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XA-VAT new mini album "K-I-S" will be released at 2018/07/28.

マチルダ (mathilda) has formed. They will hold their first live on 2018.03.31 at 池袋EDGE. On 2018.05.02 at 渋谷O-WEST they will release a live limited single 『ダビニフス』 Vo. 喰 (Ku?) (ex-shadow → Lydiac(mikado) → DEVIZE(Alfion)) Gt. 一檎ジャム (Ichigo Jam) (ex-Luccica → ramiel(Nozomi)) Gt. 朝比奈 ソラ (Asahina Sora) (ex-リベリオ (Ribelio) Naru) Ba. 時雨 環 (Shigure Tamaki) (ex-ORGE → DOAK(IORI) →ramiel(tsukasa)) Dr. 米田米 (Yoneda) (ex-ArcGarden → AvelCain(Sou) → reirei(Ba.reito) → DEVIZE(Dr.tomoe)) OHP (*corrections on the names are appreciated!)

No matter how tacky it is, I really missed this style. We need a proper [decent] oshare band in the scene.

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外道反逆者 ヤミテラ(Gedô hangyakusha yamitera) (Yamitera, for short) announced several updates yesterday. The first is that they will be releasing a new single, "夕闇 (Yuuyami)" later this year. Dates and contents of the single have yet to be announced, however. Additionally, they will hold their next one-man show 敬礼!マジ感謝卍 (Keirei! MAJI Kansha Manji ) at Ikebukuro RUIDO K3 on May 29th. Entry is 500 yen. They will also hold a two-man live "vs" Kebyou (仮病) called 闇病 (Yamibyou) at Shinjuku RUIDO K4 on June 28th. SHeepSLeep will also be a special guest at this live. Lastly, the band will hold their 1 year anniversary live 反逆日和 (Hangyaku Biyori) at Ikebukuro BlackHole on August 3rd. Thank you to @inartisticfor compiling all of these points together

This is a cursed post!!!

First time wearing a dress, and first time showing myself here. I know my parents aren't gonna like it, but I'm an adult and bought it myself. I had to have it sent to a friend so she could give it to me. One of my friends said I looked like a pretty lady version of Kuro lol

First aicle copyband in a loooong while...

Everyone knows one of kyo's early bands was Visnu, but it's actually supposed to be written Viṣṇu (with dots under the s and n--dunno if it'll show up here). A recent fav of mine is CμЯЁ-βLAST. Just a random no1curr band, but I'm a fan of the “more is more” band name. If I had to give an actual guess as to why this is a “thing” in vk, I'd guess that it probably traces back to gothic influence in late 80s/early 90s. And I also bet that it became popular in the early 90s due to computers making symbols/alternate letters more accessible. (Crazy that vk is old enough to be influenced by the “rise of computers” huh?)

just close the thread i can't take any more of this, someone's gonna come and say they call them twelve thousand and twelve

Latest tweet he watched and listened to the band live CD/DVD with his sister and said he couldn't stop crying. He's really grateful for all the messages he's received from everyone he wishes to thank every single one, he says he's doing well and wants everyone else to be well too, and to be filled with happiness. I believe he's implying he's been so selfish and drank so much that alcohol is coming from his eyes, and that in doing so it's taken his age from him but I'm not real clear on that someone else can explain better. After that he says people who have been fighting, or just any people who look at this, each and every one of them is irreplaceable. He wants everyone to take care of others around them. He says living a life of regret is no way to live, that this sort of thing is easily understandable, but yet still difficult. Sorry I don't have more time right now, but that's the latest.

i think thats the reason i love it

I love this 2005 aesthetic so much. I opened the preview and was like "Oh this looks like Aru". Then i opened the topic and it was him LOL So shocked

I like it! we definitely need more aicle-kei on the scene!

DEVIZE sounded so good and this sounds just (=o=)// It's not that horrible but it's exact the VKei style I hate the most. Also they are not under double river record. It's a little bit disappointing huh?! But ^ that's 100% correct. It's Alfion and it's Tomoe I wonder what LARM. will do since he isn't in this band. I wonder if I shall contact them, to keep business with Alfion and Tomoe. Their label seems to be independed?

I want to say that too but I dont know. 喰 and Alfion (ex-DEVIZE) also share the same birthday but I’m not sure about that either.... edit: Alfion and 喰 also have similar singing styles so I’m sure it might be him (unless someone says otherwise)

@Kiryu999@Devilish_EyeThat seems like you guys had an amazing time!!!!! Hopefully I can catch them live some day ^_^. They seem like they are going places and have a huge fan base already

If I see a † in a band's name (which I sadly haven't seen recently), then I'm expecting a badass kotekei band like Larm†Ma'dule, etc. *_*

Sora is ex-リベリオ (Ribelio) Naru

2018 SAVED ALLAH IS GREAT THANK YOU, HIGHER POWERS OD THE UNIVERSE WE ARE NO FUCKING WORTH IT BUT YOU DELIVERED ANYWAY OH GOD I CAN'T BREATHE PLEASE ALLAH BRING CUCKOO BACK TOO I WILL DO WHATEVER IT TAKES whatever it takes really

gosan are NOT fuckin playing with their venue choices royz, rshithead, kiryu are all shaking

mods can we PLEASE open up madeth vs beyonce that was one of the most important threads on this site

Yuki has resurfaced on twitter and from what I can understand from Google translate, he's talking about his disease... https://twitter.com/lust_yuki

you mean the Beyoncé vs. Madeth gray'll wasn't indicative enough?

Bad, bad, very bad examples of Nagoya kei. Face palm. The only band you mentioned that even comes close is DEATHGAZE. @Tokageplease help, this is a prime example. This is Nagoya kei:

New band "DRESS or NUDE" was formed in August 2017. "DRESS or NUDE" members: vo.Ranze (ex-La MADAME ROCHAS-->MAGIER SEXALICE-->waltz veronica-->Scheherazade, now in Poison D'hermès) gt.Takumi (ex-La mise a mourle-->Scheherazade) ba.Shige (ex-GIRL'e-->Ves.Tearge-->Ang'e∞Graie-->FEED-->Flame) dr.Mie (ex-SiN-->D≒SIRE-->GRASS-->Dirty Fox-->Lunatic, now in GRASS)

One of the small joys of being a VK fan is the unique phenomenon of enjoying a band while having absolutely no idea how to say their name. And I don’t mean because a band’s name is in Japanese, I’m talking those band names that are ostensibly written in English but because of weird characters or punctuation you just have no idea how to properly pronounce or verbalize their moniker correctly (although most of the time the pronunciation just completely ignores the extraneous symbols). Let’s try and trace the history of these unnecessary symbols and letters in VK bands’ names and highlight the influence (or lack thereof) of these punctuation provocateurs. D’erlanger The band: One of the proto-visual kei bands that began in the ‘80s and had an outsize influence on the first generation of post-X visual bands. The name: D’erlanger kinda makes sense as a French word, so they themselves are forgiven, but it is apparent a lot of teenagers in the 80s who would go on to become players in the golden age of visual kei saw that apostrophe and thought “oh cool!” for entirely unintended reasons. I said D’erlanger makes sense as a French word… but it’s not a very ‘band name’ kind of word. Can’t imagine throwing up the metal horns to a band called ‘from Erlangen’. See also: L’Arc~en~Ciel, La’Cryma Cristi, La’Mule L’Arc~en~Ciel The band: No introduction necessary really. Almost certainly on the Mount Rushmore of VK bands, whether or not you like what they’ve done since the start of the new millennium (and I don’t). Pretty and melodious songs with just enough edge to appeal to a wide swath of fans. Not to mention a sexy frontman. The name: Another word that makes sense if you’re French, but L’Arc~en~Ciel up the ante by adding some tildes for no reason other than young Tetsuya and Hyde probably thought they added an even more magical feeling to the word ‘rainbow’. L’Arc~en~Ciel’s (making their name possessive *does* add a certain balance to the word…) popularity in both VK circles and a mainstream audience meant that adding dumb punctuation in the middle of your name for no reason was now completely tolerated. Tetsuya has specifically denied he got the L’Arc~en~Ciel moniker from a cafe near where he worked as a teenager with the same name. It may have also been stolen from the D.H. Lawrence book ‘Rainbow’, but even that story is tainted because it includes the *movie* version. See also: a million song and album titles with tildes in them, E’m ~grief~ cali≠gari The band: Either groundbreaking, experimental rock that revolutionized and kick-started the ‘eroguro kei’ genre, or dissonant-sounding weirdos; depending on your tastes. The name: Obviously lifted from the groundbreaking German silent horror film “The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari”; an admittedly cool source of inspiration for an art-y VK band. The name even has a cool rhyme and visual symmetry when written/pronounced in Japanese (カリガリ). See also: a ton of also-ran bands that have stuck unnecessary equals signs in their names: Loz'a≠Veria, D≒sire, Kar+te=zyAnose, Eyes≒Mirrorge, PARANOID≠CIRCUS ZI:KILL The band: Early VK rockers that burned out too quickly to be mentioned among the all-timers. The name: Originally formed as G:KILL, which doesn’t shed any light onto the inspiration for the name, but is an interesting fact. G/Zi:Kill both *kinda* sound like Jekyll when katakan-ized, and Visual Kei has no lack of love for that story. You may be noticing a trend so far; early VK bands apparently hated having blank spaces in their names. See also: La:Sadie’s, ru:natic,【_Vani;lla】, ha;qch, DAS:VASSER, L'yse:nore Aliene Maφriage The band: One of the harbingers of VK starting to get really dark and almost certainly offending the middle-aged parents of the teenagers listening to it. Lots of leather and hair... and in Aliene’s case; some good songwriting to back it up. The name: In the book Freakonomics the authors cite a study that shows, all other things being equal, people are more likely to be asked to interview for jobs if the interviewer/hiring manager can pronounce their name. I have to believe this is why even Kyoka & Co. started writing their name simply Aliene Ma’riage eventually; they were probably tired of having to pitch things to record label execs who looked at their name and thought “pass” before they even heard the banshee wails. I couldn’t find anything about the origins of their name. It is a vast improvement over their original moniker Autism though. See also: √eight, ∋elf gravity∈, ZETSURIN⚡HAGUKI Kagrra, The band: The undisputed kings of beautiful neo-japonisme in VK. The name: Even Kagrra,, who peddled a very classic Japanese aesthetic, weren’t immune to an unnecessary flourish such as a comma at the end of their name which, when spoken, led to a kind of hesitant mumble as if you were supposed to continue a train of thought which was still at the station. I mean, revisit that previous sentence I wrote, should it really have been written “Even Kagrra,,”? Kagrra,’s name certainly gave the editing staff at Shoxx a headache. Kagrra,, originally called Crow, took their name from 神楽 (Kagura), a Shinto music and dance tradition. See also: Thankfully the comma didn’t catch on much. +DéspairsRay+ The band: One of the rare examples of a band who can pull off unabashed zetsubou unironically and follow it up with soaring choruses and catchy melodies without sounding disjointed. The name: Another band that dropped some of the more superfluous parts of their name as soon as they started to gain some popularity. If I had to guess, their name is probably one of the most mistagged in VK. I know for sure if I opened iTunes right now I’d have songs by +DéspairsRay+, DéspairsRay, D’espairs Ray, Despairs Ray and probably more in my artist lineup. The members of the band haven’t commented specifically on how they chose the name, with Zero even saying “It's nothing special.” I interpret this as ‘we know it’s dumb, don’t ask about it please’. See also: VAL+IX+LIA, MARRY+AN+BLOOD, Ti+Dee Nuvc:gu The band: Nobodies. The name: I honestly was pronouncing this “nuv-ka-goo” until I heard @Biopanda say “New vogue” in a Rarezhut stream and the lightbulb went off. I almost want to give them credit for using the *shape* of punctuation to emulate letters, but then I realize that’s incredibly stupid unless you’re working with some seriously custom fonts. See also: VΩID, k@mikaze, SHAD∞W, XOVER Exist†trace The band: Probably the most successful all-girl-kei band ever (which unfortunately isn’t saying much). Started out very gothy and have gradually transitioned to a more mainstream sound. They let the pretty one sing and it makes me sad because Jyou has come up with some flat out beautiful, haunting vocal melodies. The name: Miko said in an interview that, And let’s be honest, that explanation makes no sense. It sounds cool though, and really that’s what you need in a band name (and something unique that can be Googled). My biggest problem with their cross symbol is that it probably shows up as a question mark or some other placeholder punctuation 20% of the time because who the hell has the time to look up the unicode symbols? (although I’m sure people who write about Witch-house bands have the code for the cross symbol memorized.) See also: Serpentine†Ghost, Jail†Breaker, Vice†risk xTripx The band: A surprisingly endearing mix of oshare kei and numetal. The name: Weirdly, I always pronounce the first ‘x’ in xTripx’s name but not the last one (ecks-trip). I actually think more bands need to come to terms with the fact that eventually the world will run out of new band names and everyone will have to resort to having a moniker that looks like a circa-2002 emo fan’s AIM screenname. See also: xジハードx, 【TRiANGLE▼SONiX】, Noi’X 12012 The band: Undercode stalwarts that started out lo-fi and disjointed and nu-metal influenced but very charming, and graduated to poppier fare when they decided to take a stab at becoming famous. The name: ‘Ichi ni zero ichi ni’ if you’re Japanese, ‘twelve-o’-twelve’ if you’re me. Allegedly named after a section of the California penal code that deals with illegal weapons… and that actually kind of tracks. It’s an extremely boring section though (besides we know Wataru prefers hand-to-hand combat): Not a cool law for a band name. I think we’ve got a retconned term a la 420 and 311. See also: Plenty of other band names that need a pronunciation guide: 0801弐209XX6* (zero hachi), …。(silence), 6→7 (upper) *The guitarist of zero hachi should get an unnecessary punctuation in band names lifetime achievement award. He was in all these bands according to vkdb: †Zaide†, Diod'honneur, カレヰド, re:Make, 0801弐209XX6. Be sure to add your favorite band name with unnecessary punctuation!

No, it's actually Visnu!

status doesn't matter with live shows

The promopics seem to be taken similarly like Lolita23q's few first shoots. All wrapped nicely in aluminium, lol.

They sound a'ight but this aesthetic is crap [2]

I love Nozomi and Tsukasa but this aesthetic is crap.

Surely it is him, Ramiel separated on March 25 and DEVIZE on March 24. As I have seen it has a piercing in the same place... Btw, I like this project the most.

They sound really good and I don't think I know who they are but this sounds amazing<3

I'm going to the first show on the 5th! Probably with a B-ticket. If it's not a great number i'll just wear platforms and stand a little aside so i can see something through the deep forest of japanese girls hair. I was like "what the actual fuck?" when i saw the 9,999yen price for the shows before they announced the goods. Still kinda expensive. But i guess a CD, t-shirt and a cheki with the band makes up for it...

I ended up enjoying the new single a lot more than I thought I would. I can't really point out any flaws, Jojo sounds great and all three songs are tight. The only issue I see here are the outfits. It's the worst the gallo has looked lol edit: was listening through it again and there's a huge lack of vibrato. This is so weird.

WHAT THE FUCK OMFG

first of all congrats on going on stage, that's legit - & shoutout to mea, i love that band too. kinda going off what Aimi said, if you're not opposed to it try recording yourself at home, as you practice as if you were performing. don't worry too much about quality like just use a webcam or an iphone sat in a corner, just decent enough quality you can make out how you sound & look & i don't mean to assume your knowledge here so apologies if this is something you're already aware of, but bc you say roumaji - might be worth checking your pronunciation to make sure you're getting it right, bc even though japanese follows its pronunciation rules pretty tightly & doesn't do weird shit like english (like how read & read are read differently) - learning only the roumaji & speaking it exactly as you would an english word written w/ those letters isn't always correct

A heads up if anyone is still looking for 死因:暮らし or 死因:無視 since it's sold out on cdjp, both are available on rakuten. 死因:無視: https://global.rakuten.com/en/store/americanpie/item/4118011549/ 死因:暮らし https://global.rakuten.com/en/store/americanpie/item/4118011548/ There's also 1 used copy of 食べたい on amzjp for 53$ and I thought I saw another earlier for 63$ but I can't remember what site I was on. (I can't afford that for one single lol)

Okay, guys, I did not want to make a separate topic for this because technically it's been going on for... ever since Kameleo broke up, and I did find this when going to L.A.LEMECCA's youtube channel, but: Daisuke (ya know, the guitarist of Kameleo) also has a solo project going on. Not only that, but he seems to be doing Let's Play videos as well. In Japanese tho. So far he's played a couple of RPG maker games, PUBG, Minecraft and SPORE. Anyways, here's the channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC3omrwlSln5ULCjzNkn7-8A

典型的な親父系

"アクメ - MONSTER" has many riffs copied from "Linkin Park - One Step Closer" ... (no links sorry)

these threads are starting to get ridiculous

As others said it's fine to wear anything you want, but I would add a small exception - don't wear other artist t-shirts or goods. It's not a rule, but fans here definitely don't do that (while it's totally normal thing in the West). Unless you know that those two artists hang out/do events together/etc. I actually see people wearing business clothes at lives a lot, I'd also been to a live wearing a white shirt few times when I didn't have time to change (but it's way too hot!). The only bag checks done in Japan I experienced was at huge venues (arenas), so going to a v-kei live you should be totally fine. You can bring bags in, but it's simply more comfortable to use a locker. If it's a standing live you don't know if suddenly fans won't do some furi having everyone moving. Most venues allow you to bring a drink in, sometimes they can simply ask if you carry a camera.

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Oof I wish it sounded that way... I was trying to point what I thought his higher voice tone was reminding me of in KERBEROS (especially around 1:12), and it's kind of like Wolfmother, at least to me. Don't really like the sound of it here though it feels jarring since it's all I can think about.

You can watch “Falling” on their official YouTube channel

I'm torn... I miss Kameleo/Hikaru for sure... but I'm not sure I've ever actually liked a VK solo project. (I'll be in Tokyo during that show... kinda tempted)

So I finally decided to switch from JAM to something new on my Desktop... Don't get me wrong I love JAM, but I felt that I wanted something a little more flexible on my desktop. I still have JAM installed on my laptop though, it's the perfect skin for laptops. Pretty satisfied so far with this skin, I still want to tweak some things, but for now it's pretty good