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ACME will release their fourth single, 「放課後の飼育」(Hōkago no shiiku), on 2019.04.03. TYPE-A (Cost: 1000 yen+tax) 01. 放課後の飼育 (Hōkago no shiiku) 02. SENKOU（English ver. ） TYPE-B (Cost: 1500 yen+tax) 01. 放課後の飼育 (Hōkago no shiiku) 02. SENKOU（English ver. ） 03. Paradox（LIVE Take at Shibuya Club Quattro on November 24. 2018） 04. 激ヤミセレナーデ（LIVE Take at Shibuya Club Quattro on November 24. 2018） 05. ADVENTURE TIME（LIVE Take at Shibuya Club Quattro on November 24. 2018）

Indeed, the mind/heart is the most important battleground.

Why is it that when people make baseless accusations about innocent people, everyone believes it and their reputation gets ruined, but when someone is proven to be an absolute cunt with irrefutable evidence against them, money settles all and, eventually, no-one gives a shite? Disgusting, naïve and disrespectful to everyone involved. I just hope the poor kid's alright and that Kisaki is eventually incarcerated. This is why I stay out of shit like this until there is evidence. I believe in innocent until proven guilty on both sides and no amount of bullshit will ever cloud my perception on that. Kisaki can fuck right off if he thinks he can buy his way out of this mess he started. Still, I'm not going to say that this damages all of VK. Yes, what Kisaki did was fucking abhorrent, and it undoubtedly damaged his reputation and, unfortunately, probably those of the people who have worked with him in the past as well, however I said that I believe in innocent until proven guilty on both sides, so I'm not going to let this take away my faith in the genre. Don't get me wrong, my faith in him is down the toilet, but that's him as an individual. Instead of letting his actions define what could and couldn't be possible in the lives of the many, many J-rockers we all know and love, I'm going to just separate him from it all. It's argued by a lot of people here that the art should be separated from the artist, so I'm separating Kisaki from VK. Abusing someone isn't a staple of the genre, it's a crime.

Some minor guys I'm familiar with because they're either covered on this forum or they still have stuff from their previous band on their social media (ex. they don't straight up start anew every time they form a new band, etc.) Other than that, I hate it when I have to dig thru the Twitter rabbit hole of mutual followers just to find what other bands this person may have been in, it's very time consuming and especially stressful when people point out I'm wrong cuz I'm not familiar with this particular person...

a cry for help

maybe im just biased towards alot of recent bands or something and also just really hate others but it does seem like these last few years into current day weve had some of the most exciting vk bands come up and also some of the absolute most dogshit garbage ass earfuck abominations ever

oh i think if someone points out you're wrong it's just because they're familiar with that particular guy and want to help, so it's not something to stress about〜 but what you and other people do here is really huge, so thanks for keeping this site as a place were we all can find out relevant information .w.

I, too, read and write yaoi fanfiction. I also like to experiment with odd/crack pairings. I blame my mind for taking me to weird places when writing ^^; Also, one time, I left one of my VK CDs out in the living room, and my parents saw it, thinking that the people on the album cover were all girls even though they were missing the obvious physical feature of a female. The beauty of visual kei xD (Btw, it was an album by Screw titled 'Screw'.)

What you do sounds so tough omgeh!! It's awful that others stress you out because of this, but even tho I've never really been that interested with looking up old bands of them musicians, thanks for helping out the others fans in doing so! People should realize that searching through the net for things like this is hella hard and you waste too much time, sometimes not even getting the information you really want e.e

Yo Im Bree and I got a mullet

I'm instantly attracted to any band with very short lead singers. Having always had a complex about my height it is just lots of fun seeing tiny people fill the stage with their presence.

Papa's got a brand new bag. Expect a shitload of VK to be uploaded within the next few days

THIS Plus, when they do fanservice I feel even less guilty about it. It's less cringey than shipping yourself with them tbh.

I think a lot of people here, including myself lol, don't really understand how all this stuff works in Japan in the vk scene especially also in relation of the general public in Japan. Afaik, vk is already perceived as the last refuge for people totally unfit for society, an whether some bandoman is guilty of this and that over there is not really something to cause much attention, probably because the perception of the vk is pretty much true and all these dudes are just really shitty when it comes to treating both women and each other, I mean just look up stories of how they treated the vocalist from Screw back in the day and imagine if something like this came out involving some lamestream band in the west, like that could pretty much be the end of everyone involved; and this is only the beginning, like I think we've already heard tons of stories of really dodgy stuff which while shocking to people in the west accustomed to a totally different kind of culture and conduct, especially when it comes to regarding an elder statesman of the scene like ki$aki. This is an underground music culture of rejects that had a flash in the pan moment 20 years ago that brought it to the surface, which while an important moment it for sure didn't change the general makeup and reality of the scene, which is a large prostitution racket ran by yakuza and horny guys wanting to play shitty rock 'n roll to a fanbase consisting of people with as many issues an the bandguys themselves. And to add to this I think everyone knows the Japanese think we are joke and that some gaijins are rustled is literally no concern of theirs, unless you're willing to fuck or buy them some chrome hearts of course.

As the resident Gumin of MH (or at least one of them), I would just like to say on behalf of the entire DIAURA fandom that your new profile picture is gorgeous.

for me getting to know previous bands is actually one of the most interesting parts when a new band is announced but i still don't understand how do you do it for some minor guys from obscure bands, especially now that vkdb isn't as helpful as earlier so yeah it must be some boring routine

OMGEH YOU WRITE BOTTOM AOI FICS SO I AM DEF PUTTING YOUR FICS ON MY READ LIST NOW fnsijdnfdkjncsk I like Reituki but, when Kai is involved lolololol Basically Rukaita cuz I'm a piece of shit who loves drummers so much -cries- basically anyone in the band I ship them with Kai lololol it took me some time to read dom/top Kai tho, but slowly getting to it XD There are some VK bands today that I'm glad I ended up liking lol altho I agree that most sound like fucking normies sdbfbadsjk maybe it's because idols are so popular now that the VK scene/musicians are trying to garner more fans? But meh, if their music is shit it really doesn't matter how good they look althoican'tsaythesameforotherbandsandithinkweallknowwhichonesi'mtalkingaboutlol The Gazette fandom is so well-established and has so many fans that it's just THAT easy to get sucked into their fandom for the sake of staying into the VK fandom XD I don't think I've met a lot of bangya that are over 30 ouo which reminds me! Early this year(or I think that was late last year) I met this really cool guy that was also into VK and he's in his 30's and he apparently knows so much about VK and even knows about MH lol but, he said he doesn't want to hang out here cuz he's such an elitist fucker that he'll just get in trouble XD like he says shit like if you don't listen to X Japan and stuff then, you ain't a true fan but lol, he said that to me in a nice and friendly way anyways so I can't get mad at him sbdfihbdsjk I wish drawing doujins was still popular today sdbfjndks I would fucking fangirl so much over them sbdcjbnsk but right now, I feel like I'm gonna be one of those bangyas now who will try to make doujins of their OTP XD when my drawing skills get better e.e Also last point, in wattpad the vk artist x reader is VERY popular there and idk why lol one of the many reasons I stay the fuck away from that site. But at the same time, some of them are nice so I feel bad about kink shaming them lolololol one was even nice enough to make a fanfic about me and my fave (to which I forgot to read so I think they didn't continue it lol) and another someone made a ReitaxKai fanifc for me cuz I'm a thirsty bitch but I still have difficulty reading it cuz it was top Kai ahahahha #prayforme

Now having officially freed up his schedule, he can relocate to Ukraine

SLOTHREAT members: Vo. KAZ (ex.LAST CALIX, Misanthropist) Gt. 克哉 (Katsuya) (ex.CodeRebirth, Misanthropist) Gt. 孝哉 (ex.Sailing Before the Wind) Ba. 瀬希 Sup Dr. Julien (Graupel) They will hold their first live on 5.11 at TSUTAYA O-Crest. Their first mini-album "Allium" will be released digitally on 4.27 and the live-limited physical version will also be sold on 5.11 https://twitter.com/slothreat/status/1107235298927206400 http://www.slothreat-official.com/

I'm attracted to any vocalist that's a skinty twink dad like Gara, which is why I also have the hawts for Rei (マルコ) and aie. ;w;

Many nice songs on that playlist but I gotta say I like the Nazare one the best. 1. D.I.D. - pity me 2. Poets Of The Fall - Maybe Tomorrow Is A Better Day 3. Avatar - Puppet Show 4. Nokturnal Mortum - Where Rivers Flow Into The Seas 5. ヴァージュ - 共依存 6. Kaya - Awilda 7. U-KISS - 돌아돌아 8. メディーナ - 呪縛愛 9. DIMLIM - 初潮 10. 9GOATS BLACK OUT - rip current How am I supposed to choose a favorite out of these?? I'm a rebel and I'll choose two favorites you can't stop me x.x

Trying very hard to actually finish reading Osamu Dazai's "No Longer Human", because I realized that I started to understand it better than I used to in uni. Though, I think the reason I had treated so lightly back then was because I had to study it and not actually enjoy it. But, the sad part is that I don't have as much time to analyse and devour books like I had back then :(.

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the song itself sounds alright but good god that PV is so goddamn ugly its giving √eight's 'we literally filmed this in our garage' PVs a run for their money, I get being low budget and all that but this is like middle school garage band-tier

In b4 “this account was takeover”

“He was buried, and he was raised from the dead on the third day, just as the Scriptures said.” 1 Cor. 15:4

New band "リダフト" (Redaft) have formed and will have their first live on April 9th at Ikebukuro EDGE. Line-up: Vo. AKIRA.JJ (pretty sure he is ex.ジバルト(Gibalte)) Gt. Betch Ba. Akagi https://twitter.com/redaft_official

BABEL new single "DARKNESS/GRIEVOUS CRY" has been released at 2019/3/9.

dw it doesnt matter,

At least for me,after their compilation album they became one of the biggest deceptions in the current vk scene,cuz I really thought that they would be some nice fusion between kuroyuri to kage and Gossip,but now my expectations are very low.And his screams,God I hate them.

@Peace Heavy mk II don't you dare buy the new virge album

Thank for this I like Volark, if you have time I would be glad to read the others lyrics.

Not sure if anyone else is interested in this band on the forum, but I opened my copy of their mini album "Teenage Riot" and was treated to some rather... unusual lyrics, and thought they were hilarious enough that I had to share them with the world. If there's anyone who wants me to do the rest I can since I doubt anyone else besides the band still has a copy of this CD. transcribed by me exactly as written, including capitalization and missed spacing, from the lyrics sheet (which looks like it's printed at home just like the rest of the album.) To quote one of my all time favorite vocalists: "What Was in Your Pet dog You are" - 狂太郎, 2003. Enjoy. Biotech 作曲・冥 | 歌詞・狂太郎 | 編曲・Volark dead Born 「I'm Sorry」 Hello and I'm Scrap Hello and good Killyou！ 「MAD」 愛しい貴女 壊してやろうかい？ 「Mad What Didyou guragura」 そっと目をとじて「笑」僕にゆだねる 「What Was in Your Pet dog You are」 気がつけば足元にころがる無数のbaby 「Mad What Didyou yurayura」 もっと締め付けて「笑」僕をイカせてみな 「What Your This Happy Showtime！」 「Fuｘｘ'n JAP Killyou」 「モルヒネ Please！」 Transcribed by WhirlingBlack, 2019.

Funny thing is, the reasoning behind it is because he thinks he's "not qualified to stand on stage with the rest of the members" if the automated translation is correct. I think they're doing some lives here and there. Appears more that Yukiya is juggling between them and his solo "career". That is, if he doesn't have any more concerts with MASK.

Every time I physically buy someone’s album, something bad happens. Egoist: Rockstar Records implodes + double suicide scandal Mathilda: Mermaid meat Devil Kitty: they just stop doing anything and cancel their next releases La’Veil: Jaki is tired of actually performing more than once a year E’m grief: they go on hiatus and Yuuze dies I preordered Verxina’s album too, so I’m sorry in advanced

Gu.ベッチ (Betch) is ex-ジバルト (Gibalte) as well.

Honestly I don’t remember hearing about this. But since he got involved in the Japanese Communism Party and was low-key interested in Marxism during his younger times, I guess Maoism wouldn’t have surprised anymore XD

Damn, that was a great preview! I fucking hate these guys for making this a live-limited disc!

Baby Kei is one of the many reasons extraterrestrial life forms don’t visit

https://starwave.official.ec/ their new tour merch is now available on the Starwave webshop. overseas shipping available by email.

The guitarwork touched my soul.

Ugh yes, I've never understood the point of self-insert or (person) x reader fanfic, in any fandom.

Those ViViD and GazettE songs are really bringing me back to better times lol. That whole list is quality tho. D'espairsRay - Ark In The Storm B.A.P - WAKE ME UP BUCK-TICK - RAZZLE DAZZLE FRAGILE Countlost - FOLLOW BUCK-TICK - 悪の華 DAY6 - 버릇이 됐어 EAT YOU ALIVE - Agnus Dei BRADIO - Ride On Time feat.谷川正憲 (from UNCHAIN) 未来電波基地 - 季節の余韻 TWICE - TT It's hard to beat B-T, but I love me some BRADIO. They still just put me in the best mood when their songs start. And Masanori Tanigawa's guest vocal sends me ✈️!!!

I feel like every overseas obangya over 30 either read it or wrote it! I also remember when every group had fans here in Japan drawing and publishing doujin for established band ships. You can still find a number of these relics at Mandarake. I feel pretty squick about shipping real people now but I think VK is kinda in that grey zone where you’re shipping the personas they pretend to be.

Well, sadly his Twitter is not deleted 🤷🏻‍♀️ https://twitter.com/KISAKI_OFFICIAL?s=09 He can delete his whole existence, I would be very grateful!

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse - 2018 was a fantastic year for animated superhero movies, and while not as good as or unique as Batman Ninja og Batman: Gotham by Gaslight, this is still very unique and different and a fan-fuckin-tastic movie. Superbly written, animated, voice acted and so on. Also, the coloring scheme throughout the movies are really sweet. Spider-Man Noir deserves his own movie, and Nicolas Cage was beyond fucking brilliant. Like, he was THE star of the film. Holy shit! GOD! The Equalizer - The type of badass action thriller you'd expect to see Liam Neeson star in 5-10 years ago, but it's a bit different and the biggest difference is that this carries a much warmer lead character played beautifully and amazingly badass by Denzel Washington. I would love to see less cut up and better choreographed action scenes, but the entie film is just sweet as candy. Completely awesome! The Equalizer 2 - Lacks some of what made the first one THAT fucking good, but I don't think this is much worse at all. More of the same, but done way better than e.g Taken 2 was. Lovely stuff!

You see I think that is stupid, honestly if it was up to me I would rename the thread to "unpopular anime opinions" or something of the like and have interesting thought provoking discussions/debates rather than mindless drivel that doesn't mean shit other than asserting that you don't like a certain series for no reason other than "just cuz".