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idk GLAY????? they just donated moneys and I can't imagine them throwing scat parties with the gya back in the day anyway

HOWL new MV SPOT "ふぁぼって人生。" (Fabotte Jinsei) has been released

I'm here!! sorry for the delay, I hope you appreciated my edit! ^^ MEGA LINK : https://mega.nz/file/v9lzBQoS PASSWORD : ccK5TPK0o1JNbF0tlg7WlN-HXGpBJE2pf_vPpqg73qM Please don't share outside Monochrome Heaven, I specifically wanted to avoid including in the video "Edit By Serox" but I want to trust that it will not end up on VK / YouTube (and pass it off as yours, as has happened to me in the past), Enjoy the performance ^^ PS: If you want to know the setlist, is this! PS.S: Sorry if my English is not perfect >_>

🎻Aiolin Acoustic live 4/12 - 19:00 JST❣️ Aiolin's gonna held an online Acoustic live on their YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4bECDPVcRtzqvVjZhY02XQ The settled date is tomorrow 4/12 at 19:00 Japan time. Please, go support this incredible band! Their acoustic lives are amazing ✨ You can see the original tweet here:

David (SUI) will be live at 9pm JST today (one hour)

Uyuni once said Playstation sucks.... need i say more

Ryuichi always will be one of the best, most charismatic and versatile vocalist of all time, he is a living legend and I'm so happy that he beat this cancer. We should just get used to the way he sings now.

Generation Y. Got the timing to be a teenager when the nu metal hype train was going on.

There's 10 cases in my area now, including one person from my job. i never wanna leave my house again

Yoshiki donates a lot of his wealth to a bunch of different causes.

For twitcasting videos, all you have to use is this notation (don't have to use VLC anymore): http://dl01.twitcasting.tv/(id)/download/(number)?dl=1 Video: https://twitcasting.tv/xanvala/movie/605228812 Download: https://dl01.twitcasting.tv/xanvala/download/605228812?dl=1 (in this case it just redirected to "dl02") I'll wait for Serox to upload it, but in the future that's how one would accomplish that.

dummy-xD (who paused activities back in 2016) has released a new digital single, "ソファー内部" on April 11! The song is available for streaming through Spotify, Apple, and Amazon. The proceeds will be donated to the coronavirus prevention fund. lyrics:

How could you say something so controversial yet so brave?

I'm gonna have to fight you on that one

gackt

Satoshi (BugLug (support), Laplus, ex-DIV) for some reason has gotten super nostalgic over DIV and has been posting a bunch of old footage + partial DVD rips: THREE1989 JUNIOR BREATH (They've done like 44 songs per stream, jesus)

enola reven is an avant-garde rock/alternative/metal project influenced by Japanese music, especially the visual kei scene. enola reven is based in the US Territory of Guam (a 3 hour flight south of Japan) and is currently a one-man project of vocalist HIMITSU, who does most of the composing, recording, production, and design alone. The debut album 'Disassociation Fugue' is an emotionally expressive journey through the minds of the mentally ill, something Himitsu has personal experience with. The album begins with a haunting ballad which the album was titled after, and moves on into heavier, more aggressive and downright weird songs as well as sweet, soft and sad melodies, separated by atmospheric electronica/noise intermissions reminiscent of a JRPG like Final Fantasy 7. The whole album makes use of silence, gentle fades and minimalism contrasting with abrupt changes, growls and intense heavy noise in an unnerving way. The album in digital format comes with 2 music videos (which you can watch on Youtube) - a simple but beautiful lyric video for the opening track, and a music video for 'Depression', which features scenes filmed in Seattle, Guam and Tokyo as well as a cameo by Japanese handpan (a type of steel drum popular with street performers) player Kashiwa Hang, who composed the intro and outro for the song. You can preview or buy the album, find social media links to follow, watch music videos and find any information about the band on the homepage, www.enolareven.com

Taa, ethereal wave (tak już mi się przyjęło nazywać ten nurt) ze Stanów jest magiczny i jednocześnie różni się od klasycznych dreampopowych zespołów z 4AD, jakoś od razu słyszę, że dany wykonawca jest z US. Zresztą wymienione przez Ciebie zespoły są na mojej liście na bezludną wyspę więc super, że też je tak cenisz. A co do Projekt Records, to jest to dla mnie absolutnie absolutnie kultowa wytwórnia, na równi z factory, 4AD czy innymi spod Beggars Group. Pamiętam jak lata temu słuchałem Lovesliescrushing na przemian z Malice Mizer A last.fm sprawdzę, mam nadzieję poznać jakieś nowe zespoły

Świetny wybór, również bardzo gustuję w takich klimatach ❤️

Eins Vier to prawie Madchester, serio ten zespół brzmi jak coś co wyszło wprost z fascynacji the Chameleons i The Smiths. Słucha się ich tak samo super jak Suede czy Pulp.

I higly recommend this mixture of pop rock and mathrock, a little bit crazy but catchy music: Sokoninaru Cö shu Nie 88Kasyo Junrei is amazing experimental band: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D90AOhojK3M

Can't say anything about the PV since i'll wait for my copy to arrive until i watch it but the song is definitely pure awesomeness.

Millennial found out that he's millennial

Damn, so fucking wild. I'm considered gen Z here lol altho from what I remember, 1996-1999 are considered as a weird undefinied generation all together tbh not exactly considered Y and Z so yeah~

Took a couple listens to digest, especially the slightly janky verses, but this...is good. That chorus is powerful.

Low key stan Hage Shuuji [cali≠gari] Arisu is iconic (Missalina Rei) God I used to listen to DYNAMITE GIRL everyday (BY-SEXUAL) THE most iconic duo in VK, DO NOT @ ME (Sister's No Future) Been diving back into their discography recently (NOISY CROWDS) Noi'X though, they hold a special place in my heart Speed-id is a mood It'd be a crime to leave out my all time favorite! (Malice Mizer) A trip they are, Noir Fleurir

There's no unproblematic bandomen, they may be only more or less problematic in comparison with each other...

I'm generation Y and I started to listen vk in the 2000s. Poland always had relatively small fanbase, so most of the bands avoided our country :(. Back then I watched videos on yt, and tried to download albums from bearshare or other softwares (I didn't know about soulseek), but very slow internet was very annoying. Now is so much better

I am Gen Y 😃. I discover VK was young by a French Rock Magazine they talk about European, American and Visual Kei band because many bands who comes in France in 2000's and I see no one because I was young and I live a small town. In these you can buy a European Edition of visual kei cds for many bands but not all. In this time , many bands haven't a Youtube Channel, and many MV uploads from TV or CDs. In this time you had many shows , lives and MVs from Nico Nico Douga was free in start. After certain shows was not free and you had to pay. And I created a old account for free (maybe he's dead). After the decline of Visual Kei in Europe , I buy CDs from Japan . I am happy when labels and bands created their YouTube channels and they streaming their music on Spotify and Amazon.

Love the PV. Looking forward to this!

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In all seriousness i kinda doubt a lot of those beep boop angura-adjacent weirdos would be up to anything shady (just by virtue of half of them seeming too awkward for it in the first place lol)

Removed all off-topic discussion. Keep it to the subject.

fucking love this one

I heard from a reliable source that he was high as he was doing it, donned in a full SS-uniform

The timeline I've chosen to live in is the one where he's trying to pitch the guys a flight to Siberia in order to perform at the ROCKNROLL PUB just to get foreign gya

Great initiative, there's definitely not enough LUNA SEA discussion on the board. This is such a classic that it's difficult to even begin to talk about it. For me this is the epitome of LUNA SEA. A perfect mix of their early rawness and the soft/poppy sound they did from EDEN up until STYLE. Not to mention their timeless classic ROSIER is on this album. It is to me, their best album and probably one of the best visual kei albums ever to be released. Every song on this album is way too good. The ones that stand out a bit from the rest to me are: Genesis of mind, Loveless, In future, Face to face and Rosier.

By the way I just had to check if I remembered right and looks like I was correct Retsu has an extremely thirsty fan from that bum town on his IG. DIMLIM is legit going to Siberia so Retsu can get laid.

The preview sounds better than their last works.

I quite like Reminiscence and Anemone, I also prefer Chronos over the last few title tracks they've released! It's the lipstick, Sono rediscovered lipstick.

This album was such a let down, I mean they can do whatever the hell they want so go on change styles but it's just some wasted talent man... Chedoara and previous releases were so much better, even when they started changing a bit in rijin it was still good but this is just plain, boring and forgettable like you could play any of the songs in the album rn and I wouldn't be able to tell which one is it

yikes less than 300 views in a day lmaaoooo fucking rip yohio I can't believe how this dude can't dedicate himself to any project he starts. He can obviously rip off gazette musically, sing and scream very well and design merch for himself and what have you. And despite all that, he doesn't commit to a consistent release schedule, he doesn't stick with any project he starts ( remember the girl band? remember awoken by silence? remember this oskar he was hyping on his label? actually remember his label in general? or his podcast for that matter ) By the time a nobody vk band like Jigsaw or something has put out release after release while struggling to stay alive in cut-your-hair-or-die no welfare Japan, this dude has only flexed to an ever-dwindling number of people on twitter in an attempt to become a motivational speaker or something. He's accomplished astoundingly little after the second solo album came out and it's been years. He's obviously from a rich family and definitely hasn't worked a day in his life because his malnourished manlet child-body looks like wouldn't survive a day in the cold, so why the fuck can't he get anything done when he has all the time in the world to sit on his ass and play video games? I loved second and third DISREIGN pvs so I'm just blown away how someone can be almost legit for one minute and a total flop for the remaining 59.

I love this list its surpising to always see how old some bands are.My god i didnt expect OZ on this list at all i remember listening to them in High school lol same for vivid 69-II was like my second vk song its so good. Lol DIM - i honestly liked only every other song in this album it was pretty good tho. A couple of note worthy albums i thought should have made this list. MUCC - Kyuutai D - Genetic World And~Eccentric Agent~ - - & - (I agree with NICKT here) NEGA - Grave Of The Sacrifice

Amazing list! Definitely a year that got me amped on VK. Only album that really stuck out for me by not being on the list was Matenrou Opera's "Anomie" -- awesome record!

1. Well, I agree with @yomii's point of not accusing a song of ghostwriting until I know for sure that it is. Better to let a guilty person go than to condemn an innocent person (in my eyes, at least). 2. I guess "idol kei" is a somewhat broad and debatable term, but when I first saw this term used, I assumed it meant simply generic and mass-produced instead of created from individual passion, so I'll go with that. To me, the indicators of an idol kei band would be nowt more than bland looks and music, possibly accompanied by some quickly overused gimmick (*cough cough* face reveals *cough cough cough*) and a relatively short, forgettable career. 3. Difficult for me to say, as I wasn't active in the community again until about last year. I took a bit of a break and I didn't really find out anything that was going on at the time. As much as I'd like to try, it'd be pretty much impossible for me to pin a date on this. 4. By definition, no. If it's bland, I won't care for it. Everyone's definitions of "bland" are different from each other, so if I personally find something that fits my description of the word, then I won't like it. There are, of course, bands forming today that I do like. For example, SHiSHi are pretty much one of my favourites already. Also, whatever happened to Blue Blood Boa? That one song I heard from them was fantastic. Please tell me I didn't simply miss anything from them. But I digress... 5. For me, personally? Somewhat. Just because something doesn't adhere to my tastes, that doesn't mean for sure that it's hurting the music scene, however I do have a very low opinion of ghostwriting, so if that is indeed the case and I see cold, hard proof of that fact, then it's a cold, hard yes. 6. Because I'm a young'un who didn't discover it until the 2010s! To answer the last point of "what does it give me", that's actually quite difficult to say. Obviously, the visual aspect caught twelve-year-old me's attention because the arse-end of England doesn't exactly have an abundance of middle-aged men with animoo hairstyles who look prettier than women in their twenties, but it's the musical aspect that's more important to me, and as long as there are existing/disbanded bands who formed some time ago that I love (e.g. Moran, Sugar, DIAURA, etc) and the odd band forming every now and again that can really hold my attention (SHiSHi probably being the best example of this), I'm going to stay. I guess you could say I came for the hot guys and I stayed for the great music, so if the music does indeed turn completely stale (which, tbh, probably won't happen because I don't think there's ever a 100% terrible music genre), I'll go somewhere else... although I can't think where. I genuinely cannot imagine what kind of music I could get properly into like I have J-rock, and I am not going back to my emo phase. People see my hair and they think I'm still in it sometimes, but they shoulda seen me back then 😮 hoo, boy. Anyways, I've spent longer typing this than I probably should have and now my dinner's likely getting cold.

ok, i think i grasped the concept more or less but i can't remember any other examples of so-called idol kei bands. maybe it's because i don't pay any attention to such bands? i really couldn't care less about both a9 in their current state and golden bomber. thank you for thorough explanation! and what bands openly don't play their own music? i've heard only smth about arlequin and some other goemon label. been thinking about this some time ago too, i'm concerned about if we have bands who will be able to replace big shots such as gazette, mucc and so on? but i think it's too early to draw conclusions. also i don't agree that there were no classics released after 2013, the same chedoara drew so much attention i don't think it would be forgotten so easily. now the questions 1) if there's no proof i won't say the music was ghostwritten 2) since i didn't knew a thing about idol kei until an hour ago maybe i shouldn't talk too much about it w i find nekkichi's definition very reasonable though, since that's kinda what idol phenomenon is about. 3) idk cause i've only heard about hiring composers for arlequin and some other goemon band. 4) aaand since i've heard about arlequin having ghostwriters i was pretty much salty about them. i wasn't impressed by their music before that either, so i decided just not to fuck with them at all., but then i had to give them a listen during a trade-off and it was a solid song, not the one i would go crazy about but it was okay. and the thing i liked most in it was vocal, and i hope it was the voice of the actual vocalist ww so i'm not too hard on them now, but i'd still prefer that rock bands wrote music themselves. 5) like i said before, i don't like ghostwriting in rock music. for me rock of any kind still means some kind of rebel, and there's no rebel in playing what someone other wrote for you. not all vk bands are rock bands though, so my explanation isn't very accurate, but i hope you get what i mean. 6) i've had a break from vk for a couple of years, and still here i am, so i can say vk means really a lot for me. the reason i've returned to this mess is it resonates with me . like, i think it's pretty obvious what vk can give me what other music can't. i'm speaking not only about the visual aspect, but like have you heard something like lolita23q, nightmare, 9gbo and so on? i know vk is inspired by other genres but the final product is unique. but of course visuals are important too, not because these boys are cute but because people create a certain image, a fantasy, and i love how people are making themselves pieces of living art.

Mad Sky (Pierrot) What do you dream about?