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Yeah I'm starting to not understand these all-or-nothing covers they do...

—2015, Early August
 
Since the formation of this band, I produced over half the band’s musical compositions in a fair number of songs.
 
But personally, in the songs I wrote, I was unable to break away from the shell of “myself.”
 
That’s why I always preferred the songs of the other members, which were created “outside my shell.”
 
I don’t really understand music theory. I know almost nothing about chords and scales.
 
The songs I made myself were simply melodies “singing” inside me that I threw into a computer and rearranged.
 
Up to this very moment, the sounds I began to hear, complexly intertwined, weave into a new “sound.”
 
This is the first time in my musical career that I was able to make a song that broke me out of my own “shell.”
 
At that moment, that roughly 10 minute track came forth from the person I`ve been until now, in a song more beautiful that any other, a song uglier than any other.
 
“OUSIA.”
 
That song sought the “true nature” of people and the world.
 
I`ve done many things that I would call “evil” until now.
 
Not in issues of legality, I don`t mean that level; but morally, ethically, indirectly, we hurt others in many ways, living while struggling with each other.
 
The worth of “right and wrong” take form in the flow of the era, in the end leaving us clueless to what`s “true.”
 
If “the acts of hurting one another” are equally evil, then in the world there would be no “justice.”
 
World Wars, family quarrels, aren`t the roots of these the same?
 
The boundaries of right and wrong vary from person to person, and these boundaries change depending on the time.
 
People are painted as black or white, but in this world there`s no such things as purely “white” or completely “black,” is there?
 
This world is inconsistent.
 
In this “inconsistency,” could there be such a thing as the “true nature” of people? Of the world?
 
In this album, various “contradictions” overflow.
 
It’s true of the artists photos, of the music video.
 
When facing the aspect of “inconsistency,” “sex” was the one thing that stood out.
 
Essentially, sex is should be done for “love,” for leaving descendants, for instinct… .
 
However, humans can still have sex without love, or use contraception. I think the biggest contradiction imposed on sex is the world portrayed in “RUVISH.”
 
Whether you turn on the TV or go online, the modern age is overrun with sad news from all over the world.
 
Even in this seemingly peaceful country of Japan, if you really look at others, you’ll find them overwhelmed by the things muddled up inside them.
 
For example, “bullying” will probably be more cruel than the saddest world news in the eyes of a young boy who has been the victim of such an act.
 
When people are alive, they are touched by many things, embraced by many emotions.
 
Within that, the feeling of “losing” that makes you want to avert your eyes is a starting point for your self expression, a nucleus.
 
To “live” I must be aware of “death,” for the sake of a faint “hope,” I sing of “despair.”
 
If this song of “contradiction” of mine can help someone, then perhaps I can start to find the value of this existence I refer to as “myself.”
 
“OUSIA-dispersed-” is going to be handed out for free, and by doing so I hope it will build anticipation for the album “OUSIA,” set to be released this spring.
 
Within The Black Swan, “OUSIA” has yet to be completed.
 
Rather, I want the “true nature” of the completed edition to be upheld as you listen to this ”OUSIA-dispersed-．”
 
Credits: http://tbs-tws.tumblr.com/
 
 

Lmao Depain is cool but AvelCain is where it's at.

Ambient electronic chill out music.
Ambiguous dreams.
All his music is name your own price so you can just say zero.
https://ambiguousdreams.bandcamp.com

i just got into them yesterday and its a goddamn shame, but given his condition i highly doubt he'll ever be back. just managing his disorder is an insane challenge within itself, so to expect him to handle singing and bandomen life is pretty unrealistic. akane's bipolar/schizophrenia is "easier" to manage with a cocktail of drugs, whereas DID is a much more complicated and less well researched or understood disorder so there really isn't much of a comparison.
not a psychiatrist/psychologist, just wanted to share what i've read about.

DEZERT - 最高の食卓
摩天楼オペラ -  地球 [Limited edition]
 

 
 
 
DADAROMA - dadaism#2
メリーバッドエンド - 天地乖離す開闢の音
ジバルト - Unreal World
 

Whuwuwowouwwywuwwww been looking for that live diru CD for foreverr

Dir en grey - Tsumi to batsu / Tsumi to kisei (Live limited, Osaka variant) *still sealed!
lynch. - roaring in the dark
lynch. - forgiven

Didn't lick enough eyes, I guess.

Nocturnal bluntlust

I already love the song and the PV! Can't wait for full version! <3
 
I didn't see this picture here, so:
 

i hope you like Wuthering Heights. one of the best Victorian Gothic novels imo

High prices and shipping costs.
Music being on the japanese Itunes but not US (bc even itunes jp is quite a bit more expensive)
Music not being on Itunes/bandcamp/whatever at all (or it's there but doesn't have all the songs from the release...why bother put up an album or single if it's missing songs?)
Music that is on the US or various European Itunes or on Amazon mp3 but has all the titles horribly mucked up.
Bands disbanding and not reaching their full potential.
Elitist older fans that think that listening to VK for longer somehow makes their tastes superior to everyone else's. Come on, 70% of visual kei is lovable garbage anyway...
Fans that think their favorite bandomen must be perfect little virgin angels or whatever.
Commentary like: "It's just not right for a man to be wearing that...." "There's no way that this could possibly be a man"
The fact that my mum's first reaction when I showed her this video was to ask "is that dog in one of your jrock bands??" xD
Maria Cross...

Wuthering Heights and Durarara!! Vol. 2 (novel)

Itadakimasu

DEZERT - Saikou no Shokutaku (Limited Edition)
Dir en grey - Average Psycho 2 (Blu-ray)

for info only, 克哉(katsuya)(ex-CodeRebirth) has participated in mix mastering of their new mini album "鵺-chimera-"

MBHI IS BAAAAAAAAAAAAACK
 

 
 

The fact that i have to go thru ridiculous lengths to get them rarez.. it kills me
 
also these people:

My main issue with the visual kei scene isn't really represented in the options here, and it's something you generally get more in touch with once you get to Japan and get to experience the scene.
Firstly, the fact that a large majority of visual kei musicians more or less openly admits they don't have any artistic or personal integrity, they don't care what they produce and they don't care that their sound is exactly like every other band out there, because they know that as long as the members are pretty enough there WILL be fans, and they WILL pay you money for "company" and "favors" so that you can survive comfortably and keep rehashing the same song for a couple of years until you feel like calling it quits and do something more worthwhile with your life, or more likely, go into full time hosting business now that you have a decent circle of clients already.
 
This sort of leads me into my second issue and it's the bangya culture. It's generally really vile, and the way the girls not only talk about the musicians but also each other is quite disgusting. If the bangyas decide that a member has done something they do not approve of, that doesn't live up to their perfect ideals that they hold them all to (because god knows the fangirls don't live up to any of them) they can easily start enough shit to cause a band to break up or force a member out of the band. The issues doesn't end there though, because the few foreign bangya that exists generally adapt to this mentality and lifestyle too. They openly shun other foreigners who dare attend the lives of "their" band and ruin their "specialness", they participate in this completely daft saizen system where a designated person basically decides who gets what spot at a concert so everyone can enjoy playing ten year olds doing the "you're not allowed to play with us"-games... And the obviousness of what really drives people to be fans of these bands become so apparent when they get to this level, and it's certainly not the music.
 
To be honest, in a lot of ways I never realized how bad this was until I got there and could see it all for myself, and that's despite a 13 year stint in the scene by now.