Karma’s Hat

22 minutes ago, nekkichi said:

let's just say judging by the excited Instagram comments I can see them coming to Brazil and selling out a gig or two p soon x

They'd legit a have a better career as the south american HITT than trying to navigate through all the places they've been blacklisted at in Japan. When there's more gaijin comments on your social media you're not in a good places tbh

I think virtuosity is overrated 

I think the importance of "skill" is usually blown out of proportion by illiterate morons posturing as music critics 

but some of the shit koichi did there made me go "ouphh" irl

edit:

I can't stop listening to it it's so bad. I get the bedroom casio aesthetic is cute, but the internet is flooded with similar stuff that's considerably better and without the bitter taste of betrayal to boot.

I almost wrote that I don't think this is a thing anymore if it even had been one in the first place, 

but then I realised that stuff like youtube comments are almost like an alternative dimension compared to this place, especially the comment sections for newer bands are rife with people bringing up the gazette and dir en grey, although not really against each other but to disparage the newer bands. I don't know man I just prefer to stay out of all of this for my general health and wellbeing.

are the japanese fans in on the joke or?

in real talk all this talk about post-core amphibian dainty-punk is getting very tiresome, especially since the main proponents of creating these inane subgenres and categories and marketing gimmicks come from people who've been listening to metal for two weeks and think they're now on the up and up for discovering ritual ambient or some shit like that. 

A band like Dir en grey is impossible to strictly, or at least in a very definitive way, to categorise because they're a combination of two very amorphous musical traditions of visual kei and metal anyway. Their nu-metal base acquired somewhere midway through their career has been almost completely transformed thrice over due to the accumulations of sounds and techniques they've kept on acquiring over the years, and while visual kei is a strange case in of itself ( like, you can still hear the influence of X and Luna sea from almost every band, namely in vocal melodies and how guitar solos function, or that even in 2018 a vk song exceeding 2 minutes in length would not be caught dead without a chorus ) Dir en grey is unique even within that context. They've had progressive elements and done weird shit through mazohyst to hotarubi and then revisited these techniques again and again later on ‑ all the while having songs seemingly contrast in genre on the same release; and despite this there's still a common thread and heritage running through their stuff, but it just defies simple category since they're quite unique. Even if what I just wrote doesn't make any sense, the point still stands that there's else you could call THE UNRAVELING other than visual kei or alternative rock/metal, and neither of those in today's context mean much of anything. 

all this for some shitty japanese nu-metal 

hate it

11 minutes ago, EvilHippy said:

https://goo.gl/images/mgLkMT

You mean this one?

Jesus that's fucking rank. I want to say yes, but for some reason I recall these, almost wing-like things at the far ends of the D and Y. There exists a shirt for this tour ( Unwavering something of tomorrow? ) with just a straight up band pic with the logo. It was easily the worst shirt from them I've ever seen. This was at least for the 2010 London show

edit: found it 

I miss their awful deathcore logo from 2010. I couldn't even find it on google anymore ( can someone else try ), but it was definitely on shirts and stuff when I saw them live around that time. Even if it was fucking bad it was still appropriate, because I remember a lot of scenekids at that show with people playing metalcore from their phone speakers etc. Good times 

can anyone confirm if his dick was out fr or nah 

he does some difficult stuff on CD and that screaming in addition to this smoking ( and probably a lot of drinking ) is going to fuck him up in no time. I've always wondered how long his voice can last with posting pictures of him smoking and touring. 

SANA/HITT/SATSUKI three-man might be able to fill a stadium in the donetsk republic

I mean it does look like an experience even if the crowd doesn't seem to agree with me

visual kei funderground fuck off

hizaki's weave snatched 

45 minutes ago, akiko said:

So this band was created only for April fools day?
 

hopefully at least

The Mode of Macabre is so good. Best DVD out of this series hands down. 

egnirys is a top tier vk song, and it's only lost in the shuffle because comes from a band that up to this point had only put out straight heat anyway

Yeah... But the signs of going soft were already in the air when they got the new members before the second album. The middle of the second album is no less soft than anything on TODAY, and Hentai was already knee deep in mid period Girugamesh vibes. The domestication of their sound was a gradual process and by TODAY it finally became a neutered house cat. 

Kyo is about 160cm I believe

the dude from Kra on the other hand was like, 155 at best? I think the shortest bandmen are the vocalists from Kra and Nightmare

The stretch of Magayasou, Kodoku and Dead Tree is something else on the Withering DVD. Kyo went old school and somehow still took it a notch further 

DIMLIM who 

I only know Hated

21 minutes ago, Takadanobabaalien said:

where's the samples

theyre out x

This is the actual recording quality of the album so everyone rustles their jimmies

It's the sort of loud, farty jumpdafuckup guitar wall of sound mallcore garbage that they've done lately that I can't stand, and the production just emphasises the fact and I'm praying it won't be too prevalent in the album itself. The shit they did to the remastered Uroboros tells me that someone, either in the management or the band or otherwise, suffers from an acute case of bad taste to which the only cure is death. They'd sound more tasteful recording everything through a xbox 360 headset 

how do people drink in moderation fr