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Yoooo! I was in a GAKIDO throwback these days, and I've noticed how their little harmonica gimmicky is a nice touch, specially in Cinderella: They even do it live: earlier miyavi it aswell: Kra did too: I'm looking for moar harmonica infused VK, if you happen to know any other song, please share! Thanks!

So I guess you could call this a reintroduction post. A few months back I made my Introduction post, but never did anything on here since then, and honestly making this post (or any post on here for that matter) now makes me a bit anxious and nervous but after lately coming back on here and looking at some topics a handful of times I decided that I'd actually like to be here... Regardless, I was told a while back that I should make an account on here, so I eventually did. I've never really actually used it until now. So, hello, I'm some awkward American that just likes some visual kei stuff. I really like symphonic bands ( Versailles and Matenrou Opera are probably my favorites ) and I'm a fan of some more.... western visual styled bands(?), if you will. I really just like cats, bulldogs, and music, although the cats and bulldogs part isn't quite relevant. Anyway I do hope to actually continue to post and read stuff on here

MUCC - Kokoro no Nai Machi Scarlett - Ame no Kousaten

I looooove that blue jewel case the Sioux CD comes in.

Pain killer is Lycaon's most eroctic song, aka in the club sweaty & grinding

They sound so good!! I'm intereted.... And this look looks pretty good too! They have Twitters too. And here are some live videos: What XDD Seems like they will have bunch of lives soon. So if you are in Japan, try to come and check them!

[2] Awesome thread @chemicalpictures!! I toyed with the idea of doing something like this, but could only think of four harmonica-kei songs (which have all been listed already). It's odd that the center section of the venn-diagram of "visual kei" and "harmonica" is all songs I love. More bands need to do this!

Favorite harmonica kei:

Tara (Panic Channel/176BIZ/the Riotts/Hoshi no House) has a graphic design company, apparently (I didn't know he designed ViViD's logo) : http://www.atelierbiz.com/index.html

Watching a 4 hour "VK History in PVs" show that was just broadcast. Nostalgia levels have gone critical.

My cool new sweatshirt~

limited-period session band "REVIVAL加虐ストリップ(REVIVAL kagyaku strip)" has changed to new formal band "LOVE LOCK" after their live at Ikebukuro CYBER at 2016/09/24, and they have held their first live at DOPES. one-day revival live at Ikebukuro CYBER at 2016/10/02 Vo.渋谷隼人(shibuya hayato) (ex-東京指定(Tokyo Shitei) → ASTRO BOY → PLANET BOi) Gt.ケメン(kemen) (ex-デンキホーテ(Denquixote) → End;Re(SOU), now in sith.(rain)) Gt.KAI (ex-LiZ → DOPES.) Ba.Gotaro (ex-ホストラブ(Host Love) → DragonWAPPPPPPER → 4tune_UNIT → LAGNA) Dr.BAN (ex-酔奴隷(Yoidorei) → 少女-ロリヰタ-23区(Lolita23q) → LOUD GRAPE, now in 少女-ロリヰタ-23区(Lolita23q)) they will hold their mini oneman live at 2016/12/26 https://twitter.com/LOVELOCK_info

pets and animals

I like what I've heard so far so I'm still looking forward to this.

Heya buddies, latest RH newsletter is out! https://goo.gl/D7lPUj Come snag some of the cool new rarez we added~ http://rarezhut.net/newly-added

New OHP: http://sin.futureartist.net/

Trombe's first post =)

MIYUUUUUUUU <33333333

The only harmonica kei song I know:

Shit, you beat me to it. lol

Aw thank you! I'd hope most people won't bite...

Me and bf have been together for 3 years. Two years we spent together, only living an hour away. But he spent last year studying abroad in another country. I wanted to break up so we could focus on our lives during his year abroad, but he thought it would be a waste to do that so we decided to stay together. I'm never doing long distance again. It's just awful, mentally exhausting and frustrating. We have always trusted each other and had very good communication, but either way, we both ended up very busy with our lives and the relationship was neglected. I didn't wanna ask for attention because he was working and studying and enjoying life in the country of his dreams. So I just endured it. While I did enjoy my time alone, with friends, focusing on myself the relationship felt like dead weight. Either way, he's back now and everything is back to normal but I already warned him I'm never going through it again

Some people don't like sex, that's cool. Some people like it, and that's cool too. It's not so much about what people want out of their relationships and judging others by that, but rather that people should try to find someone who have similar needs and goals when it comes to such relationships. And there's plenty of other things than opinion on sex that needs to align in order for it to work out. Mismatched couples rarely last because they get on each others nerves due to one party feeling neglected and the other smothered. A lot of these situations could be avoided if people were just slightly more open to talking about these things. At least that's my take on it.

GUYS DATS PURRRRRFEKT

Setlist at 2016/09/28 @Nanba Hatch ～Royz 7th Anniversary ONEMAN LIVE～【Seven Deadly Sins】 M-01 ACROSS WORLD M-02 JOKER M-03 ブギーマン M-04 マーブルパレット M-05 星に願いを M-06 R.I.P M-07 ESTROUS SPIDER's M-08 Emotions M-09 ANNIVERSARY M-10 Reve Story M-11 「AREA」 M-12 鬼ト邪吼 M-13 MASK M-14 洗礼 M-15 THE BEGINNING M-16 僕らのつづき EN1 春ノ夜ノ夢 EN2 cherry tree EN3 0 EN4 恋花火

sing it out to the gods, queen ;w; Even though I don't do it often, I love listening to MERRY live. Especially when they decide to do acoustic stuff. Gara is really good at showing emotion when he sings these kinds of songs, and it just makes one feel all sorts of things inside. The first time I even watched this clip, I got chills. Shit like this still makes me wonder how the fuck this band is so underrated....

i love my hands.

Trombe is back as "Tromb"? Oh yah. I feel not safe to skip news. And yes, I love news about random session bands. Trombeeee

There was a Halloween themed house party for my friends house warming!

始まりの白(hajimari no shiro) 01. Unripe Ideal 02. 剥離(hakuri) 終わりの黒(owari no kuro) 01. Delusion 02. 葬(sou) 03. 真昼の月(mahiru no tsuki)

Participating artists: Gt. Shinji Wajima (Ningen Isu) Ba. Koresuke Arashima (arko lemming, etc) Dr. Pierre Nakano (Ling Tosite Sigure) (Key. Nakamura Keisaku) --------------- very different from his recent stuff but i love it so much?? apparently there's also a censored version, but i'm sure most of us here have no problems with uncensored material.

Oh fuck... That's what the poster looks like? :DDD I cant wait to get mine <3

for those who are fuma fans <3 He posted this: which means I'm a cutie patootie

I'm glad the cover is finally diverting from just the logo! it looks pretty cool!!

still BANGIN after 2 years

2016/09/17 【京都府】 KBSホール 01. *New Intro 02. LOTUS (Symphonic Ver.) 03. DIFFERENT SENSE 04. AMON (Symphonic Ver.) 05. Cause Of Fickleness 06. Phenomenon 07. 滴る朦朧 / Shitataru Mourou 08. 蜜と唾 (Piano Ver.) / Tsumi To Batsu 09. DIABOLOS 10. THE BLOSSOMING BEELZEBUB 11. Unraveling 12. 流転の塔 / Ruten No Tou 13. 暁 / Akatsuki Encore 14. VANITAS 15. *New Song 16. 詩踏み / Utafumi 17. Sustain The Untruth 18. 激しさと、この胸の中で絡み付いた灼熱の闇 / Hageshisa... new song has been described as fast, violent and heavier than Utafumi.

mike cheki

2.トランキライザ (Tranquilizer) 9.ASPIRIN 12.顔ノ亡ヰ聖母 (Kao no Nai Seibo) These are the new tracks for anyone not following them. bleh

Been meaning to do this post for a while, but never got around to it. I just wanted to highlight how Yuuga, of Devil Kitty / DEViL KiTTY / GOKIBURI is basically the Taco Bell of visual-kei. For the non-american members here, Taco Bell is a fast food chain that basically takes the same ingredients and reforms them into different shapes and sizes to make a “new” product. Since most people don't follow him as closely as I have, here's a breakdown of his bands in chronological (and color-coordinated) order: ~Bands he was in in high school that no one has the music to~ ---> Chateau La Tour ---> Kar'MariA ---> DEViL KiTTY ---> DEViL KiTTY / Deadly Sanctuary ---> Deadly Sanctuary / Solo Project / Ki=/=Ga ---> Retired ---> Unretired and started a session band named THE. ---> THE. becomes GOKIBURI ---> GOKIBURI / DEADLY (a revived version of Deadly Sanctuary) ---> Devil Kitty (NOT the same as the first DEViL KiTTY) As a note, I will refer to the first DEViL KiTTY as DK, and the second as dk. Knowing that, you'll begin to see how amusing this list of...eh...reusable musical components becomes. "Smile"originally was released by Chateau La Tour and came in two distinctly different versions--a single and an album version (which is actually kinda cool and pretty rare for vkei). Here is the single version of the song that I've added to YT for you: This later became: Kar'MariA - 奇形の笑顔 (which sneakily means “Malformation’s Smile” in Japanese ;o ) And again released as a cover by GOKIBURI, but renamed again to just be "SMILE." I have uploaded it to youtube here: Next, let’s move onto a more famous song. DEViL KiTTY was arguably Yuuga’s most renounwn band as it was around the longest and released the most material. To the best of my knowledge, it is the only band to have revived more than once + release material at a revival live, and it had an unprecedented reformation in a the form of a band that used the same name but totally swears it’s something completely different (I’ll get to this later). Their most popular song, as indicated by both Last.fm plays and number of times it was released, is “Hello Katty.” However, this song did not originate from DK--it actually started off as a song from Kar’MariA called “さよなら妄想ちゃん,” which roughly translates to “Goodbye Little Miss Delusion” in English. This song was released on a live distributed single at one of the band’s last lives and my guess is that this was just a demo version. The lyrics are different from the DK version and it only features one guitar, but the song structure and switches in time signatures remain the same. Because of that, I am going to infer that Kar’MariA released the demo version of this song and DK produced the real one. “Hello Katty” was released on DK’s first album, on the Jukebox omnibus as a live track, and again on a later single. This song was then again covered by GOKIBURI under the name “痛い子ちゃん“, which was officially released as a live version as well on their first album Kurosuisei -G-. Although this features yet another name change, it seems to be pretty similar lyrically to the most popular version. The name is also a common lyric during the bridges of the song. I’m not entirely sure what the name means, but it seems like it translates to “sore kid-chan” (is this Japanese for calling someone “Butthurt?”). You may find the GOKIBURI version below. Kar’MariA also released a song called “Yakusoku,” which is a pretty generic romantic 90’s title (it means “promise,” so). This song was later covered by GOKIBURI and distributed at a concert for free. I have yet to see this turn up in auctions. After DK disbanded, Yuuga briefly had a small solo project. Much like GOKIBURI, this project was mainly a big tribute to himself. He did put out a good deal of new material with it, while also performing with side project Deadly Sanctuary, but his only full album is mostly cover songs. These songs include: 出愛隊 (DK), ホモダチの輪 (DK), セフレ。(DK), 覚醒剤のすすめ (DK), DQNなエセ麺カノ (DK), ヒルドラ (DK), 残骸残想残酷な貴方へ (Chateau La Tour), カツアゲ (DK), among a few others. This recycling nonsense did not just strike with his first bands, however. While Yuuga was still hanging out with Kisaki and Yayoi on the Eternal label, he formed a side project with the latter called Deadly Sanctuary which, to date, has been his most lo-fi and punk-ish band to date. In that group, he released a song called “Deadly Circus” which was later rereleased under his solo project as the song “MK5.” GOKIBURI also covered this song, but they went with the 2nd name. At this point, you may be thinking “Wow, did GOKIBURI even write music themselves??” The answer to that is “Sometimes!” This band’s history is easily broken up into two pieces: before and after Kizuto joined. Once this guitarist joined the band, GOKIBURI became much more death-core oriented in sound and began releasing original material at a much faster pace. However, the first half of GOKIBURI’s life was essentially solo project pt.2, except it was mostly self covers instead of new songs. These covered songs, aside from the few previously mentioned, include: 肉便器 (solo work), Love Waros (solo work), 蜜カノLOVER (DK), ROCKSTARの恋 (DK), Karma (DK), DQNなエセ麺カノ (DK), Cobra (DK), セフレ。(DK), ホモダチの輪 (DK), W to (solo work), and possibly some others as two of their singles’ tracklists are hard to come by online. You know what would make this so much better? If Yuuga decided to make a new band, but picked a name he had already used! Sounds silly right? Except, he actually did and this for real happened ?___? . Now, a lot of people seem to consider DK and dk to be the same band. While they share a name, stylistically they aren’t that close (with the exception of their latest single). When the band formed, Yuuga also mentioned on Twitter that this was not a revival of his old band but a completely new one. Surprisingly, dk has not made any DK covers. According to his Ameblo (thanks @Uglymouthfor this), GOKIBURI was kind of a fun joke band for him to just cover himself while making money, where as dk is meant to be a return to srs bsns. While no covers have been made by dk, they’ve done the next best thing. Originally, GOKIBURI was supposed to go major and become the next Dir en Grey, take Yoshiki’s 401k, duet with Mariah, etc, but they broke up rather abruptly before anything could actually happen (supposedly because of their 2nd bassist, but idk if that’s true). Before this happened, GOKIBURI had a whole mess of material played at lives that was never released. What better way to make use of those songs than to just release them as dk and act like they were newly written all along!! “Chlammy,” “I’m knot bitch,” “I am bitch,” and “2nd Virgin” are all GOKIBURI songs that just never made it onto a CD ~officially~ until dk formed and sold them under Rockstar Records. Yuuga left his joke band to form a serious band that just remade old joke songs, but seriously now. While not a cover per say, thematically “Chlammy” is akin to Deadly Sanctuary’s “Suck my Dick!!” due to it’s centralized focus on falacio, or in “Chlammy’s” case, not receiving it in over 2 weeks. “Suck my Dick!!,” like other songs mentioned before, was released more than once but under two different names. On an early omnibus, the demo version of this song was named “奴の唄.” TL;DR-- Generally, anything that Yuuga is in has some sort of recycled element to it. He's basically built his whole career off of 10 songs and ran with it. This was mostly for fun, and inspired by @inartistic's -AINs- post, but it is probably much less informative and harder to read haha. Color coordinating everything took a lot longer than I originally though too ;(

Another cover, this time from Kisou. This is one of my all time favourites from DEG...I think it's mainly the chorus that gets me. I just love the way it sounds

Merry aren't "jazzy" or "bluesy" per se apart from a couple of odd tracks. Mostly it's just kayoukyoku, which minus their punkiest oddest tracks is ever-present, because that's what they do, fuse kayoukyoku with punk and metal in order to make nostalgic sounding modern rock. It's completely different from VK bands making random "1920's hot jazz/1940's swing abortion"s, as Herpes so aptly put for once, in order to stay true to the genre-juggling, which has been made the selling point of VK since they don't have the skill to do any one thing properly.

When I hear "jazz in VK" I instantly think of Merry (though I consider them more bluesy than jazzy). Songs like... HbuscyL7cKE fkGGtlxQVuA