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「エンドレス」 will be released during their live on 2017.12.20 (500 yen).

DiSPiИA has released a new song リストカット (wrist cut) via twitter (free to download) on December 10th as an early xmas gift. Also today they shared their new look

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Noulla - 日食

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

More and umbrella new coupling CD "揺れる傘、廻る歯車" (Yureru Kasa, Mawaru Haguruma) will be released at their 2-man lives at 2018/02/11 at Ebisu club Vijon, 2018/02/12 at Imaike CLUB 3STAR and 2018/02/25 at Ikebukuro CHOP (6 songs, 2500 yen)

Went ahead and translated this addicting song by request from @platy. Although I work in translation I don't have much experience translating lyrics but I hope you guys enjoy. Just a couple of notes. For anyone that doesn't know, "ojamashimasu" doesn't really have a direct translation. It literally translates to "I'm going to be a nuisance/bother" and is usually used when entering someone's house in Japan to acknowledge that your host is allowing you to "intrude" (enter) their house. Although "ojamashimasu" is said multiple times throughout the song I tried to translate it in various ways that I personally believe conveys the meaning of their usage in the song better. The whole song is one big perverted metaphor for intruding on, or more specifically violating a girl. Note: "Chome" is one part of Japan's crazy address system and denotes districts of a town. The song basically travels through different districts (district 1, district 2 etc) which are also metaphorical. He's going to ojamashimasu every part of the girl. English translation is my own and I wrote up the romaji myself. Kanji taken from Batsu's official Twitter (https://twitter.com/BATSUmamire). Any feedback/suggestions welcome! --- Kanji Romaji English

Sleepy art-kei group More announced that they will be releasing a new mini-album next year on April 20th. The cd is entitled "tyrantura," and the start of sales with commence with their live series "美しき暴君 (Utsukushi Boukun)." Further details have not yet been announced.

Kuwa, who always update the famous source vkdb will take a break from updating the site upcoming January 2018. However he hopes to be able to return at the sites 15anniversary in June 2018. ----

First five tracks are stellar! jyunboku, muku de arouga is one of my favorites.

On the topic of Adoratio, Mimi Zozo, Aoguroi Hysteria, and Hakudaku are the perfect trifecta to end the album. They all combine to make a very effective emotional climax.

glad you finally have it!^^

I believe this has to do with low car ownership in Hong Kong, where this method originates from; in the west they'd fire up a car engine and put an exhaust pipe extension into the car, shutting the windows tight. will visual kei appropriate a hongkonese app that locates rental apartments with history of inhabitant suicides, including the abovementioned method? is akasaka blitz haunted by the hopes of Dir en grey fans who perished while waiting for good releases? does the ghost of Akira (ex-Baroque) relevancy spook drunk bangyas who loiter in the streets late?

Bring it. Kasumi is one of the most generic 6/8 metal ballads I’ve ever heard. And I’m assuming the inexplicable high praise for The Final comes from it being one of the few real actual songs on WtD that doesn’t sound like mushy nu-metal rubbish.

I always assumed it was like Wikipedia with it being crowdsourced, but now knowing there's one man behind it all, he certainly deserves a break. I just hope he comes back!

Basically same thing as @Zeussaid. Losing all the info on that site would be a gut punch to the historians of the scene. It's more of a fear of "worst case scenario" thing. Hopefully you're right and he is able to return like he says.

My dude, turn on your location again. I just wanna talk and clear this out in person. Turn on your location as well and get ready to TOOT DAT ASS UP.

Well...Sadly I didn't got my hands on the "soup" Single. ..but the ones before I have ^^ I also have a spare copy of the "desert" live distributed Single

In this live he doesn't sound that good but in the DVD FROM DEPRESSION TO ________ [mode of THE MARROW OF A BONE], he hits most of the notes right, in some songs he sounds even better than the recorded versions

Many thanks!

They don’t even need to have analog mastering (though that would be cool), they just need to stop compressing everything so much. There’s no room for the instruments to breathe because the lack of dynamics just sort of mash everything together into BIG HEAVY NOISE. As much as I am a fan of the songwriting in Arche, I think it’s one of their worst sounding records.

Cut my bangs by myself too short

Yukika walked past me inside ikebukuro edge without saying a word. RUDE

The doll is like a character. She functions as the vocalist's lover lol. In the band, each member represents something. The vocalist is a demon and Ryohei is a zombie.

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.

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LOVE IT!

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.

(Yeah, sorry, that first reply was a tad first-year Lit student) Basically, I reckon she's been pressured by the obsession with 'keeping things in the family' many Japanese businesses have to ditch the music career. Wouldn't surprise me if her family saw her music career as an extended 'gap year' between graduating and joining the family firm.

somehow that hand is actually mine and not a stranger's

Mediena stuff. ^^

Long time no see ya'll

As a Japanese who lived in Japan for 1/3 of my life, I'll have to say it's not that Japanese men dislike it but it's BY FAR more popular amongst girls. The reason being is Japan is quite narrow minded (yeah hard to believe isn't it?) when it comes to a persons appearance or interests...and VK is generally classified as overboard. Guys just won't be driven to the extent where they want to be in a Vkei band or dress up VK outside just because they're interested . Not to mention (I guess this applies for all countries but) it's 100% understandable that a straight guy feels off seeing guys in heavy makeup and flashy clothes singing heavy music. Therefore it's natural that the majority of Japanese fans are girls...in fact I don't have a single Japanese guy friend that's very into VK in comparison to 30+ girls. I guess in the end the music itself is likeable, but guys who like it are well aware of the negative views they recieve so they don't even bother with anything VK. Perhaps if the music was more mainstream like in the 90s/early 2000s then the fanbase would be more even amongst genders.

been debating for a long time if i should show myself here or not but i trimmed my hair yesterday and felt pretty happy about myself so hi i miss my longer hair tho. this was me from a year ago. i was thinking about growing it out like yusuke koba's mane but having to tie it up at work made me feel more girly so i've been going back to shorter hairstyles

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I tried playing around with some makeup yesterday. Also I learned that my kitchen has the best lighting for taking selfies lol.

Tracklist: 1. 蟲聲 2. デルタ (Type-A only) 2. 六花の歔欷 (Type-B only) - Love them or hate them; but don't do either based on this single I was able to put into words the biggest reason why I’ve liked 儿 (Jin) ( The Black Swan/ Nega) while attending The Black Swan’s one-man live in June of last year. I realized while Jin was pouring his heart into one of their trademark overwrought, overlong ballads that no one else is able to tread the line between embracing the tropes of Visual Kei and mocking them like Jin has. He doesn’t just tow that line, he and his bands have taken up permanent residence there for some time now. Take 2015’s “I’m Shit Noodle, But…” off The Black Swan’s 失愛と依存、その感触 single as a prime example of this ability to live the VK lifestyle, tongues firmly in cheek. VK is a genre so built on the idolization of characters that it is downright scandalous when it’s publicly revealed that band members have engaged in mostly innocuous activities like having girlfriends or smoking some weed. The Black Swan wrote a banger turning this image of the impossibly virtuous band member on its head by shouting about their enjoyment of sex, drugs and money; a value system that is traditionally accepted in rock’n’roll but rarely espoused by people in the VK community. I enjoy Jin’s nasal warble; I appreciate uniqueness and passion more than a traditionally ‘good’ singing voice…which Jin certainly does not have. I think it’s often unnecessary to have two guitarists playing downtuned/seven+ string guitars and a bassist basically occupying the same sonic space, but all the guitarists are competent. I also thoroughly enjoy that the drummer has achieved a slight amount of separate-from-the-band fame by being a scary looking VK dude who adopted a tiny, stray kitten. With all that being said, I was disappointed when The Black Swan announced recently that they’d be disbanding next May after more than three years together as a band. They have not announced any other releases, though this being VK, I assume we’ll get a best-of release with a new warmed-over B-side or two, so 蟲聲 might be the last gasp of this particular band of VK provocateurs. The title track “蟲聲”--after it gets the acoustic intro from “Chop Suey!” out of the way--is the kind of song that Jin and The Black Swan will be remembered for; a little all-over-the-place compositionally, a riff that sounds like the guitarist would be walking toward the camera in the video, a plethora of vocal styles (some squeals, slightly flat singing, deathcore-inspired growling, some gang shouting), there's slightly haunting piano to highlight the sombre mood, the chorus that Jin uses for about 30% of his songs. All-in-all this is probably the least interesting track on this single. This being a VK single, of course there are multiple versions to buy to get all the songs. The A-Type version of 蟲聲 contains “デルタ (Delta)”. Critics would say this song sounds a lot like someone took a solid Dezert song and sprinkled some fart-sounding drop-A riffs and strained vocals throughout; to which I couldn’t make much of an argument except to say the chorus is deliciously catchy no matter if someone else would’ve done it better or not. I like the gravelly whisper in one channel under the singing that Jin does to end the song too. The B-Type song "六花の歔欷" would seem to be a very lengthy track by VK standards, but Jin fans will be unfazed after epic-length experiments like “虚しき「生」の寓意≒「死」の真意” and “Ousia”. This track pales in comparison to those other 7+ minute songs, mostly by not differentiating itself enough (all the usual ingredients are there: piano, acoustic guitar, etc.), but it does have a pretty stellar falsetto wail right before a smart guitar solo @ 3:50 and it gets points for not trying to scare the listener with unexpected guitar explosions, but rather is simply a solid, longing ballad throughout. The Black Swan will go down as being mostly a logical evolution of Jin’s sound during the latter days of Nega that continued their quest as one of the more polarizing bands in VK. Love him or hate him, Jin will get you to have some reaction. But don’t take my word for any of this, my favorite Jin project is freakin’ Perestroika ;).

well this is what angelo sounds like, pretty close to studio Critter knows what his vocal cords are capable of and doesn't abuse high notes with embarassing deaf cat sounds, props for that alone

REVINE will disband at 2/2 at shishaibashi fanji- twice (osaka) live.

Yeah, he sounded really good on Mode of THE MARROW OF A BONE; but then we get to Mode of DUM SPIRO SPERO and it's a shit show. Mode of VULGAR was also really good. I don't know what it is. He insists on doing falsetto's for legitimately everything now...for some reason; but he can't replicate it live. There is a clear inability to hit those notes on a consistent basis and is one of the main reasons why my enjoyment of Dir en grey's music has tanked -- at some point Kyo's live performances just become so grating on the ear. I enjoy the studio stuff still; but then when I want to hear it live I have to brace myself for all the out of key notes Kyo's going to sing at any given moment. It's a damn shame tbh