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My feelings are honestly a bit of a mess. its hard to put anything into words. its sad that it has ended this way, but in a way it’s not surprising...it’s kinda hard to explain really. I remember a convo from many many years ago when we were talking about someone we knew who was quitting the scene to become “a normal person” i remember thinking at that time, that’s never going to be you...I just always kinda assumed he would continue working his own pace well into old age... regardless, he was not famous or a big name that many would recognize, but he was a chill guy who made music that mattered to the people who listened to it and to him, I thought that was enough to make him happy. so all I can really hope for as a old friend is that he can finally rest and find true happiness.......

oh lord. there's a bunch of bands with terrible names, especially new ones. i'm gonna challenge myself and list 20+ from the top of my head (they're not ranked btw) Houts Chicktak Chic Boy An Cafe/Antic Cafe??? cuz I never know what they're actually called Xaoce (pronounced CHAOS) LA bate RIMCAT Rides in Revellion (...) nuvɔ:gu (new vogue) D, S, M, etc. Sadies Marry nano Mother ted [email protected] BLESS THIS MESS SUPER BOYS Black Gene for the Next Scene Initial'L Tear City DIERRY CALL Frantic EMIRY グラビティ↗↗楽しさ♪FULLVOLTAAAGE!!! *

The band will release their first album on 2019.03.20.

🎁As an early gift to the community, MH will once again be hosting the MH JRock Awards for 2018!🎁 Now, before you start voting, read the rules provided in the spoiler below, or else Yuyo will ... idk yet but just read it anyways. Once you have read the general rules, here's how to vote: 1. Copy the list of categories below into your reply 2. Fill in your votes (you can skip as many categories as you'd like) 3. Submit. (Try to keep your votes organized under spoiler tags in order to save space for other voters) Your posts will stay hidden until the end of the voting. Here are your categories to choose from: Voting will last until Sunday, January 13th of the New Year (2019) This will allow everyone to take their time, since some of us are still waiting on some final releases to come out this month. Note:  "Album" includes both full and mini-albums. For simplicity reasons, we follow the "Once Visual Kei, always Visual Kei" rule. So yes, that makes bands like Dir en grey or L'Arc~En~Ciel a Visual Kei band, just for the purpose of this voting. If you missed/skipped 2017 or are just joining the forum and have never heard of this, then take part this year! If you have any questions about the 2018 MH Jrock Awards, feel free to contact myself or any of the MH Staff! Happy Voting!

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Sugar or dry

04 Limited Sazabys is actually a fairly direct name. Gen mentioned a while back on Twitter that it comes from this: The original drummer was a big Gundam fan, but apparently he misspelled "Sazabi" and I guess it was too late to change it when they noticed.

VK names are bad, but mainstream rock bands are worse: Bump Of Chicken Mr. Children One Ok Rock Radwimps The Oral Cigarettes 04 Limited Sazabys My Hair is Bad It's like they pull out random words from a hat.

Any band name that makes it deliberately hard to search for them.

Kizu drops another single, followed by an album DIMLIM continues to be underappreciated and faces some setbacks, doesn't disband but 2020 looking dire Ayabie follows up their comeback concerts with a full revival that doesn't go anywhere, releases a couple of disappointing singles a la Lolita 23q and quietly disbands again Nostalgia for oshare continues, new bands start emulating worst parts of that trend and a couple of nobodies from 10+ years ago try and milk the trend by reviving unwanted projects Halfway decent band with promise gets brought over for their first oversea show, at an american anime con, they announce disbandment on the way to america. BABOO vocalist comes back as a solo artist, concept is full on adult-diaper fantasy Jin's new band is met with even more passive reactions than tbs, after 10+ years of frustration he stops singing and starts working behind the scenes Kisaki's reputation becomes so tarnished no one works with him, so he doubles down on the fraud leading to actual consequences

I love them to this day, but I always thought "9GOATS BLACKOUT" was an awful name for a band. This has been confirmed every single time someone shows interest in what I'm listening to. "Death★Rabbits" is so bad it's good. "KuRt" always bothered me for multiple reasons; impossible to search for and they really don't sound anything like Nirvana or Kurt Cobain, nor are their lyrics similar/evocative of them in any way. Now that I think about it, Tenten's bands always have awful names, even to this day. "MASK" and" SCISSOR" loopash two for one- unsearchable, generic, doesn't really fit the band's latter output. and finally "Unsraw", it's a nasty sounding word, say it out loud.

Then they changed it to something even worse - GzNDLH (pronounced Gandora!)

My trip to Japan is coming in 2 weeks later and next month as in early January 2019, this is gonna be my 1st time visiting Japan.

Won't make a separate thread for it, but a new DVD-R "dieS vs MUNIMUNI [2016/11/11 NEO TOKYO CHOP DOME]" has just been released on 2018/12/13. It contains footage from the two bands' special anniversary two-man gig back at the end of 2016. Tracklist: 01. フッフー 02. 発情 03. POWER 04. NEW ORDER LOVE SONG 05. Matador-マタドール- 06. SOUND MASTURBATION 07. & 4 08. バーサーカー 09. ドラムバトル 10. in my head 11. in my head Tracks 1, 3, 4, 7 are MUNIMUNI songs, tracks 2, 5, 6, 8, 10/11 are dieS songs. Track 9 is called "drum battle" so I assume it's some kind of 'drum-off' between the two bands' drummers, since apparently the stages where the gigs took place were facing each other. I guess the last song being repeated might be some sort of jam session with both bands on-stage, but not sure. Order @ zoisite shop

don't forget SHIT HAPPENING

Mr. Children always kinda creeps me out.

トイサーカス(Toy Circus) new look has been revealed.

Obscure would be a good example of this. They're the band Lay and 4ge formed after Fatima disbanded with singer/guitarist Nobara, and the only way I could find any trace of their music was by Googling "obscure nobara". To top it all off, Lay and 4ge changed their stage names to Cake and Zizimakia respectively. Other shitty band names: * BUNNEIES * 0801弐209336 * Crazy★Shampoo * Un=(XAG) I found those all on a list a while back, as well as some others that have already been mentioned. These guys are also on that list I found. They disbanded a while back, but they honestly weren't that bad. Not the best, but they had some pretty good songs. I would recommend Daphnis, Grisaille and Cock. Yes, Cock. Also, who could forget Bump Of Chicken? They were originally gonna be called Cowards Strike Back, but it got mistranslated as Bump Of Chicken. I mean... I guess I get it? A coward can be described as chicken, and if you strike something, you may bump it... ETA: Also, do you guys remember Dirty Darkling

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Alternative: hide profits because taxes are optional, sell physical copies of selfies, befriend every other label-head so your groups are a special guest at every big event, write 4~6 songs with the intention of having your signed bands use them and then modify the melodies slightly for each ghost-written instance, have every band signed to you appear in every vkei publication, then get caught in a sex scandal and hope you're picked up by a reality TV outlet once you're done getting meToo'd. #matina101

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They pretty much did disband.

Just ordered my christmas haul : ジグソウ: 「もういーかい？」「まーだだよ」 「無差別に降る雨は灰色」 SEAMLESS SUICIDE Geomatrium: Zanrhad 硝子の雨

I'm hyped too, should be a good release kind of ot, but I think this is the first time Hiro has actually had a full album of material released? While googling to confirm, this happened. Was anyone aware of this? Did they name their band after a fucking horse lmao

I went to one of his shows. It's really not hard music anymore, but he is covering a wide variety of music styles. So it was worth going there to have a good time (also cheap tickets), but nothing I stan.

Honestly, I am such a science nerd that I check out all bands with science names and came to like BFN because of that! 🤣 My bacteria heat island is also a band I checked out because of their name. Lol. I am still waiting for "Yersinia pestis" or "E.coli" 😂😂😂😂😂 Kaitou Sentai is also super annoying since there is a sentai show in japan that's called kaitou sentai, too.... Also this "chewing gum costs 100.000¥ fine in singapore" band has a stupid name!

Then why are they calling it a "last live"? It's indeed strange how they're not actually saying they're disbanding, even though it sounds a lot like it.

The crazy nonsensical ones are my favorites. I find them really funny. My idea of terrible band names are the really common/boring/hard to search names. But since nonsense is what we're going for, how has no one mentioned Crazy☆shampoo yet?

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i hate shit like this: ？？？ (read "hatena") Uma ("yuuma"... how is anyone gonna think anything but horse) 麺’ｓ卵 ("men's egg") 彡 ("keno") DragonWAPPPPPPER, Berallwarp Rheim, P*Route, ギャックメン (gyackmen, sounds like a hairball), Guy's Family, PIECElang were all p bad キナルラ/kinarura as "kenllre" is awful Develop One’s Faculties and breakin' holiday sound dumb as hell too. i think you can't beat a punchy one-word name that doesn't have some ridiculous reading.

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A person translated it on Instagram. Here you have~ https://www.instagram.com/p/BqAZi3qFydlgqPqdE8k3YYljqBIxeJaycMf9BY0/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1hjfvd05kxtie

there's something new about the bolded thing, some of those tracks literally sound like they were recorded through a clonazepam comedown whiney is the entire late avelcain, yes

Ack, this thread existed? I think I'll be in this club for a while *pulls up a chair and sits down* Still single and probably will be for a while. Currently, I'm focusing on school and would like to wait until I feel my life is steadier (if a relationship happens). A friend of mine asked me if I ever planned to date and/or get married, and it got me thinking that whatever happens will happen. If it happens, then that's great. If it doesn't, then that's fine with me (personally). I've never had any serious relationships. I almost had one a long time ago, but it fell through due to complicated reasons as usual ^^; I think the mentality of "you have to be dating someone" is a bit odd. Each individual has the choice of whether they want to be in a relationship with someone or not. No one else has that right to tell you (in general, no one in particular) that "you should be dating someone" since you are the one who will be experiencing the relationship, not anyone else. Also, I don't want to be in a relationship with someone to validate my existence. I feel quite content with who I am and I don't want someone else telling me about myself. I'm up for changing into being a better person or compromising with other people to make things work, but I think you should stick true to who you are and not morph into someone else completely different that makes you feel unhappy/uncomfortable. I've seen people be in a relationship and completely change themselves because of their partner. It makes me sad to see this because I believe people in a relationship are equals, not subservient to their partner. (I'm speaking in general terms and not about any specific circumstances/situations.) (Yikes, this post was longer than I intended 😅 I apologize if I didn't make any sense. It's almost three am over here, and I'm somewhat tired, but I wanted to respond, lol.)

I really like the sample! Nothing too special but it's pretty good! btw that shady bitch kicchy, I KNEW I recognized her somewhere!!!

Individual look:

Actually I think it's ok to post these things. Honestly, japanese fans spend soooo much money on merch and chekis at the lives, often 5000¥, 10.000¥ and up, so yeah, i kind of want to know where my money goes and have an estimate how my band is doing financially (estimating the risk of a break-up lol) And merch/cheki have such inflated prices... (7000¥ for a xl shirt for 8B-SP 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣) So I feel cheated when I buy it! It helps to explain where the money goes. 500¥ cheki = 100¥ production cost and 400¥ wins without taxes some bands charge 1000¥ per cheki, so 900¥ winnings here

List of stuff (not in order) Nihilizm - Cry This More (Live-Distributed Single) Vidoll - Bastard (Limited Edition), V.I.D.-Very Important Doll- (Regular Edition), Tokyo Maimu 2008.12.19 C.C. Lemon Hall DVD the Gazette - NIL (Limited Edition) Joker - Pinky Love Affair (Is this the title? Just roughly translated it.) (Thanks @Ultra Silvam for the clarification!) Sadie - 溺哀-dekiai- (both versions) Kagrra, - Ouka Ranman (Limited Edition), Miyako (Limited Edition), Shizuku (Limited Edition) Alice Nine - Alpha (Limited Edition) Versailles - Jubilee (Limited Edition)

poggers

going for a bachelor of fine arts next year. after that, i might go to college for illustration, but i don't really know. all i know is that i want to do art lol

Here is one way: 1. Start band and label. Apply for a loan to fund label. Can be bank, can be from a sempai, can be from parents, etc. 2. Budget real good. 3. Use some label funds for band activities. Use profits from band activities to pay back those internal loans. 4. Bust ass working hard doing your day and night jobs. If you do it right, you could earn back the money you put into your band to pay off the first loan, and then your label is ready for the next step. I suspect these bands that run their own label are also putting up personal money to fill the gap.

For anyone who understands Japanese, Itsuki (ex. vocalist of Bergerac) has made a series of vids regarding VK costs.

If these costs are true idk how bands that played in front of 30 people can manage to find that much money

Kiryu - irrational hatred, i just can't stand Mitsuki SID - boring Kra - boring THE MICRO HEAD 4N'S - tragically boring 0.1g no gosan - boring and douchey anything with Mashiro in it - Mashiro sucks edited to shout out: not - the only band i've seen that sucked so bad that literally everyone sat down for them

First pic: LAREINE and NEW SODMY comment/bonus CD/DVD, second is Versailles, third is KAMIJO. All the Versailles and KAMIJO are new, but the LAREINE ones I had about half before. Here is a list (not in order): LAREINE 月の狩人 Unpluged Live Event LAREINE JAN-23, 2006 Meguro Live Station TALK+SAKURA LAREINE Unreleased Song demo 1 LAREINE Unreleased Song demo 2 LAREINE 「SCREAM」ライカエジソン LAREINE 「SCREAM」ライカエジソン LAREINE 「道化師の舞曲」「雪恋詩」「Cinderella Fantasy」トリプル購入特典 サードステージ LAREINE ごめんなさいCD-R LAREINE 2002/10/30&10/31ハロウィンイベント両日参加者配布CD LAREINE 『Deep Forest』 『Imperial Concerto』 (Special CDR) LAREINE X’mas Message CD LAREINE Anamorphosis SPECIAL DVD LAREINE Métamorphose Message Tape LAREINE ツアー出発前メッセージ Message Tape LAREINE ツアー出発前メッセージ Message Tape LAREINE Never Cage GURUGURU Message CD LAREINE Himatsu remix LAREINE 青い鳥の行方 NEW SODMY White Lie Message CDr NEW SODMY SODOM ORIGINAL CDS -2001- NEW SODMY 2002.4.7 Shibuya On Air East First Anniversary A way of life Versailles NOBLE Comment DVD Versailles The Greatest Hits 2007-2016 Like and Edison コメントDVD Versailles ASCENDEAD MASTER ディスクユニオン コメントCD Versailles PRINCE & PRINCESS/スーパーレコード(この商品のみコメントCDです) Versailles JUBILEE ZEAL LINK コメDVD Versailles The Gratest HITS 2007-2016/ディスクユニオン KAMIJO Heart DVD-R Like an Eidson KAMIJO Heart DVD ZEAL LINK KAMIJO Louis ZEAL LINK KAMIJO HEART HMV Vol. 2 KAMIJO HEART Vol. 4 タワーレコード) KAMIJO Louis Disc Union ディスクユニオン