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Hi everyone,
 
Some of you may have known me as tachikomatic on Last.FM long ago. I used to help run jsalad, which was something like a rival forum to Monochrome Heaven for a while back when it was Tainted World.
 
A lot of what I listen to these days is Japanese new wave/electronic music from the 80s like YMO, Togawa Jun, and P-MODEL + associated acts. But, I do love vk (especially heavier stuff like Aikaryu and vellaDonna), and angura kei. The first few Japanese bands I really got into as a teenager were Kagrra, cali≠gari, and metronome (メトロノーム). Here are some notable faves:
 
shinjuku gewalt / 新宿ゲバルト
pinokiwo / ピノキヲ
COSMO-SHIKI
dagashikashi / 駄菓子菓子
FLOPPY
himitsu kessha kodomo A / 秘密結社コドモA
sandwich de 120 pun? / サンドイッチで120分?
DENTAKU
matsutake works / マツタケワークス
idenshi kumikae kodomo-kai / 遺伝子組換こども会
hyper pocket / ハイパーポケット
anokoroido / アノコロイド
mamono / マモノ
kuusou kakumei / 空想革命
Proxyon / プロキシオン
HONDALADY
Plastic Tree
recoride / レコライド
shinsei kamatte-chan / 神聖かまってちゃん
goatbed
COALTAR OF THE DEEPERS
guruguru eigakan / グルグル映畫館
ningen isu / 人間椅子
onmyouza / 陰陽座
urbangarde / アーバンギャルド
 
Anyway, my tastes are mostly stuck in the past. I’ve been apart from the community for some time and I’d like to get back into things. I hope that I’m able to provide a valued presence here.
 
Thank you for reading.

it's now illegal to be a gazette stan, when will kpop 👏

Taken from https://rocklyric.jp/lyric.php?sid=1755790
 
Standing here in the rain for so long time
生まれながら罪を背負うように
The darkest hour is just before the dawn
唱えるように繰り返す夜
たったひとつの違いで排除される世界に
もう うんざりだ
got an answer
 
Nothing is ever too late
We'll never be younger than today
Can you hear, where are you?
Hello,Hello Iam iam...
くだらなく狭い視界から見える答えに意味はあるか
i am,i am what i am
i am,i am what i am
 
同じ様に誰かを愛し
同じ様にあたたかい場所へと
気づいたら一人前に人生について、なんてさ考えてたよな
got an answer？
Am I dressed like everyone else？
くだらないね
Wishing for the daybreak of this world
 
I found out the answer is simple
Your good morning good night turn this world up side down
Hello,Hello Iam iam...
今さら気づいたんだ 僕を包んでくれてた愛に
i am,i am what i am
i am,i am what i am
 
誰もが違うからこそ繋げられるその手があったね
知らない僕らじゃないはず だから
気高く叫ぶんだ
I am what i am
 
Nothing is ever too late
We'll never be younger than today
Can you hear, where are you?
Hello,Hello Iam iam...
くだらなく狭い視界から見える答えに意味はあるか
i am,i am what i am
i am,i am what i am
他の誰でもなく
so i am,i am what i am

AIIS (ex-ALSDEAD) has disbanded at 2020/02/24
 
 

Arch Linux×DEZERT

Soooo MERRY just announced that Kenichi (guitars) will be leaving the band in May 2020.   A final tour is in the works as five-piece. Afterwards, MERRY will continue with four members (no word yet on whether they will recruit a support or fulltime 2nd guitarist).
 
Announcement on YT:
 
Message from the band:
 
Jesus, this sucks... they've been practically together without any member changes for almost 20 years... Hoping for the best!

Tick tac best song, might need a few more listens to digest though.

DELUHI new live DVD "THE XING OF DELUHISM" will be released at 2020/02/05.
 

 
TrackList:
～ OPENING SE 〜
1. HYBRID TRUTH
2. Rebel:Sicks, Shadow:Six
3. Freedom
4. flow snow
5. WAKE UP!
6. シェイド(Shade)
7. Ivory and Irony
8. The farthest
9. NO SALVATION
10. FOLLOW THE FUTURE
11. G.A.L.D
12. REVOLVER BLAST
13. Frontier
14. s[K]ape:goat
15. Baby play
16. F.T.O
17. Departure
＜encore＞
18. Remember the rain
19. Vivid Place
20. CODA
21. Orion once again
22. Two Hurt
～ ending ～
 
 

In life? No. On Monochrome Heaven? Sure. You've already made 26 posts; that's larger than the majority of the user base tbh.
 
Posting is the easiest thing you can do. You want to see topics about your favorite bands? Make them! Start discussion topics and write reviews. I can't read your mind and do it for you (although I really do try). When you put in genuine effort, you will be surprised by the response that you get. Maybe that response won't be immediate, and that response won't be what you thought it was or in the way you thought it would be, but it will be there. A lot of people lurk on this forum, so eye ball real estate is just as important as text responses. 

this may be off topic but this topic reminds me of what i always wanted to say about mh.
 
idk what we overseas fans can do to make vk more popular than what it is, but one thing i think doable is to make mh become more popular.
vk may be dead one day but mh should live on after that. personally i always see mh as a very underrated japanese music forum that has high potential to grow bigger.
 
if the stats on similarweb aren't lying, it's very impressive that we have around 1.3m page views monthly (from 200k total visits * 6.6 page views per a visit). what i mean is mh already has a huge user base in hands but the engagements of the content on the forum are a lot less compared to it. for example, we have very few concurrent registered users online as you can see from the image below. it's only ~20 members online. (700 guests are mostly crawlers i believe). i know that it's taken at a random time of a day but usually it's still not significantly more than this either considering we have over 9.6k members registered. additionally, we can have more followers on facebook and twitter from our daily visitors if we want to. (it hurts to see that mh which is the source of almost everything japanese rock related has far less likes than random j-rock pages on facebook even demon android's one.)
 

 
moreover, traditional forum software like IPB is kinda 2000-ish, but i'm just saying. i have nothing against it. IPB is not bad though. it regularly gets updates and bug fixes. but nowadays there are a number of better open source alternatives as well; e.g. discourse and nodebb. converting the database from one to another is such a pain though if we ever do it.
 
sysops are one of the most important roles that almost nobody notices the effort they put behind the scenes. we have had only 3-4 sysops since the inception of mh and now there is only one left. it's a vital position that needs to recruit too. what'd we do if they're all gone? it'd even mean the end of mh. (not sure about how recruiting a new sysop is going, but it seems difficult to get one to begin with.)
 
at the end of the day, staff are all volunteers. finding a suitable staff member who is willing to spend their free time is hard already but finding one who is dedicated to the community is even harder. one day the current staff members will be rotated as well. so we're not going anywhere if we don't expand the user base. we can find more talented people from a bigger one.
 
this is my two cents:
 
it's time for mh 4.0. sooner or later mh has  to change too. otherwise, the community will be gone if we don't do something beforehand. if i were the founder, i'd rebrand "monochrome-heaven" to something else shorter, easier to type and pronounce, and easy to remember esp for non-english natives. having a dash (-) in a domain name looks unprofessional for a brand imo. just like when "thefacebook.com" becoming "facebook.com". the former is not a professional brand name compared to the latter. they bought it once they had the money to afford it and became the "facebook" we know nowadays.
 
rebranding mh may be too much for those who're familiar with the name but it'd be a big step to be known better. by rebranding i mean changing the look of the forum too whether it be a new skin or even new forum software that's more modern. we can still stick with vk just like before and be more open to the general japanese rock scene which is more lively and has a wider fanbase like ruling it all online not only on here but also on other social networks.
 
yeah, i know that it's easier said than done. it takes a lot of effort and is very challenging to accomplish, but knowing the potential mh has not being used is wasting as well.

this may be off topic but this topic reminds me of what i always wanted to say about mh.
 
idk what we overseas fans can do to make vk more popular than what it is, but one thing i think doable is to make mh become more popular.
vk may be dead one day but mh should live on after that. personally i always see mh as a very underrated japanese music forum that has high potential to grow bigger.
 
if the stats on similarweb aren't lying, it's very impressive that we have around 1.3m page views monthly (from 200k total visits * 6.6 page views per a visit). what i mean is mh already has a huge user base in hands but the engagements of the content on the forum are a lot less compared to it. for example, we have very few concurrent registered users online as you can see from the image below. it's only ~20 members online. (700 guests are mostly crawlers i believe). i know that it's taken at a random time of a day but usually it's still not significantly more than this either considering we have over 9.6k members registered. additionally, we can have more followers on facebook and twitter from our daily visitors if we want to. (it hurts to see that mh which is the source of almost everything japanese rock related has far less likes than random j-rock pages on facebook even demon android's one.)
 

 
moreover, traditional forum software like IPB is kinda 2000-ish, but i'm just saying. i have nothing against it. IPB is not bad though. it regularly gets updates and bug fixes. but nowadays there are a number of better open source alternatives as well; e.g. discourse and nodebb. converting the database from one to another is such a pain though if we ever do it.
 
sysops are one of the most important roles that almost nobody notices the effort they put behind the scenes. we have had only 3-4 sysops since the inception of mh and now there is only one left. it's a vital position that needs to recruit too. what'd we do if they're all gone? it'd even mean the end of mh. (not sure about how recruiting a new sysop is going, but it seems difficult to get one to begin with.)
 
at the end of the day, staff are all volunteers. finding a suitable staff member who is willing to spend their free time is hard already but finding one who is dedicated to the community is even harder. one day the current staff members will be rotated as well. so we're not going anywhere if we don't expand the user base. we can find more talented people from a bigger one.
 
this is my two cents:
 
it's time for mh 4.0. sooner or later mh has  to change too. otherwise, the community will be gone if we don't do something beforehand. if i were the founder, i'd rebrand "monochrome-heaven" to something else shorter, easier to type and pronounce, and easy to remember esp for non-english natives. having a dash (-) in a domain name looks unprofessional for a brand imo. just like when "thefacebook.com" becoming "facebook.com". the former is not a professional brand name compared to the latter. they bought it once they had the money to afford it and became the "facebook" we know nowadays.
 
rebranding mh may be too much for those who're familiar with the name but it'd be a big step to be known better. by rebranding i mean changing the look of the forum too whether it be a new skin or even new forum software that's more modern. we can still stick with vk just like before and be more open to the general japanese rock scene which is more lively and has a wider fanbase like ruling it all online not only on here but also on other social networks.
 
yeah, i know that it's easier said than done. it takes a lot of effort and is very challenging to accomplish, but knowing the potential mh has not being used is wasting as well.