Wonrei

one last thing before the upload: antlion pit live @ shibuya ax

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FyRI1SCT-C8

Radio rip of the song "Glowing"
 


 
Sexxyy~

These guys are going to open for sugizo on his solo tour and are also playing Countdown japan. No member information. With the events they are going to play, I bet they're probably all famous.
They have an EP announced, called "the daemon's cutlery"
http://sukekiyo-official.jp
 
Personal guess: The website definitely resembles the kyo(Dir en grey) solo project website, may be Dir en grey related

New music video, 
"鉄の夢"


 
 
10/10 this is insane

New music video, 
"鉄の夢"


 
 
10/10 this is insane

Probably nothing
 
 
I'd like this series more if the story wasn't made of  bullshitty"2deep4u" stuff that barely makes any sense. Everyone's xehanort

Samples: http://www.amazon.co.jp/Swan-Dive-土屋昌巳/dp/B00G4GQS1E/ref=sr_1_2?s=dmusic&ie=UTF8&sr=1-2 

I agree that there is a difference between copying and influence.

I just just think the problem in VK is that bands (and fans) are fickle and will change styles and direction at the drop of a hat to jump on whatever is trending.

There's definitely big names that set the trends and style of the VK scene and it's fine when artists take influence. That's normal across any artistic medium, whether it's music, painting, movie making etc. I just think that the relatively small size of the VK scene and talentless novice musicians that don't have an identity of their own and just playing music so they can go major and make animus theme songs.

There seems that at any given time, there's a handful of mildly talented guys that know what kind of music they want to do and they do it well and stand out and shine. But for every talented musician there's 10 or 20 fucking baddies.

To continue my crazy ranting, an example outside of VK and Japan is Folk Metal. The genre is fairly young, as in there wasn't a defined Folk Metal genre until around the 2000s. Sure there were bands in the 90s and earlier taking on folk influences but usually they weren't called folk metal and usually identified with another genre (NWOBHM, Black Metal, Power Metal etc). Ever since it's rise in popularity thanks to groups like Finntroll, Einsferium, Turisas and so forth. There's been a shit ton of awful bands that have sprung up trying to jump on the folk metal trend.

It's not unique to VK, there's plenty of retarded mouth breathing Folk Metal fans that are either just too dumb or in denial to acknowledge their unique unknown folk band is pretty awful and just recycling everything Finntroll has done already. Just way more mediocre.

And so basically I feel that's what we are seeing with VK. A genre with a few decently talented groups doing what they do well and a ton of awful groups just trying to jump on whatever cool new thing the big names are doing.
 
*edit for grammar* I am so bad at writing

THE NOVEMBERS will be releasing their 4th "zeitgeist" on November 30th!
 


THE NOVEMBERS 4th Album “zeitgeist”
MERZ-0002
2013/11/30 release
¥2,500（税込）

1. zeitgeist
2. We
3. Louder Than War (2019)
4. Wire (Fahrenheit 154)
5. D-503
6. 鉄の夢
7. Meursault
8. Sky Crawlers
9. Ceremony
10. Flower of life

Producer：Robin Aoki(downy)※T-1,7,9 (woot!)
Recording：JUNYA IWATA(Triple Time Studio)
Mastering：SOICHIRO NAKAMURA(PEACE MUSIC)
illustration：tobird
Art direction：Q-TA
 

I believe new placebo album is called loud like love smh

Diary sounds EXACTLY like jealous
 
do these guys even try
 
I mean, gazette at least puts some female vocals over their luna sea covers

aie + gara someone pls record this shit

his kiyoharu singing manner parody is quite commendable, tho
 
I crown him as 2013 VK's fiercest and shamelessest troll
those wubs

Punk/Indie-Rockers karasu will release their 3rd album on 2013.11.13!
 






タイトル「終繕」
発売日　2013年11月13日（水）

■初回限定盤 SDMC-0114D ＊「憧れ」MV収録DVD付　\3,000（税込）
■通常盤 SDMC-0114　\2,500（税込）

収録曲
M1 酩酊
M2 太陽
M3 二度寝
M4 憧れ
M5 黄昏
M6 愛の歌
M7 徘徊
M8 あかし
M9 終繕
M10 昨日の恋人



http://www.karasu.in/pc/https://www.facebook.com/karasu.band/
https://twitter.com/karasu_kitaz

The gritty effects in the PV are cheap and stupid looking.
 
The album artwork looks like someone just learned how to import brushes into photoshop and downloaded a pack from DeviantArt full of all the film grain and blood splatter they could find.

Probably nothing
 
 
I'd like this series more if the story wasn't made of  bullshitty"2deep4u" stuff that barely makes any sense. Everyone's xehanort

Aww bummer
 
I hope Neil Peart gets a new band or goes solo, he's too much of a great drummer to stop

Aww bummer
 
I hope Neil Peart gets a new band or goes solo, he's too much of a great drummer to stop

Aww bummer
 
I hope Neil Peart gets a new band or goes solo, he's too much of a great drummer to stop

Aww bummer
 
I hope Neil Peart gets a new band or goes solo, he's too much of a great drummer to stop

Aww bummer
 
I hope Neil Peart gets a new band or goes solo, he's too much of a great drummer to stop

Aww bummer
 
I hope Neil Peart gets a new band or goes solo, he's too much of a great drummer to stop

wuh oh we've got a self-important look at me I know everything manbaby, delivered fresh from the degbox

I know that LUNA SEA are popular in Japan as well but in a certain crowd. They usually fill Tokyo dome (65,000 people) out of 126,000,000 in Japan. It's really not that much, of course they are BIG but then again look at glay or b'z for example. All I'm saying is that I honestly believe that Ryuichi makes more money (right now) on his solo career than by LUNA SEA, same goes for J.
 
Also, it's not fair with a statement. Most people want to push their limits, try new things and grow as a person, same goes for a musician. If Ryuichi sang with the same hardrock vocals he did in his teens, he wouldn't have a chance to grow as a vocalist. How would you feel being stuck at the same job, doing the same things every day without any promotion or a chance to try new things from 1986-2013. I think it's basically the same thing. So yeah, I too, as you, actually prefer his old vocals (my main obsession of LUNA SEA is pre-MOTHER), but I still appreciate his new singing style; which btw isn't actually new since he's been singing like this since 1997~.
 
EDIT: Also, what you may seem as uninspiring and overproduced crap is pure gold for someone else. Obviously a lot of people like his solo-era and I think most people who hates on him are stubborn fans who are stuck in the 90's.

Dude, just do whatever works best for you.
Honestly I tag most of my Japanese music as just Japanese. Some artist that don't fall under wishy washy genre like say Sabbat I'll label them as their appropriate genre.
Now if you tag things poorly on Last.fm IMA CUT YOU >:U
Otherwise if you're on the interbutts recommending something to a new listener, then use genres that are descriptive and avoid using vague wishy washy genres like Visual Kei or Jrock or J metal and stupid shit like that. Ugh and calling a band J metal or Jrock is so weeabooish and people that do that need to drink acid. You don't call Blind Guardian Gmetal or Kukrynsky R-rock or Megadeth Ametal. I feel like doing that will unfairly stigmatized the band as some sorta animu theme song band and driving away potential serious listeners.
Oh and another rule of mine is I never classify a VK band by the clothing. I label Versailles as Symphonic/Power Metal, not Aristocratic Vampire Kei Metal.