PIZAZ

Notice she's wearing a millennium puzzle around her neck.
 
This is gonna be lit.

genuinely disappointed that the lyrics don't include "ting tang walla walla bing bang bambino gang"
 
 

He will come back on 2018.10.27.
 

I misread track 3 as cuck in the dark and got unreasonably excited tbh

fucking Yikes
 
((warning: kinda NSFW))
 

DECAYS announced a series of lives for december, and they've brought a new look and lineup for the three shows!

 
lineup:
Vocal & Guitar Die (DIR EN GREY)
Drums 樫山 圭 (MOON CHILD)
Vocal & Guitar aie (the god and death stars)
Bass 拓磨 (ex.Sel’m)
 
lives
2017.12.16(土) 大阪・OSAKA BRONZE
2017.12.17(日) 愛知・名古屋HeartLand
2017.12.20(水) 東京・渋谷duo MUSIC EXCHANGE
 
edit: they will also distribute a live-limited single during their tour
 
thought i recognized takuma, lol good for him for this! die has good taste, even if his compositions are highkey subpar.
 
fanclub presale info @ decays.jp
 
 

baroque nowadays wishes they sounded like kannivalism lul

Helios was pretty damn good 

I drew that album art w/MS paint

DANGER☆GANG just announced the details for their new full album "dell'amore", set to be released on 2018.11.04 for 3000 yen. This marks only the 2nd full album to be released in their 15+ year career.
 

 
Tracklist:
01 beginning shot
02 create a furor
03 Night wanderer
04 蜜ごころ
05 Folie
06 エ・ゴ・イ・ズ・ム
07 ToWhIsPeR
08 believer
09 one 's future
10 Les liens Continuent…

Honestly, I can't blame anyone for getting tired of being TERU's living mannequin. I swear him & Hizaki = VK's answer to George & Isabella from Paradise Kiss.

KENZO and YOUSAY have formed a new project called "雷兄弟"(Kaminari kyoudai) .
 
Members :
Singer/drummer : KENZO (彩冷える(Ayabie),VCCI HAYNES, GREMLINS, AKi (support), BAROQUE (support)...)
Guitarist : YOUSAY  (ex. THE KIDDIE), GUTS AND DEATH, AKi (support)...)
Bassist :  インテツ(Intetsu) (彩冷える(Ayabie)
 

 
 
 
 
 
Twitter : https://twitter.com/KNKD_Official
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/knkd_official/

I hate to be This Guy, but jfc artists are allowed to enjoy creating more than one kind of music. MiA playing something poppy now doesn’t mean he doesn’t/never did like rock. 
 
(Don’t get me wrong, I’m really not a fan of this project. But people can like more than one thing guys. Tsuzuku likes Marilyn Manson, Linkin Park, and Arashi. It happens.)

let's just say it's not the first band to end up like this, I'm still vomiting internally over what former soroban/zoro members are doing on their own under their idol management agencies at the moment.
 
I don't understand why he does this shit under old name (while there're always hypothetical options of working behind the scenes composing same stuff for no-talent hussiz) or why he didn't go down the ad CM music composer route or something non-embarrassing mainstream, but it's his career and his choice at the end.

Ban me from this forum and from listening to any VK period. I didn’t like Mejibray, but the results of them disbanding and splintering off into cringe-kei nonsense makes me wish they just stayed together and continued phoning it in. 
 
Fuck this shit. 

please stop with this 0th release already fuck. what does it even mean? "we're releasing something to see if people like it, if not, we quit before our first actual release"? 

Zetsuentai is a perfect example of why DEG should abandon trying to capture lightning in a bottle again. They know Vinushka is a great song, but this is the second time they’ve tried to do it again, and each time it’s less effective. Zetsuentai literally sounds like someone said “we need a long song”.  Like it didn’t turn out that way naturally, it was planned. 

Yeah, Chiyudasen Democracy had some political undertones to it. Here's a in depth analysis my friend did about it. She also went ahead and added subs to the PV.
 
 
You can also check out English lyric translations over at the same tumblr I linked. ^^ Lots of political & Showa-era lyrics and symbolism 😮

Not about a particular fandom, but I find that the worst behavioral aspect about foreign visual kei fans during lives is how so many have zero ability to control their emotions in the presence of their band. Like, I understand the excitement of getting to see our favorite artists, but damn can you not act like a raging fangirl who hasn't learned how to behave in public? Don't shout from the top of your lungs in people's ears and respect personal boundaries. I was almost hit in the face once by a girl who was jumping up and down and waving her arms like a maniac. We weren't even close to being in the front. You're surround by people, girl. Don't do that. I guess it's better than just standing around though.
 
As for violence and other types of shitty behavior (sorry for the tl;dr) : I feel like this is something you're bound to come across with if you follow rock music in general (especially if a good portion of the fans are girls and the band is made up of youngish guys) , so it's unfair to single it out as a problem within visual kei. I never experienced any shitty behavior towards me during foreign VK lives, but I have experienced it during lives for American bands and they basically mirror the type of behavior that other people have said they experienced during the VK ones. Like during one outdoor live (back when I was a teen) my best friend and I waited hours for the band we went to see to come onstage and we were upfront for only like the first two songs before the girls who had waited in back of us pushed themselves to the front and left us like in the third row. Then during another live, I caught the pick the guitarist played with and was shoved rather violently by the girl in back of  me.  I still didn't have a very good grasp on the pick since I caught it mid-air  and when she shoved me, I dropped the pick . I reached down to pick it up, but the girl next to me (Not the one  who shoved me) kicked my hand before I could actually grab it. I don't know what she hit, but when she did, I got a weird cramp that shot up from the back of my palm to my elbow area. She was bigger than me and I generally like to avoid conflict, so I just let her keep it. And then came the embarrassment I felt when I stood up straight again since I think the guitarist saw everything (or most of it) because he just smiled and waved at me with a sympathetic "I'm sorry" look on his face.  Needless to say I prefer staying in the back now. Moral of the story: fangirls can be violent and they are scary. 

- DIR EN GREY - The Insulated World 【Regular edition】
- HOLLOWGRAM - FLUID 【+ photo】
- 己龍 - 己龍単独巡業「磑風舂雨」〜2018年4月28日(土)【東京】中野サンプラザ 〜 【DVD】
- Soanプロジェクトwith手鞠 - 静廉鳴る共奏、静脈に宛がう。
- Soanプロジェクトwith芥 - 動猛成る狂想、動脈に射つ。
- ギャロ - VELTRO
- Sioux - cloud nine
 

 
- Ann O'aro - Ann O'aro
- Dolores - Dolores
- Grèn Sémé - Grèn Sémé
- Grèn Sémé - Hors Sol
- Labelle - Univers-Île
- ØKUNA - Imaginary Landscape
- ØKUNA - Soundtrack for a Dream
- ØKUNA - Soundtrack for a Dream 【vinyl】
- Saodaj' - Pokor Lèr 
- Simangavole - Pou D'Vré
- Zanmari Baré - Voun
- Ziskakan - 4 ti mo
- Ziskakan - 10 Zan
- Ziskakan - Bato Fou
- Ziskakan - Romans pour Rico 【digital】
- Ziskakan - Péi Bato Fou 【Vinyl】
 
- Maya Kamaty - Pandiyé 【digital】

Haul from osaka shopping (minus random Puresound VHS's)
 

V.A. Shock Edge 2006
Finale of SCREW
Zanatsu Fiction (SCREW)

マルコ (marco) x ジグラット (ziggrat) collaboration single will be distributed at their twoman live, "白夜ニ魅ル闇" (byakuya ni miru yami) at Higashi Koenji 20000V on November 14.
 
[tracklist]
1.マルコ (marco) -「黄昏サンシェイド-社ver-」 (tasogare sunshade -Yashiro ver-)
2.ジグラット (ziggrat) - 「魔女の条件-礼ver-」(majo no joken -Rei ver-)

it's honestly all worth buying!

I missed both Kagrra, and Charlotte when they #cametobrazil, and now both their vocalists are dead. Brazil is cursed!
Unfortunately I was too young to travel alone (17 back then) and the concerts were held in São Paulo, which is way too far from where I live and I could not afford the expenses from the trip anyway.