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Making its return for 2017, due to popular demand, we will be hosting the MH JRock Awards !!! Now, before you start voting, read the rules provided in the spoiler below, or be slapped by a HUGE Viking Fish! – @Champ213 Once you have read the general rules, here's how to vote: 1. Copy the list of categories below into your reply 2. Fill in your votes (you can skip as many categories as you'd like) 3. Submit. Your posts will stay hidden until the end of the voting. Here are your categories to choose from: Voting will last until Sunday, January 14th of the New Year (2018) This will allow everyone to take their time, since some of us are still waiting on some final releases to come out this month. Note: "Album" includes both full and mini-albums. For simplicity reasons, we follow the "Once Visual Kei, always Visual Kei" rule. So yes, that makes bands like Dir en grey or L'Arc~En~Ciel a Visual Kei band, just for the purpose of this voting. Any questions you have, please do not hesitate to contact any of the Staff! Happy Voting!

Sioux will release a new Mini-Album beginning December 30th until February 3rd. They will release one track every saturday making this a 6 track Mini-Album. The songs will be availbale for download via their website. In addition a physical release is planned but details will be revealed at a later time. http://sioux-2016.com/archives/news/20171210s

Don't let the actions of one member from a disbanded RR band influence your feelings on an entire scene. Bad apples exist in every batch.

Bands are rarely edgy enough to make me say 'this is fucked up'. But I can safely say that PV is fucked up.

Top 5 one of the worst sentences ive read on MH. That final remake is on the same level of trash as the Kasumi one. No friggin thanks

BRATBAX have posted their new look below; furthermore, shinpei (ex-SuG) will perform as a support member starting in January. They will also hold their second anniversary event, "BRAT's FES" for 5 consecutive months starting on January 23. Schedule is under the spoiler.

LUNA SEA's new song might be mediocre at best, but they're still able to give performances like this 25 yrs into their career. I get chills everytime. and this has been my daily LS comment, praised be

What the hell is even going on with vkei anymore? 😧

This is a big mess

Moved to Global Music section.

nice song. nice sequel.

This was just published!

CENSORED?! Are you fucking kidding me?!!?!

ayy

I wish I were still a fan to be hyped about this. ): Still, I'm glad they've reached this stage in their career. Seemed like only a matter of time.

Kinda sad that sample songs goes off the rails in the second half. I was digging the beginning.

i didn't have a top 5 for worst sentences i've read on this forum,but for sure i can start with yours The final and Kasumi were good re records and if you didn't like them,the original ones will be always there.

just some further details regarding why her twitter account was how it was @patientZERO@Shmilly-- Uran and Setsuna were in a relationship until she found out that he was engaged, and then finally married to someone else, which prompted her to dump all the information you see on that twitter. apparently his wife had found out about their relationship and snapped, and in turn Setsuna finally told her about his wife. as you've noticed, even after this he was continuing to pine about Uran on twitter and such, tweeting something like "i want to be one with Uran in any form, any world", despite the fact that he is married to another woman. so yeah, not only is this dude at least complicit in the death of a 20 year old woman but he's got a wife who will have to deal with the consequences of his choices, too. (i wanted to include this info but it was like 5:30 am when i posted, sorry!) as a side note, he told police that his occupation was part-timing so the genre and band scene isn't actually mentioned at all, at least not in any of the articles i've spotted.

1.凱歌 2.お人形遊び 3.泡沫 4.夜想

Never thought I'd say this but The THIRTEEN have finally become a legitimate successor to Sadie with Pain after Pain.

Does anyone think global warming is a good thing? I love Lady Gaga. I think she's a really interesting artist.

In commemoration of their indie days

Definitely would recommend this seller ^-^ Great communication, great prices, fast deliver, and tons of free flyers! ❤ Definitely planning on purchasing more~

Just arrived! Crucifixion - 十三月ノ明晰夢 第一夜 「Innocent World」 Crucifixion - 十三月ノ明晰夢 第ニ夜 「Phantomschmerz」 Crucifixion - 十三月ノ明晰夢 第七夜 「XII」 Crucifixion - 十三月ノ明晰夢 第三夜 「散美花」 Crucifixion - 十三月ノ明晰夢 第九夜 「Terpsichore」 Crucifixion - 十三月ノ明晰夢 第五夜 「Disease」 Crucifixion - 十三月ノ明晰夢 第八夜 「誘蛾灯」 Crucifixion - 十三月ノ明晰夢 第六夜 「Crescent Moon」 Crucifixion - 十三月ノ明晰夢 第十一夜 「Apocalypse」 Crucifixion - 十三月ノ明晰夢 第十二夜 「哀玩人形」 Crucifixion - 十三月ノ明晰夢 第十夜 「Nostalgia」 Crucifixion - 十三月ノ明晰夢 第四夜 「Hexenprozess」 La'veil MizeriA - 悲哀囀ル調ベ

the Merry cover is probably my favorite, but MOST of the tracks are surprisingly good definitely one of the most overall enjoyable tribute albums I've listened to

I think it was a requirement from them...because Hyde is behind the cover...but I'm surprised nobody "leaked" it by "mistake"

Hey guys! As you may have noticed, the news section is more active than ever before since a certain character has departed, and more and more users are able to contribute their findings without any disruption or intimidation. With more contributors than ever, we each have our own writing style; some of us simply copy and paste band announcements and then translate them - whether by machine or on our own - to the best of our ability, and some of us take a more journalistic approach by adding more details rather than the standard news format of the past. To keep our status as one of the leading J-rock news sites/forums, we've decided to add in some rules and regulations to keep the forum in order and to help future contributors post without any issue: REQUIREMENTS: - intelligible English - As English is the default language of this forum, all topics and posts should be in English, excluding the International Lounge. Also, by posting and translating into English, it is possible for Monochrome Heaven to gain more exposure and recognition worldwide as an overseas news source to sites like JROCK NEWS and Shattered Tranquility as English is one of the most common languages in the world. With this in mind, think about how you'll make your post: make sure to proofread spelling, grammar, etc., so that it can be more coherent and understandable to the reader. - Translations to romaji are required mainly for band and release names, since most of our users are not proficient in Japanese (Google Translate is fine, but you are free to request/suggest alternate translations for the sake of accuracy, especially since song titles are a bit more challenging) As elaborated further down below, vkdb or Google can help decipher any names if you need to double-check. *If there's any issues with making translations using Google Translate, I suggest using RomajiDesu! Not only will it romanize the kanji you want to translate, but also show an English translation for each character used (if you're interested ^^). - Please be sure to update the title of the post after a significant update has been announced. For example, if you start off with the topic, "MERRY new single" and the name is announced later on, please change the title to that of the release itself, ex. "MERRY new single, "Kasa to Ame" release". This gives the threads more variety and it's better than skimming thru topics that all have "MERRY new single" in the title. **Highly recommended for topics whose releases are announced after the creation of a thread. Ex. "Plastic Tree to perform OP" turns into "Plastic Tree new single, "Inside Out". This prevents any confusion, skimming through extra info, and especially unnecessary duplicate threads. - Please Please PLEASE use the report button if there's a double-post or issues in the thread. (the first thing I do when I get up in the morning is to check up the news and try to find some things that are out of order. Some days, I won't be around, nor will the rest of the staff, to do that as we do focus on our own lives too. Reporting a post is a much easier way of getting our attention rather than simply posting in the thread about the error, or even worse, unnecessary drama...) - Speaking of cooperation, this is NOT a competition. If someone else posts what you originally left out/posted seconds ago, or the reverse (some info is left out because they didn't see/understand it), don't make a big fuss (unless it's a double-post of course) ; after all, providing news is a team effort, so it's better to work together and to help each other out! ♥ - Please refrain from making any offtopic posts. This could clog up the thread with more unnecessary posts and less valuable information, especially when that escalates to drama. Any posts that have nothing to do with the aforementioned artist or release, etc., will be removed from the thread. Repeat offenses may warrant a warning for spam or misbehavior. - Make a new topic if necessary, especially if the band's previous thread hasn't been updated in a long period of time. In other words, don't necro long-dead topics, especially if you're only doing so to request an old release. That's what the Requests section is for btw. RECOMMENDATIONS: - Band/release names in kanji and romaji are recommended (makes it easier for hardcore/casual/non-Japanese speaking fans to search up their faves; may have to extend this to the download forum as well) If there's any problems trying to figure out a band/member's name, especially in romaji, google them or check out their webpage/social media/vkdb page, which can all be very helpful. - BEFORE posting, use the search function to check if anything has been posted yet. This can prevent double-posts of topics (such as accidentally making 2 threads about a band's new single), and confusion/competition between users. - When making a new topic, please don't copypaste the original Japanese text onto your post, as it looks out of place and completely lazy. At least make an effort to translate it into English so that everyone can understand it. (2019.3.19) - If you want to make any posts about an artist in general, please do so in their appropriate thread in the Artists section (or make one if necessary). This will prevent any clogging of release threads and saving some of us the trouble to going through page after page to find more relevant information about the actual release. - Put some effort in how you actually research and post news. If a band is disbanding at the beginning of 2018, and the actual date of their last live has been posted, please post that date instead of "so&so will disband in January/February 2018". Most news topics don't need a lot of digging, but for posts like these, it'll totally save up a lot of time and stress. **Also, not everyone can keep up with a certain band/release (and understandably so), so threads often tend to go dead even though new stuff is being announced via the official source. It's highly recommended that you follow a band's twitter or check their webpage ever so often for new updates so they well, won't be forgotten or fall off the face of the earth. xD - When embedding a video/tweet/social media post, make sure you also add some context even when the information is displayed in the embed itself, as bands tend to delete everything once they disband/disable social media sites, etc. If you link to a tweet for example, and it gets deleted, your post will be completely blank and worse off, valuable information/history could be easily lost over time (which makes some of us archivists have a hard time with band histories), or your post will be left completely blank. This is extremely important if you choose to start off a new topic with just an embedded post!! New threads that start off like this are considered low effort, which makes the rest of us have to do the hard work, so please put some effort into your post! - Don't go overboard on making your news look pretty or overexaggerated. We've had some issues with certain users putting in too much formatting on their text, posting too many Youtube/Twitter/etc. embeds all on one post, and it's tiresome to actually go through everything, especially when dealing with a slow internet connection or other factors. Extra formatting such as big text, abusing the bold italic formats, or puking rainbows is completely unnecessary and distracting when all we want to read is the news. If you want to proceed with posting lots of tweets/picspams/videos that are relevant to the topic, fine, but put all that shit under a spoiler.

I'd say a healthy dose of both, lel Honestly, something like this would be the absolute dream. Thank you so much to all of you who took the time to read this, I'm so glad it went over well! Eventually I'd like to write about the old roadie/mentor system in VK (but it's been a pain in the ass to research), or do an archive of the older legends/rumors of VK (easy to research but probably going to take 100,000 words to write it all out), it was very encouraging to see that people were actually interested in this piece since it was my first crack at this kind of thing.

Merry's cover sounds amazing! Aka sounds perfect for Dezert's style. I don't know who the Kuwabara quartet is but I like their rendition of Utagoe. lynch. really needs to step up their mixing game. Their music is suffering from a lack of dynamic range and fails to deliver any sonic impact.

I'm gonna be unpopular opinion and say I'm fucking here for that Daikirai cover, but I'm a big fan of TOC so I was expecting something weird. All the ones I was initially excited about, pretty much lived up to expectations so far. I'm sorry I doubted Merry in this, theirs and Junko Yano's covers also gave me life. Really looking forward to this.

Chronic Bandmate Slappin' Disorder, it's untreatable

LoL

They're a Tokyo based Visualkei band. I may be located in the US but @sakurakurakura and Ryohei are in Japan. I'm just promotion staff so anything specific you'll have to ask Tetsu (Akusaki) about