Peace Heavy mk II

"People won't go to our shows if you share our live distributed stuff!!!"
 
No, actually, people just dont' go to your shows.
 

"People won't go to our shows if you share our live distributed stuff!!!"
 
No, actually, people just dont' go to your shows.
 

As a former vkei blog updater (which is actually how I met Sai ) , I reuploaded everything 85% of the time. At one point, I stopped because I wanted more traffic and to seem like a ~visual-cool~ contributer, but that was a very shortlived phase. When uploading a discography, I even took the time to write a description of the band and what kind of music they made to get people more interested in trying them out instead of blinding posting everything I found.
 
From what I've seen, I was a pretty rare case. Today, very few people really write much about what they're sharing (assuming it's something they like. When I uploaded new, popular stuff that I didn't care about whatsoever [like ViViD at the time], I wouldn't give a description) and fewer people upload things themselves. This leads to dozens of blogs with dead links for the same thing and makes things that should be really easy to come across impossible to find. At least Jrockvisualkei dot com (I think that's their name) took the time to reupload everything to several different hosting sites.
 
I'm not saying people should always write a synopsis of what they're uploading, but it certainly does help get me interested and it shows that you're passionate about this release instead of just sharing to share. I am saying that blogs should at least upload everything to their own direct download sites in addition to copying and pasting someone else's links so we don't have the same dead link all over the place.
 
UNRELATED BUT THIS SHIT NEEDS TO STOP
 
Uploading singles / demos from older discographies and filling in the tracks with album versions. This warps history and is completely wrong. I used to do it as a shortcut myself, but then I realized what it was doing. It's better to say "track missing" or not even mention that this demo or single was released on your post if you don't have the real version. I cannot tell you how it pisses me off when I like the way a song sounds in a music video, but when I download it the uploader put the album version (which is usually stripped of some sort of intro or remastered in some way unless you're on UCP) instead. Latest example (from like a year ago, huehue) was Dir en Gray's "Myaku." I don't believe the single I got even had the B-sides, and the title track even had Macabre tags. Really?

The third -might- be
伝Kind of at a loss for the last one at the moment.

As a former vkei blog updater (which is actually how I met Sai ) , I reuploaded everything 85% of the time. At one point, I stopped because I wanted more traffic and to seem like a ~visual-cool~ contributer, but that was a very shortlived phase. When uploading a discography, I even took the time to write a description of the band and what kind of music they made to get people more interested in trying them out instead of blinding posting everything I found.
 
From what I've seen, I was a pretty rare case. Today, very few people really write much about what they're sharing (assuming it's something they like. When I uploaded new, popular stuff that I didn't care about whatsoever [like ViViD at the time], I wouldn't give a description) and fewer people upload things themselves. This leads to dozens of blogs with dead links for the same thing and makes things that should be really easy to come across impossible to find. At least Jrockvisualkei dot com (I think that's their name) took the time to reupload everything to several different hosting sites.
 
I'm not saying people should always write a synopsis of what they're uploading, but it certainly does help get me interested and it shows that you're passionate about this release instead of just sharing to share. I am saying that blogs should at least upload everything to their own direct download sites in addition to copying and pasting someone else's links so we don't have the same dead link all over the place.
 
UNRELATED BUT THIS SHIT NEEDS TO STOP
 
Uploading singles / demos from older discographies and filling in the tracks with album versions. This warps history and is completely wrong. I used to do it as a shortcut myself, but then I realized what it was doing. It's better to say "track missing" or not even mention that this demo or single was released on your post if you don't have the real version. I cannot tell you how it pisses me off when I like the way a song sounds in a music video, but when I download it the uploader put the album version (which is usually stripped of some sort of intro or remastered in some way unless you're on UCP) instead. Latest example (from like a year ago, huehue) was Dir en Gray's "Myaku." I don't believe the single I got even had the B-sides, and the title track even had Macabre tags. Really?

01. deep[sLAY]
02. Undersea Mechanixx
03. Flora Prism-Kuchizuke-

I don't know how to handle vkei bands that describe themselves as "gothic" but then actually make gothic music instead of castelvania nonsense.
 
Samples were alright, but that description was pretentious as fuck.

Finally! No one will break up while Trombe is away!

Friendly reminder that Rammstein, Linkin Park, and Die Antwood are awful.

Friendly reminder that Rammstein, Linkin Park, and Die Antwood are awful.

Requesting something because you're interested in hearing it is one thing.
 
 
Demanding you share it because you're entitled to have it is another.
 
 
Tact makes all the difference.

If only record lables thought like Des.

Liquid Tension Experiment is another instrumental prog band, but if you don't like Dream Theater you're not going to like them.

dream theater-core

Requesting something because you're interested in hearing it is one thing.
 
 
Demanding you share it because you're entitled to have it is another.
 
 
Tact makes all the difference.

If only record lables thought like Des.

He's added me as well.
 
I think it's kind of cool that he has a last.fm . I'm curious to see what he thinks of the kinds of bands the western vkei scene listens to, and if he's surprised that we like bands that are probably unknown there now.
 
Anyway, Qualia kind of remind me of DAS:VASSER in terms of visuals, so I'm curious to see how they turn out. The vocalist likes stuff like Laputa and La'Mule, so maybe there will be some influences from them.

Hmm... I don't think there's any particular "road", but I suppose there are a few different tiers. These only apply to VK bands in Tokyo, so I don't know how it'd be for others.
 
Tier 1:
This one is the lowest of the low and are where bands you've never heard of play at. This includes venues such as Urawa Narciss, Ikebukuro Cyber and Birth Shinjuku(formerly Holiday Shinjuku).
 
Tier 2:
Bands who play these venues generally(but not always) have a slightly bigger audience. Venues in this tier would be ones like the Ruido venues(K2, K3, K4), SHIBUYA-REX, Takadanobaba Area and Ikebukuro EDGE.
 
Tier 3:
Once bands have made it here, they are usually pulling in much larger audiences(these venues hold 500+ capacity). The big venues here would be Shibuya O-West, Shinjuku LOFT and Shinjuku BLAZE.
 
Tier 4:
There's probably a lot of mixing inbetween tier 3 and 4, but I'll consider tier 4 to be venues with 1000+ capacity. The livehouses here would be ones like Shibuya O-East(~1300), Akasaka Blitz(~1300), SHIBUYA-AX(~1500) and Zepp Tokyo(~2700).
 
Tier 5:
God-tier. If you've made it here, then you've pretty much made it as a band. This includes the biggest venues like Budokan(~14,000), Saitama Super Arena(~37,000) and Tokyo Dome(~56,000).
 
This is by no means a definitive guide, but should at least give you an idea on "how far" a band is along that road

Haha cute but you kind of are. Osare is a joke term for oshare so yeah Nyasagi is right. Oshare means someone who's really stylish, osare means someone who thinks they're really stylish, but in fact they're not.

Most of Megaromania's album arts are pretty tacky. I just added their discography to my blog, which means I spent a lot of time gathering and organizing all of their pictures. The Deus / Holy / Evil ones especially: the wings aren't even superimposed properly on the girl in the pictures, haha!
 

 

 
...actually, all of Moi Dix Mois' album art except for DIXANADU. I actually really like how that one looks.
 

 

 

"Purchase any edition of KAMIJO new single "Louis - Enketsu no La Vie En
Rose -" for a chance to be a part of a special Ustream show in which
KAMIJO will answer some of the questions submitted by fans, and also to
say a few phrases that fans request him to say.


Purchasers will be able to submit the following:




1. A question for KAMIJO


2. A phrase that you would like KAMIJO to say during the show."
 
Now I can finally ask him to talk about rimming me. This is a dream come true.

"Purchase any edition of KAMIJO new single "Louis - Enketsu no La Vie En
Rose -" for a chance to be a part of a special Ustream show in which
KAMIJO will answer some of the questions submitted by fans, and also to
say a few phrases that fans request him to say.


Purchasers will be able to submit the following:




1. A question for KAMIJO


2. A phrase that you would like KAMIJO to say during the show."
 
Now I can finally ask him to talk about rimming me. This is a dream come true.

all of them