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Oh wow haha, welcome anyways Youko!
Seems we have some music in common.
 
I hope to see you around more and join us sometime in the MH chat when you feel like to

Welcome on the forums~
Come join us sometime in the MH chat, we won't bite you. ^.^ And Lynch. & Girugamesh <3

Hmm...
 
Well, from my view, I think you need to know each other better before asking her out like that.
When she says no, it stays no. No good to ask her again when she clearly says she doesn't want.
I think she likes to be good friends first, so 1# build a well friendly relationship up before doing anything else.
Once you took the time and make her comfortable around you, I think asking that would be easier but idk. ^^
 
Also, I don't think it has something to do with being chinese or something...
 
But well, every girl is different and has their own view in life.

Been a while~
here's my most recent pic, a wink for you guys

Yep, agreeing, their new look is pretty cool

Been a while~
here's my most recent pic, a wink for you guys

Been a while~
here's my most recent pic, a wink for you guys

Been a while~
here's my most recent pic, a wink for you guys

Been a while~
here's my most recent pic, a wink for you guys

Well, after creating the lynch vs deathgaze thread, I figured why not stir up a real debate for some answers. I see these bands get compared A LOT. After listening to both bands, they don't sounds anything a like. Their guitarists, while both technically skilled beyond belief, have different styles that they in-cooperate in to their music. The vocal styles are really different as well. 
 
GALEYD


 
DELUHI


 
Now i can see how they'd fall under the same power metal type sub-genre, however i still think there's some different ideas in there.
I have taken in to consideration that the bands were on the same label and seemed to have the same promotional and marketing techniques from what I can tell. 

But sound wise, what are your opinions?

Artist: I.T.G. Album: Instigate the Grief Score: I have 99 problems and it's all this album.
Apparently, Zaku left all his talent with RedruM and acquired his musicians from the discount bin outside the office that was once Dear Dolce. It's the only reason I have for why it sounds like everyone in this band is so awful at their "profession". Any hope that you may have had that this band would be decent should have been assassinated with those YouTube previews that were black metal demo quality at best. The album sounds exactly like those previews and it really makes me wonder what they invested their money into. Then, I look at the outfits and realize that they look really snazzy and then all my questions are answered. Then, I get this dreadful feeling crawling up my spine to inform my brain that I'm in for a really bad trip. I still wasn't ready. This took my expectations of how terrible visual kei can be, encased it in concrete, and threw it off the side of a fishing boat into the ocean.

Instigate the Grief is the result of when a band thinks they can cash in on the visual kei craze while doing no work at all. Zaku and co. must have seriously sat down together after the recording for this album was finished and banked on the fact that all ten of their fans and those baka gaijins on Monochrome Heaven would buy enough copies for them to cover the 500yen down payment for the studio time in someone's garage complex. This is exploitation at it's finest, being a cookie-cutter collage of visual kei's creative drippings with some attempts at an industrial rock and gothic atmosphere that fails completely due to issues that should have been rectified before this album was pressed to disc.

For starters, the recording quality of this album is abysmal. The attempt at the D.I.D. sound fails miserably. Any studio additions are there to give the illusion that there's depth to the music. There is not. The band literally took anything they could and placed it on top of their music without regard for balance or space in the mix. Some samples they used are at such a high frequency they can cause deafness! It only gets worse. Zaku is the biggest culprit and is responsible for sinking this ship. He manages to both sound dreadful on every track and get worse as the album goes on. Any time Zaku comes onto the microphone to do harsh vocals it either sounds like he's gargling peanut butter or everything devolves into noise. Every single vocal effect in ProTools was applied to his voice before they transcoded the master tracks to and from 96kbps four times for that authentic-kei feel. I envision that afterwards, they all sat around, stroked their cocks, and nodded in agreement, "Yes, yes, this is exactly how we want to represent ourselves!". Is every member in this band deaf?

This is the antithesis of musicianship. They stapled together as many visual kei cliches as they could find. Track names are so edgy I can shave my face with them. Songs jump between "aggressive" verses and poppy choruses, as if the formula hasn't already been beaten to death. Even the breakdowns lack any type of moshable rhythm and just sound lame and lifeless. I can even point to sections of songs where they just didn't try, like BABY ON THE DEATH VALLEY where Zaku repeats the title in Engrish before they free form shit all over your eardrums for a minute straight. Then there's also numbers that would make Black Gene for the Next Scene blush at the reckless abandon of synth in tracks like DIGITIZED FAMILY.

There are no redeeming qualities to Instigate the Grief. Every track ranges from terrible to torturous. Questionable decisions in both composition and production make you wonder if anyone listened to the music after it was recorded. For example, the drums in No Answer are panned almost entirely to the left and right for no reason, leaving a gigantic gap in the sound stage that's unaccounted for. It takes a track that had one or two ideas and makes it just as vapid as everything else on display. If you want another example, the drums in BABY ON THE DEATH VALLEY get a mention for being the single worst drums I have ever heard recorded in my life. Bedroom doujin bands with prerecorded drum loops sound more professional than this. And no, once again I am not kidding. Guitars are weak and have no life, and it seems like the distortion on the guitar placed in the mix and not out of the amp, making things sound even more terrible. Bassist? What bassist? I can't hear any bass underneath all that low end distortion and typewriter drum pedals.

This album is an example of why piracy is good. If I had purchased this album, I would have asked for my money back. If you bought this album I really feel bad for you. I deleted this album immediately after I finished the last track. You couldn't get me to buy this if the government paid for my trip to the otolaryngologist. I'd much rather play frisbee with this CD than ever listen to it again. I was fundamentally changed as a visual kei fan by the end of this album, after discovering that there are bands who think they can insult my intelligence with such awful music.

You will never catch me say this again any time soon, but this band deserves to disband. Now.

I looooove God's Quiz. Main guy is my favorite Korean actor. I'm really sad he doesn't really get any big roles though. He's so good.

Hey there!
 
Welcome on the forum
Any bands you like specifically? ^.^

Woah, nice!
 
Bands I've been listening a lot lately are MEJIBRAY, Called Plan, Nocturnal Bloodlust, LUCHe, Royz, The 3rd birthday, LOST ASH and Xepher. They're all mainly my favorite bands.

The Gazette, Mucc, Versailles, Jupiter, Kamijo, D, Matenrou Opera, Black Gene for the Next Scene, Liphlich, Lycaon, Nokubura, Mejibray and many and many others... they're too much And you ?

I got a new tattoo yaaaay.
 
 
 

sorry for party rockin.

Hmmm... Then I guess I should say: Welcome back!
It's great to see that you're trying to be active again~ ^.^
I also like DIV, Black gene for the next scene & GALEYD!♡
Join us sometime in the MH chat when you want to have a chit-chat!
Some of our members spend their time there when boredom haunts us

Already moved Gaz-chan~

Basically I just scribble till I like something
Things still arnt even and some limbs are smaller than others
http://mamimumemolly.tumblr.com/image/85586861811
I hardly color stuff in
http://mamimumemolly.tumblr.com/image/85489672476
I mostly draw based around what I'm listening to when I draw
http://mamimumemolly.tumblr.com/image/85405067126

No one mentioned 'Secret Garden'? Sheesh.
 
Latest atm favorites so far (no, nothing new here tbqh, zzz):
 
Secret Garden (obv)
Me Too, Flower! (main actor-wise totally superior to "Flower Boy  Next Door")
Myung Wol the Spy (tacky concept but main actress is just unf)
 
I really feel saddened in terms of J-dramas, considering that I ditched most of them right after a few episodes (say, Shitsuren Chocolatier or much earlier "Itazura Na Kiss - Love in Tokyo" for eg. (I had high hopes for those two)) - any proper J-dorama recommendations WITHOUT ANY TIES to manga/anime genre pls?

Japan's Yowakutemo Katemasu. Baseball drama.
 
Great cast of young actors.

Marking their 15th anniversary, D'ESPAIRSRAY will give one reunion concert at 2014/07/29 Zepp DiverCity Tokyo during the event "-Angelo Presents-「THE INTERSECTION OF DOGMA」". Other bands performing: Angelo, FAKE?, RIZE, lynch.
 
The band's message from Facebook:
 

I don't knooooooooooow... so many good songs
 
maybe sth like this
Giru: Kowareteiku sekai, Ultimate 4, and Incomplete, I love incomplete
Deluhi: Hybrid truth, s[K]ape:goat and Frontier
VAMPS: Love Addict, I gotta kick start now, Evanescent