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lynch. will live and die by the mantra "if it ain't broke, don't fix it."

Well, it is what the title says. コロナウイルス is forcing people to stay home in Japan and the japs have a nice philosophy of spreading hope in times of despair, so they went there and performed anyway and are being nice and posting the gigs that got cancelled online for all to see, including us, poor gaijin. No live audience, no staff, etc.
 
These are the ones I've seen so far:
 
 
 
 
Let's make this collaborative so do share other links here if you know of any. I'll keep updating this list.
 
Previously unreleased lives uploaded for viewing due to the Corona situation are also to be freely shared in this thread - MH Staff
 
And bear in mind most of these gigs will be available for a limited time only, so hurry up and watch or download the ones you're interested in watching ASAP.

this band has somehow managed to have a nearly 20 year career despite having only 4 songs. truly the vk counterparts to ac/dc

Yeah, don't get the wrong idea; I do like TIW. I just don't love it. Even though bad mastering killed the album for me, the songs aren't terrible, proved by how well they translated live. In fact, I vastly prefer it live, and I wish they'd recorded it that way. Kyo's vocals on Ranunculus live are fantastic. However, the songwriting itself is occasionally blah on this album. I feel like repetition has set in, with several songs being copy-pastes of material we've heard before. It's been the first DEG era where I've felt somewhat disconnected from the music.
 
I will admit that the endless Japan-only From Depression To... tours with appallingly expensive fanclub-exclusive Blu-Rays did not help my demeanour going into this album. That was a really, really boring time to be a DEG fan.
 
Best Of album was inevitable. Aside from FUKAI, the re-recorded songs from this suck tbh, and the videos are just trash. I don't really care for this release, but it's not intended for me, so it doesn't matter.
 
As for re-recordings, it's funny that they re-recorded Ash *again*, although this rendition is pretty good. Likewise THE DEEPER VILENESS is just disgusting; I love it. Acoustic DOZING GREEN is perfect.
 
The World of Mercy is a great single. A slow-burner, for sure. This should have been on the album to make it over an hour. Even so, I'm glad to see another long non-album single like ain't afraid to die. 

They are totally ripping off themselves in every track. Now I'm lazy to look up the songs I'm saying they are copying, but any careful fan should know them well.  Btw, the chorus for 'Ikari' is totally sweet and dramatic, so it's nice, but surely not something I would put on repeat.

I love it. It almost makes me feel like I'm listening to real adult music that i'm not ashamed to tell people i like™ 
 
Infinitum grew on me as well. I think my first reaction was totally enamored, first of all because it's vk in the 2010's that actually shows some ambition to be more than just japanese nu metal or indie too rigid to actually be indie, but then I started thinking that well it isn't exactly ADORATIO; now almost an year later I'm able to accept it for what it is. ADORATIO is an impossible act to follow and that's just how it is. These are the most talented players in this particular game and with their music they almost manage to compensate for an entire genre that resists experimentation or unconformity literally until it has to be dragged kicking and screaming into the new decades. 

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.

guys, listen
 
i love luna sea
 

If only this was a real vs. battle and the oboreru sakana era dadaroma can eliminate whatever the hell is going on nowadays

sis stop it's either this, or extorting same gucci purses from bangya to resell them on yahoo a month later
 
 pick a less visual scene if you don't like the practice?????

Same old, they definitely have Lynch. syndrome where they write exactly the same song over and over again.

Wtf is going on with those Dir and Maximum covers???

What. 

Ninshi reached out to Dimlim on twitter because they were trying to send an email, but apparently Dimlim’s email wasn’t working or accepting it. It was probably about this. 

Oh my gooooood, that's so good.

I guess Retsu's pride will take a huge hit and he will be pissed off and release "What's up [2]" where he will slam outseas fans.
 
No bangyas and no gaijins.

They just copied The Stalin's song :/ The lyrics are exactly the same and everything 

Dir en grey was always imitating 12012 tbh i don't get where this revisionism is coming from 😕

Imo the quickest solution to this problem of whether X band copied Dir en grey or not is to think that, although Dir was, proofly, one the few projects that had the power to mark the aesthetics of a whole scene for almost a decade, that doesn't mean that the other bands in it copied them. At least, not in the case of Nega and Sadie (I won't speak so much for 12012 and ReS because I haven't listened enough to them to judge); they don't have any song like sounds identical to a Dir song (that actually screams plagiarism, like Grieva's, for example); in the other hand, part of their setlist incorporates aesthetics Dir doesn't  (for example, the draggy outfits of Nega, or the hard J-pop-driven sound of Sadie's chorus-centered songs). That said, that this bands listened at least a bit of Dir back in the time is an obvious fact provided by their level of historic relevance for VK, but I won't assume by it things like Nega or Sadie decided to go nu-metal/metalcore because of Dir, or even they actually loved Dir and looked up at them... Aside from obvious things that scream admiration like Mao's vocal inflections, I'll think that they perhaps made some aesthetic decisions after listening to Dir's output at the time, otherwise we'll have to interview the members to get their words on this to fully confirm that hardcore inspiration. 
 
 

took on the streets before deg /w @WhirlingBlack

Calling them a deg knock-off because Jin started screaming 2/3rds into their career is a bit of a stretch. Not even the DSS prog aspirations of like one song the last album really cut it for such a label. 
 
Early Nega is quintessential UCP sounding stuff that was musically going along the same broad strokes vk was in general at that time. Deg doesn't have the trade mark on screams, growls and chugs when you can find that in vk from like 2000 onwards, or 2001 in this case since Ray was already ripping off Slipknot by that time while the boys in Dir en grey were still dressed in drag. 

Nega was the 2nd best thing from the scene (Megaromania was the 1st thing)

@Disposable I really appreciate your way of figuring out things and putting them into words. I love reading you!

Shazna should just release that album and stop messing around

everyone in scandinavia knows each other first or second hand, there's like only three bars and one club here. also 90% of weeb rock stars never left their dad's and government's payroll if they didn't find someone else to scam and stuck around the house playing pokemon and eating chips. 
 
I can't with his "yo success hours woke up at 5am achieve your dreams m8" when literally anyone who works a morning shift has to get up at that time, or earlier. I think he's moderately talented provided that he actually wrote the two good Disreign songs himself,  but woefully incapable of managing his affairs and I have no clue why that is. Maybe he should wake up at 3am instead or forgo sleep altogether and maybe then he'd managed to release a mini in half a decade, or at least a new episode of the podcast that sanjay and rajesh at the bot factory love listening to.