Zeus

I missed everything.

6 hours ago, allisapp said:

I have been extremely anxious for two weeks now. I cut contact with mom 1,5 years ago and we are meeting tomorrow. But I really, really don't want to because I have this huge feeling that everything will be exactly the same as before. 

Everything will be the same as before so that means you can prepare. Good luck!

11 hours ago, cvltic said:

 SINNERS-EP was a mild flop for me and this follow up is not my favorite single ever either. (still better than BALLAD tho)

What is this SINNERS EP everyone is talking about? For real. I missed something, didn't I?

11 hours ago, cvltic said:

also i didn't realize MH was so down on AVANTGARDE btw

That's because like a bad bender after a night of xanax and bad decisions, I barely remember any of it. It's definitely lacking something but I'm not articulate enough to describe what.

Tracklist:
01. BLOOD

02. CREATURE

03. the whirl

| lynch. is as lynch. does

Either my standards have risen too high, or the floor has fallen out, but 2017 has been a symphony of bands failing to meet my expectations. No single or album has resonated with me, and I've been on the lookout for the next act ready to blow up the scene. That's why it's deliciously ironic that the one band I expect nothing new from delivered something that captures my attention, and they did it by doing what they always do.

The secret to liking lynch. is to expect nothing new. A band that's been together for thirteen years knows themselves musically, and forcing change just to change is how you end up with EXODUS. Much like their departed big brother DEATHGAZE, lynch. has a defined sound they shouldn't stray far from. They went to one extreme with pop on I BELIEVE IN ME, the other into metal with EXODUS, and yet they always come back a mix of pop and metalcore that's undeniably lynch.. BLOOD THIRSTY CREATURE is your standard lynch. single through and through, and I guarantee you already know how you feel about it before listening.

It goes without saying that I like the two new tracks "BLOOD" and "CREATURE", but I don't remember the melody from either. "BLOOD" is your two minute banger virtually indistinguishable from "BEAST", "MAD", or "ANIMA". There wasn't ever much depth in these sub-three minute tracks and "BLOOD" is no exception. "CREATURE" is the more interesting of the two new offerings, sounding like a more traditional lynch. song, and it hides its recycled parts better. I particularly enjoy the break down near the end, but I would be lying if I said that both of these tracks could have been on AVANTGARDE and no one would have noticed. The real attraction is the re-recording of "the whirl", which is low-key one of my favorite lynch. tracks due to the dynamics between soft and heavy. This contrast is not lost in the re-recording, and is perhaps even enhanced with the clean production and the grittier metal bits. I hate to say it's the best track here, because that takes away from the impact of the new material, but it is.

Don't get the wrong impression about "BLOOD" and "CREATURE" - both are fine singles and lynch. has produced far worse in the past - but that's it. A band that stays in the same musical realm for thirteen years is bound to repeat themselves eventually. The best thing about knowing what to expect is knowing what to expect, and the boys find some way to surprise me with every album. If we treat this single as a sample of what to come, the next lynch. album is shaping up to be slightly more memorable than the last.

I don't even remember which of the lynch. albums is the most recent one, but that's the price one pays for consistency.

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Well to be fair that information was put in the topic with little to no context behind it. I didn't even know it was for revenge. What's the whole story?

9 hours ago, platy said:

I just saw NSFW pictures of (apparently) Kisaki and I'm actually terrified. Like I got chills down my spine.  

I got curious but not that curious.

Also, Destiny 2 is way too addictive

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Has he gotten his voice under control? I like him as a vocalist but if he's still rough and hoarse I'll pass. Just glad he's back in the scene!

5 hours ago, Seelentau said:

I can't find any performance in 97 where they played Unknown, though? Do you have some that aren't on livehis/setlist.fm?

I don't, but I do vaguely remember them releasing cassette demos with this track as a B-side, so it's not out of the question.

Also to take this in the other direction there's a release by La:Sadie's, ・・・残サレタ記憶ノ物語・・・ (Nokosareta Kioku no Monogatari), which was commonly believed to be a demo tape with one track of the same name. It's actually just a repressing of ・・・生命ノ罪・・・(Seimei no Tsumi).

A few more to add to the pile:

Visual kei band THE EIGHT were fond of making their releases really hard to get, so there are a lot of live-distributed songs that never got circulated (or circulated very well). Some of the songs I'm referring to (which I have in crap quality and have never seen more than one copy of) are:

• saraba kimi yo
• hissatsu eight kiri
• no future of the sorrow <- this one in particular sounds like garbage
• Zouo (not even sure if this single exists)
• 倖福だった日々 (live only version released on a single)

Then his following band BLACK:LIST had a few songs that never saw proper release. The one I know the most of is "Barkin Darkest Luv".

1 hour ago, Biopanda said:

 

Outside of Grieva, I've got a bit of info with... no real info actually XD Last year I had received some uncirculated demo CDs from the bands Orphee, Medical Trance Peach and Romance For～. Each of these contained 5-6 unreleased songs and (as far as I can guess from how they looked) came from a former(?) employee of a recording studio. There was no tracklists or other info on these beyond recording dates on the Romance For CD(1999.03.15~1999.04.15). Doesn't really reveal a lot, but it's still really interesting to see that each of these bands were in the studio recording a minialbum's worth of songs that would never end up being released.

Long shot actually, but did you ever try putting those CDs through Exact Audio Copy? Sometimes that program can strip names from metadata burnt on the CD but ofc there's no guarantee that there's any metadata there worth grabbing.

Dir en grey has a ballad called "Ai Murasaki Iro" which has never been properly released and hasn't been played live in years.
 

As far as I know, "Ai murasaki iro" was only played on the following live shows:

• Shibuya Public Hall on 1998.05.05
• Nakano Sun Plaza on 1998.08.04
• Kumagaya VOGUE on 1998.10.09
• Nippon Budokan Hall on 1998.11.02

Here's some sources from the OHP showing this song does exist:

http://direngrey.co.jp/special/arche2016/gallery_007.html

There is also something called "NS1" not sure what that is. After digging around for a bit I found another Dir en grey song I've never heard of called "Setsuna", which is not the same thing as La:Sadie's "Setsudan". It could also be an early version of "tsumi to batsu" that's been floating around the net for years.

1997.05.31 at 難波ROCKETS
1997.06.27 at 宗右衛門町 COWBOY WORLD

1997.08.07 at 新宿 LOFT

1997.08.08 at 新宿 LOFT

1997.09.15 at 目黒鹿鳴館

1997.10.28 at 渋谷 ON AIR WEST

1998.02.21 at 博多DRUM Be-1

Destiny 2 for PC has me by the balls

That set list is unreal. They could make a BEST-OF out of that and I wouldn't be mad.

There goes one of the only visual kei acts I was following...honestly losing promising groups like this is why I fell out of visual kei.

All I hear is BASS

I'd like to take YOSHIKI's quote and add my own context.
 

5 hours ago, Vitne Eveille said:

He explained VK is more of a mindset, born out of them feeling like they didn't really fit in anywhere.  As he said, they played "super heavy" and "super soft" music.  He also told me about a festival he hosted recently where the bands were everything from metal to pop, and there was even a band that didn't play music (that got some laughs around the room).  He summed everything up by saying it really isn't a genre, but more of a mindset allowing yourself to be as creative as you want.  And it also generally has makeup.

 

This is the key. Visual kei was born out of Japan by those who felt like they didn't fit in anywhere in Japan. YOSHIKI isn't going to say that visual kei can't exist world wide because that's not good for his bottom line, but there's a very good reason why it hasn't taken off outside Japan. It has less to do with looks, singing capability, or chosen musical direction, and more to do with anti-conformity and rebelliousness within and against a homogeneous society. No other country faces the same mix of societal pressures and obligations the way the Japanese do, and as these pressures change over time visual kei changes over time too. This is in contrast to musicians from Western countries who want to emulate the style and look to their favorite and popular artists first. It's the difference between taking a picture, and taking a picture of that picture, and taking a picture of that picture. The farther away one gets away from the source and the conditions that cause that source, the less authentic the final product is.

 

6 hours ago, Vitne Eveille said:

So basically, no you don't have to have a lolita in the band.  One member doesn't have to wear a surgical facemask at all times.  You don't have to have death-metal growls in your music.  Some music fans within genres and subcultures get really elitist and that gets irritating, especially when people say that VK is only Japanese (so is glam-metal only truly American?  Can you not make Brazilian samba music if you aren't from Brazil?).  VK is unique in that it is vague but also has a meaning.  A band alone isn't just "visual kei" but "visual kei rock" would be a better indicator.  I think in that sense, the addition of the term "visual kei" before "rock" to me would indicate the above traits I listed, like being influenced by Japan, be somewhat "different" in terms of makeup/visuals and potentially have a diverse musical style.

I fully agree with this. So many bands follow trends because it's the thing to do, but at some point a trend started as a unique idea. Much as I expect musicians to look within themselves and put their feelings into music, I expect inspiring Western visual kei musicians to do the same thing with their looks. The looks are supposed to be an expression of how one feels, not a style of the decade to phone in and gain legitimacy.

I do think Western visual kei is a thing that can happen but the form it would assume would be so different we wouldn't even recognize it by looks alone. My ideal Western visual kei band would be identifiable with the sound alone. We would hear them and just know where those influences came from instead of the "lol i like visual kei and pocky" archetype that usually translates over first.

I'm done ranting.


 

Just call it quits and release an EP pls

5 hours ago, nekkichi said:

we'll take them from normies, as long as demon adnroid androgynous' scene doesn't dry out itself.

That's true. Somehow I'm still here.

Unbelievable...none of these conditions are common

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I'm going to buck the trend in this topic and say I do! But not right now. I never thought to ask my girlfriend if she wanted kids, partially because I didn't want them now either and partially because I just expected her to. The latter part sounds messed up, but I can't do it alone. If I could, this would be a totally different conversation. It's always been "we'll cross that bridge when we get to it", but bridges are euphemisms for problems so at some level, I view childbearing as a problem too. So I guess I fit in here enough to ramble for a bit longer.

The reasons I have for that aren't unique. I'm depressed and probably have an undiagnosed mental illness I'd pass on to my children. The world sucks. I don't want to wake up one day and hear the news that my child was killed for being black. I like video games too much. I'd have to be responsible with my weed usage. I like having money for things instead of money for diapers and formula. My opinions on most of these things may change with time and that's why I can't say no. @The Bread Wolf, maybe the doctors are approaching your problem the way I approach mine and are just deciding for you that in the future you may change your mind and so they don't want to do an invasive procedure now. That's fucked. But as you said, people have far more invasive surgeries for less developed reasons, so the docs should just respect your wishes. And if passing on your genetics isn't of importance to you, you can always adopt or raise fur babies if you change your mind. I believe one can fulfill the need to be a caretaker without having to have babies.

I don't think the concept of not wanting to have kids is unusual. Starting with the toll it takes on the woman's body, coming to the realization that birth is really just the beginning, and then shouldering the responsibility of having to raise another human being is a lot. My friend is having a(n unplanned) child and when he told me, it hit me. I started thinking about all the things I'd have to do and how much my life would change, and it was a daunting realization. I can't imagine the thoughts that go through a woman's head, but one thought that won't leave my head is how lucky I am that I won't ever have to push a cantaloupe out of my pelvis. Maybe the cognitive burden would be less if women didn't feel forced into having a baby (but I'd blame biology before society on that one). If you can come to that realization now, and determine your life is better without a kid than with a kid now and into the immediate future, than more power to you!

On a more global note, I think our generation not wanting to procreate en masse isn't a bad thing. We don't have the resources to sustain our current population as is; the last thing we need to do is double it.

Honestly, the only argument I have for you having kids is to power the next generation of visual kei fans. Get them while they're young, I always say.

Interesting! I wonder why they left. If there's one band I think could really benefit from this change it'd be ALSDEAD. Previews sound aight.

5 hours ago, Moon said:

Ah,  So you like Kojin Rasetsu, Hyakki Ryoran and Fuin Kairan ?  What does not convince you of chimimoryo and kongo kyuubi?

The compositions if anything were a hair down from what I expected. It sounded like the album was made to fulfill quotas and the magic and spark the band was known for wasn't as bright. Not bad albums, but nothing I would consider their best.