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My assumption is that Hizumi is very out of practice. He said before that he still is not completely healed, but I guess his doctor must have given him a go to sing again. So before they all have a big re-unification as D'espairsRay, Hizumi will slowly train himself for the stage again.

So the music doesn't matter as much at the moment as does him standing on a stage again.

I guess an announcement for a re-unification will come at the 9.9. either this year or the next two years

All dates would be meaningful.

 

I just read the email from cdjapan with the link to preorder the album, now I am crying.  Did you all watch the youtube pv? It's awesome, though i am missing the piano, but maybe they will take someone in later on

Crossfaith is a live band, they sound dull on recorded stuff, but on concerts its pure madness. I don't know how they are doing it, but the crowd just goes crazy. Yesterday was so awesome. I have a hard time listening to them on my laptop or mobile phone, but I would NEVER miss a concert. The energy is blasting you away.

Madness was sticking out yesterday, as it is a more dancable song, with lesser heavier parts and break downs and all, but it still worked fine with the crowed and enjoyed it live a whole damn lot more.

 

I mean, excuse me, they even can turn a soundcheck into a party XD

For real?

 

here is a tutorial: http://nihongoperapera.com/store/itunes-japan-registration-guide-no-cc.html

 

But I would be more intersted in stores who are the cheapest.

 

and if a duch person ever bought on this: http://www.itunescode.nl/itunes-gift-card-japan.php <- the Japanese card of course. o.o and how it was. 

Aye, see the reason why i suggested that is, that i first need to know that this is possible. I can't google search something if I don't know if it exists or not. And there are many people who don't know that this is possible (it took me 4 years to figure that out)

 

A list of stores could be added. i would write that thing, the mods just need to say, yes we want that and when we have it we are gonna pin it. Otherwise it maybe won't make much sense.

hey,

 

i just wanted to ask if it would make sense to make a guide on how to purchase releases on the japanese itunes store through gift cards. I believe that a lot of people are unaware that this is definitly possible and easy to do. I just wondered if that would make sense or not.

 

I hope this is not a totally stupid Idea and i just wasted a post

You can't treat visual kei and J-Rock as the same thing. They're treated and marketed as two different entities towards two different demographics, since Visual Kei is treated as it's own genre separate from everything else. Our download forum is proof that there are visual kei fans, there are J-Rock fans, and the tastes generally don't overlap. There's very few fans of Japanese music that like both visual kei and J-Music in general and the ones that do exist are probably here.

So if you want to make this happen....it's up to us?

 

/rolling eyes

that's why i love mh so much, all these well informed people, that are in the scene for years and are up uptight about the tiniest details XD

 

Well it would be a nice idea, and an interesting project. As i thought about it while writing there were a lot of ideas already in my head (like news sections, review sections, reccommendations, summaries of the latest discussions threads on mh etc, people could record stuff and then upload it to a dropbox,  and another person could do the editing, etc, lots of ideas in minutes)

 

the problem will be the time, as always (which scares me the most, if thinking about making this a thing)

Japanese make music for the japanese music market. Why should they change that, when they still earn through it.Why go into a market that is dying off, and works completely different from what they are used to. The appeal of visual kei and jrock will never get really huge in the western world, in all the years I have listened to visual kei 90% of the people that I introduced to jrock disregarded the music, as it was not fitting their western taste and was too exotic (and I am only talking music wise, if I would have added photos or videos it wouldn't have only been disregard but rather I would have been bitched for it. Who of you hasn't heard the sentence "ieeek why are they dressing as girls,how disgusting.") It was a fad but it was only a fad for a certain niche of people.

Anyway I am still using youtube heavily, and it still works, i am finding the stuff I want to find (even though I am from Germany and half the stuff is blocked through my own country and not through japanes copyright restrictions)

 

Considering the question in the beginning why there is no fan community of youtube anymore;with all the changing of the music scene and the record labels, didn't youtube also change? Does youtube even want to be a platform which serves as a replacement for a music channel? I don't think so, youtube had too many problems with copyright restrictions. So what is the current trend on youtube? it is vblogging. And this is damn successful if you take for example  the Green brothers (or the german le floid channel) And the Kpop fans are actually using that successfully. There is for example Eat your Kimchi (highly reccommend channel on korean culture) It is that successful that people even can earn money through it. And they DO discuss stuff there in the comments and have a strong community.

And here is the deal, was there EVER a decent channel on visual kei or jrock music? Like music reviews, in depth discussions about artists and trends or anything? As far as i know there wasn't/isn't. But i strongly believe if there would be something similiar to this people would gather again, the music would get promoted and everyone would be happy (i can even imagine that the negative comments wouldn't be that obvious) Youtube wants fan-created content and promotes that fan-created content, they don't want people to upload stuff that leads to problems with copyright and issues and for the music stuff they give room to the record labels and big corporations so they can deal with what they upload or don't want upload (vevo i.e.)

so here is the thing. Go with the trend, start vblogging and you get a jrock community on youtube again (this also could be a nice mh heaven project XD) 

sometimes I believe my perception of music is really different from you guys. Everything from lynch. after shadows sounded just the same for me. Like a blur. Even the Exodus EP which is praised so much just lines up with everything else. I managed to listen to it for a month, then I couldn't stand it anymore and went back to listen to lynch.'s older stuff again. I can't tell you one special song, which was so outstanding, perticular and special that I can name it. And for me Gallows was a step back from that repitivness. Maybe they overdid it with the breaks and everything and it's too much of a mash up, but AT LEAST it's different from inferiority complex and I believe in me. And maybe I sat my standards too low, but hey I enjoyed to listen to that album and got a lot of suprises I didn't expect. 

I have no idea of music production, and I also don't have high quality sound equipment (I don't even know if I would hear differences) so I can't say anything about that topic (though it would be a shame that a major label isn't able to produce and mix a solid sound). Anyway I believe it could have been much much worse and I see experiments and sometimes I get the feeling they tried to insert some of their roots, and it gives me hope that lynch. maybe will be able to find their creativity again.

I wondered if there were other asexuals around here that listen to jrock music, because I need ace friends (you feel bloody lonely if you don't have anyone around who can understand that thing). And it's A LOT easier making friends if you share some common interests, right.

 

So for all the people who don't know about asexuality, let me give you a short introduction:

 

"An asexual person is a person who doesn't feel any kind of sexual attraction" 

 

Asexuality is a really broad spectrum. There are many different kinds of ways to live out asexuality, it ranges from people who can't stand being touched in anyway and could puke at the idea of having sex to people who randomly have sex out of various reasons (i.e. having a relationship with a sexual person, only being able to feel sexual attraction after having a strong emontional connection). But what all have in common is that asexuals see a person and that the thought "I want to have sex with that person" doesn't cross their mind.

 

Nonthlessness asexuals can have a libido, feel arousal, masturbate, like hugging and kissing or holding hands. It also means they can experience love in all it's kind of shapes. Asexuals normally refer to this as romantic relationships which come in different kind of categories: heteroromantic, homoromantic, bi-/panromantic. Aromantics  are people who normally don't lead any kind of relationship.

 

Studies suggest that 1% of the human population can be considered as asexuals.

 

I believe this is enough for a short introduction, if you have further interest in that topic you can refer to the avenWiki And I believe that many of you already came in contact with Asexuality through tumblr or some other site.

 

Since we got that covered, it would be really nice if some of you want to share their stories with me (how they found out that their are asexuals or how they live out their asexuality) if there are some ace people around on this forum. 

 

and what I think is also a really interesting question, do you think that asexuals perceive visual kei differently from sexual people?

I for my case think that there is a difference. Since I notice sometimes that I can't fangirl over musicians. I don't really care much for the looks and just go after the music (and if I care for the looks I do that in an aestehtic way, like watching an art piece) I am also sometimes disgusted by the lyrics if it evloves around sex (matenrou opera has some for example).

 

so maybe you share some of your opinions of this

I can't really tell you why this is happening, but my best guess would be it's because it's an old thread that was made before we changed to IPB3, which changed the format of all thread URLs, so maybe something went wrong when the pages were indexed during the move, I dunno.

Either that ot it's the weird formatting of the name Sel'm at the end of the URL. Or maybe a combination of both.

 

 

It can be fixed though by removing the search/highlight variable from the URL-ending:

 

The first page of the thread:

http://www.monochrome-heaven.com/topic/14423-album-selm-illegal-other-side-20120502/

 

The second page:

http://www.monochrome-heaven.com/topic/14423-album-selm-illegal-other-side-20120502/page-2

Wohoooo, awesome, I never would have thought of removing 'search' in the address line. Thank you!

It's not really a big problem, but maybe someone could find out if it's just me who has that problem or it's because of programming.

If I want to go to the second site of this thread
http://www.monochrome-heaven.com/topic/14423-album-selm-illegal-other-side-20120502/?hl=sel%26%2339%3Bm

I am automatical redirected to this thread
http://www.monochrome-heaven.com/topic/7-what-are-you-listening-to/#entry39

i wanted to check out if someone replied to the losless rip, but I can't because it won't open. Would be nice if someone could tell me if i need to fix my firefox.

I apologize in advance if this isn't the right thread, or if I did any other mistake, by creating this post.

First of all, there is still NO announcement for a gazette EU tour. They will play on a festival in russia, so they could also try an Asia tour. Or just go to that one festival and return. Whatever, still no announcement, that's the point!

But you shouldn't forget Diru, they will be coming probably through gan-shin. They will play in Austria and UK from 14th - 16th June (the same that goes for gazette goes also for Diru naturally)

With even these three bands (deathgaze, Dir en Grey and maybe gazette) it will be an eventful Jrock summer for Europe

Nihahahaha, I am back and I am sooo damn happy today. The shock is gone, Muhahaha, this concert will seriously hurt so damn much, and after that I will feel like I crushed everything in my life that sucks. Muhahahah. Headbanging with Ai, yaaaay. So great. I will at least visit two gigs, but it could come down to three. I just hope their new album will be a lot like dead blaze single, creature didn't grow on me ^_____^ so kuhl hehe

I still haven't realized it, I am still under total shock about this news. Never expected something like this. I will drop by tomorrow again to let out all my happiness

I have a question. How does someone find out if a file is a transcode? I am searching for this answer for two years now, and I still don't know how you get this nice spec graf. I can't define a transcode through listening (well maybe a youtube rip) but if the cd is ripped over realplayer, winamp or something like that, I can't hear it. It would be nice if someone of you could give me answer for this, because it seems like that you expect anyone to be able to define what a Transcode is (oh and maybe post it in the tutorial, too)

 

For the rest set up rules like you want to, but please make it possible for users without any Idea about bitrates and cd-ripping possible to still share music on this forum.

Mega.co.nz developed a firefox add-on, that makes it now possible to download from mega with mozialle firefox *thumbs up*. After you click a download link you will be asked to install the extension.

I am so going to change to mega now

Is big shit if we does use chrome... I didn't want using this

I am pretty sure they will fix it in no time, and it will work with firefox too. And propably firefox is already trying to update the browser to get to the same standard like chrome.

I have success to upload one song, if you can try and say me if it's ok :

 

https://mega.co.nz/#!h9gzXIJb!E1kLm0eCHbzCRJPMFRYjL2eeh5QCYpJC-aflXVmm52I

 

I can't download, though I have no Idea why. Had the same problem yesterday, while I was trying to download one of my uploads.

 

I open the side, I click on download, the bar loads, and after 100% are full nothing happens. There were no files added to my download folder. My guess is that it happens because I use firefox.

The good thing about mega is that the files will be encrypted while you upload the file, means that the owner of the site, doesn't know what you uploaded. So even if they claim that you are not allowed to upload copyright material, they can't control it, and with that are not at fault if someone uploads it.

Such a good Idea. Ha. I am so happy it's back, I liked megaupload a lot and I hope mega will work as good as megaupload.

 

I tried to upload something, but wasn't successful, let's see what happens if the site will work (but I managed to set up an account, even though it took one day for the confirmation Email to arrive)

This is really sad news. I really liked their new stuff (tried their old, but didn't suit me much). 2013 Doesn't start good, huh.

Goodbye Kisaki, take the last money you get, rest in peace and don't meddle with bands anymore. Maybe my opinion isn't that popular, but I've seen so many bands being destroyed of him. And there must be a reason why so many bands left UPC, changed their label and are now better than ever ever before.

So for me this is somehow happy news.

Hora mitsu wo byou de egaku boro wo matou outogeki

I love you akai tamari

Love ? Lie ? Yeah, love

Gouka sameru goujou

Shimeru kubi moyasu

Higenjitsu karami

Karame in god faith

Karame no god faith

Hora hana wo damaraseru doro wo migaku aijougeki

I love you shiroi tamari

Love ? Lie ? Yeah, lie

Gouka sameru hakujou

Shimeru kubi moyasu

Namemawashita nodo kogeshimeru

Owaranai mesu ni soete

Takaburu kizuguchi ni koe wo ageru

Yureru chi wo fusagu kumo to ga wo

Kuroi himawari ni irete

Mienai mono kowashita mono takaru under the rose

Mienai hakudaku suru shibire to kousoku

Kuwaetsuru shori wo yaburu genkaku to yubi

Hikareai hikareau shoujotachi

Gyoukan de sukuou doku mo kimi wo tsukuru katamari

Chi nureru kami wo ikeru

Fukaku sasaru kagi wo nomikomi

Aketa toketa kimi no ne ni

Yokujou ni toraware haidase

Kore tobe yami wo

Karame in god faith

Karame no god faith

(Cocklobin under the rose romaji)

Kisaki has always been like this.

From the tax evasion to destroying bands, taking pictures and lying to the fans is just the tip of the iceberg. Truly i would be really grateful if his fans are turning away from him because of this.

if this was off topic i apologize, i just wanted mention that he is a bad guy (i know some other words but i believe they will not be appropiate and stirr emtions) and because i don't want this to be forgotten while discussing the behaviour of kisaki, since i believe the biography is part humans and their behaviour.

dear lyrics maniacs,

Are you like me and you want to have your lyrics always with you when you go out (Because you don't want to bookmark 10-different-not-easy-to-handle-websites in your mobile browser). I am like this, too.

So i went to the play store and found three main lyrics app for android

1. musicxmusic match: Forget it! You can't fill in lyrics, The most important bands are there (Dir en grey, Gazette) but that's all. It's nice to handle and you can favourite songs, but that's all. It's no use for jrock fans who can't input their lyrics

2. LyricWiki lyrics: A good one! You can log in to the website and fill in the disco and pictures and three different versions (Kanji, romanji, english) of lyrics, if you want to. But, it's hard to get used to it if you've never used a wiki before.

3. TuneWiki: this is absolutley the funniest lyrics app. Though not the best. There is your own player and you can play your music and the lyrics will be synchronized with the music (you can spend your whole day synchronizing lyrics XD) Some jrock bands are already in it. But the best thing, you can choose your favourite lines and post them to the community (or connect it with facebook and twitter) and write a comment there or just simply like the song. And also connect it with your last.fm.

There ist also the possibility to add lyrics to the webpage, though it takes time to become an editor because you need to go to the support site to request an editor ticket.

The not so good thing: You can't add three different versions of the lyrics (you could, but then syncronzing wouldn't work anymore, like it should). They added a feature to translate lyrics into different languges. So I tried a song where the lyrics where kanjis, but it didn't work.

Another problem, it seems like the tags aren't that accurate, which sucks a little, and with an editor ticket you can't edit the discography.

Why I informed you about this? I am now trying to fill in the lyrics I like in tunewiki, and lyricswiki, but it takes a lot of time. Buuuut if some people here who are also interested in lyrics would help, it would be great and adding would be way faster. So try them out

If such a thread already existed I apologize. I didn't search before (I know I am such a lazy witch XD)

Most astonishing is the ambivalence for Dir en Grey. It's really quite funny. Best full album and best overall artist and then most overhyped band and most overhyped release. Seems like there were two rivaling fractions XD

But I laughed most about mucc for getting the award for Band that changed their sound for the worst two times in a row. Poor Mucc, since they have once been one of the most uniquest and overhelming jrock band.