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^ I found out way too late to get tickets, which is unfortunate because they were not coming around again before I leave.
 
Hazuki confirmed that THIS COMA would also be vocal and piano only.
 
But goddam, that's an expensive book!

^ WTF is going on at 1:40?

I used to do this a lot: tell someone to listen to a song without any visuals and then get their impression of the music. It worked all the time with my brother, regardless of the fact that neither of us could understand what was being said. If lyrics are a big issue for people listening to music, then I don't think they care that much about the music.

Far East Dizain, JILUKA, and Fixer all touring together. I would lose my shit.
 
As for non-VK bands, I think Crystal Lake, Crossfaith, HONE YOUR SENSE and Deadman Walking would put on a sick tour if they were to go international.

Pro tip:
 
Give up on "sappy hopeless romantic" idea you have inside your head.  You should not let anything hinder you in case you are really dead serious about it - and by doing so you ought believe there is a "right" moment somewhere - considering your situation it could be VERY close. Who knows? (I don't know that but you know it better yourself, right man?)
 
I ain't the guru or the man of all good knocks but I had to comment on your situation since your current thinking sorta reflected the situation I have been stuck in for ages - " will she treat me like a foreigner? Am I too "alien" to her? Can there even be chemistry between us as in mutual sense?" questioning has turned me into miserable, skeptic fuck but let's not get too personal and dramatic with these details:
 
Just get this "Gaijin" thing out of your system. The more you think about it, the more  you are braking your own progress there. To be frank, thinking akin to "how should I go since they are white/black/Japanese/asian/slavic/african/trans/etc. etc." is completely irrelevant if you do honestly sense there is some real stuff going on between you and "the one" you may cherish etc.
 
Current year, guys - it's not a meme. Current year.
 
Inb4 another guy making a skit out of my performance. Yes, this is sad but "please clap".

Are jumpsuits the new "heavy VK" wear? Also, you aren't a band unless you have a dude in a mask.

Are jumpsuits the new "heavy VK" wear? Also, you aren't a band unless you have a dude in a mask.

VK is a guilty pleasure, a very pleasurable one at that

They're not together anymore, but I was definitely a huge fan of SCISSOR when they were around. They're not the sound I typically like, but for some reason I was into them.

I'm in there somewhere. Let's play spot the gaijin!

Are jumpsuits the new "heavy VK" wear? Also, you aren't a band unless you have a dude in a mask.

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I was just cruising the Amemura DROP schedule and so many of these band names are horrid:
 
Bitch Sylvia Never Ends
BreakingAsshole
Sacred Sound Slave
GO FIGHT GOOD FIGHTERS
 
Some others that come to mind are:
 
We Butter the Bread with Butter (Dutch electro-shitcore band)
Screaming Inside Can Kill (new VK band)
Cocklobin (great band, terrible name)
THE RUDIE SATAN PARK (mid-2000 VKcore band)

I'm in there somewhere. Let's play spot the gaijin!

If I can be frank for a second, I'm disappointed how easily distracted people are.
 
It's only been two days and there are already countless arguments about the merits and harms of file sharing. That doesn't address the real point of why we are currently in the situation we are in right now. Our hand was played and the staff was not happy. One member who goes by the name of @Kawaii_Minpha decided it would be cute to troll the staff and the website by threatening to report us to the RIAJ unless we gave in to her demands, which among other things called for banning members she does not like. If you read the messages sent to us, it turns from funny to sad in an instant. What pisses me off personally is how someone would try to ruin what we have going here for kicks. Even threatening to do so is worthy of an instant ban and I should not have to explain why.
 
As an aside, I don't really care how you feel about file sharing - facts are that if you are here, you are guilty by association - but these last few days have proven that without Monochrome Heaven there's nowhere for anyone to go. Downloads can always find a new home but to find another place where you can have mature, constructive discussions about Japanese music in an open environment will be much harder. And that place could never exist without free music so people can talk about it, because the barrier for entry is too high. We have to recognize the role that piracy plays in all our lives. That's why saying "buy music to support your favorite artists" is not the be all, end all answer. It's a good answer, but it's more complicated than that. No one here woke up one day and decided to buy Dir en grey albums on a whim. Japanese bands became our favorite bands because we pirated music long enough to become devoted enough to pay for it. Some people are at different stages of their fandom. This website has found the perfect balance of both piracy and discussion while also managing to be inclusive of all styles of Japanese music and there's nowhere else on the internet that even comes close to this. That's awesome.
 
That's why this situation has the staff thinking about what we exist for. This website may not mean much to many members here beyond downloads but the staff has poured countless hours of time and energy into investing in the website and the community. Are we harming the scene? Yeah, no doubt. But we probably do a lot of good as well. With the countless messages I've gotten over the last few days about "where all the free music went" I'm not convinced we can do good without doing some harm as well. The tools are not in place to promote visual kei globally without piracy, and I doubt there ever will be. The scene wouldn't be what it is today if it weren't for all of us here. We either take the good with the bad or abstain entirely.
 
There is more to this website than just downloads and the constant activity over the last few days proves that this community is strong. Stronger than even we may have realized ourselves. This is awesome, keep up the good work! Having said that, I've thought a lot about Kevin from Batsu and how he freaked out and deleted the download section when he thought the feds were coming for him. His approach was blunt, but I understand how he felt. He figured Batsu could weather the storm and would be better for it...and that unfortunately did not work out. If push came to shove we would make a similar decision, and that's why for the last two years we have been working hard to provide other reasons for people to come back here. While the download section is offline I implore you all to go check out the News, Rumors, Review, and General sections to start. There's enough tea there to keep you sipping until things are finalized.
 
The staff is still ironing out the details so expect more information soon. I can confidently say that the news will come as a shock to everyone but some people will not notice and others will.
 
Consider this an early morning rant.

Changed the topic title lol. 

From Kiryu (Betty)'s twitter:
 
"Sorry for whitewashing everything for so long. I'm not pointing fingers at anyone now, it's just that I no longer want to keep on lying to the fans who have supported us for so long.
Also, my fellow label mates, band friends and senpai's think I should talk about this as well - so I'm doing it.
 
First of all, there's really no reason for our disbandment, but it's not like any of us really wanted it to end like this.
We've been active for a year and a half without having a single flyer made and no music released. No matter how many years we would continue it would still be the same, so we see no reason to do so.
 
We've always had in mind to get more fans and increase our sales. But no matter how long we waited, we got no studio time or any flyers made. Despite all this we always kept on cheering on each other, believing in each other and giving it our all.
 
We though "maybe it's easier if we just use our own money and do this?" But we weren't allowed by our management.
No goods, no releases and we never felt "free".
But we still had to pay for our own costumes, all our traveling expenses, expenses for support member. Some members even had to lend money to the label.
 
Not letting us do anything was basically our labels policy.
 
I'm just explaining simple now but for example at gigs, our money were used for other bands without us even knowing about it. 
 
In the end, NOTHING was used for us.
So where the hell did all the money go?
I think I don't need to tell you, because you guys probably already know. In our label there's a certain band that stands out from the rest of us, which has been using much more money than us, well... If our labels policy was for them to drag in money for us I don't have any complaints but it wasn't like that, and I have no understanding for how ZERO money ended up being spent on us.
 
ALL of our money was spent on Avanchick. And everything bad had to been payed by us, Betty.
Flyers, CD's, Goods, NOTHING was OK for us to make.
If we can't get any fans, then we're the ones who get called a bad band, even though in reality it's not our fault as we haven't been given a chance.
 
Just for how long was this supposed to go on?
The limit has been reached not only by me, but for all members in Betty.
We were told in DM "If you guys want fans, then fucking get to work"
I kept repeating for myself that time has changed, and in the vk scene today you have to work much more for yourself as well.
I kept on doing it for a while even though I always felt it was very strange, and I wasn't able to understand why we had to do it.
 
And at that time I was called by Noa from Avanchick.
"Would you please stop approaching our fans?"
"Can you please stop inviting our fans to your gig?"
Was what he told me.
 
I felt a lot of different things, especially that there was enormous misunderstandings. But as a Kouhai I bowed my head and asked him for forgiveness. 
As his label mate, his friend and his kouhai I simply felt that asking for forgiveness would be the only right thing after having made him feel uncomfortable.
"You can't go to this bands live"
"You're not allowed to become someone elses fan"
I think having lots of bands that you like is totally fine, all bands are fun in different ways, isn't that what music is about?
 
But if this is a rule that Avanchick has then I simply thought that there's nothing to do about it.
This is not about if I'm right, or if Avanchick is right. Everyone thinks differently and everyone is different. If that is Noa's rule then I guess in his own way he is right. We never had intentions of being in the way for someone or causing any trouble. 
 
I think that using another band this much is very wrong. But I always saw us as good friends, and them as good senpais and us as good kouhais. Therefore I really wanted us to do a last live together. I wanted us to end this on good terms. 
 
But apparently he thought differntly 
-Kiryu posts a picture from Line where Nao says that he doesn't want to attend their gig because they will lose fans for giging with them-
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Okay this is all for now. I think he might continue writing a bit more, if so I'll translate it tomorrow cus I need to sleep. 
 
Be aware there might be some errors in the text, but all in all i'd say it's correct.

No shade, but all of Tenten's bands since KuRt sound the same.
 
He gets a new band, it fails and then he proceeds to get yet another one and keeps doing the same thing with minor variations over and over again and none of them suceed. It's been 12 years, dude, let go of that formula.
 

I completely agree. I've been studying in Japan and every time I tell people that my favorite band is Dir en grey, they go "huuuu?" I then say that they used to be a Visual Kei band like X Japan and have been active for almost 20 years. They instantly know who X is, though.
Out of all the people I've talked to, only one person said they knew who Dir en grey was, and she is actively involved in the music industry. I asked if they knew any active VK bands and they all said Golden Bomber. Granted I go to an international university, so the majority of students primarily listen to Western music, but still, you would think that VK was a bit more well known. Not anymore.
 
So yeah, visual kei in the 21st century.

I have a small update to this thread. I just did a survey with some Japanese exchange students at a bar, and the only vk band they had any idea existed was the one and the only
 
Golden Bomber
 
Visual kei in the 21th century folks. 

So here you go with the translation =3
sorry I took so long, because i was so tired during the weekend >_<
 
First of all, I am sorry that it came to this announcement.
 
what concerns killaneth that suddenly...
I think no one can really accept reality
 
the announcement status is:
from last year on the 29th of October we started,
we stop that soon with not even a year (of activity)
 
I think, cause of it was too shortlived I also feel misarable.
 
I think that there is still some way for a bright future for this band.
 
I am still guitarist who wrote the songs for this band.
 
We/I cannot accept the fact that we're breaking up yet but
I think it is a breakup because we the members have been these 4 people
Also If I am wrong, would you please so kind to hold on a little longer.
 
 
 
but....
 
 
if it hadn't been for the 4 of us,
we wouldn't have been able to call it such a cool band.
 
If someone is missing we'd break up, that was decided from the start on
 
we were a band with such an image!
 
Therefore I don't think, that I have to regret our meeting, and this almost a year (of being active) was also not at all an useless time.
 
 
Seraph. and Apocrypha are what was left behind in this world
and I think, that nothing more than meeting all of the fans, made me happy.
although we should have had nothing but hopes
 
I think that, nothing is lost, that now is no way to regret, but
a personal feeling whispers, that we have to to run swiftly until the end.
 
Thus from here on it is my own matter (my own point of view), but...
I'm seriously anxious/insecure about whether I'll be able to make/have a band that is even better than Killaneth
 
Also if i can't promise and affirm that we/I will come back on stage,
The stories/conversations we/I've received so far and those that might be yet to come I/we/ will compare and then considerate
 
I think, if regrets and so on are left over, because thing are left undone, I want to die.
 
Also if it was for a short time, thank you so much for having interest in Killaneth.
With only that much left, please remember us/ best regards.
Nihit
 
translated with the dear help of my best friend Otouri <3 (thank you so much)

Damien Rice - I Remember
 
I could probably list Damien Rice for days, but I think this is his most impactful live performance for me.
 
All the VK songs I want to show don't seem to be on YouTube, but I'll list them here for those who may have means to see them.
 
— Girugamesh – 壊れていく世界
The way Satoshi keeps screaming at the climax of the song gives me shivers ...
— SCISSOR – from住人toイロ off of FINAL CUT
This was SCISSOR's first real song and is actually a rather poppy-sounding song, but it was also the last song they played together (except for their reunion). At one point, MIKI has to turn his back on the audience to keep from crying.
— DELUHI – Orion once again (live) off of FLASH:B[L]ACK DVD
The obligatory "sing-along" live portion, but this was when DELUHI was really starting to blow up. Juri has to face the back of the stage as he covers his face to avoid crying to hard, but you can see his shoulders shaking. Leda also is shown with tears streaming down his face.
— Dir en grey – 悲劇は目蓋を下ろした優しき鬱 (pretty much every time)
I have seen this song live many times and personally have cried each time. Kyo is a master of showing emotion on stage and I could probably list tons of Dir en grey songs, but higeki ha ... is the most emotional for me.

Time to chill out with this off topic discussion. Any more discussion about "tr00" fans versus international fans will be moved to a new thread.
This thread is about Killaneth's disbandment. Let's keep it back ON TOPIC. Thank you.

Meh. It sounds pretty standard.