Yuri

Prove me wrong but I really can't see phenomenon of Nuclear Blast Records. I feel this label only gathers "popular artists", which isn't always equal to good music. There are some exceptions (my favourite so far is WEDNESDAY 13, although I am disappointed by his last music video - Devil Inside) obviously but it doesn't really change my mind.

I actually have quite a lot of albums I enjoyed last decade. First which come up on my mind:

Dir En Grey - Dum Spiro Spero
Arise In Stability - The future that amnesiac draws
Coldrain - THE REVELATION
Coldrain - The Enemy Inside
Lunetia -ECILA
Reol - 虚構集
girugamesh - Gravitation
「Story of Hope」 - Historia
Unlucky Morpheus - Unfinished
Unlucky Morpheus  - Rebirth Revisited
I Promised Once - New Blood
Serenity in Murder - The Highest of Dystopia
Serenity in Murder - The First Frisson Of The World
Undead Corporation - Flash Back
Undead Corporation - No Antidote
大凶作 - ライブでよくやるやつ
MergingMoon - Kamikakushi
MORRIGAN - Xiss in the Dark
SiM - SEEDS OF HOPE
A Ghost of Flare - Aerials
Messgram - Eternal Craving
Babymetal - Babymetal
Fear From The Hate - Cursed Screamers For All The Frozen Tears
Imaginary Flying Machine - Princess Ghibli
KEEP YOUR HANDs OFF MY GIRL - WAIT & SEE
Head Phones President - Stand in The World
Gyze - Fascinating Violence
Pentagon - WANDERLUST
ストロベリーソングオーケストラ - 月蝕のサーカス

Well, it doesn't sound that bad... but I prefer their old tracks. Kinda too much pop-rock for me

YES!
I'm wondering if songs are going to be mostly instrumental like on Northern Hell Song

I feel like they aren't a doujin band anymore. Or at least their schedule is less dependent on doujin events.
Still, happy to hear about new single =)

Marry me please

It's good to have a list TODO for some next days (at least it works for me). But not a rigorous one but more like flexible plan. You may have those days where you just write everything gibberish and it may be very demotivating. During this time I would more suggest you to read more about subject or something around it. Don't forget about breaks - they are very crucial. For example try to write something for 30 minutes, then do a break for 15-30 minutes, write for 40 mins, and over and over again slowly increasing time you spend on your work and adjusting your breaktime.
Personally when I study I love switching from physics to chemistry and then to maths. It's really effective for me instead of hanging over chemistry all the day. But I think it won't help there.
I think you should be able to do one page in one day, one and half page in second day (I meant here you should be able to increase your progress slowly day by day). You shouldn't forget about thinking about things and go to bed with them. If you are worried you won't remember them in next day - write it down. Have a notebook (or smartphone) somewhere under your bed or somewhere else.
If you play video games much, I suggest you uninstall them unless they don't distract you. All of them. Even mobile games.

If you go by bus/by tram somewhere it's a good time to think of stuff as well.
When I used to do long reports on labs sometimes contacting with other people around the world helps as well. But as I mentioned that in video games part, unless Facebook/Twitter/MV don't distract you.

And PLEASE, don't stay late hours hanging over your work. It's not effective at all. Don't forget about your bedtime, sleeping is important.

EDIT2: Forgot to mention about rewarding yourself after reaching your daily milestones. Eat something what you love, play the game for some hours which you love or do whatever makes you feel better and happier. Staying in good mod during writing helps a lot.

I'm broken inside. Whyyy T^T

On 2.03.2018 at 1:12 AM, Seelentau said:

Does Blood Stain Child count?

Is Blood Stain Child even VK?

Well, I really understand that artists think ripping their CD doesn't help them at all because they "loose" money but that's not really true. I couldn't tell if any album is good judging only by promoting songs or cover. If album is really good it should be able to defend itself and appear to listener enough to make him/her buy it later on or support band in other ways (don't forget about t-shirts, accessories or just attending to concerts).

I also think that music industry is a really difficult branch to live from. Specially VK, which is... pretty underground. Comparing to other artists, which are more mainstream or just commercial, they have pretty small fanbase. A typical person really rarely buys real CD or get access to any kind of streaming (because most of them listen to the radio and then download single songs). So when it comes to such a small community it's more likely that few people will buy anything, what means less money for artists. And if they want to become more popular, piracy will help them, paradoxically.

For more than 10 years I was always around metal/rock/punk genre. Of course I started from commercial bands (like everybody I think), slowly finding which subgenres are the best for me. I used to jump on electro (electro house, DnB mostly) and pop rhythms from time to time, but that was for not more than 1 month. When I meet friends who were into Japanese music, my journey with VK, j-rock was easier than I think most of the people.  Since then I have never came back to every other music than Asian.

I remember I used to follow pretty nice blog about Asian metal and rock scene, which helped me a lot with finding some great bands. I have never used Youtube to look for new bands, maybe because its' proposals were always bad. I was listening to my friends' suggestions as well with music... and there I should specify which friends I was listening to. Not everybody's taste was appealing to me and I was pretty sceptic about "their" bands. But I was taking all samples which were about melodic death/power/speed/trash/gothic/symphonic metal and post-hardcore. AND IT HAD TO BE ASIAN. If not, most of the time I didn't like it. For some reason when I was looking for something cool I couldn't find anything. When this nice blog disappeared I was pretty much lost about any new bands. But that time I was hyped about Vocaloids, so I was listening to almost every genre.

After and during "Vocaloids wave" I was following pretty much Doujin music. Most of the metal bands in 2010-2014 I liked very much, right now I feel like that scene is dead a bit. I haven't tried anything but metal and rock. Still don't know why.

In last years I started to find new bands on my own, mostly because I have more free time. My music taste didn't change a lot, only expanded with progressive metal. And I'm more open to raw punk. I became to be more open to nonAsian music but not like I'm the biggest fan of BMTH, holy no! But I'm not off-putted when somebody listens to them at least.

You've made my day

OMG I'm so excited right now. Loving them so much *-*

Edgy

On 14.02.2018 at 6:53 PM, blackdoll said:

never liked japanese femal metal but they seem nice

 

Have you heard about G∀LMET?

I miss them so much, PLEASE COME BACK T.T

Howdy! I like your music taste =)

8 hours ago, EzraEroguro said:

Tl;Dr - old DEG is a mess, what got you into  them? 

Half memories, half their... original style. Personally I really like their brutality, Kyo's screams. It just appeals to me the most. I heard a lot of opinions that DEG is so 2010. And their "old times" were the most iconic, they got every popular because of old albums.
 

3 hours ago, Tokage said:

everything released before dum spiro spero is pretty much unlistenable

I don't agree, what's wrong with Withering to dot or Uroboros? Okay, english version of Glass Skin is awful, but come on, remastered Uroboros is one of their the best albums. The same with The Marrow of a Bone (except REALLY poor quality of that album). Dum Spiro Spero is just weird, I like maybe 3 songs of it.

H O T

So cool!