Tokage

cant help w/ the merch sadly but i just wanna slide in to say ''good fucking taste right there''

oh hey it's another ''ignore everything but the a-side'' episode, great

why can't it be both?

The 2nd sample's the most interesting out of the bunch for me... Kinda feel like it'd have been fine if they would've released that one as the a-side. I'm not really feeling the other three tracks all that much, the last two legit do sound like anisongs. I have to admit I'm still not fully on the Kizu hype train anyway, I REALLY really liked 0 and ステロイド, and 平成 is alright too, but most of their other a-sides didn't and still don't quiiite do it for me. I haven't really bothered to check out any of their b-sides yet so mb i'm missing out on some good shit, but part of me doesn't want to look into them due to being salty about the whole 'lol we'll never release an album :^)' thing

Most of the fanservice in VK, kpop and all that stuff seems to primarily be set up as dumb pandering garbage for the femcel fujo crowd, and the whole thing literally just feels like a (mostly) genderswapped version of subhuman otaku dudes creeping on female j- or k-pop idols/gravure models when viewed on the ''how many levels of delusion are you on right now, bro?''-scale

c'mon, Luigi is obviously a Pavement fan, look at the hard life the dude's had, he's hella into that 90s indie stuff

Brain Dead (1990): Yooo, this is an extremely underrated film! I went in knowing next to nothing about it and I ended up very pleasantly surprised. This fits right into the category of existential mindfuck movies like eXistenZ, The Thirteenth Floor, Videodrome, Jacob's Ladder etc. in my opinion, it's a wild ride that keeps throwing new surreal turns and twists at you. Not gonna give anything away about the plot because I might end up inadvertently spoiling something, instead I'll just say that if you enjoyed any of those four films I listed previously, you'll probably dig this one.

There's like an 85% chance this is just gonna end up being more generic chugcore for 12 year olds except this time w/ lyrics about EDGY stuff like trying to buy exactly 1 joint on the deep web and getting set up by the cops & going to jail for 5 years instead of the usual 'tfw no gf/bf' or 'i hate you mom & dad!' stuff, but that brief bit of metallic percussion near the end of the trailer video still gives me a very, very faint glimmer of hope that this might somehow turn out to be leaning more towards the industrial side of things (and god knows there aren't enough VK bands active in that niche nowadays, there's like The Sound Bee kinda and.. that's all I can think of right now)

are these glorified raincoats wizard robes the new budget vk band löök or something?

if u dont want 2 get in trouble w/ the police just dont dress like a weirdo anime character or yakuza cosplayer irl & u'll b fine!!!!! (In all seriousness though, particular types of tattoos ARE pretty heavily associated w/ yakuza-related stuff, aren't they?)

the fucked up part of this is that in all likelihood there's probably at least 1 or 2 spiders inside your apartment right now anyway

hector drinking game: chug a bottle of vodka every time they mention shinjuku in some way

let's go back to comparing all of sukekiyo's stuff to dir en grey instead

aesthetics lookin RAD

oh god that new battletoads game looks fucking AWFUL, what the fuck are the devs doing

yeah, i've listened to some of his albums (solo stuff & some of the stuff by The Manji), pretty fun and let's be real, glam rock is p much vk in all but the name lol

except for the fact that the fonts are barely legible

that Genesis dude from Suicide Club could for all intents and purposes be a vk musician

I saw Yoshiki at a grocery store in Los Angeles yesterday. I told him how cool it was to meet him in person, but I didn’t want to be a douche and bother him and ask him for photos or anything. He said, “Oh, like you’re doing now?” I was taken aback, and all I could say was “Huh?” but he kept cutting me off and going “huh? huh? huh?” and closing his hand shut in front of my face. I walked away and continued with my shopping, and I heard him chuckle as I walked off. When I came to pay for my stuff up front I saw him trying to walk out the doors with like fifteen bags of potato chips in his hands without paying. The girl at the counter was very nice about it and professional, and was like “Sir, you need to pay for those first.” At first he kept pretending to be tired from recording the new X-Japan album and not hear her, but eventually turned back around and brought them to the counter. When she took one of the bags and started scanning it multiple times, he stopped her and told her to scan them each individually “to preserve the spiciness,” and then turned around and winked at me. I don’t even think that’s a thing. After she scanned each bag of chips and put them in a bag and started to say the price, he kept interrupting her by yawning really loudly.

yo this is actually legit really, really good & it's p fucked up how thoroughly mediocre this makes like the majority of the contemporary vk scene look by comparison