Ruri

ONE OK ROCK new digital single "Taking off" will be released at 2016/09/16 through iTunes, etc.
 

Oh yeah, me too! This stuff is hard filed, just love how the song barely holds itself together. A wonderful shambles!
And the bass "solo" at the end is just next level 

^ I actually really like this one ヽ(´ー｀)ノ

Having to buy the same release 50 fucking times at different stores just to get certain privilege merch that aren't available anywhere else (ie, photosets, live footage, etc.). So over this bullshit.
 
 

remember when every other indie VK PV was filmed in a white room? that's it for me. also, undercode bands (rip bih)
 
 
here for this tbh

THAT GODDAMN CHURCH

Two things
 
Reality:  The upcoming Morrigan album is a good example. Any sort of romantic ideal you might have in your head about these guys just going out there to express themselves in sexy angry music and nais hairs and heavy makeup crumbles down when bands pull shit like this. Really releasing an album that's essentially a compilation shows a complete lack of vision, ambition and concern for their own image and legacy. The curtain has been pulled back and the money grubbing hackery is exposed in clear daylight. The profit margin unfortunately is part and parcel of visual kei, and it works to the scene's detriment. 
 
The other thing is when these bands bust out the _traditional_ Japanese instruments to give a song some corny folk ornamentation. The worst recent offender I can think of was Avelcain. It wouldn't be as bad if the music actually treated the concept with some respect instead of hamming in a melody that sounds like it was composed for a TV advertisement about frozen chinese food. It's so fucking bad, like it's literally the same if a Finnish band played around with Kalevala image and dressed up in fucking furs and tar face paint, which is made all the more worse by the fact that there are bands that actually do that. For me personally the experience of seeing these bands is what a person from India ( pardon the generalisation, I know it's an infinitely diverse country ) would feel if he saw a band doing a concept album about the kamasutra while dressed up like Apu from the Simpsons. 
 
 

i'm just not big on the 女形 (onna gata) thing, personally.
I just don't get the appeal......

When vocalists do the silly "br00tal" growling/grunting thing like it's supposed to be MANDATORY to have a verse or two like that in your song. I'm not saying it doesn't have its place in vk, but more and more I hear bands over-use it without much purpose, just as a boring template.
 
Oh, and when an otherwise mid-to-fast-paced song's chorus is suddenly all slowwww and laaaazyyyy. I don't know who started this, but I found it most typical of GazettE back when I started noticing it popping up here and there, and now almost every band has a couple tracks like this.

But...but...but it's so much more brootal metalz when they do that.
 
I hate it when a band has a really great rift and the screamer ruins it with awful vocal progression. Sometimes screaming in VK is just god awful.

L'Arc~en~Ciel:
 

my life is complete
kyouka giving this tragic white tw*nk a shook horrified look is the best internet thing of now tbh