Tanishi

17 hours ago, Komorebi said:

Pretty much, and I love it because it erases the pressure for sex I'd get in a real relationship.

I am super comfortable with this kind of relationship with the bands I follow tbh, it's what I need right now and I know many other fans feel the same.

This is the exact same sentiment the anime/general otaku industry operates with. Whether it's good or bad is another issue but it's what some people want and there clearly is a market for this type of relationship projection/simulation.

Thanks for the recs, that first band sounds really great.

Have been listening to some Silver Ash and (just discovered) Madmans Esprit, can anyone recommend some chinese or korean visual kei that's good? Apart from those two, I've heard Angel Heart (korea), Eve (korea) and Lilith (china) as well.

Never heard of these guys but the black metal/visual kei/korean combination looks really interesting. That first song you posted is really good too.

I've been looking for a website that does this for a while. It's a shame that they only have 2017 and not earlier years.

On 4/16/2018 at 10:11 AM, Axius said:

I feel like they need a new drummer idk if its just me.

Yeah I agree, he abuses the cymbals too much and it's made worse by having them too high in the mix. They also need more unity because often it sounds like each member is trying to individually sound as cool as possible without paying attention to what the other members are doing or the overall sound. It sucks because they have nearly all the elements of a great band but fall short. When I try to put them on I just feel like listening to Develop One's Faculties who are not entirely dissimilar.

Was there a release date on their site, I couldn't see one?

Apparently the last show on the 23rd did get livestreamed and I completely forgot about it. It had Chanty, Initial L and Jin Machine.

Chanty's Setlist:

1 貴方だけを壊して飾ってみたい

2 フライト

3 インピーダンス

4 冤罪ブルース

5 魔がさした

6 今夜未明

7 不機嫌

8 おとなりさん

Thank you that could be it because it seems like a very famous song. I guess the question now is whether that song stemmed from a traditional japanese tune.

These are the two songs in question but I swear I've heard it in other songs too, Ruru at 1:30 and the Joshiraku ED at 0:50. 

Still listening to their Oboreru Sakana cover fairly regularly, the guitar work is just so incredible especially towards the end of the song, it just feels so satisfying. Aie's a great guitarist but I think he's at his best when he has someone inspiring/pushing him, and Kazuma is doing a great job at this which is probably why this project is just that level above Keel even though Ryo's a better vocalist.

I wouldn't/don't want it to take off in the West because catering to Western audiences would make it similar to Western music removing the unique aspects that attract me to Japanese music in the first place. When I want to listen to Western music I listen to Western music. Similar to how I dislike how anime it becoming more popular, if it became Westernized it would lose the unique 'anime' traits that make me watch it. And I know both anime and Japanese music have many Western influences already but they have both morphed and become somewhat unique in their own right.

I'm surprised to see people hating on the studio version of Utafumi. It's a really catchy song, has a slight progressive edge and it's mixed a little better then this single (still far from good). The harsh vocal sections are especially good. This song on the other hand sounds like c-grade Arche, it's just boring and has the worst production I've heard from these guys in a long time. Ash is alright but the title track is their worst single track yet imo, even below Sustain the Untruth.

The new G-Dragon. Can't wait to hear this masterpiece.

Did INVICTA and INVISIBLE INDIVIDUAL get released anywhere (online or CD) apart from youtube? I would check the OHP but it's down already.

9 hours ago, chemicalpictures said:

It was most likely not. They probably do have some songs finalized/in the engineer table already, but maybe lots of them missing parts or effects, and if it's vocals, they are kinda stuck with the dude unable to sing at all.

 

I've heard about smaller VK bands finalizing records dangerously close of the release date, so that could totally be the case

Even big bands like X Japan do this. For smaller bands it is literally impossible.

20 minutes to go and they haven't posted a link yet...

Edit: "※今回はライブの生配信はございません" - seems like there's no livestream this time

There's been lots of great stuff this year so far. DOF's Unintelligible won me over the most with it's catchy, technical, frantic and hugely creative songwriting. It's up there with insert memory as one of the most creative VK songs of the decade imo especially the '1234567 123456 .... 123 121 YOKU DEKIMASHITA' part. The whole album is filled with great tracks (like the one's listed here) though I do agree it's a little bit weaker then their other stuff which is essential listening.

Kizu's track was also fantastic, just heavy, catchy and really high energy and LIME's performance is top notch. Can't wait for an album.

貴方だけを壊して飾ってみたい was my favorite track off Chanty's album and it's nice to see it on the list. There were some weak tracks on the album but it was solid (but they butchered m.o.b imo).

IIII-Ligro's album has potential to be one of the most interesting albums of the year and that 爆烈ストーム song was nice. I need to check those out.

And that Golden Bomber song is just too relatable. Nothing beats laughing at how much life sucks. I didn't expect that ending either. I guess it's time to spin it a few more times.

Also would have included Buck-Tick's Salome -femme fatale- off their new album which is absolutely fantastic. And the first track off Pura's new album was cool too:

It's on tomorrow (also you should probably edit your posts instead of double/triple posting).

I am home tomorrow still so I will try to record it.

I thought they were doing well. Didn't their album get repressed twice?

I'm liking this band way more than I thought I would. Hopefully they can release an album this year.

Edit: I think the main thing I like about them is how high energy they are. Lime's voice works well in doing this (though it's an acquired taste) and whoever is composing their music is doing a really good job writing the music to fit his voice.

^looks like a really fun show

If it's at the same time as last time I'll try to record it (with jdownloader, hopefully it works). Someone else should try too though because trying to record livestreams always seems to fail.

Edit: pls comment on this to remind me too

I live in Australia and shipping costs are really expensive so its hard to justify buying releases unless it's on itunes or something.

But if the vk piracy scene died I would just buy the (relatively few) releases I'm interested in and share them on slsk (this is assuming jpopsuki is dead too). I'm lucky enough to live in a first world country so I would be able to do this. The main problem would be live limited releases which would completely fade out of existence to the West (or should I say more then they are now).

The other problem would be there would be less discussion about bands/releases because many people wouldn't be able to listen to them and it would be harder sorting the bad from the good.