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That's an interesting tracklist with the vocal trade offs. Too bad it's live limited.

HOLLOWGRAM×STEREO.C.K live-limited pamphlet will be also released at their coupling live tour "HOROSCOPES 2016" at Shinsaibashi FANJ at 2016/03/12, at NAGOYA HOLIDAY NEXT at 2016/03/13 and at Shinjuku LOFT at 2016/03/21, which will include their photos and member interview
 

awh i'm glad someone else misses my favourite old band..
 
i wish sakito still had his blog.. when i was like 14 i always was like I'LL GO TO JAPAN AND SEE HIM SOMEDAY but now i live in japan and idk where he is since he doesn't post about his theatre shows or stuff anymore.. i still want to see him in person, it's my childhood dream..

M10M has announced a new album for this year, wonder if it'll be any good.

This talk of Gackt reminds me that I miss old Gackt. (unlike other people, I could not stand Malice Mizer but I was a big fan of Gackt solo)
 
My favourite Gackt album was MOON, released back in 2002. The last music of his that I actually liked was from RE:BORN (2009). Nothing he's released since then has stuck with me..... except I really loved his version of Episode.0, but he didn't write that one.

I don't really miss bands, but i really want Malice Mizer back .
Rentrer En Soi was a pretty good band , I miss a bit them too. And i want new stuffs from Moi dix Mois

Me and my hair go through a lot.

Am I VK yet?
 

STEREO.C.K live-limited single "nos. black" will be released at their live since Shinsaibashi FANJ at 2016/03/12
 

Timeless Love: L'Arc's Dune/True/Heart/Ark, Midori, experimental-era Boredoms (e.g. VCN, Super Ae), Merveilles and Voyage-era MM, pre-I'mperfect Ling Tosite Sigure, Shiina Ringo + Tokyo Jihen minus a few songs on SUNNY and her latest singles, Geinoh Yamashirogumi, Luna Sea minus a handful of songs and before SHINE, Kuroyume's first two full-lengths, Melt-Banana, jangly NOVEMBERS, YMO + Hosono projects, La'cryma Christi when they were proggy/artsy
 
Used to love but meh ewww lol: the rest of Kuroyume's repertoire (except maybe for Feminism, talk about ambivalence), DEG, anything Gazette, MM's Tetsu era, anything La'cryma did after Lhasa, L'Arc's Heavenly and Smile/Awake, a great handful of old school vk acts, the handful of songs and SHINE by LS (e.g. "IN MIND" and "STEAL" are blatantly silly/stupid)
 
I became a choosy chap, lol.
 
edit: I could care less for anything Kiyoharu these days. Not enjoying songcrafters with Yoshiki syndrome tbqh.

D'espairsray is without a doubt the first one that comes to mind. My first distinctly favorite visual kei band back in 2006 - which being nearly a decade ago is horrifying to think about - that I first got disillusioned with during the successive three singles after Mirror that I thought just got worse and worse with each. There's still the classics I thought, but cue forward almost a decade later and I literally find only two releases to my liking: Sexual beast and 裏マニアシアター. In my opinion that I realise is very contrary to popular belief, Coll:set is already approaching the Linkin Park territory hard, laced with a very unsettling mallgoth aesthetic that really was present during their entire early career, yet the rawer recording quality of the very earliest releases managed to subset that enough for me to digest it. Not a fan at all these days either way and there's close to no nostalgia present anymore. 9goats I don't fuck with anymore at all and I don't have any particular affinity for new dir en grey either. 
 
Other than that there's nothing that outright stands out. There was a phase in my late-teens, that gladly did not last all too long in the grand scheme of things, when I indulged quite a bit in metal that may have not been of the most tasteful kind. Most of the visual kei I enjoyed back in the day I still like to a larger or a lesser extent depending on the band and I think I've only expanded the amount of favorites I got. 

Timeless Love: Zi Kill, early Kuroyume, L'arcs first two records, Dead End, Luna Sea, Die in Cries, Oblivion Dust, most Malice Mizer, New Sodmy, "Endless" Aliene Mariage, Kagerou's singles
 
Used to Love but Never Want to Hear Again: L'arc's "Heavenly," Hyde's 666, Kuroyume's punk era, SADs, anything Anna Tsuchiya, Lareine, Malice Mizer's Voyage, anything else by Aliene Mariage, Due le Quartz

Timeless Love: Zi Kill, early Kuroyume, L'arcs first two records, Dead End, Luna Sea, Die in Cries, Oblivion Dust, most Malice Mizer, New Sodmy, "Endless" Aliene Mariage, Kagerou's singles
 
Used to Love but Never Want to Hear Again: L'arc's "Heavenly," Hyde's 666, Kuroyume's punk era, SADs, anything Anna Tsuchiya, Lareine, Malice Mizer's Voyage, anything else by Aliene Mariage, Due le Quartz

Is that not how everyone does their hair?

Gackt was just one of three different singers Malice Mizer had, he had nothing to do with their breakup.
 
Never heard that rumor before; 100% started by a western fan who was pulling stuff out of her ass. Anyone with a musical ear can tell that Mana and Kozi had no hand in writing Gackt's solo material. Apples and Oranges.
 
Gackt was likely not at Kamis funeral for the reason listed in my reply below. 
 
 
I don't know what official statements Gackt, Mana, or Kozi have made because we don't really need to, ya know? None of them will tell you what occam's razor will, because it's not flattering to either party.
 
Nippon Columbia decided that Malice Mizer were small potatoes and Gackt was the star. And they were right! Gackt wrote the highest charting single on Mervilles, Le Ciel, which also happened to be the most commercial song on the album. Gackt had the great voice, incredible looks, a legion of female fans and he wrote the biggest hit on the album. He was poised for stardom, Malice Mizer could hold him back. 
 
So Nippon Columbia put their money on Gackt solo and ditched the band, and their gamble paid off in spades. People tend to gloss over/forget, possibly due to Kamis death, that not only did Malice Mizer's label give Gackt a solo deal, but they dropped Malice Mizer. That wasn't a coincidence.
 
It is what it is. I hate Gackt solo, but wouldn't trade Bara no Seidou or the Klaha singles for anything. I just wish we'd get one more album out of MM.... instrumental, with Klaha, a new singer... I don't care.

one step closer to becoming a baked potato

My outfit from last Friday ~ I cut the trousser myself like this 8'D
Some 'cool' kids even told me that's I should buy me pants haha xD

request more mods to act like this

"Hate" is a very strong word (blaming myself for joining the bandwagon muuuch earlier back in the day).
 
Nonetheless, what I learned to dislike lately is how a huge mouthful of bands (visual-based, actually) tend to mix synth/programming, drumming and riffage together so badly that they end up being offbeat rather than striving to corroborate the "sum" of these instrumental aspects. For the love of god, is it really that hard to apply proper electronics and/or real *THWOMP* (not keystroke-core pls) sounds? Looking at you, cheap Yamaha orchestra clash effects circa '98 on Lycaon's "Psychedelic Jelly" and the infamous keystroking by courtesy of Deathgaze and any band that utilizes trigger warnings in such cheap ways.
 
This post might smell like one of your good ol' rants against VK and how "everything sucks there" (- Gordon, Jrocknyc ®), but here's the thing:
 
it doesn't more than a decade for bands and their staff to master their earsight without spending too much on gadget-n-device-o-fests with protools'ing (which honestly enough sounds worse when applied by trendy kids these days), but at least non-vk acts learn to overcome budget-strict mixes/masters after a few indie records! What's with our VK hosts then? Going backwards, I presume? Any self-respecting collective/act should know how things actually roll in music industries circa 2010s - experiences pass on and next generations gain more advantage in hassling with their mixing tables etc. So did the "good" experience pass on in this case? I am gonna let you guys figure it out and inspect the whole matter in much larger context, e.g. these forever indie vkcore bands. (inb4 "but muh unique vk soundscape")
 
No wonder that despite my sympathies towards everything I did and endorsed as a VK weeaboo, I couldn't find any major aspects I could take seriously anymore. Visual acts of this generation do seem like those who - according to the voices of harsh critique - neglect things what their biases and influences have left them. How many years or decades it will take to fix this "incompetent sponge"-phenomenon (related to ripoffs and inability to emulate influences as their own)? Here's hoping at least those cashing figures of current VK a.k.a ex-Baiser Yukari (now "le Producer") FINALLY realize their plan of eventually Johnny's-ing the specific bunch of VK acts (e.g. Blu-Billion and Kameleo, whoever pushed them) to show others how major-based business won't necessarily kill your "charms" - I know, I know, major label moves have stigmas upon them but let this sink for a moment:
 
do these indie label collectives exhibit "emerging" attributes in their sound?
 
(kudos to those who realize this one huge reference I made in this comment)

i hate angelo just because karyu is in it instead of d'espairsray, i hate micro forehead for the same reasons--D'espa are so close yet so far? what the fukkkkkk!!!!
i also HATE unite because they're ugly and oshare
i hate gackt with a passion because he's a troll
i hate paranoid=/=circus because they're extra ugly
 
ok great now i can breathe easy

I hate Angelo. Angelo were a lazy, low rent GARBAGE band when they debuted, and now, even with Karyu in the fold, they continue to make GARBAGE a decade later. And people buy it (apparently)! Their best songs sound like songs that weren't good enough for a Pierrot album ten years ago.
 
Versailles is a freakin' joke. They're how I imagine a Saturday Night Live skit mocking Visual would sound. If I had to genre-tag them, I'd label them Anime Convention Rock.
 
Inoran should be publicly stoned for this bullshit. This is the guy who wrote Gravity... and am I watching a music video by him or, like, Pitbull? 
 
I hate Kiyoharu releasing garbage ass new songs and calling it Kuroyume because Hitoki's playing bass. COULD YOU FUCKING NOT THANKS.

I hate Angelo. Angelo were a lazy, low rent GARBAGE band when they debuted, and now, even with Karyu in the fold, they continue to make GARBAGE a decade later. And people buy it (apparently)! Their best songs sound like songs that weren't good enough for a Pierrot album ten years ago.
 
Versailles is a freakin' joke. They're how I imagine a Saturday Night Live skit mocking Visual would sound. If I had to genre-tag them, I'd label them Anime Convention Rock.
 
Inoran should be publicly stoned for this bullshit. This is the guy who wrote Gravity... and am I watching a music video by him or, like, Pitbull? 
 
I hate Kiyoharu releasing garbage ass new songs and calling it Kuroyume because Hitoki's playing bass. COULD YOU FUCKING NOT THANKS.

Stereo CK's live-only single "In Secret" 

Stereo CK's live-only single "In Secret"