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I'm expecting news on pretty much the same timeframe as with Lycaon. Not far fetched to think that this was merely a ploy to get away from their label.

Yeah not going to lie, this is just shit. My thing is that I like pretty much all visual kei by default so I can listen to this also, but nonetheless I'm going to call spade a spade here.

Tenten is such a strong nu-kei vocalist that his presence is going to make a lot of things palatable; his vocals have that unpredictability and personality where every performance is distinctly unique, even when they're some dull headbanging number where he's just grunting. It's a good trait to have in 2017, when those bog-standard metalcore numbers are on the rise. It's the rest of it that's wrong,  like es-fucking-specially San, whom I'm sure has only been part of good things, like early Nega, only in spite of himself. I can listen to this for sure - it's just that I can listen to a lot of things that I really shouldn't. While I want to think they'll get decent in a few month's time ( I think this is an improvement over their last release ), the fact happens to be that they have both San and Tenten in the fold, so it's rather unlikely that this band will stick around for long.

Sometimes I wish MH would die so I'd get bands like LACK-CO out of my life. Their EP sucked too.

It's still completely up in the air as to how re-recorded songs will end up being. Something like Girugamesh' BEST or even to the degree of Dir en grey's remakes? Or just a really cruddy remastering that just sounds loud, with just maybe Ruki's new shitty one-note clean vocals if we're lucky. If history is any indication, I think a lot of people here are due for disappointment. It'd be a criminal offense to not remake Taion the proper way, but we'll see in what'll transpire in March.

Best vk band ever

I've simultaneously picked up cheese and wine as a hobby. Double whammy for future gout and cardiac arrest. 

Alcohol is a very expensive and inconvenient hobby to have in Finland, but by making some common sense decisions and monetary sacrifices it can be done. I've pretty much barred myself from bulk lager, house wines and my favorite: "the cheapest whisky please!" This means less, and more efficient drinking, which is not a bad state of affairs to have. It's a far cry from what I got used to in eastern Europe though - not that I'm not already plotting my escape from Finland for good. 

I'm now having a 36 month aged Comte with Burmester 20 Year Old Tawny Port. I'm too much of a dilettante at the present to actually give any informed opinion on either, other than I like it. I ought to get some book on the subject and come back. 

I was very surprised about Bathroom not being included, since they've been using a new intro for it and everything for a long time now. 

he's single in case anyone was wondering

lol the only interesting tracks are in the limited edition 

Bump. This is not musical, but worth noting nonetheless ( also helps that I was tremendously amused by noticing this just a few minutes ago )

Kyo ripping off Marilyn Manson's Antichrist Superstar stage gimmick. The moves and the podium are exactly the same.

If I recall correctly: Manson had started doing it in 1996 and the footage from this video is from February 1997. The Japanese tour leg of Manson's apparently begun in March of 1997, so in that case either they had seen footage beforehand, ie. meaning that deg were fans, or they both ripped it off from the same source. This is really 1:1 though, so I find quite unlikely that there's any other explanation other than Kyo appropriating it after having seen it on tape. 

I'm sure some people remember this, but there used to be this western made clip about visual kei on youtube, where a guy interviews Dir en grey ( iirc macabre era, based on the outfits ) and asks about a possible Marilyn Manson influence, which the Dir en grey members being interviewed strongly decline - one which just happened to be Kyo. 

Other huge visual kei bands to have ripped off Marilyn Manson were, iirc: Phobia, The Gazette ( possibly multiple times ) and D'espairsray. There must be many, many others that I don't recall off the top of my head. 

Reference to their white outfits from 2003? That anniversary set is going to be the shit

I think it's time to close registration again

Oh christ, the only two big names I couldn't care less about coming here in tandem: Versailles and now Matenrou Opera. I paid for Satsuki even, so these two are literally where I draw the line.

I'll at least check out the line. If it's over 35 euros then I'm skipping for sure.

They lost me when they released that compilation as an album. 

All the best to the vocalist because e had a cute voice, a good hustle and a knack for making bum jealous haters mad on their twitters... oh and I hope that one guy from Cindykate would join a better band this time. 

I hate to be kind of hit and run band posting here, but this is kind of a big deal so I give myself the liberty. Migos' Culture is out. 

It's not that long ago when Migos just seemed to be around as this old lion that no one had the courage to put down due to mutual gratitude. The impact of their 2015 was like nothing at all at the very best, and it's therefore all the more surprising they dun go release Bad & Boujee, and now they're huge.  That's a late fucking career resurgence for rap music. I listened to this once, thought it was aight. T-shirt and Bad & Boujee were the best tracks innit. Sufficient throughout, but I already know which tracks I'm going to keep playing and which I won't. 

Been largely out of the internet for this year until now, so I have no clue what's due for a release and I even just found about this off of youtube recommendations. 

Didn't see this posted 

Had the chance to see them live like 8-9 years back with Aicle, but I was such an ingrate that I didn't like neither them back then. Cue a few years forward and now it's my top music related regret 4ever. That was the kind of fantasy booking I wouldn't even dare imagine now.

Needless to say that this band is good.

Oh no suii

I wanted him to either Metis Gretel, or ditch the fucking cornball castles and jousting fanfiction gimmicks entirely, wear dresses and casual wigs and sing something nice and pleasant that I could play for my mother.

Now we have some drummer letting it fucking RIP like a middle school band member in front of his parents at a graduation, while sui's channeling full force all his worst musical and aesthetical tendecies. All my fears have come true, but I'll probably end up tolerating it just the same because it's sui.

45 minutes ago, nekkichi said:

shitter was an anime opening.

 

sony did same thing w. mucc after they got signed, it does not help with long-term sales at all.

Didn't mucc come back in sales a little bit? I recall something happening to that effect.

The strangest rebounding I can think of is Miyavi reaching the abject commercial rock bottom with what's my name? For him only to come back to relative prominence with the album right after it. No idea how he is doing now though

9 hours ago, herpes said:

 

i'm cackling

 

 

these tours have got to be some kind of tax loophole, there's no way he's making money from this

My theory is this

They ( Sana, Satsuki, Adams etc. ) know some fangirl/s in the east who are well-monied enough to pay for these guys to fly over to perform and sleep on their sofabeds. The only money made comes from merch and taking the bottles of the complimentary beer from the venue to the recycling center and cashing in BIG.

I'm not sure how it is in other countries, but in Finland the venue Gloria, where all these bands go to, gets some gubment money funneled in and therefore is able to host even the most obscure events at times. Getting that venue in Tallinn probably isn't too costly either for obvious reasons.

As an aside: my favorite flop kei moment ever was when Orochi was booked to perform at a school gymnasium in Sweden. Dunno if that ever took place.

I mean it's almost like a decade old development at this point, but gazette's sales plummeted after DIM. Them doing the dome was probably the turning point, even though stuff like shiver was apparently quite popular.

If even satsuki didn't visit yout country then you know you're in trouble

Tallinn gon get LIT

Visual kei boat cruise from helsinki to the new vk capital of the baltics?!?!

The sun hot, water is wet, kiryu's new single is going to sound like the one before it.

Decent new look though, but oscillating between darker and brighter colors, and doing accordingly so musically, is still par for the course. Enjoyed the last single tho so w/e

I wonder how artistically fulfilling it is to 1:1 rip off the gazette's sound and aesthetics. 

My good Sir, don't even entertain buying into that "looks don't matter" nonsense. The placement of every hair follicle is both an artistic as well as a political statement. Approach to taste should always be entirely holistic, and I refuse to believe there has ever been an auteur who has dressed bad. It is merely the mediocrity propaganda of idiots who think that when a visual element is so closely associated with rock music-the dressing up in cargo shorts and a backwards cap somehow transcendents these barriers to make the music "legitimate". With rock every promo picture, and even omitting to have them is a conscious decision in response to the tradition; even the most banal t shirt and shorts outfit is falsely considered a culturally neutral stance when in fact the opposite is true! Everything one does with ones appearance is a statement of values. The peacock who decides to not to ruffle its feathers will die childless! Colourful hair and leather pants are our strenght and virtue.