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Thank you all for wearing seatbelts.

love hate nimbly~
love hate nimbly~
the fortune flower told me that I should care about you - one-sided love

It would automatically be oni from Ganglion.
She's just simply amazing <3

Yay!!!
Finally have arrived my copy of Timeless!!! with a nice Bangme sticker :banana:
plus the magazine Gab vol.79
 

Atsushi Sakurai owns my soul.
 

I can't say for AvelCain since I never really followed them but you should check out Lycaon's schedule from October until their last live:
 
10/2 twoman live (Tokyo)
-2 days off-
10/5 oneman live (Tokyo)
-3 days off-
10/9 event live (Nagoya)
-2 days off-
10/12 oneman (Nagoya)
10/13 event live (Nagoya)
10/14 instore x2 (Tokyo)
10/15 event live (Tokyo)
10/16 event live (Sendai)
10/17 instore (Sendai)
10/18 instore (Niigata)
10/19 event live (Niigata)
-2 days off-
10/22 event live (Nagoya)
10/23 event live (Nagoya)
10/24 instore x2 (Nagoya)
10/25 event live (Gifu)
-4 days off-
10/30 event live (Osaka)
10/31 instore x2 (Osaka)
11/1 instore (Osaka)
-1 day off-
11/3 event live (Tokyo)
-2 days off-
11/6 Last Live (Tokyo)
 
This of course doesn't account for rehearsal days. Then there's the time spent traveling across the country by car.
The 12th to the 19th looks especially insane. Do you know how long it takes to drive from Nagoya to Tokyo, Tokyo to Sendai, Sendai to Niigata, then Niigata to Nagoya?
 
Also keep in mind that leaving a label isn't that simple. It's not like they could've just up and left Shimizuya and continued the band under the same name and performing the same songs that Shimizuya owns the rights to.

literally 2 pages and nobody has mentioned gackt yet? FOR SHAME YALL

I can't say for AvelCain since I never really followed them but you should check out Lycaon's schedule from October until their last live:
 
10/2 twoman live (Tokyo)
-2 days off-
10/5 oneman live (Tokyo)
-3 days off-
10/9 event live (Nagoya)
-2 days off-
10/12 oneman (Nagoya)
10/13 event live (Nagoya)
10/14 instore x2 (Tokyo)
10/15 event live (Tokyo)
10/16 event live (Sendai)
10/17 instore (Sendai)
10/18 instore (Niigata)
10/19 event live (Niigata)
-2 days off-
10/22 event live (Nagoya)
10/23 event live (Nagoya)
10/24 instore x2 (Nagoya)
10/25 event live (Gifu)
-4 days off-
10/30 event live (Osaka)
10/31 instore x2 (Osaka)
11/1 instore (Osaka)
-1 day off-
11/3 event live (Tokyo)
-2 days off-
11/6 Last Live (Tokyo)
 
This of course doesn't account for rehearsal days. Then there's the time spent traveling across the country by car.
The 12th to the 19th looks especially insane. Do you know how long it takes to drive from Nagoya to Tokyo, Tokyo to Sendai, Sendai to Niigata, then Niigata to Nagoya?
 
Also keep in mind that leaving a label isn't that simple. It's not like they could've just up and left Shimizuya and continued the band under the same name and performing the same songs that Shimizuya owns the rights to.

I didn't expect this to happen so soon after Lycaon's disbandment but I'm honestly not too surprised considering that Izumi overworks and underpays bands. I'm sure they're disbanding to escape him.
Signing with Shimizuya is basically a death sentence.
I hope Sibile doesn't meet the same fate but I wouldn't be surprised if they also disbanded within the next year or two.
 
Also Kaede will be retiring from vk.

I didn't expect this to happen so soon after Lycaon's disbandment but I'm honestly not too surprised considering that Izumi overworks and underpays bands. I'm sure they're disbanding to escape him.
Signing with Shimizuya is basically a death sentence.
I hope Sibile doesn't meet the same fate but I wouldn't be surprised if they also disbanded within the next year or two.
 
Also Kaede will be retiring from vk.

come to brazil

Very random band battle. This is an easy one for me. 
 
I've never liked Girugamesh but I was really into Ayabie from 04 to 08 though I personally liked them best when Ryohei was in the band.

You're right. Ayabie was much better.

Very random band battle. This is an easy one for me. 
 
I've never liked Girugamesh but I was really into Ayabie from 04 to 08 though I personally liked them best when Ryohei was in the band.

Very random band battle. This is an easy one for me. 
 
I've never liked Girugamesh but I was really into Ayabie from 04 to 08 though I personally liked them best when Ryohei was in the band.

I miss ayabie full stop. Never got into or even tried girugamesh's early works unlike ayabie so I'm vouching for ayabaes too.

whut? what is this random poll xD
 
I'm personally old ayabie all the way but, I really don't understand why did you choose these two bands? You put zero indications of your choice.
Because they have nothing in common. Like, nothing. So, if you see similarities, please explain, I'm all ears.

Finally found a copy of ネットで叩いてゃノレ！ by マイナス人生オーケストラ
And tbh my collection of MJO releases is pretty much as complete as it will ever get.
I have at least one version of pretty much all their important songs.
Well, I am still searching for アイアムアロボット though.

I saw this topic and thought of one visual kei band immediately and that would be Viored. 
I'm not out to write a biography but from what I can remember, Viored were a visual kei band active around the mid to late 00's. They sported a typical hard rock sound with some metal influences but what really caught my attention was the vocalist and the guitar work. The polyphony in their compositions was something that was really lacking in the scene and was a nice touch, as they were most active during the "metalcore-phase" where bands like GHOSE and VAJRA ran rampant. Their vocalist Kei was an interesting fellow: he had a high pitched vocalist I would liken to NoGoD's Danchou - although much less refined - and their sound could be described as "hard rock lifting inspiration from white kei while channeling metalcore on B-sides to lure tsunagari to the merchandise bench". Some good stuff, some okay stuff, and some songs I haven't listened to once so you can say they were all over the place.
They weren't the most active but they were persistent and consistent, releasing many singles. They grew pretty fast and were a popular band both in Japan and internationally, which is something that rarely happens but signals good things for a band! Unfortunately the band fell apart when the vocalist's girlfriend convinced him to leave visual kei and "get a real job" and Kei went AWOL before informing the band that he was done. Viored pulled the whole "we can't continue without him" schtick and disbanded after releasing a best-of.
The Beautiful Dead Song gets stuck in my head every time I think of them so I linked it below.

I'm so there

Hopefully he can use his tax evasion voodoo to bring back Hisui from eternal sleep

Finally got TIMELESS with a sticker.
 

I've only been to two lives outside of Japan (The Candy Spooky Theater in Boston in 2007 and Ayabie in New York in 2008)
Bands used to come within traveling distance but I was really young back then so it was impossible for me to go most of time. (D'espairsRay.......)
 
I went to a lot of lives when I studied abroad in Tokyo from September 2012 to August 2013 but I don't think I ever kept track of every single live I went to. I can work on compiling that another time.
 
Last summer I went back for three months (5/24 - 8/20) and kept a better record so I can start with that.
 
5/2014 
25th - Souiumono/Ayabie/Minus Jin-Say Orchestra/REIGN/Grieva/ @ Ikebukuro EDGE 31st - GALLO/Elm twoman @ Birth Shinjuku   6/2014 1st - SAVAGE oneman @ Ikebukuro EDGE 6th - BORN oneman @ Shinjuku LOFT 7th - GALLO oneman @ AREA 13th - Chanty/REIGN/ALSDEAD/xTRiPx/etc @ AREA 14th - Lycaon oneman @ Shinjuku Blaze 18th - Avelcain oneman @ O-West 20th - GALLO/The Velvet/Dada/Venom/The Black Swan/etc. @ Ruido K4 23rd - Zoro/Gigamous/Wing Works/REIGN @ Ikebukuro EDGE 24th - Dangan no Limit/Zoro/Memento Mori/Monolith/Souiumono/etc. @ AREA 25th - Marble Head/GALLO/Elm/Sibile Bashir/etc. @ Ikebukuro EDGE 30th - The 3rd Birthday Free Oneman @ Shinjuku Birth   7/2014 1st - SAVAGE/SCAPEGOAT/+10 no name bands including melvel @ Shinjuku Birth 5th - GALLO/Sibile Bashir/etc. @ Ikebukuro Cyber 6th - LuLu’s restart live (plus Avanchick as the secret band, Danger Gang and 8 other bands, and Maria......) @ Ikebukuro Cyber 8th - SAVAGE/Arlequin/etc @ AREA 9th - REIGN/Arlequin/Gigamous/Nihilizm/Shounenki/etc. @ AREA 11th - GALLO/REIGN/Arlequin/AvelCain/Lin/Avanchick/etc. @ Shibuya REX 13th - SAVAGE/Avelcain/CELL/etc. @ Urawa Narciss (I only made it on time to see Avelcain and CELL though) 16th - The 3rd Birthday/SAVAGE/Scapegoat/the:0/etc. @ Shinjuku Birth 19th - REIGN/gossip/Nihilizm/one more band? Gigamous I think? @ AREA 21st - VRZEL/Shedia/a billion session bands @ Shinjuku Birth 24th - 2nd awake/etc. @ Ikebukuro EDGE 26th - BORN oneman @ Shinjuku BLAZE 29th - GALLO/Misaruka/BUG SCREAM/etc. @ Ikebukuro Cyber 30th - SCAPEGOAT/ALSDEAD/Nihilizm/The Black Swan/Avanchick/xTRiPx/etc. @ Ikebukuro EDGE   8/2014 1st - GALLO/SaTaN/Avelcain/CELL/etc. @ Meguro Rokumeikan 2nd - Test-No./dieS/Dear loving/the tissue. @ Takadanobaba Club Phase 3rd - GALLO/D.I.D/Poltergeist/Shounenki/Rozero/etc. @ Takadanobaba AREA 10th - 2nd awake/Log/Squair/etc. @ Ikebukuro EDGE 11th - LuLu/etc. @ Shibuya REX 12th - GALLO/Ensoku/Minus Jin-Say Orchestra/Moran/Anli Pollicino/XIBALBA/yazzmad/Misaruka/Lin/DEEP RAVE/Pan-d-ra/GIGA FREAKS/etc. @ Saitama Kaikan Hall 15th - SaTaN/The Velvet/etc. @ Ikebukuro Chop 16th - SaTaN @ Ikebukuro Live inn ROSA 17th - GALLO/etc. @ Ikebukuro Cyber 19th - GALLO/CELL/Sick2/yazzmad/etc. @ Urawa Narciss     Some memories 6/7: Jojo singing the first opening for Jojo's Bizarre Adventure at the beginning of the encore. Also moshing with Jojo and Hikaru during Mimizu. It's usually just Hikaru but Jojo got down with us since it was his birthday. He got his ass tossed around like a ragdoll. 6/20: I felt like I was about to throw up the entire live, and I particularly felt horrible during Gallo's set but I tried to have as much fun as I could. The band definitely noticed as I got both Hikaru and Wajou's picks and some worried looks that evening. I left after their set and ran into the former vocalist of a band I liked in middle school and talked to him a bit. 6/25: Marblehead entered the stage from the back of the room and walked through the audience while the bassist was holding the vocalist by a leash. It was so wtf but I quite liked them. 7/6: Taa dumped a crate of ice cubes on us then we went straight into Dekiai Kuranke and everyone was slipping everywhere. Taa also climbed up to the mezzanine, dove on us, and we carried him back to the stage, and then sat on my head and almost ripped out my earring. Oh Taa.... 7/26: During the encore Ryoga stage dove directly on me and my friend knocking us down to the floor and landing right on top of us. He kicked me in the face as he got himself up and used my friend's chest as a step to get himself back on stage, and when he got back on stage he spat water on us. Thanks dude. 8/10: I was dosen for 2nd Awake and when Aika came down to two step with us during Contradiction he tripped over my feet and almost fell on a bunch of gya in the second row.  8/12: HaL got off stage during one song and started crawling and flipping all over the seats in the front-left section of the venue trying to get people to sing for him.