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In no particular order... In all seriousness, though.. I guess these albums were probably the ''key albums'' in shaping my current taste.. Now, they might not exactly be in my list of ''all-time favorites'' anymore, but they were still pretty damn important in developing my taste 1. Alice Cooper - Brutal Planet: Basically the album that turned 10/11 year old me away from just listening to whatever was playing on MTV/TMF at the time. Made me realize ''holy shit, rock and roll is bangin' yo''... Although I didn't really fully understand the lyrics. 2. Malice Mizer - Merveilles: There was a period after that moment above where I somehow ended up listening almost solely to anime/tokusatsu/videogame OSTs, until I suddenly decided to start exploring japanese rock music more. Malice Mizer was one of the first bands I discovered while browsing around on the at that time still brand new Youtube, and basically it sort of kickstarted my interest in VK/Jrock. 3. FLOPPY - FLOPPY: Basically responsible for awakening my interest in all that bleep-bloop stuff, synthpop (and indirectly also my love for new wave and post-punk, i guess) 4. Marilyn Manson - The Golden Age of Grotesque: Not really feelin' this album anymore these days, but this sort of threw me back into trying out western music after goin' full weeaboo for a couple of years. 5. cali≠gari - Dai 6 Jikkenshitsu: dude cali≠gari lmao 6. Aesop Rock - None Shall Pass: Although I started exploring more western stuff at this point, I was still basically unironically one of those ''u can't spell 'crap' without 'rap' xDDD'' people at that point, but after hearing the title track off this album and sampling some more of his stuff I started exploring hip-hop more. 7. Die Ärzte - Jazz ist Anders: Basically, I was listening only to either English or Japanese music at this point, and that changed when I discovered these guys. I started trying to find music in other languages, with varying degrees of succes. Another album I can't really enjoy anymore, outside of its nostalgic value I guess. 8. DJ Krush - Ki-Oku: Got me interested in instrumental hip-hop, trip-hop, downtempo and all that chill stuff. Eventually also got me interested in IDM, ambient, stuff like that. 9. Porcupine Tree - Fear of a Blank Planet: My introduction to prog rock, prog metal and generally ''longer'' song structures.

god DAMN i'm getting tired of all this backtracking in Castlevania Harmony of Dissonance, the other metroidvania games never felt this bad w/ the whole backtrack thing...

Both bands definitely have vocalists with somewhat of an ''acquired taste''-type of vocal delivery.. I feel like Ryutaro's sort of been heading down the Riki Kinoshita road lately, hope he doesn't fully go down that path lol

the NICE TRAIN man....

I tried to pick one particular favorite, but i felt chunks of my brain starting to melt out through my nose as i was trying to make up my mind, so i'm just gonna pick both :^)

Been rewatching/watching a bunch of stuff in the past week. So far I've re-watched The Evil Dead 2 and Return of the Living Dead for like the 4th or 5th time, and Tucker & Dale vs Evil for the 2nd time. Also watched Child's Play 2 and What We Do In The Shadows... Both were fun. In fact, i'd say the latter is one of the best and most entertaining recent movies I've seen in a long, long time.. Wish there were more like it.

current mood

Requesting a review of Susumu Hirasawa - The Man Climbing the Hologram / ホログラムを登る男 (2015.10.09)

jej

goddamn, my whole plan for the upcoming semester got fucking ruined with 1 email

i accidentally broke my fucking woodcutting block.... how the fuck am i gonna cut wood to keep my house warm now.... damn............................................... just chopped the thing in two lmao oops

lmao every time a semi-big (or semi-big on MH at least) band disbands people straight away start hollerin about how VK is dying

the only thing i remember when i think of these guys is that RIDICULOUS kool-aid vampire man costume the singer wore once and thats all lmao, but its still weird to see them go, feels like they always were just... there, kind of

all this violence... it's makes me sad.... setting an bad example for our kids.. i think what our generation REALLY needs is a ''hugs injection''!!!

rly lookin forward 2 that dezert album can't stop listening to the band Firewater lately

16 euros for a no-name band like that? hhhh

Thanks, guys :/

S.K.I.N.? Yeah, same, shame everyone involved in that just seems to be pretending that it never even happened lol

Cancer is a fucking garbage disease My aunt passed away...

I wouldn't complain about an album full of all-new content tbh :^)

Can't believe Mana is already 74 years old, he looks like he's still 40

Not so long ago I started thinking about Deftones' unreleased album Eros, and I began wondering.. Have there been any J-rock/J-pop acts who have announced (and presumably also recorded demos, designed artwork etc.) albums/releases, but never actually ended up releasing them due to some reason or another? Or are there any releases that have simply just gotten ''lost'' (e.g.: original master tapes destroyed or w/e) forever? Is there some sort of ''VK Rarez Holy Grail'', so to speak of?

Most visual bands aren't exactly ''popular'' in the common sense of the word, are they? I guess I'd reckon Kiryu has gotten relatively popular over the recent years, though?

oh, it's the bland, shitty vk anemone, i got hyped for nothing