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Karma was included on Kaede ~if trans...~ and as a single track on Utafull in 2008, I think.

I can only speak for Germany, but from my experience here, it's DEG > Gazette > Mucc.

The first two were often seen in an old music magazine called Rockoon, Mucc on the other hand was no name.

I think aside of (and maybe even more than) DEG and Gazette, bands like Ancafe and Girugamesh were the most popular J-bands in Germany.

They appeared in countless youth magazines, even the BRAVO. But the J-music time has long since faded and I'm always surprised when I'm outbid on ebay on a German seller's item.

He asked the same thing three weeks ago... I mean, wouldn't you think that as soon as anything new would be released, it would be posted on this board? o.ô

Is this what Kyo sounds like in pre-production?

TIL Laliene (pre-Lareine) had a demo tape with a song called "Dir en gray"... in 1995... HMMMMM...

By the way, there's a DEG discord now, if anyone wants an invite, hmu

I have a lot of Dir en grey scans from Fool's Mate 1997~00, hmu if you want a link.

Edit: Completely forgot I posted them here already:

Those are just Fool's Mate scans, I have some more clippings from other magazines, sometimes about other bands from that era, too.

Yeah, but DEG was one of those bands once, too But I think, most of their rare stuff has already been discovered and they don't have any special live-only CDs or so (aside of red/black TtB). Occasionally, I find a "not for sale" VHS with some random stuff, but that's really only for collectors and I'll upload it sooner or later anyway.

Still, I'd wish there'd be someone who has rare indies DEG stuff that I don't know of

I'm always surprised that there are these people with deep vk roots selling superduper rare stuff, but nobody ever has anything by Dir en grey that's even close to being rare/special

How does one know what he's missing when he doesn't know that he's missing it? 🤔

To preface this, I'm not in the vkei scene (neither Japanese nor international) and I don't know about its situation in regards to piracy. Aside of DIR EN GREY, I own maybe 30 albums/DVDs physically, and none of them is vkei stuff. So this is more about general piracy in the music scene.

I hardly knew about MH before joining, I almost never use it for vk downloads since I only listen to DEG (and their related bands) anyway, so I'm not here to grab any rips from random no-name vkei bands. I also have never been on batsu or used jpopsuki before.

But I have been using piracy for 99.9% of all music I've ever acquired. I don't say this with pride, but with indifference. I don't care if the artist doesn't make as much money because of me, because there's no scenario in which he would. Even if I wouldn't download the album, I still wouldn't buy it and I'm not a fan of streaming, either. So there's no potentially lost money, because there is no potentially won money.

And while I'm aware that this position makes my vulnerable to those with the moral high ground, I won't change this either. I currently have 100 artists scrobbled on my last.fm, that's about 1/5th of all artists I've ever pirated an album from. Imagine if the only way I'd be able to listen to those artists would be by buying their music.

It would be impossible. I would not even be able to DIR EN GREY alone if I'd only listen to their bought music (and I do buy their music, of course).

So the logical conclusion to me is: Either I pirate their music and listen to the band without paying them, or I don't bother with them and they won't get my money, either. It's a lose/lose situation for them.

And I think that this sentiment won't change, ever. Most people simply don't have enough money to buy all the music they like, it's literally impossible. So from my perspective, the artists are asking us to either chose them (for the purchases) or don't listen to them at all. I don't think that's the way to handle their fanbase, since the band needs the fans, not the other way around. I think that instead, the band needs to find other way to make money. They need to go with the flow, they can't be stuck in the "if we act like this, people will surely buy our music instead of pirating it". Nope, that won't happen. People will simply drop you and listen to other bands.

I still get this Super Mario N64 feeling from TnA's outro melody...

Romanisation is "Kagekui" = "Shadow-Eater" or "Shadow-eating".

Does Blood Stain Child count?

It could also mean someone who acts like a human, but doesn't really relate to them or feels like a human underneath the mask... or so

Or maybe it's about skinwalkers ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

1 hour ago, Kelrya said:

Given that 人間を被る means to wear a human as a mask/hat I feel like it’s gonna be the heavy song

What makes you connect those two things?

Hopefully.

So... what's your point? They aren't sold in Japan, period. They might be sold to (and among) Westerners, because muh filthy gaijin weeaboo trash deserves to be ripped off.

But in Japan and among Japanese (or knowledgeable Western) fans, they're generally not sold, not published and, if the trader asks you to, you're not even supposed to trade them with others. If you act against the "unwritten rules" of the tereko community, you're shunned pretty quickly and can say good-bye to trading, basically.

Terekos aren't sold, at least not in Japan. The batsu guys, on the other hand...

By the way, I have the INSANITY cover from back in the day, give me 30 bitcoins and I send it over.

How would one do that when it's released in April?

1 hour ago, hotcocoa said:

Not a band - it's Nakamori Akina's song. Kyo is a big fan of her.

InoueM is deg's old manager.

Ah yes, that matches what I found. So they covered her and Inoue had his own "band" that day, lul. Thank you.

1 hour ago, Saishu said:

Man, only ones I can remember are Osaka-jo Hall and the one on (I think) the Sustain the untruth dvd. 

I didn't even count the Osakajo Hall performance.

mazohyst is on 5, Fukai is on 3

Yeah, I'm not fond of it, either. It seems they just randomly picked one ARCHE-song from each mode of-tour... dunno why they still promote ARCHE that much, the album is four(?) years old...

Besides, we're still missing two mode of-releases ._.

What what? The "Chain repulsion" recording from their new single's DVD is from the same show that was taped for the TOUR14 mode of Gauze release.

It's the only song from that night (aside of INWARD SCREAM) that wasn't released so far. All other songs were either release on the TOUR14 DVD or on other releases.

lul I just checked their setlist for August 30, 2014, and as it turns out, "Chain repulsion" is the only song (aside of INWARD SCREAM) from that show that they had yet to release... I mean wtf, why would they even release a song from four years ago now? And what about INWARD SCREAM? And why didn't they release them earlier... ._.