Replicant

I may go back over some of these in the future if there's mistakes in the kanji (I was using an OCR program for this, without it I never would have finished!) The errors in the English are straight from the book.
If you want to translate these, please give credit! And let me know, because I'd like to see them~
 
1. MISTERIOUS DANCE MACABLE (Lyrics:夜桜月丸 | Music: 夜桜月丸; TO-VI)
 
2. MAKE A JOURNEY (Lyrics: 夜桜月丸; TO-VI | Music: TO-VI)
 
3. DON'T TOUCH ME!! (Music: TO-VI)
 
4. RAISONDETRE OF LOVE <raison d'être>(Lyrics: 夜桜月丸 | Music: 夜桜月丸; TO-VI)
 
5. ALICE ～in the little box～ (Lyrics: 夜桜月丸; CHI"S"TO | Music: MR.JEEKAHN'S)
 
6. HIDE RIDE (Lyrics, Music: TO-VI)

reform despairs ray now x [2]
 
Yeah, if he is really back to singing again, he should reform D'espairsRay along with the rest of the members instead of forming a new band and start from scratch.
Wasn't the point of D'espairsRay's disbandment due to the fact that he wasn't able to sing? Karyu, Zero, and Tsukasa may be currently in other bands, but hey it's D'espairsRay, your original band, not someone else's existing project. You guys should definitely reform because HIZUMI is back now.

man this is so fuckin horrible
 
that song doesn't even make sense. Whats up with the bleep blop not equalized with the rest of the instruments? What that vocalist is trying to do on the chorus?
 
someone should introduce them to sever black paranoia, maybe they can learn a thing or two on how to mix electronic with hardcore

It looks like labels are getting better about adding all of their artists to Spotify. euclid agency currently has all (I believe?) their artists up there. 
 
New additions to the list:
 
-Hakuei (Penicillin's vocalist's solo project. Only his last album-- his material with Universal + Avex are not on there)
-Hakueiman (another solo project of Hakuei that's different, but not actually)
-ライチ☆光クラブ (this is missing 3 releases, however)
-machine (not all of their releases)
-Penicillin (region locked, for the US at least)

Chariots
 
Only their 3rd era, and they have romanized tags

Found a couple more that this list was missing.
 
Anli Policino
BUCK-TICK
Cløwd
DISACODE (romanized tags)
Waive (only 1 album and romanized tags)
 
 
Edit:
 
Grieva was just added (romanized name, but correct song tags)
 

Gossip (Ains band)
Sirene
La'veil MizeriA
SCHWARZ KEIN (シュヴァルツカイン)
Zombie (ぞんび)
Hizaki

Croix Allcine
Lacroix Despheres
Merveille Magique
 

Nice! So many bands aren't on spotify and it's hard to make a playlist. Will you be updating your list as the master post?
I've got some more, forgive me if there are any duplicates
 
176BIZ
Amber Bullet
Angelo - mixed with different artists
Annie's Black
Capella - mixed with different artists
Creature Creature
CULT the Movie
DEAD END
Dunkelheit
the fool - mixed with different artists
GOLDEN BOMBER
heidi.
Jilled Ray
JILLS BLUE ROSE
L-Lotus-
Lost Ash
MirialD
NEU
Orochi
Otogadead
RED universe
the riotts.
SUGIZO
umbrella - mixed with different artists
Un=(xag)
ZIg+Zag
ZORO - mixed with different artists
V-Anime Rocks compilation
 
Just realised most Starwave bands are on spotify, they're probably all there but I haven't searched them all

Because I have no life, here have a small list of visual kei artists available for listening over spotify. Some have full discographies some only few albums or singles. there are also instances on several artists from all over the world being grouped together on one page, because of shared name.
 
What is spotify? - to put it short, a digital music streaming service. It comes in two flavors - free with ads, and paid via subscription, with no ads and few useful perks. Sign up, log in, most likely download their application to your computer or mobile and you're set.  
Isn't that piracy? - no it's completly legal and artists and/or their label (we know how that goes...) are getting paid for each listen.
 
For the start I cut this list into two categories. First one is the bands that retain their japanese song tags even on spotify - for all purists who want their last.fm scrobbles accurate 
 
Amber Bullet
Angelo - mixed with different artists
Anli Policino
Annie's Black
Black Gene For the Next Scene - mixed tags
BUCK-TICK - region locked
Calmando Qual
Capella - mixed with different artists
Cløwd
CULT the Movie
D - ??? they used to have few albums, like Vampire Saga there, but it seems to be gone now. Perhaps region locked.
Daizy Stripper
Das:Vasser
Fixer - several different artists mixed together on that page
girugamesh - mixed tags
GOLDEN BOMBER
Gossip
GPKISM
Grieva - romanized name, but correct song tags
Insanity Injection
Kamijo
ラヴェーゼ (Labaiser)
La'veil MizeriA
Liv'ert
L-Lotus-
Lost Ash
lynch.
Luna Sea
Magistina Saga
Majolica
MirialD
Misaruka and their other profile ミサルカ
Miyavi
最上川司 (Momigawa Tsukasa)
NEU
Nightmare - some albums seems to have romanised tags
Nocturnal Bloodlust
NoGoD
nue  - mistagged nüe, also different nue releases on the same profile
Orochi
-OZ-
Rose Noire
砂月-SATSUKI-
Scarlet Valse
SCHWARZ KEIN (シュヴァルツカイン)
Sirene - mixed with different artist
Synk;yet
Suicide Ali - mixed tags
SUGIZO
the fool - mixed with different artists
The Sound Bee HD
the studs
Tokami
Under Fall Justice
VAMPS
Versaillies
Velvet Eden
vistlip
yazzmad
Zombie (ぞんび)
 
 
And now artist with no japanese tags
 
12012
176BIZ
9GOATS BLACK OUT
ADAMS - mixed with different artist
Amber Gris - mixed with different artist
An Cafe
And - eccentric agent-
Awoi
Ayabie
Birushana
Blood - sharing profile with other Blood band
Chanty  - again, releases mixed with other artist of the same name
Chariots - 3rd era only
Creature Creature
Croix Allcine
DEAD END
DELUHI
D'espairsray
Diaura
Dio ~distraught overlord~
Dir en Grey
DISACODE
DIV
Dunkelheit
D=OUT
exist†trace
Gackt
glamscure
heidi.
Hizaki
I-ai-
Inoran
Inugami Circus Dan
Jilled Ray
JILLS BLUE ROSE
JokArt Au Legal
Kameleo
Kagerou
Kiryu - depending where you are, you might have two different kiryu's there
Lacroix Despheres
L'arc en Ciel
Lix.
LM.C
Luzmelt
Matenrou Opera
MARRY+AN+BLOOD
Megamasso
MERRY
Merveille Magique
MeteoroiD
MUCC
Otogadead
Pan-d-ra
Plastic Tree
R-shitei
RED universe
Rentrer en Soi
Rides in ReVellion
Sadie
Screw
Shiva - releases mixed with other artist of the same 
SID
SuG
Sukekiyo
THE GALLO  they also have another seemingly empty profile ギャロ
The GazettE
the riotts.
TRA TRA TRA
umbrella - mixed with different artists
UNITE.
Un=(xag)
UnsraW
Waive
Vallquar
Vaniru
Vidoll
Vivalet
XodiacK
ZIg+Zag
ZORO - mixed with different artists
V-Anime Rocks compilation
 
 
Obviously this is a work in progress not an absolute complete list.

Congrats on the 10 years.
I don't remember how I found this place; all I know I joined in the beginning or nearly the beginning. Probably through Tonberry back when I went under a different name. I've always lurked, sometimes posted. Never really left.
I may not remember everything that's happened in the 10 years that have passed, but I've been here long enough to say that this place is something special, and it doesn't feel like 10 years have passed at all.

SPEECIES has just dropped a fun lil' MV for a new song titled ロックン露悪流マルカジリ.
 
 
yyyyeeeeaaaaahhhhhhhhhhhh

Also ngl I'm a bit disappointed they didn't go with SWOLITA

Please note the lyrics are all gathered up from various places. I simply fixed a lot of the errors I found (there was a fair bit!), writing it up as printed on the lyrics sheets (thanks to this post and Naaaaani for taking photos of the lyrics!) This means that the lyrics may be sung a different way, but written as seen here, because as I found out while doing this, a lot of the lyrics floating around seem to be written by ear...
 
If there are still any errors, please let me know.
 
I spent far too much time on this because I was bored... I figured I'd share for anyone else who was interested.
Notes: I'm not posting lyrics from Lu:Ciel or objexxx because I don't have an image of the print lyrics to go off of to make sure they're correct. There's a transcription of 呪ワレタ楽園ノ影 I found, because on the tape for it, there's no posted lyrics; not posting that becasue I'm not sure if it's correct either. (I will post them if asked, however.)
 
 
還ラザル記憶… (Kaerazaru kioku...)


Fun Fact! On the 呪ワレタ楽園ノ影… tape, these lyrics are credited as the lyrics to 切断, and vice versa.

腐乱ユエニ… (Furan yue ni...)




生命ノ罪…(Seimei no tsumi...)




生命ノ罪…(Kuroi namida)




架空ト現実…(Kakuu to genjitsu)


[1] This spoken piece is correct for 生命ノ罪… release of this song, not in the 架空ト現実… DT. For the 架空ト現実… DT, this line is different, but it's not on the lyric sheet, either.

切断 (Setsudan)


Note: There is a spoken part in the beginning of the song, but it's not written on the lyric sheet. From what I've seen posted, it goes something like:
月ニ照ラサレル蒼イ顔ガ
僕ノ脳裏ニ焼キ付ク
地面ニ這イツクバッタ貴方ハ最期ニコウ言ッタ
「貴方ノ手デ『切断』ヲ…」

舞夢 (Maimu)

メトロノーム(Metronome) 10th line-up will resume activities at their live at Zepp Tokyo at 2016/09/19
 
メトロノーム(Metronome) current line-up:
VOICECODER(Vo.)シャラク(sharaku) (FLOPPY, GalapagosS)
TALBO-1(Gt.)フクスケ(fukusuke) (ADAPTER。, THE BEETHOVEN, NEWTΦN)
TALBO-2(Ba.)リウ(RIU) (へーけ(heike), NEWTΦN, ADAPTER。(support))
 
https://twitter.com/meto21_com
 
https://twitter.com/meto21_com/status/737478806147981312

Original blog post here:
https://blog.vellumatlanta.com/2016/05/04/apple-stole-my-music-no-seriously/
 
 
TL;DR: Apple Music might upload your local music files to their servers, encode them to AAC 256 kbps and remove the local copies.

Autotune can be used for at least two different reasons.
 
1. Too enhance a phrase or type of sound
2. To cover up lack of talent.
 
 
I think there are many cases in which artists tastefully use the technique of autotune to enhance things. I feel the same about dubstep. While I feel that dubstep alone is a poor excuse for good music, I do think that it has been used to enhance and really give a slam dunk when it comes to making a song unique and interesting. 
 
Recorded music already goes through mixing and mastering so much that the final product isn't really a "truthful" reality of everything in it's rightful sounding form. Technology is so advanced now that I'd be a little disappointed if people weren't getting creative and trying new things. I think Autotune is so disliked because it's used incorrectly in a lot of mainstream music and has been before it really started to be used in a creative sense. So naturally it has some negativity attached to it. 
 
So I'd have to say it's fine so long as it's not overused and isn't a clear cover up for poor talent.
 
Lil Wayne is the perfect example of how not to use autotune. He's also a perfect example of how to look stupid holding a guitar.

I think it can be used to pretty good effect in electronic music(hearing a band like FLOPPY without it would just be kinda... weird). Outside of that, I think it really depends on the vocalist using it. If the singer is trying to (badly) cover up the fact that they sound like a dying goat, then I could certainly do without it. It seems recently like autotune has been a replacement for vocal talent which is a total bummer for the scene :<

satsuki's entire solo career

Here's my remix of Dir En Grey's Raison detre.
 
Enjoy!
 
 

i think he meant to say that he has no business pleasing someone just cuz he/she is a foreigner.
anyway, some context to issei's tweet 'threatening' to get people fined for 5k yen. it was actually in response to a fangirl who tweeted him to say that she heard the song and didn't like it at all. she then told him 'welcome to the internet darling' and that all their fans will now get to hear the demo.
i mean, no matter what, it's bad form to do what she did. not sure if she expected to get a pat on the back for gleefully taunting him or what, but it was plain silly.

Hoooooly shit. What a whiny little baby. He thinks that everyone who listened to his ~*~Super Special Beautiful Masterpiece~*~ and wasn't at the live should get fined? He can seriously go climb a wall of dicks.... that's the shittiest fucking attitude I've ever seen directed towards a band's fans.

Thanks Akane for proving my point not even a day after I posted this!
 

Another vote for D'espairsRay here. They still are my favorite band, and I really really love them so much. They mean a lot for me and suddenly they disband just in my birthday. Worst day ever.
 
And deadman... at least aie is still active, but Mako... I NEED him active once again for God's sake. 

Here's the translation:
 
[2015/06/14] maco twitter:
 
"15'06,11
For so many of you who blessed me.
 
You gathered and sewed altogether
Me, who was fallen apart.
And these words were born.
 
Thank you.
 
I wish. The day we can meet again.
 
Mako"
 
[2015/06/14] maco twitter:
 
"Pain. Scars. Darkness.
Anger is grief. Darkness.
Is piercing my heart through.
I'm falling.
Deeper.
And deeper.
Till the end.
Till all my feelings fade away and even deeper.
 
Pain. Scars. Darkness.
My breathing stops. Darkness.
Is squeezing my heart.
I'm falling.
Deeper.
And deeper.
The darkness is pushing me.
Till all my feelings fade away and even more.
 
No matter how.
It doesn't matter.
Front, back, left, right.
Here I am, in the darkness.
 
"Sleep"
 
Beating of the pulse.
Blood is running through my veins.
I make a breath and open my eyes.
Laughing voice, so clumsy.
This darkness can't have me anymore.
 
Sky. Light. Moonlight.
There are no wings on my back.
Wings do not exist.
 
A bit more.
A bit more.
Just a little.
Just a little more.
 
To the moonlight. Just a little more.
 
Mako"
 
p.s. please excuse my English if it's a bit clumsy m(_ _)m