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my friends don't feed into the ignorant gay comments, LOL save it for another thread because we all know the answer to why that is a stupid argument
 
as for why some band throw men only lives, it because the atmosphere for some bands is radically different between their male and female fans. i think this applies a lot for bands who are on the cusp of visual, so women's only lives might have more people engaging in certain furitsuke with a more "respectful" atmosphere whereas the mens lives are probably set up to be more wild, unhinged, "western style" live experiences. This is pretty similar to how gender is portrayed in the scene, with gyao tending to be more there to have fun rather than closely following typical gya conventions (worrying about how pretty their dresses are for their fav guitarist at kamite to see them from 4th row). On the flipside, some bands with male fans (check any DEG live report) can grind female fans (and even some dudes) the wrong way.
 
 

in 2014 i saw Royz (for their 7hrs live) in beppu & Mejibray in nagoya -

Royz's audience was like 10% male but w/ the exception of i think one dude all the other guys who showed up went as fancy w/ their clothes/hairmake as any young indiez band's members look. Some gya also dressed up that much & some didn't but for the guys in particular, seems like everyone who went looked unmistakably 'into vkei' enough that they looked like members mid-photoshoot from another band.

Meji's show was a lot more balanced (maybe bc it was a more normal show not in a tiny city?) and i'd guess like 70% girls 30% guys. people still dressed up but it was a smaller percent of the audience that did that i think. Aside from the gender ratio & the maybe 30% of the fans that went full vk with their look, i feel like the audience of that meji show would be a lot easier to confuse w/ the crowd at a punk or metal, non-vk show.

I & my two friends were (i'm pretty sure) the only foreigners at the Royz show (of ~400 people); there were maybe 15-20 overseas girls at Meji's show (decently full ELL if that makes for a # for reference to anybody), but to the best of my knowledge i was the only foreign guy at either.

Oh, maybe worth noting i went to see Sadie's instore/CD-signing at Tower Shinjuku & off the top of my head it was a pretty similar ratio to Meji, maybe a bit less even though? & looked like the ages of people had a good deal more in their late 20s / early 30s. Meji's live seemed like mostly people in their 20s, Royz's felt similar but younger overall.

Out of the shows i saw here at cons (Naitomea, Meteoroid, Pentagon), seemed 50/50 as far as i could tell. but at The GazettE's oneman (as in, no anime-con attached) that was almost as 90/10 girls to guys as the Royz show. i even saw like at least three sets of a teenager who'd brought along their clearly uninterested parents.

I also showed up to Revine & Dixdriver's instores just bc they were near my hostel & why the hell not if i'm already in Japan, and i was definitely the only guy & the only foreigner at both. I'm sure i looked even more out of place than i felt.

kaya WHO #karmaqueenofgays 

I'm more broke than I expected and haven't ordered yet, so still going by the nico broadcast. I think I'll have a more visceral response to the album once I have it in decent quality, but anyway, let's do a track by track:

「M」World Order · Don't care about it one bit, but MERRY intros have always been hit or miss for me anyway.
MASS CONTROL · Love the melody in the verses. The thing is, I would enjoy the chorus so much more if I could be shouting along "tengoku harakiri" without turning the whole apartment building against me... I'm trying to say, I still think this is a better live song and majorly envy everyone who can go to MERRY concerts. But it's good anyway, sends me back to their old tracks.
犬型真性MASOCHIST · Gara's lyrics and Yuu's guitar make this one for me, not their best composition, but it's catchy and has been growing on me.
gaudy · Another one for the lives. I imagine I will listen to it when it comes up in the album, but won't ever specifically want to play it. Instrumental is on-point and everything, but that's the minimum I expect of MERRY anyway.
平日の女 -A面- · Still love it like the day it was released and think it's one of the best MERRY songs ever (certainly in recent years). Although I wonder if type B wouldn't fit the tone of the album better. But then again type A's instrumentation is so, so beautiful...
Black flag symptom · One of the most immediate songs on the album, reminds me of Identity a bit and I like it just as much.
傘と雨 · This one is rerecorded, right? Or am I just being delusional? Somehow it sounds more defiant now. Another gem in any case.
F.J.P · Nero!! This one is as if someone picked my brain and extracted the formula for the perfect song to get me hype. Guaranteed eternal replay.
Happy life –reprise- · Like the song, not impressed with the new recording.
SIGHT GLASS · This one's for the history books, the day ero-guro MERRY and female-point-of-view MERRY converged. And it's glorious as expected. Are you going to collab with cali-gari one day?
エムオロギー · Ah, what do I do with this one. It's trying so hard to be grand and anthemic, but it is so damn beautiful too. I think I'll love and cherish it.

So all in all, I am one happy fangirl - but I would be even happier if someone deposited a few hundred into my bank account. Anyone?

Ugh god IDEK why Kiyoharu is so eager to crank out horrible shit for every tribute album under the sun. He must really need that coin.
 
 

This!
 
Also, am I the only one who didn't like The Infamous Omnibus Whore's Melancholic cover? I hope they don't put him on the MUCC tribute album

2017 is the year of shitty tribute albums. MUCC's cover sounds n i c e though. Comforting Sounds 3.0 sounds good too. I don't mind the people in the box one either, but everything else does nothing for me. a crowd of rebellion's one sounds downright awful, Kiyoharu sounds like he was crying while they recorded this, and LM.C should have disbanded like half a decade ago already

I think I'm going with the ANGEL version. The DEVIL version of the title track sounds disjointed and I'm not digging the b-side on that one. Out of all the songs, I think I like "I depend on you" the most.

The limited edition cover looks alright, though it was cheap of them to use the Times New Yorker font for the album title. The regular edition looks dumb... it actually looks like something I, an absolute amateur, would try to do in Photoshop. They're not album covers, they're DeviantArt projects.

18-year-old self: requires full discographies of every single band I listened to, 100% everything, even if it sucked, even if I didn't stan them.
 
24-year-old self: has no post-2007 アヤビエ, deletes DIAURA's 月光 single, doesn't have a single post-2004 蜉蝣 single, deleting crappy bonus tracks from various releases.
 
As you evolve, your music library evolves with you. The terabytes of downloaded music you haven't added to your library, on the other hand, do not.

The limited edition cover looks alright, though it was cheap of them to use the Times New Yorker font for the album title. The regular edition looks dumb... it actually looks like something I, an absolute amateur, would try to do in Photoshop. They're not album covers, they're DeviantArt projects.

u guys dont know FASHION

They look so disgusting, who the fuck approved this

They look so disgusting, who the fuck approved this

I don't like the new look. I don't like the name of the album. I don't like the covers...and their recent stuff was boring to me. Soo... I have low expectations.

Their hairstylist must like, really hate them.

18-year-old self: requires full discographies of every single band I listened to, 100% everything, even if it sucked, even if I didn't stan them.
 
24-year-old self: has no post-2007 アヤビエ, deletes DIAURA's 月光 single, doesn't have a single post-2004 蜉蝣 single, deleting crappy bonus tracks from various releases.
 
As you evolve, your music library evolves with you. The terabytes of downloaded music you haven't added to your library, on the other hand, do not.

Breaking: it will sound like Pentagon and Arlequin

it would be pretty hilarious if grieva formed under goemon with a new name lmao.

What's going on MH.

I was on a short haitus while putting my life into order. I was working a life-consuming job that left me no time and energy for myself while planning a spontaneous move to start a brand new life. I had to find a new job and adjust to the new city and I just wasn't in a place where I felt like I could devote any time to the forum.

I've finally worked everything out and I feel that I'm now in a place where I can be a part of this community with a free mind and heart. So, I'm excited to say..

I'm Back Baby 

Ruki starts ripping off Nordic doom metal bands. 

All Ima say is this....
 
There's a been a bad trend of people getting uber hype for a GazettE album, with some false hopes that it'll be something totally innovative and new and then get bummed out and turn super negative when its not.
 
the Gazette has shown us time and time again that Visuals and aesthetics don't mean much when it comes to their music so in that aspect, that trailer did nothing for me. 
 
I'm just happy they gonna drop some music soon and keeping my expectations at a minimum.