Total Saikou

Obviously not as good as anything from mejibray but probably better than anything that came out of 8bspbsbsp so I guess beggars cant be choosers 

Looks like ex-MEJIBRAY/8p-sb frontman Tsuzuku/GENKI has a new project called SpelL. First digital single titled "SPELL" will be released on 2020/12/15.
 
You can see a snippet of the music video here:
 
 
And if at least 300 ppl retweet this, he'll reveal the full version:
 
 
Honestly, I feel like I would like the song itself if not for this godawful no-budget ridiculously ass production. Hoping this is not the "final product" but just a taste of the general direction of this project right before recruiting actual band members (cuz then I'd listen to their future releases for sure).

Love collecting LPs. So far, I have
 
- Buck-Tick - Hurry Up Mode
- Buck-Tick - Sexual XXXX
- Buck-Tick - Seventh Heaven
- Buck- Tick - Romanesque
- Dir en Grey - Uroboros
- Dir en Grey - Dum Spiro Spero
- Gackt - Remix of Gackt
- hide - Hide your face
- hide - Psyence
- hide - Ja Zoo
- Kuroyume - Live at Shinjuku Loft
- L’arc en Ciel - Ectomorphed Works
- Malice Mizer - Sakai no chi to bara
- Miyavi - Firebird
- Moi Dix Mois - Lamentful Miss
- MUCC - Myakuhaku
- Nookicky - Pinhole
- Rouage - Mind
- Rouage - Soup
- Seikima II - End of the Century
- Shazna - Gold Sun and Silver Moon
- Sugizo- Replicant Prayer/Replicant Lucifer/Replicant Truth
- Thee Michelle Gun Elephant - Gear Blues
- X-Japan - Vanishing Vision
- X-Japan - Blue Blood
- X-Japan - Dahlia
- Zilch - BastardEyes
- Zoobombs - Welcome back Zoobombs
 

so is he, calm ur cockoro

Ha, my mistake!  No photographs of Japanese rock stars yet, but maybe when I make it to Japan I can address that.

Okay, hear me out... Visual Kei but they're wearing Yeezys and Supreme

Just wanna say hail to the Pink Spider! Your music will live through several lifetimes!

I want to buy ice cream with kyo.

none of them, they'd just try to steal my wallet

Oh god this is where my fangirl fantasies unleash but, I would totally hang out with Yukke (after I mentally prepare myself and hyperventilate the whole day). We'd go out and have brunch at a cute cafe and eat pancakes. Then go in Nakano to look at wigs and old anime figurines. And then go into a karaoke and just sing v-kei and k-pop until we run out of breath. And maybe go to a Korean bbq place together and just gossip and get drunk over soju. That's it. I would be a happy woman for the rest of my life after.   
 

I'm friends with Justin and we chat about VK here and there. I helped him out with that other visual kei video he worked on and we like conversing about the random shit that occurred centered around  vk fans in the west. Kinda funny because I used to make songs like Sea of R* with my friend joey and we'd label it madeth gray'll or lareine demo tape shit lulz

Hmm, I wonder if Whang lurks these forums and will see us talking about his new vid 🤔

B R U H
 
MH should start having DIMLIM Twitter speedruns

I have some SHM-CDs and SACDs but the format is totally wasted on me as I cannot hear a damn thing that's supposed to be better about them, lol. Although reading what some of the replies mentioned here, if extended durability is true then I am glad to own some.
 
I don't mind artists releasing or re-issuing their catalogue on these formats as I haven't really experienced a significant increase in their price (when it's a reissue/remaster of a 'legacy band' sometimes it's the exact opposite actually!) so I guess what I'm saying is uhhhh... I'm like whatever, ok. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Sound quality wise, personally I did hear the difference.
 
Even after I ripped the CD, the sounds are still sounding clear and crisp, great balance, something that I don't ever find from regular CD rip regardless of tools were used to rip it, hence why I usually had to resort to purchase raw FLAC or WAV files of it when available. With Western artists, it is easier to find and more accessible. But with Japanese albums, I can only have that from SHM CD rip.

Well, studying Japanese in uni as a major helped me have a base where to start from, but really everything I've learned for me to have a decent conversation in Japanese was somehow through shows and dramas. I used to not like Japanese dramas and variety shows that much but, since I pick up a language better if I listen, I kinda force myself to like it, to find positive stuffs in it. And it worked, I have my stack of dramas and variety shows I enjoy watching.
And really everything else I've done to learn Japanese was because I started listening to MUCC and all the videos I'd find were not translated in English, so I had to learn Japanese fast to understand what was happening, and to read their tweets (the gold nuggets vkey has are fantastic XD) and to try to understand their lyrics. I also use dictionaries a lot ( I have two apps on my iPhone : imiwa and one that's just called "Japanese" - it's by renzo inc.) and whenever I hear or see a word I don't know I look it up.
Also, for me, interacting with Japanese people was more than helpful. In my uni some Japanese people would come to study, we had  native teachers and some guests at our lectures, but really what worked for me in terms of actually having the courage to open up a conversation even if my Japanese is broken was interacting with people over Twitter who like the same bands I do, or share the same hobbies, or who are interested in other foreign cultures ( maybe not all of them XD).
And finally studying in Japan was really the best for me. Obviously if you go to the country whose language you're learning and stay there a while you pick up the language faster, so if any of you has the opportunity to get a scholarship or study abroad in Japan, if you can and have time there, I highly recommend finding a part-time job ( I know, duuuh captain obvious XD). It really helped me being forced to only speak Japanese as my coworkers didn't  know any other language I knew, also interacting with random people ( I worked at restaurant as a server) made me less shy to speak Japanese. Don't ever be ashamed if you make a mistake, you learn as you go, just try talking, even if you sound broken. And if you find people who make fun of you for speaking broken Japanese, don't waste your time with idiots like them ( just like every situation in general XD).

they do features once in a while...
 
 
it's typically an ojisan member helping a start-up band or an approaching irrelevancy act to get up from their knees:
 
miyavi's debut lives with Pata and later having a sugizo feature before parting ways with PSC also come to mind, or random one time session bands that play for a night or two and never record anything.
 
soan project was a temporary project with bandmen from various active/semi-active bands that released stuff in two different line-ups so it's not the same, but it still more or less fits the mold
 
crystal lake fronteuse seams to contribute his vocal effort pretty lavishly around 
 
sukekiyo b-sides and bonus disks are stuffed with features
 
starwave is often shat on, but their acts provide more or less asinine self-covers with different vocalists every once in a while
unless it's a legacy act providing the feature, there's little point in doing this in vk: gya stanning is typically focused on a single band or a particular member and his projects, and most bands regularly playing/socializing together would rather do split VA comp albums (which as a tradition seems to fade away as legacy labels close and major ones typically not bothering with this at all.)

translation: sorry i can't fucking read, guess i'll go back to trolling and not taking responsibility for my shitty behavior

You're literally one step away from getting a ban, dude.
 
Trust me we would all love to have a never ending discussion about dimlim but it's really one sided right now. You need to actually try and engage with the community. It won't kill you to mingle with people who have a different opinion in a civilized manner.

This is the issue. I highlighted it so it should be just long enough for you to digest.

Ok - I'm going to chime in here. I do not know you and I am not going to make assumptions about you, but people are trying to get you to analyze your own actions so you can more productively contribute to discussion. I do not think you realize how you come off, but your posts read very contrarian and combative even when you're not being approached that way. There is a difference between defending a fave and ignoring/downplaying any/all criticisms. Criticism can be a good thing - everyone here is trying to show you this in regards to yourself and the band.

I'll go back to lurking only if you join me in doing so and let everyone else talk in peace. Whadda say?
 
As for my post, you definitely read it, or at least skimmed it and as you do with every single logical post you can't argue, you chose to ignore it. That's totally fine, if you want me to TL;DR it for you it's pretty simple: you peddle a shit ton of incorrect info about the band when it's not your place to talk about them as though you know anything, you seem like a crazy fanatical thirsty chick who thinks she's having a weird subliminal relationship with Retsu through his Insta stories while Retsu is probably laughing his ass off at all your obsessive DMs and if you actually like the band, you would stop posting because you are making them look terrible. A band is mirrored by their fans and when there's a couple of unhinged crazies in the mix it seriously affects a band's image. If you JUST like the music there is no point boasting about your one-sided DMs and constantly white knighting them on here. If you "don't care" what people on here think then why even be on here at all? Just go listen to their music and stay off the forums then.
 
ETA: Also yes the post was longer than I realized but I've been getting annoyed at every single one of your posts for a month and STFU this whole time hoping you'd stop on your own so I'm sorry it all came out at once.

Man, I would looooooooove Lets to read everything here. That would be a ton of fun.

i love CDs; i spent stupid amounts of money on them & have shelves full i like to look at & enjoy the visual art inside of
i can't think of any way i'd more prefer to purchase & collect music

but if i wanted the absolute highest audio quality i'd just download it from bandcamp.....

idk what the point tho is of anything more lossless than 320mp3 unless you're in a lifted tuned room w/ flat monitors & no AC etc running

This post served its purpose so I will let it expire.