Ruri

wellll, im probably not the best to take on the topic as I've been here all of two months and I, myself been catching up on 10-or-so years of vk BUT that said, here goes nothing, in no particular order: 
 
- DIMLIM lost two members (gt. and bass), and the world held its breath for a while, but they've just announced an album for December (as a trio) so we can all rest easy for now
- nokubura's future is still unsure, as right after the single supposedly dissing the two lost members, their new guitarist was caught with marijuana ~karma is a bitch~
- Despa's Hizumi is back doing some electro vk and everyone and their mother is salty about it
- Yoshiki continues to be an asshole, hardly a news at this point, he made a 10mln yen donation to Kyoto Animation, which is all well and good if he didn't milk it for publicity to the last drop; he also met the UK royal family, unsure if it's related
- Yumeleep lost a drummer and I'm not entirely sure which side is the general public on, since there was shade thrown from both sides, as far as I know, related to internal bullying (I'm not really a fan so dunno)
- there's a new band around - MOTHER - and that wouldn't be anything noteworthy if it wasn't for their, let's say unique, promo campaign, check out their thread XD
- also not strictly vk, but there are some additions to forum rules so also check that out I guess
 
that's about for the stuff I cared to remember from the past 2mo ^^;
 

i’d probably quit using it too, but i’m a big fan of being able to track things and keep stats for them.  it’s v satisfying.  maybe if someone made something similar to last.fm that did things better.  but it seems like people are more interested in tracking what shows/movies they watch than music.  dont get me wrong, i use sites for that kinda thing too.  it’s just cool to be able to look at my listening history too.  

i use it for the Similar Artists thing but yeah the community on the site is dead as dicks

she's actually been dead for a few years now. they just hook her up to a generator and shoot electricity through her whenever she needs to make a public appearance

She's probably a hologram at this point, lets face it (Actually, that would explain how Yoshiki's always everywhere too, hmm)

Doll in Blueberry Jam is my personal favorite of theirs. Gooood stuff lol.
 
 

this status was just supposed to be a joke about how i like all vk. i don't think vk is going to end in 2019 :<

It's hard to be able to tell the sex of an iguana without knowing how to do so already, so I don't blame him for asking

I used to live for that question in high school.

I swear you can't be into visual kei without saying "that's a guy" to your friends/family at least once

I had the same issue with it. Like they understood that they weren't going to last forever because of their vocalists condition so they just gave up.

fav: laybial, eze:qul, orgel
 
least fav: velladonna 

Faves: Probably Madeth or Mirage
 
Least Faves: Early Mist of Rouge, Remage, Lagna

Favorites: Vice risk, La'miss fairy, Mirage, Madeth gray'll
 
Least fav: idk, probably some band that only released 1-3 demos. 

fave: Garden, Vice†Risk, Mist of Rouge. also, it feels weird calling Vidoll a matina band (i just think UCP), but considering most of their first releases were on matina, you can add them to my list fo sho.
 
least fave??? idk, maybe one of the ones with a more generic metal sound like VellaDonna? or Remage?
 
サリー was good too...
 
i mean, that's what I like about matina, I think in general they just had a lot of good bands which all made some real gems every once and a while. I'm sure there are some Madeth and Syndrome fans who will skewer me for this, but no band from Matina strikes me as like untouchably good, or without a boring filler-y song occasionally. But they all had their great moments too. For almost every band who was on the label, I can name a handful of songs that were really exceptional and bursting with passion.
 
But maybe the whole "inconsistent, but usually pulling through with some A class bangers that make up for the live-only headbanging choreography backing-track B-sides" thing is just part of the nature of VK.

3 words: Madeth effin’ Gray’ll
 
for least favorite, and I’m only choosing amongst the bands that weren’t absolute nobodies, I never liked Eze;qul that much. (I got love for you though Rame)

i know it's incorrect but i cannot stop my brain reading it as "point one jee no gosan"

this hits close to home

Amen

no henny early glay were really good, they should have released 1/20-th of their post-2000 output and heavily reconsidered publishing the rest though.

they haven't done anything to deserve my respect in ten years

Glay... But it's possible I'll like them one day.  I have a laundry list of bands that I disliked at one time but I really like now (Deg, MUCC, L'arc, SID, B'z, etc).

Good.

Or the community of this board feels like disliking them is an obligation. 

I do like their music, but how they've been literally generating revenue just on the idea that they might actually create new material is fucking ridiculous. On top of that, the vkei community outside of this board feels like liking them is an obligation.