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I think sources should be obligatory for posting in this thread first of all, lol. I like the potential it has so it ought to b salvaged.

cause it kind of feels like "post your thinly veiled opinions as shit that noob vk fans say" thread

I just came here to write about how boring I found this, but now playing it the second time it has started to grow on me a little. Bog-standard Pentagon material from the weaker end of things. I don't think it's much of an indication about how the album will be, aside from that at least it won't all sound like CRAZY TRIBE.

The second I saw this thread reactived I knew what happened last night lol.

I haven't watched the match with Job Ziggler, for I have no more tears to shed, but fuck did Shinsuke take his foot off the fucking pedal. I mostly just listen to Bryan & Dave too keep up with things and watch about 5 to 10 matches a year that get high praise, and long a mainstay in that group of matches was Shinsuke, who's match with Ibushi from like two years ago even brought me back to watch regularly again. He has done absolutely nothing for me since coming to the 'E, and apparently it's just getting worse. 

Need to watch the tag match from Saturday's takeover. I watched the one with these guys from the WM weekend and it was awesome. 

Check out the fucking comments for this one 

Nocturnal Bloodlust x26 kuukautta sitten (muokattu)

This is the version of kami-band (babymetal) in guy by that make various styles in a song... retarders ha ha ha Lesson one by japanese: take note this is how it's done. See it, learn it, do it.

Fear and loathing in las VG6 kuukautta sitten (muokattu)

Metalcore Djent messhuggah Deathcore Metal alternative Heavy metal Power metal Dark metal..... more?

Corey Taylor9996665 kuukautta sitten (muokattu)

What is this?? Babymetal 2.0 kawaii core?? not bad.....

Metal Darke5 kuukautta sitten (muokattu)

Yes, the enhanced version of the metalcore, a pity that are japanese, or not, Dir en Grey... the he had success... Equal has, the people of now alone hear to bands generics americans than all are copy or of Slipknot, Miw , Lamb of god or Linkin Park.... But I subscribe 私が購読します... Arrive here for nocturnal bloodlust

B A B Y M E T A L Death5 kuukautta sitten

Here we are consuming generic music, and while in japanese play mixing of various styles of metal en one alone song.

Fear and loathing in las VG5 kuukautta sitten

The Japanese metal humiliate to metal of US in two times, definitely... until the power metal japanese is much better than of the US

MXM metalhead6 kuukautta sitten (muokattu)

Bullet for my Valentine copied to BMTH, and here the japanese invented a new genre "BLACK-CORE-DJENT" or "DJENT-CORE-DEATH-POWER" = Djentcore = Blackcoredjent.. WTF.... ha ha ha ha

That's a very refined sound for a band's first release. It's hard to not go "this band is going to places" just from the presentation, especially the production values on the pv my god.

I love what they do in theory, but I have a problem: 

that guy sounds a mixture of the 2010'a incarnations of Sono and the guy from Alice Nine. I can't stand neither, and this is seriously hampering my enjoyment of this band.

I wish it would have been karma after all ;_____;

isn't being single like, about going to dates and doing whatever you want? since when has singleness been about some defiant stance against going out.

i'm still having fun on tinder because I don't care what happens. I don't think about this stuff at all and I'm enjoying life

@Takadanobabaalien

That album rules. The second one is a bit heavier on the duller tracks, although Hypnotise is all time top 10

 @Bear

There's something about stormzy's delivery that I find off-kilter. I like that song, but I recently tried the new album and got bored. As far as rap music goes I really like the most over the top hyper masculine stuff the best, and he is a bit strange somehow. That track is really good tho

idk if you'll like this or not, but this is a famous grime album on the internet 

https://rateyourmusic.com/release/unauth/roadside-gs/grimetapes_com-roadside-gs/

When I think of how grime sounds I always think of this one first.

I believe jigsaw is a fan of that album as well haha. That was actually the first Marduk album I ever tried, but I was like 15 back then so almost 10 years ago jeez. I do like that super secret band Mortuus is alledgedly on, Sigrblot 

Tourism at home: Disposable goes to Hyvinkää. 

First and foremost I am upset that I paid 21.80 euros for the train tickets and saw not a single ticket inspector neither to or from Hyvinkää. It's common to not see a single one in Helsinki, but I didn't realise that even when you're going out of the way that there's still nobody there. I could have bought twice more muikku ( a top 3 finnish food no doubt. )

I make my way there at about to the "city" at around 18-19 and check out the sights, have a few beers at the park and enjoy the unsightly hot weather for once. The town landmark is the church designed by Aarno Ruusuvuori that I went to take pictures off immediately. Unfortunately you couldn't get inside past 16, but I met a nice lady outside who took a picture of me in front of the entrance and we had a good chat about the architect, the town itself and how nice it is to have festivals like that in other places than the big cities. You know it's  Finland when even the older folk are so desensitised to metal culture that they don't even bring it up. In eastern countries you can get around for months and not see a single metalhead, while in Helsinki I average seeing one on every street I go to that has people. That's pretty incredible when you think about it.

I get into the festival area right when Firespawn started playing. Here are the cliffs of the four bands I "saw" 

Firespawn: Shit sux. I just checked that apparently there's some entombed crew on this, and honestly I don't know what that means anymore as I haven't kept up with them past the first album, but nonetheless it was so boring, like bounce faux old school death metal. Between the songs you heard gems like "AND THIS NEXT ONE IS CALLED..:" to be followed by a riff that sounded like something off Morbid Angel's HIV+ album Domination. 

NIghtbringer: I left Firespawn after three songs to charge my phone. Before the concert I met some nice Americans who had seen this band a bunch of times, and somehow that convinced me that I'd probably be able to dig it. NO SUCH LUCK was tremendously bored during this one. I took a 15 second video clip that's like new housing architecture: it has nothing distinct about it, and could be any band from any country. Maybe it's massive and immersive if you can still fuck with this style, I could not. 

Marduk: This was touted as a 20th anniversary Heaven Shall Burn set. You know you are hearing 90's riffs again cause you can memorise them quickly and find them very pleasant to ear. Live it was palatable, but nonetheless I think this is like the textbook definition of norsecore? I don't fuck with this album (or this band for that matter) on record at all, but they were rock 'n roll professionals with Wacken tier MC's and everything ( STEELFEST HOW THE FUCK ARE YOU GUIZE DOING!!?!?!? MAKE SOME NOISE" ) so I can't say it was like the last two bands I saw. Good for sitting on a picnic table, drinking beer and tindering. 

Peste Noire: FUCK. First of all you can tell the mood as definitely changed from all the Wacken businessmen and mystical judeo-cristian tremolo metal; the foreign fan contingency was strong, roman salutes and sieg heils resounded and before the first song ended I had counted four fights right in my vicinity, and by the end I had lost count. The danger was brought back to black metal! I definitely had a good time oogling at all the French and Russian alt-right haircut types in the audience and their implementation of a zero tolerance policy towards Finnish drunks. 

The band was everything I hoped for. Famine is such a character outside of the stage so it figures that he feels large on stage as well ( literally as well since he appears to have been lifting. ) It more like a punk show in a way, especially when that guy from Baise ma hache came on stage for a couple of songs. Fucking Peste Noire really is just wonderfully unique and intense music that's very participatory at the same time, especially if can actually speak French. I just tried to do my best Famine impression and shriek something unintelligible. I'm really a fan of a show like this that maintain a grave severity and some bloody dignity without being stiff: no stupid mc's, no gimmicks, just black metal terror. 

http://www.setlist.fm/setlist/peste-noire/2016/salle-des-fetes-de-st-martin-theressus-saint-martin-terressus-france-3bfadc44.html this is pretty much the set, although some things I believe were in a different order and no encore. The Chevrotine cover was so good that I'm probably going to get that album later. Absolutely a fantastic show 'cause I know and greatly enjoy every song of theirs. Famine is a legend.

After the festival I met a band member from an unnamed Finnish band with whom I chatted a little bit, and watched as him sieg heiling his friends as they came out of the festival area. FINNNNNLAAAAAND

Peste noire in 2 hours 30 mins FUCKING STOKED and drunk also. Firespawn sounds like shit. They played a riff that sounded like morbid angel's domination. Gross

Do they still play sadisgate

I got into them with that song

4 minutes ago, Bear said:

Do us all a favor and see Zuriaake. Just do it!

One is forbidden to leave the festival area so it's very unlike that I'll head over there so early. Either way I'll try to keep up the thread tradition and write a reportage of the events that transpire!

things my wardrobe consists of: rick owens, yohji, cdg, maison margiela, adidas, acne, cmmn swdn, one tiny finnish brand nomennescio. 

now that i'm a bit more monied I've developed this obsession of getting really basic gucci stuff, and also a hunt for ann demeulemeester and vintage ysl.

I loathe summer 'cause I need my coats for comfort. I'll just do a rick owens shirt + yohji trousers + formal shoes until the weather allows proper layering again.

Got my ticket. Weather miraculously changed from snowing in a horizontal line to +24, which as far as I'm concerned might as well be the ovens. 

Sales are more about just momentum that's caused by numerous factors and not some vague notion of what's better musically. Around 420 it did seem like they were on top of the world and going straight up... and just didn't go anywhere afterwards. Definitely appeared to plateau in venue size at least. I think the Emily single came with a live of Sadisgate that was performed at the same venue that was mentioned in this thread earlier, and that Agitato Grimoire live is from there also. 

inb4 this is merely a ploy to kickstart their careers again

vk album of the year coming up 

I honestly usually don't really care about disbandments, hiatuses and everything else that I cannot affect personally even if they're faves, but looking at those setlists just got me a bit down. Really on my hands and knees praying that tsuzuku perseveres and comes back in some form or another.

Living and breathing for Sremmlife 2. Swae Lee is on fire in general like Perfect Pint from Ransom 2, jesus. Ransom 2 🔥🔥

ˆ afaik that stormzy song has quite an, uncommon sound for grime. The stuff that I'm familiar with sounds more like a British counterpart for mid 2000's south like young jeezy. 

Did you try Skepta's last album? Along with Stormzy he is probably the biggest import atm.  Shutdown is hugely popular here ( i'm not the biggest fan ) 

Opportunity to see Peste Noire this weekend

Problem: I'm going to have to take a train to another city and then the last one leaves when they close the festival area, and then when I'd make it back at 3am I'd have to walk from the central railway station to my place because the trains don't run and the night busses cost an arm and a leg. 

I'd go there late enough to just catch the last three probably. Really a big fan of Peste Noire and I'd get the ticket for free ( tho 20 euros for train and another 20 for getting drunk ) but taking the ghetto train back and walking like 30 minutes when I just want to sleep fsgdfgdhfdgh

I loathe the constipated vampire aristocrat gimmick so everyone from gackt to klaha to post-lareine kamijo  and their ilk I can't stand for one bit. Klaha especially was only gauged to do good stuff with Gardenia because of the song writing, for which I presume he was not responsible. His previous band is terrible bush league nu wave and they even ripped off Billie Jean for christ sake. 

13 minutes ago, Shmilly said:

Case in point: the song with the rain sampling isn't 'Romance Grey', it's 'Ookami Shounen to Doku Ringo'. 'Itoshi teru' isn't even correct Japanese, so you didn't even take the time to check the romanization before complaining about the song. This is just sloppy writing.

 

oops yeah i fucked that up. just swiftly googled and was 2 lazy to copypaste the original titles from the files. 

I wrote what I look forward from them, and then what I perceive they gave regarding this paradigm ( this is why I don't score also, to emphasise subjectivity. I just don't feel like pussyfooting and adding I THINK or IN MY OPINION in front of every sentence just to appease people ). Don't give a shite what anyone else wants or thinks, and 3 was indeed not what I was hoping to see. From them I pray for one thing only, which is indeed a certain stylistic direction that is not this one but what they've done a few times before. I call it like I see it. Listened to it probably five or six times now, i think it's tired af save for masturbation

Iirc there was a pretty horrendous south american visual kei compilation that was uploaded on this board way back. They were kind of nu-kei-ish I recall, and also I think one of the bands had a member who posted here ( he might have in fact been the uploader. )

I do like how everything written here has been reduced to "white elitism." The only way shitty local rock bands can cope with flopping like they do is by telling themselves that everyone is a hater and that they're doing a public service by existing. 

6 minutes ago, nekkichi said:

no, not really

they've been stagnating and losing sales (and fans?) since 2014

http://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/542980/rank/single/

 

sadie was a way bigger/more recognizable name before the hiatus, despite having less possessed demonic weaboonetgya

oh wow the latest single selling almost as bad as their first ones. 

btw didn't also fucking dezert of all bands play at a larger venue than these guys ever did? At least that's what it looked like visually iirc

47 minutes ago, Tokage said:

Genres you love but can't stand most bands of?

 

N E O F O L K

Oh my god that's the fucking definition of it. I love the concept, I think old DI6 is fabulous and every time I put on Nada or the Brown Book or World That Summer I get the urge to find out more

then the genre is a bunch of corny nazis or hipsters  in either in knitted sweaters or really hamming it up with some bastardised version of Laibach. DI6 is awesome because it really dug deep into that whole romantic mysticism of evropa and sounded like it was channeling something ancient with the nationalist socialist disco music. The worst are those bands who put on oldie time peasant pants and play the fucking fiddle. That's not folk, that's a mouldy museum piece appropriated for contemporary times in such a way that every ancestor is shamed in the process. 

kazuki from screw spat in my eye

it got really red and irritated for a couple of days