Karma’s Hat

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.

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.

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

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

I think they peaked at 420 for sure. Before the singles run that came after it they were quite an adventurous band all things considered. Emotional Karma is a hodgepodge of different styles from Dir en grey larping to straight SADS to what they eventually ended up sounding like later. They had a few dramatic ballads that clocked in north of 6 minutes, two minutes blurbs of SADS made formless and heavier and in general the stylistic makeup of this band is really the sum of the parts of the members interests. MiA's hard-on for shredding contained in very concise nu vk packages with the least predictable vocalist since like prime kyo of 2002. People who've been calling them generic have been blatantly wrong; they might've been generic for the their own form by end of their run, but not once were they a dime-a-dozen vk band.

Honestly nothing brings the cringe quite like seeing people comment on underground metal culture without having any actual insight about it. Every time I see any one of the usual cliches being regurgitated I don't even have to read half-way through a sentence to determine that the person's familiarity with the genre consists of giggling to an Immortal video and a whole bunch of hearsay.

Been like this for me since 2015. It's the only thing I have genuine enthusiasm for ( well vk holds me hostage, but it's like sticking around with a wife who has stage IV brain cancer while you're still hoping that she'll pull a miracle and make it through as you're mopping up the chemo hair from the floor and the hospital orderlies are laughing at your tears ) Absolutely no idea what my 2017 list would consist right now

That's almost what I would have written about DIMLIM. It's a fucking mess and some of the production choices are ridiculous, but that's what makes it awesome. Like throwing a plate of spaghetti on the wall. The clean vox on the chorus I think could be a tad bit more adventurous tho.

They have been good to me lately. The premier band from their label at this point.

I believe you are correct, since apparently they still do have lives scheduled and according to a random translation I saw one of them said something to the effect of "please support us while we are still going." People on tumblr are wont to disregard citation needed.

So apparently from what I gathered this was very sudden and so far the hiatus is only till the end of 2017, and then they'll figure out whether they will continue or not? I tried looking sum on tumblr, but unfortunately the individual member posts were only translated in Spanish.

Another day, another Kiryu DVD. One day it would be nice to see one of these

I've thought about this a lot and I think I've come up with a solution We need to ban americans, scandinavians and anyone who's been into vk for less than a decade from the scene.

SOMEONE START SCOURING THE INTERNET FOR RUMOURS AND POST THEM HERE I NEED TO KNOW MOOOOOREEEEEE There was a bunch of things about Meto's injury, so surely the Japanese fangirls are already hard at work on tanuki and where-ever else.

Surprised just because I can't imagine them being in other projects at this point, aside from MiA. I don't mean to say that I felt like this was coming or anything, but I was listening to the newest song just yesterday and thinking that it has been awfully quiet on the Mejibray front lately. *puts on tinfoil hat* also it's quite sudden from them to go a dozen releases a year to a hiatus MAYBE SOMETHING HAPPENED There's also plenty of recent examples of bands going to hiatus and coming back, especially as of late.