WhirlingBlack

We've already discussed this a million times. 

Well I understand that people might not browse this forum religiously like I do ( lol ) and the search engine does suck so you might never now if a topic has been gone through many times or not. This topic however has been discussed many times and the forum policy is that it'll stay as it is, because there's just no ethically consistent way to deal with MH PREMIUM MEMBER section other than either to kill it entirely and or keep at is it, as the latter is, in my opinion, the obvious answer here. Not mention about the labour this will bring on the mods when they'd have to go around culling shit that's available on multiple different platforms from purchase to streaming on spotify.  
 
And to Delkmiroph, I don't care about any rockstar tryhard's band career. There are tons of musicians on this earth making music non profit and with very sparse touring and releasing schedules. It is only vk that is so obsessed with this collector and band white knighting attitude. 

Then the majority of their income comes from their job as a physics professor or as a host, I reckon. 
 
This horse has been beaten to death on this forum. When children are starving and people are being droned and shot all over the world with the compliance or the guns of the governments most of us belong to, then even considering to pose downloading music as an ethical question is stupid and embarrassing. There's no reason for anyone here to care, those who download will dl and those who won't won't. I stream bands on spotify when they are there, I bought Anfiel's second album digital because i liked them back then, I wouldn't pay a buck for david if it's able for purchase online because I think they suck, but I'll still dl it to know what it's about — everyone else will continue to do more or less the same unless they have a mental disorder where they live vicariously through their fave bandmen. 

I honestly don't know what there is to gain by white knighting some high school dropouts rockstar dreams in the year 2020. The world is in lockdown, the polar caps are melting; I think if you're making art for profit in this age then you can fuck the right off and get a real job, even if it's visual kei where half of the appeal of this niche comes from the weird economy that sustains it. 
 
 

Those albums were topped ages ago. You guys need to quit living in the past.

Welcome!
I like your profile pic, looks a bit like Toda from Shinjuku Gewalt, haha.
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So it looks like this is it, deadman's promised one-year activity will really be over in 2020. The band will hold their last tour titled [死者の行進] (Shisha no koushin) from mid-June to early August.  Here are the dates and venues:
 
6月10日(水)
福岡 LIVE HOUSE INSA
OPEN 18:30 / START 19:00
 
6月11日(木)
広島 BACK BEAT
OPEN 18:30 / START 19:00
 
6月13日(土)
岡山 LIVE HOUSE IMAGE
OPEN 17:30 / START 18:00
 
6月14日(日)
京都 MUSE
OPEN 17:00 / START 17:30
 
6月27日(土)
仙台 LIVE HOUSE enn 2nd
OPEN 17:30 / START 18:00
 
6月28日(日)
埼玉 HEAVEN’S ROCK 埼玉新都心 VJ-3
OPEN 17:00 / START 17:30
 
7月11日(土)
静岡 Live House 浜松窓枠
OPEN 17:30 / START 18:00
 
7月12日(日)
新横浜 NEW SIDE BEACH!!
OPEN 17:00 / START 17:30
 
7月18日(土)
札幌 BESSIE HALL
OPEN 17:30 / START 18:00
 
7月19日(日)
札幌 BESSIE HALL
OPEN 17:00 / START 17:30
 
8月1日(土)
大阪 梅田CLUB QUATTRO
OPEN 17:00 / START 18:00
 
8月2日(日)
名古屋CLUB QUATTRO
OPEN 17:00 / START 18:00
 
And here are the support musicians:
6月10日~ 7月19日 kazu (the god and death stars) / Lotto (ex.Sioux)
8月1日~ 8月2日 kazu (the god and death stars) / 晁直 (lynch.)

No, I'm not a fan of Misc. nor Retsu's individual attitude, but I feel like many here are just plain mean/annoying.
Like, why don't you just ignore/let go of them if you're gonna be negative about everything they do.
 
DIMLIM is not just Retsu, so I feel bad for Sho and Hiroshi.
Also things are changing daily because of the Corona shit going on, so you can't blame any artist for saying "it won't be cancelled/postponed" 2 days prior cancelling/postponing the live after all. It happens all the time everywhere.
I live in Tokyo and I also have tickets for lives that have been postponed/cancelled 2 days prior, while the bands tried not to disappoint the fans at first. Lives/tours in Europe (from Japanese artists) have been postponed/cancelled too. It may have been decided by the venue or government, so the bands can't even do anything about it.
 
Japanese bands have the tendency to give up on their band too easily imo, so I do respect them for the "we keep trying and don't care about the haters" attitude. He's not a criminal or something.

cover type B
 

Hey!! I was told you were around. I’ll send you a message!

Great to have you back!
It's your old pal from Sweden, we lost touch around the time Skype usage died off I think. 

Hi everyone,
 
Some of you may have known me as tachikomatic on Last.FM long ago. I used to help run jsalad, which was something like a rival forum to Monochrome Heaven for a while back when it was Tainted World.
 
A lot of what I listen to these days is Japanese new wave/electronic music from the 80s like YMO, Togawa Jun, and P-MODEL + associated acts. But, I do love vk (especially heavier stuff like Aikaryu and vellaDonna), and angura kei. The first few Japanese bands I really got into as a teenager were Kagrra, cali≠gari, and metronome (メトロノーム). Here are some notable faves:
 
shinjuku gewalt / 新宿ゲバルト
pinokiwo / ピノキヲ
COSMO-SHIKI
dagashikashi / 駄菓子菓子
FLOPPY
himitsu kessha kodomo A / 秘密結社コドモA
sandwich de 120 pun? / サンドイッチで120分?
DENTAKU
matsutake works / マツタケワークス
idenshi kumikae kodomo-kai / 遺伝子組換こども会
hyper pocket / ハイパーポケット
anokoroido / アノコロイド
mamono / マモノ
kuusou kakumei / 空想革命
Proxyon / プロキシオン
HONDALADY
Plastic Tree
recoride / レコライド
shinsei kamatte-chan / 神聖かまってちゃん
goatbed
COALTAR OF THE DEEPERS
guruguru eigakan / グルグル映畫館
ningen isu / 人間椅子
onmyouza / 陰陽座
urbangarde / アーバンギャルド
 
Anyway, my tastes are mostly stuck in the past. I’ve been apart from the community for some time and I’d like to get back into things. I hope that I’m able to provide a valued presence here.
 
Thank you for reading.

Contacted _Yomigaeri on twitter for her shopping services for Rands goods, she wasn't charging a fee, so that part was great, so I asked for a towel and the latest album.
 
Communication was very sparce and I constanly had to bug her to get any news. She only ends up getting me the towel as the day she chose to get the CD, the store had an instore. Lucky enough the band finally released it for download. So that was fine. Took about two weeks after she gets home to finally ship the towel. I've asked her what the shipping price was, still waiting for the answer as I should be getting a some money back.
 
Maybe it's just me but if someone offers a shopping service, they should be more active in dealing with their customers, keeping them updated, do things when you say you'll do them as you areresponsible with someone elses money.
 
I wouldn't use her again.

HA
 
also, cześć ^^ 

I've been living under a rock and didn't aknowledge the existence of this page until @WhirlingBlackintroduced it to me. Looking forward to see what's here.
 
I've been listening to vk for about 5-6 years now? I'm mostly into old school stuff, all about Extasy Records and related bands and other classics. The new wave of vk is still a mystery to me that I have yet to unravel. 
 
 

From when I hosted my VK club in Warsaw, Poland in July. 

took on the streets before deg /w @WhirlingBlack

キズ (Kizu) new single, "地獄" (jigoku) will be released on 4/28
 
They will also hold their oneman live, "糸" on 4/18 at 下北沢GARDEN, and will also hold a separate oneman tour "地獄巡り", beginning in May!
 

This must be the most outlandish and fantastic fan theory I ever heard. Like aimi said according to every interview they've ever put out that I've read they pretty much were dudes in the local scene jumping from band to band and eventually the present formation sans Kai formed out of the corpses of these local bands. They were never affiliated with each other in any way since they were on totally different labels and based in a different city. All the bands that have deg associations are from the Dynamite Tommy family like Merry and Rentrer En Soi. If I'm not mistaken some Gazette members like Kai and Ruki had day jobs before making it big too, so any roadie story is just unlikely when deg was consistently touring the country from the moment of their inception and gazette dudes had barely had their first bands by the year 2000. I think the rivalry is the invention of western fans because in Japan they have nothing to do with each other
 
 

Extended gig report from Berlin since I did one from Warsaw a year and a half back.
 
The scene: Berlin, shaking and dying, sporting a bloodshot visage from the night previous as usual, I had managed to score some decent vegetables from the bazaar at a rather handsome price for Germany, all in an effort to recover before the show, but I'm thinking: will these carry me over? Just how many gin tonics is too many? Either way duty calls and I head out to meet Gaz in a bar nearby, who already a few beers deep inadvertently encouraged me to go for one that was 15% and then it was off to the races. 
 
The bridge to Friedrichschain; running to take a piss somewhere in the corner I step on human shit, I was thinking that the only way that this isn't the worse thing that would happen to me today would be if they played The Final for the encore. I take out 40 euros from the ATM and it charges me 4 euros for the transaction. Fuck it. I'm getting beer, and this is the only way. No one takes card in a conspiracy to bleed me dry. I see Whirlingblack and two of our mutuals coming over; I bum a cigarette; the line is possibly the fastest moving I've ever experienced in my life, especially considering just how long it was; turns out the reason why it was moving fast was the inspection for the ticket was literally the door man taking a cursory look almost in the direction of my phone and going "boom" and letting me in. I got the ticket just the night before and it was nice to see that was for nothing. Could've used someone else's and I'll remember that next time.
 
Lots of merch; I get nothing; I get a beer and some shots instead. In Warsaw I got three, now I got four. I've upgraded. The plan is that the second the lights go out we'll just strafe by the wall and when it gets heavy we'll just muscle our way to the center for the pit. Works every time and did so again. 
 
Okay, so the concert had exactly the same setlist as the previous, which is the full Insulated World album, World of Mercy, Merciless Cult and a rotating encore song. This was my first time seeing them with a set that was dedicated to promoting an album so I was moderately excited about that despite not being hugely into the fucking thing. This model works in a live context fairly well imo, like the mood is consistent and you get to see the thing in a slightly altered light; but most importantly of all that meant that this could just be the first time I won't get to hear The Final and an even better chance to never hear Sustain the Untruth ever again. The whole thing kicks off with Zetsuentai and the one marked difference from the 2018 tour is that the theatricality is even more present than last time. The first performances of Devote My Life and Keibetsu Hajimari went by like a blur in an underwhelming fashion, whereas now they've got synchronised head banging and a lot sharper performance by Kyo, who must've after performing all those songs like a hundred times now figured out how to make them work. The heavier stuff worked very well this time around and I wasn't the only one feeling the physicality since the crowd in Berlin was, for the most part, really good. Loud, energetic and the second I saw the pit was going I joined it and stuck by it til the very end. It wasn't even one of those usual weeb pits where you'll see people politely shoving each other, nope, it was the closest I've felt to a real one in one of these shows since 2010. Occasionally shit would be really tight like during Merciless Cult ( I actually in retrospect wish we would have gotten more old songs based on how good this was ) and Devote my life and although I'm just a bit saddened about no wall of death happening despite the chances definitely being there, it was still obviously really good; maybe even too good perhaps, because I do remember some of the looks from people nearby who weren't much having it. Too bad my philosophy is that leben ist krieg and if you're not in shape to hold your own, go to the back and sit on your phone there. By the end I remember one dude air punching himself a karate pit and at some point that enraged some other short purple haired dude; and of all the times to do this bullshit it was during the biggest surprise of the night which was NEW AGE CULTURE. I think eventually security stepped in on that dude flexing in front of his stupid girlfriend I guess.
 
So yeah as far as the band goes, I honestly don't remember any moment when a complaint would've registered. The sound in the venue was good and that made it already just a bit better than the usual, and looking at the clips on youtube I'd say yeah, it's the usual for 2020 Deg. They're really good live rn imo, way better than before the mode of tours. One thing that has to be said tho is that Kyo did sound just a liiiiiitle more constrained that what I remember from last year. Followers is a rough fucking song to pull off, and World of Mercy has some difficult parts as well. I guess it just comes with the territory, doing all these tours like this; my opinion on the matter is that if you're actually minding shit other than your phone recording, you don't really care that much. 
 
The shows ends after the Followers, NEW AGE CULTURE and Utafumi encore that got such a loud reaction by the end that I was almost hoping for them to come back for a second encore. This was not to be however, so after picking up Die's pick from the ground by accident and waiting half a century for my jacket we scatter off into whirlingblack's hotel that was just around the corner, and what better way to cap off the gig other than washing away all the memories and a few others with a rather absurd and expensive haul for the already overpriced kiosk downstairs; and by the time I got back to my hostel all that red wine, sparkling wine, beers and a few others went back to where they came and where I should've went myself: the toilets of Berlin.
 
 

Here u go

I can't vote on the poll yet cuz this is gonna take several listens. But what's painful here is that in some tracks Sho's voice is so obviously constrained to fit the songs. He has to use 10% of his skills to be able to fit into what this album is going for. 

Yeah this. 
 
You can sometimes hear Sho on the verge of going off the rails, but he can’t because it wouldn’t fit the music at all. It’s almost like he started to cut loose and Retsu was on the other side behind the sound board, wagging his finger. 

lol cancelled 

"NO BRASIL" - DIMLIM, 2020.