MaikoMizu

INTERSTING:
 
So it seems the COVERS FOR DOGMA AND UGLY are part of  so called MOTHERLAND CHRONICLES by TOBIAS KWAN so we could easily look on another new release after UGLY or next MOVEMENT!! CHECK IT OUT!!
 
We will have to wait and see...
 

 
 
CREDITS: GAZETTE FANS

limited-period session band "CLear" has changed to formal band at 2015/10/01, and they will hold their first live at HOLIDAY SHINJUKU at 2015/10/19
 
"CLear" members:
Vo.涼多(ryouta) (透明世界-toumei sekai-)
Gt.渉(wataru)
Gt.かい(kai) (ex-ADONIS)
Ba.心(kokoro) (ex-Vernal Sense-->透明世界-toumei sekai-(support))
Dr.たろ。(taro) (透明世界-toumei sekai-)
 

 
http://worldofclear.wix.com/main

Got my Closet Child package!

the GazettE - Juuyonsai no Naifu
Deathgaze - 294036224052
lynch. - EXODUS-EP [Limited Edition]
lynch. - GALLOWS [First Press]

English comment video with BLAZE by V STAR PROMOTION

The thing is, I actually like this song. Instrumentally wise, its cool. But Vocally, its one of the reasons why Carpe Diem went straight to the trash after listening to it. This doesn't sound like Yomi at all. I get the whole change thing but If i didn't watch this video, id be asking "when did they replace him?"
 
Idk....Nightmare is kinda irrelevant to me at this point, sad to say. They can bang out some boss songs here and there but its like AVEX got them fools by the nuts so hard that they really can't make anything thats worth more than 1 listen these days. But i guess this happens. I'ma still poke around and see what they doing out of curiosity though. 
 
Whatever. 
Next.

Some rarez and lots of super cheap shit


Fun fact: SCREW S/T, which I snagged for ~¥500 was sealed.
Oh, and MISSA and the R指定 comment DVD are free gifts from the one and only @kyoselflove!

brodiaea - RiSE

With FromJapan you can use other shipping options too. The lowest for sending a single CD would likely be Airmail for ¥410, which usually arrives in Europe within a week.

Or, you can try buying from Puresound. シリアルキラー
*you have to pay using a credit/debit card through another company that PureSound uses.
*You have to use EMS shipping so expect to spend between 1200-1500yen for shipping. There's also a credit charge of 200yen.
 
They usually reply in 1-3 days. All you have to do is send them an email ([email protected]) with this information (I filled it out as a sample):
 
 
They'll contact you to make sure they have the items and then let you know the total. Then you'll get an email from "NICOS", which is the company they consign the credit payment to, pay them, and that's it.
 
If Brand-X doesn't work out, I hope this is another option you can use.
Good luck!

It is obvious that Youtube is fully ready to take advantage of their monopoly to start disregarding 'have-not's', squeezing as much revenue as possible and selling customers both the disease and the cure in an endless cycle until the next big change in entertainment mediums.
Disease: Commercials
Cure: Pay for no ad's (only really useful on console or mobile since no adblock).
Disease: Can't minimize Youtube on mobile.
Cure: Now you can pay to minimize it (useful when you want to do something else on your phone while listening to music or speech not in your library, or have phone in your pocket and don't want random vids pocket played).
Disease: Can no longer watch most of the content you previously could.
Cure: Exciting news guys, that stuff that used to be free is now 9.99
Etc...
Also saving vids is so easily done, I even had the option to do it via the app when I first got my phone? Seems like they really wanted some additions to throw into the Youtube Red pitch to make it seem like people are actually receiving some kind of added value or improvement in their experience by paying 9.99 for the same old crap.
I can almost taste how bad the new music recommendation system will be. It steadily gets worse and worse by trying to force certain artists on you, but it'll now be all about pushing their big artists and Youtube stars more than ever, so I'll be watching Mejibray or Dir en grey or something and Youtube will act like they really think the next video I really want to see is the latest booty song or Taylor Swift Behind the Scenes, or the Smosh Movie.
So yeah, they definitely changed the game in entertainment and did big things for changing how we access content and how people live, but let that get to their heads, losing the plot of providingan amazing amount.of content for free to anyone with web access. Now it's time to make some more cash grabs as they have no new vision or direction to take themselves that will actually serve the people.

I can get this for free with adblock+keepvid. No, thanks.

@yakihiko brought this to my attention! I think it's really interesting and deserves more of my attention.
 
http://youtube-global.blogspot.com/2015/10/red.html
 


This reads to me like YouTube is working their way into that area of the arena alongside services like Netflix and Hulu. But wait there's more... 
http://gizmodo.com/youtubers-are-up-in-arms-about-youtube-red-1738022087


Of course no large-scale change is without its hiccups but the allegations leveraged by the 1% seem serious enough to rethink the whole initiative (although the allegations about less content can be solved by logging out, but still...).

Do you think YouTube Red is a good idea? Are you a YouTube content creator? Did you sign up already?

Bleh, just saw this news. I bought all their CDs (at least, the ones I could find) cuz I love Yuuto's vocals. Definitely going to follow whatever Yuuto does next.

#Earthbending but I enjoyed this series so much over the current installment. 

The shit i find on tumblr LOL WTF

My hair is finally growing out, yay. ;v;
 

This is literally the only scene that I remembered from the first few episodes of Attack on Potatoes. Everything else I just kind of slept through.

I prefer photosets over cheki. Photosets are at least professionally done, probably printed on better quality photo paper and sometimes bigger. I really dislike the cheap look of stupid blurry polaroid photos, where you often can't even see the outfit properly. I also see no point wasting so much money for a crappy photo instead of a well done one. Good, photosets don't have the uniqueness factor, but I am no collector anyway.
Do bands nowadays even sell photosets? VK groups used to sell a lot back in the day. But nowadays it seems all you get are chekis. Or sometimes a single photo as an extra bonus (at CDJapan for example).
 
 
Also agree with the opinion about the -core trend. There are a few I actually like (Nega, Mejibray to some extend), but overall I prefer even the mid 00s Nu Metal groups over that whole -core trend. The Nu Metal groups were already derivative with their chugga chugga beats and trashing the same chords on the guitar. But most Visual kei -core acts aren even worse.
 
First the vocals totally suck. VK vocalists just can't growl. Give me late 90s to early 00s screams and harsh singing, those were fine. But the vocal chord disrupting mess that has been popular since ca 2004? No, thanks.
Guitar work has become even more stale. Now it's just breakdown after breakdown, a few misplaced solos, the rest is chugga chugga crap. Occasionally there is the totaly unfitting dubstep-techno-bloop shit and poppy vocals. I feel most modern VK songs are disjointed and sound like two or more songs mashed together.
 
Ulitmately, and this is my own subjective experience, I feel bands like Deviloof and Nocturnal Buttlust are erasing everything that made VK kind of unique and seperated it from other japanese rock music. Now I know the eternal dispute wether or not VK is really a musical genre (with most people saying it isn't), but to me Visual kei has (or had) it's own sound. Yes, it changed several times throughout it's almost 30 years timespan, but certain elements were always there. And you don't have to look at revival bands like Grieva or Sibilebashir to find them. Even in groups like Keel, emmurée or even (early) Nega and Ayabie you have/had elements that went as far back as into the 90s.
But the more we venture further into the future, the more VK moves away from its roots. Bands like deviloof are just like generic deathcore. There is nothing in those groups' sound that hints at any Visual kei connection at all. Even funnier, some of these bands started out as Metalcore and only got into VK because they probably want to have some extra bangyas. They could do just fine being a regular deathcore band. Same problem with those unbearable host kei groups and same tactic. VK was always a bangya magnet, but it's sad to see how it has become only that.

Not japanese, but still cool stuff i got today

Dual screen, Ubuntu Gnome 

Disturbed - The Sound Of Silence (Simon&Garfunkel cover)

Also hoping Yuuto starts another band, he's a great vocalist