Reiko

Thank you so much for your warm welcome!
Let's see... my favorite active band is CLACK inc., which has generated from EVE's ashes (probably my all-time favorite band). Others band I dig are Kizu, HAKLO, Razor, Mamireta, The Raid., Arlequin, Neverland... some more "cliche" choices like Royz, UNiTE, DIMLIM, DDRM (even though I kinda have a love-hate relationship with them), Diru etc... when it comes to disbanded bands, Rentrer En Soi, 9GOATS, An Cafe, Kagrra and D'EspairsRays are among my favorites. I also like some more old-school stuff a la BUCK-TICK, MM, SHAZNA, Janne Da Arc etc., but I admit that my knowledge of 80-90's vk is a bit lacking😅

what i ought to be reading for work..
 


 
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ooo exciting thread😏
 
I regularly lurk tanuki and judge everyone

I don't believe the shit on tanuki but I still read it and imagine how the rumour/story came about. It's like reading a book that gives me all sorts of reactions like "no he didn't!" 

Nice video and sample, but that cover art needs to be thrown into Mount Doom NOW.

Wtf, cover art. It looks awful.

Ordered Image, Mother, and Eden. I cant let these get more expensive some day.

I totally agree with Gazette - Baretta and X Japan - Silent Jealousy.
 
With Luna Sea the options are endless but I love this particularly tasty and restrained Sugizo solo
 
Due Le'Quartz is also hard but when a solo is the course its hard to argue against
 

It's that time of the year, folks. Jaejoong was absolutely gorgeous here *_*.
 
 

I totally agree with Gazette - Baretta and X Japan - Silent Jealousy.
 
With Luna Sea the options are endless but I love this particularly tasty and restrained Sugizo solo
 
Due Le'Quartz is also hard but when a solo is the course its hard to argue against
 

I totally agree with Gazette - Baretta and X Japan - Silent Jealousy.
 
With Luna Sea the options are endless but I love this particularly tasty and restrained Sugizo solo
 
Due Le'Quartz is also hard but when a solo is the course its hard to argue against
 

Solo starts at 2:46 ~ 4:20
 
 

when i think of guitar solos, i think of sakito's solos in the first place. his guitar playing style is so graceful and gentle. naito made truly genius and unique music back then.
 
another one is by 9gbo. it's simple, but sounds demonic. uta's guitar sound is priceless.
 
and last but not least, megaromania. this one is gothic and cute, gives you princess in an old dark castle realness. 
 

I like Sena from Jiluka's solo in omelas and hellraiser, probably gonna come off as a dumbass but I am not an old vkei/jrock fan haha
 
https://youtu.be/XLLPjf6tZe0
 
https://youtu.be/2YG9uu7Yhsk

Oh, I like where this is going. I have a ton, but here a couple of really safe picks that I need to name:
 
the GOAT
X has a ton of really, really memorable solos, but this is my favorite.
 
X - Silent Jealousy
 
 
One of my all time favorites. Kouichi is a GOD. Don't ever forget it.
 
Laputa - Breath
 
PIMP SUGIZO THE GAWD
 
SUGIZO - SUPER LOVE
 
and lastly (oooooh, I should have included LASTLY...)
 
 
華月 gives us a solo to remember in lost graduation
 

BROOOOOO!!!! I forgot all about this song! Definitely one of the best from the Gazette. I always liked Uruha and Aoi's sense of melody.
 
I listened to the other solos you posted and I feel like I got a good sense of the solos that move you...they were mostly very clean-sounding and straightforward, but they seemed to convey a sense of nostalgia too, if that makes any sense!
 
@Jigsaw9 - I never explored Hotei or BOOWY, but those are definitely cool. I'm especially liking the 2nd one. AND LMAO @ IMAI. I never knew that about him, yet somehow that just seems completely fitting. 🤣
 
@Ito - CAGE is iconic!

Lol found these while browsing Jake's old myspace.
 

 

 

 
I'm pretty sure this is from the very first acen panel we did.
 
Also more promotional images lol
 

 
 

Ten years ago on this exact day my thirteen year old self was browsing myspace, like most kids my age back then did in their free time, when I came across a post on a Jrock group I frequented at the time. The post was by a "Jake" advertising a brand new Jrock forum that he and a friend created just earlier that day. At the time I was chomping at the bit for any new way to discover new Japanese rock music (VK in particular), I immediately registered and became the fourth member of that brand new empty forum. That forum's name was Tainted World and the Jake and friend in question were none other than Spike760 and Ito.
 
Since that day I have had many ups and downs with this community for better and worse. I've discovered a thousand or more bands, talked with hundreds of people from all corners of the world, made dozens of friends and like minded acquaintances, and even made a few enemies as well. I have witnessed every drama thread/post/chat log that this forum has generated, participated in profound thought invoking discussions that have sprouted up in various topics over the course of a decade, and even was here to witness the almost catastrophic implosion of the site back in 2010-2011 that led to the current domain name. I became a moderator and for a time actually did my job quite well (LOL) this gave me a direct line to grow the community in other ways than just music, in those efforts I would like to believe that the anime and video game fans of the community found this place a little more accommodating and welcome.
 
In ten years my musical taste has gone through multiple transformations that were no doubt in big part due to the people here in this community. I have grown as a person due to my time here, I've learned how to deal with life's unfortunate circumstances and how to cope when things go bad. This place has been a eternal sanctuary for me in my depressing and boredom filled times. I'm now twenty four years old and no longer the child I was when I came to this place, that in itself is a little sad, since my most fun and memorable moments were from those early years when I was still in middle and high school just trying to find a place I could fit in and kill some time.
 
But one thing is for sure... This place is a second home for me, no matter how busy my life gets I know that I can come back here and just be myself and feel good about it.
 
Ten years? I say that's not enough. I won't be satisfied until I can say I've been apart of this place for 20 years, what the hell fuck it. 30 years! Why not? WE CAN KEEP THE DREAM ALIVE  AS LONG AS WE BELIEVE!
 
~ Saku
 

The newest on monochrome heaven’s official anxiety and depression thread:
 
I can’t hold thoughts for longer than a few seconds longer much less hold them in order to fashion any of them for use. This boat flows downstream at an agonising slow pace, like crawling towards not even the abyss but a soft and comfortable bed in some facility where the lights are never turned off. Normally I’d get into something really hard as I used to, but between working and talking to humans irl I just don’t have the time to fall into this psychosis, and instead I just drudge along. I’m not even excited about music or books or something since it’s not like I can say anything about them or nothing; juggling between finnish english and polish the words and sentences morph into an unrecogsinable jumble leaving me with nothing but the awareness about my bad posture, with my command of all languages getting worse by the hour. 
 
Next I’m going to move to the US illegally and either work and/or drink for so long that they can’t be bothered to kick me out after I’ve overstayed my visa. 

i want this vodka binge vk sharing life 

Oh wow, I always thought Justy-Nasty was like a sleaze rock band from the name, I didn't know they had like a young and spunky VK BOOWY thing going on. I'm kind of in love.
 
 

I usually don't make plans for Valentine's Day, because I've always been alone, and I still am, but because I have nothing going on that day, I thought I'd make plans. I think I'm gonna spend the day drinking an entire bottle of red wine, binge eating candy, and watching movies, ones that have little to no romance. And I might ignore everyone on social media who is in a relationship.
 
Or maybe I'll drink whiskey... or vodka... wine is great and all, but being wine drunk lasts FOREVER and it's fucking annoying.

i drink vodka while watching vkei mvs with my friend for the second day in a row and i feel so blessed to have an irl friend who shares my interests

yikes.... I've noticed that many Western intellectuals and philosophers of today seem to practically worship IQ/the intellect. I've also noticed that many of them cannot see the forest for the trees.