TheBistroButcher666

I'm a Lio and born during the year of the Tiger. So basically I'm a Liger. I also don't believe in this stuff :U

My Dad listened to Deep Purple because he was a Highway Staaaaarrrrrrrr! No serious, imagine all the fake ghetto Asians with hard working fob parents driving in their beat up ricers that you us see now. Just replace ricer with a 1964 American muscle car blasting Sabbath, Dio and Deep Purple and that was my Dad. He and my Mom still listens to all that stuff along with other hippy rock like Jefferson Airplane and Iron Butterfly. So I grew up in a house full of that stuff and I think that kinda solidified my taste in rock music. I mean there's lots of other factors too, Seattle grunge explosion made it obligatory to like grunge rock etc but I really think my parents had a lot of influence. That said, I like the stuff my parents like. Some tunes makes me remember my Mom driving us kids in our old GMC Hornet to the park and hearing Simon and Garfunckle and long drives into the mountains to camp and listening to that same Deep Purple album the whole trip. So basically gross old people music Ahhh!!

I hope it's a super serious gritty war movie and the theaters end up full of squealing fangirls.

I took this picture in the walk in closet and the light in there made the image come out super yellow. Boyfriend was poopin in the bathroom and couldn't take a selfie in there.

http://m.deadline.com/2013/10/angelina-jolie-sets-japanese-singer-miyavi-as-brutal-wwii-pow-camp-guard-the-bird-in-unbroken/ Whoa, like an actual good movie. Not the B movie nonsense that was Gackt's film.

Oh I like this version even though the quality was butts streaming over a crappy 3G connection. Does anyone know where to order this? I bought my previous copies from Jishuban Club but I don't see this available for pre order. Maybe just not up yet I guess?

Going back to the tagging system. Is there a way to ban tags? Specifically the Visual Kei tag, I ain't anti VK but using it as a tag is not helpful since VK bands can sound drastically different from one another. I think Kei tags like Nagoya or Kote are fine since it narrows down a more specific tag. Thoughts? Should this be broken off into it's own discussion?

A lot of members here listen to black metal, should we make an entire section of the forum dedicated to black metal? I know it's not Japanese but neither is Korean, it's also metal which is more related to rock than pop music. Basically that's the argument I'm seeing for Kpop.

Hahahaha this is so bad but I like it because it reminds me of Kuroageha.

Kai and Champs do a lot of backend under the hood stuff a lot of us don't see. Champ also hosts a lot of Turntable shindigs which wouldn't count towards activity. Basically I don't think looking at their total hours of activity could properly Guage how active a mod is.

I'm referring to the circlejerk over Piyo's death. The people that didn't know who he was and suddenly have to be the biggest drama queens over it. Similar to the Hide fans that make a big deal about him every Hide birthday anniversary when they've only been a fan of VK for less than a year.

Inspired from a similar thread on another board and when I say inspire I really mean just copying their idea. The idea of the thread is to encourage sharing music and just sharing your enthusiasm for a certain artist you are really into. Try to avoid just spamming YouTube links with shitty little one liners about the VK boys being kawaii or dis song is so bruutal. This topic should not be like in this thread and should promote discussion. It doesn't have to be VK/Japanese either since I know a lot of us listen to tunes outside of Japan. Band Name: You must write a description of the band and what you find enjoyable/interesting/terrible/whatever about them. Try to really show what they’re about, what their sound is like, what artists they are influenced by/have influenced or some other means of describing their music.

ARITHMETICA FOR MOD! As my first act as moderator I will ban all IPs associated with blogs such as Visual Scandal and somethingsomething I'd have to get Kai to do it :C Anyway, I digress. It is noticeable when topics get posted in the wrong section and sit there for several days before being moved or never moved at all like this one. I think what could help is consolidating the forum some more. I know there was some recent consolidation but honeslty, I'm mostly just talking about merging the Artist sub forum with the Japanese General Topic sub forum. The artist sub forum is mostly inactive anyway and it would help those topics get noticed more by people if all together in just one general section for Japanese music. I am not the most active member myself but I know that in the past there had been projects like creating an English language wiki/archive that would put JAME to shame. Unfortunate that never came to be because honestly, if MH wants to be something more. MH will need to offer more than just download links. Big words, not a lot I can do to help except give Kai monies. Also fix the mobile site so I can actually see replies to status update posts :C I'm mostly posting from my phone and I can't ever see dat shit. I FEEL SO LEFT OUT D:<

I definitely associate music with illustrations and other projects I've worked on. I'll look back at something and be like, shit son I listened to so much Eins:Vier when I drew that thing. It's hard to come up with specific memories, I'd have to go through all my music and just listen to it and see if something comes back. However one thing I can remember off the top of my head. Couple years ago drove across several states with my Mom because she has a fear of flying (fear as in she doesn't want to take her weed on the plane). I remember looking out at the endless farmland and listening to the shit out of some La Feerie. Whenever 目覚メノトキ　〜覚醒サレタモウ一人ノXx〜 comes on I can picture the endless fields of rural Idaho perfectly.

Oh oh oh I have one! Most Western GAKKIDO fans didn't give two shits about that band until the vocalist died. Then suddenly everyone was like OH MY FUCKING GOD! And had to jump on the tragedy bandwagon. I remember a lot of the VK groups I lurked on Livejournal never had any topics about that band but when they had that accident, suddenly requests for music, scans, blog translations. Now I'm not saying they didn't have any western fans but it was considerably noticeable how their fanbase on the internet ballooned after the news of the car accident. RIP whatever his name was but the internet scramble to be the biggest GAKKIDO stan was gross.

Oh jeez, that article? Really?? Hahaha I forgot all about that. I didn't know it was Kiwamu rumored to be the one that was interviewed but it wouldn't surprise me if it was him. Wait how could he be an executive in the 90s when back in the 90s was he even in a band or even taking part in the VK scene? Or was he in just a bunch of shitty sinking ship indie bands like Blue Berry before forming the clusterfuck that was BLOOD? Wait the fuck I don't even care... @Umi_Niwa Anyway, it's just pretty poor discussion to post a vague one liner with no backing to explain your reason and then the only defense is a link to an old and debunked article.

I tried looking up Of Mice and Men and all I got was results to some dumb book!! But seriously dude, it's better to just post two or three artists and talk about the artist and what they do. Try not to overwhelm people with a whole lotta stuff and dumb lists all at once because no one ain't got time for that.

Maybe he was blackmailing BB so that he would stay in the band harharharhar :U ONCE A MEMBER! A MEMBER FOR LYFE! Anyone who tries to leaves ends up like the original PIASS line up!

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.

I think that's a problem with all Western VK but that's a whole different discussion outside this thread.

Ohhhh! I think Au Revoir was under Columbia right? Whatever their major label was?

I bet Kami Uta is a really fun live song but agree that it's just so repetitive and boring. I would like to think perhaps Material Pain as THE SONG that put Phantasmagoria on the map but I don't even know mang. As for D, I don't agree with Ouka being their trade mark song. Their Japanese themed songs seem to be one off things here and there, I can count Ouka, the one where they're like Triads or something and another one that's kinda boring and I forgot what it's called. Most of their stuff is all super fantasy driven and so I just don't think Ouka as THE SONG that defines D. When I think D, I definitely think it would have be either Sleeper or Yami Yori followed by perhaps Mayutsuki no Hitsugi, Nightship D, Vampire Missa and maybe Eden? I dunno man, I think D's success was just strong release after strong release and an accumulation of good songs that just put them on the map. Raphael I'm thinking Hana Saku Inochi Aru Kagiri is THE SONG that made them followed by all the other amazing stuff Kazuki did. http://youtu.be/de25Zzeygvk It's also seems like a good trasitional song from Yuki having stupid giant hair to not so stupid looking hair. But also I think this was their first major release? Did they ever go major?

Oh I'm not saying he was better when trying to be HIZAKI, it just wasn't as painful to watch.

Didn't Hideki start a new band recently, whatever happened to that? Anyway, I'm excited! Is K leaving GRIM or did GRIM unofficially fall apart because I haven't heard much from them since that last release of their's (which was good!) back in 2011.

Yohio was fine when he was trying to be HIZAKI but when he started doing every stupid VK stereotype it all went down hill from there. Anyway, this song is better than the shit Seremdy produced but it's not great either. I'm not really into this style of heavy emo core but I can see them gaining possible momentum among the type of folks that like Black Veil Brides and Blood on the Dance Floor. I definitely get that vibe from this than the gross VK stereotypes in Seremdy that made me cringe.