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As long as depression isn't treated as the fuckin life-ruiner illness that it is, as long as people think it's not thaaaat of a big deal, we'll keep losing people to it.
 
wasn't a fan, but this is such a shame. RIP.

As long as depression isn't treated as the fuckin life-ruiner illness that it is, as long as people think it's not thaaaat of a big deal, we'll keep losing people to it.
 
wasn't a fan, but this is such a shame. RIP.

First week sales for their album was 1140 copies which def wasn't BPR level (Royz in comparison usually sell at least 6000-8000). But there's far less weight given to sales than the potential labels recognize in the band, which in the case of LONDBOY was pretty promising in terms of their growing popularity (at least around that time last year).
 
I've heard rumors that they had already secured a deal to sign with BPR in principle, but something happened at their tour semifinal in Nagoya last year which led to the deal being dropped and the rest of unannounced dates cancelled.
 
But those are unverified and I don't really want to say more about that, other than the band pretty much went downhill from that point. They also seem to have the worst of luck with just about everything (Kanade's accident, Rio's affair, etc.)
 

i've literally just been talking to @echo about londboy this entire past week before this happened. i feel so terrible.
 
pretty sure 90% of MH will be rushing to join the queue that's chalking this up to the rio affair. for what it's worth i'm skeptical about that. anyone who's actually following the band would have noticed that just as everyone thought they were about to sign to BPR last year (which didn't happen), they downgraded their website, releases slowed down, and generally activities became suspiciously spotty for a band their size.

I actually like Ryoga, he can do some serious cool stuff with his voice (ANOTHER is a beast of a song that he nails so hard, for example) What I meant was more about the style of composition in some bits of their songs. Taking LIQUID VAIN for example, the chorus is completely born-ish. that's when I think they lack the most, and also believe it's where probably there's more imput of the other members besides Kouryu. Then listen to the first/main verse and riffs. NOW THAT'S Kouryu as fuck. This longer preview sounds excellent, besides the HORRIBLE chorus that drags the song down so hard. Ryoga screams are really on point, the instrumentals are all packing some punch (besides the flat equalization someone mentioned before), but that chorus is a cold shower

Shinjou Kasumi posted on Twitter that Gekijou Tenor would have a one man on September 30th, 2017 titled "Please Dance Again" at Holiday Shinjuku
 Also, it seems as if Aka-on is still a thing. 
With the new Gekijou Tenor revival, and Unlucky Morpheus starting to pick things back up, maybe there is even more in the future involving Kasumi and Yuki?

I actually like Ryoga, he can do some serious cool stuff with his voice (ANOTHER is a beast of a song that he nails so hard, for example) What I meant was more about the style of composition in some bits of their songs. Taking LIQUID VAIN for example, the chorus is completely born-ish. that's when I think they lack the most, and also believe it's where probably there's more imput of the other members besides Kouryu. Then listen to the first/main verse and riffs. NOW THAT'S Kouryu as fuck. This longer preview sounds excellent, besides the HORRIBLE chorus that drags the song down so hard. Ryoga screams are really on point, the instrumentals are all packing some punch (besides the flat equalization someone mentioned before), but that chorus is a cold shower

I actually like Ryoga, he can do some serious cool stuff with his voice (ANOTHER is a beast of a song that he nails so hard, for example) What I meant was more about the style of composition in some bits of their songs. Taking LIQUID VAIN for example, the chorus is completely born-ish. that's when I think they lack the most, and also believe it's where probably there's more imput of the other members besides Kouryu. Then listen to the first/main verse and riffs. NOW THAT'S Kouryu as fuck. This longer preview sounds excellent, besides the HORRIBLE chorus that drags the song down so hard. Ryoga screams are really on point, the instrumentals are all packing some punch (besides the flat equalization someone mentioned before), but that chorus is a cold shower

That's because nobody ever wants to see another Dir en grey. 

Hello everyone!
 
I've compiled a little list of Instagram pages of artists I follow:
 
Aryu (MORRIGAN) - @aryu_morrigan
Ryo (kannivalism) - @kodavalism
Hatch (SRASH NOTES GARDEN) - @hatch_bell
RYO:SUKE (WING WORKS) - @ryosuke_wing
Shiina Mio (UNiTE) - @shiinamio_ig
Chisa (DIV) - @div_chisa
Shogo (DIV) - @div_shogo
Takeru (SuG) - @sug_takeru
miyavi - @miyavi_ishihara
HiLo (ex-NAINE) - @kvnc_hilo
Tenten (MBHI) - @tairakazuhiro
Shou (A9, DIAWOLF) - @a9_shou
Ruki (the GazettE) - @ruki_nilduenilun
 
Please post any other you may know and I've missed! 

The second track sounds interesting, but the other two are totally passable. The best one was ANOTHER playing during the announcement of the tour venues, lol
 
less born, more MBHI is the way to go

The second track sounds interesting, but the other two are totally passable. The best one was ANOTHER playing during the announcement of the tour venues, lol
 
less born, more MBHI is the way to go

wow, they're on a roll! and they totally deserve it, one of the hardest workers on the scene, always doing/releasing stuff

wow, they're on a roll! and they totally deserve it, one of the hardest workers on the scene, always doing/releasing stuff

Maaaaan, I try so hard to like their stuff, on paper is everything I would want in a band.... I don't know if it's the average sound engineering with overamped violins that waters down every other instrument, the anticlimatic chorus or the composition itself, something simply just not CLICK. a shame

Yeah, I think there's also something to be said about frontman magnetism, something both Yasu and Kirito have (Yasu even more, I think). They are both well known personalities that stand out among mainstream, I've heard stories of their success with older woman an such. Maybe because Dir en Grey took the opposite path, going more metal over the years, there was never a chance for them to stabilish themselves with the regular listener (I don't even think they'd want that, tho.)
 
Would really like to see PIERROT releasing something with this reunion, neither Angelo or LM.C recent stuff appeals to me.

I don't know how it was in the 90s, and PIERROT was never my "main" band during my bangya days, but I know that over time Dir has lost a lot of its original fan base according to some of my best (Japanese) friends that used to be Dir bangya.
 
I think it's a combination of the musical/visual change and their original fans getting older and moving on. Like over time many of the original fans have stopped going, and there hasn't been enough new fans (v-kei bangya or otherwise) coming in to take their place.
 
Generally I think much like Janne Da Arc, PIERROT was better at bridging the visual and non-visual fandom during their heyday/before mainstream visual kei completely "died". I originally got into PIERROT via v-kei, but my husband originally started listening to them because of an old middle school classmate and hasn't ever been a fan of any other v-kei bands. PIERROT seems to have a lot of fans like that.
 
At the PIERROT reunion live they even had a "daycare" to babysit kids while their parents attended the show(s).
 
Dir en grey is definitely more well-known internationally, though. I don't know about in Japan with people outside the scene, however.
 
I agree there was probably some novelty in their reunion so they could still fill such a large venue, but I think even if PIERROT were to do a proper activity restart now, they would still play bigger venues than Dir does currently, like Luna Sea and GLAY do. (Maybe not as big as that.)
 
Just my two yen, though. I'm not personally involved in either scene. (Like I don't go see any of the PIERROT members side projects and my Dir bangya friends have moved on/I was never into them after Vulgar.)

art kei christ yuya back at it

lovely, as always!

DAMN GOOD breakdown at 02:27, but you can't put your faith on Akane, sooner or later he will do another re-re-re-re-re-re-remaster of paranoir songs for some ez money and have another mental break and call its quits

DAMN GOOD breakdown at 02:27, but you can't put your faith on Akane, sooner or later he will do another re-re-re-re-re-re-remaster of paranoir songs for some ez money and have another mental break and call its quits

DAMN GOOD breakdown at 02:27, but you can't put your faith on Akane, sooner or later he will do another re-re-re-re-re-re-remaster of paranoir songs for some ez money and have another mental break and call its quits

DAMN GOOD breakdown at 02:27, but you can't put your faith on Akane, sooner or later he will do another re-re-re-re-re-re-remaster of paranoir songs for some ez money and have another mental break and call its quits

DAMN GOOD breakdown at 02:27, but you can't put your faith on Akane, sooner or later he will do another re-re-re-re-re-re-remaster of paranoir songs for some ez money and have another mental break and call its quits

DAMN GOOD breakdown at 02:27, but you can't put your faith on Akane, sooner or later he will do another re-re-re-re-re-re-remaster of paranoir songs for some ez money and have another mental break and call its quits