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I know their MONSTERS album was up but I noticed a couple days ago that albums likes Coll:Set, MIRROR, and their later albums along with their EPs are now on Spotify and Apple Music from what I’ve seen. Just letting you all know. 👍

I just want the 8 second sample teaser that drops 3 hours before the release

Depends on whether we will "feel the pain of human existance" or "feel the speed". Regardless, I do believe this will have a "new sound unimaginable and unlike any music created by the band DIR EN GREY before".
 
Yes, I'm ready for another melodramatic press release.

you can donate 10 million yen to the cause without having to toot your horn about it. he had an announcement for the announcement that he's going to be such a good person. what a fucking nut. the effect would be the same whether or not anyone knows about it and altruistic donation does not require public knowledge. this is 100% a publicity stunt and fuck you YOSHIKI for appropriating this tragedy to promote yourself.

Vocaloid Yoshiki. If Gackt did it, then Yoshiki might also.

Yoshiki is gonna start selling his own bath water I’m calling it 

Limited Mc Yoshiki speciality at Mc Donald. I'm calling it.
 

the way VK it can either be :::::
He got some chick preggers
hung out with kisaki and epstein
sided with Korea on that "Whose   island is it anyway"?
got drunk and discussed politics.
called the gazette, laruku, and X- Japan a bunch of basic bitches
didn't bow the proper angle
smoked a Juul
made jokes about bangyas boobs/ass//hoohas
 
edit:  according to google translate of https://v.2ch2.net/test/read.cgi/visualtanuki/1553573286/1-100
he beat his gf? I could be wrong

serving

I can't but think of the people here going through an album's production with a fucking tape measure and a try square looking for some hot takes as utterly ridiculous dilettantes who are on a quest to rate and evaluate everything they come across from dogs to cats to hotdogs and shoehorning them into some system of cosmically applying universal worth, like a senile bookie trying to get one over the plebs of the board that has rigged the game so many times to his own favor that he has come to believe that's how it's supposed to be played. Unsurprisingly this takes place mostly on the threads related to Dir en grey in one way or another, and I hope that one day whoever supplies the audio equipment to these people decides to send them boxes of tapes containing different bass frequencies and one note sounds recorded with different studio presets, so that they can spend the rest of their lives busy with their ear pressed against the speaker being fully content about that crystal clear HQ sound, because god forbid we'd have to see these people writing about music again when they could be spending their parents money on audio jacks and Pepsi instead. Some of the best releases in rock music history sound like they were recorded with an Xbox 360 headset so fuck off already with this shit and go watch the past seasons of american idol on VCR and pretend to be Simon like you really want to.
 
Considering what vk has been doing from X's look to Kiyoharu's simulated hanging on stage to today, I don't think the word edgy has a place in the conversation with any other role than as a praise full of positive connotations only. While some people sure are eager to please and orientate themselves towards the lamestream taste with their hands and knees begging for their family to listen to their shitty japanese music at family gatherings and hand out positive affirmations, the rest ought to know that the only thing that really matters to any autonomous subject is the sincerity of their self-expression and the intellectual integrity that's solely their own. The general impulse of the public is to take the edges out of everything and grind them down into submission and guilt over being "lame" and "embarrassing," so hopefully instead of edgy music the people here can find things with the coarse edges done polished down so smooth that they'll trip and fall on their heads, becoming completely paralysed and unable to use their hands to write anything as stupid as they are in the future. 
 
 

Love that this is probably meant to be cvlt for "witch" but in Japanese it's perfectly viable to pronounce it like "BITCH"

don't we all…

except for the fact that the fonts are barely legible

If you do understand how elitist and entitled that sounds, okay, to each their own I guess
 
You do realize that they do instores to try to improve sales and bring more people to their concerts, and bonuses are there just because a regular release isn't appealing enough, right? Fighting modernity has never worked before and never will
 
I for one am really happy bands like dimlim and dexcore are putting their releases on spotify and I can somehow support them, instead of giving them exactly 0 cents, which would be the case if I had to download their stuff.
 
 
This is a weird thought. You wouldn't like everything to be on spotify, but would like for it to be readily available on itunes? So people who can't afford the asked price wouldn't be able to have the same access? If you wish to support them harder, there are a lot of ways of doing that with merch, physical copies, instead of limiting access to music. If xTRiPx released their stuff on spotify I would love it and still buy every release I could, because I want to support regardless of access, so stream would just be another form of revenue...

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Beautiful Freaks by MERRY. I understand it's cuz it takes a different route than all their usual stuff, but it's still precious to me as it's my first vk album and it really got me into the band.

I have to thank Serah from Labaiser for posting the link to that article, while also commenting "Labaiser prohibits in-band romances, so we don't have to worry about this". legendddd

shigatsu must be Japanese for "Home wrecking duo"

The third guy must be mad

That title alone was a fuckin ride

We need more industrial bands in VK

"We never end."

oh boy, how am i gonna post all my favorite pvs lol? well, here's a few that i love, mostly old favorites.
 
baroque - ila.
 
baroque - gariron
 
bis - start
 
plastic tree - kuchuu buranko
 
guniw tools - looser sugar
 
deadman - follow the night light (ofc i love additional cause for sorrow too but that has been posted already)
 
girugamesh - kowareteiku sekai
 
dezert - 胃潰瘍とルソーの錯覚
 
aicle. - nekuro no mikon
 
lolita23q - red room
 
tried posting one per band, except for baroque ofc, they're an exception.