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  1. Posted

    14 hours ago, suji said:

    ヴィジュアル系演歌歌手TAKASHI (Visual Kei Enka Kashu TAKASHI) (NOI'X Shina enka project) new single, "女心はアーモンドチョコレヰト" (Onnagokoro wa Almond Chocolate) will be released on February 5th for 1000 yen (3 tracks total).

     

    A 2-day release event will also be held at Ikebukuro CHOP from February 5-6.

     

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    Please stop this nightmare, I've had enough with 8P-SB for this year...

  2. Posted

    On 10/20/2018 at 10:26 AM, Wakarimashita said:

    I can't really see Masa screwing over other bandmembers, especially since they've known each other and been together for so long... I'd assume they'd also be friends by now (but DeG teaches otherwise, so who knows)

    Why do people assume Dir mates don't get along at all?

  4. Posted · Edited by saiko

    Ok. Let's say it loud and clear: vk is already gone. The ship is wrecked. Run before you drown down into deep shit.

  10. Posted

    Is there anyone with the accurate Japanese knowledge interested in doing a translation work for subbimg the dialogues during some live releases? There are some out there with a lot of talking (such as Malice Mizer, Kamijo's bands and Gackt), which I assume is related to the overall concept that the show are about.

     

    I'm curious as to why nobody seems to have done it before, since these lives are so well-known by the people in the fandom since the beggining.

  11. Posted

    This kind of nationalism kei aesthetics appeal to me, but it has been copied like million times since R-shitei made it a cliché of them and thus became trendy.

     

    Ok, so the look's cool. Now I just hope they put it togheter with a decent sound, at least a bit creative, and not just plain boring formulas...

     

    For some reason I feel it may have the Kagerou psycho-grunge sound that Mamireta took for their concept... at least that sound hasn't really peaked great levels of plagiarism...

  12. Posted

    On 1/1/2018 at 6:01 PM, saishuu said:
    • A new art-kei™ supergroup is formed

    Still wanting this to happen someday. VK started progressively to lose any artistic value in the last 10 years (if it could be said it still had any).

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  13. Posted

    On 1/1/2018 at 6:01 PM, saishuu said:
    • YOSHIKI will continue to give interviews saying "every time I'm on stage, I might die"
    • VK remains mostly garbage

    Sadly, this is the best summary of 2018 for vk so far.

     

     

  14. Posted

    In the recent years I started to get interest not only in consuming everything what the bands put out, but to try to understand and make meaningful insights about it instead, trying to get close to the band as 'artists' and 'human beings', with their own idiosyncrasies, rather than 'icons' or 'heroes'. It would be awesome to have enough time to spend on doing deep and critic essays on the band's sounds. That's why I like this forum, because sometimes I can find interesenting anaylisis that go far beyond the "I like/dislike this band because of I do it".

    That said, thanks for your answer.

     

    Btw, I always tend to believe, in between other things, that one must try to think that some songs in an album, some arrangments or lyrics, visuals, etc. must be there not because of the band's actual decision, but rather because of, for example, their managment saying "your album has to be 14 songs-long", or "your album must fill the following climaxes, according to what your fans request at live houses". Who knows... 

    As I said above, it would be really, really interesting to have deep and felt interviews of the band members, that say way more than generic lines like "the concept is EVILNESS IN THE WORLD", or "this song is composed by Kaoru".

  15. Posted

    On 10/23/2018 at 9:13 PM, Kelrya said:

    Somehow Kyo is my favorite thing about DEG and my least favorite thing about sukekiyo. He sounds fine when he’s singing normally but I really really really fucking hate the obnoxious fake screaming breathing/coughing/wheezing/whispering mouth sounds that he does that ruin half the music. I love his clean vocals and his actual harsh vocals but good god he makes some annoying noises in this band. It would be cool if it was once in a while but he uses that weird old man whisper yelling thing on damn near every song on Adoratio. I’ve never had a problem with his harsh vocals in DEG, in fact I love them. I just can’t stand the way he does them in this band. However I do have some hope for the future since Gerbera and that demo song from January both had traditional harsh vocals that didn’t sound like nails on a chalkboard.

    This. Screaming weird noises is not everytime the best stuff to come up with.

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  17. Posted · Edited by saiko

    5 hours ago, Saishu said:

    Was Mejibray “super popular” though? I feel like Western VK fanbases oversell their favorites quite a bit. 

    I thinks it obvious that when she said "super popular" she didn't said "mainstream". Meji was, of course, never to hit Tokyo Dome someday like Sid or AKB48 do, but that doesn't take off the fact that they had very decent levels of popularity, at least within the scene. They actually rocked Koukkaidou, Blitz, Studio Coast and Yagai Ongakudou all by themselves, way more than what every indie vk artist can actually achieve in their life-time.

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  18. Posted

    On 10/27/2018 at 10:35 AM, Cristate said:

    Quoting myself but what a surprise to see that even in the MV Spot the bassist is not playing a single accurate note, her left hand is barely even moving, while the drums, guitar and lip-syncing is actually accurate.

    When did they schedule the big reveal of all of this actually being the best prank of 2k18 ? Please ?

    How come Koichi does not actually play his on stage? Do you have actual proofs of it? I'm pretty sure he always did, and thus considered him very talented for trying to do it while jumping, dancing and cheering up the public in general...

  20. Posted · Edited by saiko

    It would be interesting if any of the users above can tell why they think the band they are bringing on can be considered "unique".

     

    From my experience of almost a decade listening to vk, I think the bands with the most unique sound (and overall concept) are the ones that stay in the fandom as the big ones, because they were the bands that contributed to define the estructures of the look, sound, lyrics, performance, etc. that make of vk a stablished and recognizable scene/genre. Sometimes I think it's not that hard to stand out with a creative proposal in this scene, since one of its core atributes since the early times was being vastly plagued of cheap copy-cats (what nowadays it went to the extreme of the parody, and made a genuine subgenre from itself: what in this lands they call "homage-kei").

     

    In this direction, it would be really interesting to trace the different genealogies of sound, visuals, etc. within the scene. For example: the lines of power-metal bands from X; the goth lines of D'erlenger and Kuroyume (then hardcore-punk); the neoclassical line (Malice Mizer, Lareine, Raphael) etc.

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  23. Posted

    Basically every tour final date Dir did during their pre-Kisou era. They had a Bodukan for Missa in 1998, another Budokan for Macabre in 2001, and then a lot of big venue lives (NHK Hall, Diamond Hall, Hibiya, etc.) back in the day. I don't know what could have we done if it wasn't for that 1999 Osaka-jou live releasing... Being the only footage from that era available I should have watched and re-watched it countless times.

    There actually are some digest compilations for Missa and Macabre eras, but fuck them, they are fucking awful to watch! You can't appreaciate a single number, only cutscenes passing each other frenetically...

    Just compare Kiri to mayu or Erode, which have literally zero live releasings, to 2011's Obscure and Rasetsukoku...ew, why?

    It really pisses me off, gurl

  24. Posted

    10 minutes ago, nekkichi said:

    well they usually do an album-only/post-album PV, but it's pure speculation at this point about which one they pick next.

     

    there're literally dozens of fandom people who do exactly that because their career/studies allow for it, but go off cyst x

    I wish I could do that

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