Mamo

Yes you are, Naoki's drums are most definitely legit.

Dir en grey is still visual kei.

Well this tweet makes sense now lol
 

all the "who?" 's are making me feel a million years old 

It’s not good but at least they are making an effort of releasing it on multiple streaming platforms. I guess they know they have a decent following abroad. 
 
I think they put out more good stuff than crap anyway so I’ll let this pass. 👍

DEXCORE will release a new single tittled「BLACK PIG」on 04.04.18, the single will be available digitally.
Here is a  list of all distrubutors:
 
 

 
 

I just wanted to say this is a lovely thread with lovely recommendations. I never really looked into the general music section so I had no idea people on here are also interested in this kind of music. 

These are my favorite sub-genres and fusion-genres of Black metal. Blackgaze is a fusion of Black metal and Shoegaze, Post-black black metal is a little harder to explain as it is more experimental here's a description by @Bear

And Symphonic black metal is Black metal with Symphonic instruments and melodic melodies.
 
Who else is a fan of this truly beautiful music?
 
Here are some playlists to better exemplify what I mean: 
 
 
 

Basically what Bear said, I feel it is impossible to actually pin down what Post-Black Metal is supposed to be, I feel the bands that are named within this genre are so far apart in their style of music.
Anyway, I'll just go for a few recommendations that I guess would fit the term in some way! I second Deafheaven (Sunbather might be hyped, but to me rightfully so, pretty much the best you can find in this genre for me), The Great Old Ones and Altar of Plagues, all fantastic bands.
 
Oathbreaker is also pretty cool, even though their last album is kinda all over the place. They had strong hardcore influences before, but now the whole thing has a lot more clean vocals and really quiet songs. This song is fucking intense:
 
Show Me A Dinosaur are also pretty good, despite the weird name:
 
Tanpopo Crisis might be interesting if you like Deafheaven, used to be a grindcore project but now the style is rather dreamy and somewhat positive.
 

I'm not gonna be nitpicking too much on this stuff, but this is not it. The vast majority of post-black metal bands have no traits of post-hardcore in their music whatsoever. It's black metal that's gone beyond the boundaries of what black metal was originally about, which in general means that there's hella lot of post-black metal out there. But in newer times it's a term often been applied to bands that mix either post-rock, shoegaze or drone and black metal. 
The problem with modern post-black metal is that there isn't any specific traits or rules as to how it should sound, which makes it really hard to classify bands as post-black metal. It's just experimental and non-traditional  black metal. But if we were to look at it like that 70% of all black metal out there would be post-black metal. Not really a fan of the post-black metal name tag at all. On one side of it you have Lantlos and Deafheaven who are considered post-black metal, and on the other side you have Fen, De Arma and Skagos who are not considered post-black metal. Despite all relying heavily on mixing black metal and post-rock. 
 
And just to make it even more confusing. Amesoeurs and Lantlôs. Lantlôs' second album .neon, which are brilliant, are considered one of the best post-black metal albums around. But it's basically a rip-off of Amesoeurs with Neige of Alcest and Amesoeurs handling the vocals. The thing that makes it a bit confusing is that Amesoeurs is not considered post-black metal.
 
When it comes to the post-hardcore thing you have bands like Bosse-de-Nage, Castevet, Scenery of Tomorrow and Cracked Vessel. But they're not post-black metal because they incorporate post-hardcore into their black metal, but they mix post-black metal and post-hardcore. It's hard to explain, so like I said I don't like  the post-black metal name tag at all.
 
In recent times I've been a huge fan of Deafheaven's debut album "Roads to Judah", The Great Old Ones, Altar of Plagues (everything up until Mammal), Lantlôs' two first albums), Scenery of Tomorrow.
 
 
But if you go back to the begining of it all, before it got trendy as fuck, you have norwegian black metal like Solefald, Fleurety, Arcturus, Dødheimsgard, In the Woods... and more which really stretched the sound of black metal into something quite special and unique. Really ground-breaking stuff at the time. And these bands fit the post-black metal tag A LOT better than the likes of Deafheaven, The Great Old Ones and so on as they actually set themselves apart from the traditional sounds of black metal a lot more and experiment more. But all these are also just considered avant-garde/black metal.
 
You could also throw in Celtic Frost's Into The Pandemonium as the very first post-black metal album, even though that was way ahead of the term post-black metal. But it was the beginning of it all.
 
 

For real, I haven't been as hyped about anything Visual-Kei related since maybe, like, Sukekiyo's first album?

this band was amazing, and was more amazing because Neige (Old Silver Key / Alcest / Peste Noire) was in
 

Haven't heard of them either I'll also have to check these guys out too. Deafheaven is another one of my favorites as well.

haven't gotten to check any of these out yet but this is already my favorite music thread ♥

Smh we just had this topic.

https://www.mediaplaynews.com/riaa-physical-record-sales-topped-digital-downloads-in-2017/
 
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2018/jan/03/digital-streaming-behind-biggest-rise-in-uk-music-sales-for-two-decades
 
there're numerous reasons VK acts won't get signed and distributed through major western labels, and they are slowly catching up with the streaming trend, but this scene never relied on an equation of 1 fan purchasing 1 CD per release,
 
the moment we stop downloading shit for free you and your kind will jump ahead screaming it's imperative for the REAL fans to purchase checki and merch, covering the overseas purchasing fees.
 
are you going to imply that the other outlets in the dying scene (i.e. SHOXX) are also leaving the market due to our lack of support?
 
ironically starwave produces the cheapest, shittiest, most derivative music/looks in the scene as of now, and I want to see the receipts that bands themselves get the coin from itunes purchases.
 
you should consider a social media diet (just a suggestion.)

Smh we just had this topic.

https://wedonthaveaname.bandcamp.com/album/demo
these guys are tied w/ dfhvn for my fav band to come out of this whole scene

To add, this: 
 

I feel like people don't need a reminder to not post the GazettE album as requested. Most people are pretty respectful when it comes to special requests such as this. I mean but hey if you didn't get the reasoning you wanted out of the previous subject you can enjoy your same post 2.0 whichever makes you feel better.

https://wallower.bandcamp.com/
^ One of my favorite black metal inspired projects

These are my favorite sub-genres and fusion-genres of Black metal. Blackgaze is a fusion of Black metal and Shoegaze, Post-black black metal is a little harder to explain as it is more experimental here's a description by @Bear

And Symphonic black metal is Black metal with Symphonic instruments and melodic melodies.
 
Who else is a fan of this truly beautiful music?
 
Here are some playlists to better exemplify what I mean: 
 
 
 

So then it's just a re-imaging of the same topic.

Smh we just had this topic.