Karma’s Hat

They're not even gone yet and I already miss them. The announcement of the hiatus was so sudden and the cloud of mystery surrounding isn't helping any; there's probably more info somewhere now like on the blogs of the members but I don't have access/couldn't read it anyway. I wonder if tsuzuku is doing fine and whether he'll even stick around in the scene afterwards. ( if anyone has any info to relay then please do so ) Really took the wind out of my sails this one, like I holistically lost interest in vk with my boiz going away... well it's more the straw that broke the camel's back but nonetheless.

Either Warsaw, Prague or both. Hope they put out the ticket prices sooner than later

gaijin death note goes out in ignoring the shallow Dostoyevskian spirit of the original with an emphasis in American television melodrama that has now just about ruined the sensibilities of an entire generation. I don't hold the original in much esteem, but I watched it with a person who does and talking about this film and the source material did make it an interesting watch in just how many small details were changed for very questionable ends that sometimes give a very contradictory reading of the psychology of the film when you get down to it. Contrary to above I absolutely loathe Adam Wingard, who I think is both an imbecile and an arsehole who makes films of such pitch black fatalism that even I can't take them. I had to dig up the notes I did on his blair witch remake "In Blair Witch 2K16 A great evil lurks in the woods that adheres to no rules, logic or sense, other than all the 2010's horror tropes of course. Forest spiritz seemingly able to alter the principles of time and space itself; trees wend at will and time literally ceases to function as normal! And yet it's satisfied to merely bully our heroes for a good hour until it unemphatically finishes them off. Nod to the Blair Witch mythos or the writers taking artistic liberties? Who cares when it's anathema to tension and suspense in its sheer stupidity. It's morose in the same cynical way Wingard's VHS series is; after the gag reel is done the rollercoaster inevitably crashes, and there's no hope for anyone. Stylistically the naturalism of the original is discarded in favour of the caricature of 2010's horror filmmaking; tightly edited together found footage from multiple cameras averaging about five cuts per ten seconds. The haunted forest trekking crew must have known a professional team was going to edit their death footage into a slick 89 minute feature, because they all conjure their best American stage acting impressions for cameras ( and a drone, that ceases to work once the mad forest spirits tinker with the reception of the signal. What can't this great evil do!? ). If the long scene inside the tent set the tone to the original, here it's the characters walking into the woods with the editor blowing his wad over the keyboard in preparation for the next loud noise to come. Trash."

XXX's album is trash. His affinity for retrograde musical forms was always there and he just them loose for 20 minutes of singer song writer tripe that's not even particularly charming in how vapid and seemingly honest ( or deluded, although this does give the album an interesting dimension to it ) it is when it's just... so fucking stupid. Wouldn't be the first time I've done a 180 regarding a new rap album, but I think I'm just going to stop listening to music entirely if I hit my head on something and start thinking that this is good stuff. Lil Peep's album is one that is also preoccupied with the vulnerability of it's author, but it does this without taking a step backwards in form and with a far more introspective character, so I'm just going back to that. Now listening to uzi's album.

Thoughts?

i'm on the side of global warming and nuclear holocaust if that is what the public voted for

Signing off from the Dezert war wagon. Conceptually they've changed from the Japanese middle school suburban child murders of the 2003 vk vein into clean-cut jumpdafuckup catalogue boys. DEZERT of the early minis and the first album is filthy, as much looking as sounding. And while DEZERT has struck and missed plenty of times since they started, their most unhinged moments still stand on their own, not even close to being in the same ballpark as their very unfortunate previous and no doubt future renditions Happy Song

Gets right into my core

Immediately this band gets so exciting when they do something different, like that darker look. Wish they did it, you know, more

in anticipation of our lord and saviour karma sama Strong contenders

12-15 would be unprecedented and absurd. I'm here just hoping that it's not all France and Germany.

Yes.

Their initial run up to the first album is legendary. Really a perfect example of those initial post-explosion bands that retained a lot of the classical form while also ramping up the musicianship and weirdness. Kichigai TV always reminded me of Madeth Gray'll being interpreted by a newer vk band; and I mean this band's early output is so rich in different influences and it's just top tier vk.

oh god so that's what people were talking about. What makes kaoru's hair look especially bad is that it looks burnt, like aggressively bleached and then straightened with two hot spoons. Awful

IN MEMORIAM I will first and foremost remember Grieva from two things: Their 妄想主義者ノ背徳。 mini from 2015 and their track for the AINS VA. That mini I don't think has their strongest singular tracks or anything like that, but I think as a whole it's the strongest with unique songs and perfect length. In a way it also condenses their whole thing well, having those brief flashes of their own intensity ( I thought they were always a more furious band that was held back by the times they tried to 90's melody their way to a hit ) marred with liberal amounts of IP theft, albeit in a far more subtler way than on their first album for example, which I haven't really warmed up to. Second album was a little filler heavy and by the third I was a little like "whatever. " The AINS VA track is awesome, and their madeth inspired look for it is even better. In fact I think the AINS VA is one of the better vk releases of the past 5 years.

I desperately want to fuck with their new stuff more than I actually do. The band is tremendously talented, conceptually impeccable and Gara's is just about everything I want from a visual kei vocalist, but the stuff they do now has this degree of polish and poppy finesse that I can't really get behind. That said, it's a band that could get back to me any day now just because of how good they are and how independent their direction has always been. the covers are nice

Got drunk during the day and checked out if there were any bands in town and August Burns Red was, so I went to see them. I hadn't heard their music aside from a few snippets here and there, but my impression was that they played emocore until settling into some loungy major deal post-hardcore territory to cruise control it a career. And I was wrong. Apparently they've played more or less the same music their entire career, and it still averages two breakdowns and a "GO!" *parkway drive riff* sequence a song. Naturally I had a decent time despite having my energy levels sapped by the flu.

this band is good, their releases are uploaded nowhere, the vocalist is really ugly and five types for a live limited has to be a record of some sort

where's THAT guy from malisend tho

I don't... think anyone cares for that matter

You can tell there actually aren't that many unpopular opinions in this thread, because the second you actually post one it turns into a page long polemic within the span of a single day @CAT5 I agree. Their alt-rockiness feels more western and direct, and it's something they took straight from the source to fit their own sound and concept, and not like how it usually works in vk where you get the western influence second-hand by looking up to a domestic band. I also don't think there's a vk band that sounds like d'espairsray, so that's something. RAN OUT OF POSITIVE THINGS TO SAY i can't even listen to stuff like maverick these days. I immediately get this mental image of whatever comes up when you google "fishnet goth"

what has he done other than fronting a band that's getting lamer by the second?

I think the dude on the left is also in the running

D'espairsray is the most unjustly lauded band in the scene curiously with next to no detractors. Started out as a fairly generic band of the times that made one decent EP before essentially making it a career playing vk's brand of linkin park for about four albums. They always looked terrible too, either ruining theoretically fine vk looks by mallgothing it too much or just giving up entirely and looking like l'arc en ciel jr later on. Their last album is the fucking pits. and as a personal note, I've started to dislike hizumi's voice despite really being into it when I got into vk. edit: I decided to listen to in vain a little bit and it's... it's fine I think. For what it is. So it's not that they were obnoxiously horrible, but that they're regarded as potentially a top 10 vk band and coll:set a classic is absolutely ridiculous to me. I refuse to take anyone seriously who thinks this is even passable