Kae-chan

I 'see' what you did there.

Welcome to the forum! Reading your list made me remember how much I loved D'espairsRay.

childhood is idealizing brutal music.... adulthood is realizing that we are all slowly wasting away second by second, destined to die, and the universe will not shed a tear.... i mean ART KEI IS LIFE

http://www.jpopasia.com/feed/20529/avex-music-releases-unaffected-by-export-ban/
 
 

UPDATE!
 
 
cdjapan said on facebook that it only affects avex pictures releases and not other avex sublables.
 
so in other words most vkei and rock and pop is safe.
 

Hi! Welcome to the forum. I'm sure you'll like it here, have fun!
 

so, I really hate introductions but oh well here we go...

I've been into vk/ japanese rock for like 11 years now and thanks to that I've been able to meet some very nice people! I couldn't list my favorite bands or anything because there's so much stuff I love it but some very special bands for me are deadman, Vasalla, S, Malice Mizer and Madeth gray'll. But I listen to all kinds of music really, apart from the japanese stuff I like metal, some ambient music, lots of soundtracks from movies and games like Silent Hill, and I also love romantic classical music, you know, guys like Tchaikovsky, Rachmaninoff, Paganini, Chopin and the list goes on... I also like jazz/fusion and guitar-oriented instrumental music a lot but I guess this isn't really the place to talk about that. lol Anyway, nice to meet you all.

Welcome to the forum! I'm sure you'll like it here and great introduction! I'm a fan of many different genres as well. Though, I do tend to deviate back to VK most of the time. Again, welcome and have fun!

First of all, I want to say that I'm very happy to find out about this forum. Finally, a place where I can actually see any posts (at all) related to my fav band. 
I've been following the j-entertainment scene (music, drama, movies, tokusatsu, anime, etc) since 2006, so it has been about 10 years now. The first time I came to know about the term "visual-kei" was back in 2007, thanks to Death Note. (LOL that's right, I love some of Nightmare's songs!)
 
I've been part of many fandoms. From idols to tokusatsu, actors, actresses, etc. The only fandom that I've never been in (and wouldn't ever touch) is KPOP. While I'm very open to any kind of entertainment, songs by KPOP artists aren't my cup of tea at all (mostly)D: I don't dislike people easily though, especially musicians who I personally don't know. It's a matter of whether the music is my cup of tea or not. I don't know whether a song is "good" or "bad" If the songs give me eargasm, then they're good for me Oh and I don't play any instruments. I enjoy listening to music yet I'm not really interested in learning it. 
 
That being said, I have been following Golden Bomber for quite some time now (started in 2015). Late, I know. I saw them for the first time when I watched either Arashi ni Shiyagare or Domoto Kyoudai. Kinda hate myself for not getting into them at that time. Been buying & collecting their stuff (CDs, DVDs, tour goods, etc) since 2015 and I'm just. so. into. them. that I don't know what to do with myself sometimes -.-"
 
Contrary to popular belief, they actually do play their instruments during lives (sometimes). They just say that they don't when they appear on TV/in public because it's part of their joke: we're musicians who suck at what we're doing, so much that you either hate or love us this way! They love to appear as big losers in general public's eyes. Though lately they've started to reveal some truth (LOL the fact that the guitarist does know how to play guitar & does play his guitar live sometimes). I found myself crying at the 'revelation' because fans knew it already LOL . They did perform as "Golden Boys" and shit during lives XD The guitarist plays for real when he doesn't do his 'thing' like getting drown in a bathtub and such XD Those who bother to look beyond 'Memeshikute' knew that they don't suck as much as their 'images' suggest  
 
By the way, I've noticed that they don't have many international fans? Either we're really quiet people on the internet or there really are not many of us. This is amusing because they're totally mainstream in Japan. I think that the language barrier is one of the reasons why non-japanese people find it hard to stan them. They have tons of skits and such, and you won't find their skits to be funny (or sweet, even O.O ) if you don't understand japanese.  I'm just a bit lucky because I can understand basic japanese.
 
Okay, enough about Golden Bomber.
So GB is the only band that I'm following now, but I do listen to other bands/groups at the same time. My music taste ranges from tokusatsu to idols to bands like back number, GReeeeN, UVERworld, T.M Revolution, abingdon boys school, Maximum the Hormone and the like, and if it's visual style bands, they're Nightmare, Gazetto (Filth in the Beauty and Silly God Disco are my style), Alice Nine (Q, Tsubasa, Shunkashuuto, Ruri no Ame) and I think GUILD has some catchy songs
 
I can't say that I'm a huge fan of visual-kei in general, because I'm obviously not familiar with tons of vk bands out there (just a casual listener mostly, except for GB), but still, let's get along well ne  
 
Thanks for reading!!!
 

 
 
 
 
 

shine on my penis
sparkle my penis
wish on my penis that sparkles like gold
 
I can't unhear this.

adolescent human poossee, and the simulacra of my lady's touch that bbmtvl fans covet?

So, if I get that right they were defrauding funds from an elderly woman? Well, that's pretty skeevy if true.

Re:Re:MY BACTERIA HEAT ISLAND is gonna be their new band name after this.

Yay! Anew album from vistlip is great news.

vistlip new album "BitterSweet" (4 types) will be released on 2017/03/29
 

band name seems to actually be ナイトメアシンドローム (nightmare syndrome).
nothing concrete out on them obvs but i'm not particularly getting my hopes up; spooky cute is a pretty crowded field at the moment, and that name is... so unoriginal! visual kei really loves the words nightmare and syndrome... first song will be probably be called EGOTIST or something

Welcome to the forum and nice to meet you. I like most of the bands you named, so thumbs up for good taste.

It's nothing but so proud to find this x) Just hacking  (Or just change the link of the countdown background image 2 days forward :p)




 

Dude, yes yes yes. I'm so excited. And a cover song as a b-side?! I love cover songs omg.

I think they continue until they die.

they died so PIERROT could live

I'm a big fan of Luna  Sea and Buck-Tick as well. Welcome!