filth_y

Sorry but I feel community as in the people/trolls/mods liked/known around here, not 90% of the actual visitors.
 
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He posted news not avaible on twitter, vkdb, visunavi, visulog, etc. Infos about live distr. CDs you NEVER could've found out about except you check 2ch or stalk auctions 24/7. I dont know how he knows this by going the lives himself and instantly posting what the vocalist just gave only by voice as information and which was never written anywhere else EXCEPT maybe 2ch. So good luck not only learning japanese, but also that slang used on 2ch to get infos about obscure small bands.
Might also go and piss off YNS and numetal and your dl section is dead aka Nr.1 reason next to news section. Will the handful of people caring/reading the other stuff done by mods here then? (I cant tell anything what mods/admins do in the background noone notices, here i feel/guess they always did an amazing job, but the written contributions, reviews..haha)
Beeing a member since day 1 or 2 of this forum idk 8 years ago(?) im interested where this will go now.
Well, we still got Monochrome Heaven Market, which can be fun sometimes to find that CD you search cheaply.

Sorry but I feel community as in the people/trolls/mods liked/known around here, not 90% of the actual visitors.
 
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He posted news not avaible on twitter, vkdb, visunavi, visulog, etc. Infos about live distr. CDs you NEVER could've found out about except you check 2ch or stalk auctions 24/7. I dont know how he knows this by going the lives himself and instantly posting what the vocalist just gave only by voice as information and which was never written anywhere else EXCEPT maybe 2ch. So good luck not only learning japanese, but also that slang used on 2ch to get infos about obscure small bands.
Might also go and piss off YNS and numetal and your dl section is dead aka Nr.1 reason next to news section. Will the handful of people caring/reading the other stuff done by mods here then? (I cant tell anything what mods/admins do in the background noone notices, here i feel/guess they always did an amazing job, but the written contributions, reviews..haha)
Beeing a member since day 1 or 2 of this forum idk 8 years ago(?) im interested where this will go now.
Well, we still got Monochrome Heaven Market, which can be fun sometimes to find that CD you search cheaply.

Here's the thing about vk news though: there's no 'original source'.
 
For major and relatively well known bands you can rely on visunavi, NAVER, various 'matome' and news purveyor accounts on Twitter. But otherwise it's down to stalking thousands of bandmen - something which I have literally attempted on my main Twitter account. The result was me getting spammed with 30 tweets every 10 seconds, and THEN I had to sift through the crapload of awkward selfies and useless tweets talking about weather and food. I don't recall, but maybe 0.01% of the feed was useful news? In any case I abandoned that account shortly after because it was unusable.
 
There are also other avenues like LINE accounts, bandmen's ameblo, and 2chan as mentioned. Or you can try typing 始動 and 解散 into twitter search and refresh it every 10 seconds.... if you have that much time. In any case, what a lot of people don't seem to notice (and this is the point @filth_y was making) is that Trombe also posts news that don't "officially" exist on the Internet except maybe, in a bandman's private reply to a fangirl's tweet (I've witnessed this at least twice), or as a casual afterthought in a label staff's ameblo post. (In the latter case, I talked to a band's shikiri and even she wasn't aware that the band would be releasing a CD that day..). Yes, some MH members may have done this before - but to do it consistently for an insane number of bands is a whole different animal.
 
All of this aren't even considering the facts that: (i) these news are in Japanese, so let's not trivialize it as as copy-and-pasting. Translating and formatting it into a news post is a bitch if you consider the volume of news Trombe puts out; (ii) Trombe posts news of bands he doesn't even care about on a regular basis, some of whom comprising members that no one here has even heard of, much less having an interest to follow and post news of.
 
I'm on no one's side at this point. None of this is a defense for what Trombe did, nor is it a suggestion that he should be immune from punishment if he has contravened the rules. I just wanted to provide a corrective to previous comments suggesting that by picking 1 or 2 bands each we will communally be able to cover the ground that Trombe did, as if it was as easy as sitting together and doing some Ctrl C+V while having cereal in front of your computer. Let's just say I'm not that optimistic, because I can't imagine someone, or even a group of competent and extremely free people, going to the lengths Trombe did. Hopefully more people can appreciate the scope of the dirty legwork he has done for MH ("appreciate" as in "understand clearly", not "prostrate yourself"). And before any accusations come my way: I have contributed news of bands I like (including translating full-length interviews of them), and will happily continue to do so. Let's just see what happens.

Sorry but I feel community as in the people/trolls/mods liked/known around here, not 90% of the actual visitors.
 
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He posted news not avaible on twitter, vkdb, visunavi, visulog, etc. Infos about live distr. CDs you NEVER could've found out about except you check 2ch or stalk auctions 24/7. I dont know how he knows this by going the lives himself and instantly posting what the vocalist just gave only by voice as information and which was never written anywhere else EXCEPT maybe 2ch. So good luck not only learning japanese, but also that slang used on 2ch to get infos about obscure small bands.
Might also go and piss off YNS and numetal and your dl section is dead aka Nr.1 reason next to news section. Will the handful of people caring/reading the other stuff done by mods here then? (I cant tell anything what mods/admins do in the background noone notices, here i feel/guess they always did an amazing job, but the written contributions, reviews..haha)
Beeing a member since day 1 or 2 of this forum idk 8 years ago(?) im interested where this will go now.
Well, we still got Monochrome Heaven Market, which can be fun sometimes to find that CD you search cheaply.

1. Completely agree. Problem is the community itself just cant work i feel (on one side people with no clue of the band (meaning never seeing them live/instore event, discussing with elitism like people due to the distance of availability)..
2. Please give a link i didnt mention. Link me to that news site that posts news first, just minutes after they are announced live and maybe even the only time ever mentioned online like trombe did. Would be happy.

Sorry but I feel community as in the people/trolls/mods liked/known around here, not 90% of the actual visitors.
 
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He posted news not avaible on twitter, vkdb, visunavi, visulog, etc. Infos about live distr. CDs you NEVER could've found out about except you check 2ch or stalk auctions 24/7. I dont know how he knows this by going the lives himself and instantly posting what the vocalist just gave only by voice as information and which was never written anywhere else EXCEPT maybe 2ch. So good luck not only learning japanese, but also that slang used on 2ch to get infos about obscure small bands.
Might also go and piss off YNS and numetal and your dl section is dead aka Nr.1 reason next to news section. Will the handful of people caring/reading the other stuff done by mods here then? (I cant tell anything what mods/admins do in the background noone notices, here i feel/guess they always did an amazing job, but the written contributions, reviews..haha)
Beeing a member since day 1 or 2 of this forum idk 8 years ago(?) im interested where this will go now.
Well, we still got Monochrome Heaven Market, which can be fun sometimes to find that CD you search cheaply.

I like that the person who, without anything even resembling a coherent analysis, arrived at the exact statement of Kyo being unable to hit notes "99%" of the time, is using "proof" as their main source of argument.
 
Tip for next time, try to not use ridiculous exaggerations yourself if you want people to take your complaints seriously, especially if you want to back them up by facts at a later point. It just makes the original point you're trying to make distasteful even to people who might've been inclined to agree with you to a certain extent.
 
I have some more shocking revelations to deliver to you in case you want to dig some more dirt about the band: Sometimes Kyo uses overdubbed vocals (up to four tracks at once in some parts), sometimes they have more than two guitar parts playing at once in studio tracks which might result in some stuff sounding "trimmed" in a live setting or missing certain things (just in case you want to tell us that Kaoru and Die can't play their parts properly either at a later point, I mean, a real musician would obviously play two guitars at once.). Even more shockingly, sometimes they do things in several takes in a studio (contrary to  "popular belief" it's not done in one take!) so due to human nature a note or two might actually be off sometimes during live performances. This is not exclusive to Dir en grey though, in fact it's common practice in almost every single band, and from this we should arrive at the conclusion that "99%" of the time most musicians can't perform their instruments and should probably just stay in the studio and not perform concerts.
 
Or we just stop making stupid sensationalist posts intended to rile up fights and try to discuss things without hyperboles instead. But for some reason Dir en grey always seems to attract people who enjoy that kind of things.
 

Btw the guy in the middle is comedian なかやまきんに君. Fits to Sibile to make a show with him but i start to wonder/understand now the whole band AvelCain was just an inside joke. Like the super bad live performances, horrible/non existing skill and fake promoted image? Just noone got the joke!
 
My favorite superhero also was on TV yesterday >Check from 4:55<
Poor lovely guy :$

Btw the guy in the middle is comedian なかやまきんに君. Fits to Sibile to make a show with him but i start to wonder/understand now the whole band AvelCain was just an inside joke. Like the super bad live performances, horrible/non existing skill and fake promoted image? Just noone got the joke!
 
My favorite superhero also was on TV yesterday >Check from 4:55<
Poor lovely guy :$

So of course I agree that the Yomigaeri "PV" is embarrassing (and damn I'd be pissed if I shelled out the bucks for that super special edition of their latest release to get the PVs.... unless I really wanted that tshirt I guess).
 
BUT!
 
I think it's even lamer (more lame?) that they re-edited the ID video to cut out the two members who left the band. (you can still watch the preview from when it was new.... had shots of the drummer and other guitarist that are gone now.) I mean... this was released on a big, career-spanning box set! Don't pretend those dudes weren't part of said career, even if Avelcain's popularity undeniably happened after they had left.
 
Hell, Kasumi wrote two (at least) of their early songs.... considering the vast majority of their songwriting was done by Eve, Kasumi may have written just as many Avelcain songs in total as any of the current members.

http://ameblo.jp/mediena-official/entry-12168995804.html
 
it is announced 3 HOURS before your post
 
 
similarly NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST members have NOT yet mentioned release of their best album in their OHP and twitter at this moment...you can choose NOT believe what I get
https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/index.php?/topic/42448-nocturnal-bloodlust-best-album-release-european-live-tour/
 
 
to Yutaproid1:
what make me really get angry is as follows:
https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/index.php?/topic/40734-ホタルhotaru-one-day-revival/
https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/index.php?/topic/40128-planetarium-will-disband/
https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/index.php?/topic/42072-赤林檎座akaringoza-will-disband/
https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/index.php?/topic/40778-d4c-will-disband/
https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/index.php?/topic/40305-luccica-will-disband/
https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/index.php?/topic/39615-incribon-will-disband/
https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/index.php?/topic/39324-fang-will-disband/
https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/index.php?/topic/39073-relight-will-disband/
https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/index.php?/topic/38950-carrot-vacation-club-will-disband/
https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/index.php?/topic/38779-altair-will-disband/
https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/index.php?/topic/38539-homunculus-will-disband/
https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/index.php?/topic/36854-モノmonofka-mikey-will-disband/
 
all these threads had only 0-1 replies or only replied by me...

Was driving around listening to Cassis getting excited for Gazette's NYC show in a couple weekends.... thought I'd record some thoughts. Let me know what you think of this (old) Gazette single!
 
(shoutout to Jrocknyc shoutboxer Ken who made a few videos like this about old school Nagoya Kei that were fun... I couldn't find any of them anymore though.)

One of the first DEZERT CDs has a song which is nearly entirely a copy of one D'espa song, idk it was Garnet or BORN or something.
Otherwise many people back in the day saw BERLIN as a bad copy (bad yes, but copy idk).
Old exist†trace around Annunciation -The Heretic Elegy- or even before that (their demos might be gothicy?) might work for you too.
 
I search something like old 蜉蝣 (Kagerou) 2000-2003 like Biological Slicer, 発狂逆立ちオナニスト, 自家製フルコース, 蜉蝣..
My thoughts circle around サリー (Sally) or these days シビレバシル (Sibilebashir) so far. グリーヴァ (Grieva) has some crazy singing too but instrumentally they are too different.
Some recommendations?

I think there are quite more examples like some songs from Ha;qch (e.g. their "cover"/copy of TBDM's Elder Mysantrophy), 闇撫, etc.. This band is just brutal for the purpose of being brutal and lost the music feeling for that.
 
Fact is, most of you wouldnt care for this band if they a ) wouldnt look vk b ) didnt come from japan. Their music is generic at best but hey, they try to add something new (meaning taking something old in other genres) to vk. I was suprised noone in vk did this in 2010 when every other wannabe core band had these retarded boring breakdowns.

I think there are quite more examples like some songs from Ha;qch (e.g. their "cover"/copy of TBDM's Elder Mysantrophy), 闇撫, etc.. This band is just brutal for the purpose of being brutal and lost the music feeling for that.
 
Fact is, most of you wouldnt care for this band if they a ) wouldnt look vk b ) didnt come from japan. Their music is generic at best but hey, they try to add something new (meaning taking something old in other genres) to vk. I was suprised noone in vk did this in 2010 when every other wannabe core band had these retarded boring breakdowns.

As much as i liked them, this had to happen sooner or later. What is a band that cant write their own songs and cant play/sing songs written for them live? For that they were too sucessful. Just hope their management/eve finds some other random guys to replace them with a similiar atmosphere band and a less arrogant/fake despressive frontguy. 

As much as i liked them, this had to happen sooner or later. What is a band that cant write their own songs and cant play/sing songs written for them live? For that they were too sucessful. Just hope their management/eve finds some other random guys to replace them with a similiar atmosphere band and a less arrogant/fake despressive frontguy. 

As much as i liked them, this had to happen sooner or later. What is a band that cant write their own songs and cant play/sing songs written for them live? For that they were too sucessful. Just hope their management/eve finds some other random guys to replace them with a similiar atmosphere band and a less arrogant/fake despressive frontguy. 

UNVOID sounded exactly like 焔 with just slightly different (weaker) vocals (but same background singing/growling from 憂佑). Melancholic songs but also faster/heavy ones, they even played old 焔 songs live. I think 憂佑 does all the arrangements/songs, so i think this is just 焔 2.0 and i love it. Im glad they didnt follow the trend and change their sound to be like those horrible bad bands dominating the scene these days where everyone cares the look but musically everything sounds the same. 憂佑 is one of these few guitarist really having their own sound in vk/jrock besides the likes of aie (the god and death stars), uta (sukekiyo), 依織 (femme fatale), クマ (リムキャット), サトシ (Lycaon), yuya (Develop One's Faculties), 6 (DI3SIRAE).. otherwise there arent any outstanding/unique guitarists i feel.
Also, I always wondered 憂佑 works at 浦和ナルシス/ZMF, he has such a deep connection to it at least. They seem to be just part time/hobby musicians these days i think. At UNVOIDs live everyone (fangirls) just seems to care for him. It was like him + whatever other bandmember. カユキ seems like his old highschool friend/brother or something, they just fit perfectly. Really looking forward to it.
I was shocked to remember its already 6 years since their disbanding. [enver] brain was also the name of the first session after their disbandment which was said to be a real band but never became, until now 6 years later.
 

UNVOID sounded exactly like 焔 with just slightly different (weaker) vocals (but same background singing/growling from 憂佑). Melancholic songs but also faster/heavy ones, they even played old 焔 songs live. I think 憂佑 does all the arrangements/songs, so i think this is just 焔 2.0 and i love it. Im glad they didnt follow the trend and change their sound to be like those horrible bad bands dominating the scene these days where everyone cares the look but musically everything sounds the same. 憂佑 is one of these few guitarist really having their own sound in vk/jrock besides the likes of aie (the god and death stars), uta (sukekiyo), 依織 (femme fatale), クマ (リムキャット), サトシ (Lycaon), yuya (Develop One's Faculties), 6 (DI3SIRAE).. otherwise there arent any outstanding/unique guitarists i feel.
Also, I always wondered 憂佑 works at 浦和ナルシス/ZMF, he has such a deep connection to it at least. They seem to be just part time/hobby musicians these days i think. At UNVOIDs live everyone (fangirls) just seems to care for him. It was like him + whatever other bandmember. カユキ seems like his old highschool friend/brother or something, they just fit perfectly. Really looking forward to it.
I was shocked to remember its already 6 years since their disbanding. [enver] brain was also the name of the first session after their disbandment which was said to be a real band but never became, until now 6 years later.
 

UNVOID sounded exactly like 焔 with just slightly different (weaker) vocals (but same background singing/growling from 憂佑). Melancholic songs but also faster/heavy ones, they even played old 焔 songs live. I think 憂佑 does all the arrangements/songs, so i think this is just 焔 2.0 and i love it. Im glad they didnt follow the trend and change their sound to be like those horrible bad bands dominating the scene these days where everyone cares the look but musically everything sounds the same. 憂佑 is one of these few guitarist really having their own sound in vk/jrock besides the likes of aie (the god and death stars), uta (sukekiyo), 依織 (femme fatale), クマ (リムキャット), サトシ (Lycaon), yuya (Develop One's Faculties), 6 (DI3SIRAE).. otherwise there arent any outstanding/unique guitarists i feel.
Also, I always wondered 憂佑 works at 浦和ナルシス/ZMF, he has such a deep connection to it at least. They seem to be just part time/hobby musicians these days i think. At UNVOIDs live everyone (fangirls) just seems to care for him. It was like him + whatever other bandmember. カユキ seems like his old highschool friend/brother or something, they just fit perfectly. Really looking forward to it.
I was shocked to remember its already 6 years since their disbanding. [enver] brain was also the name of the first session after their disbandment which was said to be a real band but never became, until now 6 years later.
 

No need to be snide lol I like how yall have never been in Japan and are so quick to be like 'but it's a real band!!!' call me when you've studied Japanese for 15 years and been in Japan for four then you can pretend you know what the fuck you're talking about. Goodbye

Idk where to put this or how to title it... sorry mods! But I came across an old thread (Wtf is Ains), and thought I'd dump a short history of Yukika/Ains. Only it turned out to be way longer than I expected, and had some crossover with non-Ains labels. So... I thought I'd dump it in the general section. Maybe this can turn into a general discussion of vk labels? (Didn't see anything similar extant when I searched.) Anyway, here:
Yukika (雪花) is a dude who was vocalist of a band called ETCETERA (エトセトラ). They were on their own label, called ● drop cafe, which I think he owned. Later, they joined a bigger label called ● CLIMAX ENTERPRISE.
 
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Yayoi (弥生) is a dude who was in the bands Vice†risk and La'miss fairy, among many others. Back in the day, he owned a label called ● Eternal, which was in turn a sublabel of KISAKI's ● Matina label.
Eventually, ● Matina closed, and so did ● Eternal. Later―around the same time that KISAKI opened his new label ● UNDER CODE PRODUCTION―Yayoi opened a new label called ● CLIMAX ENTERPRISE.
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ETCETERA eventually disbands, and ● CLIMAX ENTERPRISE closes, whatever. Afterward, Yukika forms a band called Fils, but they operate without a label and disband pretty quickly. Yukika then forms the band CLUTCH (クラッチ) under his own record label, ● Culminate Screen.
 
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● Culminate Screen mostly had shitty bands, but there was this one group called CATHELINE (キャサリン)... They got a little popularity, jumped ship to Speed-disk, and became R-18, then R-15, then R Shitei (R指定).
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CLUTCH disbands, ● Culminate Screen closes, whatever. Yukika keeps at it, forms a new band called Buddy, and starts a new label, ● A heretic sound music.. Here's where it starts getting interesting:
Yukika gets lucky, and signs this band called ALSDEAD to his label. Somehow, they get a little popular, and he's probably making money from his label for the first time ever. Meanwhile, this little band called Valluna (ヴァルナ) starts hanging out around label (without actually joining), so that's pretty cool.
Cut to late 2009. Remember that Yayoi guy, the president of the label that Yukika's band ETCETERA used to be on? Yeah, that guy suddenly has a new label called ● FIREBALL―which has no artists, btw―and Yukika slides ● A heretic sound music. right in there as a sublabel of ● FIREBALL. That's definitely some tax evasion shit, right?
Like 3 minutes later, ALSDEAD mysteriously announces that they're “graduating” from ● A heretic sound music.. The next month, Yukika's like, “Hey guys, ● A heretic sound music. is closing.” (Haq;ch. and Navir, the two unsuccessful bands on the label, are just left to fend for themselves.) But don't worry! Yukika has formed a new label: ● Galaxy, which is also a sublabel of ● FIREBALL. (Yukika even co-sponsors one-day revivals of ● Eternal and ● CLIMAX ENTERPRISE with Yayoi, 'cause they're totes great friends now.)
 
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Btw, did you catch that? He transforms his label into a sublabel, then immediately closes it and forms a new sublabel under the same company. He keeps the one band who was somewhat successful, and drops off the other two in some barren desert somewhere. That's definitely some tax wizardry, right? Or maybe just a cute way to end those other bands' contracts?
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So ● Galaxy is here, and they've got the somewhat successful ALSDEAD band. Then, surprise surprise, Valluna (ヴァルナ) joins ● Galaxy.
 
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ALSDEAD was, like, doing pretty good. But right after their first release through ● Galaxy, they jumped ship to their own label, ● CTA Works ('cause they're assholes?). ● Danger Crue scooped them up after, which is a pretty big deal, 'cause, like... ● Danger Crue isn't major, but it's as close as most visual bands will ever get, and it has major distribution through ● SONY. It seems like they really fell off after that, but maybe that's just in the overseas community.
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That Valluna (ヴァルナ) band is doing well, like really well. Which, in the VK world, means it's time for a disbandment. So, Valluna (ヴァルナ) disbands, and the important members immediately come back as DIAURA.
DIAURA is doing super well; so much so that their album is distributed by the major label ● CROWN, which is rare for a tiny label like ● Galaxy. So Yukika and Yayaoi must be dragging home small bags of money every day, which is great. But eventually, Yukika gets smart, and is like “fuck this, I want all the bags of money”; so in early 2012, mentions of something called ● Ains start springing up. ● Galaxy is still publishing releases and sponsoring lives, but this ● Ains thing is being mentioned too.
Smash cut to March of 2012, and ● Galaxy has, like, lowkey disappeared, and all of DIAURA's activities are going through ● Ains now. Considering ● FIREBALL seemed to only ever be a shell company for ● Galaxy, I guess it closed too.
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I wanna talk about Yayoi some more.
Way back in 1979 (supposedly), some dude founded an entertainment company called EXCEL. That dude turns out to be Yayoi's father! In the 90s, ● EXCEL RECORDS released some omnibus CDs featuring Yayoi's then-current band, ANGEL DUST. (KISAKI's band, MIRAGE, was also on those CDs, so I guess that's how KISAKI and Yayoi hooked up, which lead to KISAKI giving Yayoi the ● Eternal sublabel of ● Matina.)
Anyway, around the time when Yukika closed ● Galaxy and formed ● Ains, EXCEL was reorganized into ● EXCEL ENTERTAINMENT, with Yayoi as the new president. The new ● EXCEL ENTERTAINMENT has had several clients―including KISAKI and some people from bands belonging to ● Eternal/● CLIMAX ENTERPRISE―but the company doesn't actually do anything, as far as I can tell. I guess it acts as a talent agency, but all of its clients are already being managed by record labels, so what's the point?
More recently, Yayoi formed the new record label ROCKSTAR RECORDS. (And, of course, all of that label's artists are simultaneously signed with ● EXCEL ENTERTAINMENT.)
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Ok, ok, it's 2012, ● Ains exists as its own entity, and DIAURA is helping Yukika drag home bags of money, which he gets to keep to himself this time. Now that he's making Trump Checks™, Yukika can afford to sign a new act, so he snipes people from the band RELOAD (リロード) to form Grieva (グリーヴァ). Just for shits and giggles, they're on their own ● Ains sublabel called ● MadWink.. (I truly assumed that ● MadWink. was created just for aesthetic reasons, but maybe it's some weird tax evasion thing too, idk.)
Grieva (グリーヴァ) is literally (literally, kids) a Dir en grey cover band (with other influences thrown in there, but it's mostly Deg), but they're like, killin' it. So Yukika tries to strike lightning twice, and creates a GAZETTE (ガゼット) cover band, Gossip (ゴシップ), also under the ● MadWink. sublabel. At the same time, KUROYURI TO KAGE (黒百合と影) forms under a different ● Ains sublabel called ● yamikakumei (闇革命). (Again, I assume the sublabel is for aesthetic purposes.)
Soon after, Grieva, Gossip, and KUROYURI TO KAGE release a coupling CD which is published by ● UNIVERSAL MUSIC. (This doesn't mean they're major, or that they left ● Ains. I'd assume it's probably some sort of test for ● UNIVERSAL MUSIC to see if they want to deal with ● Ains more in the future.)
Now, here's the most recent weirdness:
Some new band MEDIENA (メディーナ) appears, and they give off major “● Ains vibes”―in the sense that their graphic design is clearly done by the ● Ains graphic designer, and their release schedule is put together in a way that's similar to ● Ains bands. They're also always playing at ● Ains lives, but they clearly state that they're on a label called ● V-eyes RECORDS, which has nothing to do with ● Ains. ...Or does it? When their release was put up on iTunes, the publisher was listed as ● Ains; so I guess that explains that, lol. I personally consider ● V-eyes RECORDS to be a “secret sublabel” of ● Ains, though I have no official statement to back that up, and can't give a reason why they'd do that (tax stuff?).
There's also a new band called MALISEND, whom some people assumed to belong to ● Ains. I actually think that's wrong, at least when they formed.
Early on, MALISEND was clearly not using the ● Ains graphic designer, and their first releases were not announced in the same way that ● Ains releases are (ie. not using the same marketing staff). Also, tbh, their first look was not up to ● Ains quality. And finally, I want to mention that their first releases were completely independent (independent UPC & no label listed). However, their most recent release was through a new label called ● Culminate―and was published by ● Ains, according to Brand X. So, in my opinion, MALISEND did not form under ● Ains (like MEDIENA probably did), but is now signed to another “secret sublabel” of ● Ains. (Might the name ● Culminate be a tribute to Yukika's early label, ● Culminate Screen?)
And here we are
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To recap...
Yukika forms drop cafe
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Yukika's band joins CLIMAX ENTERPRISE
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Yukika forms Culminate Screen
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Yukika forms A heretic sound music.
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Yukika meets up with Yayoi, the former president of CLIMAX ENTERPRISE
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Yayoi forms FIREBALL, and Yukika transforms A heretic sound music. to a sublabel of FIREBALL
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Yukika closes A heretic sound music. and makes a new FIREBALL sublabel called Galaxy
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Yukika forms a new, standalone label called Ains
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Yukika transfers DIAURA to Ains and closes A heretic sound music., and Yayoi goes to EXCEL ENTERTAINMENT
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Yukika makes an Ains sublabel, MadWink., for Grieva
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Gossip joins the sublabel MadWink.
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KUROYURI TO KAGE joins the new Ains sublabel, yamikakumei
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Grieva, Gossip, and KUROYURI TO KAGE release a coupling CD which is published/distributed by UNIVERSAL (but they're not major)
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MEDIENA forms under an unofficial/secret Ains sublabel, V-eyes RECORDS
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MALISEND forms independently, but joins what might be another unofficial/secret Ains sublabel, Culminate
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Idk, I hope that was enlightening or entertaining to someone! Please let me know if you have any comments or corrections!
I've always found the world of VK record labels to be really fascinating. KISAKI's label history is deliciously convoluted, but I think Yukika actually beats him out, lol.

Shows you how replacable all this talentless vk band members are with a skilled producer/songwriter/studio-members behind them and why bands like AvelCain cant play/sing the easiest riffs/songs live (still loving them tho). 

Shows you how replacable all this talentless vk band members are with a skilled producer/songwriter/studio-members behind them and why bands like AvelCain cant play/sing the easiest riffs/songs live (still loving them tho).