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Well, I have it up in the link below. There was an issue regarding encoding being in both UTF-8 and Shift-JIS, but I got it fixed by configuring nginx to respect the original character set of each html file. If you encounter a 404 not found page, it means the page doesn't exist to begin with because my backup is incomplete but most of the artist pages should be available. https://yunisan.boxjapan.com/

IMO, this is not the first time it happened. IIRC, grassthread wasn't accessible several years before due to the owner not paying the server rent I supposed. So I hope this time it's the same issue, and I will make sure to make a backup of the entire site again because the backup I made years ago still misses some certain pages. If not, at least I still have a backup of the incomplete site.

now this, everyone, is the saddest day in visual kei's history.

The new line-up will begin on 2019.03.16 with a free one man live ! 3 new singles will be released ! A second album is scheduled ! They will tour Europe in 2019 ! They will publish a new MV on 2019.02.01 along with the new members !

The Official Review team is back with the perfect accompaniment to the avalanche of Halloween candy and pumpkin spice lattes you're about to destroy your body with: the best j-tunes of the summer! This quarter includes a great variety of visual kei, J-Rock, and whatever the heck genre you'd call that second track that @CAT5 wants us to listen to. Come discover some new music that we've curated for you, or re-listen to your favorites now enhanced by the critiques of your favorite Monochromians. Let us temporarily transport you away from your boring job (at least in spirit if not in reality). Agree with our picks? Think we're idiots and shouldn't even be allowed to listen to music much less act as taste makers for the community? Good! Tell us why below. @The Reverend's picks "くしゃみ" (Kushami) by まみれた (Mamireta) "Lemoned" by NITRO DAY "New Order" by Mass of the Fermenting Dregs @YuyoDrift's picks "Obliterator" by JILUKA "Knight of Sword" by Unlucky Morpheus "MAD [K]" by DIMLIM "絶縁体 (Zetsuentai)" by Dir en grey @Zeus's picks "Raununculus" by Dir en grey "今宵は飄逸なエゴイスト ～ Ego,Schizoid,Beat." by Demetori "make my story" by lenny code fiction "RED SWAN" by YOSHIKI feat. HYDE "GROTESQUE" by DIMLIM "Renatus" by lynch. @CAT5's picks "Etude of solitude" by toe "からかひ" (Karakai) by Sweet William と 青葉市子 (Ichiko Aoba) Thanks for reading!

We're going to spin some tunes for a lil' bit on plug.dj. Everyone is welcome to join! https://plug.dj/monochrome-heaven

it's a bit early to announce all of these things tho

my lovely Ryuka ❤️

Nice list, team! I'm sorry I couldn't contribute officially this time, but these would have been my picks: "Brightly, Brightly" by DIMMDIVISION. - shoegazey goodness from my fave inactive boiz (check it out on YouTube) "獣ゆく細道 (kemono yuku hosomichi)" by Shiina Ringo and Miyamoto Hiroji - the queen is back with a return to her lush jazz sound that would be at home in a spy movie soundtrack or a Jacques Demy musical; would have been perfect on her Heisei Fuuzoku album from 2007 (check it out on Spotify) "DISCO (rerecording)" by 女王蜂 (Ziyoou Vachi a.k.a. QUEEN BEE) - a rerecording of their chaotic classic; a bit too clean, but for those who aren't loving their current direction, this is at least an attempt to bridge their two sounds (check it out on Spotify)

Might get a job tomorrow. I'm a little bit nervous.

Napalm Death! Some really old pictures. I think they were 12 years old on the picture where they're holding the punk zines. Cool shit.

That new toe sounds sweet! Y'all both got the wrong song from Chedoara though... the last minute/outro riff of "愛憎につき..." might be my favorite part of a song from this year so far.

Me too! I always google it with "band name x yunisan"

I really like the songs! They did an amazing job, again! ☆

Guess the band without cheating (=looking at the URL or use the google search thing):

Some Marvelous Cruelty stuff.

I really love how in keibetsu the main riff has subtle changes between each verse and completely changes by the end of the song. Very similar to The Inferno in that regard. I should just put those two songs on repeat for the rest of my life.

VAMPIRE ROSE new single "Bloody Halloween" will be released at 2018/10/10 (666yen) [tracklist] 01.Bloody Halloween 02.Bloody Halloween ( Instrumental )

You save it!! I used to call the site "yunisan" because that word was the only one readable and identifiable in the link to the site. All the information the site contained was priceless and literally one of my last connections with old Visual Kei. Really thankful that you saved all the information!

Should have been Jame RIP

B-T are one of my oldest and all-time favorites in terms of J-music, but those last two albums were not too great... especially the most recent one. Anyway, I'm not expecting anything mindblowing from them at this point (especially since they've already released 21 full-lengths so not much to prove anymore :D) but they still occasionally deliver some glimpes of genius. For example, "Arui wa Anarchy" was an amazing album I never expected they still had it in them. So even though the last two albums left me a bit cold, I'm still looking forward to whatever they have in store next!

It would be lovely if anyone could translate VELTRO by ギャロ to english. I`d be very happy about it. The lyrics are in the video:

omg @ her taste in games being like MILES ahead of her music one x

tfw an elite trader on soulseek blocked u from downloading that 96 kbps madeth demo because u didn't have perfect tags sourced from grass thread. this is an end of an era

I would, but tbh I'm really really lazy right now. but do a quick google on their situation, on how he would sometimes go missing without telling any of the members, how he treated the fans really poorly and was instable a lot of times, even back during the old days. and after the revival, he decided to leave after like 8, 9 months, without notice, the band had to tour without him and then sending a note through a spokeperson and didn't want any contact with any of them or their management, including Akira. Don't take my word on it, look it up Nah, If you are afraid or think you've been wronged or abused you go to the police and negotiate you contractual situation later if needed. He did neither, he went on hiding from the members and the staff. He abandoned his contract. Kei was on the wrong side for sure, he knew it and tried to fix it, if the situation was as you make it look like, he could get kei out of the band easily. There's no defense for going into fistfights. Only problem is that he would have to deal with a two album deal he wouldn't be able to finish, so he made his choice to negotiate out of it. He may have draw the short straw there, but to me it looks like both Akira and Bansaku were in it for the quick cash. If he got blacklisted (which is so not likely, the contract was fulfilled in the end, and in any case nobody would give a rats ass about it if he went back to the indie scene) he should have found a better way to deal with the situation. But yeah, there's no denial it was a clusterfuck for everyone there And this is naive. Most of the times bands actually are not a group effort. Recording is, finalizing touchs and sprinkles sure, but heavy composition work, not so much. And brq trademark style is so easy to notice during every work kei had done, the argument gets pretty much self explanatory when you get to analise the structures of songs like gariron, gakidou, passing moments, monochrome, life is, 17, rinzen identity, mellow hollow, swallow the night, black bane. Same with easy going ballads. That's all kei. They've changed? sure. They're still brq? most definitely

Im almost done collecting those jigsaw consecutive date releases, all of the covers are pieces to a puzzle which is cool. Lmao how original

Bräymen 2nd single "Quintet" will be released on 2018.12.27. 01. Quintet 02. FACT 1200 yens preview : https://www.braymen.jp/412

offtopic but there ain't nothing like playing devil may cry in bra & panties & your married sugar daddy's coat

Dude I don't really know why do you keep going on this idea that kei and ryo are the devil incarnate. Bansaku bailed on the band not once, but twice. Dude is clearly fucked up on the head, and that's well known. Then Akira stood with them for a while and got into that fight with kei that made him left the band, that you could put on his tab, I guess Now, grown up dudes being PUSHED OUT OF THE SCENE by their ex-band members is so laughable it's not even an argument. poor helpless grown ass adults... boogieman disbanded not because they sucked or anything, but simply because they couldn't sell enough to maintain what's was invested in them. The last hurrah with heartless vocalist wasn't enough and their called it quits. It's easy as that, nothing to do with kei or ryo again And even by going with that "sounding like brq", get Sug Life or most of their old releases and look up for the composer. 90% is kei. So they don't do the sound you like anymore, they don't get to call themselves baroque then? When other members left the band on their own? dudes probably are not saints, kei is quite known his troubles, but nobody is. And I really don't see why an old geezer and their senpai like Akira couldn't handle himself or the business properly if he had any interest on it. C'mon, let's get back to the real world for a sec

Please, settle your disputes via PMs or face the consequences. I especially don't appreciate yall ganging up on one person, and there's always shit starting in this fandom like every week. Just stop.

With everything going on lately I just feel like a mess and have no drive to anything enjoyable anymore. Which is extra weird because I love my job, games, and listening to music but anything else feels empty. I don't like it.

That's sort of the point, isn't it? It's DEG taking the piss out of themselves musically as well as calling out those fans who turned away when they started going metal. It's a sardonic "fuck you, I can do what I want" tone that I always found to be almost triumphant.

I finally got this mediena towel and I thought it'd be nice to hang it on my wall above the little table on which I have all my mediena cd's and other stuffs on display but I realized I have no idea how I could hang it there... So I ended up hanging it on this ethernet cable that I've hung across my ceiling lol. Probably not the most optimal solution but it's the best I could come up with... It looks quite nice there though. pls don't mind that orange piece of tape there it's uhhh a fashion point

I've warmed up to Rubbish Heap a lot partly because I can't wait to hear the crowd shout "FIST" when they play it live

I miss having google translate Latin all over the merch.

I love how much the design on that bag reminds me of this:

Belgium Post takes a while, but I have received the CDs. Thank you.

I went to a renaissance faire for the first time today, and I got covered in rats!

Not exactly extremely proud, but I really like that I have the 'kagirareta koku' demotape by the band Arege. I used to always see images of one of the band members (I believe Aya) around the net when I was like 15 or 16 and thought he looked super cool but I had no idea who he was or where from. When I found out though I quickly searched around and bought it from Third Stage when it was around. Crescendo is still one of my favourite songs. Ah notable mention goes to the DVD of LAREINE's 'Chantons L'amour' Live which I scored for pretty cheap on Closet Child.

The answer is a little complicated. Does this Hi-Res copy sound better than say, a 320kbps copy? Yes, by a mile. Does it sound better than a FLAC copy? That's to be debated. People would be correct to conclude that the human ear is not capable of distinguishing anything higher than 20KHz, and so it would be a waste. What they don't know is that that is 1/2 the truth. In reality, we actually can hear the difference. The only problem is, the volume would have to be turned up so high, that it would cause hearing impairment at those frequencies. So not the most pleasant listening experience. Plus, most listeners aren't even aware as to what to look for in differences between the two. Finally, you'd have to be in a dead silent room (the average environment is about 30db of noise) in order to even get the chance to do any of this. Another issue is that NO DAC/Amp, or device on the market in 2017 is even remotely capable of, or ever will, be able to reproduce anything higher than 20Bits. Trust me, I've looked (and even done a research paper on this lol). Modern Tech is just not at that point yet to reproduce frequencies that high. What this means is that no HD/Hi-Res copy will be capable of being 24bit due to tech being shit still. So we are stuck with 20bit max. Why is it called 24bit then? Well techies will tell you that we count bits by 8. So: 8bit (Think Video Game Music), 16bit (FLAC Quality), and 24bit (HD, Hi-Res, SACD) 24bit Hi-Res is not intended to be used by the average consumer, but it is made available to us because well, why not? It is intended for Audio Engineers, who use low-pass filtering for master recording and/or editing (kinda like a graphic designer/photo editor using RAW formatted images). So this quality of music is really only able to be used in software, otherwise the raw frequencies of sound can kill your audio devices. Plus, the recording companies are greedy SOBs that would never share master records with the average consumer. Those golden days are over. Our entertainment systems have been made possible to listen to at least 60db of sound affordably (on purpose, some might say), because any more would require more power (current) and amplification, to the point that we'd all be broke as shit if we wanted to hear this to it's real sound. This can go way deeper in explanation, but I will stop here. TL;DR Take advantage of @Aeolus' kind gesture, and add this copy to your Music Collection. You'll NEVER be able to play this in 24bit, because not even master recording equipment can. So don't BS anyone about your 5K sound equipment lol. Record companies have purposely made audio sound like shit nowadays for their own profit. Unless you listen to this in a sound booth at ear exploding volumes, then it'll probably sound the same as FLAC. So enjoy this Hi-Res album, using a simple DAC/Amp and a really nice set of Noise-Cancelling Headphones for now. Your crappy HP laptop headphone port isn't gonna cut it folks.

prominent visual kei library グラスレ (grass thread) has unofficially been closed after having been inaccessible recently, plus a lack of updates over the last few years. I assume the admin decided to close the door on the site for good. http://www22.big.or.jp/~yunisan//index.html

Kei is know for be a moody person few examples of his facts : - in 2003 after the unique concert of Baroque in Nippon Budokan the offical website of Baroque was closed and 4 concerts was cancelled the reason of that was Kei stopped smoking and drinking, he became so irascible that he fought with Nippon Budokan staff at the end of the concert. When theirs record company knew about that they became furious about them and wanted fired them but theirs producer Dynamite Tommy saved them, theirs record company Sony Music wanted suspended the group for a year but they was suspended just for few months. - in 2007 when Kannivalism release the single Hoshi no Yoru Kei did not deign to show up, or even answer the phone, at the start of the promotion, so their record company decided to force him to sleep on the 3rd floor of the Avex offices in Tokyo in a closet surrounded by cardboard boxes.

Both bands will collaborate on a new single called 「深淵カルト」(Shinen cult) ! (1500 yen) (2018.10.17/31) Tracklist : 1. 偽りのディストピア/ラヴェーゼ feat.前田 愛郎(Itsuwari no dystopia) feat Maeda Airo 2. 何も信じてない/UNDER FALL JUSTICE feat.紗弥-saya- ((Nani mo shinji te inai..)

Working through several titles atm: From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews by Rudolph R. Windsor Hebrewisms of West Africa by Joseph J. Williams HEBREWS TO NEGROES: WAKE UP BLACK AMERICA! by Ronald Dalton Jr. The DNA of Sound: Exploring the Esoteric character of the Hebrew Language by Avdiel Ben Levi God, the Black Man and Truth by Ben Ammi

Of course Hi-Res sounds better than a 256kbps mp3. A 320kbps mp3 will sound better too, and a 44.1/16 file will too as @YuyoDrifthas mentioned. The real question should be does a Hi-res 24/96 file sound better than a cd quality 16/44.1 lossless rip. You're putting Hi-Res against a straw man to make yourself feel better about it, or you just don't actually realize how silly this is. The fact that you made this thread after I pointed out how foolish you were in the Gazette thread (1 2 3) as some sort of attempt to prove yourself right (?) just further shows how little of your obsession with this is confounded in actual understanding. Because you still don't seem to get it in the other thread, here is all the things wrong with your reply to me there @Aeolus: >"And yes, depending on the vinyl they are the same" @Naaaaani tried to help you out – it doesn't matter what quality digital source you burn to vinyl, it doesn't quantize the information into steps like digital has to. You just can't physically write into a vinyl like that. Go read about the difference between digital and analogue. I don't see how can you be any semblance of an audiophile and not understand this basic distinction. >"never said anything about mp3 haha." Exactly the problem. Throughout your whole initial post you say what I have = 24 / 96, and what everyone else is itunes/cd quality (44/16). You were making no distinction between a 256kbps mp3 (variable bit depth as inherent to mp3 codec) and an actual 16 bit 44.1khz CD rip: two very different things. In that thread you were comparing your files to Himi like they were "CD quality", even calling them "16/44.1". I tried to point that problems in saying that, because while the sample rate is maintained the bit depth is severely reduced in an mp3 from a 16 bit lossless file. And yet again, you run off and make THIS thread where you are again seeming to confuse an iTunes store quality mp3 and a lossless CD rip (??). >"I'm not saying i can here 50khz, all I said was that I can hear a noticeable difference between the itunes store quality and Hi-Res," Ahh, I think I'm starting to understand that you either didn't read my initial post it all, or gave it 0 energy to understand, or maybe tried and still don't. But I don't think you tried at all really. The whole point of what I'm saying, what Yuuyo and Shmilly is saying, is that there is an argument to be had over a 44.1 or 48k 16 bit lossless WAV/ALAC/FLAC etc etc file being superior to even a high quality 320 kbps mp3 encode, HOWEVER !!!! believing that the extra 24 or 32 bit audio or 96k (when you yourself admit your DAC can't play it back) is what makes it sound better is bullshit, petty semantics at best. How do you not understand this is what people are saying? Many things will be better than a itunes store quality mp3 that aren't a 24 bit 96k HI RES PLACEBO. If you seemed to have even the slightest knowledge on these subjects, I would respect and consider your insistence on the additional fidelity compared to a CD quality lossless codec – but you don't have that, so I think I should give up explaining any of this. >"I can say I like this version of 絲, I'm not much of a fan of pre-NIL. (*gasp* I'm gonna get a lot of hate for this huh?)" Again, your completely missing the point. When I referenced just how shit the first 15 seconds of Ito sound compared to the original, it has nothing to do with "the GazettE" changing and everything to do with how fucking awful the Guitar tone and mixing/mastering sound. It's the same exact riff!!! That's why I pointed it out. It's literally just to do with the engineering and the reason I emphasized it was that its so PAINFULLY obvious how much better the recording and frequency balance is on the original guitar tone. It doesn't matter whether your a fan of pre-NIL or post-NIL. Play the two intros side by side to a panel of industry professionals and they'd tell you the same story. Regarding what was said in the thread, YuyoDrift's overall point is good, but also said some things I want to clarify. >"8bit (Think Video Game Music), 16bit (FLAC Quality), and 24bit (HD, Hi-Res, SACD)" The whole 8bit = video game music or chiptune quality is largely a myth and just poor understanding of the system. As I sort of went into in my initial reply to Aeolus , mp3's function outside of the domain of bit depth in the traditional sense, and are very often far below 8 bits!! Furthermore, a 16 bit audio file can be reduced in bit depth by processes that will make the file compression 100% transparently. And finally, as @Shmillyintelligently gathered, there is no audible difference between 16 bit and 24 bit of the same sample rate. Which leads me to: >It is intended for Audio Engineers, who use low-pass filtering for master recording and/or editing (kinda like a graphic designer/photo editor using RAW formatted images)." The RAW analogy doesn't make any sense as the systems can't really be compared. The whole point of 24 bit audio as a superior tool in the studio is you have a wider signal to noise ratio (144 db vs 96 db of a 16 bit file). On playback, what you're hearing in this release is slammed through a limiter at 0db the whole time anyway. The argument for 24 bit playback could only be made if you were listening to incredible dynamic music, something that had passages at like -50db, which is something you don't find in any music period these days. Also, low-pass filtering has 0 to do with why people use 24 bit.