Saga

In spite of the controversy, this CD appears to be part of some sort of livehouse relief series, probably to keep them afloat while they haven't been able to host events. Rock May Kan's tweet is worded like they will have other releases from different artists like this to follow.

Thats why things like ACACIA and Hard Koala are important. People seems to forget about stuff really fast these days. Everyday there is something new to worry about that the media will be bashing in our heads at left and right, but the animals are still there suffering from the fires aftermath and is important to still think about they too.

I'm here!! sorry for the delay, I hope you appreciated my edit! ^^ 
 
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Please don't share outside Monochrome Heaven, I specifically wanted to avoid including in the video "Edit By Serox" but I want to trust that it will not end up on VK / YouTube (and pass it off as yours, as has happened to me in the past), Enjoy the performance ^^
 
PS: If you want to know the setlist, is this! 
 
 
PS.S: Sorry if my English is not perfect >_>

Generation Y. Got the timing to be a teenager when the nu metal hype train was going on.

Oh, the Richard Wagner dilemma.
 
Guilty am I to have sinful ears that can still appreciate the work of monsters.

Generation Y. Got the timing to be a teenager when the nu metal hype train was going on.

can we please keep the discussion about the single please? i'm already tired of people bitching about some stupid fucking hat, yall know damn well vk is full of edgelords who idolize suicide and murder to get free pussy so I don't see how this is any different.

New single「瀧夜叉姫」
2020.4.29 release
 

 
1. 瀧夜叉姫（たきやしゃひめ）
2. 鉄皇（くろがねおう）
3. 豪賊（ごうぞく）
4. 瀧夜叉姫 -Instrumental-
5. 鉄皇 -Instrumental-
6. 豪賊 -Instrumental-
価格：1,400円

According to Kyoka's instagram, Phobia and Aliene Ma'riage will be holding two twoman lives in July.  
 
『恐怖症に犯された狂人の花嫁 (Kyoufushou ni Okasareta Kyoujin no Hanayome)〜Phobia Home at NAGOYA〜』‬ and『恐怖症に犯された狂人の花嫁〜Aliene Ma'riage Home at TOKYO〜』‬will be held on July 19th and July 25th at Nagoya Music farm and Ikebukuro Cyber, respectively.
 
 

 

Imo it's unfair to the Japanese to clump them with the demented minds of bangyas. 

"hmm haven't checked MH news in awhile wonder if anything interesting has happened"


 

These are crops of mikoto from some advertising pictures. Like the ones they use on their OHP and stuff. So, you probably will not find exactly like they are in your picture. Even looks like they photoshopped the same smirk in all frames, lol.
 
For example, the 2nd:

 
3nd:

 
4nd:

 
 
 
 
 

These are crops of mikoto from some advertising pictures. Like the ones they use on their OHP and stuff. So, you probably will not find exactly like they are in your picture. Even looks like they photoshopped the same smirk in all frames, lol.
 
For example, the 2nd:

 
3nd:

 
4nd:

 
 
 
 
 

That's the excuse Kisaki used in court I heard

Lol @ 4:00
 
also liked their stuff, looking forward for more tales from the little red and his friends

They've started uploading their old music on their YouTube channel ✨
 
 

It just says, announcement of a new chapter, gives two live dates (far into the future mind you) and then a date 26.07.2020 "to be continued...". 
 
Guess they're not giving up after all, wonder if they gave themselves such a long window to find a drummer...
 

These questions reminded me of this video:
 
 
Some things we can take from it:
1) It’s said that Akihabara is a “very tolerant city for men in drag”. The necessity of having to say it give me the perception of being something unusual in other places, potentially weird then.
 
2) Mostly of their clients are woman (aha!).
a) It’s more comfortable to talk with a guy in drag than with another woman.
b) A guy in drag is more special than a ordinary guy and, because of it, more attractive. 
 
3) Being in drag is fashion. It’s about clothing and looking good, not about turning into a “real woman”.
Which we can relate. Hizaki it the prettiest mother fucker, but when he open his mouth he sounds like a really big dinosaur with tiny arms  (just using some hyperbole, love this guy to the heart). That’s a really common thing with visual kei artists. They don’t try to fool you or modify their voice to match their drag character.
 
4) They keep man clothing for social stuff, like going to hospital. This one says a lot of how the japanese society functions in that matter.
For me it sounds like “You can dress yourself as you want: drag, tokusatsu, baseball mascot, but when you are doing you social role, you have to be the ‘real you’ (which is the one in your ID)”.
 
5) Three of themselves are bi, but they don’t use sexual terms to describe it, like “I am A” or “I am B” but they say “I am attracted by X and Y”.
Now, I don’t really know if this is a language thing or if japanese in general are less attached to specific terms to describe their sexuallity.
One of them just do drag to get attention from woman (loved that guy). I guess that relates with point 2.
 
With all that said, I have more questions than answers kek, but I think that these are some important lines of thinking to understand the myth of the japanese man with bra and his place in society.
 
I also recommend a movie called “Close-Knit”. Talks a lot about point 4. The director itself is a transgender, so there is a lot of self insert in it. Really interesting to see:
 
 

A easy example about how the looks don't necessarily reflect the person of a visual kei artist is the usage of the hakenkreuz by the earliests bands. We don’t see as much nowadays, but the SS caps always appears, sooner or later.
Of course that there was some classic japanese punk nationalism in some bands here and there, but core of V系 was about shocking after all. So, the imaginary of the nazism is aesthetic, therefore should be used. 
 
As @薔薇の末裔 pointed out, understanding Kabuki is a good way to understand this theatrical musical scene. 
 
Kabuki in its first days was a female theater, a more accessible branch of Noh. But it was just too sexy for that confucian society. “A woman's place is in the kitchen”, said the Shogun (or it was my dad last night?). And then, the boys took the place of the woman, doing woman roles. But the boys turned out into fuckboys. “Notto disu shitto agen”, said the Shogun. And then, old man were doing woman roles. “Hmm”, long and deeply said the Shogun. Keep in mind that everyone was killing everyone in the past sengoku century, so the Shoguns could not fuck around (ha).
 
“Ok, ok, And so what?”. Well, since being really sexy was not an option, the onnagata dudes started doing their own shit to emulate the woman sexyness. First come the fancy wig, then they started showing some little skin and so on. Little by little there was no more “man” or “woman”, but onnagata. A woman that no other woman could be. 
 
At that point, Kabuki without man doing female roles is not Kabuki. Visual kei without man doing female roles is not visual kei? I don’t think so, exist†trace showed their shit and we digged it hard. But I would say that is highly expected to see a man doing female roles in the visual rock scene. D’s “Ouka saki some ni keri” is my pick for today. The contrast of Asagi manly vocals with his woman clothing is a perfectly example of why we love it the way it is. They do it with passion (or for money), and we love them for it, not because their sexual preference.
 
The whole pv setting is a love letter for their culture. And it is just one example, there is so many other bands with pvs with that scenary (and probably there is a “something-kei” for it too). The pompous and bold Glam Rock found it’s home in the japanese costumes and evolved into the coolest thing.
 
To be deeper into to sexuallity stuff we could talk about how Japan society potentially repress the sexual preference of their people in order to have things working “in the right way” and how the west really needs to “talk about it” and not let the individuals be themselves without pushing some agenda into your fuckin throat so it’s fuckin hard to understand these japs using lipsticks just because they like it, but that stress me too much so fuck it.

Hey, vkgy's John here 👋 Today we have an interview with the current reigning kote kei revival band, La'veil MizeriA!
 
It's just as full of ellipses and strange phrases as you'd expect, but there's some good content too. If you were † born under a tragic blood-red moon... I think you'll love it. Available in English and Japanese.
 
➡  https://vk.gy/blog/an-interview-with-la-veil-mizeria/
 
We post exclusive vkei interviews every Tuesday at vkgy, so be sure to check back every week. Previous interviews include Astaroth, luvielle, and Shuuen no Rasetsu. Check vkgy's interview archive for more.