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I went to a wedding recently and stayed in a fancy hotel

Wearing my new Mario tee.

http://dueljewel.jp/pc/zepp.html Duel Jewel announced their return live on March 1st, 2019, at Zepp Tokyo. Hayato has apparently made a full recovery from the variety of conditions (functional dysphonia, vocal dystonia, vocal yips) that caused them to disband.

I've got a review for you guys: It's good 9/10

Different Cure era, lol.

I can't believe October is already here, and the event coming this Friday... I feel like just yesterday I was posting about the project lol. I've got everything done now, I never posted the color of the above, also recently finished Carnage oil painting...felt very rushed because the deadline changed. Think PS stuffed up the bg color I'll have to fix it. Venom colored I'm glad to be done but it's not very exciting since it's not personal work.

Nightmare/ナイトメア may have gotten a lot of their popularity from Death Note but they deserve their place among the best visual kei bands of all time imo. Love this band! 😍

their mini album "Inferiority Complex & Narcissism" will be released at 2019/1/8. Vo.業-karma- Gu.拓也-takuya- Ba.誠-makoto- Dr.和樹-kazuki-

Type A : 1940 yen CD : 1. Deadly sin 2. STAR SAPPHIRE 3. Deadly sin (Instrumental) DVD : 01. Deadly sin (Music Video) Type B : 1940 yen CD : 1. Deadly sin 2. STAR SAPPHIRE 3. The Secret Rose Garden DVD : 01. Deadly sin (Music Video Making) Type C :1200 yen + taxes CD : 1. Deadly sin 2. STAR SAPPHIRE 3. The Secret Rose Garden 4. Blood war (Instrumental)

>be a bandman >play shitty american cons for years >no one cares about you in japan >finally start to come up, band does well >almost make it to your 20th anniversary >vocalist gets a bunch of absolutely heinous vocal conditions >forced to disband >over two years later, he's finally better and you can keep doing what you love >some guy on a forum calls you cringey for taking a cute photo with your bandmates

Kisou was ahead of its time. Haters back off!

That video seems to be inspired by this: I guess he likes some old mucc

MUNIMUNI will release their new mini album "月光男の日記 / A Diary of Mr.Moonlight" on 2018/10/31 (2,600円). It will include 6 tracks and a whopping 32-page booklet with photos, lyrics, band member interviews and liner notes. Tracklist: 01. THE MOONLIGHT SONG 02. NEW ORDER LOVE SONG 03. TIME IS FATE 04. VELVET魅惑TONIGHT (Album version) 05. B-BOY 06. THE SHADOW 2 Thought this would be a full-length finally, but oh well, at least they're keeping their schedule this time. Can't wait!

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Looked it up and apparently Mahiro's suffering from an (incurable) condition called retinitis pigmentosa... Yeah, that does sound like bad stuff. At the same time, it would -technically- not be impossible to continue performing even when blind / nearly blind... but i feel like that definitely wouldn't do his health any favors. I'm honestly kind of surprised D haven't called it quits yet, by the way. How are they doing popularity-wise in Japan? kink shaming in yr position is mod abuse btw @suji :^)

I have a lara things

Wait what's all this about Mahiro's medical condition again? I'm feeling like Mamireta will bite the dust within the next year or two most likely. Don't really see them lasting much longer than they have now, feels like they're kinda running dry already.

6.5 car stereos with the treble turned up to 11 and ReplayGain turned off while rolling down the windows three-fourths on a moderately windy slope for optimum listening experience out of 10

Love that old school Kiyoharu reference 🙂

01.傷痕 02.十五 03.豚 04.ステロイド 05.EMIL 06.へのへのもへじ 07.美しき日々 08.夢 09.中庭 10.ラブソング 11.ELISE 12.おしまい アンコール 13.蛙-Kawazu- 14.天誅 15.十九 アンコール 16.ヒトミドリ (http://blog.livedoor.jp/record_memory/archives/77052024.html)

I already posted it in the news forum, but since the new album is now out and streamable on Spotify I am really curious what everyone thinks. In my opinion this is just stellar, both as a metal album and as a visual kei album. All bias aside, probably my favorite album of the year. So I will definitely write a detailed review later on. BTW the Japanese edition "無意識の意識化" will be released later this month through the same label that mamireta and KRAD are currently in. I already saw it for preorder in Like an Edison and CDJapan and curiously all the titles have been translated to Japanese...

DuelJewel was that tiny-ass band that got their big break at a Texas Anime con back in 2002.

last photo i take in Instagram lol show myself

Imho, they need to stop that dual solo thing for all songs. E.g. I don't like how Audience Killer Loop's solo sounds without rhythm guitar.

Lynch. is the only band this year that severely disappointed me. XIII isn't a horrible album because it DOES have like maybe one or two standout tracks but its pretty bad. There's nothing here that i can call a banger or says that "it slaps." In general this album is something that's just here and thats it. What's more infuriating is that you'd think with AK back, the band would kick it into overdrive and churn out something memorable. SINNERS, despite how meh it was, is more listenable than this. Normally I'm one of the people who stick up and defend Lynch. but i cant for XIII. I want next year's album to be better. 3/10.

Bring back the eyepatch Karma pls Flyer with the CD cover and tracklist: The cover is very pretty!

Karma accepted instafollow request asdfghjkl

anyone knows how much a copy of velvet eden's madame tarantula tape is worth?

(Almost) too late

The kawaii-poses makes me cringe a lot. Please bandoman, be serious,

yall have no taste when it comes to looks smh, the weird shit is at least interesting and creative when you compare it to the boring-ass "check it out bro we're all wearing SUITS" or "dude we're totally wearing kimonos lmao we're so traditional" looks that way too many vk bands do nowadays i'd much rather take the weird yoda stuff over smth like kiryu, who have basically been recycling the same 3 or 4 general styles their entire career, for example.. for people who claim to be into visual stuff a lot of y'all are still pretty quick to write off anything that deviates from the generic vk pretty boy norm

I don't want to sound rude but to say that this is some of their best work, is just so wrong imo.. This album doesn't even have one 10/10 song. The best would be Ranuculus, which is a 7/10 at best. Everything else is 5/10 (average) or below. This comes from someone who have been a fan of them for 15+ yearsm and moved to Japan simply to be able to go to their concerts, lmao.

Rubbish Heap, Aka, Values of Madness, Followers, Keigaku no Yoku

Those three + Zetsuentai

hoooly shit this makes me so angry like "here's some yens to help with ur molested child's mental distress!!! lol!!!" just........wow. i never understood this aspect of the justice system at least the dad's in it now, I hope he gives Kisaki what's coming to him...

Having just caught up on this entire controversy, this is a very disturbing and disgusting thing to read. I'm not going to pass judgement on the man just yet, since this is still in its infancy and there are more facts to discover, and clarifying questions that I can ask for days to both parties, but my gut feeling says this incident isn't going to disappear (unlike the court case of a certain other band member who was the center of attention earlier this year). If the police escalate the situation - and I see no reason not to given the mountain of evidence provided - KISAKI is as good as done. This isn't his first brush with the law, but this may be the scandal that not only ends his career, but buries it so that no one will give him a second tenth shot. Whether you want to collect his remaining merchandise or burn it in a bonfire, this isn't a good thing for visual kei. We shook off another pedophile and a murderer in just this year alone, and now there's this. What a way to strip the glitz and foundation off of the scene in such an unceremonious way, especially from someone who has been seen as a pillar in the scene for almost two decades. It makes you really think about who else in the scene has skeletons in their closet.

here's Vambi and Kiryu Mahiro looks so teeny tiny compared to the other 5

Surprised to find out that this is a serious band. Thought it was a parody tbh.

Exactly, @hyura. Must say he isn't annoying with the promotion, I find it very interesting to see how this evolves. Kyuho has his own account on Twitter now: https://twitter.com/kyuhoofficial

| One of the best GazettE albums in recent memory. I can't believe it's been three years since DOGMA. It feels like I just finished roasting it for being the "most underwhelming album of the year" and "ARCHE, Iowa-era Slipknot, and a quarter of DIM shoved in a blender and served cold". To be fair, most of my criticisms came from how stale and similar all the songs felt; the result of going a bit too far in the metalcore direction. Ever the perfectionists, it seems that the band actually addressed all of my complaints with NINTH. By combining the dark and heavy nature of DOGMA with the electronic rock explored with TOXIC and DIVISION and the retro "Gaze-rock" style of BEAUTIFUL DEFORMITY, The GazettE have succeeded in delivering an experience that mixes old and new sounds. NINTH won't win you over if you don't like the direction of the last four albums. If you took more of an issue with the execution of those concepts, than this is what you've been waiting for since DIM. It's been a while since I feel comfortable recommending an album of theirs. NINTH is an easier and more engaging listening experience than DOGMA, with smooth, slick, and balanced production. I don't understand the criticisms of "muddy production" because I don't hear it. I even pulled out my good headphones - the Sennheiser HD600s - and plugged them straight into my Logitech speakers to pluck out minor grievances with the mix and it sounded better that way. This reaches a level that visual kei music can rarely afford to reach. Ruki has advised fans to get great audio equipment to experience each album to the fullest, but I think it's more true now than before. The songs are also arranged very well and flow into each other, and I can't recall a single jarring stylistic transition. All of these elements together makes every song an attractive listening experience. There's also the absence of several elements which used to drag down prior releases: the lack of standout tracks, filler, and clumsy Green Day-ish all English punk songs that stick out. The GazettE cut the fat out of this album in a way I wish Dir en grey could. An album can still have highlights even when it's consistently good. I can't end this review without naming my favorite tracks. The first would be "その声は脆く", a rock ballad which starts on an unassuming note before effortlessly sliding into a thick, melancholic atmosphere. It even has a (short) twin guitar solo, a staple of rock songs I've been missing from their music lately. The follow-up track, "Babylon's Taboo", creates the best one-two punch on NINTH. I could be convinced that this is a heavier take on an unreleased 9GOATS BLACK OUT song. "Falling" is the de facto single of the album, receiving the first music video to push the album, and there's a damn good reason why. "The Mortal" is another track that deserves a shout out for mixing some of NIL-era flavor in the chorus with DOGMA-style riffs in the breakdown, and serves as a great summary for the journey the album takes us on. If The GazettE were still releasing singles, this would have been the second one. NINTH makes a strong argument for keeping a low profile until an album is complete. Visual kei bands can capture my attention with rapid fire single releases, but that makes it harder to impress me with an album of familiar content. NINTH wouldn't be as impressive if they gave us previews and teasers months or years before it was done. I hope other bands are taking notes. If you haven't already, put some cash towards this worthy album. It will be favorably remembered for years to come. Support the artist! iTunes