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Hello! I'm an old Visual Kei fan. I started by listening to Lareine around 2000 then carried on with X Japan, Malice Mizer, Moi Dix Mois and Versailles. With the decline of forums I lost a bit sight of the scene, but a few months ago I started to regain a bit of contact with how things are going now, because I'm missing all of it. Lately I'm starting to listen to Kizu too.

On the band's next gigs, from 07/11 to 07/14 their 2nd demo tape will also be sold, featuring two songs: 新宿は燃えているか and 孤独たちのララバイ (also I just noticed that both the demo tapes come with 34-page B5 size tour pamphlets, plus ofc the download codes)

Wow, I feel like if I were to ever see them live, I'd never make it out of the venue alive.

The video is not their best but the song is really enjoyable.

Thanks for the interesting responses! It really does seem like the only "foolproof" way to know is to ask people who attended lives of each band, which is obviously not possible on a large scale. But for now, I think I'll keep the "venue size over time" charts on artist pages, as it's an interesting metric to look at nonetheless. Incidentally, the idea of tracking downloads to gauge foreign popularity is brilliant. MH needs to implement this, stat

The loudness I do hear. When I was doing comparisons, I was using DIVISION as my reference album and it struck me how much louder NINTH was. I would be willing to give people that criticism because its true, but it hasn't affected my enjoyment of the album any. Probably on par with DIM, definitely above Stacked Rubbish.

I love it when vistlip does uptempo choruses like this, and the melody is really nice, too. Pretty excited.

Hey, I got here before the "This was expected" and "They were (bad/garbage/sucked)" comments. I'm gonna miss them ;_;. I liked UKYO's vocal style and the band's electro-kei vibes.

He's like this since ever and thats super cool? lol

Enjoy yourself

Versailles - Noble (EU promo) + its flyer (front/back photocopy) I ended up paying a bit more than I would have liked, but since it was my birthday present it was all right.

Welcome

If you want an approximate count for that, look for how many views a release has.

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Sadly it's gone since last week.

I have it and I LOVE it, but Lareine- Blue Romance... *insert graphic design is my passion old meme*

hi, welcome to the forums!

I love all the songs on this (really solid, melodically)...Shittt I need to listen to them more often.

[2] I hope the mastering isn't trash. They sound really good, actually.

Yeah, it’s from the making of Ajna Jishuban club version lol

surprised this actually sounds good based on the sample... saw no fish heads though so the pv is automatically shit

oh shit, X and HYDE doing the new 進撃の巨人 OP. you heard it here first, guys, it is going to SUCK; https://natalie.mu/music/news/29 0474

BRATBAX will pause activities after their live at Shinjuku CLUB SCIENCE at 2018/8/17.

Video message about the upcoming album and tour.

adamas - discography Sclaim - partial discography (everything other than bootleg stuff & early omnibus) アスティ - BORN アンフィル - KiLLER GOURMET The first three are delayed because it's gonna take a month for tower.jp to get two items of Sclaim's, and I want to ship them all together *sigh*. Which is why I still haven't gotten my HAKLO CD yet... *cries internally*

Also: This documentary is supposed to be really damn good too. Really looking forward to it.

No reactions on Immortal's new album? Dear god, it's so fucking awesome. The reviews of the albums are incredibly positive too, for those that give a damn about that shit. Lots of 6/6 and 9/10's, and it's very deserved. Massive!

the shame of ripping off lynch. was too much to bear

what kind of "when u have a progressing eating disorder but can't afford chowing on kleenex with indiefag bandomen income" realness

I need aki to retire that hairstyle!

Mixing in the acoustic arpeggiated sections in the verses paired well with the high-tempo distorted riffing in the pre-chorus and chorus. Razor is becoming my favorite VK band in this era. I hope this next single is solid.

Previews of all songs from the single:

You can't really take gigs / venues and judge their popularity unforutunately. I think you need to either see them live or see live clips, a good example of this is Gossip. You would assume that a band that has a 109 stop nation wide tour, a fanclub and a one man at Blitz would be very popular but they're not as big as they come off.

Livehouse capacity for onemans can be a good indicator of a band's popularity at times, especially if the band consistently plays at larger venues, but some bands also play at venues they can't fill just because they can whether it's due to connections, the guys having money, having fans who give them a lot of money, or whatever. Some popular bands also like playing smaller venues because of the intimate atmosphere. Also keep in mind that bands of all sizes play at AREA because it's a famous/popular vk venue. Number of tanuki threads is irrelevant. Sometimes bands have a lot of net gya who constantly like to shit on girls who go to lives, sometimes there's a lot of drama surrounding the members. XAA-XAA has had 95 tanuki threads in 3 1/2 years but they still have onemans at venues with a 200 person [or less] cap both in Osaka (where they started) and in Tokyo (where they're based now). Being featured in magazines, it really depends, but many times it's really a matter of having a good label/management. XAA-XAA and Grimoire are not very popular but get featured in a lot of magazines because they're signed to Timely Records which is connected to little Hearts. I remember seeing a similar thread or some posts on here regarding Youtube views and popularity but that's also not a good way to judge. DIMLIM's PV for vanitas has had over 71K views on Youtube in just 4 weeks (which is really good for a vk band) but I saw them again at EDGE on Friday and there were only maybe 15 people there for them (out of a crowd of maybe 40 people total) Tbh the only way to know for sure how popular a band is is to go see them or ask someone who has seen them before.

your whining every time when they release something is getting boring I don't see any change in their style through years, their music is still high quality don't you really see how amazing are vocals in Muku? Mahiro is doing his best and he's doing well

moar liek ASIAN HUNG-FU GENITALIA am i rite

If you don't like their first two EP's then stop listening to vk

Literally one of the best in vk history tbh

i like lareine

YOSHIKI has posted the new album cover on Twitter.

I'd say a healthy dose of both, lel Honestly, something like this would be the absolute dream. Thank you so much to all of you who took the time to read this, I'm so glad it went over well! Eventually I'd like to write about the old roadie/mentor system in VK (but it's been a pain in the ass to research), or do an archive of the older legends/rumors of VK (easy to research but probably going to take 100,000 words to write it all out), it was very encouraging to see that people were actually interested in this piece since it was my first crack at this kind of thing.

that was great! thank you @cvltic, I'm a huge nerd about these things. I love reading and researching about it. And I've always, ALWAYS wanted to do a doc about the scene and the surrounding culture. I still hope to be able to do it while some of my favorite people are still alive. The first time I heard about these boards was around 2005, but I was a 2ch lurker since... late 2003. And, I loved seeing the japanese BBSes for specific bands. Some are still up after 15 years (which is incredible, if you thing about it!) or a little of it survived due to being archived. I never really liked the gossip thing because: 1- my japanese was awful (still is, but now it's more manageable) 2- gossip eventually gets passed around as truth and that's never good. So I always took everything with a grain of salt. But those boards were also a nice source of knowledge about how the fan culture works, and how it isn't really different from general fan culture around the world, except for its inherent "Japanese-ness".

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.

Just found this picture from my old phone. : D It's me cosplaying as Hisui (Madeth Gray'll) and my boyfriend cosplaying as Kon (La'Mule). (We look super serious but actually we were cracking up all day.)