Mr Bacon

I still haven't heard any stuff by them

Does that mean he will join MJF permanently?

Magic Mountain being a boss made me lol pretty hard.

It's actually the Rock Titan from Hercules/KH1.

I'm pretty stoked for this. I'm now playing through 1.5, and after that 2.5 when it comes out.

I've only ever played 1 and 2, and a bit of CoM, couldn't be bothered by all the spinoff games, so I wonder what they'll be doing with a new main series installment.

My parents were/are both rockers haha.

My dad used to listen to Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Iron Maiden and all that. Now he's mostly into power metal and regular hardrock.

My mom has always been into symphonic stuff and is now mostly into prog rock/metal like Pain of Salvation.

Their music influenced my own taste in music quite a bit, especially what my mom listens to.

I thought it said Bollywood Now I'm disappointed, cause that would've been epic.

Of course the classic scene in FFVII.

Also in FFX

When in Home, Tidus finds out Yuna will die when she does the final summoning. I did not see it coming haha.

Devin Townsend - Life

I love Dev.

Kingdom Hearts 1.5

Even though it's been like 2 weeks since I last played because I don't have the time

Lookin silly. I hardly get any pictures taken of me lol.

Floor is the best thing that could've happened to this band.

Cool, looking forward to this.

Their vocalist sounds familiar...

The production is pretty crap, but I like the sound/composition. Wonder what they will sound like with better production.

I'm pretty much a lurker nowadays, so I'm really not one to speak haha, but I still agree with this topic.
 

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They sound pretty good for a VK power metal band, but if they got some decent production they'd sound pretty damn fine.

I know this topic is not exclusively about Visual Kei, but I'm still going to answer from a non-Japanese VK fan perspective.

When it comes to the overseas fans, I believe the most common argument on MH is this: "VK bands have little to no concern about their overseas fans" -- their primary focus is the Japanese fans, who I'm sure mostly buy physical copies of CDs. Domestic VK fans do buy digitally as well, but I wouldn't be surprised if physical CD sales brought in the most revenue.

Also, I get the feeling that Japanese bands who know about overseas fans probably think "oh, if they're resourceful enough to discover our music, they're resourceful enough to obtain it all, as well!" which is not always true.

I did not know that it costed money to distribute music on iTunes or similar sites. But I still think that it is ridiculous for bands to not even bother with distributing music digitally. Especially when bands live distribute their releases; even more especially when they give those songs away for FREE! It's like, you're going to pay for all the distribution and production costs for a CD and give it away at a live show for free? And not make it accessible outside of the venue at any point ever? That's pretty stupid.

An example: DIAURA has given out at least four free songs (at venues, as bonuses, magazine freebies, whatever): If, Judgement, melt, and DOGMA. The band's official Facebook page has 4,743 likes. Let's assume they will all buy these four songs if they were put up on iTunes for ¥200. That's about ¥3.8 million ($38,000). Even if only 1,000 people downloaded each song, that would still yield ¥800,000 ($8,000).

But I think another reason digital downloads in Japan aren't as popular as they are in Europe or North America is stubbornness, or insane fear of piracy, from the Japanese music industry.

The giving out CDs is because it's exclusive: "If you don't go to this live, you'll never get this song". 

Live distributed/sold CDs are the main source of music income for small VK bands, as they get paid for the amount of people coming to see them - and more people will show up when there's a live dist.

No dude

land of boobs from the Netherlands, so Europe (sadly enough)

Since when is The Netherlands the land of boobs lol?

But yea, me too.

I was hoping for TC's vocalist...

Yea Ryo writes the majority of the music, so if anyone is to blame, it's him.

This sounds better than anything girugamesh has done the past 5 years. 

M needs to come back.

Haha that was a pretty cool move. I'm not impressed by the actual song, but it's not bad either.

I got replies from Rinda and Masayoshi (TOKYO HEROES). Nothing interesting, but still cool.

Aww bummer

 

I hope Neil Peart gets a new band or goes solo, he's too much of a great drummer to stop

You just made my day haha.

Sounds really good, and laughed at that description about the ex haha.

But, like many others, I just don't have the free time to get into an MMO at this point, and certainly not one with a monthly fee.