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cali≠gari will release their new DVD set "13-映像集-" on 2018/02/07. The set contains 3 DVDs and a CD-ROM and is limited to 1000 copies which can only be mail-ordered in advance. The main portion contains their whole gig at Hibiya Yagai Ongakudo (25 songs) as well as an offshot/making-of footage. There will be heaps of "official bootleg"-quality footage of their whole "TOUR 13" circuit spanning more than a dozen venues. The CD-ROM part will have the same 25 tracks as the main concert in mp3 format. The whole thing will come in a deluxe box set with a 76-page booklet to boot. Below is the tracklist: [収録曲] 1.トカゲのロミオ 2.マグロ 3.トイレでGO! 4.君が咲く山 5.汚れた夜 6.色悪 7.東京ロゼヲモンド倶楽部 8.三文情死エキストラ 9.舌先3分サイズ 10.紅麗死異愛羅武勇 11.マッキーナ 12.ファニソン 13.混沌の猿 14.淫美まるでカオスな 15.落下枝に帰らず破鏡再び照らさず 16.深夜、貨物ヤード裏の埠頭からコンビナートを眺めていた ENCORE 17.オーバーナイトハイキング 18.オヤスミナサイ 19.いつかどこかで 20.青春狂騒曲 ENCORE 2 21.ゼロサムゲーム 22.-187- 23.37564 24.一切を乱暴に 25.サイレン ・メイキング (野音楽屋でのオフショット映像) ・ツアーダイジェストDVD収録曲決定！ TOUR 13 F.A.D YOKOHAMA /ゼロサムゲーム〜トカゲのロミオ ※ツアー初日からの熱量 本八幡ROUTE14 / 三文情死エキストラ ※意外と良い 静岡Sunash 初日 / マネキン ※さわやか祭 静岡Sunash ２日目 / トイレでGO! ※続、さわやか祭 青森Quarter / クソバカゴミゲロ ※テンション高め 仙台MACANA / 色悪 ※桜井ゆうかい疑惑 高崎club FLEEZ 初日 / 初恋中毒 ※貴重 高崎club FLEEZ ２日目 / 淫美まるでカオスな ※テンション大分高め 新宿LOFT / 汚れた夜 ※歌舞伎町記念 新潟GOLDEN PIGS BLACK STAGE / 一切を乱暴に ※とにかく乱暴すぎる 心斎橋 FANJ twice 初日 / 落花枝に返らず、破鏡再び照らさず ※照明きれい 心斎橋 FANJ twice ２日目 / バンバンバン ※予定外アンコール 名古屋ell.FITS ALL / 紅麗死異愛羅武勇 ※紅麗死異ぽん太 岡山IMAGE / 誘蛾燈 ※票数かなり多かった 福岡DRUM Be-1 / 混沌の猿 ※友情出演：ピン子 札幌cube garden 初日 / ファニソン ※いい感じ 札幌cube garden ２日目 / 深夜、貨物ヤード裏の... ※有終の美 TOUR Re:13 umeda TRAD / マグロ ※大盛り上がり 名古屋BOTTOM LINE / 舌先3分サイズ ※中盛り上がり Truth be told, I only made this thread so that I could link this trailer video where Ao lifts up a toilet seat dramatically. Enjoy.

Kana means chicken in Finnish. Just so you know

awful new Obscure (2)

Another KAMIJO success story.

Confirmed only band that has ever mattered and that will ever matter

The band have revealed a new look !

2017 has been an...interesting year, with so much unexpected drama and surprises that's to go down in history for years. So much has happened that I was able to put together two lists of band members caught in embarrassing , illegal, and reprehensible crimes and scandals. Before we put this year to rest for good, let's take another look at visual-kei and some of the less glamorous acts musicians have been up to this year. Also before I begin, I have to shout out a few members who gave serious help in making this list possible. Thanks to @suji, @tetsu_sama69, @cvltic. and @doombox for all their help, as well as for those who broke the news in the first place and those that corrected my facts after publication! Keina (ex-DIVEIN) The first entrant on the naughty list is bassist Keina, who was fired earlier on July 7th from indie visual kei band DIVEIN (ディヴェイン) for "violating the rules of the visual kei industry". Earlier in 2017, KEINA was hospitalized for tonsillitis and took a break from musical activities. While on break, he participated in a session band without the rest of DIVEIN's permission, and this angered the other three members of the band. He also spread confidential information about upcoming lives and photo shoots on the side, so that was enough to get him the boot. 蕚 (Utena) (ex-DEGENE) DEGENE announced on September 26th that they fired their vocalist 蕚 (Utena) for "bad behavior". Digging a little deeper, we find out that Utena committed violent acts against certain members of the band, trashed band equipment, and sent one or more people into mental break downs. The band stated that they could not find any way to improve his behavior, and each member felt a sense of crisis about his behavior. The other four members came to the same conclusion: “I can't work with him anymore”. In contrast, Utena's announcement about his departure did not mention his bad behavior. DEGENE went on a temporary hiatus until they could replace him. Chaos (Glamscure, ex-INSANITY INJECTION) One of the dual vocalists of Insanity Injection, Chaos, got the boot on May 31st for being involved in "deplorable acts on many occasions". What it was has not been clarified, but it was something bad enough to sow feelings of betrayal among the members. One can only speculate what he did, but he hasn't made another appearance since his departure, so perhaps he was blacklisted from the scene? The band has continued without him as three, which as we will see shortly is not usually the norm. Good on INSANITY INJECTION! Update: Turns out that Chaos is still active in the VK band GLAMSCURE! 塁 (rui) (ex-REVLOW) The last bassist of REVLOW, 塁 (rui), was fired from the band on August 5th. Management and band members discovered on July 29th that Rui was involved in many "anti-social acts" that corresponded with recent criminal acts in various Tokyo restaurants. Of note is that the official announcement used the kanji "反社会的", which is often used to refer to the yakuza. REVLOW cancelled the rest of their live dates, including their first one man show scheduled for August 29th, and rescinded the release of their CD, "'REVLISM-EP", scheduled for Aug 23rd. The band has not yet returned from hiatus, and none of the other band members have appeared in official projects. It's sad when an up and coming band gets ruined by the poor choices of one member. Three lumps of coal, one for each member you screwed over. 冬音 (Fuyune) (ex-サムクロ (Samurai Crows)) It's ironic that I found this picture of the purple-haired maverick while in a topic discussing crimes and other scandals. He was fired from his band サムクロ (Samurai Crows) on 2017/05/11 due to misconduct during their live at Ikebukuro BlackHole at 2017/5/5. He got a little too amped up and destroyed equipment, refused to apologize for it, and was caught verbally abusing people via private messaging service SNS. This is not only a rule not to be broken in visual kei, but also a rule not to be broken in society! Fuyune's misconduct caused the band to be dropped from their label, Me teaR music, and the band has been on hiatus after their live at Shinsaibashi paradigm on 2017/7/8. The other three members have moved on to a project called Bokutachi no neverland; Fuyune is still missing in action. I wonder if he has been soft blacklisted from the scene... 俐乃-rino- (ex - Synk;yet) Remember how we established rules of the visual kei scene all members have to abide by? I can safely say one of them is to inform your band members and your label whenever you participate in a session band or a side project. Synk;yet's ex-guitarist Rino broke these rules and was terminated from his band and artist contract with Starwave Records on 2017/01/30, shortly after the return of bassist Shiori. The official reasons were "betrayal and breach of contract". Rino secretly planned musical activities with other management companies for two years behind other members' backs. He also had "private exchanges" with fans for money requests, but nothing confirmed as sexual. Synk;yet went on indefinite hiatus on 2017/05/21 despite their best attempts to keep it together, and Rino has wiped all traces of his online presence so no one knows what he is up to. 『L.』(ex-VAJRA) Let's take it back to 2009 for a bit when grotesque face masks were all the rage and it was cool to rip off Dir en grey. There was an visual kei band named VAJRA, essentially a Dir en grey rip-off parading around as a silent tribute band, and mimicked all of their antics to carve out a meager existence in the indie circuit. VAJRA started by word of mouth and shot up in popularity quickly by sticking with the flavor of the month and putting on electrifying performances. Some of these lives would include fish hooking, vomiting, and public masturbation on the crowd, but the violent, unpredictable, ink-spitting guitarist『L.』took it too far one day. He was known for punching female fans in the face, giving them black eyes, and dragging them around by the hair on the stage, but he took up a notch for a live at Sendai on 2010/05/10, and caused fans serious injury. At first, he was put on house arrest and banned from lives temporarily, but soon after he "left" the band due to musical differences. There's room for interpretation on this. It is not known if he left because he wanted to and this was the breaking point, if he was forced out, or if he truly left on his own accord. VAJRA couldn't keep up the pace without him and virtually disappeared into disbandment. 『L.』found Jesus and work as an oshare-kei vocalist for the band Awake, now known as Eru. Aki (ex-2bullet, ex-JackRose, ex-Concerto Moon) Remember Takahiro from FAZ? He was covered in our first edition of the list and was caught trying to defraud people to fund band activities. It turns out that he had an accomplice! Aki, along with Takahiro, tried to defraud an elderly woman of 3 million yen. He was arrested once in November of 2016 and again in January of 2017, both for links to Takahiro and suspicion of fraud. Norifumi Shima of Concerto Moon immediately dismissed him from the band, while vocalist Re:i announced that JackRose would enter hiatus, since Aki was the composer and keyboardist. Ouch. Ryuusei (ex-暁月 (Kyogetsu)) Another unwritten rule of the scene - one that is good practice to follow in most situations - is to keep internal band drama private. I love juicy drama stories as much as the next person, but band members spilling the beans about strife in their own project will only undermine their musical efforts. What happened to 暁月 (Kyogetsu) demonstrates this perfectly. Our story begins on early September 2017, with a few incendiary tweets from guitarist Ryuusei on Twitter. In the first tweet he claims that all bangya not attracted to him are into Himura of Bananaman, or ugly men in general. The second tweet was a little more pointed: This hit a raw nerve with a lot of fans because it came on the heels of several unexpected disbandments. But this was just the tip of the iceberg. On his blog, Ryuusei went into detail about several aspects of the scene which up to now were just rumors and which come together to make life difficult for him and his band. A few of the things he mentioned (while also explicitly noting that he didn't know everything) were: Ticket quotas as fees for live performances. Ryuusei does the math on how many tickets they need to sell to cover for the fees, which is dependent on how many fans show up to see them and that's before the band members split the money five ways. Poor return on investment for popular vk standbys such as cheki. Name drops the GazettE in a section about how well popular bands with a "pretty bassist" do financially. This got Reita's attention with a fiery response of his own. Low wages paid from the indie labels. How difficult it is for bands to recover once they are "in the red" and how close 暁月 (Kyogetsu) is to reaching that point after three years. Asks fans to spend more money at shows, less at host clubs, and to tell him more information about salaries of other band men. You can see how this won't go over well. It's one thing to blow the whistle, but when you do you better know all of the facts. Constantly dropping figures about how much your competition makes relative to you while claiming you don't know for sure is a fast way to draw a ton of well-deserved criticism both from outside and within, and that's exactly what happened. On top of that, the claims made do not mesh well with the stories I've heard about what lengths some fans will go to support their favorite artist or band. I know that some tsunagari will go as far as to feed, clothe, shelter, and fuck a band man or two just to support them! But treating your fans like ATMs and literally telling them to "If you have money, use it. High schoolers, study so you can make money in the future." is trash. To me, it seemed like Ryuusei is looking for a scapegoat for his band's poor performance. Fans struck back by revealing his name, his bare face, his DMs, and even coordinating to send 100 pizzas to his house! Ryuusei threatened to get the police involved if the situation escalated further. His behavior afterwards is what sealed the deal. His band mates wanted nothing to do with the controversy this generated, as the vocalist even went so far as to hold an "apology twicast", and posted many apologetic tweets, even individually replying to people to apologize long before Ryuusei commented on the issue. However, Ryuusei did eventually apologize before backtracking the very next day. In his second blog post, he starts by claiming he only apologized because he was forced to. He then deflects the contents of the first post to "netogya" (a derisive term referring to online fans that don't go to shows, meaning most of us here), apologizes for name dropping bands and labels, claims he's always trying to be controversial and that this is no different, and claims that he thought this was common knowledge so there would be no problem. This only provided fuel for the fire. The sad thing is that, as you could have guessed by now, these guys were virtually unknown before this. Shame is a very powerful deterrent in Japanese culture, and I've seen lesser drama capsize bigger bands than this. By constantly undoing the damage control his band members tried to provide, and by backpedaling and baiting Tanuki, Ryuusei put Kyogetsu in a spot where they had to kick him out to continue or disband. They did both. Bassist Shogo jumped ship first, but the formal disbandment of Kyogetsu was announced for October of 2017. Setsuna (ex-THE EGOIST) Whenever I write one of these lists, one person ends up doing something that eclipses everything else I discuss. Setsuna, guitarist of THE EGOIST, takes the "honors" for this position this time, although it's not something to be proud of. 2017 was not a kind year to THE EGOIST, as they paused activities earlier in the year when they lost contact with their vocalist, but things came to a breaking point by the end of the year in what will remain a black mark on visual kei for a long time to come. The timeline gets hazy at points but what we do know for certain is that Setsuna, also known as Keisuke Kawasaki (thanks NHK!), began an intimate relationship with a woman named Uran Hirayama while engaged. Uran didn't know he was engaged when she met him with the wedding planned to the degree where the venue had already been picked. The marriage was held sometime during his relationship with Uran as well. It is not confirmed if she was a mitsu of his, but what we do know is that they had a very tumultuous relationship, all documented on Hirayama's twitter. Uran used the account as a regular personal account initially, but at some point the account became flooded with pictures and screenshots of the newly minted couple. Many LINE screenshots show both happy times as well as arguments, including one where Uran demanded to know if Setsuna had slept with a tsunagari/mitsu of his named Ayumi. He initially denies it, but admits to eventually sleeping with her once and apologizes, swearing Uran is the only one he really cares for. He ends up saying something similar on his public Twitter: "I've had relationships with various women, but aside from Uran I was just messing around. I'm very sorry. I'm considering marrying [her] in the future". No mention of his wife. Other pictures included Disney date pictures, many pictures of them in the snow as a couple, and of course the now-infamous video of him eating out Uran's ass (note to future readers: he chows down). Considering this is all in public view, it didn't take long for his "wife" to come across some of it; she apparently went ballistic when she found purikura of her and Setsuna kissing in his wallet. Things get demented as the year winds down to a close. The messages on Uran's Twitter become more alarming; her profile stated 'I wish to be reborn and marry Keisuke in my next life', she posted screenshots of one of Setsuna's tweets that basically said he "will be one" with Uran (which he quickly deleted from his page), tweets about gifts she bought with the money she got from sex, and more. At some point, Setsuna informs Uran that he was married and in retaliation, she dumps all of this information on her Twitter. She also had at least one suicide attempt around December 3rd, likely in response to all of these happenings. Despite his marriage, he still publicly pines for Uran after all of this. The following is my guess of what happens next: Uran tells Setsuna about her suicide attempt(s) and he tries to talk her out of it, but ends up agreeing to commit double suicide with her a week later on December 9th. We know this because Uran sent the explicit details of the plan to one of her close friends around 3pm that day, which was later posted to her Twitter page. The person who posted the notice in no uncertain words claims it was intended to be a double suicide and firmly believes that was their original intention. This same friend also contacted the police with all of the information she had at her disposal, but by the time the police showed up to Uran's apartment at 9pm the deed was done. She was found on her futon, her room was locked, there were no signs anyone had been through her belongings, and there was a handwritten suicide note next to unused charcoal briquettes. I can only guess the plan was to lock themselves in a room and suffocate to death, but Setsuna had a last-minute change of heart, ended up choking her to death, locked the door, and left. It took the detective work of another of Uran's friends to connect Setsuna to this mess and to send the police to his door. He admitted to the killing and was promptly arrested. When asked his occupation, he claimed he was a "part-timer" and did not mention THE EGOIST, his band mates, or his label. Thus, the band was able to avoid most of the wrath of the Eye of Sauron, but they still chose to disband anyway to distance themselves from the stigma as much as possible. I don't blame them. The story stops here for now, but there are a lot more questions to be asked than can be answered. As for the most important one, as one of Uran's friends put it, "The only way to know the circumstances that led to Uran being the only one who died is to ask [Setsuna] himself". Maybe this information will come out in a court trial soon. UPDATE: THE EGOIST disbanded earlier in 2017 due to the departure of their vocalist. UPDATE 2: His trial started one year after the incident. Setsuna stated that Uran asked him to kill her, so he "helped her". Since the tribunal couldn't verify if that is true or not they accepted that Setsuna killed her on request and therefore reduced his sentence from 13 years to 3.5 years in prison. Thanks for reading! Hopefully, band members will behave and another one of these lists won't come for a good while

my crystal ball is kind of fuzzy, but Riku's now free and Kisaki is making a comeback, so I wonder what could possibly hap-

That sucks, I hope Riku will return with a another band it makes no sense when chariots will be revived again and again.

Ao lifts up a toilet seat dramatically sometimes i'm jealous of his boyfriend, just because i could imagine that ao is acting like this 24/7

confession time: first time listening to vajra and they're lowkey so good...

they had a duel jewel guitarist playing with them for a second I mean... I'm fairly sure they're just fed up with each other, and see no opportunity to progress under this name, even shifting members around. I think so too. I don't think they were doing better than, let's say, the black swan, who were on vkdb's list of top-10 most searched bands last year, and still disbanded bc. of shitty live attendance. I'm p. sure they would've disbanded in 2018 anyway even if Kaz had no health issues.

Recording quality takes a nosedive in the span of one release? Possible money problems No free-agent guitarist wanted to join an already semi-well-known and established band? Band has a history of being inconsistent and disappearing/disbanding on a whim. I'm going to go out on a limb here, but something associated with chariots stinks to high hell. Name is stigmatic at this point. They'd be better off doing the visual thing and "disbanding", then turning around and reforming a new band with a new concept.

Fukai seems to be the only remake that they actually put a solid effort in. I'm also just gonna pretend like the other two remakes don't exist because they were terrible. I may check out the actual re-masters when it leaks but im sure i'll just stick to the originals. This is just a cash grab, nothing more and nothing less. Just give us a new album please for the love of Zordon.

There were no surprises for me after hearing the previews, and adding to the feeling of predictability the same problems they've had for a while now still persist. To start off with the negative: the covers they've had for this and the DVD's have been corny & awful, and it's symptomatic of the string of poor stylistic decisions that plague 'lot of the stuff they do now. When I heard that electronic effect in the beginning of Fukai I had a hard time believing this is a band with +20 years of experience with all the professionals of the business at their disposal that I'm listening to: because it's fucking stupid and adds absolutely nothing but terrible awkwardness, like a bird flying over a scenery only to hit the glass wall of a skyscraper and fall to its death with a quiet thump. It's, much like the covers, a lot of aesthetic pomp on the surface level that when you scratch it, it only reveals more surface or just sieves through your hands and shatters to pieces entirely. With that I suppose the best thing about this is that they didn't do anything drastic. These sound like they were trying to create that spontaneous and chaotic live, one-shot feeling with a super loud studio production backing it, and I still kind of appreciate the idea and I would have loved to hear a version like this of IIID EMPIRE... just not this one. This is one of those times when I love what Kyo is doing in theory, but not in practice, and had they done a few things different I'd fuck with it; and apropos of which I think Fukai works quite well and it almost sounds like it could've fit on Arche, and this largely comes down to the choice of sounds they decide to take. Spank and sperg or spark and spark makes a difference, as does adding electronic flourishes and noodling mini-solos betwixt an old song of theirs. Will it replace the old version? No, but I'll play them side-by-side if I'm in the mood for it. It does also feel like the days of remakes like Tsumi to Kisei are over, and they'll settle for an updated sound that's either more live adaptable or they feel like putting out a studio version of the live track. Either way I don't care what they do, since the only way it'll impact my life is if they do their live sets dirty like with insisting on playing the awful new Obscure instead of the old one.

I have many opinions on this. First of all, I think something other than Kaz’s hospitalization was happening to this Band. When they reformed their music was top notch, to me anyway. Their Shinku ni Yurameku EP was... stellar. Out of this world. And then they come with Succubus which was produced well but not a great song. And then Revenir?! It sounded like it was recorded underwater and the re-recorded tracks were worse than the originals. I was hoping they would take an extended break to figure out what the hell is wrong here and come back, but maybe this is for the best so Riku can try something else.

I am not sad. Everything they did after their comeback as a band is bad to me :x and what about KAZ, is he ok ?

imagine following a band where'd you be in constant fear of getting wanked on

I think 2017 turned out really well for GRIMOIRE. I liked Frabjous Nacht (the single, but especially the song), and felt it was a good start to the year (I think it was my first CD of the year). The Album was super solid and had a nice tracklist, as well as two kickass re-recordings of some pretty awesome songs. But definitely my favourite was the most recent single, Uranometria. The title track is just one of the most beautiful songs I've heard, and shows great improvement for the band. The other two tracks sprinkled in semblances of their earlier tracks (or were caked in it in regards to Hello & Goodbye xD) I'm really looking forward to future GRIMOIRE releases; I think they can make 2018 another really great year.

Original ARTICLE source; here Original written by; 長澤智典 Translation by: BrenGun If you are looking back at junno's background, he was the vocalist of ex-sinners/ex-beaU/ex-boogieman, It will give you a feeling of joy. After leaving boogieman, junno left the world of music because of various circumstances, however he returned after several years of a blank period, trying to take a brand new step to the music stage again. In the past junno was an expert in being original with his poisonous style, which he never would fit in the frame of "typical vkei", back then he already was a NEW-TYPE existence. Also with DAV he will try to hit the current scene with his own form, which will be poison which might not can be touched easily. It will be a matter of that his music and appearance will be accepted or that "fans" will be against it. Now, a SPOT has become public, which introduce us to DAV, the guy behind DAV (juuno). the spot has a bouncing trip hop/electronic beat and a guy (juuno) appears in the back who murmuring screams as he is cursed. His look gives us an impression of "the Joker" with a dark poison taste but still slightly different. As far you cannot really judge yet, because you cannot really hear any musicality of it. Rather, junno gives us an intense poison message that we should look forward to someone who want to penetrate again into the deceased visual kei scene. DAV first appeaence will be on 2018/03/09 "KINGDOM TOKYO #1" in SHIBUYA VUENOS. Also on this day, LAID BACK OCEAN/(ウミユリ)UMI YURI(Hitomi solo project) and PLASTIC ZOOMS will also perform, and those guys will give a strong boost to the start of DAV. Currently there is only little bit information, however when time will pass by, we will know gradually more of DAV and what Juuno himself is trying to tell us with DAV. Since he returned back to the Visual Kei scene. DAV official; Webiste DAV official; Twitter DAV belongs to Starwave Records ★DAV SPOT★ ★LIVE SCHEDULE★ Starwave Records Presents 2018/03/09日(FRI) SHIBUYA VUENOS DAV FIRST LIVE「KINGDOM TOKYO ＃1」 CAST: DAV / LAID BACK OCEAN / ウミユリ(Hitomi solo project) / PLASTICZOOMS DJ: cake a.k.a Lay(ex-Fatima/obscure) OPEN: 17:30 / START: 18:00 TICKET PRICE: PREMIUM TICKET ￥4,500 +DRINK PREMIUM TICKET (DOOR) ￥5,000 +DRINK REGULAR TICKET ￥3,500 +DRINK REGULAR TICKET (DOOR) ￥4,000 +DRINK ※ Premium benefits: Limited mini brochure TICKET PURCHASE: ■A: PREMIUM TICKET @ E+ (sale start: 2018/01/13 10:00AM) ■B: REGULAR TICKET @E+ (sale start: 2018/01/13 10:00AM) ENTER ORDER: A→ B→ DOOR ※There is no band reservation DISCOGRAPHY: noir e.p RLEASE DATE: 2018/03/09 PRICE: 1500yen TRACKLIST 1.デッドランナー (dead runner) 2.独彩歌 (doku saika) ___________________________________________________________ I will re-share here all official information in English which will be written by 長澤智典 ___________________________________________________________ Happy Discussion about junno!

Dang that was a mess and I like messy stuff but wooooOw. I mean I guess since budget Versailles didn't pan out for SW they gotta go for budget Pentagon.

At lynch.'s countdown show last night, Akinori appeared during the encore, and after an apology, announced he will be returning to the band.

i was so surprised to know that ex-metis gretel bassist is working as an usual salaryman! i hope he's happy, at least as i can see he's enjoying his 'panpi life', new car and new work.

I've loved everything they released this year! Apart from two songs in the album which I found were a little annoying, but even then the riffs are so catchy. Frabjous Nacht is one of my favourite songs and looks by GRIMOIRE, the album really solidified their sound. I could almost say it was flawless, that re-recording of Never End is one of my songs of the year. Uranometria is fantastic, the usual vk band will release something where the title track is good and the other two are filler tracks. But here overall it's a really good single. Anyone else think rynk has noticeably improved as a vocalist since they started? Can't wait for more.

Best part of Beautiful Dirt was Kyo’s HA HA at the end and he doesn’t even do that in the new one. Best parts of new IIID Empire: that thing Toshiya does in the middle break, the weird skronky thing Kaoru does around 2:24. Absolute worst thing about new IIID Empire: Kyo spankin’ and spankin’, also GOOGLY EYE GOOGLY EYE GOOGLE EYE

oh...no I hope they all land into great new bands than. I don't think there's a shortage of available guitarists in the scene at the moment, unless everyone they seriously considered already has arranged units for 2018 that would be announced further down the line.

I just remembered UVERworld exists again and I looked them up and apparently they are still selling really good. I wouldn't be surprised if I do the same thing in 10 years time and see them still selling 100k.

Subaru looks DEVINE <3 Kuina killing that dictator look Kodai looks ravishing XD that eye shadow ughhhhhh <3 *reminds me of koichi* and Tomaya well ... Tomoya is Tomoya so yay <3

Now we have reached the point where Kyopera is off-key EVEN IN THE STUDIO! This is the musical definition of Kyo "Spank and Spank"-ing the monkey for sure. This is nothing more but an unnecessary wank. Kaisan please.

I'm eager to make a new mixtape thread but idk...

The only entertaining thing I hear here is SPANK AND SPANK

Setlist at 2018/01/06 at TOKYO DOME CITY HALL (for the next LIVE DVD) 『ANTHEM』 『SACRIFICE』 『ブギーマン』 『開眼』 『PANDEMIC』 『INNOCENCE』 『疾風迅雷』 『PHANTASIA-パンタシア-』 『ユメクイ』 『胡鳥蘭−ファレノプシス−』 『洗礼』 『Satisfy？』 『メイズギア』 『0』 『ANTITHESIS』 【ENCORE】 『Flash Back』 『Supernova』 『RAVEN』 『Aerial cord』

Looks like this topic was brought back right on time cuz since Dec 30, Shintaro has been writing various blog entries in his Ameblo long after he served 212 days in a detention center(?) after a trial (if I understand correctly). He says he is traumatized after the arrest, gives more details about what happened during his arrest and how the cops searched his house, his time in the detention center, and the news coverage surrounding his arrest. He wrote in great detail about the events, including how the interrogation room looked, the conversations he had, and even the books that he read at the detention center. A screenshot of his picture from the news broadcast on his arrest is his new profile pic... However, I can't really post the links here, since it's only accessible to Ameblo members.

Finally a VK look I can pull off

next look: forever 21 chokers & timbs

sometimes it pisses me off how dumb and naive I was in my teenage years. I was so obsessed with visual kei back then that I ignored so much good music (especially from the West) and it feels like I'll never catch up on all things I need/want to hear. still, branching out my music taste was the best thing I ever decided to do and I guess it's good I'll never be out of opportunities to have that feeling of finding music you identify with, no matter how old they might be.

all I can say about Initial

This person did a lyrics explanation for their entire discography. You guys should check it out, it's pretty cool https://www.google.com/amp/trauma-radio.tumblr.com/post/63632479315/the-gazette-lyric-explanation-masterpost/amp

They're finding ways to look worse and worse each passing release. I wouldn't have ever imagined seeing Yuuki wearing fucking Vans in a shoot rip lycaon

MiA and Asagi should form their own fairy tale visual Kei unit IT'S LITERALLY A PERFECT MATCH it's what visual Kei needs. Let's bring back some of the magic that vk has lost in the past years.

*smacks lips* UM MA'AM *pops tongue* MAY I *um* SPEAK TO YOUR MANAGER? *POP*

Finally met up with my friend so I could get my JILUKA stuff she got me back in October I think. Bought the shirt at their live a few days ago. also got dexcores new release, yay! and then I found out about the sale at closet child ...

tfw they couldnt dig up klaha's embalmed corpse for this

hi again

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