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Everything sounds amazing! Need this in my life.

They just released this MV and it's SOOOO goooOOoooodOOd !! I love it *-* 
Also, why does the singer sound so familiar? He reminds me so much of the singer from UNSRAW 

The second song sounds also pretty epic. The double-bass on the drums  Holy moly it's so sick !!

They just released this MV and it's SOOOO goooOOoooodOOd !! I love it *-* 
Also, why does the singer sound so familiar? He reminds me so much of the singer from UNSRAW 

I came into this topic thinking "there's no way this band's name romanizes as Glim Gardo" and wanted to kinda mock it, but the music has actually super impressed me and I can't wait to listen to it all the time. 

Do they seriously make their support drummer play behind a screen? That's kinda harsh!

Well, it is what the title says. コロナウイルス is forcing people to stay home in Japan and the japs have a nice philosophy of spreading hope in times of despair, so they went there and performed anyway and are being nice and posting the gigs that got cancelled online for all to see, including us, poor gaijin. No live audience, no staff, etc.
 
These are the ones I've seen so far:
 
 
 
 
Let's make this collaborative so do share other links here if you know of any. I'll keep updating this list.
 
Previously unreleased lives uploaded for viewing due to the Corona situation are also to be freely shared in this thread - MH Staff
 
And bear in mind most of these gigs will be available for a limited time only, so hurry up and watch or download the ones you're interested in watching ASAP.

They're in the studio today as well, so based on that they're not changing plans on releasing something this spring. I just wish they'd make an official announcement with more info. The wait is killing me

They just released this MV and it's SOOOO goooOOoooodOOd !! I love it *-* 
Also, why does the singer sound so familiar? He reminds me so much of the singer from UNSRAW 

Sources say that he is currently detained for breaking the sacred Japanese social rule of not eating while walking....
 
 

This was absolute perfection in every single way!

They just released this MV and it's SOOOO goooOOoooodOOd !! I love it *-* 
Also, why does the singer sound so familiar? He reminds me so much of the singer from UNSRAW 

There's one guy making these top PV videos on youtube on a monthly basis and when you get through one of them you'll think "I never heard of any of these fucking bands" and they sometimes actually look like they got money behind them as well. 
 
 
fantastic resource to see what's going on the scene as long as you know what you're getting into. of course most of the bands sound "generic" because the amount of bands is absurdly high and that's how this music always sounds like anyway with slight variations. 

I think a big reason why some people would like VK to get more traction again is so that the younger bands can start to play overseas. Sure, there are still some bands coming over but not as many as it used to be during the hype-phase. For many people, me included, it has been the only chance to see my favorite bands live and not just through a screen. I'm very grateful for that and I hope other vk-fans that are young now can make the same experiences. 

I think a big reason why some people would like VK to get more traction again is so that the younger bands can start to play overseas. Sure, there are still some bands coming over but not as many as it used to be during the hype-phase. For many people, me included, it has been the only chance to see my favorite bands live and not just through a screen. I'm very grateful for that and I hope other vk-fans that are young now can make the same experiences. 

I think a big reason why some people would like VK to get more traction again is so that the younger bands can start to play overseas. Sure, there are still some bands coming over but not as many as it used to be during the hype-phase. For many people, me included, it has been the only chance to see my favorite bands live and not just through a screen. I'm very grateful for that and I hope other vk-fans that are young now can make the same experiences. 

I think a big reason why some people would like VK to get more traction again is so that the younger bands can start to play overseas. Sure, there are still some bands coming over but not as many as it used to be during the hype-phase. For many people, me included, it has been the only chance to see my favorite bands live and not just through a screen. I'm very grateful for that and I hope other vk-fans that are young now can make the same experiences. 

this may be off topic but this topic reminds me of what i always wanted to say about mh.
 
idk what we overseas fans can do to make vk more popular than what it is, but one thing i think doable is to make mh become more popular.
vk may be dead one day but mh should live on after that. personally i always see mh as a very underrated japanese music forum that has high potential to grow bigger.
 
if the stats on similarweb aren't lying, it's very impressive that we have around 1.3m page views monthly (from 200k total visits * 6.6 page views per a visit). what i mean is mh already has a huge user base in hands but the engagements of the content on the forum are a lot less compared to it. for example, we have very few concurrent registered users online as you can see from the image below. it's only ~20 members online. (700 guests are mostly crawlers i believe). i know that it's taken at a random time of a day but usually it's still not significantly more than this either considering we have over 9.6k members registered. additionally, we can have more followers on facebook and twitter from our daily visitors if we want to. (it hurts to see that mh which is the source of almost everything japanese rock related has far less likes than random j-rock pages on facebook even demon android's one.)
 

 
moreover, traditional forum software like IPB is kinda 2000-ish, but i'm just saying. i have nothing against it. IPB is not bad though. it regularly gets updates and bug fixes. but nowadays there are a number of better open source alternatives as well; e.g. discourse and nodebb. converting the database from one to another is such a pain though if we ever do it.
 
sysops are one of the most important roles that almost nobody notices the effort they put behind the scenes. we have had only 3-4 sysops since the inception of mh and now there is only one left. it's a vital position that needs to recruit too. what'd we do if they're all gone? it'd even mean the end of mh. (not sure about how recruiting a new sysop is going, but it seems difficult to get one to begin with.)
 
at the end of the day, staff are all volunteers. finding a suitable staff member who is willing to spend their free time is hard already but finding one who is dedicated to the community is even harder. one day the current staff members will be rotated as well. so we're not going anywhere if we don't expand the user base. we can find more talented people from a bigger one.
 
this is my two cents:
 
it's time for mh 4.0. sooner or later mh has  to change too. otherwise, the community will be gone if we don't do something beforehand. if i were the founder, i'd rebrand "monochrome-heaven" to something else shorter, easier to type and pronounce, and easy to remember esp for non-english natives. having a dash (-) in a domain name looks unprofessional for a brand imo. just like when "thefacebook.com" becoming "facebook.com". the former is not a professional brand name compared to the latter. they bought it once they had the money to afford it and became the "facebook" we know nowadays.
 
rebranding mh may be too much for those who're familiar with the name but it'd be a big step to be known better. by rebranding i mean changing the look of the forum too whether it be a new skin or even new forum software that's more modern. we can still stick with vk just like before and be more open to the general japanese rock scene which is more lively and has a wider fanbase like ruling it all online not only on here but also on other social networks.
 
yeah, i know that it's easier said than done. it takes a lot of effort and is very challenging to accomplish, but knowing the potential mh has not being used is wasting as well.

I always bite my lip when this comes up in general discussions about rock music because I never want be or sound like the sour adult who's mad that a scene they loved is dying out, but this, from what I observe, is true. I don't know what it is, but rock music doesn't seem to be picking up with the zoomers like it did with previous generations (yes, rock music has always been an alternative scene, but it still had a notable presence both in the charts and in fans). Now add that to the fact that once rock stars like Radke and Barker have implemented hip hop to their work and rock music aesthetics have been adapted by rappers and other pop music musicians, and it feels like our presence is nearing irrelevancy further than ever. 
 
It's also a hard yes to what you mentioned about how what would have been the present-day vk western fandom is now just another part of the kpop fandom and that point hits an emotional string in me because it was that realization that first made me notice how a taste for rock music seems rarer than ever with today's kids. I worked as a substitute teacher when I was in university and got to work around middle schoolers frequently and at some point it dawned on me that all the kids who were really into anime were also really into kpop. If I thought about that crowd in my day , that would have been the crowd where you would find the vk-fan kids (which as mentioned in other comments were in large responsible for the perceived popularity vk had around 2010). Anime is more popular than ever/Japanese fashion is more mainstream in the west than ever, and scene/emo fashion is popular again. All these trends are moving along. What's not being taken with them is rock music. And that hurts like heck to write. All of that being said, I would love to see zoomers make me eat my words and have them experience a proper rock movement of their own. But at the moment, that's just not what I'm seeing. Mind you there are some kids who still like rock music and vk, but their numbers are considerably lower than what we had in the 2000's.

The reason why the VK hype came to an end after 2010 was because of the lack of original music and ideas. There were tons of bands coming out with the same copy-paste formulas, both visually and musically. People including me just got bored of listening and seeing the same uninspired vk-copycat bands. 
 
The reason why nobody cares about VK right now is not because VK is bad but because those bands play rock music. Face it, rock music right now is pretty much dead in the whole world, not just VK. What is popular with teens right now? Yes, Hip-Hop/Rap/Pop/. It's definitely NOT rock music. I'd go as far as to say that few people under 18 listen to any kind of rock . They'll rather play fortnite and listen to the latest Post-Malone, Billie Eilish, Machine Gun Kelly, ASAP Rocky, Travis Scott tune.THOSE are the rock-stars of the zoomer generation.
 
Imho K-Pop is a lot closer to this style of music than VK so it's only natural that people can get into it. I'd say the people who are into K-Pop now are basically the same demographic that would be attracted to VK. But unless rock as a genre makes a comeback, I don't see a VK revival any time soon.