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  1. I lurked for a long time before making an account, but even then I still wasn’t very active. Even so, monochrome heaven was always my go-to place for news and new bands. I found so many of my current favorite bands because of this place and I feel so thankful for it. My current life revolves around a band I found on here through the “new band has formed” section. And I was able to find my second favorite band at an event where my current favorite band was playing, so again it feels like I have to thank monochrome heaven indirectly for that too. It trips me out to think that without monochrome heaven, I might’ve not found my favorite band (or it might’ve taken me a lot longer) and I wouldn’t be following them around right now. I feel so grateful this place existed. Something so small about it has impacted my life so much. It hurts to see this place go. 


  2. On 8/21/2020 at 4:09 AM, Romlaw said:

    Kinda unrelated but does anyone actually recover from issues like this when its so extreme that affects their own wellbeing and the others around them? The amount of times I have seem people that seemed fine but went away some time after or got permanently confined to a mental hospital is quite scary

    I hope this is not another one of these cases

    I have Obsessive Compulsive Disorder and have been in and out of doctors for it for a long time . Generally, one of the things my doctors and psychiatrists have always been clear about is no, mental health disorders don’t actually ever go away. There’s no cure, only treatment. So basically, you can get better and your life can return to normality, but the risk of relapse is always there.

     

     The point of treatment is finding medications and habits that prevent you from relapsing (as well as learning to identify potential stressors that can cause said relapses and how to avoid them). But I’m under the impression Japan really doesn’t grasp that yet (or rather refuses to do so) as I’ve heard Japanese people say that their doctors are telling them their mental health disease is “almost cured.”

     

    Considering Issei’s streak with the vocalists he works with and their mental health, I’m kinda left wondering about what kind of work environment Issei provides, tbh. 


  3. 7 hours ago, platy said:

    Does Gosan indoctrinate their fans to hate on Mathilda? I like to think so. Also if anyone knows if gosan has a fanclub, what is it called? 

     

     

    Some time around New Years (before or after, I can't remember) didn't Qu from Mathilda tweet a list of bands he wanted to do two man lives with and included Gosan? I stopped paying attention to Mathilda, so I wonder if that was a "let's bury the hatchet" kind of suggestion or if it was meant to be trolling against Gosan again.


  4. 12 hours ago, DerKnecht said:

    The reason why nobody cares about VK right now is not because VK is bad but because those bands play rock music. Face it, rock music right now is pretty much dead in the whole world, not just VK. What is popular with teens right now? Yes, Hip-Hop/Rap/Pop/. It's definitely NOT rock music. I'd go as far as to say that few people under 18 listen to any kind of rock . They'll rather play fortnite and listen to the latest Post-Malone, Billie Eilish, Machine Gun Kelly, ASAP Rocky, Travis Scott tune.THOSE are the rock-stars of the zoomer generation.

     

    Imho K-Pop is a lot closer to this style of music than VK so it's only natural that people can get into it. I'd say the people who are into K-Pop now are basically the same demographic that would be attracted to VK. But unless rock as a genre makes a comeback, I don't see a VK revival any time soon. 

    I always bite my lip when this comes up in general discussions about rock music because I never want be or sound like the sour adult who's mad that a scene they loved is dying out, but this, from what I observe, is true. I don't know what it is, but rock music doesn't seem to be picking up with the zoomers like it did with previous generations (yes, rock music has always been an alternative scene, but it still had a notable presence both in the charts and in fans). Now add that to the fact that once rock stars like Radke and Barker have implemented hip hop to their work and rock music aesthetics have been adapted by rappers and other pop music musicians, and it feels like our presence is nearing irrelevancy further than ever. 

     

    It's also a hard yes to what you mentioned about how what would have been the present-day vk western fandom is now just another part of the kpop fandom and that point hits an emotional string in me because it was that realization that first made me notice how a taste for rock music seems rarer than ever with today's kids. I worked as a substitute teacher when I was in university and got to work around middle schoolers frequently and at some point it dawned on me that all the kids who were really into anime were also really into kpop. If I thought about that crowd in my day , that would have been the crowd where you would find the vk-fan kids (which as mentioned in other comments were in large responsible for the perceived popularity vk had around 2010). Anime is more popular than ever/Japanese fashion is more mainstream in the west than ever, and scene/emo fashion is popular again. All these trends are moving along. What's not being taken with them is rock music. And that hurts like heck to write. All of that being said, I would love to see zoomers make me eat my words and have them experience a proper rock movement of their own. But at the moment, that's just not what I'm seeing. Mind you there are some kids who still like rock music and vk, but their numbers are considerably lower than what we had in the 2000's.


  5. "You can't make something popular again if it wasn't popular in the first place " was my initial thought when seeing this thread. We could aim for a revival of the scene we had in 2010ish, but even back then it wasn't actually popular. At least not at the level of things like Kpop or the emo music scene. And if "making it popular" meant morphing it into something it's not, I'd rather it not get popular. The 2010 boom happened naturally and a number of factors were lined up just right for it to happen. Fabricating something to intentionally make it popular (like the kpop scene or the kardashians got done to them) sounds like we might lose some of the things that make vk unique in itself. 


  6. On 12/21/2019 at 10:04 AM, TheZigzagoon said:

    How are they meant to afford going to this live in Mexico, produce and advertise this album and continue doing lives in Japan? 

    The agency taking them over to Mexico is apparently a pro at bringing artists from Japan. I think they do several  acts a year including bigger acts like Dir en Grey regularly too. I think they also did Man with a Mission a few years back (?). It's a pretty relevant agency and they've been around for a long time, so I don't think they'll leave all the financial heavy lifting to DIMLIM. 

     

    I'm curious to see how they do in crowd size. I know there was a very small hype over them in the Mexican fandom some time ago, but it seems to have died down pretty quickly and in general the Mexican fandom seems to have the syndrome where they refuse to properly acknowledge the relevancy of  post 2010 VK bands. I hope it goes well for them though and I can only make these speculations as an outsider since I'm in SoCal and only have like 3 VK acquaintances in Mexico. 


  7. Spoiler

     

    Best Overall Artist/Band:  Xaa Xaa, Nicolas, Mamireta

    Best Album:  Sennen no Shirabe (Razor), Weekly Zetsurin Mansion (Mamireta)

    Best Single/Maxi-Single/EP:  Haretsu (xaa xaa), Hakidame no Melody (Roman Kyuko), Kui (Doku)

    Best Look:  Kizu's 'Human Error' look

    Best Newcomer:  Doku, Doukete Karasu

    Best Veteran:  Xaa Xaa, Penicillin
    Saddest Disbandment: Damy

    Most Overhyped Band: Nazare

    Most Underhyped Band: Roman Kyuko (seemed like everyone was hyped for them at first, but then the enthusiasm completely faded). 

    Most Anticipated Release: 'Kubiwa kyouiku no susume' (gulu gulu)

    Band that Changed their Sound for the Worst: Mathilda (everything since Ningen no Niku has been disappointing).

    Band that you spent most of your money on in 2019: Mamireta 

     


     

     


     


  8. Hitsugi from Nightmare, it basically used to be his thing how much he stans cats. Also Rito from Gulu Gulu seems to post a lot about his cat, but I don't think he's an actual cat lady because he also seems to have a dog. So he's probably just a pet person.


  9. 37 minutes ago, IGM_Oficial said:

    This is the cover art. Were you expecting something good?

    jacket_image.jpg

     

    Also, yesterday, they released a second press of their mini-album, with the same songs. Cover art:

    info_image.jpg

    I actually don't think it's that bad. Not as corny anyway. Though certainly far from professional, there's something nostalgic about it.

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