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In what I hope will be an end of year tradition for years to come; here's my second annual countdown of 10 noteworthy VK looks. Some good, some bad, some ugly; all likely to elicit some sort of reaction. Let's celebrate the "Visual" in Visual Kei! Obviously there are a lot of good ones I missed, so I encourage you to add the looks you think should be on the list in the comments below! Thanks to the ORZ team for helping with the list, and especially to @platyand @suji for contributing ideas that I shamelessly stole. ナタリー (Natalie) Guitarist める(Mel) La'veil MizeriA マルコ (Marco) D R指定 (R-Shitei) Psycho Le Cému - then and now 0.1gの誤算 (0.1g no gosan) Linaria Dezert Mejibray vocalist Tsuzuku and Lack-co drummer Higiri

Their new single (title unknown) will be released on 2018.04.25. (1620 yen).

According to Micaiah's most recent post (https://www.facebook.com/micaiah.hosokawa), the recordings of a "3rd CD" will begin soon, for the spring of 2018. Hopefully it will come true. Band FB.

TMOAB is so underrated. I loved the visceral and violent production and there were a lot of killer riffs on a good deal of songs like Grief, Disabled Complexes, Rotting Root, and Repetition of Hatred. It's nothing special, but I don't think it's as bad as people discredit it. And I don't care what anyone says, Agitated Screams of Maggots is a jam.

I love how WTD lands a rolling stone japan top-100 rock albums feature, but u step into a Dir en grey thread and suddenly the Koons is western fan opinions

TicketCamp announced earlier this month that it was momentarily suspending its service, but in its latest update today, it says the service will close permanently on May 31, 2018. Until their suspension, TicketCamp was by far the most popular service for buying or reselling tickets, especially for VK and other music concerts. The decision seems to be a result of its recent legal troubles, assumably in light of its recent inaction toward cracking down on ticket scalping. I’ve personally been a TicketCamp user for a few years now and until now often bought/sold tickets on it. When first I signed up the rules clearly stated that the site was for personal resell/purchase only, and I felt like (at least for the bands I was reselling/buying for at the time), they were doing a adequate job of weeding out scalpers and other suspicious sellers. But with each passing year, it seemed like they were getting lazier and less was being done about it, to the point that most of the tickets I bought through their app this year arrived from ticket reselling companies (scalpers) in Tokyo. And as you can see in the tweet above, it was really getting out of hand. So I guess while not surprising news, until a new outlet (or old outlet like Yahoo!Auctions, etc.) (re)surfaces, it might be harder to resell or purchase tickets, especially for people overseas. In the meantime, if you are looking for tickets to a show and can’t buy thru Lawson, Pia, or eplus, try Twitter, MerCari (Japanese ver.), or Yahoo!Auctions. I’d link the actual news announcement but I can only see it in app on my phone atm. I did a quick search and didn’t see anything about it, but apologies in advance if there is already a thread for it.

This list cracked me up. Nice work, there are definitely looks that deserve to be discussed. Maybe some of these bands should have had discussions about them beforehand. As for the poll, I put kinda. I will listen to a band with crappy looks if I like the music, and likewise, I don't care how nice their look is, if the music is shit, I'm out. Too many bands put way too much effort into their image to make up for the fact they can't play their instruments, and I hate that the scene has pretty much become a catch-all for subpar musicians like that.

literally everything about hatsune miku is awful anyway, but that design looks like rejected megaman battle network concept art lmao

Because of vkdb will be on a break for a while, and it's almost at the end of the year, I decided to get back to my new / disband list. -> check here: https://vkeikonkon.wordpress.com/ Between April and August, you will find nothing is lised there, BUT in the spoiler you will find the bandnames, who disbanded, went on a break and of course the new bands. 2017 comes to an end, and since we don't remember every band(name), I hope it will help some people to remember. If you think, I forgot an (important) band/project, then please drop a message. As for 2018, I try to keep up the list on vkeikonkon, DISBANDMENT / BREAK NEW / START __________________________ In 2017, we had a bunch of bands, who did start and who did disband in the same year, also we had some shocking disbands, also some nice bands did return. Of course also some nice new bands did start. The last few months, much more bands decided to disband, while it was about until August that disbandment and starting new was almost the same amount. I'm looking forward to 2018. And if someone has too much time, I would be glad if someone could finish a full list like in the spoilers just to put in here.

I like Dezert's look i tend to like R-shitei's looks, although shoujosoushitsu's remains my favorite Didn't pay too much attention to VK this year but I liked Arlequin's Makkana Uso

hol up, did they use the fucking Unraveling version of The Final in that trailer instead of the 'classic' version? rip in piss boys.......

Agreed. I appreciated TicketCamp’s buyer protection and their easy to use templates for people not used to buying/selling tix. Twitter is harder because other users may not sell to you if you’re not in their FFs or a regular enough fan. Or if you’re like me and basically use Twitter to trade/buy/sell, it’s easy to miss a good opportunity not being on it 24/7. Like I dunno I hate scalping and all, but scalpers are like cockroaches and they always find another platform to take advantage of other people on, so imho in the grand scheme of things shutting the site down does very little to address the actual problem.

SPEEERRRG ANNNNNND SPEEEEEEEERRRRGGGGGGG

THIS is /degthread's christmas gift you've all been SHIT this year and the band hates us all this is proof.

well this was unexpected, lol The re-erecording of Fukai sounds pretty good

Band Members : (From left to right) Drum / Boss : Issei (ex: D.I.D.) twitter Bass : Tsubasa twitter Vocal : Sho (I really hope Sho can have his own Twitter lol) Guitar : Ryuya (ex: Deviloof) twitter Guitar : Retsu twitter Discography : (2017.06.03) Mini-Album : VARIOUS 会場限定盤 (2017.08.23) Mini-Album : VARIOUS 通常盤 (2017.08.23) Mini-Album : VARIOUS 初回限定盤 (2017.10.21) Live-Dist. : 記憶、紺碧の微笑み (2017.12.27) 1st Single : THE SILENT SONG DIMLIM - アハレワタ PV : OHP Official Twitter

GE+IM 1st LIVE DVD "罪と罰のステロイド-転生編-" will be released. Live concert of 2017/06/14 in Ikebukuro EDGE. Order reception period 2017/12/26 to 2018/01/10. Scheduled shipping date 2018/01/15. (limited 100 copies) (4,000 yen) http://drugstoresql.cart.fc2.com/ca0/21/p-r-s/ According to your ameblo account the list of songs of that date is this, I do not know if all the songs will be included in the DVD. SET-LIST 2016/06/14 Ikebukuro EDGE: 1.結合症オーバードーズ 2.Infection 3.致死量パラドックス 4.Medi-Go-Round 5.XとYの後遺症 6.Strawberry[Coma] 7.Calling 8.罪と罰のステロイド 9.死二躰サドマゾ症候群 10.面会謝絶 11.Undermine 12.暗殺病棟 13.解剖イデオロギー 14.「右手にメス」を「左手に絶望」を Encore 15.診断オペリズム 16.患者サンコチラ、手ノ鳴ル方へ 17.ドラスティック-STU-

Finally a PV! Btw, have a new component?

My family and I only buy gifts for the children these days, as we can buy our own crap haha. With that said, I went ahead and upgraded my audio equipment to something more modern. I also ordered the Sennheiser HD6XX and the HD58X from Massdrop, but those won't arrive until March-June haha.

I just picked up Horizon Zero Dawn to add to the ever growing backlog...

I voted for "visual is in the name". While the music definitely is what makes me like a band or not, a cool look adds an aura that I like. When you've been into vk for a while you can also sense if you will like a band who haven't released anything yet just by their looks, which I guess is both good and bad. That being said, outside of vk I do not care about how a band or an artist looks. The list itself self was also cool. I like that la'veil mizeria is there, we definitely need more matina-esque bands, both in terms of looks and music. Also Karasuna Mei from Kuroyuri to kage in a bloody garbage bag needs to be mentioned as well.

What's with this trailer? XD

... no thank you.

like Nightmare has the talent...

I love a good bag! I like to travel a lot and a sturdy and stylish bag is always icing on the cake. Your haul sounds fantastic! I am glad you received things you can not only enjoy, but things that are functional and long lasting.

My poor poor backlog....

can't wait for gazette to come up with their own rip-offs auditory interpretations of so sad and piece of a broken heart!!! coming as soon as next springu!!! #hypedT

Tracklist : 1.カレイドスコープ(instrumental) 2.揺れる傘、廻る歯車(collaboration song) 3.whisper(More / new song) 4.WALK(umbrella / new song) 5.LoV(More / umbrella cover song) 6.The Hanged Man(umbrella / More cover song)

and i thought most of the people on here think i have some of the worst music taste... *i'm feeling honered XD *

I think we are talking about the same magazine. It had the same name and most of the interviews were from when bands toured in Germany and I think our ghetto people here just translated every number of the magazine and would sell it like that XD. Maybe that's why they stopped releasing it at one point /copyright got to them eventually XD/.

their mini-album "SENKOU超" (SENKOU Chou) will be released at their oneman live "PKPKの1年生" at 2018/05/05 at TSUTAYA O-WEST (2500yen) [tracklist] M1.SENKOU M2.Trick×Trap M3.MONSTER M4.EDGY M5.MELODY M6.テバナシライダー (Tebanashi Rider) M7.『みなさんが静かになるまで3分かかりました。』 (Minasan ga Shizuka ni naru made 3-bu Kakarimashita.)

BABYMETAL should to Tsumi to Batsu (New Ver.) tbh

VAN9ISH - 君が消えた街 DAYDALA - EMOTION La'veil MizeriA - 悲哀囀ル調ベ

I am in love <3

holding my hopes up for a SERAPH cover of Agitated Screams of Maggots

But not necessarily a good Dir en grey song.

My dude, turn on your location again. I just wanna talk and clear this out in person. Turn on your location as well and get ready to TOOT DAT ASS UP.

In commemoration of their indie days

Oh dear, fuck me sideways. This is just too good. Old school sounding dungeon synth in the way of early Mortiis. So good!

真天地開闢集団-ジグザグ - 糞麺氏ね てんさい。- センパイの彼女 DIMLIM - VARIOUS (limited ed.) チャイルドプレイ - 放課後デスゲーム KRAD - SKELET Sooo happy I could get my hand on a チャイルドプレイ release!

That nose on the far right is SNATCHED.