those girls are amazing. now, I’m off to Tokyo to catch them again with BAROQUE (yeahhh!!)

Mix & Mastering by Яyo Trackmaker(ex.girugamesh). That's why the sound is so awesome! <3

still finding the Egg on title nashi the best cover ever

Their drawing skills improved. From their Alien doodle on Saikou no Shokutaku to this lol I love it

Nice song, finally something "new". Not really new cause it's influenced by their THE BURIED era (whispers remind me unkown lost a beauty + they remake the whirl, not a coincidence) but compared to SINNERS and particullary TRIGGER, it's fresh !! The MV is very nice to see, also fresh things from lynch. Gz guys !

I also thought the same X'D

Here's some old Miya caps I had for a mood theme a while back. The king of silently judging you.

I understabnd you 100 %. I can't even tell you how much.

Covers for both versions are the same thoughts on this masterpiece ?? lol

When "This video contains content from (Insert record label here) it is not available in your country"

I'm loving this topic already lol when the teacher gives us a programming project to do and I don't know how to do half of that shit me trying to figure out why in the heavens doesn't my code work when it's lunch break and I see what our student restaurant has to offer me when it's finally friday

Another mood. I would have to say this is my mood almost all the time. Idk what it is, but yea.

(From Diaura FC Chile on Facebook) Whenever someone gets a bit too edgy, and you can't help but be disgusted

Tracklist: Limited Edition (CD＋DVD) DSI-010／￥1,980(+tax) [CD] 1.光 2.I Be 3.鑰孔の続 -ｶｷﾞｱﾅﾉｿﾞｸ- [DVD] 1.光 MV 2.光 MV Making 3.Oneman Tour 2017「一石を投じる」Document Regular Edition DSI-011／￥1,500(+tax) [CD] 1.光 2.I Be 3.鑰孔の続 -ｶｷﾞｱﾅﾉｿﾞｸ-

Gotta deal with it man, since he was an official member in 2010, and contributed to the band, lynch. sounds becoming so stagnant and basic. So, friend or not, losing Aki could be a good thing for them as a band. At least for me. Life goes on, you know?

I've never wanted to have children, the magical "changing my mind when I'm older" didn't happen. Soon I'll be 30 and still don't want any, I don't even have any desire to be in a romantic relationship, I wish I could just share an apartment with single and childless friends (ideally, nerds and rock music fans ;p) until I die, lol. The whole idea of having to have sex with someone in order to live a normalized, adult life and sharing things together is repulsive to me, as well. I'm not sure if I want to have it, looking at stuff online is ok, but I've never slept with any man and with women it was a bit blah. So, definitely no pregnancy. It grosses me out, as well. It's nothing cute or the reason to be happy, I don't get the whole thing about it. Children are like little aliens to me, I'm the youngest in my family and I've never been around these spawns of Satan for a longer time, I have no instruction manual for them, I can't afford having them, when I'm around one I can be nice and polite, but I would rather prefer my peace. Unfortunately, other people rarely want to accept my opinion and decisions, unless they're around the same age or younger. I still hear things like "you'll change your mind" or "when you're old there will be no one to offer you a glass of water", and my own mother's favorite son is of course the one, who produced a little human pet for her to play with. The other two children didn't give her what she wanted, so they're worth less... :/ I don't discriminate people, who want to have children, they should have them... but in my culture I'm probably seen as an broken human being, because the family values are strong. I'm feeling lost and I don't know how I'll live my life later, I don't want to be alone with everything and misunderstood by everyone... because the older I am the less childless people with fun personalities and interests are around, so many people turn into boring adults with families, it really scares me.

The best joke would be if this is actually the gag look and the next one has him back on the tricycle with the pacifier in his mouth.

Another good song

I love these guys. What a fucking show today at 奈良NEVERLAND. ガラ and ネロ are just too fucking cool. 結生 is just the sweetest dude ever. And there’s more to come. See you tomorrow, guys.

^now that's what i'd like to hear. they need to do some ballads. also, nico nico complex is the first song of theirs that i actually like. hope they keep this up~

This TV show sounds interesting I hope will have subs for understand more some parts, I'm not really surprised at Kiryuin Sho knowledge of this subject. When they talked about the 10's I'm ok with them about the trio Nightmare/SiD/The GazettE , I can understand why they add An Cafe on theirs list but the the presence of SuG leaves me perplexed even if they did op/ed anime they never had the same boom and popularity like An Cafe had or Nightmare/SiD/The GazettE

that golden bomber person is on every other recent collab/cover album too well... golden bomber happened. I appreciate the humblebraggedness of her appearance tho.

Asagi, First of Her name. Mother of Dragons. Breaker of Chains. The Unburnt. Queen of The Andals. Lady Regnant of The Seven Kingdoms. Protector of The Realm. Queen of Mereen. Khaleesi of The Great Grass Sea

NIGHTMARE- To be or not to be: That is the question tour final 2014 at Tokyo International Forum hall A Limited Edition DVD+CD Vib Ribbon - PlayStation 1(Largely music based game and I believe you can play the soundtrack so it's music related I guess) Merveilles - Malice Mizer. I like 'Au Revoir' so I thought I'd invest xD

BUCK-TICK is the only band I've enjoyed their entire career's discography. Sometimes what they release as of late doesn't appeal to me right away, but I usually go back to it later and like it a lot. They still goin', goin'. I was really pleasantly surprised with Plastic Tree's last single. I wouldn't say they ever lost their spark, because honestly I really don't like some of their earlier work or some of their most popular songs.. aha. But I love them as a whole.

That was a long, long time ago though.

First of all: second "vk sucks nowadays"-topic of the year? You already have one from earlier this year. Anyway, try out other bands as well, there's tons of great bands in the scene. It's pretty common that bands who keep going for 10-20 years don't put out the same quality as they did when they were younger, even outside of VK.

gotta give props to that vocalist guy for at least being consistent - copying Kyo for 12 years straight is no joke! also this is such a mess that even their promo video has wrong info:

Deadman, PIERROT, Laputa, Malice Mizer, The ROMEO... Especially The ROMEO because their lives were really fun and I haven't found a lot of people doing their style of music. SiXX is kind of like the softer incarnation of them, but not quite the same.

Based on the oneman tours D'espairsRay could do before their first disbandment, I think it's fairly safe to say they had a decently large fanbase in Japan. Also, as for being the target of dislike overseas, I'm not sure if we were in different circles or what but I distinctly remember them being quite hyped from an early stage, just the fact that they were one of the earliest bands to come to Europe back in 2004 should be proof that they received popularity fairly early here, the shows sold very well too. I think bangya circles are kind of misleading often as well, because most people have one or at most two bands they hardcore follow and don't usually care much for other bands, so you can often end up thinking that it's representative of the VK fanbase as a whole. Sort of like how overseas VK fans have no idea who GLAY is since they don't have any fans, but in Japan they're one of the biggest VK bands around. It becomes a closed group culture of sorts, just like there are bands that are/were hyped on here that had next to no following in Japan.

I still like D'epsairsRay. I think everything before Mirror is great, and about half of Mirror is amazing as well. The rest is boring as fuck. However, after Mirror they only have one song I like and that is Love is Dead, a long I disliked, loathed, hated and so fucking on to begin with. But in time it's grown on me a lot.

Not entirely sure if this is an unpopular opinion, but I'm pretty sure it is: I really like cali≠gari's 11, maybe more than 12. I still haven't heard 10, but I don't think I'll like it as much as 11.

Same. I'll maintain that 420 was their peak and I think it's a very aesthetically consistent record that stands out from the rest of their discography. I was always hoping they'd have another go at a full length that isn't just a stack of singles. Now I'm heavily leaning on going to Japan for most of the tour. Got my hitchhiking guides read and my 10 euro a night lodgings bookmarked.

Well, Rozz Williams (Christian Death) kinda did something similar back in the 80s/early 90s But this might just be a coincidence. Rozz had some sort of influence on VK though. I think there was an interview of Baiser's Yukari where he stated that he was very much into Alien Sex Fiend and Christian Death and some of VKs root sound and looks can be traced back to deathrock music and fashion. But Kiyoharu, Kon and Co. might have also come up with that stuff all by themselves.