Komorebi

lmao, yeah, that sounds about right. I remember at one of the Apocalyptica co-headline shows where some friends and I were standing in the middle, and I said to one "When Red Soil rips, I want you to push me and I'll do the rest". Sure enough, the song picks up, I get a solid push in the back, and I begin trucking through these small Asian girls (sorry) with my arms outstretched to part the seas. After that, the pit was awesome the rest of the night. Even a few girls were getting into the mix and having fun. Oddly enough, they were Apocalyptica fans who had never listened to Dir en grey before so it was a cool experience.
 
There's only been one show where we tried to get a pit going and security shut it down. The security guard came up to me and said "Man, I love what you guys are doing; but this isn't the kind of show for this", so instead we spent the rest of the show getting drunk at the bar with the vocalist of the opening band.

There’s moments and songs for that. Can you really enjoy a concert if you are acting like an enraged ape during its whole duration?

There’s moments and songs for that. Can you really enjoy a concert if you are acting like an enraged ape during its whole duration?

There’s moments and songs for that. Can you really enjoy a concert if you are acting like an enraged ape during its whole duration?

Hey, welcome to the forum! Glad you decided to join. 

There’s moments and songs for that. Can you really enjoy a concert if you are acting like an enraged ape during its whole duration?

There’s moments and songs for that. Can you really enjoy a concert if you are acting like an enraged ape during its whole duration?

Me? No.  But if that’s how others enjoy it, oh well. 

There’s moments and songs for that. Can you really enjoy a concert if you are acting like an enraged ape during its whole duration?

I actually really hate that. I pay to hear the band, not a bunch of loud fuckers screaming over it. 

If lord Retsu would have been around 20 years ago he may have cured Kyo from his pain and showed him the ultimate way of expressing feelings on stage.

Merch prices went up for tonight's show. Shirts are now 40 and hoodie is 65. Bag is 20

I was a member of this place several years ago, but I lost all my account info and stuff. I'm mostly just into Takeru (ex-SuG) and Jui (Gotcharocka). Still, I thought I'd come back and do some exploring. I'm also autistic, so I tend to be pretty shy and asocial around new people. Just give me a chance, and I'll open up! Jui and Takeru are also two of my heroes btw.

I don't mind an instrumental track here and there, but it's gonna be very hard to digest an entire album of Leda's masturbations.

(should we move this to random thoughts?)
 
I obviously won't be fighting to get you to believe the gossip, but if drug/scam arrests themselves, and disproportionally high amount of sex/host club workers in the scene (both gya and bandmen) don't speak of the obvious yakuza affiliation (which goes outside of VK too, it's a Japanese popular entertainment trait, and it penetrates other Japanese businesses as well i.e. some Japanese banks were started with the intention to launder money for gang crime), we won't be getting any other tea.
 
I don't even consider those ties as something inherently bad because there're people who legitimately belong to this scene because of their love of the music and theatrics and visuals, but there's no entirely "clean" way to enter the very strictly regulated mold of it - and in any case, Japanese music scene is not any different from global one in that aspect. Katy Perrys producer started out selling coke on SNL, certain bands p much use touring as a front to smuggle substances, everyone there is drugged out of their mind at some point or other (I was looking up SOAD tea and apparently they claimed they all were high out of their mind while recording their first albums in court.)
 
I'm over both perceiving the bandmen is kawaii innocent angels and implying there's anything scandalous with the way the scene is funded/structured because I frankly don't care, I only care about music and aesthetics of a certain number of acts.
 
I mean going back to the first line:
this applies to the music scene globally, and I'm p sure it's fucked up on more levels than the entire VK scene with whatever fanclub gangbangs they used to throw around etc etc etc.

So did he just compose the drum parts and throw them into Pro Tools?

That's vk.gy
 
 
vk dot gy!
 

Nothing scandalous, but bandmembers
are always ditching him so I suspect he’s a pain to work with. 

Or the company made some concepts and headhunted Lime and the others.
I read a while ago that when bands come out of nowhere and get so big so fast it's because the producers (and maybe one of the bandmembers who also acts as producer) came up with a killer concept and got the approval and funds to launch it big, that bands like that are meant to be big from the very beginning, while others aren't, which is why other bands in labels with a big act never really take off, because they aren't meant to and thus underfunded. Kizu was clearly produced from day 1 to be the next big thing.

but do we really care tbh
 
judging by free-will intentionally staying quiet (I think last time they were mentioned specifically was when they established a european branch p much exclusively to shill Deg, BIS (RIP) and kagerou, and that 『clowns against commercialiZm』NY gig that never happened), they're most probably exclusively handling shit with local companies in person and don't need any web presence/have no interest for us net stans.
there's nothing of fanbase interest they produce themselves (that's handled by firewall div., resistar, etc)  and they probably just manage their bands relations with distributors i.e. extort overdue baroque or kamijo royalties from warner or whatever.

Yeah, even reminding someone to call you/text you back about something is considered “toxic” and “controlling” by some. 

I've been doing a writing project and I was listening to Kamijo on spotify and he's actually super good and if I hadn't been so into angura back in the day I would have enjoyed following him and Versailles ;3;
But that also made me realize that his sound is Mana, elevated lmao and I'm down with that.  It's not that I dislike Mana but holy hell you can tell what his ego did to M10M, and how unwilling he is to entertain change.  It's a bit sad really, since a lot of other musicians his age have evolved and turned into something better while he's still there, with his dark tea parties and fluffy, extremely expensive dresses, still unspeaking.  

I know he's a dickhead, but he is legitimately a great musician and song-writer and as that was my favourite era of DIMLIM I consider that quite a big blow, I mean they have shown they can write good music without him, but they haven't really shown they can manage themselves since Issei left, and since NAZARE seem to be doing pretty well for themselves, so regardless of how much anyone likes/dislikes him, he puts in the work writing good music, gets shit done business wise and overall manages his band(s) much better. So ya know.....

Your girl was laid off this week so time to get rid of some stuff.

Schwarz Stein - Perfect Garden $15 usd
Hora - domiNATE $30 usd
Hora - ICEBOUND $30 usd
Hora - Prominence $30 usd
Hora - RESONANT - SEALED $30 usd
(might fuck around and not sell these unless someone buys all, in which case it will be $100 usd for all)
ASAGI - Corvinus - $15 usd
Phantasmagoria - Wailing Wall - 10000 yen (includes shipping) plus old flyer
Phantasmagoria - Splendor of Sanctuary - $20 usd
RAZOR - Sennen no Shirabe [CD+DVD] SEALED - $20 usd  (3 available)
RAZOR CIVARIZE T-shirt plus catalogue booklet - $40 usd
Vidoll - Occult Proposal (no obi) $15 usd
Vidoll - Like an Edison comment VHS $15 usd
Vidoll - Yes, I'm a bastard tour T-shirt glitter pink ver. size S $20 usd
D - yami yori blah blah CD+DVD $15 usd (plus i'll throw in a couple old D flyers)
UNDER CODE High Style Paradox 2 DVD plus Third Stage sign board privilege $40 usd
UNDER CODE High Style Paradox 1 $20 usd
Rentrer en Soi - Third Stage sign board - $30 usd plus old flyer
LAREINE - Third Stage sign board - $50 usd (includes shipping) Kamijo/Mayu/Emiru/Kazuki era, privilege for Scarlet Majesty live DVD
LAREINE - Chantons L'amour Live DVD 15000 yen (includes shipping)
LAREINE - Trailer $40 usd
LAREINE - Princess $20 usd
LAREINE - Knight $20 usd
LAREINE - Majesty $20 usd
(all three story series CDs $50 usd altogether including shipping)
LAREINE - Drama $30 usd
MALICE MIZER - Voyage ~sans retour~ first press 7000 yen (includes shipping)
Dir en grey - Blitz 5 Days box $70 usd
the GazettE - Repeated Countless Error box $20 usd
Lin - Independant Maze Type B - $15 usd
Versailles - signed board Jishuban Club NOBLE privilege with Jasmine You 7000 yen (includes shipping)
Versailles - Revenant Choir PV DVD (cracked case) $30 usd
Moi dix Mois photosets (x2) $20 usd
12012 - Knight mare (digipak) $20 usd
SpookJack - snow the dark $15 usd SEALED
SpookJack - Personified Pain CD+DVD $30 usd (signed) - SOLD


alice auaa
box bag with strap 15000 yen
large leather flap shoulder bag 25000 yen
silver ring 7000 yen

h.NAOTO
bracelet - $15 usd
choker - $15 usd

DM if interested~ pics available upon request via DM

-will add more later-

There’s designated smoking areas in Japan, you can’t just smoke anywhere. Unless it’s Kabukicho 😂