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  2. Posted

    On 18/1/2018 at 2:29 PM, fitear1590 said:

    Yes, I'm definitely liking the whole Uranometria single a lot--it has some solid B-sides.

    Yes! I love the originals of "げんそうシンドローム" and "ぼくとタルパ" but after hearing the album re-recordings, it's clear that the new versions are superior. (My only quibble with "ぼくとタルパ" is during the breakdown in the rerecording--somehow, it sounds a little more epic in the original single with the background arrangement). I wish we could get a rerecording of "ひとりトピア" as well.

    @ricchubunny, get in here and share your GRIMOIRE love, d00d!

    It took me a little while to realize げんそうシンドローム yas a re-recording, but it sounds waaay better now. I like how the re-recording actually showed improvement. Their first releases seemed a bit weak, but they are growing in a really nice direction, musically speaking. 

  5. Posted

    40 minutes ago, Mamo said:

    Not me I think they could. They could probably find a main stream metal audience globally or at least in Europe. I'd say likely they could play Wacken because far less heavy vk/japanese metal bands have such as girugamesh and MUCC for example. They could potentially go on to release many more albums and at least reach girugamesh levels of fame. But that's all up to them and their management team or label whoever decides these things for them I guess. lol I doubt they would think to venture in that direction as vk bands haven't went that avenue in quite sometime. But I could see a band like DEVILOOF taking that approach since Ryo from girugamesh is helping them and they were signed to  DangerCrue 9thRecords, not to mention they're actually legit brutal despite criticism they receive here. 

    Yeah, but I'm selfish and I like seeing them in small venues. Plus, the gyas are al SUPER nice and the fandom in general is very dedicated. If they grow too much the nasty gyas and face-fans will swarm and destroy everything.

  6. Posted

    1 minute ago, Kathy said:

    I would love to see them still together for their 20th anniversary. I feel like they could do it but maybe it’s just me not wanting to see them go....

    I want them to remain small :C I would hate to see them go massive.

  7. Posted

    2 hours ago, patientZERO said:

    Also, I'd love a Nokubura/JILUKA colab!

    I am down for this!

     

    Also, they are ambitious if they pretend to reach a 20th Anniversary. I just wish they'll remain indie.

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  11. Posted

    6 minutes ago, seikun said:

    I don't relly know; perhaps it was live-distributed...

    But they were an active band anyway. I used to visit the vocal's twitter and he was always taking pics of himself pre and post lives.

     

    Yeah, I remember. I used to follow him. Too bad :/ I was digging the preview

  12. Posted

    59 minutes ago, seikun said:

    I think people were noticing the resemblance with Asagi when they uploded the first verion of their preview to Youtube which then they deleted because people were complaining about the singing.

     

    I still wait for someone to upload their music...

     

    Ok, so "before they got popular"

     

    I waited for their release for ever but never found it. Wasn't it cancelled?

  14. Posted

    2 minutes ago, Kathy said:

    Ikr! August seems so far away but hopefully these following months pass by quick! 

    Definitely loving Iwata’s design for their new parka 

    I actually need to save money for August..

    I wasn't fast enough for the gray hoodie so the minute they released this one I threw money at my contact LOL

  15. Posted

    Just now, Kathy said:

    Yes! Omg I feel the same exact way but honestly everyone looked so great with the Faizh look, especially Ricko. 

     

    Same! I’m in love and even more hyped for their release 

    I can't believe they are SERIOUSLY keeping us waiting until August. 

    Ohh the Faizh look was spot on. IDK who is assessing these guy's images, but whoever it is, they're slaying. 

    yu-ki iwata is slaying too.

  17. Posted

    5 hours ago, seikun said:

    DissIDear.

    So short I don't think many heard about them before...

    You mean the "Asagi broke a condom 20 years ago and quickly burried them before anyone knew" band? XDDD

     

    I hadn't seen this topic, but I must mention As'REAL, Malisend and Killaneth as my favorite short-lived bands.

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  22. Posted

    I have very, very mixed feelings concerning this topic, so all I say may sound confusing. I may sound cocky too, but you guys asked for opinions. I also tried posting this under spoiler but phone won't let me...

     

    Brace yourselves, rant is coming:

     

    Of course, just like any foreigner, I got into this thanks to piracy. Of course, I do download pretty much everything shared on the VK section, even if just to sample it and delete it half an hour later (I no longer hoard music I do not like).

     

    And, just like many people, I occasionally share rips because I know some people will enjoy them and some others might discover a band they will like and support.

    Yet I truly despise when my rips are shared outside of this community, even though my common sense (who usually sounds like Yuyo) dictates it's the right way to preserve and spread it.


    Maybe it is because here it stays within a community of people who also buy and share their rips and it feels more like an open trade. Key word: feels like.

     

    But feelings are not meant to be rational, right?

     

    I support about 10-12 active bands. A good portion of my salary goes towards VK. I make certain sacrifices in order to make sure my honmei can have their rice and redbull. Hell, I even pay people to get me goods at lives so they can get more money from me in a more direct way than buying second hand stuff.


    Maybe that is why I feel I 'earned' the right to trade rips of the bands I do enjoy yet don't love enough to include in my monthly spendings. And I feel people who share rips here kinda earned the 'right' to get my rips for free. Because they support the scene too.

    Sometimes I even dl rips from the bands I do buy from because I'll buy the release with the next paycheck or the following, or sometime in the future when I stop blowing my money on chekis (sorry, Diaura).

     

    Which is why it kinda bums me to spend hundreds of dollars on music, share it with people who also support the scene as far as their wallets allow it, and then it gets leaked to people who not only don't support the scene, but feel entitled to be given rips anyways 'because they love the band so much, omg they mah favez!!'

     

    I don't mean to say I am a better fan than they are, or a better person, or whatever. I'm probably a pathetic chick who blows her paycheck on asian drag queens who attempt to play metal instead of in... idk whatever shit regular people spend their money on. But it really gets on my nerves to read so many people on social media, especially Hispanics, viewing piracy as a 'right'. Demanding for HQ rips, whining about those 'fucking selfish japs/gringos who get everything and don't share fast enough'. Fuck you! If I buy a release I do not have the moral duty of posting it online. And in those very same communities I see a handful of people leeching, bragging about 'their collections' (virtual collections of course) and sharing our stuff just to make themselves popular. 'Look, I'm such a VK connaiseur because I have two hard drives filled with VK I got from MH. I'm a true fan cuz I have rarez. Now kiss my ass if you want me to share the rip I didn't even originate'.

     

    I know a dude who's considered the 'wikipedia of VK' because he's always talking about the many bands he knows and buys. Turns out he doesn't buy shit, he leeches from JpopSuki and here AND HE FUCKING CHARGES FOR IT. HE IS SERIOUSLY MAKING HIMSELF A NAME AND MONEY SELLING OTHER PEOPLE'S RIPS. AS HIS OWN.

     

    I understand the role piracy plays in the scene. I know it's exposure, and it helps spread the music and make bands popular. It preserves files online (though I've been all day looking for geek sleep sheep's albums and I cannot fucking find a decent rip, I swear). It also gives way to interesting discussions about music.


    But I also understand it fucking pisses bands off, many have told me so. It even pisses off western VK bands I know when they see their music up for grabs where they didn't post it. It's sorta disrespectful in a way, to say "yeah, man, I love your art but I ain't paying for it'. I have literally read those words online.

    I don't know if my point is even understood here... I've even defended piracy when talking to a few bandomen, saying that it actually promotes their music and gains them new fans. And I understand without piracy most of us wouldn't be here today. Boy, I really wish someone would share those Amai Boryoku live limited EPs. 


    But I hate so much that downloads bring people here only to leech instead of for all the other amazing features this community has to offer. I hate that people outside of the community get popular or even get money spreading our rips without even mentioning Monochrome Heaven. I hate the way they talk about us when we don't share fast enough, like we owe them the rips. Like it's our duty to share the day before the release and in HQ...

     

    With so many bands posting their previews on youtube, full releases on Spotify and iTunes, is such an open piracy still necessary to promote the music they work so hard to make?
    (I refuse to use youtube and Spotify, I hate them, so I'm being cynical by just bringing them up myself). All the people who say 'I don't risk buying releases I don't know I'll like' can now hear the previews on youtube/spotify, right?

     

    I think I'd really like to keep the DLs here to the community and the people who contribute, so maybe people elsewhere will stop taking us for granted and have a solid reason to complain about us...

     

    I'm ready for the MH trolls to go berserk on my feelings and opinions. Keep in mind these are just rather irrational feels and opinions and that my opinions stem from my own experiences and my own reality, which is not the absolute truth and does not account for other people's experiences.

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  23. Posted

    13 hours ago, helcchi said:

     

     

    Nagase Kei is JILUKA's manager, and he's also credited on FED's releases. Not only that, he's managed DELUHI, GALEYD and UNDIVIDE as well

     

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    Thanks for the detailed confirmation.

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