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FJ found my items. I'm so happy rn. Thank you everyone that cared during my materialistic crisis.

This was announced a month or so ago at mixi but I haven't seen a topic here so I figured I'd make on. Phobia will have a one night revival on 5th of July 2019 at Shinjuku ruido k4.

remember me as the young girl you see in the photo cuz i have final exams tomorrow so its very likely ill age 40 years in a single night

Years of therapy are finally paying off!!

The only thing DEG about them is Sho, and that’s only when he growls/squeals; his cleans are different from Kyo’s. I think for some people (including me) the hype comes from them bursting onto the scene with messy songwriting, then improving tenfold when Issei peaced out. Last summer when they dropped vanitas, shigarami, and aizou no tsuki all in a row, it was like it was a new band. I just... honestly find the DEG comparisons weird. Dimlim are more technical and definitely have their ear to the ground for what’s going on in modern metal. But then it seems like a VK band can’t have downtuned guitars and harsh vocals without dodging the comparison, so I get it.

I hope they don't. I hate music streaming and I love the concept of buying physical releases, with all the bonuses included, and attending instores. I don't want to have to pay three or four times what I'm paying for my cellphone plan just because listening to music now is sucking up my data too. Besides all that was mentioned, recording and studio time expensive and I guess smaller bands can afford more easily to start off with singles and EPs and grow from there. Newbie bands like Nazare can afford to release full albums because they record them in their drummer's bedroom.

There's also the reality that the pace is unsustainable. Putting out singles and albums that quickly leads to burn out.

So I got my copy of the single today, and to my surprise 肉腫と繁殖と不快感 is not the new song DIMLIM has been playing since March (currently known as "xxx"), but a ballad. In other words, this release is 100% clean vocals.

I'd take quality over quantity. We don't need another Mejibray.

dexcore practically launched their career with a full album uploaded on youtube for free, and dimlim literally just released chedoara last year, less than two years after their line-up settled down. I don't know what you're talking about since the tendency to release stuff as live-limited has always been in vk, and it was 2002 and onwards when everyone practically stopped releasing albums in favor of mini-albums and singles in 7 types with very rare exceptions to this rule (i.e. lynch.)

If only there was some kind of... archive of sorts, on some video upload website... hmm...

tbh the real tea is how they didn't use screams in the track to make nazare look stupid for trying to out-shriek sho #conspiracy #shade

New Nagoya band シキ-siki- will hold their first live at 3Star Imaike on 7/12 members: Vo. akt (ex.HATED → meth.(シキ→akito) → 404NOTFOUND(陽斗-akito-)、MARCH’S Dusk Cafe → Sevenlize → 1/f no yuragi) Gu. 純 (ex.404NOTFOUND) Gu. mnR (ex.ぶらちちとか) Ba. ナイカ Dr. 将治 their first demo can be downloaded free from here https://twitter.com/_siki_band/status/1134806853009850374?s=21

Nobody is going to be able to drag Yuinas old ass back to the scene

this is the weirdest vogue spread I've ever seen. Why is Yoshiatsu posing like that weird gay uncle at every family reunion

please stop trying to summon kawaii minpha

I saw Yoshiki at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen bags of potato chips in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired from recording the new X-Japan album and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bags and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to preserve the spiciness,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a thing. After she scanned each bag of chips and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

no, I wrote it myself

The solo saved the song to be honest. It sounds like leftover ideas from the Chedoara sessions, and as I’ve said before I’m getting a little tired of the tapping gimmick. At least go somewhere else on the guitar neck, dudes. Sudden ending with no climax is cute, but it was cuter in Grotesque. It’s fine, but last summer’s singles it is not.

It's official, D × Shrek extended crossover universe confirmed.

I feel like Sho is one of the rare vocalists that uses growls when they’re appropriate for the lyrics

Many of these bandomen, unless they’re quite well established, or have enough mitsu patronage...can’t get by on music alone. Most of them have day jobs that they need to keep affording outfits and recording sessions. This will effect their availability to write new music, record and tour.

can't believe they would just write the "F" word like that 😱

as ains tragically dies, the actual old school lives!

Kaitou- defenders of young girls and kindergartners

I feel like there are more albums being released in the past 5 years than there have been in the 5 years prior to that? Could just be a memory bias, but vkei albums aren't super infrequent. I think the scene in general has wisened up a bit and realized that releasing stuff c o n s t a n t l y may not be financially viable, especially with historically smaller crowds buying physical releases. A Matina-styled "demo tapes every 3 months, plus omnibus exclusive songs, plus video tapes, plus cross-cover singles, plus interviews, plus..." doesn't really work today, as cool as it would be. With the internet, oversaturation and over-promotion is a very real thing and there's less of a need to be constantly bombarding people with new products when your old ones are more widely accessible. Unless of course, you're signed to -AINS-. Then you get a 101 stop tour and are forced to release two albums a year that are 80% new content, plus some live distros to keep the children occupied in the "off months."

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ayyyyyyyyyyyyy

I'll always love MEJIBRAY, but I have to agree, there's plenty that's just not good. Most singles aren't worth listening to, but I've enjoyed every album.

LITE has a new album out and I had no idea. Hope it's good tho, cuz them dudez been kinda iffy for damn near a decade now

lyrics sheet for Grimes - Life in The Vivid Dream

rip babies

I'm glad I'm not the only one. I feel like everyone goes bonkers for them and I just don't get it.

So yeah Vanitas 2.0 without the screams? Pretty decent song, if somewhat fairly reminiscent of stuff they've already done. I agree with people who said the song feels a bit disjointed and I feel like the individual parts of the songs aren't really well connected. 0:43 was absolutely jaw-dropping for me but then that part was never revisited again Pretty neat guitar playing and goth gf Ryuya is bae ❤️ Those are my first impressions, I'm pretty sure it will grow on me with time

仮病 - ブラクラ gulu gulu - 変なメリーゴーランド (Type 不味い盤 and 美味い盤) JILUKA – Polyhedron (Type A) ...well we almost made the same order. ;D

yo this is actually legit really, really good & it's p fucked up how thoroughly mediocre this makes like the majority of the contemporary vk scene look by comparison

New songs in type A : 2. オーガを喰らった牡猫の奇術師(Ogre o kuratta osuneko no kijutsu-shi) 3. アンフィテアトルムはクロワッサンの夜に（Instrumental）(Amphitheatre wa croissant no yoru ni) New songs in type B : 2. オーガを喰らった牡猫の奇術師(Ogre o kuratta osuneko no kijutsu-shi) 3.ミシュマシュ(Misch masch)

(amy lee voice) these wounds won't seem to heal · this pain is just too real 😭

I always think I want to be with someone but then I jerk off or drop a few bucks for an escort and I go like oh yeah I’d rather just read a book and look at the birds at a park instead of paying for someone elses dinners

Eu até pensei em ir, mas meeeeeeeeeeeeh

awww those kids looks so happy to have them there

sounds amazing, very excited for their next album, REFORM —d'espair's ray now—!!!!!

Bleep-bloop too advanced, me no understand. Anyway, I hope this goes somewhere, Hizumi had a golden voice.

I like the Black:List throwback look, the sound is pretty good too, but to be honest I wish they'd just reform Black:List for a bit and release all the tracks they never got around to releasing. They are some of the best unreleased material in VK. Either way, Kyotaro back in VK makes me happy.

I feel like most visual kei is like that these days. I hate the overabundance of synths in vkei. It generally turns me off immediately from a band. Especially overly glossy music videos and overproduced songs.

Experimenting with airsonic, another self-hosted music streaming server.