kyoselflove

Wow that's crazy. I would fail at that so bad.  Me and school don't work lol.

I'm sleepy xD
 

I didn't even see this thread before....
 
Lulz

I googled 'black tongue' on images, and omg.  Don't.  xD

I'm in ! 
 

 
The verse is addictive as fuck, the chorus is so powerful, but still has the melancholy that characterize the band's sound. We have Kou's fucking beautiful and controlled voice, it's heaven y'know.
I just can't. I think I'm gonna die of heart attack when I'll see THE dl thread lol.
 
 
 
I cannot afford to buy singles anymore (as you may know - it breaks my heart :s), but trust me, their first future full album will be DAY ONE (and I'm hoping that some "old" songs will be in the tracklist - if it's not I'm not against some sort of best-of XD I trust the japanese for that, they know what they're doing lol).  
And if they're following this path they'll break everything. They have everything that they need to be a major success in the industry.   Let's spread the shounen' love !    

What are you talking about?

You be pimping Moran everywhere xD

I prefer CD's because they are small and more readily available.  I love LP's but I simply do not have the space for them lol.  I would love tapes more if I didn't get my heart broken so many times by them getting eaten by tape players T__T

Hey everyone, I've been a long time lurker around here but have finally decided to introduce myself. I am a 19 yr old male who has been listening to Japanese music since 2011 and have become obsessed with it, also a fan of anime and JRPGS. On a side note this website is really awesome and hopefully we can all get along
 
Some of my favourite bands are
- 9Goats Blackout
- llll -Ligro- 
- Deadman
- D'espairsray
- Dezert
- D.I.D.
- Lament
- Ling Tosite Sigure
- Malice Mizer
- MUCC
- Rentrer En Soi
- Sel'm
- Versailles 
 
 
 

Woo-hoo, at least one other Saturn owner here

kyoselflove is a fellow Sega fan, I see!

Because I'm a fail and I don't know how to copy and paste the desktop itself to insert it here, I've found the pic itself:

Chosen because, for the most obvious reason, I love them to death, they look so fab. And secondly, and more importantly, when visitors come round, my mama is super embarrassed when they see the family computer desktop wallpaper. >xD She loves me so much haha. It's so funny because Yuuki's clothing and pose is probably the most sexual thing I'd go as far as to display on the computer lol. Mama's proud.

We going old school here?
Here's one from 2005!

I see PS2 is still the system of choice.
Or people are just stuck with it hah.

Oh lord.
 
PS4, PS3, PS2, PS1, PSX, Xbox 360, Xbox, Wii, Gamecube, Nitendo 64, SNES, NES, Dreamcast, Saturn, SEGA CD, Genesis, Sega Master System, 3DS, DS, Gameboy Advance, Gameboy Color, Gameboy, Playstation Vita, PSP, Sega Nomad, Sega Gamegear, Atari, and The Odyssey.
 
I think that's it.  All of them in my living room available to hook up.

Is it heroin? Or cocaine? No one knows, but once you've got a taste of it, you can't live without it.
 
It's 9 days until the release date, and probably 2-3 days more until it gets leaked. That makes over 10 bangmeless days, over 10 days of torturing anxiety and thrilling excitement.
 
So gather up all the addicts, and let your feelings out.
 
Did you miss your father's birthday because you couldn't stop listening to the PV spot?
Is your BF going to break up with you unless you stop listening to the PV spot?
Did your cat die of hunger because you simply forgot to feed it?
 
We are not here to judge you. We are here to support you.
 

It depends on what kind of VK you like. For someone who really likes eg. Royz, I wouldn't even compare them to GazettE, Alice Nine, ViViD or SuG. They all have their distinctive sounds. Though there are many bands that have the same synth-driven sound as Royz, I must say that you picked all the wrong bands

^Yep. It's from the 15th anniversary Niconico thing PLC did recently.
 

More Toshiya, cause I can. Right? xD

I'm nostalgically attached to NIL, but my taste appreciates DIM more. But both albums have their pros and cons, and are still strong releases in the band's discography.
 
NIL feels a bit more organic overall since it's not constrained to a specific aesthetic like DIM - basically, there's more variety. DIM on the hand seems to have a clear-cut vision (from the highly stylized PVs, to the artwork, to the incessant use of SE tracks in an attempt to guide you through that vision), and as such, the songs on the album don't step too far out of line from that vision. They managed to achieve an amazing sense of cohesion with DIM - almost as if the album tells a story. Personally, I think that ambiguous, yet palpable "story" of DIM is what draws listeners to this album over NIL - which I think was also a good effort, but feels more just like "another VK album", ya know?
 
That's not to say NIL isn't worthwhile. With the atmosphere of DIM being so thick, it's easy for that album to feel oppressive, while NIL has a kind of levity permeating throughout it. Another thing I enjoy about NIL is the fact that there are more solos and much more going on guitar-wise, while DIM is riddled with breakdowns and mirrored-chugging (which gets old fast especially when there are 2 guitarists). The guys of gazette may not be super-technical guitar/drum-gods, but they can rock out with their instruments when they want to and I would have liked to hear more of that in DIM. In that sense, many of the songs on DIM felt a bit sterile. Tracks like "13STAIRS[-]1" and "Nakigahara" - while great, presented a slew of musical opportunities for the gazette that they failed to capitalize on. "Nakigahara" was begging for a solo or some sort of instrumental fuckery, but instead drug on for like 3 minutes too long. "13STAIRS[-]1" was something new and fresh for the gazette, and still stands out in their discography today, so they really could have experimented a bit more if they wanted to. And the gazette doesn't have to get all progressive or anything - even if one song on DIM had an instrumental section on it like NIL's "baretta", I would have been more satisfied!
 
But with everything said, I still prefer DIM overall. Despite it's flaws, the album and everything surrounding it were curated so fantastically, and that's not always an easy feat achieve - in vk or anywhere else.

MRC and the subsequent singles have really been the best shit this band has put out, and they've become the only visual kei band I give a toss about anymore. Blackdoll's insistence on discrediting the "old school" all the bloody time is very strange, considering that I don't think any other band today takes cues from the visual kei tradition and does it as respectfully as Lycaon does. Their sound now is such an unique blend of contemporary influences and old school trademarks that they can actually make songs like TABOO without coming across as a parody band like all the revival bands that have been popping up lately. 
 
The peoples fascination towards their earliest releases I wish was a mystery to me, but quite frankly it isn't. It is not the first time the bulk of the community gets conned by a repackaged Asian Limp Bizkit. Upon closer examination one should note how they're more aggressive now than they've ever been before, it's just that they're being more subtle with it. Long gone are the simian nu-metal grooves of their old music and Yuuki's performance has evolved beyond the juvenile cries and growls of a solipsistic coward into something powerful that actually bares relevance in the visual kei canon. Yuuki's undeniable front man chops and the aggressive as shit synth, drops and church bells on 残酷のサロメ get more across than the imbecilic meathead riff and bland VK shtick on 88 ever could. 
 
Their concept has been developed to a fine point and unlike pretty much any other band in the scene today, they're getting more abrasive as they go along. The divided opinion on this band only goes to show that they're more relevant than all those sappy droning dogshit bands that the visual kei intelligentsia approves of. Eros pissed people off? Good. They can sod off and go be false elsewhere ( maybe bad metal is still in the vogue, go pollute their scene ). 
 
In short: This band rules and people who don't like their visuals should give up on visual kei and go listen to Korn instead like they really want to. 

Best thread evvvvva.
 



 
hehehehe.

I need big glasses to obscure my tiny Asian eyes.
This is part of my "Prospect" series (2 of 2).
 

"Up prospect"