monkeybanana4

An Cafe, but it's not possible because takuya left music. And I love their music.
Lc5 because Miku forget this band 😭. Their sound are nice. They not disband but they not active since many years.

amber gris/Sioux
Sugar
ヴィドール
LAREINE
IZABEL VAROSA
D'espairsRay
MALICE MIZER
D'AIR
Madeth gray'll

 
 

Kamijo will release a live Blu-ray/DVD and live album of his concert 「Dream Live “Symphony of The Vampire” KAMIJO with Orchestra」which took place on 2019.03.27 at EX THEATER ROPPONGI.
 
■ Live Members
Guitar : Meku
Guitar : Anzi
Bass : MASASHI
Drums : YUKI
 

Limited Edition (Blu-ray + 2 CDs) - 11,000 yen (+taxes)
 
Blu-ray Content List
1. Prologue
2. Dead Set World
3. Theme of Sang
4. Nosferatu
5. Heart
6. Delta -Interlude-
7. Castrato
8. Ambition -Interlude-
9. Sang I
10. Sang II
11. Sang -epilogue-
12. Symphony of The Vampire 第一楽章「Presto」
13. Symphony of The Vampire 第二楽章「Sacrifice of Allegro」
14. Symphony of The Vampire 第三楽章「Royal Tercet」
15. Symphony of The Vampire 第四楽章「Dying-Table」
16. Symphony of The Vampire 第五楽章「Sonata」
17. Symphony of The Vampire 第六楽章「満月のアダージョ」
18. Symphony of The Vampire 第七楽章「Throne」
19. この世で一番美しい薔薇よ (Konoyo de ichiban utsukushī bara yo)
20. Louis ～艶血のラヴィアンローズ～ (Louis ～Tsuya chi no ravu~ianrōzu～)
 
BONUS CLIP
「ROAD to ORCHESTRA」(Documentary footage containing meetings and studio rehearsals)
 
BONUS LIVE ALBUM
 
DISC I
1. Prologue
2. Dead Set World
3. Theme of Sang
4. Nosferatu
5. Heart
6. Delta -Interlude-
7. Castrato
8. Ambition -Interlude-
9. Sang I
10. Sang II
11. Sang -epilogue-
 
DISC II
1. Symphony of The Vampire 第一楽章「Presto」
2. Symphony of The Vampire 第二楽章「Sacrifice of Allegro」
3. Symphony of The Vampire 第三楽章「Royal Tercet」
4. Symphony of The Vampire 第四楽章「Dying-Table」
5. Symphony of The Vampire 第五楽章「Sonata」
6. Symphony of The Vampire 第六楽章「満月のアダージョ」
7. Symphony of The Vampire 第七楽章「Throne」
8. この世で一番美しい薔薇よ (Konoyo de ichiban utsukushī bara yo)
9. Louis ～艶血のラヴィアンローズ～ (Louis ～Tsuya chi no ravu~ianrōzu～)
 

Regular Edition (DVD) - 6,800 yen (+taxes)
 
Tracklist
1. Prologue
2. Dead Set World
3. Theme of Sang
4. Nosferatu
5. Heart
6. Delta -Interlude-
7. Castrato
8. Ambition -Interlude-
9. Sang I
10. Sang II
11. Sang -epilogue-
12. Symphony of The Vampire 第一楽章「Presto」
13. Symphony of The Vampire 第二楽章「Sacrifice of Allegro」
14. Symphony of The Vampire 第三楽章「Royal Tercet」
15. Symphony of The Vampire 第四楽章「Dying-Table」
16. Symphony of The Vampire 第五楽章「Sonata」
17. Symphony of The Vampire 第六楽章「満月のアダージョ」
18. Symphony of The Vampire 第七楽章「Throne」
19. この世で一番美しい薔薇よ (Konoyo de ichiban utsukushī bara yo)
20. Louis ～艶血のラヴィアンローズ～ (Louis ～Tsuya chi no ravu~ianrōzu～)

BONUS CLIP
「KAMIJO SOLO ANGLE」
1. Heart
2. Castrato
 

Live Album - 3,000 yen (+taxes)
 
DISC I
1. Prologue
2. Dead Set World
3. Theme of Sang
4. Nosferatu
5. Heart
6. Delta -Interlude-
7. Castrato
8. Ambition -Interlude-
9. Sang I
10. Sang II
11. Sang -epilogue-

DISC II
1. Symphony of The Vampire 第一楽章「Presto」
2. Symphony of The Vampire 第二楽章「Sacrifice of Allegro」
3. Symphony of The Vampire 第三楽章「Royal Tercet」
4. Symphony of The Vampire 第四楽章「Dying-Table」
5. Symphony of The Vampire 第五楽章「Sonata」
6. Symphony of The Vampire 第六楽章「満月のアダージョ」
7. Symphony of The Vampire 第七楽章「Throne」
8. この世で一番美しい薔薇よ (Konoyo de ichiban utsukushī bara yo)
9. Louis ～艶血のラヴィアンローズ～ (Louis ～Tsuya chi no ravu~ianrōzu～)

I see no much difference in the Kpop and VK scenes besides the musical genre.
They both have a similar marketing, cater to a similar demographic, both scenes have some sort of sexual exploitation behind a pretty facade, similar arguably repetitive sounds (even choreo) and both have performers posing as musicians playing/singing and dancing to songs they didn't write, although VK does have a lot more performers actually writing their music.

I like B.A.P because their voices and visual. I like their solos. I like BLACKPINK and many old songs from SHINee, Super Junior, TVXQ, Junsu, BIGBANG, 2NE1 and new MV from ITZY, CLC , Stray Kids and ATEEZ.
 
The fans of KPOP or visual kei are same behaviour. 
 
 

I used to dislike K-pop w/ golden-era bands (late-2000's - early-2010's) b/c I found the songs to be really "robotic" and anthemic. The motifs that pervaded western pop + kpop like heavy autotune, techno, metallic design, heavy eyeshadow, etc. weren't really my thing. This current generation of K-Pop I find is a lot more diversified in a musical sense w/ producers + composers playing with more experimental genres/sub-genres. Now, K-Pop bands will use wonky, moombahton, tropical house, 80's, r&b, etc. influences that I really vibe with. I do enjoy 1st generation and early-2nd generation (90's + early 2000's) as well, but that's because of the generally melodic pop sound at the time.
 
Here were some of my gateway songs (I find groups w/ artsy or androgynous concepts to be good segues from vk.  Now, musically, you won't be in the same territory, obv.):
 
 
 
Korean phonetics used to be a huge barrier for me, but after listening to enough Korean, I got used to it. I find a lot of the newer K-Pop I'm interested in heavily tied to my interest in certain EDM genres (I use "EDM" in this case as a blanket-term for all electronic music.)
 
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Now, I certainly haven't gotten used to the rabid, but dedicated fanbase K-pop groups have, and I don't really participate in much of the online banter + fan activities either. Over-exploitation, while obviously inexcusable, is rampant in both K-pop and J-pop (and elsewhere.) I find the J-idol exploitation a lot more sinister than K-pop (namely the "black companies" and sexual exploitation), but then again, that's just what we know of in the public sphere. I like a lot of indie J-pop and solo-artists, but I find a lot of the mainstream Japanese idol groups to be really corny/insufferable. I also find the groups to be more focused on homogeneity than individuality. I'm generalizing a bit when I say that, though. I'd say, discover music on a band-to-band basis rather than focusing on just genres (the popular bands/groups of a genre) if you really want to open yourself to different things. A certain niche band might be the first domino that catalyzes your future discoveries and interest in the larger genre.
 
*I've been referring to K-pop in the "group"-sense, so I forgot to mention K-indie and solo acts. I feel like J-indie is a bit more diverse, but both have a similar feel. There's such a huge rift between mainstream K-pop and indie to where I treat them like separate genres. I feel like Korean media always pushes to the extreme the groups from the big labels over indie acts. (Probably because the big five play huge economic roles in SK, wheras JP labels aren't as pronounced in the economic-sense idk Avex, Sony, and Johnny's numbers tho. SK has always been kinda corporatocratic, idk if that's an appropriate way to describe it.)

idk but stan shinee
 
 

We get more shit than Japanese fans because we do dumb shit in English. 

As far as "no pictures at the concert goes", I turned off my flash and took several dozen pictures over the course of the show. I didn't have flash on and I was near the back, so they didn't see me at all. I think they say no pictures because they don't want people recording the show on their phones, and it's unreasonable to expect anyone to identify what someone is doing with their phone in the middle of a concert. A blanket rule like that to stop piracy makes sense, but I think piracy is a distant second to presentation. Visual kei bands are all about looks and presentation and they always want to look their best. I really think the band didn't want anyone recording or taking pictures of the concert because they want to publish the pictures they like best. My hunch is supported by what one of the announcers said before the NYC show; paraphrasing here but it was "no need to record this show tonight because we are recording it for you". A band that is all about visuals relies heavily on the first impression, and that impression is ruined if the first recordings of THE NINTH WORLD TOUR is a scratchy home made tereko recorded from someone's phone, or blurry pictures taken from the center of the mosh pit.

Japanese fans get hate too, but for different reasons. There's a lot of elitism in the west about who's a "real" fan and who ain't which leads to a lot of silly arguments that make us all look bad, whereas in Japan, it tends to be more about "hE's MiNe AnD hE cAn'T gEt MaRrIeD bEcAuSe I sAiD sO rEeEeE". Granted, that does happen sometimes in the west too, but to a much lesser extent. You're right about following the rules, and that is one of the other big reasons western fans get hate.

Also, a lot of western visual kei fans don’t speak/read Japanese, so they don’t know what’s happening in the Japanese part of the fandom at all. So if all these fans are only interacting with other western fans, then you’re only going to hear about problems with western fans.

Maybe he meant to call it "Princess Passed Out On The Stairs"?

Before I got into Japanese music, the main type of music I used to actively seek out was hair metal (I'm a big fan of bands like LA Guns, Hanoi Rocks, The Dogs D'Amour, Skid Row, etc., although calling some of those bands "metal" has never felt all that accurate to me). I was also into bands like AFI and The Used and just the usual modern pop and rock.
 
I watched a lot of VH1 when I was younger (which is partially why I'm so fond of hair metal), so I was also rather partial to best-ofs from retro or "classic" artists. (ex. Prince, Elvis, Loretta Lynn, Whitney Houston, etc.), and I also used to try out bands from books about heavy metal and punk rock (like a lot of those "100 _ albums you need to hear before you die", etc. kind of things.) There was one book that was like an encyclopedia of hard rock/metal bands put together by the magazine Kerrang that I used to try out bands from a lot, which might have led me down some interesting paths.

I'll be in Nagoya on the date of the Nagoya live, but I wasn't able to get a ticket. I'll be at the Royz one instead, but if there's any pre-sale merch at GR before the live, I might try to get the CD. If they don't let me, I'll just have to accept it. 

D will release a new single titled "道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis) on 2019.07.10.
 
Type A (CD+DVD, 2,400 yen + taxes) - 3 songs
CD
1. "道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis)
2. New Song A
3. New Song C (Instrumental)
DVD
"道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis) MV+ Making-Of
- Includes booklet
 
Type B (CD, 1,500 yen + taxes) - 4 songs
CD
1. "道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis)
2. New Song A
3. New Song B
 4. "道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis) (Instrumental)

Synside - TRUTH
仙台貨物 - 神様もう少しだけ
アリス九號 - FANTASY
お遊戯ゎが魔々団×【PaRADEiS】- albare
Neo - New Age Revolution (w/ signed photocard of 氷龍～hiryu～)
GLAY - 時の雫
Sadie - Juggernaut
ドレミ團 - ワカバノキヲク

Welcome back to Copy/Paste, the series where the Official Reviewers team analyzes recurring ideas, trends, and even melodies across the scene to figure out what inspires our artists and what makes the scene tick. Like always, we separate things into Homages (tributes) or Copies ("inspiration"), and in the rare cases even Plagiarism and Beyond. It's been some time since our last installment, so we have plenty of interesting comparisons scheduled for today. Is your favorite band in the list?

EDITOR'S NOTE: The titles should be read from left to right, so generally the song on the left is the newer song (copy) and the song on the right is the older song (original).

EDITOR'S SECOND NOTE: This is all in good fun and isn't meant to be taken super seriously.

lynch.'s "exist" vs. lynch.'s "NEW PSYCHO PARALYZE"



 
 
 
 
DEATHGAZE's "SINNER" vs.  trust company's "The war is over"
 

 
 
 

DEZERT's "不透明人間。" (Futomei Ningen.) vs. DEATHGAZE's "闇に雨 腐敗した世界" (Yami ni Ame Fuhai Shita Sekai) 
 


 
Starting riff for this song
 
 
 
Start around ~1:04

 
Marry+An+Blood - "Daraku /DARK･STAR" vs. lamiel - "空が堕ちるアノ日" (Sora ga Ochiru Ano Hi)


 
 


Dir en grey - "残-ZAN-" vs. 黒夢's (Kuroyume) "親愛なるDEATH MASK -2-" (Shinainaru DEATH MASK -2-)

 
 
 

D’espairsRay’s "「タトエバ」キミ...ガ...シンダ...ラ" (Tatoeba...kimi...ga...shinda...ra) vs. Marilyn Manson’s "Angel with the scabbed wings"



 
 


Sadie's "empty room" vs. 12012's "雨、削ぎ落とされた感覚" (Ame, Sogi otosareta kankaku)


 

Sadie's empty room:
https://youtu.be/jxfP9uwwOxs?t=2770
 
 
 
 

-OZ-'s "Succubus" vs. Lycaon's "The [1st] degree genocide holic"
 

 
 
 
 

Today is world goth day
 
I am thinking about doing some cool makeup

Hello everyone,
I didn't find an other topic like this one so be free to remove it if I missed it.
 
As a j-music listener for a while now, especially vk, I heard a lot from my entourage. The mains subjects are about the dress, the boy/girl looks and how japanese sound for people. I feel like to avoid the question flood it as to be a type of music that we can only enjoy ourself, like if it couldn't be share with others because it not enough mainstream.
 
Do you have some anecdote to share about how you may be perceived by your entourage?

There was a thread about this a while back. Let me see if I can find it for you.
 
edit: found it
 
Check these cool threads out for similar topics we've come up with in the past:
 
 
 
 
 
 

Mejibray is a very important band to me, but I’ve said before that I can understand the haters. Originally, Tsuzuku’s voice did not do it for me: it took me seeing them live on a whim to get into then, and I still maintain that a good chunk of their songs are better live than they were recorded.
 
That said, I think Mejibray may draw excessive vitriol due to the amount of exposure it had and the kind same of younger fans they attracted. I’m pretty sure this has been the consensus every time the discussion has cropped up.

D will release a new single titled "道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis) on 2019.07.10.
 
Type A (CD+DVD, 2,400 yen + taxes) - 3 songs
CD
1. "道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis)
2. New Song A
3. New Song C (Instrumental)
DVD
"道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis) MV+ Making-Of
- Includes booklet
 
Type B (CD, 1,500 yen + taxes) - 4 songs
CD
1. "道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis)
2. New Song A
3. New Song B
 4. "道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis) (Instrumental)

As others have mentioned, D'espairsRays for sure. Also, Moran would be lovely to see again. Miss Sadie as well.
 
I would say Kagrra, but as @saishuu already brought up just really wish Isshi was still around...

D will release a new single titled "道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis) on 2019.07.10.
 
Type A (CD+DVD, 2,400 yen + taxes) - 3 songs
CD
1. "道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis)
2. New Song A
3. New Song C (Instrumental)
DVD
"道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis) MV+ Making-Of
- Includes booklet
 
Type B (CD, 1,500 yen + taxes) - 4 songs
CD
1. "道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis)
2. New Song A
3. New Song B
 4. "道化師のカタルシス" (Doukeshi no Catharsis) (Instrumental)

PIERROT, SIAM SHADE, SuG, LUCHe., i.Rias, BORN, SCREW, lolita 23q (with soshi), MoNoLith, marblehead,  AN CAFE, ViViD, Sadie, girugamesh, -OZ-, Hi:BRiD, ValettA...

(I know Sadie is on hiatus but ;___;)
 

As others have mentioned, D'espairsRays for sure. Also, Moran would be lovely to see again. Miss Sadie as well.
 
I would say Kagrra, but as @saishuu already brought up just really wish Isshi was still around...