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Kisaki fails to release new Phantasmagoria Best-Of
Serox and 6 others reacted to inartistic for a post in a topic
Me fighting off the haters on my way to buy my 18th copy of Gensoukyoku -
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Kisaki fails to release new Phantasmagoria Best-Of
emmny and 4 others reacted to Karma’s Hat for a post in a topic
This sounds like a bad april fools prank someone here would make -
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Kisaki fails to release new Phantasmagoria Best-Of
Serox and 3 others reacted to Peace Heavy mk II for a post in a topic
No, but this time it’s different! Its REMASTERED (◡‿◡✿) Also, I specifically worded it as “Kisaki is releasing...” because I highly doubt any of the other 5 people who were in this group at some point even know it’s happening (except maybe Riku). As we learned from Kyouhei, miss thing doesn’t need to ask nor inform any artists involved when she makes a new ¢oll£ction or omnibu$ -
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Long time follower
Cantavanda and 2 others reacted to sweetteasparrow for a post in a topic
Yo! So, I've been a long time follower here and I finally decided to join. (Do I get a senior discount for using livejournal back in the 2000's?) 💦 I've been into vkei since the early 90's when my family hosted an exchange student from Japan. I instantly got hooked into Malice Mizer . Soon followed by Angura-kei and Nagoya-kei as I got older. There's so many different bands that I cherish, we'd be here forever if I listed them all haha After many years of saving and dreaming, I'm finally going to Japan in March/April 2019. 🌸 (If anyone has tips or Japan 101, I'd be forever grateful for your help. Especially with seeing a LIVE and getting merch) I definitely want to see ARCHEMI, D (or Asagi solo), and possibly some indie bands. I haven't seen too many bands, sadly. Dir en Grey- 2 times in San Francisco. Kaya- several times (San Francisco and Los Angeles *Most recently at RuPaul's Drag con. I made him a flag present) Anyway, thanks for taking the time to read this. I do have instagram and twitter if anyone wants to follow. -
3 pointsmy condolences to the 1 phantasmagoria stan who will still buy this
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3 pointsAge isn’t always a factor. There are plenty of drummers that play way heavier and more technical stuff than Shinya that are in their 50s and 60s. He’s not a blast beat guy or a fast double bass guy. He’s better at grooves and using innovative tom and cymbal work. He’s awesome when he does what he’s comfortable with, but as long as DEG insists on doing br00tal songs Shinya has to adapt as best he can.
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heidi. new album 「ケセラセラ」release and tour
ShTon and 2 others reacted to The Piass for a post in a topic
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Kisaki fails to release new Phantasmagoria Best-Of
sakuran and one other reacted to Jigsaw9 for a post in a topic
This is literally what I thought, lol. -
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アクメ(Acme) first album 「絶唱謳歌」 release
Elazmus and one other reacted to chemicalpictures for a post in a topic
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2 pointsStunt Queen! Kisaki is simply a #vkhistorian wanting to teach/save the new vk children from forgetting a LEGEND.
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Kisaki fails to release new Phantasmagoria Best-Of
Serox and one other reacted to Karma’s Hat for a post in a topic
Seeing as these days his career has gone to performing at the BANANA HALL with The Flying Pants, this release makes more sense -
2 pointsBecause Mao is a ZERO ahahahaha... ha
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Kisaki fails to release new Phantasmagoria Best-Of
Axius and one other reacted to madygrain for a post in a topic
why should we believe that they are going to sound better if this is just a blatant cashgrab tho -
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Kisaki fails to release new Phantasmagoria Best-Of
lichtlune and one other reacted to Kiryu999 for a post in a topic
Again? Just let this band rest in peace -
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Kisaki fails to release new Phantasmagoria Best-Of
lichtlune and one other reacted to Takadanobabaalien for a post in a topic
So most of the songs on this album will be released for the tenth time, great. -
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Count down to CHE DO A RA shows up here...
kuyashii and one other reacted to Manji 卍 for a status update
Count down to CHE DO A RA shows up here... -
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[RUMOR ]MALICE MIZER coming back with Laruku's Sakura?!
Cantavanda and one other reacted to ahnchc for a post in a topic
I want this so much you don't even know. Not going to happen though. I don't even think Mana knows of Klaha's whereabouts at this point. Everyone deserves a DVD of this. -
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[RUMOR ]MALICE MIZER coming back with Laruku's Sakura?!
mikarudio and one other reacted to secret_no_03 for a post in a topic
I presume it has something to do with this. Probably just a pseudo-reunion or something for the show. -
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Uploaded the DVD, but it's still in 360p. It should be finished processing any time s
filth_y and one other reacted to Himeaimichu for a status update
Uploaded the DVD, but it's still in 360p. It should be finished processing any time soon - Update - It's in 1080p now (the raw .vob files are in 480p but I encoded this 1080p) -
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DIR EN GREY released their 10th album "The Insulated World" on September 26, 2018
Wakarimashita and one other reacted to Saishu for a post in a topic
Boku wa kuma, kuma, kuma, kuMMMMAAAAAAOOOOOWWWGEGEGEGGEGEGGEGGGJFJFHAKSLSKSLSKSKFFFFFFFFFFFF!!!! -
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DIMLIM Concept Full Album CHE DO A RA
nullmoon and one other reacted to Saishu for a post in a topic
Get on motherfucker!!! -
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紺 Project (Kon Project) (NightingeiL) will perform
secret_no_03 reacted to suji for a post in a topic
setlist @ 8/8: 01.inspire (La'Mule) 02.溺れた奇形 (La'Mule) 03.月ト影 (La'Mule) 04.モ・ノ・ク・ロ (La'Mule) 05.君を汚した (CELL) 06.ナイフ (La'Mule) -
1 pointWhen wiil u screem agen tsuzuku
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1 pointHow come Visual Kei hairstyles went from awesome to horrible?
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1 pointI was salty as fuck at first because of llll-Ligro- disbanding and cancelling Tomurai...then DIMLIM beefed everything up. I'm glad issei left, they really weren't that interesting with him in it, These past three songs have been spectacular and been replayed daily. Didn't think I'd be hyped so soon after being severely disappointed, I hope sho finds a different scream technique so he doesn't ruin his voice in the near future. (like hinata...ily hinata)
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DELUHI
Zeus reacted to reminiscing2004 for a post in a topic
Probably another compilation/best of release, or like a 1 day revival. But, I honestly won't wince unless I hear about some sort of legit reformation. I try my best, but neither FED nor Breakn Holiday (?I think?) really do it for me, in comparison. If it's time to over-hype two ambiguous twitter posts, sign me the fuck up Basiiiically, the key is leda and juri being in a band again. Would be a shame if 10 years passed and they still didn't realize how G they were together -
1 pointMusic is inexcusable, but that look is pure cheap hooker. I endorse it and would tip.
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1 pointHaven't been this hyped for a release in a really long while. It's downright ridiculous how much they evolved in such a short timespan. Specially Sho, his early vocals were cringy af but now he's definitely one of the best vocalists from the current j-scene (I'm still not really a fan of all that inhaling since it's a quick trip to a wrecked voice but I can't deny he does it pretty well). As instrumentist they all had the technical chops since the beginning but good god the songwriting was laughable (though I'm aware Issei was their main composer before he left the band). It's pretty cool how they went from "this is so bad it's good" in Aharewata to "this is actually pretty cool" in Vanitas to "OMFG THIS IS AMAZING" in Shigarami. I still haven't really absorbed Aijou no Tsuki really well but that doesn't diminish my enthusiasm for the upcoming album.
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DELUHI
reminiscing2004 reacted to Wakarimashita for a post in a topic
OMG WHAT IS THIS EVEN SUPPOSED TO MEAN I'M HYPERVENTILATING HELP -
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1 pointDEZERT is dead, long live DAMY! Love those KoЯn inspired riffs. Those screams/shouts really caught me! Looking forward more and more to the album now!
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1 pointgod bless 20gayteen x
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1 pointNah they're both models. I don't think any of them are comfortable enough to do stuff like that in front of a camera.
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1 pointLOL got this the random thought of DEG doing Utada's Boku Wa Kuma after reading your post
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1 pointi've never listened to this band, but...did we really need that long ass essay about other shit that has absolutely NOTHING to do with this topic? this is only a christmas concert, lmao
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PV Review: Mondaiji's Love Very
The Reverend reacted to PIZAZ for a post in a topic
Nice breakdown of this messy pv. I tried to watch along with your comments, bubble blowing vibrator on the hip aesthetic got me good -
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1 pointWings Flop jesus I can't so funny
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1 pointFeels like will be hard to get used to at the first listening,But the "rawness" is kinda cool
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1 pointthat look + that sound is what happens when kaya is away for a dragcon cameo and the cleaning lady gets the house keys x
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1 pointI ended a friendship. I feel broken. But can't deal that he doesn't feel the same. Just hurt too much. hopefully I can forget about it anytime soon.
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What VK songs do you slay at karaoke?
RevengeBabyYeah reacted to paranoia for a post in a topic
I love singing these: deadman - fragile sandy laputa - breath dir en grey - merciless cult due le quartz - luna e 雀羅 - 路地裏ジプシー gullet - deracine baiser - flora baiser - prism goatbed - vouge man shazna - 恋人 一風堂 - すみれ September Love etc, etc, etc ah!!, and a lot of mucc song's, several years ago I was vocalist of a tribute to mucc here in chile 🤣 -
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random thoughts thread
Reiko reacted to The Reverend for a post in a topic
*Quick public service announcement* Are you that dude in the mosh pit flailing your arms everywhere and punching and kicking all around?? Nobody likes you and your whole shit is definitely an act. -
1 pointthese were the bands i associate with the zeitgeist of mid-late 00s visual kei fandom in the west. only some of them are legendary because they were actually good, but they all defined the era, for me. the bands people were talking about during this time in JP were obviously very different. but nobody specified what kind of legendary we're talking about :^) Ancafe, D'espairsray, Nightmare, Gazette, Dir, Alice Nine, Miyavi, Kagrra, ReS, Psycho le Cemu, LM.C, SID (Aki fangirls) 12012 (Wataru)/Phantasmagoria (Kisaki) Vidoll? Ayabie? D? Versailles? girugamesh (at least the meme)? "con bands": Duel Jewel and BLOOD/Kiwamu
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1 pointIn my opinion, there even being a divide between "international" and "local" fans is the root of an entirely different problem. Fans are fans, no matter where they may live, and we live in a time where the world is becoming increasingly interconnected. There's a distinction in my mind between a local artist who has their music internationally available (example: a rapper promoting his first mix tape on sound cloud) and an international artist only promoting their music locally (example: fan-club limited CD's a la cali≠gari). Even if a local artist has to rely on word of mouth to have their music spread to new ears, having it available on a venue such as Bandcamp or Spotify doesn't actually cost them anything to attract new listeners. They upload it once, the big man upstairs takes his cut, and whatever funds come your way through those sources are yours. And think about how many of these artists go viral and actually become mildly or wildly successful because their music was easy to access. This is in contrast to only promoting music locally, which doesn't necessarily take less money to produce, and is purposefully reaching a smaller audience. Sometimes, bands even go out of their way to make it difficult for non-Japanese people to engage with them, like when record labels purposefully prohibit selling releases overseas through second hand shops even though they aren't footing the shipping bill, or when the label uploads a PV to their official channel and then region-locks it to Japan so that we have to use VPNs to watch a music video on an international platform. Stick some fucking ads before the video and make some free money god damn it. Here's an excerpt from Bandcamp's pricing page where the explain how they run their business. Now I don't suggest this in lieu of signing a record deal, because a deal also comes with other benefits such as free promotion, practice space, and studio time. But for a lot of starting, independent visual kei bands that don't have a lot of funds, this is the more ideal way to go. We don't even know how well this approach would work because no band has ever tried it. I listen to both the underground metal scene as well as the doujin scene from Japan, and both scenes run their affairs completely differently, and both manage to promote their music and ship internationally way more efficiently than visual kei bands. The way the visual kei scene runs its affairs in 2018 is almost identical to the way they did it in 2008. It's been ten years and not much has changed, and the underlying attitudes pervading the scene are even earlier than that. The world is changing, and bands must prepare and adapt. You are entirely correct in that most of us would never buy a release. I am guilty of this too, no doubt. Many record companies realize this, and that's why they are transitioning to streaming services. Japan needs to catch up. I don't even like streaming services, and I still prefer to download and hoard all my music, but I recognize the appeal and utility in what they offer. Complaining about being on the brink of disbandment while spending large amounts of money on make-up, outfits, and photo shoots means concessions have to be made somewhere, and if the way that music is distributed has to change then so be it. Visual kei needs to become more consumer friendly, no matter where that consumer may live. I should make an addendum to my earlier post and clarify that live-distributed releases don't bother me if they function as a preview. If whatever music or DVD or merch sold at a live is eventually included in a store-purchasable fashion, then I'm fine with waiting. I'd have to wait anyway, and at least the luck portion is removed from the equation. Extract your profits up front, and then sell it to the masses later. If pumping out CDs stresses the budget that much, take orders and only sell as many CDs as was ordered so no band ends up with hundreds of unsold releases. Hell, do what Kisaki did and distribute any remaining CDs through auctions online under anonymous accounts at a later date so all the money goes back to the band anyway. But only selling things at lives sucks for everyone who couldn't go, international fan or not, and you don't make as much money as you could have if you just sold it both ways. This is a ... weird approach to take, but I actually like that masaya cared enough about the international fans to make it available to us in some fashion. BLESSCODE tried something different, and it wasn't at the expense of the consumer's time, money, and effort. Maybe they didn't make that much money off of it, but the alternative was to have a bunch of pressed yet unsold CDs sitting around, which would just mean that's wasted money anyway. Sometimes the sentiment behind actions are priceless, and I know many fans of BLESSCODE appreciated this gesture. I sure do, and I'm not even a fan of them! I would really like to understand the logistics behind how this whole scene works from top to bottom, because the more I sit and think about it the more I feel like there's a few people at the top holding back progress for everyone else. A lot of counter arguments I can make to my own points is that some big wig sitting in a cushy office set up a contract expressly forbidding bands from implementing half the ideas I proposed, which makes most of my arguments moot anyway. Record companies may be making record profits these days, but on that same token artists and musicians have more tools and promotion than at any time in history before. The fact that we know about every single upstart indies band in Japan just weeks or even days after they formed is a far cry from how the scene was back in 1999, when only the biggest names in the scene were whispered in noisy American cafeterias with 128kbps sound samples and low res PV snippets available online in two to three places, with a random selection of full tracks available for the pirating on Napster. tl;dr - a band is both a business and an investment. It may sound harsh, but just because a bunch of pretty boys slap on make up doesn't mean that they can get away with running their business inefficiently. Diversify and adapt, or face disbandment.
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1 pointBut...the internet. You don't have to sell CDs to sell music anymore. It's a false equivalence in the age of gigabit internet. In my opinion, blaming overseas fans for poor sales is a straw man argument. Plenty of non-visual indie acts from all over the world produce music on a dime and manage to sell it to anyone interested. In fact, most of these bands do the legwork with constant online promotion in order to get the word out, and promotion via word of mouth is free. We do it all the time on their behalf. We have YouTube, we have iTunes, we have SoundCloud, we have OTOTOY, we have Bandcamp, we have official home pages, and we have countless other services which provide instant international exposure for a minimal price. At what point does it transition from "music is expensive to make" to "fuck you foreigners, you don't get to hear these particular songs"? Because honestly, that's what this whole live-distributed music has transformed into from the perspective of someone who is never going to take a trip to Japan. Also, there's a big, BIG difference between a live distributed release that functions as a preview and a live distributed release that functions as a present. One of them might end up on a future release available for international purchase. The other disappears into the sands of time. Limited live-distributed releases in particular are a form of ass cancer that needs to go terminal and die. That's intentionally spending money and limiting your exposure for no appreciable gain. If you have money for wigs and photo shoots but not enough money to record music, you're doing the whole visual kei band thing wrong.
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What VK songs do you slay at karaoke?
RevengeBabyYeah reacted to Reiko for a post in a topic
Malice Mizer - Au Revoir Dir en Grey - Jessica Luna Sea - Rosier, True Blue L'arc en Ciel - Honey