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36 minutes ago, blackdoll said:

David「Behind」

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sounds like Lords of Acid - I Sit on Acid

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I don't think this may be the case of a direct source of inspiration. I think this is more a kind of arrangement that became a typical industrial feature (among others), thus (ab)used by every artist of any genre who wants to add a little industrial vibe to their craft.

Wow, is Mana publicly sending him a nostalgia hug? I thought she was a beautiful vampire soulless doll lol

27 minutes ago, ghostpepper said:

Yah Osaka is way stronger for sub culture in everything now. Some great bands have started recently there! 

Tell some names!

Wow. Karma must be very sure of him having rich bangya who will definitely spend that amount of cash for his art... I'm so envious of his level of self-esteem as an artist, lol.

5 hours ago, Jigsaw9 said:

 

TIME IS DEAD
SHADE
THE SLAIN
PRECIOUS...
MECHANICAL DANCE
IMITATION
IN MIND
WISH
JESUS
IN MY DREAM (WITH SHIVER)
STEAL
STAY
SLAVE
FALLOUT
G.
HURT
RA-SE-N
FOREVER & EVER
Time Has Come
STORM
SHINE
Unlikelihood
ANOTHER
BROKEN
INTO THE SUN
Sweetest Coma Again
a Vision
TONIGHT
Crazy About You

All of my favorite LS songs are written by J. Literally. I'm speechless. 

I don't have anything to say about this because I've never listened to this band carefully, but I approve the insightful music-related discussion!

MH needs more of this stuff!

Thanks @CAT5!

I'm a very fan of Luna, but never had the chance to dig their discography while trying to trace the development of their artistic project, whatever it is. So, like in the listening of other of their albums, I've listened to Mother a lot of times, enjoying it a lot, but never payed attention to it as a whole, rather I concentrated my pleasure in each track as a unit. Maybe it came the time to do it the other way!

On 4/18/2020 at 1:48 PM, chemicalpictures said:

What impresses me the most in Luna Sea is how J is basically the father of the next 20 years of VK.

Listen to Wish on Image, In my Dream on Eden and Rosier and SPECIALLY True Blue on Mother and you have the blueprint every single band followed around that time and after. Shit is freaking impressive, to say the very very least

 

Regarding the album itself, I don't think Luna Sea works best looking at albuns individually, as I wouldn't be able to point only one that defines them. That said, Mother sounds really really mature in songs like Rosier, True Blue and Mother, while giving them range to experiment in songs like Genesis of Mind. Together with Style, this is their all time high imo, the trademark Luna Sea sound in its peak, polished and defined for the generations that would come after

I'm so impressed J is credited as the main composer of those classics! Now I realize I unconsciouslly assumed all this time it was either Sugizo or Inoran who were back them, because 90% of the times in rock bands it's the guitarist who comes with the majority of ideas... This deserves more researching! 

The first two tracks sound very ok, Kizu milking their (very cool, indeed) clichés once again, which at this point still sound fresh (but I'm sure that grace will expire soon if they don't decide to change that decision for the A-sides of the next couple of releases). Mr. Big Monster sounds a bit more interesting, at least for that intro. And finally,15.2 stands out a lot, the uncommonnes of that harmony into VK sure adds a lot of thrill! Loved it!

Merry, D'espairs Ray.

I fixed my ignorance over cali gari last year.

On 3/7/2011 at 7:22 PM, Lily said:

 

 

 

 

Check the tone before buying it, girl!

49 minutes ago, Nighttime Jae said:

According to the girl, she had sex with Yoshiatsu and he took off the condom mid-fuck. Girl gets pregnant, tells him she's planning to get an abortion and asks him to pay for it and Yoshiatsu, being the gentleman that he is, ghosts her. Then the girl has to ask a male friend to come with her getting the abortion because apparently women in Japan can't go through an abortion alone, the supposed "baby daddy" has to be there too to consent. Here you can find the screenshots of the convo.

 

 

Incredible.

Since many users of MH are living under quarintine control since at least a month ago, I thought many of you would have the time to write down here your thoughts in a more elaborated way. So, I wanted to ask anyone here interested: why do you like visual kei?

The most common way of aboarding an answer to it should be 'because I like metal/punk/goth/post-punk music, etc.', 'because I like make-up', 'because I like X member'. Say, answering by remarking the presence there of the feature you like. 

Although this isn't a wrong answer at all, I would like you to elaborate on why you,  for example, when looking for metal music that satisfies your ears, would choose this kind of metal music that is VK (among many other features).  Say, what means those VK metal or make-up for you, what's its value in contrast with other metal of make-up artists?

I know this questions could look odd, considering the majority here moved from that high-school phase of "Oh, you like VK??? Me 2!!1, i thought i was the only weirdo in the freaking world!!!" at least ten years ago. But I was interested into asking it directly because, considering that when we talk here we do it leaving implicit what we like and what not, sometimes I wonder which are some users' interests after reading the post they make periodically. Perhaps there are some folks here who would like to take the chance to speak more words over their love for VK!  

I'll be reading you!

55 minutes ago, geist said:

Kizu feels very “corporate” to me. As if several music execs got together and formulated a band who could more efficiently deliver profits. Everything about them feels very “corporate” to me. Designed in such a deliberate way. 

Now you mention it, some users and I discussed this hypothesis a months ago, and the agreement was over the fact that it may be true.

It is almost impossible to explain other way how a group of little to no known indie musicians (yeah, I know Lime was in Lezard, but anyway... who the fuck are them?) launched from night to morning a project with such level of excellence both in music (compositions, recording), looks, videoclips and overall advertising campaign (remember the whole thing of the telephone number where bangya could talk to Lime to make catharsis of their suicidal thoughts? Crazy!).

They definitely had a ton of money behind them to do such, and if someone risked that amount of money for funding a band of nobodies in an currently almost dead genre/scene, I think it's obvious that those investors still now take every chance and tool they have acces to to make Kizu deliver profit in the most effective and eficient way. I'm still amazed about the fact that someone decided to take said risk; if I had the money I'm not sure if I would do it considering the situation, tbh.

And I'm not against it at all, because it was Kizu the band that (along Dimlim) retained the dignity of VK all this time within a scene full of ultra cringe-worthy newcomers and slowly-dying big fishes...

20 minutes ago, Dxrk1sm said:

Whatever the name of the guitar tuning they're using. 

Perhaps you want to refer to what some people here call the "guitar-wanking"? That sort of excessively chopped guitar lines and/or fast high-pitch melodies. That work is featured in both djent and math genres as well, although their differences. 

I'm actually surprised at my liking of the whole advertising output: don't know why, but make up, hair and clothing seem to me kinda refreshing in the context of the actual trends in the matters of the last years. Those color water-light tubes work as an amazing background. The Akira-esque graphic seems cool, too.

Music-wise, the sample listens like something we heard a lot of times (like 99% of the VK stuff today), tbh. Btw, vocalist's voice seems actually very nice. Perhaps I'll be trying the whole thing when it cames out.

2 hours ago, Dxrk1sm said:

The online live concert this morning was a good initiative from the band. They've made a respectable sum of money from the YouTube donations. 

How much did they do?

Amazing of Asagi and D!

21 minutes ago, donwea said:

I think the Raid. after the disaster in the management of BP is the only visual band that manages to join the top 10 of the major ranking with their singles

What disaster are you talking about?

Besides, was the Raid associated with BP? I'm getting noticed right now.

~~jamming with the 90s SADboYs~~

I don't know what's actually happening into Karma's head, but this madness is definitely new in the whole history scene and I couldn't expect it by any means. So my interest got forced to get into it!

I can't blame on him at all! So much charming than anything else put out recently! 

Song is good; but everything in it screams "fake" so loud... How can I take seriously that approach on djenty breakdowns and screaming if they were doing a full k-pop routine on stage like... what, two years ago? Don't know, this band is so messed up, which is really sad considering all of them are talented musicians...

I think the song is really good for the niche it aims. I mean, it's very well crafted, which isn't sadly something established within indie bands of the scene. But of course that doesn't mean it's necessarily interesting, at least for someone who binges into metal and/or a more mature avantgarde sound.

PV is also really well done; we are not accustomed to see this quality of display and shooting within the indie releases of the scene. I think we should cheer that effort!

The levels of crazyness reached by this trainwereck of a situation shouldn't be never forgotten in the heart of the scene. If there ever exists a VK History museum, they should be elegantly put in the show-window of cringe next to Satsuki's antics. 

4 hours ago, RazorGenesis said:

 

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(but XERO was a regular-good song, sadly i was expecting more, theres not much new things, except the Hazuki's leg's hams ❤️ )  

 

Hazuki's looks like the visual kei god he is with those all-black hot pants and trench coat. It suits his singing and overall performance so good I can't avoid thinking about it.

4 hours ago, ghostpepper said:

Basically how Juka had mental issues and mentioned how the MM camp was trying to work on a reunion but was tight lipped back then. This was about 2 years ago. 

Moaaaarrr

3 hours ago, hopefully_benign said:

That unidentifiable vocal type that somehow sounds deep and high pitched at the same time.

 

I don't know how else to describe it other than to say probably over half of all vk vocalists since the mid 90s try their hardest to affect it. It had its place but it's time to move on.

There couldn't be any VK without it, sorry.