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LOVE LOCK will release their album "LOVE LOCK" on 2019.04.24.
 
 

 

 

 

LOVE LOCK will release their album "LOVE LOCK" on 2019.04.24.
 
 

 

 

 

haven't been so excited for a new band in like a year lol

haven't been so excited for a new band in like a year lol

Are 3/5 members ex-LIEVRE CLAY? That doesn't look like Shion's face...I think? I'm bad w/ vk faces unless they're really distinct. 
That nasally voice in the chorus especially the "advance" sounds a lot like Shion.
 
TIL I forgot LAVANS existed, so I'm back to having no clue who they are (aside from Gu.) 
Anyway, I really like how they sound, so I'll be keeping an eye on them :D.

haven't been so excited for a new band in like a year lol

haven't been so excited for a new band in like a year lol

haven't been so excited for a new band in like a year lol

maro posted a photo of himself with yuuji from yesterday's live T_T
 
and an old cheki he found haha...
 

maro posted a photo of himself with yuuji from yesterday's live T_T
 
and an old cheki he found haha...
 

I'm prob the only one here who cares about this, but L&DS will be reviving for 2 lives in Feb/Mar next year! Everyone except Kru will be there  
 
 

haven't been so excited for a new band in like a year lol

haven't been so excited for a new band in like a year lol

haven't been so excited for a new band in like a year lol

Really like some of their recent songs. Hope they write more songs in the style of LUCHe.  

Really like some of their recent songs. Hope they write more songs in the style of LUCHe.  

Oh I haven't posted in this thread?
 
Here goes, in no particular order since I love all of them to death:
 
智 (Jessica / vistlip)
Listening to Tomo always feels like sitting down and being told a story. The tonalities and vocal textures he's capable of are astounding; and not to mention the range of his chest voice and how classy his falsettos are. I didn't like his vocals the very first time I heard vistlip, but once I got hooked there was absolutely no turning back.
 
怜 (baroque / kannivalism)
I once showed my friend (who's just a casual listener of vk)
and he thought it was a new vk band that just formed. That's how prescient their sound was back in 2004, and I think Ryo's atmospheric vocals had a lot to do with it. Ryo (and baroque) certainly brought a great deal to vk that's (still) understated. 
HAL (SINCREA / FEST VAINQUEUR)
I'll confess I don't even listen much to FEST anymore because their music had changed so much, but HAL's vocals were integral to how amazing SINCREA was imo. It might be a little one-note for people who prefer something less "generic", but for me his clean and emotional delivery remains incredibly touching (especially in SINCREA ballads like CANDLE).
 
勇 / 青田勇 (NEVER CRAZY / 176BIZ / ZUCK)
What else to say? Yuu makes ZUCK's songs sound so easy to sing lol. Technique aside, he's immensely talented, and the intense passion/dedication he had for ZUCK was painful even for his fans to see towards the end (I still remember his last blog posts...). Great voice, big heart, perhaps my favorite vk musician.
 
Honorable mentions:
- Juri (DELUHI)
- 愁耶 (Clavier): where the hell did he go?! ;_;
- ユウト (Called≠Plan/Unrealistic)
- kazuki (Belmosaic)
- 左迅 (girugamesh)
- 斗真 (LUCHe.)

My cds arrived yesterday, and everything is in perfect condition! Everything arrived safely. He shipped promptly! Would recommend!

here are the band comments (not individual ones from member )
 
 
i can do the rest after work if no one else has done it by then

Bought from Hiroki a while back. Everything nice and packaged. My packaged got sent back to his home country and he sent it back. Good at communicating and very punctual. He will give rips if asked for as well.
 
10/10: would recommend!

Just dropping in to let everyone know that I got the order I placed today. Everything was perfect and safely packaged and organized. It was a VERY large order. Hiroki was super patient with me and very helpful. Really pleasant to work with. 
 
I hope to order again soon.

Here's the thing about vk news though: there's no 'original source'.
 
For major and relatively well known bands you can rely on visunavi, NAVER, various 'matome' and news purveyor accounts on Twitter. But otherwise it's down to stalking thousands of bandmen - something which I have literally attempted on my main Twitter account. The result was me getting spammed with 30 tweets every 10 seconds, and THEN I had to sift through the crapload of awkward selfies and useless tweets talking about weather and food. I don't recall, but maybe 0.01% of the feed was useful news? In any case I abandoned that account shortly after because it was unusable.
 
There are also other avenues like LINE accounts, bandmen's ameblo, and 2chan as mentioned. Or you can try typing 始動 and 解散 into twitter search and refresh it every 10 seconds.... if you have that much time. In any case, what a lot of people don't seem to notice (and this is the point @filth_y was making) is that Trombe also posts news that don't "officially" exist on the Internet except maybe, in a bandman's private reply to a fangirl's tweet (I've witnessed this at least twice), or as a casual afterthought in a label staff's ameblo post. (In the latter case, I talked to a band's shikiri and even she wasn't aware that the band would be releasing a CD that day..). Yes, some MH members may have done this before - but to do it consistently for an insane number of bands is a whole different animal.
 
All of this aren't even considering the facts that: (i) these news are in Japanese, so let's not trivialize it as as copy-and-pasting. Translating and formatting it into a news post is a bitch if you consider the volume of news Trombe puts out; (ii) Trombe posts news of bands he doesn't even care about on a regular basis, some of whom comprising members that no one here has even heard of, much less having an interest to follow and post news of.
 
I'm on no one's side at this point. None of this is a defense for what Trombe did, nor is it a suggestion that he should be immune from punishment if he has contravened the rules. I just wanted to provide a corrective to previous comments suggesting that by picking 1 or 2 bands each we will communally be able to cover the ground that Trombe did, as if it was as easy as sitting together and doing some Ctrl C+V while having cereal in front of your computer. Let's just say I'm not that optimistic, because I can't imagine someone, or even a group of competent and extremely free people, going to the lengths Trombe did. Hopefully more people can appreciate the scope of the dirty legwork he has done for MH ("appreciate" as in "understand clearly", not "prostrate yourself"). And before any accusations come my way: I have contributed news of bands I like (including translating full-length interviews of them), and will happily continue to do so. Let's just see what happens.

@Mihenno @colorfuljinsei @hiroki This sounds really beautiful!!! They are totally bringing their best in Haklo ❤️

yes kyohei is ATRUS' kyohei

I'm prob the only one here who cares about this, but L&DS will be reviving for 2 lives in Feb/Mar next year! Everyone except Kru will be there