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Source: CDJ
Tracklist:
1 - Devil's Proof
2 - ESCAPE
3 - Natural Born Killer
4 - Return Of Curse
5 - DESTINATION
6 - Lover
7 - InCipit (Instrumental)
8 - EGOIST
9 - M.F.JAP
10 - 怠惰の罪
11 -  HERO=MURDER

hi i finally did my own makeup and it looks great
 
 

im tired of these soft ballads and half heavy half soft songs i just want yoshiatsu to scream until his throat is raw
 
ii kusuri's first half sounds AMAZING and the second is... not. kinda like how 融け込めないざらざらな芸術を君が殺してくれないか was (if i'm not mistaken. i kinda remember it being half/half but i haven't heard it in a while lol)

Their new single 「Greed Prince」 will be released on 2017.12.13.
 
Limited edition : 1620  yen
CD :
M1.Greed Prince
M2.ワガママ王子の憂鬱
+ Mini poster
 + ticket to attend their live on 2017.12.24.
 
 
Regular edition : 1200 yen + taxes
CD :
M1.Greed Prince
M2.ワガママ王子の憂鬱
 

 

im tired of these soft ballads and half heavy half soft songs i just want yoshiatsu to scream until his throat is raw
 
ii kusuri's first half sounds AMAZING and the second is... not. kinda like how 融け込めないざらざらな芸術を君が殺してくれないか was (if i'm not mistaken. i kinda remember it being half/half but i haven't heard it in a while lol)

It was announced that their guitarist 蒼月(Aotsuki） will left the band. 
 
 

Deviloof has announced that the recording for their full album has been completed and Ryo (ex-Girugamesh) helped with recording and mixing.
 
 

I think that this situation sort of showcases the discrepancy between the western and Japanese fandom, in some ways. We in the west have sort of built up our own subculture surrounding VK that isn't the same as it is in Japan. In Japan, attending VK lives can have connotations that a lot of guys would want to avoid, the informal rules surrounding the lives can also make the shows less enjoyable to men too, as in the whole staying put in your spot, allowing time and space for the girls to fix their hair between each headbang and stuff like that. The western VK fandom treats it more like any other alternative subculture whereas I feel like in Japan it has unhealthy connections with the host ideals. 
 
I went to a VK bar in Tokyo and talked to the bartender and he said that the regular girls scared away other customers on the weekends by refusing to let him serve others, since they "paid for his company" by buying drinks, and they would demand from him to play only the one band they listen to the entire night.
I think for a lot of guys who are into VK, most Japanese men who are into VK are CD-only by the way, as in they don't attend the shows but just buy the music from stores and might occasionally show up to onemans and stand in the back, this doesn't create a fun atmosphere since they would prefer to just hang about and talk shit about music and listen to a dozen different bands. 
 
I realize that the bangya culture is what keeps the bands afloat, but I think it's also this culture that sort of kills the fun for a lot of guys who enjoy the music and enjoy the scene aesthetically but isn't just invested in one band and wants to enjoy some host fantasy with them. And this is why guys have a larger part in the western fandom because ours really isn't connected much to the Japanese one beyond listening to the same bands.
 
To be fair though, quite a few bands try to remedy this by doing those male only shows, and I think that's an awesome thing, although I wish it weren't necessary.
 

lmao, right! as a matter of fact, it was lycaon x avelcain twoman boys only (https://www.last.fm/event/3913666+『-BOY’Z+ONLY-男の中の男!!!!!!』) live now that I think of it. It was very fun and we were a total of 20~guys in the audience. it was very intense though. I remember at one point the vocalist of Lycaon grabbing a guys head and pushing it against his crotch for a good 3~ minutes or so while singing. funny thing though, my friend also told me that it is not unheard of for girls to try and dress up as boys and get in to boys only lives because there's less people and it's more intimate. 
 
@lichtlune
I've never attended a non-vk gig in japan (except for a band I saw in a jazzbar in setagaya-ku, we were 3 ppl in total lmao), but a friend of mine saw the band with wolf heads (man with a mission?) and according to him it was the same as seeing any other western band in the west. 

kaya WHO #karmaqueenofgays 

"If you knew the history of VK then you would understand why people are obsessed with the gazette" "If the gazette never existed mejibray wouldn't exist"
 
HA

gazette stans on twitter are FLIPPING OUT over the kyogetsu guy's blog post as if he just took a shit on the gazette and their fans omloooordt

RAY is an incredibly talented guitarist, I have no doubt that he will fit in perfectly and will add a new great dimension to Deviloof's music.

I have known him for several years now, so I have full faith.

please everyone welcome and support RAY

as for his band, Belzemo, their last live was held recently.

OK here's the story as complete as I could find it...
EDIT: I added the long blog post about finances!

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Let's just start with the 2 tweets and the blog post that kicked this all off...

 
Massive post about bandman finances:


Anyone who has ever followed any serious jouren drama or otherwise been privy to how jouren spend their money should rightfully have their suspicions about the truthfulness of these tweets, because it simply doesn't mesh with the well-known behavior of fans of bands with even the remotest success. The knowledge of the "underground" practices of bangya is not required to see how the second tweet went viral for all the wrong reasons; it actually attracted ire from music fans outside of the visual kei scene as well. If you read the replies the common thread is essentially: "Why is it the consumer's fault that you're unable to generate any profit?". Some fans also can be seen generally protesting the perceived popular notion among bandmen that bangya can be treated as ATMs. Some less savory replies even chastise him by telling him if he can't even attract a mitsu then he has no hope of building a fanbase. (BTFO) I really don't think the blog post was the crux of this drama by the way, although HERESY might get asspained if anyone less than the Emperor dares to talk about Reita, it's a relatively innocuous account of the reality.  It was the tweet that "blames" bangya for letting bands die that caused the shitstorm IMO.

Visual kei blogger/archivist Atsuhiko Kamiya wrote a lengthy article analyzing this sort of "Visual Kei Mafioso" attitude towards and the expenses associated with bands, if you're fluent in Japanese and interested in the topic: see here.

Anyway, this series of tweets was rather ballsy as he was biting the 3 gya hands that feed him and alienating potential fans, but I think what really sealed the deal was his behavior after this tweet.

It was abundantly clear that his bandmates (particularly the vocalist, Masaki) wanted nothing to do with the massive controversy that this generated, as the vocalist even went so far as to hold an "apology twicast", and posted many apologetic tweets, even individually replying to people to apologize long before Ryuusei commented on the issue. However, Ryuusei did eventually apologize, tweeting:

 

However, this didn't last long. The next day he posted a blog post where he essentially rescinded his apology and attempted to better explain what he meant, as well as to fuel the absolute torrent of threads about him on tanuki resulting from his statement.
 
(TN: 'netogya' is a derisive term for visual kei fans who don't attend shows or instores but instead support bands strictly through online means. They're considered lesser fans by some other fans and as you can see above, by some bandmen. You might see some threads on tanuki where bands get laughed at because while they seem popular their fans are all netogya and foreigners living outside Japan... like KILLANETH :^) )

Ryuusei was castigated for constantly undoing his bandmate's work to move past the whole issue, and for (what was perceived as) backpedaling and then baiting tanuki. This was where I personally saw the writing on the wall for kyogetsu -- his band was going to have to kick him out if they wanted to move past this, and the name "kyogetsu" was virtually unheard of until this happened. That brings us to the news of their disbandment
 
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I have a few thoughts about this but a lot of them are the same about how I feel about the grown ass vocalist of 0.1 no gosan feeling like it's his god-given right to tell people what they should do at shows...

I think a lot of people I talk to in person think I'm slow or maybe slightly special needs, but in reality I just have ZERO idea how to talk to people.

Their new album "Mist" will be released on 2017.09.21.
 

 
 
 
 

keisuke's twitter account is official now

If he didn't come across as a stereotypical basic white girl, I probably would've proposed by now.

um marry him

um marry him

I've been using Tinder for over a year and have yet to have someone be a douche towards me. I never receive negative messages, no one asks me for hookups, if someone does say something offensive to me I call them out and  they apologize instead of getting defensive. Generally receive more respect from random weirdos than I did from my exes. Wtf? Although they're all kind of flakey af and... weird. 
 
If one more guy tells me I'm "cute as a button" though, I'm gonna throw hands. 
 
I did add one dude I think is super cute to social media but we haven't met up yet and I mostly just want to steal his teacup pig. He dresses it up. 

me as hell
 

*HELL YEAH!!!!!!!*