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Today I learned that toe is one of my favourite visual kei bands.
 
Anyway, it's rather amusing to see the sort of stuff Patrik is up to these days. If memory serves me correctly he was always one of the people shit-talking bland, generic, and derivative visual kei bands back when I used to frequent Fukkatsu. Gotta love the irony.

Today I learned that toe is one of my favourite visual kei bands.
 
Anyway, it's rather amusing to see the sort of stuff Patrik is up to these days. If memory serves me correctly he was always one of the people shit-talking bland, generic, and derivative visual kei bands back when I used to frequent Fukkatsu. Gotta love the irony.

its almost like he should be taking the advice himself

Guess I haven't shown my face for a while.
 

Guess I haven't shown my face for a while.
 

Guess I haven't shown my face for a while.
 

Guess I haven't shown my face for a while.
 

Guess I haven't shown my face for a while.
 

Guess I haven't shown my face for a while.
 

^Much appreciated!
 
Seems like Yuki was behind most of my favourites too (Albus, Butterfly in her dreams, ラブレターレイン). That's a shame. 

looks like the government is finally cracking down on visual kei  

They specify the writers for each song in every CD booklet. Ok, i had nothing to do, so I made up the list of those I know. Seems like Kazuya is overwhelming.
 
Qualia [ALBUS+RUFUS]
1. Rufus - kazuya
2. ideologue - kazuya
3. Pleasance Liddell - yuki
4. KISS RAIN - kazuya
5. Butterfly in her dreams - yuki
6. シルエット- yumeji
7. adolescent - kazuya
8. Albus - yuki
9. Stand the devil’s like - kazuya
10. Don’t cry for the knell - yumeji
11. mistletoe - kazuya
 
MALUS
1. Vinyl　- kazuya
2. Xanadu　- yuki
3. La nuit étoilée　- kazuya
4. Colors of human mind　- yumeji
5. Sentimental issues　- kazuya
 
WILLS
1. Lucent room　- yumeji
2. ラブレターレイン (loveletter rain) - yuki
3. Indicencia　- kazuya
4. Kalmia　- kazuya
5. Where you go　- kazuya
 
GLIMMERING
1. 世界と灰 - kazuya

Interesting. Is there a list of writers for each song somewhere? I tend to find myself enjoying some HOLLOWGRAM songs a lot more than the others, so I'm a little curious to see if there's any correlation between the songs I tend to like and the writers. Especially if it turns out that Yuki's the one that has been writing them.

goodbye kawaii

Lol found these while browsing Jake's old myspace.
 

 

 

 
I'm pretty sure this is from the very first acen panel we did.
 
Also more promotional images lol
 

 
 

Once upon a time I used the name Phoenix (or some variant of that, I forgot what specifically), but then everyone started calling me Pho so... ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
 
It's quite amusing to see that some users who I'd thought had left the site had simply just changed names xD

So I may or may not have told @Ito that I would write a paragraph for the OP, then promptly forgot all about it. Oops >_>
 
Suffice it to say that, almost I'm not the oldest member here, I've been around long enough now to have a special attachment to the community here despite my music taste not always matching up with the majority. Here's looking forward to another ten years of VK memes and glorious shitposting! Who knows, maybe X Japan will have actually released their new album by the time the 20th anniversary rolls around.

Giant shoutout to all of my Monochrome-Children! Here's to another 10 years of shitposts :v

Congratulations! *coming back sneaky*
 
I've been with TW a year after it changed to MH and I've met so many great people since then. Always loved the daily conversations in the chats and sharing some of the VK music I own.
 
I was happy to become a part of the staff/moderating team back then, it was a fun job and I did it with pleasure.
 
I hope many more years to come...!
and I'll try to come back from time to time to say hi haha
 
Stay well you all~ stay genki!
and don't forget to stay positive no matter what!

Ten years ago today, Spike760 and myself decided that we wanted to start a Japanese Rock forum. After a while of debating, we eventually settled on Tainted World (after the D’espairsRay song of the same name). Frankly, neither one of expected it to last all that long; this would hardly be the first forum that we had run together that didn’t go anywhere. But what started as a fun little project somehow blossomed into an amazing community. The fact that this site still exists after all this time has little to say about Spike and my’s original plan and everything to say about the members here. I thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping build this site into what it is today.
 
While I was one of the key founders of this site, Monochrome Heaven is so much bigger than just me. That became clear to me when we went under the transition from Tainted World to our current name back in 2011. While to really understand why this is so important requires more context, I don’t want to go into a full on history lesson. But since that point, so many members have stepped up and dedicated themselves to this site, putting in the time and effort (and money) into making Monochrome Heaven as great as it possibly can be.
 
To every member that has joined and felt like they were apart of a community over this silly niche interest we all have, I raise a glass to you. You all are what have made this place special. And to every staff member, current and past, no words can express my thanks to you - you are people that I have come to admire and consider good friends.
 
But this post isn’t about me, but about the Monochrome Heaven! I want to hear from all of you as to why this community is special, why you’ve becoming coming back for 10 months or 10 years. Or tell us one of your favorite moments from your time coming, whether that was a release you were looking for forever or a stupid meme that took over the forum.

Here’s some from other users to get things started!:
 
 
 
@-jibakurei-
 
@SEKHMET
 
@Ada Suilen
 
@Flame-X
 
@Seiji
 
@Platy
 
@efuru
 
@saishuu
 
@Furik
 

Yeah...no.

Sometimes when I see thread titles on here I really want to say them out loud to someone who doesn't know anything about Japanese music without any context just to see what their reaction would be.

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