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  1. Posted

    It's really touching to get notifications for being mentioned here. I'll definitely keep a lot of hilarious memories from this place as well. If I had to pick one, that one time we all joined forces and exposed Kisaki over his fake band history was definitely a peak.

     

    Whether we interacted or not, I hope everyone gets to live their best life beyond this forum. Have a good graduation and departure™ my dear monochrome citizens. Take care and stay healthy.

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  3. Posted

    4 minutes ago, suji said:

    It would help if that lead to women actually being held accountable, but in reality, feminism is about female supremacy/empowerment rather than equality. it's all about taking down the patriarchy!!! 🔥🔥🔥

     

    I mean "patriarchy" is the reason why the assumption that women can't hurt men and can't be held accountable because they are weak (and so are men who are hurt by women) exists in the first place. So in theory, taking that down and removing these harmful stereotypes first would indeed lead to men victims reporting DV more and women attackers not getting away with it as easily. As @spockitty said, while there may be people calling themselves feminist who work against this goal, the movement as a whole is supposed to reach it.

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  5. Posted

    They are not obscure but pretty underrated outside of Japan: ROUAGE 

    Try their first self titled album, it's really good and a very big influence on La'Mules sound. In fact, La'mule was discovered and produced by their bassist.

  8. Posted · Edited by hyura

    A lot has been already written about the SS uniform being an 'edgy fashion thing' that was copied over and over again by generations of vk bands from the 80s until today. Personally I think it's cringy and stupid but I can't really feel offended after seeing it done so many times.

    In fact it's also pretty exotic and in a way understandable that the Japanese wouldn't feel as sensitive to it as Europeans and would generally be less educated about it than them.

    What I find much more problematic is the way a lot of bands are using the  imagery of Japanese imperialism. (WWII Uniforms, rising sun flags, propaganda) After all, Japan has its own fascist history of imperialism and war crimes, mainly in other Asian countries. And in contrast to Germany they don't really admit them and don't make mention of it in their history books. It's not really controversial to use these images, despite the crimes they stand for. Using symbols from foreign history as some exotic gimmick is one thing (albeit not great), but using the same propaganda your ancestors used a while back without any proper reflection and not expecting backlash either just shows that young Japanese people are very oblivious and ignorant due to their lack of a proper political education.

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  10. Posted

    On 10/2/2018 at 3:29 PM, Ro plz said:

    I think people are so (rightfully) tapped out from EU VK that they aren't even willing to give this a shot, which explains the lack of well deserved hype.

    Yeah, I understand it very well. I think the audience who would most likely appreciate this album are fans of darker, experimental and somewhat 'mature' sound in vk. People who like dir en grey, sukekiyo, kagerou and old mucc or maybe stuff like lament and emmurée would surely find it interesting. I also see people liking dimlim and kizu enjoying this.

     

    But those are the same people who are probably extremely turned off by the sound of any other non-japanese vk project I can think of right now. And most likely of anything they ever heard from Korea.

     

    PLS CHECK THIS OUT THO : < I guarantee you won't regret it.

    if you like the bands above and hate this album after listening to it I'll give you a dollar.

  11. Posted

    I already posted it in the news forum, but since the new album is now out and streamable on Spotify I am really curious what everyone thinks.

    In my opinion this is just stellar, both as a metal album and as a visual kei album. All bias aside, probably my favorite album of the year. So I will definitely write a detailed review later on. 

     

    BTW the Japanese edition "無意識の意識化" will be released later this month through the same label that mamireta and KRAD are currently in. I already saw it for preorder in Like an Edison and CDJapan and curiously all the titles have been translated to Japanese...

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  15. Posted

    On 9/24/2018 at 6:54 PM, Seiji said:

    Looks like hard work paid off for them, great news! ♥
     

    Yeah. It's not exactly a common occurrence to see Japanese vk labels release something from outside like that (in fact I don't remember it ever happened before?) , especially since they are yet to play their first Japanese show. I'm hyped. (all alone) 

  17. Posted

    PUNCH RECORDS / DOPE. will release the album japan-wide on October 15th.

     

    Madmans Esprit - 無意識の意識化

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    【収録曲】
    1.eine alte Dunkelheit
    2.無から
    3.消滅の行列
    4.君を植えた
    5.incompleteness
    6.生即苦
    7.流星
    8.drowning and burning, empty
    9.悪魔たちの舞踏会
    10.you don't allow me
    11.a day in black
    12.I'm horrified by the thoughts of losing you
    +
    13.階段 (初回限定版ボーナストラック）

    無意識の意識化 （初回限定版）
    価格¥3,000-(+tax)
    品番MESP-0001
    発売日10月15日

    Sales : PUNCH RECORDS.
    Distribution : Daiki Sounds
    Label : DOPE.

     

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  19. Posted

    On 9/17/2018 at 8:42 PM, CELESTIAL CIEL said:

     sad to see nothing but aggressive promotion...

     

    17 hours ago, Seraphinne said:

     I think it really helped him

    This really has two sides. When you don't promote it, you are cool and underground but they think you are inactive. When you promote it, it helps your exposure, but people find it aggressive. 

    When I first discovered ME, they didn't promote it at all and therefore almost nobody listened to it. The few nerds who somehow found it really enjoyed it, though, so it could be somehow highly praised cvlt in a small circle. But on the other hand this kind of status doesn't help an artist at all. Being an artist itself can only stay a hobby without an audience. There is a small number of people who will check out music outside their 'known' scope but the majority will only try things that others already judged as 'good' or that they repeatedly see presented to them.

    So basically without a label that takes care of distribution and promo and a surrounding where you can have regular shows, the only thing you can do to make people check out your work is to annoy them with it online and lose your 'cool artist' status.

  20. Posted

    On 9/14/2018 at 9:33 AM, Reiko said:

    I've been driving with the new album for 2 days now and i can't  believe how well mastered it is. Where did he learn that? Also I'm guessing piano and drums are programmed by him right?

     

    Insane talent to write all of that if so. Like scary talent.

     

    He does everything by himself alone. It seems like there is no infrastructure for- and no money to be made from- his music in Korea so he basically had to learn to fill all positions himself. But I agree that the new album is absolutely amazing in both sound and composition and I hope everyone is going to listen to it once it releases digitally.  I don't think there is anything comparable from Japan or anywhere really. 'A day in black' is just genius. 

     

    On 9/15/2018 at 5:46 AM, ahnchc said:

    To be honest, I'm not big on Madmans Esprit's sound. I do really enjoy ms. isohp romatem.

     

    I'll keep an eye out for both since I definitely see the potential.

     

    They're all very talented.

     

    actually ms. isohp romatem released two new music videos! I'm not sure if you saw it already :

     

     

     

     

     

  23. Posted

    On 8/30/2018 at 10:31 PM, The Reverend said:

    Wait, Nacht *was* on Spotify... and now it's not. And it will be again soon??

     

    (I remember playing Nacht a lot last summer after you posted about it in the shoutbox...)

     

    It is back on again now! (and also on Itunes and amazon and everywhere)

     

    The reason why it disappeared is that they cut ties with ATMF and it appearently took a while for the new label to get the rights to put it back.

     

    (I'm glad my recommendation was well received : ) )

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  24. Posted · Edited by hyura

    On 8/29/2018 at 12:39 PM, Takadanobabaalien said:

    Been meaning to try this out for quite a while. Glad to hear they'll end up on spotify so I can give it a spin. 

    You should! It's a great album. A lot more DSBM than the newer songs (it was originally released through a black metal label) so not 'fun vk' but very impressive. 

     

    (Edit: just realized I made it sound like the newer stuff is 'fun vk' which it definitely isn't but it's less cvlt than 'NACHT') 

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