TheBistroButcher666

Oh my god. As cool as a Madeth remake would be, it's probably reference to that Mad Stalin stuff Kyo has scribbled on his soap box. It says that right, please verify Degstans.

Yo dude yo voice sucks! (I haven't listened to the samples) Anyway, I thought Pink Tribal was just a session thing to begin with. So if they do release music, I wouldn't be surprise if it's just remakes of existing songs from various different bands (Aliene). I guess having an OHP makes it more of an official session with long term plans?

I ain't Japanese and don't know a whole lotta about the Japanese fan perspective but I image female fans probably dislike female band members the same way westerners dislike western VK bands. Doesn't matter if they are competent musicians or singers, they're still gross and not what they like about VK (it's the wang). VK is definitely a scene marked towards girls and for the women trying to be a part of it. It is probably totes more difficult for them than just joining a normal band. Male bands already have hard enough time getting off their feet and selling chekis and swag and other crap, I imagine female bands it's harder because the fickle girls don't want to see a bunch of fugly make up girls sing on stage because they ain't gonna bone them.

I think the overuse of synth was what really rubbed me the wrong way. I ain't here for techno beeboop metal, if I was I'd listen to that abomination known as D.I.D >:V

Fffffffffffffffff, so has anyone listened to Time yet? I thought it was a really boring humongous piece of poop :U Honestly the whole thing felt pretty overproduced and overdone. Just couldn't get into it

I definitely dislike vague metal genres like viking metal or pirate metal. It's no different than calling a band visual kei. It just doesn't describe the type of sound a band has, sure the lyrics might be about pirates but Alestorm and Running Wild sound nothing alike >:U Viking metal is just used stupidly all the time though, omg this band has a promo pic in armor MUST BE VIKINGS!!! Probably from some ignorant American or some non European fan uggghhhh.... I know there's crazies with the Marvel and DC camps but I just don't have any interest in that stuff so fortunately I won't have to deal with those fans. It'll be the indie hipster douche bag fans that plague indie comics that will probably be what makes me want to spoon out my eyeballs.

If fans influenced what I liked and didn't like, I wouldn't like anything!! I really don't get caught up in fan communities, I like what I like and that's that. If you're seriously that wrapped up in fan communities that fans make you dislike the thing you like, then step away from the computer and get some fresh air. Honestly I tend to dislike most fans that like the things I like because a lot of them are just so unrealistic. There's one thing about being passionate and loving what you love but when it reaches a point of obsession it's time to step away. I am gonna use this as an opportunity to write my opinion on fan communities but above is basically my overall thoughts on this subject. Visual Kei The fans are image centric twats that are lieing through their teeth if they say they're only into VK because of the music. It's not a big deal if you just want to fuck the pretty boys in booty shorts or you only like the fashion, that's totally fine. Yet the fans that are pretending they aren't and try to act holier than thou are the grosses kinda people imaginable (WORSE THAN HITLER). My favourite subset of VK is kotekei, I certainly don't want to bone any of the dudes but I definitely appreciate and like that style of dressing. Then the VK fans that become anti-anime are also pretty cringe worthy awful people. They're probably the fans that got into VK because they liked Ready Steady Go from Fullmetal Alchemist and now need to pretend that they're not disgusting weeaboos. This can apply to Kpop fans that start hating Japanese music, probably the same anti-anime retards that just evolved into a Kpop tard. Kotekei fans (VKKK) This is pretty much my go to favourite subset of VK but shit son, these crazy people view that whole era as some sort of serious underground gothic movement. Yet conveniently overlook the many not so heavy VK bands of that time like Fanatic Crisis or Sophia that were dominating Shoxx covers. I also like how many of them try to present themselves as experts of this era but probably didn't get into Japanese music or VK until they heard Ready Steady Go from FMA. Anime fans Not so much in relation to music but eh, it's still Japan. It's just the greasy fans that will venomously defend anime as an art form but anything else produced by a Western artist is garbage. Metal fans They're mostly all a bunch of over compensating nerds that now think they're tough and a badass because they listen to heavy brutal angry music. Only a nerd would sit around on the Internet debating whether a band is blackened folk core or symphonic viking metal. Black metal fans are pretty laughable and can be easily compared to VKKK fans. OMG THIS BAND IS SO GOOD AND UNDERGROUND WITH THEIR ONE AWFUL DEMO TAPE!! There's a reason why this band is "underground" and only has one demo tape and it's because it fucking sucks balls. Comic fans I haven't had that many bad experiences with comic fans. I suppose since I create comics my interaction with the community is more with creators than with fans. Creators are definitely fans of comics but I think they appreciate it from a creator perspective, so you don't see as much retardness among these group of individuals. There's definitely retards but I also don't like mainstream comics like Marvel or DC, so my interaction with those communities are pretty non-existent. I know indie comics have a lot of hipster elitism that will make you want to kill yourself. Yet so far my interaction with those types have been limited. I wonder what my opinion of the comic community will be a year from now if I continue to work conventions and make books? HHRRM HHHHHRRRMMM? Also I don't read Homestuck so maybe that's why my opinion is relatively positive???

Apparently their bus broke down and tonight's Seattle show has been cancelled. They will be performing tomorrow night in Seattle. Whaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat. INFO http://www.axs.com/events/242937/dir-en-grey-tickets?skin=showboxpresents SHOW UPDATE: Due to transportation issues tonight’s Dir En Grey show at Showbox at the Market is postponing to tomorrow night, Fri. Nov. 22nd. All other show details remain the same. All tickets purchased for tonight’s show will be honored. More info & tickets HERE.

I'm just going to pick and choose between my top favourite artists. Arkona's - Yarilo which is a huge fan favourite. I really just don't like their typical generic folk metal songs. Another would be Stenka na Stenku. I'm looking forward to their next album, some updates they've said they're going to try avoid doing "easy" songs like Yarilo and Stenka na Stenku, so looking forward to it. Moar Slavic tribal stuff plz Missalina Rei - I don't really like TOKIMEKI. Maybe because I never really thought Arisu was adorable or anything like that, I mean there's like one scene with him trying to be all kawaii and the wind blows his hair back and motha fuckin long ass gnarly side burns. Otherwise ehhh, I like a lot of other songs from them that aren't all Arisu being kawaii and stuff. Versailles - Zombie and Masquerade I didn't really like Zombie THAT much. It's certainly a fun song but I just didn't get the hype for it. I definitively skip it for something better in their disco. Masquerade suffered from a bad weak Kamijo chorus. That song starts out so good but the chorus is just so weak and really kills the mood of the song. Plz remake as a Jupiter song and rewrite chorus for their new better singer. Dir en grey - I don't like Raison Detre and didn't care much for stuff like Ain't Afraid to Die, Embryo oh yeah and THE FINAL. Raphael - I didn't care much for Lost Graduation and another that came right around that time. Madeth gray'll - I wanna say Missantroop but I'll probably change my mind as soon as I post this.

Oh boy! I'm on the Gazette bandwagon too! Basically FIlth and the Beauty. I even bought Stacked Rubbish I liked the song so much but man did that album suck fucking balls. That's why I give Mejibray so much shit because DIE KUSSE is basically Filth and the Beauty. It's so painfully the same song and it stands out so much to me because it's basically a carbon copy of the only Gazette song I like.

Maybe if people weren't being retards and instead of just listing things and y'know maybe explain why the bands they list are the ones they miss the most, this topic wouldn't suck so hard. For me, it's a tough one because I love all my kawaii disbandments equally but I'd definitely have to choose Aliene Ma'riage though. A lot of my favourites I think broke up before they turned into something awful, like I want to say Madeth gray'll but I bet if they continued they'd of just turned into some poppy group playing music that is nothing like the stuff that we all love em for. So perhaps their break up and many others is simply for the best. Ending before things got worse. (See: DELUHI and Vesailles) As for Aliene, their album 21st Century was going cool fucking places. I wonder what they could have become if they stayed together. It was obvious they were moving away from their earlier concept and I bet if they stuck to their guns could have become a really cool and weird group. ....or it could have just ended up being Nega with Kyouka as vocalist instead of that shitty guy they had.

I REVAMPED MY WEBSITE!! And posted a new complete mini comic! Weee wooo weee woooooooooooo!! http://tribal-century.com/PAGE001.html

Primordial: HOLY SHIT Primordial I got into because I was looking for something to hold me over while I waited for the new In Solitude album. They've pretty much dominated all my music time since then! Arckanum: HOLY SHIT Arckanum, I don't even know how I stumbled upon them but basically kick ass raw black metal with some tribal chantings and other cool shit like that. This is what folk metal should be. Not gimmicky bullshit like Eluveitie and Korpiklanni. Absu: HOLY SHIT Absu I got into because I was looking for bands that cover a specific theme of Satanism I am interested in and I stumbled upon Absu. I was reading about this branch of Satanism and it basically read like one big black metal slash fic and Absu was a major character that knocks up Tiamat and so on and so forth. I lawl'd and decided to listen to Absu and they're so cool :> Inquisition: BREAKING THE RULES! Okay I actually saw these guys live last year or the year before? While they kicked ass live!! I didn't really start listening to them until this summer, I was mostly looking for MOAR Immortal but not Immortal because I've listened to so much Immortal wanted something that's pretty much almost Immortal but not Immortal. OKAY OKAY! These guys stand out on their own but yeah that's why I started listening to them. Vocals are kinda silly so that's why I didn't get THAT into them, vocals sound way better live. Jupiter: I'm a long time HIZAKI and Teru fangirl so I knew I was going to like their release and omfg so good. CELL: OMG La'Mule is back!! It's basically La'Mule :V

What if he deserved it??

OH BOY! I recently picked up the ASUS N500JV Ultrabook. Here's all the dumb specs for you NERDS out there https://www.asus.com/Notebooks_Ultrabooks/N550JV/ It's fantastic but I'm actually on the fence about returning it LOL. It's a little overkill since this is not a desktop replacement but it's also just SO SO NICE! It's also a bit heavy (like 10 fucking pounds heavy) and ideally this is supposed to be my on the go laptop. Not break my back laptop. It was also running fan fucking tastic out of the box but like all prebuilt PCs was full of shit ton bloatware trying to get me to buy full versions of their shit tier software (fuck you McAfree). So I grabbed a copy of Win 8.1 from the MS company store and did an upgrade installation. Which caused a ton of driver compatibility issues. So I just did a wipe and using a Linux distro destroyed any traces of Windows and did a new fresh install of Win 8.1. So far it's running better, having a few problems with some drivers but hopefully should have those sorted out shortly. Despite all that, it's running even better than before but still giving it a trial run. Makes me apprehensive what kinda of nonsense I'll get into a year from now when my warranty expires. I do like Windows 8, no seriously I really do. I also didn't think I'd care for a touch screen monitor since it seems so gimmicky but it's kinda nice, like when I'm just sitting there with it in my lap and scroll a page using my finger. Though I am super duper OCD and anal about finger prints. I still prefer just to use my mouse but when I'm forced to use the touch mouse, it's a nice alternative since I've never been a fan of touch mice. Performance is great though, did some tweaky around in photoshop the other night and it ran quite well. Photoshop is my only real concern since that's probably the most intensive thing I'll be running on this but I did install Steam and currently installing Skyrim to see how it handles it.

I'm going HANG OUT WITH ME! I swear I'm not a jerk in real life!! There's going to be a lot of MH'ers! It's going to be fun But yes, 21+ can get in as soon as the bar opens. You have to buy something and you cannot leave. They distribute numbers to you and it's first come first serve. When the doors are ready to open, they let you in as groups. So if you're a number 1 you go in group 1 and get in first and then group 2 will follow and so on and so forth from there. Once the bar attendees are in, they open up the doors to the kiddies outside and that's how you do Showbox. Also I wouldn't stress about getting a number 1 or 2 or 3, basically you'll get a good spot regardless. It might just suck if you're a 5 and you're friend is a 2 and having to regroup once inside.

If you want more mainstream magazines like Shoxx, Arena and Fool's Mate. They're all usually available on mbok or Yahoo Auctions. Just try searching Shoxx 2000 or 1998 etc and you'll get results. I've grabbed a few pre 2000s magazines that way. Some auctioneers are pretty rad and will open up to the table of contents so you can see if artists you're interested in are featured.

I'll be at the Seattle show! That venue is right around the corner from my apartment, I can't miss it!

All I'm sayin dawg is that some people will out grow certain styles that are no longer flattering on them. Of course some people will age better than others, I did say that right? However those that don't, if they start toning it down and dressing more modestly I just don't hold it against them. Do you want VK to be full of a bunch of Emo Dads? I'm strictly speaking from toning down because of age, not because you got signed to Sony and want to make a bunch of bad pop songs. Otherwise going back to my first point, really honestly if you want to listen to bands that uphold the whole Gothic/Punk lifestyle and subculture then just don't listen to Visual Kei.

So from what I read over in places like Scape is that there is a pretty strong divide between Visual Kei and the Goth scene in Japan. More or less due to the fickle nature of VK, ask a Goth if they're VK and they'll stick their nose up at you because to them it's a lifestyle. Not a phase or a gimmick to get signed to a label to make poppy anime songs. I just feel like, if you listen to VK don't be too upset if your bat shitting band suddenly decides to toss the black lipstick for host boy lip gloss. It sucks because I like the gawffy frilly over the top VK but I ain't gonna be too sad about it if they decide to go major and make awful music. Good example, DespairsRay. Also like in the case of Deg and other bands getting old. Sometimes you just don't age as well and a style you rocked in your 20s is going to be an awful train wreck on your now saggy wrinkled 40 year old body. Like this guy -> https://twitter.com/xArithmetica/status/396052296372457472 Do you really think he can pull off his old kote kei look now?

LOLZ it is pretty overkill. But isn't there or wasn't there just recently some sort of anniversary thing regarding Hide?