Hakari

Just a half-offtopic heads-up for the curious: the We Are X movie is ~out~ ~there~ ~if~ ~you~ ~know~ ~where~ ~to~ ~look~ ;3 

I went to the doctor's the other day and he told me that the reason I am so healthy is because I listen to Buck Tick at least once a day. huh who knew?
 
But seriously buck tick news is always good news.

luckily there's enough good western music being released this year to compensate lmao 
i think that xaa-xaa full length album is like just about the only vk-related release i've checked this year so far and it was also just a 6/10 or something... 
still holding out hopes for cali gari and sukekiyo to come thru with some good shit tho

@YuyoDriftcouldn't agree more. Been a very slow year so far. Been listening to tons of metal lately to fill that void

I can't even...

Not bummed at all. Let the multiple new bands arise!

This year is almost half-way through, and there still is no release close enough to meet my standards.
I really can't believe that those crazy fools who hailed Matina's era of VK to be the best, are gonna have the last laugh.
To have to purposely look for older VK, and even explore other genres of Japanese Music, was not something I believed to be doing this year.
It's even harder to believe that I'd be doing this all the way up to May.
I'm terrified of what I have to listen to for the remaining half of the year.....
 
I may even have to give Mejibray another listen, I'm so bored.

Am I the only one, who's not surprised? They've been releasing way too much, their music just sounds the same all the time, it feels like they're out of new ideas. A break will be good for them, because they've been too busy with shit. I highly doubt they would announce a hiatus if they were going to disband, stop being such drama queens.

I feel like Dir en grey has one more album up their sleeves... i hope anyway.
 
I feel like this will be some weird ambient instrumental stuff with random guest vocalist.

If anyone needed anymore convincing

Agreed on the new nightbringer. Absolutely slays. Many people are hyping it up it seems. Strongly considering on getting the vinyl

^ Damn, lots of huge names there. Too bad that your bro won't be able to come, but as you said life goes on. Enjoy the hell out of it! 
 
Anyway, the new Nightbringer is bloody fantastic, holy shit. I'm afraid I'm gonna have a bad time making my end year list. I thought that 2017 would never top last year but here we are, with tons of amazing albums and we're not even in June. 

This is the absolute worse.... Can't help but feel a glimmer of hope

This is dumb, why don't pelican release the album not their fan club?

inb4 Kyo is the "random guest vocalist" and it just ends up sounding like DEG.
 
also inb4 the inevitable "Shinya can't drum" posts.

Don't. I mean if you really enjoyed their earlier releases their newer stuff is just cringe worthy.

^ Same. Also I still have to check out their latest album, I'm glad that they're back. 

Ten years ago today, Spike760 and myself decided that we wanted to start a Japanese Rock forum. After a while of debating, we eventually settled on Tainted World (after the D’espairsRay song of the same name). Frankly, neither one of expected it to last all that long; this would hardly be the first forum that we had run together that didn’t go anywhere. But what started as a fun little project somehow blossomed into an amazing community. The fact that this site still exists after all this time has little to say about Spike and my’s original plan and everything to say about the members here. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping build this site into what it is today.
 
While I was one of the key founders of this site, Monochrome Heaven is so much bigger than just me. That became clear to me when we went under the transition from Tainted World to our current name back in 2011. While to really understand why this is so important requires more context, I don’t want to go into a full on history lesson. But since that point, so many members have stepped up and dedicated themselves to this site, putting in the time and effort (and money) into making Monochrome Heaven as great as it possibly can be.
 
To every member that has joined and felt like they were apart of a community over this silly niche interest we all have, I raise a glass to you. You all are what have made this place special. And to every staff member, current and past, no words can express my thanks to you - you are people that I have come to admire and consider good friends.
 
But this post isn’t about me, but about the Monochrome Heaven! I want to hear from all of you as to why this community is special, why you’ve becoming coming back for 10 months or 10 years. Or tell us one of your favorite moments from your time coming, whether that was a release you were looking for forever or a stupid meme that took over the forum.

Here’s some from other users to get things started!:
 
 
 
@-jibakurei-
 
@SEKHMET
 
@Ada Suilen
 
@Flame-X
 
@Seiji
 
@Platy
 
@efuru
 
@saishuu
 
@Furik
 

Haha that wasn't good at all

Thanks!  Never give up , never surrender!  Actually  I'm not sure if that was taken from a Churchill speech and altered , or was the tag line for Galaxy Quest.  You get the idea though.

I listen to my music by cassette only.
 
because trVu kulT quality. All other forms are obsolete. 
 
But in all seriousness I couldn't hear a difference In the two types. Probably because I haven't listened to either one.

I listen to my music by cassette only.
 
because trVu kulT quality. All other forms are obsolete. 
 
But in all seriousness I couldn't hear a difference In the two types. Probably because I haven't listened to either one.

I listen to my music by cassette only.
 
because trVu kulT quality. All other forms are obsolete. 
 
But in all seriousness I couldn't hear a difference In the two types. Probably because I haven't listened to either one.

I listen to my music by cassette only.
 
because trVu kulT quality. All other forms are obsolete. 
 
But in all seriousness I couldn't hear a difference In the two types. Probably because I haven't listened to either one.

behold my first ever rarezhut haul <3333
 
I'M SO HAPPY I'M CRYING tBH