doombox

Basically me with every album I like
 

Basically me with every album I like
 

Basically me with every album I like
 

Gotta love that Google translate Engrish. 

Same here. Probably not gonna be a song of theirs I go back to very much if I'm not in a certain mood. LOL I didn't even catch correlation with the title until you said that. 

I listened again and I can say firmly that it's just not my thing. there are parts of the song that i like but a lot of it I'm just not big on or find certain parts just plain unnecessary...... i mean tbh it sounds just like the title says ぐちゃぐちゃ so i guess that's a positive but idk if being all muddled and messy is really my favorite thing to listen to
 
but I'm still interested to hear the previews for their new album and especially how it fits in

Welcome to MH! Glad to see you're open-minded when it comes genres. There's too much good music out there to put limitations on it.
 
Also if you have any questions about the site anyone with a blue or red username is here to help. ^^

Thank you for accepting me, I hope to make many friends.
Sorry my English is bad 

Hi, I'm Kae.
 
I hate introductions, because I never know what to say. Do you say too much? Too little? What's a healthy middle? Ugh! See! It's much too stressful.
 
Anywho, I'm a fan of many genres. If it sounds good and I like it, I will listen to it. That simple. 
 
I hope to get to know lots of other music fans here and join in on the community. So, this is my first post of hopefully many and my official hello.
 

my fave pre-vena songs~

 
 
 
 

fuck embarrassment. sing along at the top of your lungs and give no fucks what other people think! life is way to short to stop doing something you're having fun with cause of other people. unless you are physically hurting someone(and there is no pit present) then no one gives a damn cause they rocking out too. maybe i'm just too old to give any fucks what people think when i'm having fun these days lolol.

this is making me want to go back and do a full listen of all their releases now. need more time in the day! 

need a Crossfaith/coldrain/SiM mega US tour 2k17 Y/Y?????

Their tech was fun. You could tell he fell in love with coldrain while working for them too lol. The Revelation is one of my least favorite coldrain albums, tbh. When they added the Until The End songs for the deluxe addition I liked it more, but the original version of the album I tend to skip most of it. However, VENA is in a 3-way tie with Through Clarity and The Enemy Inside for my faves. I go back to those all the time.

Lynch and Gazette are boring me to death.

Their tech was fun. You could tell he fell in love with coldrain while working for them too lol. The Revelation is one of my least favorite coldrain albums, tbh. When they added the Until The End songs for the deluxe addition I liked it more, but the original version of the album I tend to skip most of it. However, VENA is in a 3-way tie with Through Clarity and The Enemy Inside for my faves. I go back to those all the time.

Seeing this kinda made me realize how much I don't appreciate the sixth and seventh waves as much as everything that came before. I just think that's when things started getting really homogenized and it's not that I don't still enjoy a good number of bands, but I don't find them as irreplaceable. Maybe I got used to so many bands breaking up and I'm jaded or there just isn't as much variation in musical styles as there used to be. Probably both. Things change, so I'm not really bitter, and a lot of the older bands are still releasing music so I can't complain. It's just seeing it all laid out like this made it pretty clear where I'm at these days. 

I think the song I love most off VENA is wrong, I remember them playing it at Warped Tour and it was one of those songs I had to sing along with. The Drum tech guy smiled at me cause he saw what I was doing, so I got embarrassed and stopped lol
 
I felt that Revelation is also a good album, but VENA is just....well it's been a year and I still can't get enough of it. It's honestly so good.
 
I heard about that, though I'm not sure what the cover looks like so I'm unsure if I got it or not. I think I got the normal one.

Seeing this kinda made me realize how much I don't appreciate the sixth and seventh waves as much as everything that came before. I just think that's when things started getting really homogenized and it's not that I don't still enjoy a good number of bands, but I don't find them as irreplaceable. Maybe I got used to so many bands breaking up and I'm jaded or there just isn't as much variation in musical styles as there used to be. Probably both. Things change, so I'm not really bitter, and a lot of the older bands are still releasing music so I can't complain. It's just seeing it all laid out like this made it pretty clear where I'm at these days. 

I love the build up in "Whole" and I feel like they never have written a song quite like that before so it really stands out in their catalog. But I can understand it's not for everyone. VENA is a solid album. It was a bit slow starting for me but every time I listen to it I just love it more now. I didn't know it was possible but VENA just does that to a person.

Hello, I think it's fun to take these kind of tests, I hope you enjoy it too: https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test
I'm an INTP, what's your type? What do you think of the results? I found mine pretty accurate.
 
There's also this one: https://www.eclecticenergies.com/enneagram/test.php
I'm a 5w4 and I found the results very insightful.

I really like the song six feet under but my favorite album thus far is Vena. There's not a song on there I don't like, except maybe whole but that song is good for what it is. 
 
Im looking forward to their future releases, they're really great and honestly if they tour with crossfaith I'd die too lol they're both great live, not sure if I could handle all that awesome at once 

Does anyone here listen to them?
 
I'm curious, as I would like to meet more fans.
 
I saw them live, once back in November of 2015, and then this past year at Warped Tour. They put on a good show, and having met them twice-they are genuinely nice people too.
 
[Also if there's already a thread about them, feel free to let me know. I tried searching for one, but couldn't find any.]

@doomboxis the ultimate coldrain love-spreader here on MH
and I really liked what I heard from them but don't listen frequently

I love this monthly best format. Really cool! 
 
Its so nice to see artists like Loka and Boom Boom Satellites get some year end love. But also so much of this list hurts my heart with DIV, girugamesh, and FoLLoW all having their final releases here and Kawashima's passing. 2016 was a rough year, for sure.

Lynch and Gazette are boring me to death.

So it's end of the year best-of list time, and I wanted to get involved... but I realized with more and more streaming of music rather than mp3s, and more and more me being lazy and not really listening to as much new stuff as I should: my best of 2016 list would be incomplete and hard to make because what I've been listening to isn't as easily organized by year in Spotify.
 
But I'm a narcissist who still wanted to get in on the fun and write *something* so I decided to highlight some of my favorite, or at least notable for one reason or another, looks from the VK world in 2016. Visual is in the name after all! I know hipsters, such as myself, say that the looks don't matter and it's all about the music, man... but I'll freely admit even though I'm not looking at a picture of the band for 98% of my listening to them, the aesthetics matter and part of the reason I like VK is that I enjoy looking at pretty boys in elaborate costumes rather than bearded dudes in black tshirts.
 
With that in mind here is my partially tongue-in-cheek but also I seriously thought about it 10 Notable VK Looks of 2016:
 
 

Garak’s Vocalist ジュリ

I call this the James Dean x Jesus.
 

Insanity Injection Vocalist Kyouka

Because of that YouTubers react video, this look may be the VK shot heard ‘round the world. “Looks like Kerrigan” is pretty accurate shorthand for Kyouka’s possessed crab/snake cannibal spirit costume that is almost elaborate enough to explain what the hell he’s been doing for the last ten years.
 

ペンタゴン Bassist Minpha

The kawaii-ness is undisputed around these parts… I’m embracing dark Minpha and his crown of demonic scallop shells.
 

乙女国家 Band

I know it’s a VK trope, but I seriously like it when band members all pick a different color and just commit. I’m never going to learn their names, so it helps to just be able to reference “the yellow one who borrowed some gloves from Ensoku’s This is a Pen PV”. Also for anyone else who’s been there: was this photo taken at the ramen ‘museum’ (read: food court) in Yokohama?? It kinda reminds me of that spot.
 

Doak Band

As a rapidly balding dude, I appreciate when even fake-baldness gets some shine in VK. Shout-out to the dude from Codoma A!
 

Avelcain Vocalist Karma

I bow at the altar of Avelcain… and I’m on the record as loving black-suit-wearing VK looks. Add some fucking palpable *zetsubou* and a sword for no real reason!?? I’m sold.
 

Elysion Band

They get my vote for best golden age Matina cosplay of the year. I saw them in June and there was just tons of vinyl and straps and lace and bare thigh and a frilly white dress and… there’s no joke here they just had an awesome/classic look. I don’t even remember what they sounded like, but I remember thinking their outfits and makeup had to take hours to get right before the show.
 

Lack-co. Vocalist Tenten

What you thought I wasn’t going to include this transcendent “it’s coming in nice” puberty mustache dyed red?? You don’t know me very well. He’s got some sort of black sequin freckles happening too for some Annie vibes.
 

Nihilizm Band

Just a look that I think really kills. Those red lace blindfolds are just cool IDK. The member with the bob is a cutie.
 
ギャロ Vocalist Jojo

I always love Jojo’s extremely sparkly lipstick…. And in this video (and others this year) he wins the award for most dangerously low-rise pants in VK. Got them side abs! I also don’t really understand his fork hat, but fuck it if you can’t get weird in VK where can you?
 
Close but no cigar: Hollowgram's grown up/understated black looks, vocalist from More's curls and one satyr horn, Plastic Tree vocalist pushing the bounds of how cool he can make cutting his own hair look
Purposefully Omitted: The Black Swan blackface, any boring not-quite Kamijo look
 
Let me know why I'm wrong and what should have been on this list!