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i've followed them since the beginning too and they have definitely changed in some ways. but, the same can be said for any band that has stuck around for 10 years. 
 
personally their earlier stuff (from Revolver to, maybe... B?) will always be irreplaceable for me. i wouldn't say that i've lost interest, although it's true that some of their newer songs just don't give me the same feeling anymore. they will always be my #1 band though.
 
maybe i can recommend some songs if you tell me the vistlip songs you like haha. Chimera was actually my favorite single from them in the last 4 years or something like that...

They are definitely reliable, but the shipping cost is a bit high as others mentioned. What some of my friends do is shipping to tenso address and when they have more items they ship it to their address abroad.
Customs really depend on the value of your order and your country, not on the shop.

I've heard that at a certain age, people tend to stop looking for new music and go back to what they liked when they were younger. I think I've kind of reached that point in my life. I try not to think about it too much because it makes me feel old.

Yeah, the staff is nice and gives you the details you need, but other than that, it's ridiculous having to pay an immense amount for shipping a 700-something yen item.

Japanese shipping fees to this day still bewilder me 

That's crazy. Are they doing DHL or Fedex with those shipping fee  like Amazon JP does? But Amazon still have lower shipping cost than that tho!

I was pretty excited when I found out they do ship overseas, but then when I was making some purchases, the shipping was 746 yen (i think), so that was cool.
 
Then after the purchase, I learned that it turns out that that was just shipping TO Japan and because I said I was from the US while creating my account, I got an email from a staff member saying that the overseas shipping was much higher - in fact it was 5000 yen (~50 USD) for shipping in North America, 5100 yen (~51 USD) in Europe. Ridiculous. Even more so that they had to email me instead of the actual cost actually being displayed on the receipt during checkout. Of course I had to cancel my order.
 
I highly suggest using a shopping service instead, like FromJapan or ShoppingMallJapan. 

It really does T____T Just gotta support the shit out of those remaining two!! 

Honestly, out of my top 10 favorite bands, only two are still active. I've heard several people saying the same thing. It feels like a losing battle sometimes!

Yeah it feels like every band I start to like ends up disbanding too T_T I'm glad you like them! And yes! You should def keep listening to them even after they disband!

I'm always late to the party! Every time I get interested in a band, I find out they're disbanding. I just got the Resistar Chigaihouken 2017 DVD and while normally I never pay much attention to the Riostar bands, I noticed when watching it that Dangan and LEZARD were both sounding really good. It's great to hear how well loved they are. I guess I'll have to listen to them in retrospect.

vocal : Kaname.
Twitter : https://twitter.com/kanametivity
 
guitar : Soa
Twitter : https://twitter.com/Sioux_Soa
 
guitar : Ciela
Twitter : https://twitter.com/ciela_sioux
 
Instagram: http://instagram.com/ciela1111
 
bass : YACHIRU
Twitter : https://twitter.com/Sioux_YACHIRU
 
drums : Lotto
Twitter : https://twitter.com/Sioux_Lotto

 

 
 
 
1st single "Hue"
1.Adonis
2.Human
3.Kamio
 
 

 
2nd single "Last Scene"
01.Last Scene
02.Uso
 
Free Single Amrita (01.10.17)

01. Amrita

Reading through these responses is kind of depressing. It seems we've all had bad reactions when introducing other people to VK. I've gotten so tired of standing there while people insult what I love just because they can't or won't understand it, that I just don't talk about it with other people anymore. If anyone asks what I listen to, I just tell them symphonic metal or symphonic rock, since that's the area of VK I listen to the most. Frankly, it's not really their business what I listen to anyway.

Reading through these responses is kind of depressing. It seems we've all had bad reactions when introducing other people to VK. I've gotten so tired of standing there while people insult what I love just because they can't or won't understand it, that I just don't talk about it with other people anymore. If anyone asks what I listen to, I just tell them symphonic metal or symphonic rock, since that's the area of VK I listen to the most. Frankly, it's not really their business what I listen to anyway.

Reading through these responses is kind of depressing. It seems we've all had bad reactions when introducing other people to VK. I've gotten so tired of standing there while people insult what I love just because they can't or won't understand it, that I just don't talk about it with other people anymore. If anyone asks what I listen to, I just tell them symphonic metal or symphonic rock, since that's the area of VK I listen to the most. Frankly, it's not really their business what I listen to anyway.

Wow, how can the language itself disturb someone? I seriously don't understand this.

Nightmare did a terrifying version of Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer that still gives me bad dreams. Can't find it on YouTube though, and everything else I can think of is already listed, but I really hate to come to the party empty handed, so here's some Kishidan. Do they count? They're not quite VK but they're definately VK-adjacent...
 
 

Oh that's awesome, I didn't know anyone even remembered Kazoku! Thanks!

Hey now, some of us actually like them!

Recently all I've noticed was a great indifference to it by the people whom I've been forced to explained it to. Some still remember An Cafe, Dir en grey and Gazette from ten years ago, and others just don't really care which way or the other. So far it has fallen from the common consciousness in fact, that one person thought I had conversed about something called "visual gay" the whole weekend, and she fancied it better not to inquire any further on the matter. 
 
In middle school it was a different deal; I was loud and proud with my weebdom and had a picture of An Cafe on my computer's desktop for the longest time. Many an argument were then ended by my mates just calling me a fag, and that'd be that. That's back when everyone still knew about anime, manga and visual kei, so the reactions to it were more polarised as well. As all the kids back then were into Slipknot, you'd sometimes show them something which was more palatable and met with a warmer response, like Dir en grey. One person from my school I managed to convert even.
 
Assuredly I'd still hear the usual "oh, I can't listen to that language" or whatever, but I'm already old enough to choose to not to associate myself with anyone that musically illiterate; and quite frankly I don't know how anyone could stand for such company for any longer than a cordial greeting in the rest room.