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Here's disc 1 from the Spark of Flower DVD! Enjoy! 01. 潜在証明 02. Re:myend！ 03. メルシールー 04. フラワー 05. メイドミー・・・ 06. 街 07. トレモロ 08. week...end 09. たしかなうた 10. greatwall 11. nameless 12. ループ 13. カロン 14. sharp ♯

Here's the full version! Damn, those were some chuggy riffs! Something was off-putting about the PV though. The dark sky and the super windy scenes of the band playing made the PV seem a bit ominous, haha. Anyway, looking forward to the full album!

Hiya hiya hiya! From lurking and peeking around some of the threads, I've seen/heard that there are a lot of people here with some very good opinions and insight on the whole "JRock-inspired / Visual Kei-inspired" thing. It's an eternal balancing act for those of us who choose to pursue this kind of music outside of Japan, I think. ANYWAY, that said, this is a 1:40 preview of my band's first single "Set Me Free" (the full song goes live on the 20th). Would love to hear what y'all think of it. As a band we really love Janne da Arc, Acid Black Cherry, Dir en grey, and a bunchaothers and stuff ^u^ Edit: the link now points to the full version of the song on YouTube, since it's, yenno, released and all. ^^ http://youtu.be/QRrARgw5emo

Hey everyone, I always wondered about the "road to budokan". Lemme explain: what's the "order" of japanese livehouses that bands tend to follow on their road to sucess? Like, if the band X is doing a oneman on livehouse Y, which holds up to 6000 people, si it means that band X is looking good, and has a fairly good fanbase, and so on... So, I thought it would be nice to have the most famous livehouses listed by size/importance. The thing is I don't know anything about them, so I'm here asking for a comprehensive guide on the topic, if possible! Thanks a lot!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u-iC6MUDhDA 「Forget it? Really?～Kei's Debt～」 lyrics: You turned my back on me and You said in a weak voice thin ''I do not come anymore I am penniless'' Darkness swallows me There was your smile until seven days ago What do you want to drink? The Romanée-conti which I emptied sometime I satisfied I am No.3 Please come meet me I put on airs I was afraid of my debt It is only hateful I want to hit you Even if I know that it is the act that I must not do I stared at that plain-looking woman and me in the mirror Where will the exaction of my debt come to? It wavers in tears Kabukicho that is veiled too painful As for a lot of nights as for a lot of nights If your debt does not disappear I have only a few savings and leave I cannot pay a debt even if I sell my body for ugly women You do not have the money Do not come host-club Pay the debt I should look for you to wherever Nobody love the ugly women who cannot pay money I do not have a visitor other than you Make money properly by time when next encounters This host-club do not cut the neck This shop does not have the regrets If you do not come next week I will leave here

Is that the actual cover of it? I liked their logo a lot smaller, like when I couldn't really see it :x

omg I really love this girls, specially the drummer, I promise I'll marry her.

Quite old news, I am already waiting for their next collab. If you haven't tried Delicious by Gacharic Spin yet, I recommend you to do so as the energy is brought over from DOLL$BOXX right after.

凛として時雨 - i'mperfect DIR EN GREY - THE UNRAVELING downy - 第五作品集『無題』 八十八ヶ所巡礼 - 0088 The Novembers - zeitgeist LEO今井 - Made from nothing Protest The Hero- Volition SEX-ANDROID - ギャクシンセサイザー! ! Shilfee & Tulipcorobockles - The Right Are Each Other Shilfee & Tulipcorobockles - Kiri Rearrange E.P. 実験台モルモット - 見開キ こころ❤断面図 kamomekamome - BEDSIDE DONORS GalapagosS - Run like fury CHVRCHES - The Bones of What You Believe the unknown forecast - オークション Perfume - LEVEL3 are the first ones that come to mind.

jap the god and death stars - dawn of the god 凛として時雨 - i'mperfect DIR EN GREY - THE UNRAVELING 小南泰葉 - キメラ non-jap Beastmilk - Climax A$AP Rocky - LONG.LIVE.A$AP Kvelertak - Meir letlive. - The Blackest Beautiful The Dillinger Escape Plan - One Of Us Is The Killer

Despite the fact that I download a lot japanese music (other music not as much, because it's easier to get for me, except it's a discontinued release from 20 years ago that has never been re-released) I don't know so much about the laws and legal aspects of it. But I know that the copyright laws are very different. In the US the entertaiment industry tries any possible way to turn people into criminals so they can charge a shit load of money for having downloaded copyrighted material. I find it extremely exaggerated that even the FBI can arrest you and put into jail for downloading. But then I am living in Austria, where, as far as I know, downloading music per se isn't forbidden, unless you intend to use the files for commercial purposes or you are plagiarizing it (which I too consider as the real act of "stealing music"). If I remember correctly I read a lot of articles about the whole "if people don't buy records, the music scene will die" argument. It's an argument brought up by the media industry since the triumphal march of the cassette, which as we all know made copying and sharing music and videos very easy. I guess anyone who is old enough to remember the time when taping and recording music or radio programs was popular may be familiar with these nice warning signs: We all know that the music industry is still alive and very well and they survived the taping craze. Of course the internet is kind of a bigger dimension, because files aren't just shared with your best friends and their friends, the file can be accessed by billions of people. Popular music will spread quite fast. But I still don't believe the music industries condition is as worse as they claim to be. From what I can gather of articles in the net record sales declined already in 1999, so long before the whole file sharing thing dramatically exploded (which I think didn't happen until p2p and filesharing services became standard). And since one year the sales seem to rise again and (the interesting thing) partially due to people downloading from online shops like itunes. I guess it just can't be said objectively how many damage or not downloading makes as the whole issue is a double edged sword: really popular artists like Lady Gaga don't really suffer from declining record sales, because there are still enough people who buy the music or there are enough people willing to pay 100$ or more for a concert ticket. Some may be even following their artist and visit several concerts. If Lady Gaga and her Label gain 20 billion or just 10 billion $ doesn't make such a difference- of course only for us, not so much for the profit lusting music industry. But then you have to admit that those good earning superstars are an exception. The majority of bands and musicians are not rich and they don't earn that much money. So it makes a huge difference if the can get say 150.000 or only 50.000 $. (Vk groups of course make much less). Those numbers are just imaginary. I am not so familiar with the earnings of musicians, but you get the idea. The problem however is, that the smaller the band, not only the less will the earn, but the more will they suffer from the money the label takes from them. So in most cases just buying more releases alone won't help. And if it's true what I have read a lot of labels even charge their bands for the stuff and merchandising they sell on tours. That's actually stealing, but what can you do? (or what choices do the bands have)? So ultimately... downloading can be damaging, but it mustn't, and sometimes it's better to at least buy concert tickets or support the band otherwise than doing nothing. I know that coming from me sounds foolish though XD Regarding VK music: I agree with what most here said. Visual kei isn't really meant to be marketed for foreign fans. I'd say that this isn't even an "issue" concerning visual kei, basically anything from japan, except maybe video games and electronic devices, never surface outside the island, may be fashion, make up or any music (vk, as well as pop or rock music). I believe Japan doesn't really care for us mostly white weaboos as much as we do for their culture. Also notable is that japanese fans don't even want foreigners to drool over their Vk stuff. If you don't live in Japan and aren't able to go to the live yourself than that's your problem. Even if you ask nicely the japanese fans probably won't share the live distros with you. Of course that's also because they can't speak English so well, but I am sure they just don't give a fuck about us too. Also I doubt japanese record sales are so heavily influenced by sharing the stuff. Yeah, some japanese people will download them as well, but some of the truly hardcore fans are still buying everything or they are still visiting the lives and buy lots of chekis, photosets and so on. (and Vk bands actually make more profit with those than with records) Lastly... I have to thank the Vk filesharing community. The first Visual kei records I owned were bought myself, when Vk became "trendy" and cool here in europe and Gan-shin would distribute some artists here. But I didn't really get into the thing until I discovered the old school shit on blogs like Evil en Lucifer. There would have been no way at that time to find it otherwise, let alone buy it. I still don't have enough money to buy me everything i have on my wishlists and most of the stuff is hard to get. So blogs like these were really helpful. And I guess I will continue to share the old stuff I buy- in hope that people can get access of good rips instead of the 128 kps files floating around and because I think people need to check those groups out. I am not so fond of new vk, but I guess the principle is similar. Many people just want to share so people who don't have the money to order the CDs can still get to hear the band. Japanese CDs are really expensive for us foreigners, especially if shipping options are stupid and you are unlucky and have to pay custom fees.