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I liked many of their bands from the mid to late 2000's, and a few of today's UCP bands I guess, but I can't honestly say this bothers me too much.

sai wins review of the year.

<3 Thanks for the write-up Zessy. I'd consider this experiment to be a complete success, though you've mostly got Cat to thank for it, I just helped find an obscure VK band as a cover.

lol, I figured the obscure band part woulda had to have been your doing.

Hello again

Shame.

Very good! Been waiting to hear a preview.

Extremely curious about this.

Visual kei has this ability to change and adapt with the times. It's what makes it so resilient. The visual kei of the 1989 sounds nothing like the visual kei from 1999, 2005 or 2011. Who knows what it will sound like in 2015 (I have my bets on metalcore drenched in electronic bleep-bloops)?

It does seem to be losing steam but I doubt it will ever "die".

This pretty much.

Visual Kei at the most will continue to change direction, or adapt with the times. The amount of fans could generally change for the negative or the positive as well. Either way, that doesn't mean that the genre is going to start dying any time soon.

what about PureQ&A members? I remember Kou was in Tu[ism] but idk about the rest

Their guitarist Σ went to UnsraW before they disbanded.

Does someone know something about the members of Ha;qch．? (Principally the Vo. 千尋)

Thank you.

A few members went to http://www.last.fm/music/%EF%BC%A1%EF%B ... B%EF%BD%85

but that's all I know :/

Great previews!

A few albums from amazon.

Wow, I guess these text seem to always be about so called "worst case scenarios" though, I just don't really see as radical change happening as mentioned in post

Yeah, some commentors get overly alarmist with things like these. Obviously the chances of someone going to prison for watching a Youtube video are pretty much zero.

Same with Youtube being banned as a whole. The truth is, the driving forces behind these laws, (ie. parts of the entertainment industry) don't actually want services like Youtube etc. banned - they just want to press out more money from them. They don't want them banned because they actually profit from them, and they know it. But they're greedy and want to profit more.

For example, puplishers of newspapers have been pressing for a law here that would mean a page like Google News has to pay the publishers for posting the titles and snippets of their online articles, since it's their creative work. Which obviously sounds like a major facepalm. Every fool can see that the publishers profit from sites like Google News because they get thousands of hits directed from them. Why would they want to have it banned? Answer: they don't. They just want to milk them (basically, they're asking to get payed for the free advertising that Google News does for them. Ingenious plan, isn't it?)

I'm really hoping that Google just says "Screw you", and pulls the links to all publishers that complain. At the moment, the puplishers seem to gamble that Google doesn't want to risk a confrontation and just pays up. But if Google doesn't and just removed their pages from the index - believe me, they would be crawling back within days (a similar thing happened in Belgium already).

And if Youtube decided to pull the plug on its japanese service tomorrow you can expect a LOT of back-peddeling and "We didn't mean it THAT way!".

Laws like these are all launched by an industry that has completely missed out on the digital revolution, and that is now desperately trying to get a share back of it from those companies that actually adapted to the new means of communication. They don't want to trample down the cake - they're trying to get a bigger share of it for themselves by the force of law.

You're so right. Great post.

Great band. Definitely excited for this.

I really wish I could buy this live.

Tokami - Dictator

Amazing.

I've seen it. Most hilarious thing ever.

Exciting!

I find the whole story mildly amusing, but that's about it.

However, I think some fans are overly attached to the private life/personality of musicians. I just want them to make good music (which, in case of Kisaki, he sometimes has and sometimes hasn't), I don't have to like them as persons. For all I care they can be fullblown assholes. After all, I don't want to have them over for dinner, I just want to listen to their music.

That's why I never read personal blogs even of my favourite musicians because, quite frankly, I don't care.

Completely agreed.

Best video ever tbh

peace...

Welcome to MH, nice list of bands.

oh pls, yes you are.

lol this is gold.

Excited. I like the vocalist too.