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  1. 5 points
    Their new single will be released on 2018.07.25. TYPE A : 1620 yen + a 8-page booklet CD : 01.メイメイ(Meimei) DVD : 01.メイメイ(Meimei) TYPE B : 1620 yen CD : 01. メイメイ(Meimei) 02. hakuti 03. ほうかみすい (Hôkamisui)
  2. 4 points
    Don't you guys find furi weird as shit? I can sorta understand that in bubblegum oshare and all, but when bands are dropping the most brutal shit on stage and fans are calmly waving their hands like conducting an orchestra frustrates the hell out of me
  3. 4 points
    Peace Heavy mk II

    Visual Kei Youtubers

    just admit you wanted to talk about this
  4. 2 points
    inartistic

    Favorite box sets

    As @evenor just pointed out to me, Portlandia has viciously attacked vk collectors: So on that note, what are your favorite box sets/special packages?
  5. 2 points
    Peace Heavy mk II

    Visual Kei Youtubers

    @The Reverend gives vkei car reviews. That’s good content
  6. 2 points
    Why do they look like Royz lately... I miss Paru....
  7. 2 points
    Juka's looking a little different! 😲It must be the hair? Welcome back!
  8. 2 points
    This is slightly worse than dadaroma.... Also i thought kirin should be abused even more... but well... that would have upped the R18...
  9. 2 points
    nick

    The GazettE - NINTH [REVIEWS THREAD]

    It's a VK album in a long while that I literally like every single track. Their sound has completely moved on from the project Dark Age but still very the GazettE-ish. IMO, according to the quality, most of the songs could have even been released as a single. Hand down one of the best recent VK releases. ¥O$HIKI, your turn is next.
  10. 1 point
    aetarna

    Visual Kei on Spotify Compilation

    Because I have no life, here have a small list of visual kei artists available for listening over spotify. Some have full discographies some only few albums or singles. there are also instances on several artists from all over the world being grouped together on one page, because of shared name. What is spotify? - to put it short, a digital music streaming service. It comes in two flavors - free with ads, and paid via subscription, with no ads and few useful perks. Sign up, log in, most likely download their application to your computer or mobile and you're set. Isn't that piracy? - no it's completly legal and artists and/or their label (we know how that goes...) are getting paid for each listen. For the start I cut this list into two categories. First one is the bands that retain their japanese song tags even on spotify - for all purists who want their last.fm scrobbles accurate Amber Bullet Angelo - mixed with different artists Anli Policino Annie's Black Black Gene For the Next Scene - mixed tags BUCK-TICK - region locked Calmando Qual Capella - mixed with different artists Cløwd CULT the Movie D - ??? they used to have few albums, like Vampire Saga there, but it seems to be gone now. Perhaps region locked. Daizy Stripper Das:Vasser Fixer - several different artists mixed together on that page girugamesh - mixed tags GOLDEN BOMBER Gossip GPKISM Grieva - romanized name, but correct song tags Insanity Injection Kamijo ラヴェーゼ (Labaiser) La'veil MizeriA Liv'ert L-Lotus- Lost Ash lynch. Luna Sea Magistina Saga Majolica MirialD Misaruka and their other profile ミサルカ Miyavi 最上川司 (Momigawa Tsukasa) NEU Nightmare - some albums seems to have romanised tags Nocturnal Bloodlust NoGoD nue - mistagged nüe, also different nue releases on the same profile Orochi -OZ- Rose Noire 砂月-SATSUKI- Scarlet Valse SCHWARZ KEIN (シュヴァルツカイン) Sirene - mixed with different artist Synk;yet Suicide Ali - mixed tags SUGIZO the fool - mixed with different artists The Sound Bee HD the studs Tokami Under Fall Justice VAMPS Versaillies Velvet Eden vistlip yazzmad Zombie (ぞんび) And now artist with no japanese tags 12012 176BIZ 9GOATS BLACK OUT ADAMS - mixed with different artist Amber Gris - mixed with different artist An Cafe And - eccentric agent- Awoi Ayabie Birushana Blood - sharing profile with other Blood band Chanty - again, releases mixed with other artist of the same name Chariots - 3rd era only Creature Creature Croix Allcine DEAD END DELUHI D'espairsray Diaura Dio ~distraught overlord~ Dir en Grey DISACODE DIV Dunkelheit D=OUT exist†trace Gackt glamscure heidi. Hizaki I-ai- Inoran Inugami Circus Dan Jilled Ray JILLS BLUE ROSE JokArt Au Legal Kameleo Kagerou Kiryu - depending where you are, you might have two different kiryu's there Lacroix Despheres L'arc en Ciel Lix. LM.C Luzmelt Matenrou Opera MARRY+AN+BLOOD Megamasso MERRY Merveille Magique MeteoroiD MUCC Otogadead Pan-d-ra Plastic Tree R-shitei RED universe Rentrer en Soi Rides in ReVellion Sadie Screw Shiva - releases mixed with other artist of the same SID SuG Sukekiyo THE GALLO they also have another seemingly empty profile ギャロ The GazettE the riotts. TRA TRA TRA umbrella - mixed with different artists UNITE. Un=(xag) UnsraW Waive Vallquar Vaniru Vidoll Vivalet XodiacK ZIg+Zag ZORO - mixed with different artists V-Anime Rocks compilation Obviously this is a work in progress not an absolute complete list.
  11. 1 point
    Karma’s Hat

    Visual Kei Youtubers

    We've seen them: on our feed, on our related and recommended videos. Reacts, reviews and today I even saw a podcast while I was out hunting for the The Gazette's anniversary live! I remember VK reacts being around for way longer than the recent "boom" ( probably caused in part by the one big react video an year or two back featuring such scene stalwarts as Insanity Injection, who are now off to headlining at the dome or something ), but usually they were both awfully made and nothing to say even to the low standards of the crowd those generally cater to, so it wasn't that big of a deal other than the occasional laugh. Now, I don't recall how long ago this was, I remember the first one I kept seeing frequently was that baldman doing reacts to The GazettE and Dir en grey songs, and I found them such fiery motorway car wreck that I kept going back for seconds to the point where his, and other peoples, videos would show on my feed and sidebar all the fucking time. (Oddly enough baldman actually kind of grew on me since he seemed like the type of guy who'd check out stuff like that anyway, while for the rest of them I still wish nothing but pain and misfortune.) These days they are all over the place with new ones trying to fish out them youtube hunnid views a Gazette react will get you. I've been a bit shy in checking them out since I don't want to give them any traffic no matter how tempted I am. I'd still go ahead and say it's worth making a thread on since everyone is exposed to the phenomenon by this point. Do you tolerate them, or even enjoy some? I reckon one or two of those people even lurk on this forum. Thoughts anyone? ~didn't post any links 'cause I don't want to give them any views. anyone else is more than welcome. and this thread isn't too much of a mess since I'm very drunk as of writing this~
  12. 1 point
    They will release their single "Timeleap" on 2018.07.11. TYPE A : 1620 yen CD : Tr.1 Timeleap Tr.2 HELLO + 01. Special jacket 02. Short-sized poster 03. Ticket 渋谷REX on 2018.09.16 TYPE B : 1200 yen + taxes CD : Tr.1 Timeleap Tr.2 HELLO
  13. 1 point
    That's a graphic designer out of a job.
  14. 1 point
    Dear to Christina Aguilera fighters, please don't download this from any YouTube channel but you need to buy, we all need to buy the original CD of LIBERATION if you're truly Christina Aguilera fighters!!! #BuyLiberation #piracy_killed_Rentrer_en_Soi
  15. 1 point
    Jeen

    lynch. new album " XIII " release

    I must be the only one interested in that, but Hazuki answered on twitter how they choose if SE should have a name or just "Introduction" : if a track have already the name of the album, (here THIRTEEN) it's INTRODUCTION, otherwise, they name it. We have to understand that they are lazy to find a name other than the album one for intro x) Btw he started the "1 day 1 song" (1 song description per day), and at the end they release video sample of all songs (in 12 days then) ! INTRODUCTION
  16. 1 point
    cvltic

    [REQ] Jiko ken'o - MUCC

    i looked up pieces and parts on twitter until i had the whole song basically edit: figured out the missing line! kanji romaji might attempt an english translation later idk this song is wild
  17. 1 point
    VESSMIER

    Favorite box sets

    I like the UROBOROS and DUM SPIRO SPERO box sets 🙉Vinyl and CD versions of an album plus a nice artbook / lyrics book make a perfect package imo.
  18. 1 point
    I don't really know much about this group but I enjoyed the song and I thought the lyrics were interesting. -- ah, i'm no one at all. i have no room at all to doubt that, i don't feel like my cells are working. ah, everyone, why are you laughing? i was just staring at what can't be seen. don't go out of your way to look at me with narrowed eyes. prejudice is born of ignorance, i was raised by hindrances, this soul of mine left me like cigarette smoke climbing upwards. ah, what have i been protecting in the first place? here so long that the seedlings have coiled around my feet. like a cattle whose life has been toyed with, my powerlessness just nourishes me. so death, and yet also life: neither one really appeals to me. such an unaccommodating world has no place for me to go.
  19. 1 point
    I saw 虹彩☆RaveL for the first time this weekend and now I finally understand the "younger sister complex" that's in anime and otaku culture (still not sure if that's a good or bad thing yet but...) They were sooooo cuuuute!! I just wanted to take care of them and be like their older sister 🙀🙀🙀
  20. 1 point
    heresytrash

    Visual Kei Youtubers

    I forgot about him and now my night is ruined. Thanks lmao
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  22. 1 point
    Day 3 without seeing anything from The Gazette's 15th anniversary live. This a new form of torture.
  23. 1 point
    池袋スタンダード @ Ikebukuro Edge 2018.6.16 Well, it's that time again. In Japan and catching some VK shows... so I'll be sharing my experiences/using the forums as a place to jot down details I'd almost certainly forget after a week of concerts. So for the first show while I'm in town I decided to hit up Ikebukuro EDGE to see Soan Project, The Micro Head 4N's, and Develop One's Faculties. I decided on this show because it started relatively late for VK shows (18:30) and my flight didn't land until after 15:00. I also hit this one up because Dezert & Lynch in Shibuya was sold out 😢 and this seemed like an ok consolation prize. I arrived about 3 minutes after the show was scheduled to start, which in Japan meant I arrived about 3 minutes after the show started, and the first band was already performing onstage by the time I got through the doors. First up was Soan Project with 芥 from Chanty. But I didn't recognize them at first because I thought the only thing I knew about what this band looked like was that Akuta had a bright white wig. (From Soan's twitter) Edge was a little more full than I've seen it before (two other shows in past years). But I suppose it wasn't sold out, because I got in. The band's costumes (pictured above) were looking a little cheap? Mostly just some mesh black stuff and a boa made of feathers or flowers for each member. I guess this is a side project for most of them, so no use spending big books on your part-time look. I've never listened to this half of Soan Project... I wished I could've seen my boy Temari, but I also recognize this set of songs was probably more fun for the crowd in a live setting. Nothing groundbreaking for sure, but the tunes had most of the crowd bopping around, jumping up and down, and participating in the furi. The bassist (is this Ivy from Lack-co etc?) was having the most fun on stage of the group. He eschewed the idea that he needed to stand in his 'spot' on stage and spent the whole show lurking behind the guitarists and singer, moving back and forth to interact with the crowd and other members from different spots. The funniest moment of their set was him attempting some 'fan service' while he was holding a pick in his mouth, looking over at one of the guitarists and leaning in like they should play a game of suck and blow with it, and when the guitarist recoiled he spit the pick and hit him in the face. During Soan Project's set I was stuck in a crowded spot directly near the entrance door (the perils of coming in late), but after the first set I found a good spot near the back that wouldn't get in anyone's way but had a little more room to breath. As usual at VK shows, I was much taller than all of the crowd so I'd feel bad standing in front of someone who wanted to watch. I should've been able to guess that the Micro Had 4N's (still a terrrrible name) were next as I noticed there were multiple people in the audience even older than I am all of a sudden. So I gave up on this band very early because I just couldn't with Ricky's vocals (sorry @Biopanda haha). I hadn't checked anything of theirs out since replacing Ricky with the dude from A(CE). What do I think about them now? Solid but unspectacular. Nimo was capable at singing and stirring up the crowd, and the band sounded good but uninspiring. The shorter-haired guitarist had some nice harmonics thrown in during a heavy section of one song, and he brought a little metal to the proceedings in general. The band were wearing very VK-lite streetwear type shit. At least Zero had on all black and a giant cross necklace... he has always been pretty goth-y hasn't he? Micro Head's set had the unintended consequence of making me feel old. Looking up at half of a band (D'espairs Ray obviously) that I fell in love with when I was first getting into VK, and that I saw on one of their US tours in freaking 2005 sort of threw into stark relief just how much older I was than the typical VK fan. Then I also felt a little bad for the band cause.... they're even older than I am and after having (relatively) successful careers now they're playing at Edge and only the third most popular of three bands for the night? I hope this is just a weekend thing for them at this point haha. They played a song from their new single (I think, pretty sure Nimo said something about 'single' before they started the song) and it was a sporadically noisy ballad with good emoting that I thought worked well live. It could be really boring on the CD, so don't get mad if you check it out based on this recommendation haha. During one song the guitarists all definitely mis-timed a synchronized spin. Tsukasa was really almost invisible during their set. I guess he's never really been very flamboyant or theatrical behind his kit, but I forgot he was there entirely until the second to last song featured some double-bass drum fills. He even left the stage quietly without waving while another member was up front bowing and throwing out picks. After some shuffling of the girls in the crowd and a short soundcheck, the highlight of the night Develop One's Faculties were on stage. (From DoF twitter.) Johannes walked out on stage in his traditional robotic way and I thought to myself "I can see half of this dude's ass and yet I think he's wearing *more* clothes than when I saw them two years ago" haha. I wonder if he acted like a disaffected android once when the band was starting out and got a good reaction and now he's stuck with this act forever. In any case, his statue of liberty x Predator headpiece with LEDs thing is awesome. Those lights really popped whenever the stage lights were dim or off. I like DoF live for the same reasons I do on CD. Some interesting song structures and tight songwriting. Lots of energy and a sound that's not typical of VK. Smart musicianship and a distinct lack of bullshit (from this foreigner's perspective). A few of their songs had incredibly timed full stops that demonstrated a tightness in the band that was impressive. Having a frontman that plays guitar is rare enough in VK, but their overall sound is a bit different too. During one song I noticed that if I closed my eyes I could convince myself I was listening to some 90s slightly math-y emo band. The crowd was definitely enjoying DoF. Perhaps because Yuuya doesn't have his hands free there wasn't a ton of furi to go along with the songs, but there was plenty of rhythms to jump or headbang to. When the house lights came on after the show I dipped out despite a half-hearted 'encore' chant. (Do those happen after the house lights are on here in Japan??) A solid start to a week of VK shows for sure.
  24. 1 point
    Ada Suilen

    Happy b-day Doombox! <3

    Happy b-day Doombox! <3
  25. 1 point
    inartistic

    Visual Kei Youtubers

    Inb4 I turn this into a self promotion thread Here's the vkgy YT account, where I occasionally upload bad unboxing videos and random live clips. Here's one where a girl makes up choreography/exercise routines to vk songs. To be completely honest I initially subbed because I figured it'd be dumb as hell, but she actually does a good job, and my fat ass certainly isn't jumping around for four minutes without looking like a complete mess. I'd love to find more vk-related channels that aren't just music uploads, but most of them seem super cringey :X
  26. 1 point
    Duwang

    DIMLIM Concept Full Album CHE DO A RA

    I saw Dimlim yesterday and he did do the scream. Very well, actually.
  27. 1 point
    Nagisa

    The GazettE - NINTH [REVIEWS THREAD]

    I'd like to read more track by track reviews but I guess it's too early for that?
  28. 1 point
    Saishu

    The GazettE - NINTH [REVIEWS THREAD]

    Ruki is consistent and can definitely deliver live, but as I’ve said before I feel like he recycles his melodies a lot. So, I mean, he’s a great performer, but he gets a bit stale sometimes. Even his songwriting seems to repeat himself. Unfinished sounds like another version of Shiver and Ibitsu (but I’m only assuming he wrote Unfinished).
  29. 1 point
    Ozileras10

    lynch. new album " XIII " release

    I'd rather have a "repetitive" lynch song over this new sound. This song will probably grow on me though
  30. 1 point
    Okay, so my stuff arrived super fast and wasn't damaged in the least, everything in a good shape, yay! 10/10, would definitely buy again! 😍😂
  31. 1 point
    Jeen

    lynch. new album " XIII " release

    Oh, and for an album called XIII (for 13th anniversary and 13th album whatever) this song don't reflect them in anything then and now... in "jazz song" they have DEVI (not DEVIL but the unknown GOOD bside from MIRRORS), GHOST and that's it i guess. It's not obvious but you expect something influenced by their whole carrier. Very strange choice. "Come on baby, let's play together" *facepalm* just killed the perfect Vernie ´s intro.
  32. 1 point
    Kiyoharu is God

    lynch. new album " XIII " release

    Liked the beautiful people part in the middle.
  33. 1 point
    nekkichi

    lynch. new album " XIII " release

    oop you were right and I'm very confused why it's a PV track too
  34. 1 point
    I got Merveilles! Good condition and it arrived quickly, https://m.imgur.com/pgvuX06
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  36. 1 point
    I don't think honestly I've ever been upset with UNITE....until now.
  37. 1 point
    suji

    new band "イヴリス (Evlis)" has formed

    yall really think THE juka is coming back???? lmaooo bitch is selling CARS
  38. 1 point
    helcchi

    Visual Kei on Spotify Compilation

    Nice! So many bands aren't on spotify and it's hard to make a playlist. Will you be updating your list as the master post? I've got some more, forgive me if there are any duplicates 176BIZ Amber Bullet Angelo - mixed with different artists Annie's Black Capella - mixed with different artists Creature Creature CULT the Movie DEAD END Dunkelheit the fool - mixed with different artists GOLDEN BOMBER heidi. Jilled Ray JILLS BLUE ROSE L-Lotus- Lost Ash MirialD NEU Orochi Otogadead RED universe the riotts. SUGIZO umbrella - mixed with different artists Un=(xag) ZIg+Zag ZORO - mixed with different artists V-Anime Rocks compilation Just realised most Starwave bands are on spotify, they're probably all there but I haven't searched them all
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  40. 0 points
    Ozileras10

    Visual Kei Youtubers

    I think she has autism. She replied to a comment saying so.
  41. 0 points
    Takadanobabaalien

    Visual Kei Youtubers

    Basically the only one I've ever seen due to her extreme advertising on facebook. Everything just feels so over the top and "GUYS JAPAN IS SO RANDOM AND WEIRD XDDDDDDDD" about reacting to vk, I don't like it one bit.
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