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Whoops I meant to post this report early but forgot… Sorry in advance for any ignorance on my part, I’m not actual a fan of Mejibray’s and just went mostly for curiosities sake. (Like, I think I can name two Mejibray songs…) That being said, I still felt really moved by the performance. There were nine songs for the main set and one for the encore. Most of them were L’arc-en-Ciel/Hyde songs. I thought the encore with コエガキエルマデ was really poetic considering the lyrics. I would say about half of the show was actual performance and the other was talking and MCs. And it went for about two and a half hours. As far as singing abilities go…well he seemed like he was having a lot of fun, and that’s what’s most important, right? Part of it was that he was reeeealllly nervous so I thought his singing improved a little as the show went on and he got a little more confidence. After the first two songs he actually started talking, and the best way that I could describe his voice was a man in his thirties who smoked…a lot. It was kind of deeper than I expected but I could hear sooooo much tobacco… Summary of the many MCs He explained that while Mejibray is on hiatus and he did solo stuff, he’d be using the name Yuutaro and if Mejibrary ever performed again, he’d go back to Meto. He also said that the reason he wanted to speak finally was so that he could express his own feelings and also say thank you to the fans. There was a fair amount of tears from Yuutaro too. He really loves the fans and Mejibray. Especially in the beginning, every other sentence he said was about him being really nervous or it being really scary singing on stage and how his hands were shaking a lot! But he usually followed that up with how he was having a lot of fun. There were also a lot of stories that the other session members shared and they were all very encouraging to Yuutaro talking. And there were also promises of a five-way marriage between everyone on stage. In the end, he alluded to planning on doing more solo performances, so hopefully there will be more in the future. Also during the encore, Yuutaro opened presents which went on for about half an hour because there were so many of them! I can’t really even remember everything thing but almost every time before he opened a present he would say “It’s a Nintendo Switch right?” And unfortunately, he didn’t get a Switch and the presents were just a whole lot of random crap from Donki. But he looked pretty happy about the Doraemon stuff he got.

you always have an option of deleting your account and enjoying the band solitarily, like a serious heterosexual male should.

I need this so badly. The title DOPING ZONE kinda sounds like DOZING GREEN. Edit: VULGAR demos? WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFJWANHbFJKFJNfFDM<FMAALCNs⌂L5@54◘4ã8ÞF¼J«↔¨////

I don’t think they were televised like on the special when they were mastering Sanjou no Uta. These demos were from a radio program that I think one of the members was a guest on and played some of the unfinished tracks. Ill see if I can find them later this weekend when I’m not at work.

Worst thing about being a DEG fan that’s a grown ass man: being lumped in with the fucking weirdos that squee over everything from new haircuts to some subtle facial tics Kyo makes during an interview. Makes me wonder if any of them are actually even listening to the music.

Lol that’s literally what I said. But my understanding is that they didn’t put ain’t afraid to die on Macabre because they thought it didn’t fit thematically. Like, somehow Taiyou no Ao does with that shitty sipping-margaritas-by-the-cabana breakdown in the middle. Fuck that song.

Anyway tried to get infos about the live myself lol. I don't want to tell stupid things, because I can't understand the language well..but. The live itself was quite good it seems, and Meto seemed really happy about it. Also he want to use the name Yuutarou from now on and not Meto because it belongs just to Mejibray. Also he said it's his real name. It doesn't seems like that he's planning to make / join another band, but singing sometimes again. Looks like some random sessions in the future (?). Also here is a setlist from the concert: 2018.01.17 由太郎(メト)Birthday セトリ HONEY Blurry Eyes -MC- Driver's High Shout at the Devil -MC- ホライゾン HORIZON Glamorous Sky -MC- ダメ人間 (Dame ningen) READY STEADY GO HELLO En コエガキコエルマデ (Koe ga kieru made) So there was some Laruku too along with Diaura and Arlequin. Just one Mejibray song. Surprised. Also he said that he can't really sing Nokubura song, so that's why he had to skip it. From all of these I think he has a kind of higher voice maybe. Still hope to hear it once somehow. These infos are from twit reports.

The YouTube video is legit. Several songs still in their demo forms leaked around the same time the band was touring the US and Hot Topic was selling the zombie pirate t-shirt and their Warcon albums in 2006. Conceived Sorrow and The Fatal Believer were two that I remember leaked. I have a backup thumbdrive somewhere that has all the demos. I also have a backup CD that has Vulgar demos too. I’ve moved so many times that I’ve probably lost them somewhere. HOWEVER Im pretty sure I posted about TMOAB demos and rumors on my LJ. Im going to log in and see what all I can find and I’ll post back.

They've been mentioned here in passing, but gonna link this here anyway: vastly underrated and terribly short-lived, r.i.p. This is the shiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiit edit: Oh lord, their OHP is still up. What a blast from the past. :'D

thingken about.... KYOKUTOU GIRL FRIEND.....

Seriously. Look how much this thread blew up all because they re-released a bunch of shit we’ve been listening to for years already.

I just stick around to see if Shinya’s drumming is going to get any worse. He’s going to be the Japanese Lars Ulrich in another ten years.

But that's my favorite thing about their shows. I always go in thinking I'm going to hate it but it's somehow made so much better by the fact that I feel hilariously out of place, yet we're all watching the same five Japanese men slowly trudge through their midlife crises on stage. It's strangely cathartic.

I suppose every fandom has its share of blindly devoted soldiers, but the ones with the complete lack of objectivity amaze me. In fact, I think I just answered my own question about whether or not these people actually listen to the music. I remember when Lotus came out there were people saying how nice it was to hear Kyo sing and the addition of piano was nice new touch to DEG’s style. I’m like, you dumb motherfuckers, Glass Skin wasn’t that long ago!

It's just random tracks lying in my music library. Btw, self-proclaiming to be a 6th member of the band seems more confused.

I'm just here being surprised that there is no ANY information about how was Meto in live singing like WTF really?? I'm REALLY curious if it was good at all or literally anything. There wasn't a single fan who'd tell information to the world??

These have never been confirmed to be their real names, but yes, this is what people (for some reason?) think are their actual names. Readings for people who can't read the post above: Andou Masaru (Die) Nishimura Hironori (Kyo)* Niikura Kaoru (Kaoru) Hara Toshimasa (Toshiya) Terachi Shinya (Shinya) *A lot of western fans thinks Kyo's real name is Tooru, but this has been proved wrong before. Iirc it was Kyo trolling in an interview (a Japanese source states it was in the magazine KERA) and said that his name is Tooru. The fan translation never mentioned it being a joke and then people ended up believing it was real. Or something along those lines.

Vocal : Hiro (https://twitter.com/verxina_hiro) [Ex-Varyl] Guitar : Coco (https://twitter.com/verxina_Coco) Guitar : Kaie (https://twitter.com/verxina_KAIE) Bass : Zikuru (https://twitter.com/verxina_zikiru) Drums : Mar (https://twitter.com/verxina_Mar) TWITTER : https://twitter.com/VerxinaOfficial OFFICIAL SITE : verxina-official.com They will hold 3 events : 「Chaotic Dogma vol.1」at Ikebukuro Edge on 3/9/2018 「Chaotic Dogma vol.2」at Ikebukuro Edge on 3/16/2018 「Chaotic Dogma vol.3」at Ikebukuro Edge on 3/23/2018 Ikebukuro Edge is a place that can contain a maximum of 250 people.

DiSPiИA Lyrics for the Digital single リストカット https://drive.google.com/open?id=1R54j0Rbo0G9a4WuwHz1sMKv-AErueA8H

DAMN back when i found out about GREGORY they were absolutely phenomenal in terms of heaviness! 8D

LMAO he is definitely whining. This is way too funny

So, I wasn't sure if General or Words and Images would be the best place to put this interest check, so if the mods would like to move it to a different board, please feel free. In any case, I was looking through the galleries and noticed that, other than a 2011 live, there is no gallery for Miyavi images here yet. Back in the day, on LJ, I was the owner and maintainer of MYV_Pics, an image gallery for Miyavi which had a ridiculous number of images (both from my own collection and from images I had gathered over the years). The gallery itself is rather defunct at the moment, since all images are hosted on photobucket, and I'm sure we all know what's happened there, but I still have all of the images and have access to everything that is uploaded to the Miyavi_pics photobucket. So, this means that I could, if there is interest, reupload all of those images to a gallery here. Images on the photobucket range from the beginning of his solo career until 2009. So, what I want to know before I take on the task of transferring almost 4,000 pictures is: is there any interest in me doing so (or are people rather over Miyavi at this point), and if there is interest, which image hosting site should I use?

Guess who's waking up at 3 am for work on a saturday! Yaaay.

@MamoFIXER - ARBITER > i remember i wanted to buy it cuz the samples sounded surprisingly pretty damn good but something super sweet that i couldn't resist got in my way... ;D

When is what Trixie is wearing *not* a choice lmao. At this point it's just endearing.

Thanks, Suji. I'll take a look at imgur. I've been using tinypic, but I'm not sure how long they keep images, so it may not be good in the long run for a gallery.

And here I miss the simple days of admiring Kyo’s boner poking through his track pants... We all know that non-Japanese female VK fans are the worst, so let’s implement male-only lives again! That’ll eliminate most of the problems tbh

Finally i got my copy

Despite the vocals being a bit too harsh for my taste, I like Jey's clean vocals and there was barely any of it here, I think it was expected after the previous single and they are off to a good start this year. All three songs are really good and it's a very solid single. I guess they must be really fun live (the new songs).

Not sure what Trixie is wearing, that was a choice lmao The rest are pretty good though!

i only follow dir en grey for the funny album covers

Like @Axius said I'd recommend starting with their album since it contains 5 of their first 6 singles. Here's the Album on the youtube Fixer-topic

I haven't really paid too much attention to these guys before but after listening to "ARBITER" I think I really gotta start following this band more closely! That single is awesome. I really like the direction they're going.

there were live recordings of conceived sorrow, the fatal believer and stuck man (or was it red soil? I don't remember now) shared well ahead of album release, but the demo here sounds like something else (unless a deranged stan took the live record and plastered a logic pro drum machine on top of it.)

I've never heard of any of his bands but I like this guy.

I'm amazed at how widespread those wrong names like Tooru Niimura or Nishimura are, tbh. I wasn't into DEG at the vkei-craze (06~08), but whenever I read posts from that time online... Western bangya are scary, man. I think I probably dislike (or outright hate) 99% of the DEG fanbase. I just read a certain person's tumblr and there are so many things about Kyo's feelings and whatever, some people claiming to be his fiancee and other weird shit. Those names are/were thought to be real on tanuki some years ago. I've yet to hear any update. This is the source for "Nishimura Tooru", btw: Dunno if it's from a KERA magazine, though. Also, the name lacks furigana, so there's multiple possible ways to read it. Funnily, "Niimura" is not one of the readings, no idea where that name comes from. The only actually confirmed names are "Kaoru" and "Shinya", as in, only the first names. I've also read that Kyo sometime confirmed that his last name is "Nishimura", but well, no real source for that.

安東 大 西村 宏則 新倉 薫 原 敏政 寺地 晋也 …だね

Does anyone know the source of this photo? It's from a magazine, but I have no clue which one ._.

sounds qt, そのときまでさよなら is lowkey ripping off serving some old school laleine

This was what my friend once sent me when I was feeling shitty XD It's a new year and I'm still not over it 😭💕

More official deets to support Marcus' original claim (not that he was lying, he was at their concert lmao) The new single will be called "薄紅ノ葬" (Usubeni NO Sou) and it will be released on April 11th. In addition, they will have a month-long tour promoting the release of said single that will culminate into a two-man finale with Crucifixion on May 26th.

I miss since1889.

semi sexy/drunk singers reaching deep down into the belly of the bears to bring forth all the sadness, heartache, and abhorrence they've kept bottled up into the combined vocal sounds of a banshee sodomizing a cat. Viva la br00tal kei!

I got a job~! Now I have to start practising swedish way more Even though it has gotten lot better in just two months. (I will work in a hotel, where I have to speak in three langauges. If I was brave enough, I would try to learn japanese hotel vocabularly but my boyfriend keeps telling me not to and refuses to teach some stuff because he would want me to speak keigo.)

Hopefully this arrives soon~ (although I already own the upper two) Also, on Saturday, a tape player will arrive that can digitalise those tapes. Wanna see if they sound any different

He's coming in June so there's a little time to prepare something really cool and new for us and then announce it . Better be a new band (with tzk) ,because the MEJIBRAY name seems propriety of meto and MiA,idk... And stay tuned for the next episode of MEJIDRAMA !! oh yes