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2 minutes ago, EzraEroguro said:

I leave for five months, and y'all are still arguing over technicality. 

 

I love you guys, never change.

P.S. New York is Sold Out. Congratulation.

VK is nowadays filled with so much shit that if it wasn't for Dir, Dimlim and Kizu MH would be pretty dead!

2 hours ago, Saishu said:

Bottom line: Shinya’s feet suck. I guarantee you he wasn’t gung ho about the band’s heavier direction, and he was probably like “whatever, fuck you guys. Still gonna play like it’s 1999”.

How can you 'guarantee' that?

Also, I've always tended to think that both Kaoru and Die's strength relied more on songwriting rather than on actual guitar skills. I mean, they managed to put out a really creative and always changing sound while at the same time attaching to current trends on metal, punk and alternative rock (and also local pop) since MISSA. In that sense, no doubts over why Yoshiki put the eye on them back in 1998...

Nowadays I tend to believe that Kaoru and Die aren't mediocre guitarists, but rather have a different technical approach to the musical trends they want to craft over. To put it into few words, I sometimes have the impression that still today they try to play arranges inspired by bands of nu-metal, death-metal, etc., in the way their 'music papas' did back in the ending 80s, a.k.a. like post-punk goth acts (or "positive punk", like the proto-VK bands liked to label this trend in music). The most visible example of this Die: the resemblance to D'erlanger's Cipher in his playing is very strong, even on TIW. Like, what metal guy would hit those beautiful gothic syncopated chorused cleans within a brutal 0-1-00-1 atmosphere? (Same goes for Toshiya's cutting melodic lines).

Of course, I'm not saying this approach of theirs is wrong, all on the contrary: that's one of the keys why the sound of Dir was and still is very unique. And also may be why every Western metalhead writing a review on them since 2005 still doesn't get a clue over their releases out of labeling them 'art-metal' or 'avant garde-metal' while comparing them only to Manson, Korn and Deftones...

9 hours ago, Euronymous said:

just sent the insulated world to a musician friend of mine check out,and his mind is blown away .he instantly became a DnG stan.then i got intrigued,like "why can i not enjoy that album as well?".so i just decided to give it a spin,without any sense of criticism or comparing with previous works,and it actually flowed really well. i've come to the conclusion that TIW can be an outstanding experience for non DnG hardcore fans.compared with the 3 previous albums,TIW is just ridiculous,but i think if we take that out from the dir en grey-hall and listen to that as a random metal album,we'd be able to enjoy with no problems.

Like actually trying not to realize what a tragedy is that one of the most creative bands in Japanese music history suddenly ran off of ideas lol

1 hour ago, Alkaloid said:

Yes.

I know there's make up and also photo edition, but wow, is he really looking THAT young today? I wonder how old could he be... like 40 at least, couldn't he?

Is that the ex-Aliene Ma'riage Mast?

15 minutes ago, Cruel'JealouSY said:

Unfortunately it seems generic metalcore 😕

Where have you listened to it?

2 hours ago, colorful人生 said:

 

It's because garbage gives us life. I can't wait until someone rips this in 64kbps so I can play it through a tin can. 

Best definition of hardcore VK fandom EVER GIVEN. 

Wow, plenty of names I don't know!

Same here. But on the other hand, VK as a whole hasn't seen something really impressive coming up in the last 5+ years, worth the illusion of 'being part' of it. 

Summing, when I thought the 'free-speech' and Jordan Peterson stupidity was the worse that could have happened here, then Chic Boy's nasty, NASTY, last look happened...

Doomed

3 hours ago, secret_no_03 said:

Oooh boy, well you clearly don't like me and probably find me to be grating and a jerk, although I feel like you'd use some more colorful language. I guess all I have to say to your diatribe is some wise words from Andy Black.

 

We don't have to talk

We don't have to dance

We don't have to smile

We don't have to make friends

It's so nice to meet you

Let's never meet again

😊🖖

Are you seriously trying to end an argument pointing out the 'ridiculousness' of my 'colorful language' (which instead is a way of trying to discuss politely while not using my mother tongue)? Or even trying to reduce everything you and I've said to a thing of 'liking' or not each other when we actually never have met...? What unfair.

Girl, you never cease to amaze me. Now it's clear to everyone reading this that the only 'weak' thing here are your ideas and so your own temple at the moment of discussing with other and making any sense trough them.

Like I said, I'd rather want to believe that you are actually doing anything but trolling and you know it and get fun over people getting mad at you, because other way I'll have to have to think that you have serious issues. 

I won't continue this argument.

Good luck.

1 minute ago, psychonnect_rozen said:

I legit had to put in “NO POLITICS” in my first post when I made this thread like 30 minutes ago to prevent a shit storm

This hasn't to do with politics anymore, this has to do with basic rules of coherence, empathy and respect for the Other at the moment of thinking and sharing your opinion.

@secret_no_03

The whole discussion about the necessity or estrategy of whether a centred or winged political position could be interesting at some point, but the actual scandalous way that you've constantly showed at the moment of bringing up serious stuff like a raging teeanger makes you no more different from the "SJWs" that you love to blame to, with all the generalizing, fanatic, ilogic and rude behaviour over it. Although considering "their" failures, at least they comitted (along other forces) to bring a 5% of decent media representation to lots of mislabeled 'minorities', among other stuff.

Btw, I said "ilogic", because I obviously can't pass over the fact that while you are blaming, let's say, "gender-non-conforming lifestyles" for instance, at the same time you speak out all your words of admiration over the work of transvestite underground musicians and discuss about weird porn and sex practices that are very far from the standards for sexuality that your self-proclaimed 'liberal' messiahs share. Perhaps I could have more respect for your opinion if you were more consistent, that is, instead of talking out that 'schizophreniac', you could show your whole disrespect for these topics arguing from, for example, a conservative vision over sex and gender, and consider Közi a sick dude with 'gender dysphoria' (if that ever existed), or the fellows at the Sex/porn thread to need  'God' in their lives, whatsoever... I mean, have you ever, EVER, considered what the authors you cite here supporting your delusional 'free-speech' ideas would think about your hobbies or sexual interests?

Sometimes I doubt I you are not more than a bored troll just trying to reach attention from people really concerned about these matters, because reading you is REALLY hillarious... MH was really a different place before you started your whole rant waterfall in every corner of it...

2 hours ago, secret_no_03 said:

Everything you said is true, except for the LGBT identitarions and them going nuts if you say that there are two genders, don't give them what they want whether it's calling them by whatever pronoun they want or what they identify as. It's funny how people so anti-free speech are so fascist when it comes to pushing their believes on others. I'm sorry, but I don't have to adhere to your crazy doctrine because you have body dysmorphia or some other personal problem. 🙄

Wow. I just remembered that in first place we got here because we are enthusiasts of musicians who happen to be a bunch of guys in drag...

21 minutes ago, psychonnect_rozen said:

Also, for the love of god, foodplay is disgusting. Strawberries are meant for eating, not shoving it up your ass and pushing it out.

 

Whipped Cream is fine though, but putting food in your vagina or your ass is just nasty 

/thread, for Hide's sake!!!

I love some dom&sub play in my porn, but kinda in a light way, just for the "passionate" and "masculine" touch of the intercourse between the lovers. I like the use of force in a daddy-like spanking or even in a 'wrestling' manner, but not any farther from it. I can't stand the BDSM stuff that relies too much on "tormenting" a person, like really setting up a "horror" scene in some way, with the "dom" being much of a "villain" or "pyscho" rather than just a "master". That, and the excesive use of toys, oils, wax, latex and bondage it's also gross to me. Just a little of any of them alone is fine, but I don't like to watch a body being cruelly filled with dildos in every hole it has while hurting it with tons of hot wax and so on. It's just a plain ugly image. 

Puting things into an urethra, fist-fuck  (and also the prolapse that obviously comes after) and scat are really nightmarish... I always try not to kink-shame on anyone, but I can't believe someone who says that these practices aren't harmful in any way... 

1 hour ago, The Piass said:

Well, Chizuru said that the band did not think that they would be able to live up to the band's growing reputation. He was also having trouble with the musical direction he wanted to take. The other members also had their own thoughts and that's how they first talked about disbanding in the winter of 2017.  But he reached the conclusion that the band could still keep going. However, at the end of 2018, the band and the label talked again about it and came to the conclusion that it would be the best solution as each member's own musical direction and desires had changed since they formed.

'Musical direction'? From Pentagon? Hm... This guys were everything but actually musicians to me... They were a boy-band project after all, so I'm sure their disbanding may have to do with other stuff, like contract matters and such, rather than 'artistic' arguments between members...

1 hour ago, Takadanobabaalien said:

TV performance that gulu gulu participated in 

 

What is this show or program about? Is this a relevant show in terms of audience?

Also, it is still hillarious to me the way Japanese TV hosts have to treat their attendees. For someone who doesn't understand their language, they seem to constantly make fun of such attendees, by screaming and pointing at them while laughing like psychos... They look like kids staring at something they would consider a freak... I don't know how to put this 'rude' behaviour along with the actual Japanese extremely polite rules of treating the other 🤔

Japanese morals over drugs are seriously hillarious. Social apology? Dissapear for a while? This can't be real even today. I want to believe that, although this whole moral acting is done by their management because the current social moratorium says so, fans aren't that idiotized and don't support a bit this kind of measures...

Although not impressive, it sounds much more fresh than the majority of the releases today. Guitarist stands out with that solo.

Also, good to have a VK band with a female voice!

Idol kei became literal, run!!!

I've never tried Verxina before because of who-knows, but the constant bump of this thread in the Activity list of today made me realize the number of active people here on MH who stans it... So I decided to give it an opportunity, listened to the video above... and, honestly -and, please, don't kill me- not only I couldn't get interested in it, but I actually found the song to be completely awful. Like, in so many ways: sloppy writing, low quality recording, painful vocals, and the whole emphasis on puting as many old-school clichés as possible... The visual were pretty boring, too. Nothing really new, since most indie bands in the last 10 years sound the same, but I can't but ask myself why many of you (who support actually quality acts, like Kizu or Dimlim) seem to be "excited" about this band 🤔

1 hour ago, Enki said:

The live dvd wasnt very good tbh

Share it, please!

16 minutes ago, nekkichi said:

think the play-it-safe approach of current VK acts who want to appeal to normal teenagers to get their parents coin quick does play a role, bc. the OG important artistés of this scene never really left, they just manage and produce dog in the PWO now.

This. Sometimes I feel that while we blame young bandoman for the current mess of the scene we forget who creates the projects they got involved with. This should be brought to discussion as well.

16 minutes ago, nekkichi said:

wish someone took a risk on a vk band and gave them same budgets Mana managed to cast for malice mizer at their peak. it would be interesting to see a well funded visual project doing something in the current scene, 

I think Kizu is very well funded. Sure they won't get as groundbreaking or influential as MM was, but I can't recall any indie band of the last 10 years that actually enjoyed THAT quality over playing skills, songwriting, costumes, music and pv recordings since day 1.

Is that blond guy in the porn pic really Subaru? It doesn't seem like him, specially because of that nose...