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I like this promo pic

Hello there! ^ww^ I've been lurking around shyly for like.. a year, and I finally decided to write this little introduction! 
 
I'm 26 years old, living in Stockholm (in the country the sun mostly forgets) and currently studying to become a pastry chef & baker. Besides making (and eating) sweet things I love animals, ball jointed dolls and different kinds of crafts - and of course Japan and visual kei! I've been listening to VK for like... 14-15 something years now, with too many favs to count. I "grew" up with Dir en grey, hide & X-japan, L'arc en ciel and the Gazette among others, but now I'm pretty varied in my tastes. I'm mostly disturbing my neighbours with Mejibray, vamps, Acid black cherry... and Initial L/lycaon, Kaya, Pentagon and well, many, many others.. (I'm also a fan of classical music, expecially Yoshikazu Mera (not because of Mononoke hime) and catchy pirate-songs).
 
When I'm not at the bakery I'm mostly bugging my cat or my bestfriend with pictures of cats, playing videogames (mass effect!!!!), cooking or constantly procastinating important stuff... I think playing magikarp jump for three hours straight is totally acceptable. 
 
I'm always up for chats and making new friends, so if you ever wanna talk please send me a message, haha! I'm looking forward to learn more about everything MH has to offer and to meet all of you on this technological wonder called internet lol <3 
Hope you all have a great day! 
 

It would be gold if an actual jrock news site used our posts as legit information (track listing, cover art etc). 

All that stuff linked above is not an option if you hate it like I do, lol.
 
Visual kei might as well have originated from two drunk Greeks twiddling around with a lyra after making love to other one's niece. I don't give a fuck. Visual kei is to a large extent my essence and being, but I would rather burn in hell for all eternity than listen to 30 seconds worth of any nu glam/sleaze cockrock, or even all their Kissy forefathers for that matter. I'd rather play 2010's The GazettE covers for a millennia in purgatory than subject myself to any of the bands linked above for a single solitary second. The guys from Bataar and Seremedy may not share my opinion to the same extent, but it's a likely scenario that they'd rather sound like VEXENT/Killaneth/GenericnuVK than OldlyCrew. Most likely these dudes grew up with mid 2000's nu metal kei as well, so whatever the gentleman from X Japan were listening to back in the day has no bearing on their lives. They're white and they want to play Vortex and Remember the urge, and that's kind of it. Wearing a Poison cumrag on your receding hairline is no less hack than rocking a 15$ emo fringe, so if they're dead set on jacking an aesthetic wholesale, then both of these options are just as socio-culturally irrelevant as the other. The concept is not the biggest factor holding them back from being up to the Japanese standard though: it's the execution. 
 
The problem here is that they're really bad and can't even do the little that they do without being embarrassingly bad, so they're forever doomed to play handout gigs at battle of the bands held in youth community centers; begging for Japanese tours from a drug-addled, rapidly aging Kenzi whom Yohio presumably blew to get his start there; or just kneel and pray for the rapid advancement of future technologies that will allow scientist to resurrect the other guy from ADAMS so they can warm up for them at their subsequent tours in the Donetsk and Luhansk republics; remaining forever unsigned, forever stuck in shitty local band limbo.
 
I try to follow these bands to the best of my ability not only out of morbid curiosity, but because if I could find 4-5 able vk fans then I'd start a weeaboo kei band myself. So while I'm sympathetic, I'm also twice as angered by their poor music, their poor taste and seemingly narrow frame of reference in visual kei, based on what I've heard and seen from ~sources~. 
 
I believe not many people have watched the original carting out the corpse of weeaboo kei video, so here's some cliffs (as far as I can remember them):
 
Back in the day there used to be a dozen vk bands in Scandinavia, now there's practically none and the ones that exist are woefully inactive. Finland used to have quite a few, although ranks of the members were very incestuous. If you can believe it, they were actually even worse than the Swedish bands and the two most long-standing ones even tried rebooting before fading into complete irrelevance. The one that I last recall having a proper concert, called "FAEK", has not updated their Facebook since Autumn of 2016. One curious aspect of the scene was also that a lot of the participants didn't really seem to be active visual kei fans, and yet despite that they used JAME to promote themselves and performed largely at cons and warming up for Satsuki/Plunklock tier bands that happened to be touring and performing at a venue called Gloria that receives some strange government money to minimise the L's the organisers take booking these shitty bands. The most longstanding band of the "scene" called "Karmia" appears to have dropped any pretensions towards vk and has settled for being a shitty local rock band. Here are the results: ( fyi the youtube superstar's former troupe that stole their name from Uverworld have also seemingly left vk behind in favor of a more western approach. Unsurprisingly their social media stature plummeted as dropping the Japanese rock shtick just unveils what they really are: one in the rank of millions of shitty local rock bands )
 
 
DIE/MAY is now the only one left and while shitcanning Seike will definitely help, they'll eventually do the routine of downshifting until turning to radio silence and then the eventual disbandment post on facebook, if they'll even bother. Aside from Tuomas and Heikki they also have afaik have one or two guys from the best Finnish vk band in HISTORY that larped TOXIC/DIVISION period The Gazette called "Desier," whom while very bad, managed to sound like an actual visual kei band on a shoestring budget and minimal ability. Conceptually they had a good thing going though. How DIE/MAY performs in their current iteration I will find out this weekend, unless I prefer trying to get cancer outside instead. Any Bataar fans sharing the hashtag can come say hi!
 
edit: This post is already a mess so it won't hurt any that I'll add something that I just thought: conceptual coherency is a problem. When I got to thinking about the last.fm's of these guys that I've seen, or the fates of Overworld and Karmia, I'm not surprised that people seemingly can't make heads or tails of what they exactly sound like. DESIER used to sound like The Gazette because afaik the composer was a huge fan, but then bands like Jenlayn and Karmia straddled a strange territory of sounding like just shitty rock music, in all its terminological ambiguity. It's not entirely farfetched that the amount of band members in the entire history of the scandinavian scene who are as vk savvy as the average member on this board, is as low as 3 or less. I actually briefly trolled a Crestillion live stream two weeks back asking what their favorite Madeth Gray'll tape was and whether they prefer Key Party or Matina. Not replying to me was a perfectly understandable response, but I have no doubt that they had absolutely no idea what I was talking about either. Visual kei in the west is being represented by Yohio ( who's old last.fm you can easily find ), and guys who literally only know Filth in the Beauty and The Final. That's tragic. 

The end of 2016 and the beginning of 2017 has seen a lot of arrests of visual kei members. While band members skirting the law - and sometimes even breaking it - is nothing new, it is rather unusual to see so many high-profile cases in such a short time span. So today, let's indulge in some visual kei drama both past and present and look at some other famous cases and arrests. Grab some tea, because this topic is going to get delicious.
 
Disclaimer: While the title says "Bad Boys" of visual kei, some of the stuff covered here is particularly heinous. It's one thing to be a "bad boy" and it's another thing to be a rapist. Please don't read into the title too much.
 

Sakura (The Madcap Laughs, ex-L'arc~en~ciel)
 

Dai (Himitsu Kessha Kodomo A (秘密結社コドモA))
 

 
Kisaki (Lin, Phantasmagoria)
 

SHINTARO (ex-アイヲロスト)
 

Miyawaki Wataru (ex-12012)
 

Tomioka Hiroshi / Dynamite Tommy (Free Will president)
 

Manew (ex-The♡Valentine)
 

Akinori (ex. lynch.)
 

TAKAHIRO (ex-FAZ)
 

RIO (ex--LONDBOY)
 

shia (chanty)
 

Daishi (ex-Psycho le Cemu)
 

Hello there! ^ww^ I've been lurking around shyly for like.. a year, and I finally decided to write this little introduction! 
 
I'm 26 years old, living in Stockholm (in the country the sun mostly forgets) and currently studying to become a pastry chef & baker. Besides making (and eating) sweet things I love animals, ball jointed dolls and different kinds of crafts - and of course Japan and visual kei! I've been listening to VK for like... 14-15 something years now, with too many favs to count. I "grew" up with Dir en grey, hide & X-japan, L'arc en ciel and the Gazette among others, but now I'm pretty varied in my tastes. I'm mostly disturbing my neighbours with Mejibray, vamps, Acid black cherry... and Initial L/lycaon, Kaya, Pentagon and well, many, many others.. (I'm also a fan of classical music, expecially Yoshikazu Mera (not because of Mononoke hime) and catchy pirate-songs).
 
When I'm not at the bakery I'm mostly bugging my cat or my bestfriend with pictures of cats, playing videogames (mass effect!!!!), cooking or constantly procastinating important stuff... I think playing magikarp jump for three hours straight is totally acceptable. 
 
I'm always up for chats and making new friends, so if you ever wanna talk please send me a message, haha! I'm looking forward to learn more about everything MH has to offer and to meet all of you on this technological wonder called internet lol <3 
Hope you all have a great day! 
 

Hello there! ^ww^ I've been lurking around shyly for like.. a year, and I finally decided to write this little introduction! 
 
I'm 26 years old, living in Stockholm (in the country the sun mostly forgets) and currently studying to become a pastry chef & baker. Besides making (and eating) sweet things I love animals, ball jointed dolls and different kinds of crafts - and of course Japan and visual kei! I've been listening to VK for like... 14-15 something years now, with too many favs to count. I "grew" up with Dir en grey, hide & X-japan, L'arc en ciel and the Gazette among others, but now I'm pretty varied in my tastes. I'm mostly disturbing my neighbours with Mejibray, vamps, Acid black cherry... and Initial L/lycaon, Kaya, Pentagon and well, many, many others.. (I'm also a fan of classical music, expecially Yoshikazu Mera (not because of Mononoke hime) and catchy pirate-songs).
 
When I'm not at the bakery I'm mostly bugging my cat or my bestfriend with pictures of cats, playing videogames (mass effect!!!!), cooking or constantly procastinating important stuff... I think playing magikarp jump for three hours straight is totally acceptable. 
 
I'm always up for chats and making new friends, so if you ever wanna talk please send me a message, haha! I'm looking forward to learn more about everything MH has to offer and to meet all of you on this technological wonder called internet lol <3 
Hope you all have a great day! 
 

This thread already got a bit old but anyway I really like what everyone said here. I've been struggling with a deep depression for like almost three years, taking a lot of pills, drinking a lot and many other things... so I really don't care about sharing this. so yeah, sometimes I have a lot of suicidal thoughts and I'm always having nightmares. I also don't sleep a lot because of all the pills and the tons of coffee I drink everyday. Like someone said it already, you're all pretty brave to share this kind of stuff.

Even though I consider myself an X Japan fan, I agree with your points.. I wouldn't ever attend an X Japan concert on it's own anyway, because of the crappy theatrics. Also, it's not the same without Hide. (Though, I do think that Hide is horribly misunderstood by Vkei fans. He was more than a sad guy, he was unstable, and needed therapy). 
Heck, X Japan themselves aren't as important as they're hyped up to be. I mean, Saver Tiger formed first, and D'erlanger and Dead End got popular way before X. Also, ToshI got his famous look from Kyo of D'erlanger. Before that, X looked much different.  Heck, X even copied a few riffs from their fellow indie bands (Blue Blood taking their intro from Crows in Black by Rosenfeld) and they weren't any more than another indie early Vkei band until Hide came along. Heck, apparently, the term "Crime of Visual Shock" came from another band, though someone will have to confirm that for me. 
And while Extasy bands did go on to major labels and all, not even the labels prevented Zi:Kill and Glay from breaking up, and I don't ever hear about Tokyo Yankees anymore. Gilles de Rais was a failure too. The only former/current Extasy bands that still preform that I can think of on the top of my head are Luna Sea, X, Tokyo Yankees and Glay. Ultimately, Dynamite Tommy's Free Will label was more successful in the end, because they're still a driving force. 
While X may have been one of the first Vkei bands to go major, that isn't nearly as important as the driving force in the indie scene, as Vkei is built from the ground up. The indie bands are the backbone. 
I'm going on a soapbox here, but I felt this needed to be said. 

Makes me wonder too. Chobi has a habit of leaving, when band has too much electronics going on. I'm not sure about Satoshi though. Maybe we'll see what was really going on if they come up with their own projects. I'm waiting for whatever Chobi will do because i love that stupid Llama.

As much as I love them, they do deserve a break. I've no doubts that they will come back. Next year hopefully.

You guys are all so amazing and inspirational to me ;~~~; <3 
 
I'm diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome and ADHD, been on medicine for over 10 years and in theraphy for around 16 years. So it's been a long time for me but I've finally begun finding myself and accepting myself - which makes living so much easier. I got my diagnoses pretty late so I was very lonely in understanding my anxiety, panic attacks and insomnia. In periods i didn't sleep for many days because my brain was just too exhausted by the chaos inside and outside of me, i couldn't shut down.
Before i thought it was all darkness and pain but now I feel more like a fluffy, pink, sparkly ball of confetti because i like myself so much more and I believe that when I smile - the world will smile back.  
 
Thank you so much all of you for sharing, you're all so brave and fantastic and you make me smile <3 

You guys are all so amazing and inspirational to me ;~~~; <3 
 
I'm diagnosed with Aspergers syndrome and ADHD, been on medicine for over 10 years and in theraphy for around 16 years. So it's been a long time for me but I've finally begun finding myself and accepting myself - which makes living so much easier. I got my diagnoses pretty late so I was very lonely in understanding my anxiety, panic attacks and insomnia. In periods i didn't sleep for many days because my brain was just too exhausted by the chaos inside and outside of me, i couldn't shut down.
Before i thought it was all darkness and pain but now I feel more like a fluffy, pink, sparkly ball of confetti because i like myself so much more and I believe that when I smile - the world will smile back.  
 
Thank you so much all of you for sharing, you're all so brave and fantastic and you make me smile <3 

ソラ(sora)(ex-ALIVE) will be the new vocalist of LEZARD
 

 
 

this just makes me very happy ;~~; <3 

Förvånad man blev när man såg det här forumet haha. 
Det är sant dock att VK vart lite dött i Sverige sen många år tillbaka, även om jag känner till ett flertal som lyssnar på musiken men de, likt mig själv, har hängt med ett tag. Sällan jag hör om nyare VK fans i Sverige som inte är inne på Yohio & co spåret.

The quote off their FB:
 
 

it is announced at Kaya 10th anniversary and birthday one-man live "The Birth of DIVA" at Shinjuku ReNY at 2016/07/13 that Kaya 3 new singles (titles not yet finalized) will be released since 2016 autumn, for which the first single "Parfana" is composed by KAMIJO and has been played at one-man live at 2016/07/13
 
 
btw Kaya will hold one-man live at OSAKA RUIDO at 2016/10/23, at Machida THE PLAYHOUSE at 2016/10/30 and at Shinjuku ReNY at 2017/04/07
 
dancers:

L to R Ciela,Kaname.,YACHIRU,Soa,Lotto
 
vocal : Kaname.
guitar : Soa
guitar : Ciela
bass : YACHIRU
drums : Lotto
 
2016年10月16日(日) EDGE IKEBUKURO
Sioux / Develop One's Faculties / THE BLACK SWAN
 
OHP
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personal note: Kaname looks impossibly gorgeous omfg
also he's on vocals!

Good luck in the future trombe! I appreciated the fact that you posted news about bands that you probably didn't like yourself. Posting news about smaller indiebands can make the VK scene live longer, since the bands can get more fans because of it. 

You shall be missed, @Trombeif this is really your final decision. Thanks for the awesome work!

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 !

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.