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They're real sexy when they get real heavy, but their soft stuff is super good too

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Yesss, Sened! I feel like not enough people appreciate their soft/dreamy stuff. That's the side I find myself gravitating more toward. But I also thoroughly enjoy their heavy, distorted stuff.

Favorite song should come as no surprise:

I do the same. Keep the original kanji titles, and sort it as the romanized name. 

Samesies.

Real talk though: I wonder how many of us actually would just romanize the band names if not for last.fm... I feel like that at least factors in how some of us do our tagging.

Cool, thanks for posting, brah!

I wish I had more time to join, but it's always fun when I do. A great way to check out some new music and connect with the other members.

But, it would be awesome if plug allowed videos from other sites (vimeo, jpopsuki.tv, etc.)

(LOL, I wanna hear from the people who vote for "FUCK this site. It's ruining MH! (ノಠ益ಠ)ノ彡┻━┻")

シナリオアート (Scenarioart) just announced their first full album, entitled Happy Umbrella. It will be released on June 3rd, 2015.

Bless Jpopsuki.tv.

And bless NEGOTO for, yet again, gracing us with an awesome song and creative PV. The synths are in full swing and this album is going to rule!

Sana's composition style definitely fits UNiTE!

Love it!

If you look at their pics on their profile page, they're still just as goofy as ever.

This.

Love this band, haha.

To be fair, Kamijo was the artist with the most tracks to choose from in our voting process, unless I'm mistaken.

We just spread him too thin, damn us!

But can you also cut the file?

I'll gonna try it too. lets see if its more easy.

Well, I believe as long as the DVD is divided into chapters, it does most of the work for you and "cuts" the audio into individual tracks.

Is that what you mean?

Have you ever tried "Tipard DVD to mp3"?

It's simple and easy to use. And it's free!

Some unpredictable moments in the song. And the vocalist is surprisingly "normal", which might actually work in their favor (distinguishing them from Ling and other bands).

I'm definitely interested in this!

Disclaimer: incoming rant is not directed at Slsr or anyone in particular in this thread.

This has bugged me for a while, but does anyone else find the term "non-VK" to be obnoxious? It's such a contextual term that seemingly groups together music that has nothing to do with other music, simply by the fact that they are not visual kei. Are all people who take up jobs that aren't in the engineering field "non-engineers"? (Yes, it's a silly example, I know.)  But seriously, I cringe when I see sentences like "I only like non-VK music." or "Ew, please no non-VK music." It just emphasizes the arbitrariness/superficiality that people can use to judge music. I think the split would just help to further validate this silly division.

If the split does take place, please just call it "general" news like we did with the general download section.
 

I'm not particularly supportive of the idea of splitting news based on genre (particularly one as subjective and controversial Visual Kei, with it's lack of an objective definition). One thing that I like about Monochrome Heaven is the fact that it's slowly moving more towards promoting musical diversity, and I feel that giving VK and non-VK news their own sections would hinder that somewhat. Personally I'm mostly interested in non-VK stuff, but every now and then I still come across some interesting VK news purely because of the fact that I see it being posted here while I'm predominantly searching for other things, and that helps me to stay aware of what's happening in the VK scene even if its not my main area of interest. 

 

Basically I think this site should keep promoting musical diversity within the Japanese music scene, rather than trying to segment it.

I think Pho3nyx sums up my thoughts pretty well on the whole matter. I'm against splitting the news forum.

Good sample!

Lol, so he indeed says "Lick me all over"!

Their covers are fun  Let's see if they can turn "Happy" into a tolerable song!

Looking forward to it!

Barring Misaruka, I am always down for a MALICE MIZER cover. Please do "au revoir" some justice!

Yesss, I will follow Seira wherever he goes.

Here's DIV's part:

I love how NEGOTO doesn't tend to milk fans with their different types. (The regular and limited have the same CD tracklist.)

Gonna grab the limited edition, because their lives are always solid!

Kind of typical, but I wouldn't mind checking out the single if it's uploaded. I can see some potential if they nix the treble synths.

Yay! I always need more Souiumono in my life.

Nevermind, I thought it was the other GRIM band.