Visutox

Something about the visual kei aesthetic is lost in translation when Westerners try to do it. Let the scene influence you but to be derivative of a derivative scene is just copycat at that point. Come up with your own fashions. Set your own trends. Learn photoshop. Try not to look like a $5 Five Below reject. Small things would help me to take his opinion even slightly more seriously than I do now.

God why are all the weebs trying to say every Japanese subculture that they are into is dying?  
Oh my god guys! What are we gonna to our vizual keys are dying! Our haroojookoo fashions are no longer popular, even though they never were to begin with....

wtf @ all u swedekei shittalkers
dont make me dig out my pokemon alt accounts again

I usually like to get angry about stupid shit, but these I'm not even going to give the courtesy of clicking. Fuck this guy, his shitty flop band and everyone who likes them.

There (thumbnail gives me nightmares tbqh)
 
This and Patrik's brainfarts deserve to be pinned to MH frontpage.
 
#ressurectVK #makeSeremedyYOHIOagain #Swedekeiprevails #VKrenaissance #Bataarwho

Renaissance in the west? Was it ever alive? Does anyone want it to be?

i'm so sick of hearing about this #resurrectvk garbage, how bout #resERECTmyErection

its almost like he should be taking the advice himself

I'm not a fan of teasers like this, but this sounds promising. Emyn Muil plays epic black metal in the vein of Summoning, Caladan Brood, Kinstrife & Blood and Nazgûl, which tells you all about the sound of the band. Also heavily inspired by Tolkien of course.
 
Emyn Muil's debut Túrin Turambar Dagnir Glaurunga isn't all that to be honest. There's a shitload of good music on the album, but a lot of the songs are way too short. When you play black metal like this you need some lenght on your songs to be able to build the songs properly. The longer tracks (6+ minutes) are very good, but the shorter tracks leaves something to be desired for sure. 10 tracks, 52 minutes.
 
The upcoming album Elenion Ancalima have 5 songs clocking in at 41 minutes. 3, 14, 7, 8 and 8 minutes. So the track lenghts are there for sure, and from the teaser the songs are there too. Sounds more Summoning-esque than the debut too, which I will always consider a good thing. I am really looking forward to this album.
 
 

Discovered her music with Electra Heart, so that one has a sort of special spot in my heart. But The Family Jewels and FROOT are really good as well, and I enjoy listening to those as well. I remember when FROOT came out (the single) I couldn't stop spinning it, it's so good.
 
I also listen to (but rarely) Beyoncé, last time was when I felt like coming back to Lemonade, which I thought was ok at first but then I ended up hugely disliking it. I don't know, I just fail to see the greatness of it (musically speaking). 

Yep, there's already one on here: 
I used to listen a lot their debut album, and I'm still not over Rami's departure because I loved her vocals but shit happens I guess. It's been ages since the last time I listened a single song from the girls so I might as well catch up one of these days. And to me it's simple; if they don't identify themselves as VK then they're not VK. You'd say it's an easy argument but I'm not the type of person to dig into the details in order to tag bands like this or that (I suck at it). 

Okay, this is pretty wild: https://neoandertals.bandcamp.com/album/ebu-gogo-gutting-the-child
 
A bassist/vocalist and a drummer, making weird primitive caveman death metal. The more I listen to it, the wider my smile gets.

Episodes 1 and 2 (s3) of Black Mirror really fucked me up, the 2nd one especially. Holy shit.
 
I hope I'll be able to watch the whole thing before heading to school. 

I enjoy listening to some Marina and the Diamonds when I'm on my pop mood. I also happen to spin Lana Del Rey (still have to check out Lust for Life though, there's been a lot of hype around it). And I hardly listen anything else than what I've mentioned.
 
EDIT: Lust for Life is ok. 

Cool rendering, I love it!

Home, tired and destroyed. Feels like I am gonna die any minute now. Anyway, good festival as usual, and even tho my brother was missed we managed to have lots of fun.
 
Wednesday:
Tangorodrim - Simple, stripped down and straight-forward black metal heavily inspired by Hellhammer, Celtic Frost and Darkthrone. This gig was top notch. No mumbo jumbo, just pure black metal.
Hail Spirit Noir - I was drunk out of my mind when these guys played, and that might have done wonders to the gig. But this was fantastic. Great gig!
This was moments before I puked on the security guard and walked around in Oslo puking all over the place, looking for my friend. That's the state I was in. I have no idea how they could serve me the last 5-6 beers/G&T's.
 
Also catched a couple of tracks by Borknagar, but it was pretty poor.
 
Thursday:
Got there late, so Destruction was our first band out. Sounds a bit too modern, but the gig was pretty good. Was better in 09 or whenever it was, tho.
Pillorian was amazing. While they were black metal as fuck, they did sound a lot more Agalloch-esque live than on album. I even thought they played an Agalloch track, but from the looks of it I was mistaken. But this was great and the ending with Dark Is the River of Man was brilliant. Just... completely put us under some kind of a spell.
Carcass was headlining day two, and they went on with a full 90 minute set. Which is really long for a band that play this type of music. But it worked and it was fantastic from begining to end, and Jeff Walker looked like he was having the time of his life. Looked like he could've gone on for a couple of more hours. My biggest problem was Bill Steer who looked like he came straight from a stoner rock gig, and with some nu-metalish moves here and there. But that's not a big deal. Amazing gig!
 
Missed out on Helheim and Venom. Inc, but they played too early for me. Simple as that. Having to go a gig before 8pm one of the days is more than enough for me.
 
Friday:
Infernal War kicked off our day with some brutal black metal. Just pure brutality from start to end. Far from amazing, but very fun.
I didn't expect much from Samael as I haven't enjoyed a single album since 1994's Ceremony of Opposites, but this was a very good gig. Lots of fun, even though I wish Xy played a real drum kit for the old track. But it was good.
Gorgoroth was surprisingly good. Drums was a bit off, but it wasn't awful or anything. Considering they headlined friday I expected them to do a bit more on stage, but they kept it really simple. Lots of spikes was all really. They were mainly carried by Hoest (I believe it was Hoest handling the vocals live this time) who did a fantastic job. Superb stage pressence for this gig. Looked like he came straight from hell.
 
Tried Crowbar but left after a couple of songs. Boring.
 
Saturday:
Primordial kicked it off and they were as good as only Primordial can be. Winner of Inferno Festival 2017. The sound was a bit muddy and "tight", but you could hear everything and A.A. Nemtheanga is just out of this world as both a vocalist and frontman. Stunning!
I had never heard Kontinuum before their Inferno Festival gig and the gig didn't make me want to check it out any further. Progressive black metal/post metal clearly inspired by crap like newer Sólstafir. Just... they were all over the place. Didn't seem like they knew what type of music they wanted to make. Meh.
Belphegor surprised me quite a lot. I did not expect to like this live, but it was pretty good. Tho, I got a bit tired towards the end. It's just more of them same until it's over, and the drum sound was a bit annoying. But the first 3/4th of the concert was cool. LOL at Serpenth looking like the fucked up, uglier son/brother/whatever of Dani Filth, though.
I've seen Svartidaudi a few times now, and I've never really been too impressed. But this gig was a a force of its own. Blew me away! I did miss them covering their faces tho (only the two guitarists did it this time).
Abbath got the honor of ending Inferno Festival 2017 and they just fucked it up. Or, Abbath fucked it up. He's a fucking diva, a pussy and a fucking idiot. They played four songs before he threw his guitar in on the floor, left stage and never came back. How anyone wants to be in a band with this dick is beyond me. Rumors has it that he was angry, had fought with the rest of his band earlier this day and that he had some technical problems. But still. A disgusting way too end Inferno Festival 2017. Got not statement from them yet, tho. But whatever.
 
 
Great shit. Got way too drunk for most part. But it's all good. It suits me.

^ Hey, The Da Vinci Code is pretty good imo! (then again, I read it ages ago)
 
Right now I'm reading the Hungarian translation of The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe, his only novel apparently. I'm still not halfway through, but it's pretty entertaining so far. Seems to be a sort of sea-faring adventure story, hoping it'll have some spooky bits later (seeing as how Lovecraft references an element of this story in one of his most iconic writings iirc).
 
Also, I'm still on dat Baudelaire and the Illuminati bros, just letting them (or, rather, me) breathe a bit for now. I can only take a few poems at a time (gotta savor them properly!), while the latter's first volume was quite an exhausting read, so I'm gearing up to begin part two soon. xD

type: official Online Shop Limited Edition【Available in limited number of copies】
format: 2 Blu-spec CD2＋1 Blu-ray ￥7,500 (tax out).
 
ADORATIO will be sold via GALAXY BROAD SHOP starting April 20th.
also to be sold at sukekiyo tour Rakkasuru Getsumen.
 
CD 1 to contain 13 songs including previously released Mimi Zozo and Aoguroi Hysteria, other 11 being totally new.
CD 2 will be a compilation of collab works.
Blu-Ray to contain two PVs for new songs and live footage.
 
band insists ADORATIO is a music and video collection, not an album or EP.
 

 

Does anyone often find genres that they love, but actually can't stand most of the bands of? 
 
visual kei

MAKE CRIMINAL KEI GREAT AGAIN

just let this thread die already onegai

normally im not good at drawing bones lol

Agreed on the new nightbringer. Absolutely slays. Many people are hyping it up it seems. Strongly considering on getting the vinyl