Lestat

I have Sebastian's discography up until Angel Down (which was an incredibly powerful album), you're right there that after that his voice has been going downhill and I prefer not to listen to any of his newer works. It's still him and he's easily recognizable, but there's just too great of an odd squeal there which sounds very immature, probably as a result of alcohol and whatsoever — it fits his personality though. I am actually glad that there are people on this forum with their musical preferences in the eighties and early nineties.

I do this very often. I wear contacts and whenever I am outside here I need some protection for my eyes. It's very windy where I live and sand and dust flies everywhere. Can't have it happen that I'm going blind for the first three steps I take outside.

Let's be off into the Wasteland, dwellers.

How old are you if you're friends with Phil, if I may ask? I had tons of glam-rock guys crushes when I was younger. Now it sizzled down a little and the only man I am still perpetually infatuated with is Paul Stanley. I just can't get enough of him. That man just has everything. There used to be some guys, heh. Mainly Sebastian Bach, Axl Rose, Vince Neil and Richie Sambora. Axl Rose was my first real crush, ever. I think I discovered Guns N' Roses around age eight or nine (the time when my parents separated, and both my stepmother and stepfather influenced me with hard rock). I remember spending hours simply looking at his picture and not doing much else. I can't bear to look at the man nowadays though, he changed for the worst, both in appearance as well as in voice. Now, Sebastian Bach... that was something else. My room was covered in Skid Row. I went through hell and back to find their merchandise, old posters from the eighties, new posters published through fake-ass websites. I had my first experience with buying merchandise from Japan through them because at that time that was the only country in which I could find all of their VHS tapes and DVDs. Practically, I lived and breathed Skid Row. I was part of Sebastian Bach's forum at that time and sometimes he even participated on there as well, which was a huge thing. I think I eventually had about three-thousand posts on there and couldn't be stopped. I still haven't seen him live, though. He performed in the Netherlands a couple of times but this was after my huge initial crushing on him. Now it simmered down and I can just call myself a regular fan of his music. Not his attitude. Vince Neil was more of a comical crush. He's simply adorable, he still is. There's not much explaining I have to do on Mötley Crüe in general. They are amazing, and they will continue to be amazing after their disbandment. Oh, Richie, Richie. After Axl and Sebastian, this guy came along. Not commonly known among the general person for being the now ex-lead guitarist for Bon Jovi as the band's namesake would generally draw the fame and attention to himself, but this man is a true legend. With a voice ten times as powerful as Jon's and fingers driven by blues as they sear over his guitar, it was easy for my eyes and ears to be drawn away from Jon and to this guy instead. He was just hot. Can't say more about it.

I'd preload it on your console if I were you, it takes a while to install. I'm getting the Pip-Boy Edition tomorrow, but because my not-so-smart ex-boyfriend is still unknowingly game sharing with my console which results in me receiving all his digitally purchased games for free (it has been like this for a year now, I don't think he'll ever change his settings), I have it pre-installed now and I can probably start playing in about an hour.

I haven't listened to Apocalypica in forever. Did they lose the cellos or something? They aren't audible in this preview, at least.

At least twenty, I think. I didn't specifically count, but whenever I open up my drawers I see a lot of plastic. I also never actually throw away the plastic casings. For Visual Kei releases, there's this little strip on the bottom of the plastic that you can pull away carefully and with that you only open up the bottom. I always slide them back in whenever I actually do open CDs (mainly so the obi-strip stays in place).

I am a supporter of them. I have bought some of their singles, and I am not bothered by their apparent changes. Does this make me a 'fake fan'? Is it a requirement for Visual Kei fans to dive into the personal lives of musicians, and if they sleep around, they must be hated? I am genuinely sorry, but that is the most ridiculous thought behind this scene I have ever heard.

And that is the mentality that ruins Visual Kei for a lot of average fans who are simply there to enjoy the music and don't want to dive into the private lives of these musicians. Can you honestly be bothered by pictures of a guy captured at a girl's house? What does this prove? That he probably likes to have sex, bother! Whatever someone does in their private life doesn't concern me. If I enjoy the music, I honestly don't care who it's written or performed by. If they take drugs, are alcoholics, addicted to sex, it does not matter. But in Visual Kei it's high priority to figure out if your 'husbando bandoman' slept with someone other than you, and if they did, they are perpetually despised. If everyone was so bothered by these antics then we wouldn't have music. The greatest musicians on this planet slept with thirty girls a week and were constantly high on drugs. But who eventually cared? Their family and friends, yes. But that didn't mean they couldn't produce the most incredible music currently existing.

Gama Bomb's new album 'Untouchable Glory' is solid as was eventually expected from them. I can't find any flaws on there and it's right in line with their previous works. This band is crazy good at reproducing an original eighties thrash/speed metal sound and is probably one of my favourite acts in the modern thrash metal scene.

It's true... a lot of mean things are being said here and some of these comments unfortunately aren't handled correctly, which often results in people targeting the person who is only trying to defend themself. Sometimes that defense even results in a unnecessary ban, it happened to one of my friends.

You have an amazing voice for Power Metal there, and I had hoped that that was what the rest of the track followed with as it began to build up towards something rather epic. But then the screams began and I find them to be very non-fitting and not in line with your clean voice, if I may be entirely honest. The combination just sounds very odd to me and the traversion from Power Metal into metalcore is rather sudden and... weird. As if the two pieces don't belong together. Have you ever covered Power Metal? I'd love to hear you sing some Stratovarius.

The vocalist has some work to do (on sounding less bored with what he does), but otherwise this is rather refreshing. I like the light and positive image.

I am totally for that look. I hope it's somewhat more melodic and aristocratic-esque when I see that look.

I just have to say... Aki looks incredible in this PV. I adore his jester-like outfits.

That lineup, yum.

And you believe anything that's being said on Tanuki? It's a gossip forum full of delusional and crazed girls who write up any lie about someone whose face they can't stand, or they simply make up lies just because they can. For that The:Ø thing; this band wasn't going anywhere from the start. There are hundreds of bands in this scene that cease activities after a couple of months. They didn't get any attention because their music was simply bad, it doesn't necessarily have to mean that one band-member was causing trouble. And do you mean the interview in which they said that they left San behind on a mountain or something? They were guys in their twenties at that time. Friends pull crazy pranks on each other all the time (this wasn't even a prank, it was accidental). It's not 'talking shit about him'. It's nothing to be even remotely worried about. And this was four years before they disbanded. San didn't even write music for Black Gene For the Next Scene, as I recall correctly. I cannot personally hear a musical change in whatever direction they were headed into. In any case, the band was already unstable before he joined because Sala also quit the band. This means there might have already been conflicts between the members before San was even considered.

It's ridiculous how people blame San (I bet that's just because he's ex-UCP?). Their sound hasn't changed after he joined. They were already an erratic band without much of a heading because they didn't take themselves too seriously and yet managed to create something entirely unique out of it.

I love how Jui's voice is just so distinct that I cannot think anything else but 'VIDOLL' when I hear this. They sound really bright.

Destiny still proves that it's more comfortable to play with people who are at least 16+ online. I just wasted two and a half hours trying to keep a group of screaming children together in a Raid, who eventually began telling me things about my Mother I wasn't aware of because I attempted to assign them to specific tasks when they kept dying and fooling around without purpose. Found another group after I lost my patience with their behaviour, and finished the last two sections in about fifteen minutes each.

BURNING SOUL and ether are on there already, that's a big plus. I adored their digital elemental singles as well. Either way, this album will be a big hit for me.

I'm totally in for that.