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I honestly don't understand why people bother to post in a topic if they "aren't interested" If you're not interested then why waste any of your precious time saying so? lolol also, I really don't get the whole "sounds just like all the other (insert genre) bands" um.. if it things didn't sound at least a little similar, genres literally wouldn't exist?? derp. If you like abare and say "this kira band sounds like all the other kira bands" then well, yes of course they do.... cos you don't like kira?? so of course it sounds the same to you. You literally don't have the ear to appreciate nice melodies. Likewise, if you only listen to kira, then of course all abare will sound the same to you... similarly, if you don't like the "new stuff" you prob only like the "old stuff." If you don't like the "old stuff," you probably only like the "new stuff." I mean, literally ALL genres of rock sounded the same to me before I actually started listening to it so............???????? BUT yeah idk. maybe that's just me ( ´_ゝ`)

the god and death stars new album, "funky ghost hollywood" (10 songs, 3000 yen) will be released on December 5. The band will also host their live, "1118GIGS2018-special edition-【funky ghost hollywood】" at Ikebukuro CHOP on November 18.

I hope they stone each other on stage to fight for their father's favor

New band, アゲハ-AGEHA-, has had their first (unofficial) live tonight at Shibuya REX for Mokichi's birthday event. Their first official live will be held on October 19 (Fri.) at Shibuya Rex Members: Vocals: Yusa (ex. THE KIDDIE) [ twitter // instagram // blog ] Guitar: Saito Shinichiro (aka mokichi) (ex-12012) [ twitter // blog ] Bass: Yukia (ex-As If in the darkness-->てい☆おん (Teeon)-->Keith-->DOPES.(support)-->LINCS(support)-->BANSHEE:, TRA TRA TRA (support)) [ twitter // instagram ] Drums: Hiroki (ex. TRA TRA TRA) [ twitter // instagram ] Official Homepage: http://a-ge-ha.tokyo/ Official YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClyznDlPwyq4O32OGlGu63Q Official Twitter: https://twitter.com/ageha_official Official Soundcloud: They will be releasing their first mini-album at their first live on 10/19 The Beginning Single 「AGEHA-UPPER SCHOOL-」 2,000 yen M1.NORMCORE Additional demo tracks (total of 6 tracks) ※ sold only at live houses ※ comes with cheki

we could also expect many fanfics between these 2 dark & kawai brother band...

Hot. Into it. Lowkey down for anything biblical

I haven’t listened to the original mix of Uroboros in years, and I’m doing that right now. I can say that what Tue Madsen seemed to concentrate on was pushing Kyo more to the front, but he also removed a lot of the low end of everything else. He kind of nerfed Toshiya’s bass tone, and the hard planning of Kaoru’s and Die’s guitars seems to be less prominent. In the end he somehow managed to make a cleaner mix that sounds messier. Props for bringing out that extra percussion in Ware, Yami Tote though? But fuck that snare sound in the original mix of Red Soil. Sounds like Shinya is smacking tin foil.

Ayy, my glasses brethren/sistren. This was from a couple months ago.

マチルダ (Mathilda) new single "キキカ・イカイ (Kikika Ikai)" will be released at 2018/9/26 through fiveStars.

I am pretty sure ex-Merry Badend and DEVIZE members are involved.

Maybe its cuz I miss AvelCain gonna keep an eye on this it looks interesting

stupid title for whats gonna be a fKIN amazing album ❤️

Mathilda announces something... Gosan announces something. Coincidence?!

@The Moon this is legit us, I'm screaming

Guitarist 齋藤紳一郎 (Saito Shinichirou) is ex-12012, LSN (support) and bassist YUKIA is ex-As If in the darkness-->てい☆おん (Teeon)-->Keith-->DOPES.(support)-->LINCS(support)-->BANSHEE:, TRA TRA TRA (support)

MARIA’N † ROSA「False Light」is such an Art piece <3

*Immature comment saying "La Puta" is spanish for "the whore"*

0.1gの誤算 (0.1g no Gosan) best album "誤算大全 (Gosan Taizen)" will be released, although further details have not been announced.

ヴァレンタイン (Valentine) new single "純血・少女・リアリスト (Junketsu Shoujo Realist)" will be released at 2018/8/28. [track list] 1. 純血・少女・リアリスト (Junketsu Shoujo Realist) 2. 金魚 (Kingyo) 3. サヨナラ橋でまた逢いましょう… (Sayonara Bashi de Mata Aimashou...)

@Rosner back in April there was a Yahoo.jp article that's since been taken down, but here's a snippet:

People don't get that the bible is, mostly, as exotic for japanese people as japanese culture and mythology is for us. It is attractive because it is deep and has a long story with large implications that scape most of them. Much like it happens with us and samurai values, yokai, shinto, etc.

Probably some edgy screamo bands that will have a lifespan of up to 3 years. That's how all their bands are in this label. Or maybe some alterego bullshit like fesfem...look where that's going.

u mexican sluts r lucky as fuck

PV Song is pretty boring, but this is good news, nonetheless トゞメの美学 is better, loved the funky guitars, but it's not really different from what kiddie used to do before DYSTOPIA Neither are the other two tracks, but all of them are more interesting than Normcore amd I agree with anyone who said LSN was better with Hakuei, but that's on Ruka who wrote some shit ass songs, Yusa drew the short straw

This band is a very good news to me!

Just attended the 10th incarnation of Inner Awakening Festival here in Budapest, 100% underground black metal mayhem over two nights as expected. Some thoughts on the participating bands: Day 1 Goatcraft (Slovakia) - Started off things nicely, nothing remarkable but solid black metal with a nice atmosphere. Lepra (Hungary) - Total crushing darkness as they always do. One of the best and most recognizable Hungarian BM bands currently imo. Kaosophia (Ukraine) - These guys were the highlights for me on the first night. Highly atmospheric, and catchy yet technical stuff. Impressive! Inferno (Czech Republic) - I wasn't feeling it. The weak sound (after what seemed to be the longest soundcheck of all time) ruined it most of all. I left halfway through Inferno's set cuz I was really tired and sleepy, so I couldn't see Mortuus (Sweden) but heard they were good. Day 2 Niedergang (Hungary) - Great start. Excellent guitarplay with equal amounts of moody and thrashy, a bit of a mid-90s throwback vibe. Dunkelheit (Hungary) - Holy moly, this was the loudest gig at the whole fest probably, lol. Stylistically they were similar to Niedergang, so pretty solid. До Скону / Do Skonu (Ukraine) - These guys had more of a death metal sound. Would've been a nice refreshment if they weren't so utterly boring. Meh. Head of The Demon (Sweden) - YES. YESSS. YEEESSS!!! I came just for this band and they killed us all. They were very different from the rest of the lineup, dare I say not even 'pure' black metal (but certainly with BM elements). It's like someone traveled back in time to give a group of occult magicians a Black Sabbath and a Neurosis record to write ritualistic demon-conjuring music. Had a really trippy, airy and esoteric doom vibe. Great stage presence too, not something I'd say for most of the other bands, heh. After HOTD there was still Hell Militia (France) left but I had to go before they took the stage cuz I had early-shift work today, mehhh. All in all, a really cool time. Only negative thing was the unpredictable lengths of the soundchecks (two years ago they managed to solve it really punctually, so I thought everything would go according to schedule now too), but it was tolerable still. Can't wait for them to announce next year's lineup!

I'm not a big fan of the music, but it isn't bad. That pixel teaser was cute and the line up is cool.

Don't get too happy, it's because I think Yusa sucks and ruined LSN lol

Actually he fits in even a bit too much. I agree with the people saying that Hizaki was looking for this kind of vocalist from the beginning. Wouldn't be surprised he kicked out Zin after getting the chance to invite Kuze. These Japanese metal bands could be interesting as long as they're throwing in some peculiar elements like visual kei-ish melodies and vocals. HGP and early Versailles had a good vk-metal balance and kinda sounded fresh at that time, but now Jupiter just sounds like an imitation of any average european band. I didn't like their previous vocalist either as he was (badly) trying to sound like western metal, but I guess that could sound at least more interesting than this new dude. Would rather go for Kamijo's shitty singing which can at least make it sound more personal or at least different.

lol I've only ever heard him live (literally heard him for the first time tonight) and he seemed okay! I think a lot of VK vocalists actually sound much better live. Maybe you'll like him more in future, more polished releases of their songs! If not, hopefully you can get past his vocals and enjoy the music for what is >< no clue what you're talking about (nor do I really care lolol) but thanks for the info! I'll go do some research b(^▽^)d

OMG! Looks like the LSN is really changing their lineup for their first album and some of the support members decided to keep the ball rolling. This is great news all around. Did Guts and Death ever actually take off? They had tha phone app gimmick to sell their music but did they actually held regular lives all this time? I thought they faded away as LSN activistes ended up being pretty intense actually.

LSN is a side-project of the dude from NIGHTMARE. LSN will not stop because of Yusa or the other musicians. The musicians change everytime. and I don't thing GUTS and DEATH was a serious thing tho...

Not sure lol I just checked LSN's OHP and it looks like they don't have anything in their schedule after 10/14. Maybe he's switching over and LSN will stop?

egnirys is in my top 5 songs on MACABRE. It encompasses everything I love about that era.

Idk egnirys has always been one of my least favorite songs of theirs. It just sounds kinda goofy and awkward. I don’t dislike it but they have way more memorable songs that are still experimental. I like the mode of macabre performance though.

Okay I’d like 129, 143, 178, for sure. I’d also be interested in some of your Lin stuff. I’m a Riku fan.

As I said before, I don't really have ears for music, but you can't tell me that some of you consider the mode of performances to be on the same level as the NoK live disc. Even I can hear the differences, the NoK live songs are beyond bad. I've only listened to mode of Wtd., but that one was nice. Not super-super spectacular, but it had its moments (like dead tree and kodou). Imma watch those shows tomorrow and maybe drop my mp3 rips if anyone cares about those. By the way, is it true that VANITAS is about Daisuke? Allegedly, Kyo used similar lyrics to a Kagerou song or something like that...? From what I found, the band received the message of his passing during the break before their encoure on 2010/07/15, and the next song was -mushi-, but Kyo wasn't able to sing because he cried so much... hm

Man, this makes me really angry. I always thought those "modes of" tour didn't have any purpose other than take money from the rabid fans and make Kyo shreds his throat even more. I know, he's old, the amount of abuse he put his voice through in the past is just immense and it's hard to sound good when you run like a maniac, but honestly, watching live footage from Kyo is just depressing nowadays and IIRC the last time I watched a full DVD by them was the DSS at. I know he never was a consistent live performance but until early 2015 or so, he still tried (and even after it, every once in a while he would nail a something really difficult like "Tousei" from the 2nd day at Budokan). I've been following him since 2011, and while it was cool to witness his vocal habilities at their very best (which peaked in 2013 IMO, The Unraveling has sick vocals and he could actually replicate it live almost perfectly - the Tabula Rasa tour was his best, even that DVD that comes with Sustain the Untruth, which was of a performance Kyo did while going through fever and amigdalitis had some very good stuff). You can actually pinpoint the time where he (and the whole band as well) started bringing back the visual elements to live performances and started exploring other stuff besides music - which was all after the 2012 break they took before releasing Rinkaku. In addition to the poetry books, the photography stuff, the goods designs, he really started going. It was kinda cool at first, but nowadays I just get the impression he doesn't even care about the musical aspect of their live shows, as long as he prances around with corpse-paint wearing monk hoods or doing SM shit while dressed like a naughty nun he seems to be satisfied. And most of all, there's a quote from Kyo himself that goes like "if you want perfection, go listen to the studio albums". That's what I do nowadays, but even then, the studio stuff isn't that good anymore and if you ask me, he sounds like absolute crap on Adoratio. His high register is almost gone, he lost the support to hit the high notes and he mostly sound like he's gagging. There's a reason people who absolutely shredded their voices don't try their old stuff anymore (think Nina Hagen, Phil Anselmo, etc.). Kyo just so self-absorbed with this "i'm expressing myself" thing that just insists on doing stuff he can't do anymore instead of revamping his vocal style. He still has done some of the most batshit insane vocal performances I ever heard in my life though and I thank him for that. I just don't have any hope when it comes to his future

Don't forget you can find some of these artists of Spotify too. Just gonna drop some contributions under the spoiler.

The Mode of Macabre is so good. Best DVD out of this series hands down. egnirys is a top tier vk song, and it's only lost in the shuffle because comes from a band that up to this point had only put out straight heat anyway

"Trombone no Toshiya desu."

Excuse the cringey name; I used to draw a lot when I was a kid, especially in my preteen years when I doodled my "DoodleZ" daily, whether it was on my notebook paper or on my homework. After high school though, my passion started to die down as I lost confidence in myself, even when I took art class in college and got to experience new things such as painting and gridding. Now, I've had the itch to draw again; it's an ongoing progress, but I'm really eager to draw again, and I want to start that off with vk portraits x) I remember having a lot of fun with those in art class. But I would like to do something bigger and better someday, like maybe do more than just a sketch...by painting it too~ But enough of my yammering, I'm here to post some doodles that I've done before, or have done recently. Kyouki (Grieva) (2014) I would like to finish this one Sui/Misery/Yushi (Megaromania/Lin) (2014) *Outlined with sharpie, so it looks shitty

so i haven't updated this as much as i should've ;w; here's a colored drawing of rei-rei ♥ (rei from marco), thanks to my grams giving me some colored pencils *_*

Yesterday's doodle: a samurai-esque dude, for some reason

tfw you realize being a fan of something isn't worth shit