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The songs labeled as "xxx" were not revealed yet?
 
inb4 they are SEs filled with porn samples

this situation is even more hilarious because their bassist uta wrote in twitter some crap like "all international fans wait until we go to your country" in english some time ago
like, let your fans buy your fucking songs for a start
 

Drummer's head w/ that handprint looks like that ball from "Cast Away".
(Yes, I do know the whole "hand over mouth" thing is supposed to symbolize censorship and/or suffocation. He just looks very "spherical", lol)
I wonder which bands the members are from 🤔.
 

This is my main complaint about the DVD as well, the performance is good enough to stand on it's own, they don't need the backing tracks on the vocals to make it sound like the studio recordings. It might be my only complaint about it though, exceptional show otherwise. 
 
That and that they should get a second guitarist so they can drop the guitar backing tracks as well. But it might be difficult to find one that's a good fit, who knows. 
 

Even the fans of avelcain know he can’t sing and the band can’t play.
 
I don’t like the song but it gave me this huge nostalgia feeling, It feels like I’m in 2001 trading songs with some Japanese gal in WinMx and My precious rarez got scammed with some unknown 90s indie bands. I think karma pretty successfully capture that 90s vkei generics sound.

After another fan mistreatment scandal, Issei will leave Nazare. The remaining musicians will stick together, the songwriting will improve drastically and they will become the next big thing.

After another fan mistreatment scandal, Issei will leave Nazare. The remaining musicians will stick together, the songwriting will improve drastically and they will become the next big thing.

Why the guitars are mixed so low? TBS had an awesome production.
 
Nothing new speaking about Jin, he's just like Ai from deathgaze, doesn't matter how many new bands he will form it's going to be the same thing.

Do NOT

@ricchubunny @yomii @karai · ebi
 
Barely had the chance to read up on everything on this thread and im blown away. Thanks so much for sharing all that all of you, gives these songs a new breath of light and im even more into them now and i didnt think that was possible. ❤️ 
 
A truly amazing concept a powerful message and a ton of emotion from these guys I cant wait to hear more and dive into future songs of theirs. 

You're welcome! 
 
They have lot of additional information that you only  know if you go to instores/read interviews, so I try to share it as much as I can to the fans who doesn't have access to that or don't speak japanese. 
It makes the band way more enjoyable

Ray has announced that he was going to stop smoking.
 
 

is there anything you particularly disagree with in that comment?..
 
they're a complete d.i.d. copycat, but originality aside, chedoara was good
(those 2 tracks I mentioned are miles better than anything off the insulated world for example.)

Nega. Good God they were awful. They're one of the worse examples of "not sure if br00tal edgy violent metal or 80's anime soundtrack" cliche of japanese bands that just want to do every style possible and fail at every one of them. Musicianship is competent (the drummer was great!) but the songwriting is almost non-existent. I actually listened to their entire discography once and liked only 7 songs (dunno how many songs they had in total, but it was like 80?). And don't get me on Jin's voice.

And people freak out when they get compared to DeG. Do you want anything more Deg-ish than announcing their releases way before their release dates?

And people freak out when they get compared to DeG. Do you want anything more Deg-ish than announcing their releases way before their release dates?

Their competition must be a band called Mr.Muscle

-Yuuga randomly comes back for a weird, inaccessible and time-limited, escapade
-Someone who doesn't really have a following decides they should go solo
-Starwave further extends their reach by signing visual-adjacent / not really visual acts while slowly killing off their current lineups
-Poidol does well but people still forget about them
-New Zombi album
-More in-fighting with Jupiter, but they still drop a big release regardless
-Riku tries again (Chariots revival? Solo act? New "violent art project?" Who knows!!!)
-Menhera catches the attention of Twitter and I have to sift through a bunch of hot takes about it
-R-shitei release their 2nd good song
-Mamireta breakup before November
-In spite of how "ground breaking" and "innovate" diru-adjacent sweethearts Kizu and Dimlim seem on this board, they never break 10k sales
-D'erlanger have the seal on their crypt broken again
-A new oyaji band forms and no one is impressed (think Nil under rain or Trick)
-Noah (ex-Avanchick) returns to the visual scene after realizing he really isn't all that
-What's his face from Bataar takes my bait on facebook and accosts me again
-More bands start embracing digital streaming services and stop relying on the same 10 girls to buy all their merch to stay afloat
-A new Lynch. album that doesn't stray far from Gallows
-Some bizarre Drag Race x Visual-kei crossover
-Someone from Kuroyuri to Kage makes a comeback, but everyone complains that it was the wrong member to do so
-GLK Records bands continue to be a hot mess
-Frantic Emiry release a new single or mini-album
-PSC closes or turns into something unrelated to vkei.
-Kra goes missing

🦑❌Vocalist from BABOO will show up in a new band
🦑❌BABYMETAL as we know it disbands
🦑❌Su Metal solo project 
🦑⭕xaa-xaa has three month consecutive releases
🦑❌XJAPAN album will drop, even if its on Dec 31st 23:59
🦑➕DIMLIM will have a style shift to gain more fans (if the rumours are true...) 
🦑➕ DIMLIM plays at an overseas festival (well, they're playing in Mexico in 2020)
🦑⭕ 8PSB reaches PEAK levels of cringe. That's right, we haven't seen the worst of it... (the whole richardland concept was pretty cringy) 
🦑I predict that the cringe will culminate on a Valentine's day project/release
🦑➕ Meto will participate in one music project, but essentially drops out of the scene (he's in Liraizo. I'm late to the party) 
🦑❌ Another Kisaki scandal
🦑⭕Dir En Grey drops one single 
🦑⭕Sukekiyo will bless us with another album and... 
🦑😔❌Sukekiyo European tour on the latter half of the year💦
🦑❌Mathilda goes strong. Blesses us with a mini album
🦑❌ORCALADE will officially disband. Perhaps one single will be released before the announcement 
🦑❌DADAROMA releases one more sex themed single. The Anal, maybe? 
🦑➗Pentagon's identity is becoming warped by the minute. By the end of the year there'll be neither spooks nor idol looks, but a higher budget Initial'L
🦑❌Wild Card prediction for lols. Arlequin gets new vocalist. Or disbands because of Aki. Or maybe a hiatus 🤔
🦑❌GRIMOIRE disbands
🦑❌The VK sphere will be shaken up by a newcomer band
🦑⭕DEZERT may surprise us with a heavy single. However, they'll be quiet for most of the year (black hole was better than just a heavy single) 
🦑➗There'll be some worrying news related to Kiryu
🦑⭕ It's the end of Lack-Co. 
🦑❌Gosan vs Sick2
🦑⭕Sick. give up, we collectively sigh in relief
🦑❌Yoshiki X Miyavi collab. One of them will also collab with will.i.am
 
 
 

⬢ 　either fuckinkatsuya joins NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST or starts his own band
⬢ 　nokubura or babymetal pls hire seiya (ex.dvlf). The kid is answering twitter questions full time right now.
⬢ 　cazqui has sexual reassignment surgery

All pretty good points above, but I think a key ingredient is missing- the Obscure video and proliferation of the internet. That video was being passed around almost as a shock video for years in the scene/emo/mypsace days. 

They're different, I guess. Aside from music that are very listenable to Western standards, it was their visuals. I suppose not many front man on VK bands who would vomit that kyo did on stage when they started out. Most bands were still embracing the 80s VK imagery popularized by X-Japan, Luna Sea and co., even DEG did it too, but they also did a little bit more too. And among others, DEG grotesque visual were stand out, this, combined with their rascal attitude back then really sold it to lots of VK listeners from abroad to get into them. I mean, people love bad boys as much they love bad girls. And these people does the work on doing mouth to mouth promo to their other friends. And it goes on and on. 
 
These days, it is a breeze for the band, I believe they got quite a street cred after Mike Portnoy praised UROBOROS to high heavens. Like, that is rare for any Asian bands, fam!

Good music

They're one of the vk veteran bands, so whenever someone looks into the movement, dir en grey is at the forefront. They've always used taboo subjects and imagery in their work which makes them stand out and attract a certain demographic. After they caught the attention of the west with more mainstream sounding music and visuals, they were doing world tours when vk was at its peak outside Japan. Not only that, they style of music they were experimenting with was extremely popular in the west at the time too. There's a bunch of other factors and variables but I guess that's the gist of it. 

ligma
 
but seriously; id imagine they got popular in the west cause they started having a western appeal in their sound starting with withering to death, marrow of the bone etc also this was after or around the time they toured the west with bands like korn so i assume thats where it all started, i doubt they had much western exposure to any album prior to wotd