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I'm happy to announce MH's very first Halloween Contest!
 
The rules are simple to get this community into Halloween mood we want you to show us - for example your super scary costumes, creepy make-up or something else you prepared for this day like some freaking awesome decoration? you're free to chose whatever you want to do just be creative! Of course the winner will get a prize too  He/She will be decided via voting
Deadline for the submissions will be the 10/24. Deadline for the voting will be the 10/31 
 
 
I hope to see many of you taking part in this Contest, enjoy~ & good luck!

 
 
 

The most important thing that one can tell themselves in 2016 is: Stop doing nothing all the damn time

Sick² new single "罪と罰とマゾヒスト (tsumi to batsu to masochist)" will be released at 2016/11/2 (3-TYPE)
 
TYPE A will include 2 tracks+DVD and TYPES B & C will include 3 tracks.

I went to work and came back to read more of this thread. Surprising how many people just can't understand why this decision was made despite the mods clearly explaining. Just let things go. Move on as humans or continue to post here and provide more entertainment. 
 
I do hope people feel more motivated to post the news now that it's a free environment to do so.

To just add to the points above - many of the people who have TRIED to contribute news have been constantly antagonized and oppressed by trombe's actions. @Traxanis NOT the only one to have experienced this. What most of you guys DON'T see are the endless complaints about trombe that the staff receives from other members about how their own contributions are being impeded upon. Other great contributors like YNS and numetal were mentioned - the difference is that they don't actively try to prevent other people from contributing as well. They do their part for the community and allow others to do the same. No one has EVER been against trombe posting news. Hell, he's free to post as much news as he wants as often as he wants, but there's no need to step on other people's toes.
 
And to even assume that the staff did not value trombe's contributions is absurd. trombe has been problematic for years now and the staff have tried their hardest to work with, honor, and appease trombe because his contributions were so meaningful. But what do you do when you give someone a special rank, color, and their own special set of permissions - when you give them the power to contribute more efficiently and they just abuse that power? What do you do when you're a staff member trying to address a problem and your efforts to communicate and work out said problem are blatantly ignored? What do you do with a user who is constantly praised and literally the member with the most likes on the entire forum BY FAR, yet this member bitches and moans when a few threads (out of hundreds posted every week) don't get any replies (despite plenty of page views)?
 
The staff have literally bent over backwards for trombe. If It was up to me, I would have perma-banned his ass ages ago - because I wouldn't want to keep dealing with his constant bullshit, his shitty attitude, and his inability to actually talk shit out and reason. Fuck that, he can kick rocks. Dude was fuckin' temp-banned for a week. A MOTHERFUCKING WEEK. Bruh...And yall think the mods don't value this guy? No one in their right minds would continue to put up with this nonsense if they didn't actually give a shit.
 
I mean, I get it. I understand that emotions are high and people are upset about losing a contributor as outstanding as trombe, but at the end of the day, It should also be understood that trombe is leaving of his own accord - not because of the staff, or "trolls", or some ridiculous behind-the-scenes plot. So again, I say good. You should leave if you're not willing to cooperate and be a part of this community.
 

Here's the thing about vk news though: there's no 'original source'.
 
For major and relatively well known bands you can rely on visunavi, NAVER, various 'matome' and news purveyor accounts on Twitter. But otherwise it's down to stalking thousands of bandmen - something which I have literally attempted on my main Twitter account. The result was me getting spammed with 30 tweets every 10 seconds, and THEN I had to sift through the crapload of awkward selfies and useless tweets talking about weather and food. I don't recall, but maybe 0.01% of the feed was useful news? In any case I abandoned that account shortly after because it was unusable.
 
There are also other avenues like LINE accounts, bandmen's ameblo, and 2chan as mentioned. Or you can try typing 始動 and 解散 into twitter search and refresh it every 10 seconds.... if you have that much time. In any case, what a lot of people don't seem to notice (and this is the point @filth_y was making) is that Trombe also posts news that don't "officially" exist on the Internet except maybe, in a bandman's private reply to a fangirl's tweet (I've witnessed this at least twice), or as a casual afterthought in a label staff's ameblo post. (In the latter case, I talked to a band's shikiri and even she wasn't aware that the band would be releasing a CD that day..). Yes, some MH members may have done this before - but to do it consistently for an insane number of bands is a whole different animal.
 
All of this aren't even considering the facts that: (i) these news are in Japanese, so let's not trivialize it as as copy-and-pasting. Translating and formatting it into a news post is a bitch if you consider the volume of news Trombe puts out; (ii) Trombe posts news of bands he doesn't even care about on a regular basis, some of whom comprising members that no one here has even heard of, much less having an interest to follow and post news of.
 
I'm on no one's side at this point. None of this is a defense for what Trombe did, nor is it a suggestion that he should be immune from punishment if he has contravened the rules. I just wanted to provide a corrective to previous comments suggesting that by picking 1 or 2 bands each we will communally be able to cover the ground that Trombe did, as if it was as easy as sitting together and doing some Ctrl C+V while having cereal in front of your computer. Let's just say I'm not that optimistic, because I can't imagine someone, or even a group of competent and extremely free people, going to the lengths Trombe did. Hopefully more people can appreciate the scope of the dirty legwork he has done for MH ("appreciate" as in "understand clearly", not "prostrate yourself"). And before any accusations come my way: I have contributed news of bands I like (including translating full-length interviews of them), and will happily continue to do so. Let's just see what happens.

could this be the most apocalyptic disbandment thread ever since lycaon? #goals #impact

Regardless of what was said in private, I, as an outsider thoroughly enjoyed Trombe's consistent news updates. It takes a lot of time and energy to get as much information as they did, and compared to sites like S-T.net, Jame and others, MH imo had the most current VK news that you just can't find anywhere else.
 
Those updates on up-and-coming bands, irrelevant bands, mainstream bands and whatever else will be sorely missed in my eyes D:

I think that was the problem, ironically.
 
No one here is going to deny that Trombe was a very well known, and informative member on this website for VK news.
Yet, everyone needs to realize that he was just that. A member. No different from any one of us. To my knowledge, he was not being paid to do this.
 
It seems that no one besides the Admins/Moderators, are aware of the situation. No one should be jumping to conclusions. As being a moderator on various websites over the years myself, I understand what a group decision among other mods is like. No right to disrespect, if you don't understand.
 
If you feel that the news section was the ONLY thing making up MH, then perhaps reconsider and take a close look at the rest of the content that our admins have worked hard to provide for us to view and participate in. I find it ironic that some members I have never seen, have posted on this thread, but no other part of the forum.
If you really don't care about anything/anyone else on this site, then why are you even a member? It's an honest question. There are plenty of blogs elsewhere to read for news.
Those of you mentioning that only Trombe made up the forums news section, are placing him on a high pedestal, when you should not. Please find it in your best interests to help populate the news section from now on if you feel you could, as we already have plenty of other members already doing so, and the more the merrier.
 
I love some of the excuses on here to justify their lack of support for the news section.
You don't know where to start looking? Well no one's holding a gun to your head lol just post anything that you come across that has not been posted yet, if ever. It's that simple
No time to post you say? Well, if you can read the content on one website, I'm pretty sure you can copy/paste that same news on here as well.
Don't feel like it? Well, then you have no say on this matter, now do you?
 
Due to the negligence of most of us here at MH, to not provide a piece of content when we probably could have, have allowed one member to dominate a section of the forum to the point where we eventually felt there was no longer a need for other contributors, and newer members saw this member as the ONLY means for new VK news. In a way, it's our fault Trombe became so vital to the community.
Edit: I had heard about Trombe and his PMs of hate on other potential news posters, but I didn't think it was real until now. Nice to see these individuals come forward. Perhaps this will shed some light as to why it seemed that there was no one else BUT Trombe who posted news.
 
Why do I sound like a moderator? lol
Excuse my asshole rant.
 
Thank you for the contributions to this forum Trombe. Good luck on your new blog or website, if you should choose to do so.
No hard feelings.
 

What the heck?? I don't know the events that brought up to this decision, but this is a hard hit for me, since one of the most things I've ever enjoyed here on MH was the daily news about known bands and the introduction of new acts. Compared to other sites, like VKH Press, SR JRock or JaME, the news here are fresh and complete, because you get accidentally to know something that you are going to love for a lot of time...
@TrombeI wish you the best and I thank you for all the great work you have done...
I hope that someone will be good on tracking fresh news as Trombe did, or MH will not be the same anymore...

It's hard to believe that Trombe, who rarely involves in conversations on the forum, could get himself banned periodically.

I don't know what happened, so I'm going to assume there is some reason the mods have all  converged towards that ban and they weren't just being bullies. But even if Trombe was in the wrong, that does not in any way invalidate all the valuable contributions this person brought to the News section and the forum in general. I find it in poor taste to suddenly start acting as if his work wasn't such a big deal or even worse, that it was inconvenient this person was so thorough in news coverage.  I didn't see anyone complain about this before, so It feels disingenuous to start downplaying his/her work now that he/she won't post anymore.  I'm sure it's not the same for everyone here, but take a step back and it's easy to realize some of us were really appreciative of all the news posted, either minor or major, and in very due time. Just an opinion from someone who barely posts and has no  particular sympathies for anyone.

Well, well...this doesn't come completely unexpected but I'm really sad about this.
Sure, not everybody cares about news of young indie bands who might never become popular BUT it was the option to choose wich will be missed.
I'm surely not the only one who discovered 1 or 2 new bands/artists through the news section.
And yes...we can get information ourselves but there are places to look for them we don't even think of but Trombe does ^^
 
I'm sad about this situation and still hope there's a way for a solution to this 'cause MH won't be the same....

bull. i don't want to follow 100500 twitters/amebas/facebooks of all my favorite bands because i don't even like these crappy networks to begin with. and also don't have time to check everything that is relevant for me. it is (was?) MUCH easier to just check the news section once per day and spend like 5-10 minutes to know everything i need to know. now, though... i guess i can survive without these news afterall. 
 
@Trombethanks a lot for all your hard work and good luck in your future doings~

I guess I want, like some others do too, the fact that you emmy don't care doesn't mean it's the case for everyone
 
As long as one person cares about the band, the news is worth posting unlike what you said,
if you want the news section to be just about MEJIBRAY, DADAROMA, Gazette, Dir en grey and some other "big" bands then that's your problem. I want it to be about every bands that form even the crappiest one I would not listen to
 
What do you even expect from a VK news section anyway ?
 
Your personnal opinion on Trombe here is clearly way to important for you to be able to think about the news section in general.

Actually yes. That was the point. If you aren't interesting in some session bands that doesn't automatically mean others aren't interested in them as well.
 
This
 
The amount of news from now on will decrease. News about well known bands are easy to find will be still posted, but obscure bands news will dissapear. That's a pity.
 
@Trombethank you for the work you've done. It actually helped me many times to decide what music I will buy.
 

Everyone thinks you're a robot there I said it

Congrats for killing MH, the main thing of this forum is the fact that there are news posted daily, you can track every releasse including live limited releases
 
if those news don't appear anymore, or 1 out of 10 news appear, where's the point now ?  I honestly don't give a **** about your dramas as long as it doesn't change anything on MH, apparantly now it does.
 
so far nobody was able to post as much news as Trombe does/did
 
if you really decide to stop posting news Trombe then thanks for your amazing work throughout these years and have fun !

Vo.一聖(issei) has recovered his consciousness and has been discharged from intensive care unit as no life-threatening symptoms are noted, and other members and staff have visited to hospital at 2016/05/20

I like a LOT more than what I listed in my profile. I just can't be bothered to remember it all right now. That's what Last.fm is for! lol. 
 
I remembered that I fancy key party and matina label stuff a lot. Noir Fleurir, Madeth Gray'll, Schwardix Mavally, Aliene Ma'riage, Missalina Rei, speed-id, and Eliphas Levi.

I was just watching UnsraW's PV for "-9-" an hour ago and I realized something. Any fucker with a decent voice can be a vocalist... but it takes a special kind of crazy to be a good frontman and Yuuki perfectly demonstrated this. His charisma is a great example of what's needed to really make people pay attention. I adore vocalists with passion in their stage presence. (I realize I just went full fangirl, pardon me)

I was just watching UnsraW's PV for "-9-" an hour ago and I realized something. Any fucker with a decent voice can be a vocalist... but it takes a special kind of crazy to be a good frontman and Yuuki perfectly demonstrated this. His charisma is a great example of what's needed to really make people pay attention. I adore vocalists with passion in their stage presence. (I realize I just went full fangirl, pardon me)

i guess they were fake fans because i sure as fuck never did. and i believe people on here didnt either (maybe my fault).