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New visual rock band started in the US! https://www.facebook.com/pages/DiVOID/1417608438556359?__mref=message_bubble
Our first single MOTH is currently available on Bandcamp! Please check it out!
 
Members:
Kiyoshi
Part Vocal
 
Nero
Part Guitar
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nerodivoid

im sorry but i loved the obscure remake ( its lazy as hell but tbh obscure needed the BR00TAL remake and while they didnt do much other than detune their guitars and sound more evil i think it works rlly well for a simple song like obscure. i think tsumi to batsu is a lil too weird and shifty to just metalify (??) like obscure

will someone please stop visual kei bands
god why even...what kind of mess...

Literally...snaps? XD

Dir en grey are best when they're at their most progressive and serious/grown up/what the fuck you want to call it IMO. Goes for both the old and new Dir en grey.

yeah of course it must be pretty convenient when you can actually understand what goes on in the forums! (lucky you)
 
and also can i list gackt as problematic? partially cuz i hate him partially cuz he's probably a pathological liar
anyone else read the exerpt from his book on why he left MM and called bullshit the whole time? its probably my malice mizer fanboy speaking but im 99% sure its gackt who became money fixated lol it seems too wild to be mana/kozi/yuki's doing.
 
OHOH also his rumoured foreign lovechild in vancouver that one's really funny lmao

the remake of tsumi to batsu is my least fav remake it sounds like lazy and boring doom
i like the original with the sharper vocals in these lives so YES

Yeah if you're overseas I understand that feeling. But when you're here, you pick up the crazy talk without realizing it. It's messed up my japanese, lol. But I don't really look at fytanuki, it's easier to find info on bands I want to know about+see if I've been mentioned by looking myself.also, to be on topic:
nuppe's obsession with boobs has gone from amusing to gross at this point

Definitely. I think puresound only offers EMS shipping? They've got all sorts of different shipping options on Tenso(including one that was cheaper than what I paid), so if you don't mind waiting then it's totally the way to go.

will someone please stop visual kei bands
god why even...what kind of mess...

i hate kisaki and his trash so much that i think im starting to stan him
help
im subconsciously starting to do my makeup like his
HELP

Men's hip service  Men's escort service

Holy shit, Sizna singing ! IMO he's the most talented guitarrist in the VK scene. Not the best, but the most tatented for sure. He needs new projects, because Moran kind of limits his skills. i hope he keeps making music outside of Moran.

The only problem with that is that you need to email them your order and if you're trying for something rare, it'll probably sell out before they get back with you. Last time I ordered like that with puresound, it took them about 2 days to email me back about my order and I missed out on everything.
 
What you CAN do though, is create an account on tenso.com. They give you your own address in Japan to ship things to, which allows you to register for a puresound account. That way, you can just add things to the cart and snipe the hell out of them. They let you pay with credit cards, so it works out pretty well. Tenso also has super low fees and shipping(puresound offers free shipping as well). Last time I ordered 2 DVDs from puresound via Tenso, it cost me a whopping 750 to get the items to me(650 yen shipping + 100 yen in fees for Tenso). This way also lets you get points for discounts and take advantage of puresound's sales, which they ONLY offer if you have an account(I've tried asking before when ordering via email and they told me I couldn't get the sale price).

Don't worry, I'm sure people will complain once the video makes it's rounds to tumblr.

WTF Japan get ur SHIT together!!!!!!!!! (((

Convoluted ordering instructions
This page is from their older site. When they renewed it, they didn't bother bringing back this English page, but luckily I was able to find it on Internet Archive.

hey look
　
left: MerryGoRound - 月と、黒猫と、猫アレルギーの君 (1997); right: DEZERT - ぼくの死骸と君のチョコレート。(2013)

^do his dick pics count as problematic? cuz thats nasty

^do his dick pics count as problematic? cuz thats nasty

god bless this thread
ps whats the wataru misogyny??? LIPHLICH wataru???
 
akane (islamophobia/being annoying/wont shut up)
ai (deathgaze) (fucking too much with fans, complete and utter plagarism, some beef with his fans and his wife LOL)
satsuki (apparently being an awful person, also fucking with fans too much, his solo project)
ryo (art plagarism, possible fraud, his vocals in hollowgram, also beef with his fans and wife)
 
i'll add onto this as i remember stuff

we all have them. we're all allowed to have them (as long as we admit they're #problematic)! those #problematic faves. VK is full of them. Who's your most #problematic fave?
 
Some examples:

Kisaki (plagarism, intellectual copyright theft)
Kyo (violent misogynistic lyrics)
Wataru (violent misogyny)
Sugizo (loves those nazi uniforms)
Takeru (arrhythmia) 
Yoshiki (his everything)
 
 
 
(For the record my #problematic fave is Kirito who much like Sugizo also loves them uniforms)

I agree to 237Q. Visual kei, the original movement, doesn't exist anymore. Modern Visual kei has become something entirely different and I doubt that this is only the result of how it has evolved in the last 20 years. VK has lost its original intention, its power and what was the main reason to create and determine its existence.
I agree that visual kei is more or less a so called patchwork genre- a style, culture or genre that takes influences and elements of other cultures and genres. In conclusion it's right that the bands from the late 80s are different from those of the 90s- that's something we can all understand if we just look at the bands from the 80s who have used elements from glam, punk, new romantic and the 90s bands also mixed metal, hardcore and goth to it. Modern VK bands are more fond of pop-rock Nu-Metal, Metalcore and electronic music. A band like Color looks and sounds different from a matina band like Madeth Gray'll, that's a fact.
But (here comes a big but) the bands from the 80s and 90s still have enough in common that you can say "they both are visaul kei bands". I don't get the same feeling when looking at newer VK bands. Why is that so?
What I miss in modern VK is its power. Old visual kei had it, because it was radical. It was a statement against the well ordered and strictly ruled japanese society, it was rebellious, chaotic and it seemed aggressive, dangerous (back then more than today. What's today rather unintentionally funny has been viewed as suspicious in the past). Visual kei musicians were the visual portray of how not to be as a japanese men: cross-dressing, wearing dirty clothes, looking extreme (leather, netshirts and netstockings, rocker and punk fashion elements), having very creative hairstyles and dyed hair and so on. And despite the bands mostly only dressing up for concerts and perfomances they were still consiedered to be rebels- just dying your hair was very unusual in Japan and seems to be still (especially when you go to school or work, where you have to follow a strict dress-code)
Of course there were already a lot of bands dressing like deliquents, rocker or divas and once they've got fairly known they would transform into your average bland boy group band. So in the end VK wasn't never really successfull with the "anti-society" thing and bands in the end would always rely on money (and if that didn't work then disband). Modern Visual kei has adopted a lot of the former "scene" and some things didn't really change, but VK has entirely bacome a part of japanese culture and society- there is nothing aggressive, questionable or extreme about it. It's just another fashion and music trend which adapts to current trends and therefore will survive- but it has no meaning or statement.
Back in the old days nobody would have thought VK even to manage to go to the streets- today a lot of people are wearing typical modern visual kei fashion. It's not hard to pull it off anymore as the modern VK look is quite shallow too. You will be in danger of failing a lot more if you want to pull of the VK look from before ca. 2004 or 2005 and most people will think you are totally stupid for running around like a clown with neon colored hair, try hard spooky make-up and leather wear.
I am not saying modern VK is all shit and only good old school VK is the only thing- but VK has changed way too much since its beginnings and I personnaly can't find any linkage between bands like Futurism Boyz, Devi+tec and for example ROUAGE. They look different, they sound different, that's understandable, but in my opinion the "let's be cool and cute boys and make some cool bland music" isn't the same as "now let's provokate a bit through founding a band that plays rock music and we put a lot of make-up on". Both intentions may be silly, but I like the outcome of the latter one better.
And there is also a lot I miss in VK. The costumes which were visually striking, the way they have played their music (which also was very similiar throughout the 80s and 90s though the different sounds and styles which were popular at their era), the topics and imagery (insanity, pain, loss, death... of course also a lot of cheesy stuff like lost love) and the use of concepts (for example the stage plays Malice Mizer did). Hell, even the crappy low budget PVs of the indie bands had their own charm.
All in all: VK will survive, it may become more popular or vanish from the mainstream completely, but it will adapt and transform and with every new transformation it will lose another (already almost dissolved) part of its origin. There will people who will like the way VK bands will play in the future- and some older fans will be sceptical. That's something you can't change, I admit, because sooner or later this kind of mechanism happens to all genres if they have gotten known and popular enough. We are living in a capitalistic society and one can only survive by making money- so VK has and had no other choice than becoming mass-compatible.

Yeah I'm bummed about that too. Random: here's a pic of Mako (left) with some friends, taken back in December.