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MUCC×AKi(シド(SID)) collaborative "マッドレッド(MADRED)" will be released at MAVERICK DC presents DOUBLE HEADLINE TOUR 2016 "M.A.D" since 2016/01/23 and up to 2016/03/27 and will be available for pre-ordering through Lawson/HMV official web-shop since 2015/11/24 and up to 2015/12/24 (3,900yen), which will include their collaborative single "MARBLE"+pamphlet (B5-size, 64 pages) and will be in sleeve case

i really hope they can write more songs like this! Masashi's vocals are perfect for it :'D i find myself playing this at least once every day lol, it's a special song to me it's such a bittersweet song i can't even describe how i feel when i listen to it ._.
 
ok back on topic: i've preordered their new single already looking forward to hearing the preview ^^

I'm glad that I'm not the only one who loves this song that much then. I listened to it on a whim and almost broke my neck to look back and find out what band that was playing haha, can't get enough.... had to watch that pv a few times lol

xDD It's also my favorite song!!
I was so happy when I saw that they uploaded exactly THIS song to youtube ^__^

You guys are blowing me away with a video of my favorite song by them and a sweet message<3, I'm dying inside!

Develop One's Faculties or DOF is a band that had his debut on October from 2014, all their members wasn't new on the music scene, most of members comes from bands like cocklobin and Chemical Pictures.

Members are:
Vocal & Guitar: yuya (@dof_yuya)
birthday: 05.08
(ex. Minerva, cocklobin)
Guitar: rui (@dof_rui)
birthday: 07.26
(ex. the Pumpkin Head, Chemical Pictures)
Bass: detto (@dof_detto)
birthday: 07.13
(ex. eve, 江戸川パラドクス)
Drums: Johannes (@dof_Johannes)
birthday: 06.08
(ex. CROW, ichigo69, mellow pinky, meth., cocklobin)
Their Releases:
Albums:
reincarnation (1st press - sold out)
2015.10.28

reincarnation (2st press)
2015.10.28

Singles:
フラスコを振ると天秤揺れた 【会場限定盤】
2014.12.20

フラスコを振ると天秤揺れた 【通信販売限定盤】
2014.12.20

混沌とした世界の中で足掻き続ける生命とは
2015.5.8

hope 【通常盤】
2015.5.13

hope 【通信販売限定盤】
2015.5.13

What are your thoughts about this band?
How much are you excited for the new album?

Yes, they sound different from the visual kei bands that acts those days. Maybe it's this which catch me to this band.
Also, I will change the DVD content when I got some news about it, and thank you for this remind.
So nice to hear you are addicted to this band too

I've been following them for some months now, and I'm totally in love with them. Their sound is unique and fresh (and that's what VK scene really needed) and their look is awesome (Johannes is the most awesome that's for sure ).
I'm lucky because I've seen them live this month, and I never had that much fun in a VK live ! They're all smiles and laugh, and it's really awesome.
About the second press, I'm not sure but I think that Yuya talked about an interview or something like that at their last live.

I knew their vocalist/guitarist sounded a bit familiar. haha.
 
They sound like a great combination from the teaser's I've heard. Lets hope their album does well.

So folks, what is you thought about the full album?
I like the full album, some more others less. But a point I have to say, that I really appreciate the intro they did for Hope (Album's version). My favs, besides the singles tracks, are insert memory and zannen na uta
Also, this gem from our queen, kyoselflove, is flawless thx

It is a really nice solid album! I really enjoy it. <----- best review ever.
 

Love this fucking band, they sound so unique and Johannes is....awesome xD
 
Pretty sure the DVD for second press is live footage, though it says 'subject to change' but I hope it is haha.
 
SUPA EXCITED! SO MUCH SO I BOUGHT BOTH PRESSES!

Yesssss fuck ronda Holly Goat Holm p4p number 1 best day of my life 

For me this album is one of the best albums of the year:

I don't always do reviews, but when I do, it's because I've been waiting way too long for an album.

1. 業 - Karmar -
 
Typically the amazing intro I wanna hear for a band to get on stage. The hype is real, love the dubstep vibe. 10/10
 
2. Cry My Name From The Light
 
Already said, but bruh that djent-kei works every damn time. I just wanna mosh in the crowd when I listen to these riffs. The bass work is also amazing, I really don't know where they got that Ryu guy but he's good, big time. His lines are very fluid yet complex, alternating slap and finger fretting is REALLY NOT EASY, bassist speaking, yet he masters it. Now I'm just waiting to hear that live.
The drumming is just perfect too, but no one doubted Sujk I guess.
Let's not even talk about the guitar, I mean it's Leda. He's got nothing to prove anymore.
I really enjoy Keita's tone, but he's maybe a bit weaker than the instrumental. He kinda gives me the same feeling than Kamijo in Versailles, like he can keep up to his level but he doesn't have the same impact than the virtuosity of all the musicians.
8/10

3. Memorize
 
Just what I expected after the last DELUHI releases. It's got that very clever pop vibe yet it's still power metal, and that guitar solo bruh.
Not so "memorable" anyway, I'm writing after the first listen. I guess my opinion about this song will evolve after a few more listens.
7/10
 
4. The War Went On
 
I'm kinda meh about this one. It is indeed powerful and effective, but I feel like I've already learnt it more or less everywhere. I don't really know where they tried to go with this one. I know they can do a lot better. I'm kinda frustrated not knowing who composed what, anyone's got the info ?
Really not into the autotuned/electronic voice tho.
Anyway, 5/10, will give it some more listens.

5. Blank Space
 
Really cool vibe ! I'm not so fond of the electronics tho, but the guitar riff is strong and the chorus is really catchy, again thanks to the bass but I can also feel the catchyness of Code Rebirth somehow in this one.
I love the atmosphere of the break, in between very soft and hard power metal riff. That 8 string really works with Leda.
The ending is a bit rough tho.
7/10
 
6. Illest
 
I was kinda wtf with the beggining. It doesn't really work with me. I don't like the bass sound, nor the electronics, nor the women voice, nor that kind of riffs. So yeah the mix of all this is just not for me. The chorus also sound really bitter to me, maybe the sound is too generic I don't know. Again not so original, it felt like bad GazettE to my ears.
3/10

7. I'm a human just like you
 
Same feeling than when the single was released, I was either too hyped with the first MV and single and then disappointed by this, or I just really don't like it. The song really feels just like a fill-up for the album, nothing extra about it. It's alright but I'll just skip it when listening to the whole album I guess. It just sounds a bit "easy" compared to what they can do.
The break with clean guitars is really good though. The headbang moment must be amazing live though.
6/10
 
8. Ray of Hope
 
Ah, the inevitable ballad... I really thought they wouldn't need one on such a short tracklist (11 songs including 1 intro and 3 released singles is really short imo)... But they've worked it out pretty well actually. The calm drumming and smooth bass works. The chorus might be a little generic but it sticks pretty well with the rest of the song.
Loved the solo, must be really intense to see live.
The violin and piano really makes the outro epic. I'm really surprised with this song.
8/10

9. Mirage
 
Really not so fond of anime opening-like songs usually but the Leda vibe gets me every time. The irregular rythm and smooth bass along with the drumming and the violin is just a weak point I guess. The vocals are a bit better in this one, he's really clean and not trying too much. If Jupiter had done the same song, Zin would be squealing around like a vibrating dying pig and would have killed the song, but I feel like Keita gives just enough.
Again, killer solo. Musicians will just love the album I guess.
Really awesome outro, but I'm afraid that the guitar won't work live cause that really needs two guitarists. Wait & see.
7/10
 
10. Super Moon
Again not so fond of the electronics, could have really worked without but yeah.
The whole song is a bit meh. I was just waiting for it to get that powerful vibe but it was really too stoic. 
The piano line is nice though, but it's just a bit weird with the synth in the background.
The bass solo was just too painful, how is that guy so good ? And the bridge with the guitar solo is pure genius.
A good 6,5/10 here.
 
11. LAST SCENE

I've been listening to it for a while now and just can't get tired of it.
The instrumental break is pure genius again, both in composition and interpretation.
Very good way to close such a short album.
8/10

General review : Buy it, or give it a listen, it's really worth it. 7/10
I'm expecting better from them though. They have very powerful and amazing songs, but also weaker tunes.
I think we're holding on the best 2k15 band though. I wish them the best for the future releases, it seems to be going pretty well as their first one-man is sold out.

Feel free to let us know what you've thought of every track too !
 

It is obvious that Youtube is fully ready to take advantage of their monopoly to start disregarding 'have-not's', squeezing as much revenue as possible and selling customers both the disease and the cure in an endless cycle until the next big change in entertainment mediums.
Disease: Commercials
Cure: Pay for no ad's (only really useful on console or mobile since no adblock).
Disease: Can't minimize Youtube on mobile.
Cure: Now you can pay to minimize it (useful when you want to do something else on your phone while listening to music or speech not in your library, or have phone in your pocket and don't want random vids pocket played).
Disease: Can no longer watch most of the content you previously could.
Cure: Exciting news guys, that stuff that used to be free is now 9.99
Etc...
Also saving vids is so easily done, I even had the option to do it via the app when I first got my phone? Seems like they really wanted some additions to throw into the Youtube Red pitch to make it seem like people are actually receiving some kind of added value or improvement in their experience by paying 9.99 for the same old crap.
I can almost taste how bad the new music recommendation system will be. It steadily gets worse and worse by trying to force certain artists on you, but it'll now be all about pushing their big artists and Youtube stars more than ever, so I'll be watching Mejibray or Dir en grey or something and Youtube will act like they really think the next video I really want to see is the latest booty song or Taylor Swift Behind the Scenes, or the Smosh Movie.
So yeah, they definitely changed the game in entertainment and did big things for changing how we access content and how people live, but let that get to their heads, losing the plot of providingan amazing amount.of content for free to anyone with web access. Now it's time to make some more cash grabs as they have no new vision or direction to take themselves that will actually serve the people.

Anyone else sold their soul to this franchise yet? I only play the phone game (School Idol Festival) so far but, it's super addicting. <3 And they have more than enough venues and content to pretty much take over anyone's life at this point. 

 

So let's talk favorite members (mine's Maki~), songs, if you play the game let's share SIF IDs and be friends! 

Okay, time for me to post this up.  I recently found my drawing motivation back so I decided to show it around here. Stuff I post here will mainly come from my tumblr.  I also have a deviantArt which includes more of my serious projects, so check it out if you'd like!
 

Here's a drawing I drew today to start off.
 
And a couple others.

I was sort of inspired by Tsuzuku while drawing this. : 3
 

 
Thanks for looking!
I hope I can draw more soon~

various special bands will perform at PS COMPANY PRESENTS "攻撃ハ最大ノ防御ナリ。" TOUR 2016
 
"WK":
Vo.猟牙(ryouga) (BORN)
Gt.RENO (ex-ViViD)
Ba.K (BORN)
Dr.靖乃(yasuno) (Kra)
 
 
"運命と武士(sadamu to takeshi)":
Vo.??
Gt.RYOGA (ex-ViViD)
Ba.玲夏(reika) (ダウト(D=OUT))
Dr.??
 
 
"RENO & RYOGA":
Vo.&Gt.RENO (ex-ViViD)
Gt.RYOGA (ex-ViViD)
 
 
"やまぴかりゃー(yamapikarya)":
タランチュラ(tarantula) (Kra(景夕/keiyuu))
スコーピオンSASORI(scorpion SASORI) (ex-Kagrra,(NAOKI))
 
 
ミラクルず☆(miracles)(レイヴ-RAVE- alter-ego band)
 
http://pscompany.co.jp/psc/kougeki_tour2016/

VK does do the laundry for me and occasionally my hair.
 
 
Seriously though, is it this time of year again to have another "Is VK dying" discussion?
 
 
Okay, seriously serious now, it's just music like any other, there's good and there's bad, it's always been like that and I'm pretty confident it will always be like that. I don't listen to genres, I listen to bands.
 
 
And as someone who is most likely the oldest person in this thread let me tell you: you never get too old for any music. XD

Well, to be honest, I have been totally indifferent if the band I listen is VK or isn't since I started to listen to japanese music back in 06.
 
I just like rock music, never really care how the band look like. I mean, I don't mind if is Sug or Boris, envy or Plastic tree and so on. I really don't make any kind of distinction in my musical taste at all. Not sure if this is what this topic is about, anyway.

Oh yeah it does it.
It does it every night ;]

Everyone always says that there are more shitty bands recently....every genre/music scene around the world has plenty of shitty bands in them. And like...I'm pretty sure there were also a ton of shit bands in 90s VK...back when it was all magical and perfect, blah blah.
 
I've been a fan of VK for a long time and I still love some old bands but I also love some new bands. I think now more than ever people in VK can express themselves more freely.  Instead of back then where it was all kinda....the same :/ Now bands are taking more chances and trying out new things; everyone be like, EW MY GOD IT'S HORRIBLEzzzzz.
 
But yeah I can totally see people not really into it anymore because it's stressful as fuck haha ;D
(totally worth it)
 
Also... you're never to old for VK!
 
Okay, I'm done.

VK's been good to me these recent years, amazing bands are constantly forming, all sounding incredible to me.
 
Hope it doesn't change any time soon.

i fell in love with vk through bands like deadman, studs, dir en grey, d'espairsray, malice mizer, sugar, rentrer en soi, tgads, emmuree, amber gris, 9goats, lynch. so it was kind of frustrating when i joined here to find bands that sounded like those and there were none. i ended up opening my mind a little and instead of thinking of "metalcore" bands as a guilty pleasure i started to genuinely enjoy their heaviness and sugar-sweet choruses. mind you, if these bands weren't visual i wouldn't listen to them but i still am kind of fond of them. because of this i've opened my mind to groups like nega, unsraw, kuroyuri to kage, dezert, avelcain, grieva, the black swan, D.I.D., MBHI etc, all of which i enjoy quite a bit.
so vk is still awesome for me, i've just had to adjust a little.