Pretsy

The idea gave birth to this little invention years later though And some chaps from VK scene used this guitar as well (well, at least Aiji from LM.C did)

"Long" Mucc albums ever since Gokusai had always about 10 new songs (incl. intros) in average so this should not be that surprising tbqh. Scared about songs with titles like "BILLY×2 -Entwines ROCK STARS-" though...how will that turn out, geez I wonder

By looking back to REALies, I could agree that their presence would be rather missed in this context since god knows how many possible programming loops and tracks VK acts slam these days (aside from this treble fad you spoke of). With cases in point like Lycaon's Anima or pretty much anything Pentagon I could definitely tolerate a single or a couple of elements like in NuAGE rather than mishmash these formerly mentioned collectives put out. Elaborating this by supporting @herpeshere: Love or hate Laputa's rave/trance era but just like in NuAGE, synths here are added in for "thematic" purposes - instruments are not drowned etc. etc.. God knows what happened after this and during 10s really....Sorry for derailing this thread!

Frankly speaking there has been always a huge ( HUUUUUUUUUGE) batch of vk acts going for rather sloppy, plastered synthcraft per each era visual scene had during its existence. Even now I could barely name significant neo-vk chaps whose synth work I actually *feel* - take say, Blu-Billion? Their synth game MAKES SENSE to me, idk.

Which part of Finland are you considering/visiting this summer though? Aside from occasional "good summers" around ze west coast and "ideal, lovely winters" a bit further off from Rovaniemi we really don't have anything else. "Bah, my place's a grim shithole" - thinking has been bugging me for years and tbqh I envy people with remaining optimism in ups of my home country. So perhaps I am one of the few folks here who travel here and there in the light of "what if"-kind of explorations (bluntly: "how to get the fuck out and to where exactly"). But lately certain parts of China (the first visit is not enough), Belarus, British Columbia, Australia and prolly even Hokkaido have become quite tempting in my books. However, I am still eager to find myself once more in Singapore, Prague or somewhere around Okinawa so one can only dream about cohesive plans in my boots. P.S. this hipsterite me is not really into holiday resorts, sorry.

Arama is going up on flames and makes no effort to escape from becoming the relic of forgotten, old J-enthusiasm thanks to "master trolling" and "cool kids"-manifestos. I thought lessons were supposed to be learned from things that happened to Jrocknyc or other livejournal/angelfire-supported netz communities/cliques of "cool J-music people"? It ain't fun to play big brothers or sisters anymore - just give up already. As the legendary quote goes: "你们不像我们，我们已经老了，无所谓了" transl. "You are not like us, we are already old, it doesn't matter to us anymore." Go figure.

Did you notice this one though? Not exactly *A NEW SONG* (Ayumi Hamasaki cover BTW) but at least *SOMETHING* from this botox prince regardless. Also: angst coffee commercials.

Yup it is him, he had wackier Halloween/holiday event looks before and after that lol (incl. Padme look from Star Wars lmao) also Effing manlets man.

Seems like someone had attempted to top the "over 45-something guy does cool kids' things" shtick of peeps like Imai and his Hatsune Miku nod: HOTTEST CHANTEUR CHANTEUSE OF JAYRAWK

Now that I came back to frozen wastes of Moominland from glorious Japan (and Asia in overall so not just this country), I am not sure whether this lag makes me really tired or otherwise really energetic atm...but I do miss a lot of stuff after having been to like maybe 10+ towns/cities in such a short time span @_@ I will defo cherish this adventure...but my life goes on with new perspectives!

What happened lately (as for racial-based press) is not "kids just fooling around" but the kind of blatantly and downright low act of showcasing racial hatred. You don't solve issues or commit "justified vengeance" by casting your anger upon random victims of the opposite ethnicity or race - especially not upon those who are not 'abled'. No excuses. Shame on those who attempt to justify this vile act - everything should be judged equally and defo NOT based on the means of "being oppressed or being the oppressor".

While meddling around here, I am way surprised to see how truly popular Diaura is as of those current Japanese vk bands according to the public opinion and exposure... Their PR staff knows how to do their shit, really (oh, hi Ains!)

Must suck for not knowing Dir's arch-rival band during their visual days lol

This becomes more and more amusing even now really

Only if they were still sticking to creating new B-sides as some sort of "what if this were the sound of the album we are releasing soon" kind of spoiler: As for L'arcoustics, latest HONEY L'acoustic version is pure awesomeness for lounge aficionados like me - works better here than with " I'm So Happy" where I cannot help but rule it out as an outtake from Hyde's drunk sessions haha lol. Let's not forget about "album b-sides"...well, technically they are b-sides in the light of album's a-sides, a.k.a single songs, amirite? Won't URL because L'arc is sensitive about YT uploads but namely (and chronologically) Entichers, Blame, Garasu Dama, Fare Well , LORELEY, Cradle, Ibara no Namida, TIME SLIP, Coming Closer, Hoshizora, Sunadokei and Shade of Season are among my all-time favorite album b-sides - and of course my choices are not exactly all "most popular" ones but personally speaking this palette is what exactly describes L'arc's rainbow-ish diversity to me...

Question is how they will restructure instrumentations. Ruki's change is foreseeable but I wonder how much will e.g. TOXIC ballads change with new axe/drumcraft..

From ze big heat of SG to ze mainland chill of rural China is one huge shocker really. At this point my body is not ready for Finland...nor to early winter Japan either. Out of those three Zakurogata felt less out-of-place in regards to Disorder's positioning - the inclusion of Miseinen would be more of the off-the-context solo banger than 7/8 song was and Zetsu has no place with songs like Social... and Carry really (as much as Zetsu is the best of Gazette jams ever). As for my personal opinion on Zakurogata, I like how it's varied in all its quirkiness yet its de facto story context is grim af. Not better than those two other singles ofc but far off from being something "totally unlikable". But then again, this comes from a guy who legitly jams along to [DIS] and similar "so bad that it's good" Gazette songs. 「平成」時代事態変えろ「反乱」!!!

It is a real goddamn shame that people (or millennials) can discard their morals, ethics, humane sympathy etc. for a while just to act like savage tribesmen and party on the graves of people they despised and loathed, and at the same time call for exclusion of folks for this same reasoning. Isn't that a bit hypocrite, don't you think? I mean, only callous mofos do that - no? Some food for thought.

Question: Are they even allowed to perform/self-cover songs of their former moniker? Would look funny if Shimizuya disallowed them to play any Lycaon at this point either...

Not that it would be strongly connected to VK (question whether this is actually related to visual scene due to their frontman is still debatable) but Kiyoharu's SADS had an album in 2001 (The Rose God Gave Me) which imho may have served as some sort of inspiring direction in regards to combining nu metal/sometimes American alt. metal ideas with various "progenitor" ideas of heavier visual kei music (glam rock-metal/punk). "Because" and "Porno Star" are already familiar to everyone (not exactly nu metal) but this may be the nu metalliest piece Kiyoharu has ever made: Limp Bizkit-meets-glam metal-ish stuff (ofc with good ol' dose of spoken word goodness) This may also count, I guess (influence-wise) - awkward rapping bridges and climax are something which one would imagine in a nu metal piece rather than in some glam punk banger. But interesting thread hey!

So which aspect of Japanese population are you OPs and other supporters referring to? Looks? All the same for us I guess - shouldn't we be proud for the race/genetics we were born in etc.? As for being part of the Japanese demographic in the promising land of Nippon, I can assure you Europeans (not sure about Americans) that the easiest outlet to being "Japanese" in terms of mindset, social-cultural norms etc. for you would be just pretending to be me or some of us MH users: A Finn. Yes, hurray for our conformist tendencies! This could be of course understood more or less in a positive AND negative light as well. inb4 someone thinks Imma Stormfront guy with assumptions on my race being related to Mongols/Azns in overall, kek.

Mata, Otsukisama sounds very Utsusemi-ish (or even from Ammonite, my likely guess) Manegoto sounds a lot like Pura stuff circa 2006-2007 and it has been stated already that Nekoyume is basically a self-cover (by his Neji side-project with guys from Té, around 2002-2003). I wonder if there will be more than just one song off those early 90s sessions really (considering the amount of songs).

Anyone up to Seoul for December, peeps? You get the purpose of this post right away

A few bullets: - "pop vocal style" is very ambiguous concept. I still fail to see how it would prove your point inside our J-indie spectrum. - I excluded acts before 00s because VK vocals are not just about pure gackting, squawking or warbling anymore. Albeit us witnessing throwback acts every now and then, we notice that today's bandwagon has also opted for more indie-friendly, albeit funnily pitched (still indie-friendly) vocalwork among newer acts. Or are you implying that acts akin to DIV, Unite, Chanty, Blu-Billion and other indie pop/rock influenced acts are dedicated lynch-ian crooning posterboys as well? So I still cannot understand why you would presume those who cast those comparisons to be *OBJECTIVELY* wrong and "unaware of VK" (= implying?). - TK and Junichi Konno have a lot to do with this because indie vocalcraft is not the art of one trick ponies either as of in this decade really. So let's rest the case: Cinema Staff may not be inherently "vk-lite" as in influences but comparisons to vk are not far off if we touch certain (coincidental) nuances them and certain VK acts of today's exposure have in common. Don't expect anyone "listening to VK" to be immediately "MH-savvy" (MH is not the lone oasis of VK fandom tbqh). ("QED")

There's this guy who also got behind this notion of "sounding vk" in cinema staff's case around those FB's J-indie circles and AFAIK he had Unite (well, that vk act) in his mind when describing them - which is surprisingly apt when we think of comparisons (uplifting, soft but still sorta medium-ranged vocalcraft etc.). VK vocals have no fixed medium (we are not living 00s anymore) at this point so it's really difficult to argue about "objectivity" or "they definitely don't listen to vk" (the hell we know?!). I mean, sometimes people even guess rather out-of-nowhere VK influences of J-indie figureheads to this day, e.g. TK (avid Luna Sea fan) or Junichi Konno from Karasu (Mucc and Merry somewhat influenced his work on several albums).