Karma’s Hat

New Goatmoon isn't shit? You think it sounds different from what their last two have been like? I only like their first and everything I've heard from their later output has been so fucking _bad_. I haven't heard this latest one, but it'd be quite the 180 if it's a sudden improvement.

Right now in a piss-stenched ship cabin recharging my phone. The life. I'd rather just die right away than be in the same place doing the same shit every day. For so many years I was just grinding in my shit flat, trying to introduce variety by going to different cafes, pubs and restaurants every day and really at the end of the day doing fuckall. Now my work allows me to do the lion's share on the laptop, so fuck Finland lol. This year I had a good month in Europe and this is my second tour. I would have gone earlier had terrible luck with my health not intervened ( thanks to the variety of different foreign bacteria in foods abroad for one, barf. ) This time I'll be away for about three weeks going around in Hungary-Serbia-Ukraine and then I'll hit back home for a little while, and in May I'll do the Baltics in succession. I try to save as much money as possible by staying in hostel dorm rooms and such, and it's not as bad as one might think. I really enjoy meeting new people anyway and so far all my experiences have been excellent. Really the only cons I have come across have been: 1. Don't let anyone else do your laundry. They will ruin your clothes 2. Too much drinking 3. Not that much exercise if any 4. Having a good diet is hard. This time I'm going to have more salads, less vodka and do push ups and shadowbox when nobody is around. It's still worth it of course.

My biggest gripe with the Dir en grey live recordings of the past god knows how many years is the mumbling and garbling. I think Kyo has improved leaps and bounds in this department as of late, but there are still times where the growls aren't very clean and half of the vowels end up stillborn. I'm not asking for a technically sound performance ( Kyo of 2003/2004 mumbling and leaving out words was awesome ), I just loathe how it sounds to my ear. There's some highlights on this though. I like the way he does the chorus for Embryo, Umbrella is really intense and nice renditions of FILTH and Audience Killer Loop as well. MARMALADE CHAINSAW is so much better here than on the Arche DVD. Disappointed about the new versions of Bottom of the death valley and Obscure, and why are Inferno and Un deux on this thing when Ugly isn't.

That this band is still going is nothing short of a miracle. I'd go see them if they came here tbqh

Latest single wasn't that great. Wouldn't be caught dead listening to the title track and the B-sides were the average fare for these guys. The EP before this though was their best release and I'm not willing to deter my anticipation based on one shite A-side. They have a sound now and they better not go fuck it all up.

You won me over with the lives

Lol was caught off guard and fell for it. Good one.

I dare people to listen to that thing from beginning to end. That kind of flaccid low testosterone arena rock is just about the worst thing in the world next to poverty and cancer. I don't think it's as spectacularly bad as born to be free, although I wonder who on earth would listen to it in 2017 for god sake.

I haven't heard this one, but I have a hard time imagining it could be any worse than Born to be free, the corniest fucking limp dicked ballad from a bunch of old rockers with one foot firmly in the retirement home bingo room. I sincerely could not imagine a song that's more reprehensible to me in what it is and what it represents.

I think it's going to come out it's just that it will have about 4 new tracks and one of them is an intro.

Same. Well I've been lukewarm for a while, but now they're up there as my favorite active vk band. The latest live dist was flames

I could have lived without ever seeing that photo.

they got the wrong vocalist tho

Need dates for those macabre shows already. If they're after 15th of July then I'm fucked.

Oh god you're right And now I've gone 180. At least the music isn't as bad as he looks.

Where my under-world bois at? It's in my top list in order after koheisa, gendai and modern garde.

Wish the music was as good as he looked.

Spent two grand on a macbook so I could look important while working at cafes. Now a fifty in the hole at a wine bar god bless living the life so you bums won't have to

I NEET'd seven years. Anyone willing to test their NEETing mettle against the unofficial record?

Guys, I don't think that EU tour is getting rescheduled.

A legendary epoch for me personally, even as far as my life really, was the heyday of the chat. I think I started appearing there around late 2011 and up until late 2013. Anyone who was there at the time knows exactly what I'm talking about and how special that thing was. At one point you could rest assured that someone would be there all the time, like Yasu or slsr or somebody else who seemed to be on the computer day and night. I pretty much spend as much time there as I could myself, and I when I left the house I had chat on mobile and when I got home I logged in with the computer! People who are new to this forum cannot even begin to imagine how many classic happenings took place there from those long running gags to all the fights like the big one that eventually sounded its death knell. I try to relate a couple of favorite stories that I remember off the top of my head. I try to be as brief as possible so that people will actually read all this lol One fairly recent character was my boi Kahzooey Tunasama from Scandal Heaven, who upon introducing himself proclaimed that he was going to leave the forum in September of something. Then he kept post-poning his exit until he made the ill-fated thread He showed up to the chat a couple of times too, but wasn't all that enthralling a person. We did go trolling on scandal heaven one day, and I think at least Cat and sai took the literal piss. I haven't laughed that much too many times in my life. When raburr joined and dove-eyed and fuzzy tailed I hazed the fuck out of him in the chat. For the life of me I don't remember what he said, but I kept copypasting some nonsense supposedly under his name where he had said something to or about sai, and sai played along and pretended that what I wrote was legit. I'm surprised he even stayed after all that lolol great guy though. The ones I love I treat the worst. Back in 2012 I had to go and practice dancing for my lovely lady at the upcoming prom, and being the age of the chat as it were I was pretty much in there every chance I got. Chat when I rode the tram; chat when I waited to hit the ballroom; chat when I was at mcdonalds afterwards and before ( true og's remember I was at Mcdonald's every day, a habit I continue to this day god bless ). On one fateful day Maiku had bought a book from Barnes & Noble or some shit and had manage to get the dumb glitter ornament from the cover into his eye, and now he was going about it in the chat as I was leaving home. When I was riding the tram he was there; when I was about to start and when I stopped ceased dancing, he was there; when I went to Mcdonald's for like an hour he was still there going on about the hazards of gold dust and any possible lawsuits he might be able to undertake against barnes and noble. This might have went on for hours and hours without a pause. We don't have that shop in Finland, but if they have went bankrupt unexpectedly in recent years, now you know why. I'll write more as they come to me, and I hope some of the other OG chat members could contribute. This forum has been an instrumental part of my life ever since I joined, so like eight years. Over the years I've met like over ten yous irl as friends, enemies and even romantic liaison. I want to give a shoutout to all the original yellow name crew members. Also thank you especially to all the characters that sojourned in the chat back in the day. I'd like to thank everyone individually, and I even tried, but honestly there's just so many and it'd be a great injustice to honor one and omit the other. Even those who were only there for a couple of times but contributed to the laughs either with their wit, stupidity or both. You know who you are

God forbid someone says what they think about music.

I don't know, a lot of these seem like idiot weeaboo things to say rather than something people who are new to visual kei say. Youtube comments are rancid, but you may find out that they've been liking visual kei videos since like 2008. Dumb western fan rumours are the worst. Yesterday after going through this topic a little bit, I went to see if there was anything stupid in the comments for Gazette's Taion ( the most entry level song I could think of at the time ) and literally in the first string of conversation there was a person claiming that Ruki had been raped. Citation needed. Using supposed real names for bandmembers. Those Dir en grey ones are the most notorious since they've been proven to be blatantly false. The complete abandon of labeling bands angura and eroguro. The last.fm tags for both are nonsense and I demand a Japanese source of any band outside of the two or three obvious raccoon white face bands having called themselves an eroguro band specifically, as some fans insist. I don't give a shit what idiotic brain dead gaijins call or deduce them to be, I want a legitimate source from a magazine and etc.