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Amazingly I'd probably pick the Diru song out of those lol. 01. ＭｏＮｏＬｉｔｈ – ガルシア 02. Sonar Pocket – 光り 03. The Koxx – Truth or dare 04. LAID BACK OCEAN – サーチライト 05. アンダーグラフ – 風車 06. 卍LINE – Be My Girl Friend feat. BIG BEAR 07. DOES – ウォークマン 08. 八十八ヶ所巡礼 – 脳ハ寝テナイ 09. 夢中夢 – 哭 10. トーマス – 罪と罰 Between LAID BACK Ocean and The Koxx for this one. Both bands are fantastic.

Always liked this vocalist, though I didn't like XodiacK, but this band, so far, is right up my alley

At least their website is still up...I have a modicum of hope lol. (just got into them and they're really good. )

Tbh, I'm not much of a Gazette fan anymore, but I loved NIL when it came out. Listening to it now though and damn it sounds dated. DIM, on the other hand, is the only Gazette album I even enjoy now, so however that shakes out lol

It definitely changed my musical life so to speak. Since getting into it, I've gotten into genres and other countries' music that I would have never even bothered with before Japanese music. I never had a huge range of taste before, but it was probably based on exposure since in Murrica, everything is so divided by genres, but especially 10+ years ago. Further, I got back into genres that I'd abandoned before due to their increasing crappitude. Also met a ton of people through it, etc. I was in a musical wasteland right before getting into Japanese music. Sick of nu-metal, kinda into goth, mostly not listening to anything at all because I was bored of it all lol. Only benefits I can see is not spending 40 bucks on a CD and probably being into things that people IRL have heard of, but those are pretty negligible from my pov.

For some reason, I have a really hard time with this, like, is it current VK? Disbanded VK? Including bands that aren't *really* VK anymore? MUCC, Diru, etc.

Finishing up Strike the Blood and Magi season 2, while working on Fairy Tail. Really hope they do a season two for STB.

ＬＯＫＡ – MAYBE 6ft.Down – Resonance Closer乐团 – 慘綠青年 SoundWitch – Candy GUYZ – 귀뚜라미의 노래 MAN WITH A MISSION – Lithium ストレイテナー – Blue Sinks In Green Empty Slow – Wake Up Chicago Poodle – Baby my “Jenny” capsule – REALiTy I love that MWAM cover of Lithium. And Capsule is almost always brilliant

I picked: Early 2000s-late 2000s But quite honestly, there are things I like about each period. I didn't really formulate an awareness of VK as VK until the 00s and I was probably most into it during this time

FEMM Flow 岸田教団＆THE明星ロケッツ Probably THE GAME SHOP soon as I love the crap out of their sound.

1. Do you feel like you are entitled to free music? If you do, why? If you don't, why not? Not FREE music per se, but digital music. It pisses me off that the industry has not 100% gotten behind digital music and Japan keeps people outside the country from buying it. I don't want to jump through a bunch of damn hoops just to PAY for music I want to download. Main reason I download, because these idiots won't make their music available for me to purchase. Their loss. *le shrug* 2. How do you feel about people refusing to share their music because they want to support the band? It sounds self-righteous tbh. Personally I share music, if it's not already in a million places, so that other people will get to listen to something I obviously like enough to go out of my way to acquire. Not sure if your one CD that you won't share is better than exposure to hundreds that might end up in several CD purchases at the very least. But hey, do whatever you want if it massages your ego. 3. In relation to the second question, what do you think of people who tell others not to share something they themselves paid money for as they think its content is exclusively for those who paid for it? Lol, I'd tell them where to stuff it. If I want to share it, I will. You can sit on your precious CD all you want, but you won't tell me what to do with mine. 4. Do you think entitlement to free music is worse in visual kei than in other communities? I guess it's the fandom I've been in the longest, so yes, definitely. They all say they're not entitled, yet they bitch and whine when things aren't shared to their standards. So what I think they think they're entitled to is a certain template for free music to be shared in. If you complain about the format of free music, you're entitled, period. 5. How do you feel about people who deliberately share releases in low bitrates to encourage you to buy the CD? Do you think that if someone does decide to share, you're entitled to the highest rip? Again, self-righteous. Slacktivist attitude, thinking that you can do something so simple and lame and it will change people's opinions or actions. If people aren't gonna buy it, they aren't gonna buy it. I won't personally complain, because complaining about free music is stupid, but I won't buy it either. I have more important things to worry about than whether I have music in 128 or 320. And for me personally, I'm not going to specially rip a 128 to share when I'd need to rip a 320 for my own library. Extra work for no reason. 6. Have you ever been approached by people, either on Monochrome Heaven or last.fm, who wanted you to share something? If you didn't want to share, how did they react? What did you think of their reaction? Yes, I usually just ignore them. They can react however, I don't give a crap. Most of the time it's probably not that I don't want to share, but that I don't have the time or whatever to go through all the zipping and uploading crap. Additional thing about credit. I don't care about that either. Biggest reason I uploaded Hilcrhyme's FIVE ZERO ONE on JPS was because there was a huge-ass bounty on it lol. Don't care that it showed up on aichuun the next day and my handle wasn't attached to it. Internet kudos are for losers. In conclusion, people who have too much time for fandom on the Internet inevitably complain like their petty concerns are actually important. Just share and listen to the music and shut up.

ugh, damn

↑ Also consider Master of Romance to be their best album. This album, however, is in a word, boring. Basically 官能とParadox and Viper were the only ones that caught my attention.

↑ I think I'd actually go with STP up there lol 黃義達 – 專屬密碼 J – I Feel You BUCK-TICK – LADY SKELETON カジヒデキとリディムサウンター – SLOW MOTION 鴉 – 帰る場所 vistlip – Pinocchio Bodyslam – แสงสุดท้าย Local Sound Style – Get Out Do As Infinity – Piece Of Your Heart 蕭亞軒 – 轉眼之間 Really random shuffle lol. Going with the Bodyslam song as it's pretty awesome and from a great album.

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Let's see, my dad has always been into eccentric classic rock, like Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull kinda stuff. My mom is/was huge Beatles fan and also likes old r&b. Both of them have a thing for blues currently. I wouldn't really say my music tastes resemble either of them for the most part, but I definitely got my dad's penchant for looking for things off the beaten path, I just took it to a whole nother level. 8D

↑ I'd probably go with one of the Tribal Chair songs...probably Lost Key. ＦＬｉＰ – マッチ売りの家なき子 lecca – NO.2 Vivid – Distance of mind LIPHLICH – It's a good day to anger 小林太郎 – 目眩 Apulanta – Eikä vielä ole edes ilta The Koxx – 사랑춤 Ｄａｌｉ – radical chic 黃義達 – 11th of Aug Tenhi – Viimeiseen This was actually a pretty good shuffle, songs by Apulanta, Flip and The Koxx are among my favorites for each. It's hard, but I'll pick Apulanta lol.

↑ I guess I'd go with Merry since that's the only band I listen to out of those. Thirding the DEAD END pick a post up, I love that song! SINCREA – SWINGING QUEEN Born Kim – Re-Born (Feat. Minos & 이현송 Of The Koxx) THE BACK HORN – 神の悪戯 Ｗｉｚａｒｄ – 陽炎 Do As Infinity – 恋妃 より子 – ミカヅキ 劉德華 – 的士司机 KYOKUTOU GIRL FRIEND – エクスタシー アンド – イノセント DOPING PANDA – You can change the world Born Kim is awesome, nuff said.

Currently listening to 악퉁 - Autumn Leaves. English name is Achtung. As I'm sure everyone knows by now, I quite love Korean rock. They describe themselves as fusion folk rock, which I can kinda see, this song in particular has a Korean pipe instrument haunting it in places. But they're also fairly jazzy at times. Vocalist is a mid-range trending towards high kinda guy, but very expressive and just the right amounts of vocal shred in places. He doesn't oversing either, which I find is a problem in a lot of Korean vocalists for whatever reason. Can't really say who they're influenced by lol, but I would say Sister's Barbershop and Achime are similar in style. Or you could say they're like a less harsh Kuroneko Chelsea or a more ~fun~ Mamalaid Rag. You can find some vids on YT, but they're mostly live clips from what I can tell.