Heroin

I bet you've missed mt high quality photos, so here's atreat for you all:
 

 
Possessed - The Tape Collection
 
A small tape box with Seven Churches, Beyond the Gates and The Eyes of Horror tapes. Very, very nice!

not the type to be posting myself, but i like this pic
 

not the type to be posting myself, but i like this pic
 

makes MA DAY!
 

damnit, my comment transcended to looking like a tumblr reblog. : /
 
anyway ill talk some DeG. I said this more than once but I think UROBOROS is a masterpiece!

Luckily Dir en grey fans are not dominated by weeaboos who are obsessed with emoticons and -chan endings. Usually those fangirls who go all the KAWAIIII way are not so kawaii in real life and approx. weigh about 200 kg. But that's of course speculation. Also when you have to grow up with RT... conspiracy theories are your daily news basically.
 
Uroboros indeed a masterpiece. And this is totally not a distraction move!

dir en grey deeper than illuminati

damnit, my comment transcended to looking like a tumblr reblog. : /
 
anyway ill talk some DeG. I said this more than once but I think UROBOROS is a masterpiece!

Im a hardcore lurker.
found out about Tainted World just by googling "visual kei/jrock forum", and bam! around 08' i believe.
 
it was the first forum i registered, and i had no clue what was the purpose of a forum. so i just posted nonsense : ]
people thought i was a troll

Good doom/drone groups.
Doesn't have to be japanese necessarily.
 
Completely no experience in that field except that I listen to Church of Misery and Boris.

being broke sucks

being broke sucks

not the type to be posting myself, but i like this pic
 

not the type to be posting myself, but i like this pic
 

now bear, he's a super Sigh fan
 
me, I'm just an obsessive Sigh fan
 
 
and yes Imaginary Sonicscape is amazing! something from the next dimension.
first track, and I knew that album was going to be great!

I miss the real "subcultures". The goths, the punks, the skaters, the glam rockers, the hair metallists, the hippies and stoners, etc. Looking at youth these days they all seem to blend into one another. There's the occasional longhaired metalhead, but that's it? They have no style, not the slightest taste in fashion, and no attitude that stands out.
 
I believe it would make for a more diverse and fascinating society if these different styles were more present (given they would still be able to live peacefully alongside eachother of course!)
 
Does hipster count? Nah, I think hipsters were more or less the result of the death of all the other cultures. If you think about it, people are struggling to define the hipster. "What makes a hipster" seems to be a much harder question to answer than "what makes a *any of the above*" as if they are a bunch of people who are bored with being normal but have no clue what else to do.
 
As far as music is concerned, it's very possible that the lack of diversity in music caused the lack of diversity in subcultures or vice versa (what came first, the chicken or the egg?). When I was 15 and in school, we'd often talk about different subcultures in the classroom. We would make whole presentations on them and teach eachother about the diversity of people.
 
With the job(s) I do these days I often come in contact with children of about this age and quite honestly, I have a hard time remembering names and faces because they are all the same. Casual conversation during breaks/lunchtime never leads to any particular interests or lifestyles. In fact, most seem to be largely unaware of hippies, goths, punks and IF they have an idea of these terms they're only used as mockery or they're used to indicate that they once existed... a long time ago.
 
I asked myself if the internet is to blame. Does the internet make it easier for people with other interests to meet up and express their desires to live certain lifestyles and listen to certain music together... sure does. But does that mean there is less of a desire to express one's self in daily life? Do people leave their steampunk boots, smoke weed everyday-shirts and mohawk haircuts at home because they can use the internet to meet up with others who find these things cool? I think that may play a big part.
 
On the other hand, one could argue that subcultures started dying when grunge came around in the early 90's (it was about that time that 80's metal and new wave was killed off and shoegaze and goth almost died too) but then again the grunge brought a lot of people together too and could be considered a subculture. These days there isn't a single subculture of a considerable size other than "hipsters" who are not actually "hip" but rather "subnormal", like, let's be slightly less normal, but still actually kind of normal...

... Jesus that was too long, I need to get off of the computer.
 
Too long, didn't read: blaaaaaaaaa.

Not sure if these are mentioned, but Sigh covered a John Coltrane track for their The Curse of Izanagi EP and a Bathory track for a Bathory tribute album:
 


 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VORkdRau0g

 
The Bathory cover is glorious. Sigh made it theirs without losing the feeling of the original. Love it.
 
 
 
Gallhammer released a cover demo back in 04, covering one Amebix, one Burzum and one Hellhammer track.
 
Arkha Sva's covered Mütiilation, Belketre, Vlad Tepes and Darkthrone. No surprise about the three first as this band reeks of the mid 90's french black metal and is somewhat an original tribute to the scene.
 
Avsolutized...'s covered Setherial, which comes as no surprise as this band reeks of mid 90's swedish black metal and is somewhat an original tribute to the scene.

now this is a must listen. shes amazing!

hmm japanese...
at the top of my head I would say
 
Sa Bir- Dir en Grey
spooky, scary, thrilling. I love it!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBAoC8TwOGQ   Heavy Friends- Boris the beginning of the song so heavy! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B-tUXR_ekBA   ... cant think of anymore :T

Meow!

not the type to be posting myself, but i like this pic
 

not the type to be posting myself, but i like this pic
 

not the type to be posting myself, but i like this pic
 

I know it's tough to pull off a different accent and sound natural, but lawd, did Radcliffe even try? I saw it months ago, but I recall him saying "anything" the super British way ("eh-NA-thing") throughout the movie, despite his "American" accent. (You can hear him say it in the trailer two times.) I don't know why they didn't at least attempt to fix the accent in post-production. Such a goofy-ass movie.