Ikna

2016 surely is a funny year

Where to europe do you wanna move where you think it's better? The UK right now are in a bit of a chaos (no one seems to know wether or not they really pull the Brexit through). Lots of EU states had a political shift towards the far right. I bet all my money that the Nazis in disguise here will win the next election in my country. So yeah, at the moment everywhere is shit. Better we start colonizing Mars soon and get off the earth. Due to my inactivity in the interwebz I totally missed the crazy_nympha drama.But then I saw this: ROFL, someone's salty and now lashing out on Dowloaders, while they temselves probably leeched here for ages.

edited post, because mh didn't want to show the hisame pic :/

Deleted most of my “selfies” in this thread, because my face is trash. But well, here is something decent

I am probably the only person who likes their Shuuen album the most and dislikes their debut. Oni to Kage just sounded like a rehash of old Dir en grey songs. I can just listen to the originals, considering how similiar some songs are to each other. With Shuuen they at least attempted to do something of their own. And I personally loved it a lot, because it was a wonderful trip through nostalgic memory lane. But I agree that this album didn't turn out the way as expected. After their last VA songs and the insomnia single I expected a lot, especially a heavy style change (to something more fresh and unique than their current standard sound). The VAs had also nice Madeth gray'll and Malice Mizer vibes. I wish they would have explored that further. I am glad though, that they kept experimenting more with guitar solos and melodies this time. But yeah, the same-y screams get bland and grating after a while. Also yeah, in the Blue is such a fine nice song with a wonderufl melodic 90s VK touch. A damn shame they cut it so short!

High Quality Scans of their photoset which came with their recent album

MOAR STUFF

Sounds really good. Their first released songs were really nice too. What bothers me is though, that they could have just turned those one-coin singles into one maxi (but typically VK selling strategy…)

It's almost june and the weather here is way too cold and fickle. I hate to go out when it's hot and sunny only to freeze in a rainy storm 20 minutes later.

So VK bands have finally discovered witchhouse?

Not sure what to think about these yet as the preview is rather bland, though their looks are interesting. The face chin mask is really old hat (and it originally came from the Manga kissxxx, since then 100 VK bands have worn it. I agree that Kiwamu is rather creative-less tho). Their costumes really remind me of Grieva as well, which isn't so surprising as the costume maker is the same.

classic gothic punk from the early 80s. ALSO are a highly underrated gothic rock band from the 90s. Some of their tapes were remastered and can be bought on bandcamp, it also seems they are active again under a new name. A new and recent discovery, Killing Time are a russian post-punk/goth rock band. There is a lot of good stuff coming from eatern europe right now (as there have lots of jewels from poland or the soviet union in the past before as well). Another russian goth band that's good:

Shame these singles are all live limited. Their live stuff is hard to come by :/

Glad the Avatars are now bigger. Things look much better now. However on mobile I don't see the Monochrome-heaven banner (or is this intentional?) Also did the function to view all status updates vanish? You can only see the recent ones

Continuing on the debate about AINS, Kuroyuri's sudden member change and departure from the label does possibly count as well. Considering that Yukika is just as cunning as Kisaki it wouldn't even come to a surprise if it's revealed that AINS was doing shady business. To me personally the sudden deaths of VK bandomen were really shocking (Daisuke, Yuuze, Isshi…)

some recent (and older) stuff

Shit's been crazy in Europe since the Paris and Brussel attacks. Today my train had to be stopped because it was suspected there was a bomb on board… possibly a false alarm, but it still freaked everyone out.

I hope it's possible to get larger Avatars in the future, as well as being able to disable the scrolling banner (it just really bugs me and takes up unnecessary space.) Is it normal btw that I don't see any status replies and have to click on the users profile to see them?

Kagerou were really amazing. One of the first VK bands I listened to back in the day. Also one of the few groups who changed their style a lot, yet it never made me cease to like their music. Punk, ballads, Nu Metal or fast tempo songs, I like them all. I didn however stop listening to them after Daisuke's death. I don't know why, but suddenly it was really strange to listen to his voice and knowing he was dead. Recently I got back into them. Still sad that the we will never hear more of them or Daisuke's voice.

Blood on the Dancefloor, Brokencyde and Black Veil Brides. Basically all of the faux-screamo and scene kid shit. Their delusional fans too.

Thanks, Lestat. I wasn't talking about anyone on the forum, nor was my post intended to attack anyone either, so please chill, CAT. I am not even getting how you were reading that in my text. Maybe it's another case of internet based misunderstanding. But I was merely sharing my real life based opinion on this matter. That's what this thread is for after all.

I hate beer, wine, vodka… I hate all kinds of alcoholic drinks. Don't like the taste of it at all and the burning or warm feeling in my throat reminds me of heartburn. The only things I can tolerate are those soft drinks with little alcohol, because they taste mostly like normal lemonades. I don't care of that's lame. My rule is: if I don't like it, then I don't consume it. Also my only drugs are music, drawing and chocolate.

I don't find Mia's face appealing at all. To me he is a good example of plastic surgery gone wrong. His face looks so unnatural and stiff, in some photoshoots it often reaches the maximum of the uncanny valley

Album can now pre-ordered on CDJapan. I will def get this. Video is really cool, song is a bit generic and formulaic though. But after they delivered their last songs on the Ains V.A. I have hopes to hear something fresh and exciting from them. Def buy that album.