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  2. Posted

    Hey guys/gals

     

    I'll be moving soon (boo! I've lived in the city I do now for 12 years and kinda like it) BUT it's to start a new job that I think will be good for my career!

     

    Anyway, does anyone want this signed Mucc poster?

     

    muccposter.jpg?dl=1

     

    Got it when they came to the states on the taste of chaos tour, but I've never been a *huge* Mucc fan and I don't think this is gonna make the cut for my smaller apartment (and all the branding on it kinda detracts too)

     

    Just pay for however you want to ship it to you, I could fold it and stick it in an envelope, or I've got a poster tube lying around if you want to keep it looking nice.

     

    Post in this thread if you want it!

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    2 hours ago, Bear said:

     

    Started and finished Master of None season 2 yesterday. Season 1 was amazing (8/10) but season 2 is a big step up in terms of quality, consistency and about being unique. Top notch!

     

    Finished up Master of None yesterday as well. I'd agree the second season is well worthwhile (I never really cared about the 'black virus' movie story arc from the first season).

     

    I do think 'Mornings' from Season 1 is still the best single episode though. Just rang really true to me.

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    Great thread, I like hearing the little things that are memorable at shows!

     

    - During Morrigan's set at Ikebukuro Cyber. During RIP (which is two minutes on CD but about 15 during their shows) they do the whatever it's called when the front row of girls lay over the bar/stage and the rest of the crowd takes turns slamming into them on the fourth beats. Anyway, during that the vocalist went out into the crowd to start dragging people forward who weren't participating (even going into the venue's stairwell, haha). When he sauntered over near where I was standing I could see the surprise in his face to run into a giant white dude amidst the crowd of tiny girls and instead of attempting to drag me into the melee he gave me a high-five.

     

    - I wrote about this one during a 君は鋭く。set here. A middle-aged woman in the crowd approached me between bands and asked what band I was at the show to see. When I told her 君は鋭く she got really excited and grabbed a wrist band off their merch table and gave it to me. I will continue to believe she was someone in the band's mother until proven otherwise.

     

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    At least one of you fine folks is from Wisconsin right??? Holla at ya boy.... I've got a job interview up there soon; and they're flying me up so I'm confident about my chances.

     

    I may soon have to decide whether I want to move to a state I've never been to!

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  12. Posted · Edited by The Reverend

    Hmmm... I apparently have a few thoughts on Emmure.

     

    So I saw Emmure back in 2007 when only their first album was out. I didn't know who they were before the show (they were opening for a band I liked.... From a Second Story Window if you're curious). So my first impressions of them were unclouded by all the subsequent hate they started getting I think around the release of Speaker of the Dead.

     

    I think they get hate for two reasons: the simplicity of the songs and the lyrics.

     

    I don't agree with the first (well I don't deny it's true, I'm just not sure it's a bad thing). I'll occasionally throw some Emmure on when I'm specifically looking for some mostly uncomplicated shit I can just headbang to. Sometimes I wish a VK band would just lean into having big, dumb riffs that are heavy/fun the way Emmure do on most songs and see where it takes them. (The Emmure songs I spin most are 'You Got a Henna Tattoo That Said Forever', 'I Thought You Met Telly and Turned Me To Casper' and 'Solar Flare Homicide')

     

    The lyrics are a bit of a problem for me though. I mean, if there's an opposite of poetry "I want to watch you suck his dick, I know you fucking love it bitch" might be it. (not to mention the tshirts the vocalist sold you can find if you google them....)

     

    That stuff is just trying to be 'shocking' without much artistic merit behind it. Other people have done misogyny or shocking in ways I can dig, but Emmure certainly don't (or didn't... I haven't listened to anything they've released in the last five years).

     

    tl;dr - I sometimes like simple, downtuned mosh pit inspiring riffs without much technicality, but the vocalist's lyrics are just trying too hard and I don't think come across as earnest

  18. Posted · Edited by The Reverend

    ^ I enjoy being pummeled by their normal set. And I'm all for experimentation.... but this experiment didn't' work.

     

    Compare guitar and drums show:

     

     

     

    To the hunched over some controllers, basically what we got two nights ago:

     

     

    That little bit of kinetic energy from flailing arms and strumming a guitar is apparently important to me.

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    Didn't take any pictures so you'll have to settle for the tour ad I found.

     

    Went and an awesome lineup of Alcest, The Body, and Creepers over the weekend in Philadelphia.

     

    The venue- The Foundry is attached (part of?) the Fillmore in downtown Philly. I liked the LED lights in the stairway leading up to the venue. It was kind of chaotic outside because shows were happening in both venues; shout out to the bouncer who could obviously tell who was there for the metal show and plucked them out of line to go in a slightly different entrance haha.

     

    The Foundry part had a giant prop foundy oven in the corner near the stage that glowed red/orange inside.. it was cool. They also were the kind of place that just sets out pitchers of water and cups so you don't have to bother a bartender (or just go thirsty) to get some H20, I love that.

     

    Creepers - One(?) of the members of this is also in Deafheaven. Kind of a similar sound, but a little more relaxed and mostly singing. The crowd was still a little thin when they started right on time (I missed most of the first song myself!) and they only played for twenty minutes. They had one track I had to look up Spotify on the way home because it got stuck in my head. I felt like a dad going into the show because I had a plaid shirt on instead of a black metal tee, but the keyboard dude for Creepers made me feel better by rocking an OCBD under a sweater on stage.

     

    The Body - a pet band of mine I was excited to see again, unfortunately their set was a little lackluster. Usually, they're a duo of drums and guitar live... for this tour I guess they decided they wanted to play their more digital songs so we were treated to the band members (and one other guy) mostly twisting knobs and hitting a drum pad for the set. It was seriously unclear if they were even making the sounds (other than drum pad guy who definitely was) or just changing the pitch with their knobs while the track played.

     

    I really like some of their more electro-doom songs (like this one they did with Haxan Cloak) but the lack of movement on stage was kind of a bummer. It all seemed like a bad art school project (they had also set up a white screen where they projected grainy, creepy closeup film of some lady praying and hands and IDK for the whole set). I don't think they won anyone over who didn't already know who they were. They didn't say a single word to the audience.

     

    Alcest - The new Kodama songs sounded really good live. Neige and the drummer's name I forget were joined by an additional guitarist and a bassist for this show. They played Alcest's breezy take on black-gaze professionally but without a ton of emotion. Luckily the songs are good enough that I wasn't totally relying on the performance and could just enjoy the music.

     

    All the guitar tones were really clear and sounded loud but not painful, great sound from the Alcest boys. The other guitarist and Neige had some really pro vocal harmonies at times. All the guitarists had great hair they unfurled and let flow for the show. Neige stopped between a few songs to thank the crowd, and sounded very humble and gracious in his thanks. There wasn't a moment of "wow, remember when he did ____" that I'll take away from their set but the atmosphere and tunes were top-notch.

     

    Check out Écailles de lune someone up front recorded pretty well:

     

     

     

  22. Posted

    34 minutes ago, vanivani said:

    For me it was Dir en grey when they were still considered visual kei.

    Wow, that was soooo long ago...

     

    This almost exactly.

     

    Gauze was maybe the first VK album I heard and I fell hard for it. It is still one of my fave albums after all these years.

     

    Songs like Cage and Yokan are un-fuck-with-able in my book (not to mention Kyo was so dreamy in the Yokan video).

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    Damn that's a big ask... esp. considering I don't think they have some release that coincides with that show.

     

    Also, if this really was their record label saying "get 300 people at this show or find a new label" does that not hurt Terakoya's ability to convince other bands to sign with them?

     

    Like, if I was a band on the come up would I want to sign with a label that made public a demand to get a certain number of people at a show??

     

    Just drop 'em and move on if they're not making the money you'd like, don't embarrass them.

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  24. Posted · Edited by The Reverend

    Awesome list!

     

    I saw Emma Ruth Rundle a couple years ago and she blew me away, very powerful for just one person and her guitar.... can't wait to see her again next month with Deafheaven!!

     

    And certainly no arguments with Alcest or Gibkiy Gibkiy Gibkiy.

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