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Lol, after reading the posts in this thread I just imagined like a montage of YOSHIKI headlines. "Long-awaited X JAPAN album finally released - hits number 30 on the Billboard charts" "Legendary rock band X JAPAN collaborates with Oprah, crafts a line of best-selling home decor items" "Meet YOSHIKI, the head of X Decor, the brand taking it to IKEA" "X Decor's YOSHIKI is now one of the world's richest living people" "YOSHIKI transfers brain into mechanized body, so that he may live forever and 'escape the pain of his past'" "Mecha Emperor YOSHIKI promises that his new album is finished and will be released 'once all the details have been worked out with management'" "'While I can no longer physically die, making this album was so tough that it almost killed me' Emperor YOSHIKI confesses"

The new X JAPAN album is released and YOSHIKI actually establishes his worldwide fame.

Their new EP 「ALONE/アローン」 will be released on 2019.04.24. TYPE A : 2800 yen + taxes CD : 5 songs DVD : 01. 「サイレン-siren-」 (PV) TYPE B : 2800 yen + taxes CD : 5 songs DVD : 01. 「サイレン-siren-」 (PV off shot + interview) TYPE C : 2300 yen + taxes CD : 6 songs

the three dark age covers are my favourite!!!

Kisaki apologizes

Satsuki revives RENTRER EN SOI (with a bunch of random no-name musicians from South America)

emmuree's cover for "lightless". the album sounds just as uncomfortable and depressing as its cover. (also yasss @ d'air love)

Got my Rentrer En Soi cds today. Time to burn them all and listen to them forever lmao

Visual kei headlines have brought us some crazy stories, from dramatic member departures to unlikely label signings, and even stories that are so fucked up that they make it to nationwide news for the worst reason(!!!). As longtime and newbie fans of this silly genre of sexually ambiguous men playing instruments, we should have fun making up our own weird stories/predictions like imagining certain scenarios that make you go "what the actual fuck" but sound newsworthy - in the form of "horror stories". Don't worry, this is all in good fun - and better yet, it might actually happen at some point! Anything can happen in vk after all! I'll keep mine short: -Virge joins Starwave -DADA/VELVET EDEN returns (again) -Kiwamu makes another band -Yumeleep ditches vk -ZIN (ex-Jupiter)'s project USA releases an Engrish album -Ryutaro Arimura performs with Nocturnal Bloodlust What crazy sick scenarios are running through your mind???

Sorry, but I want this to happen now

Sorry to quote myself but if this happens and he doesn't call it PonPonPonjour Honey, I'm out

KAMIJO does a Gakupo and actually becomes a vocaloid instead of just doing collabs with them like he did with Miku that one time. Also, he does a cover of Kyary Pamyu Pamyu's PonPonPon. I could imagine that happening, for some reason. I like him, but he's a weird guy.

There should be a tribute to DEG album at this point. They have been around for a long time now. I really enjoyed the cover songs that was done on those Crush! 90s V-Rock albums. Merry, Mejibray, and R-Shitei did something on DEG songs. They need to do it some times, maybe in their 25th anniv or something. Also, hope they would release some kind of boxset for Gauze this year, since it will be 20th anniv of the album release.

And covers

💜💜💜

It's simple, but I've always really liked the cover of THE BACK HORN's "Ikiru Sainou" album.

AIOLIN 3rd Album "Fate" will be released at 2019/05/01. [2 type] -Hope Side- & -Resistance Side-

real or fake? real or I had some bad weed: Nocturnal bloodlust singing Taylor Swift. fake: Maria Cross+Yoshiki+Kisaki+Nemo+ Yoko Ono= Becomes a group of shit and becomes the new Gazette

Kiwamu becomes a youtube letsplayer

I love January/February. It's the couple of months I mostly get paid for watching Netflix at the office.

Miyavi x Metallica collab. Make it happen, dammit.

Don't forget using Japanese flag as aesthetic too. Combined with non-Kpop inclusion, people will believe Visual Kei is Koreaphobic/Chosonphobic (For the Koreans up north) altogether That actually exists.. people where I live listen to that... Yoshiki making Country Trap would not be too far off....

- Kyo becomes an opera singer - Yumeleep goes br00tal-kei - Nazare has a release that isn't live limited

lesbians have returned Is switching from a glitzy army bottoms to menhera youbetta yokai as a concept enough to get them fans?

This much of a nosedive Yoshiki x Avril collab A US-made documentary on visual-kei that only discusses X, Gackt, Miyavi, and The GazettE with 0 mention of the indie scene or any other founding fathers / influencers. Endingo is interviewed More of those visual-kei covers anime omnibuses spring up, in addition to ones where they cover Western acts. Dezert covers Metro Station, Soan Project Feat Mikiru from Dio cover Greenday, Dadaroma ""reinvent"" "Wreckingball" and the visual-kei facebook group tries their damndest to shill their effort. Kim Petras is not featured More vkei x Drag Race cross pollination happens. RuPaul eventually says "Eroguro" and twitter creates discourse on how problematic the scene is due to the lack of Korean pop inclusion / they find out that 90's bands used swastikas as an aesthetic

They just switched the the label that Mejibray was on so that's not it at all. They are just on fire like always ^_^. UNLESS It's saying goodbye to AINS .-.

You listen to many of the same bands I do, pretty cool. I don't know Variable Messiah though. the GazettE - Gabriel on the Gallows (live ver.) Purple Stone - Sakura Versailles - La Musique Develop One's Faculties - hope Avril Lavigne - The Best Damn Thing Xibalba - Guilty Morrigan - Under World End Xiss Aikawa Nanase - Hikari to Kage no Labyrinth Reol - Viora Hamasaki Ayumi - XOXO Well, this was varied... Gabriel on the Gallows is a banger and probably my favorite track on Division, definitely picking that one. That DOF track is one of my favorites too.

The band will disband on 2019.04.05.

The band is now part of SPEED DISK so the album will be delayed to 2019.05.22. https://ameblo.jp/virge-official/entry-12438530537.html

Tracklist : ・-CHAIN- ・Seirios ・Eternal～渇望の空～ ・F.A.T.E. ・BLAZING HEART ・STORY ・SURRENDER ・Rosé

Kiyoharu has been announced as being a guest on the album. He will be singing in the chorus to one (or more) of the songs. He will also appear as a guest in Morrie's 3/4 show at 東京キネマ倶楽部.

The only song I've heard there is the 黒百合と影. I do recognise a few other band names though, just never got to listening to them. Between The Buried And Me - Lost Perfection: a) Coulrophobia Between The Buried And Me - Lost Perfection: b) Anablephobia DIAURA - If ザアザア - 雫 the GazettE - DISTRESS AND COMA Variable Messiah - 転生の果てで THE GAZETTE - LUCY Plastic Tree - サーカス (Live Arrange Version) DEATHGAZE - abyss [from THE CONTINUATION] THE NOVEMBERS - 236745981 I! Was! Shook! That iTunes kept both parts of Lost Perfection together! Coulrophobia and 236745981 are the top two. I'm thinking about deleting DIAURA's If because it's kind of bland; their cover of endless loop is way better.

YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! I legit thought about this cover too!!! Something about it just really captures that raw essence of early TBH material. either that, or maybe I'm just nostalgic

Chorus is catchy af. I haven't stanned Pentagon since their spoopy Ghost Hotel era, but they've been on fire with Mantra and now this. Good job, dudes. ❤️

I’d be okay with Jens Bogren mixing a full DEG album. I’ve come to like the raw sound of TIW, but my main issue is that Toshiya and Shinya are somehow up front and buried at the same time. For my money the worst sounding album is Kisou, though.

Reika of D=OUT and Yuura of Kra with Tsunehito (scissor, D) and Naoki (jinkaku radio, the beethoven) these are the best bass players, theirs bass lines are very complex and difficult, unlike many bassists they don't only follow the rhythm guitar or the drums, their sense of groove is amazing and even if you use headphone or earphone of medium quality the bass is still audible. They are not vk bassists : - KenKen (Rize, Dragon Ash) - Hinata Hidekazu (Straightener, Nothing's Carved In Stone) - F Chopper Koga (Gacharic Spin) - Ue-chan (Maximum the Hormone) - Ikuo ( BULL ZEICHEN 88, Rayflower)

A friend of mine irl recently got into VK/J-Rock thanks to me. But with her I am never sure, if she's actually into something or if she only likes it, because I do. Nevertheless she is coming to The Gazette with me in June and then I will find out. :'D

I've been playing these 2 releases on loop for the past week. Fujii - Euphoria https://gulfaudiocompany.bandcamp.com/album/euphoria More on the synthy almost video game ost style, but a lot of really good chill tracks. Desired - Plastic Whatever https://neoncityrecords.bandcamp.com/album/plastic-whatever Good ole future funk vibes

Wow does this take me back. I went through something quite similar two years ago. ...... You seem to be handling this better than I did... and you've gotten further than I did When the guy in my story stopped texting me, I got angry-sad about it, and whenever he'd come back, I'd think I'd have forgiven him, but then I'd get angry again, for the first year I had no idea how I felt about him as an individual, I totally flip-flopped. At the end of the year, I wanted to meet up with him and try to reconnect like you did, but then I saw a new guy in his Snapchat story, and it looked like they were being all cutesy and shit, which really bothered me. A week goes by, I stop kicking the air, delete him on social media, and declare hatred. Another year later, today, that hatred completely fizzles out into "I don't know her" Enough of my rant, yes it's okay to ask if he's seeing someone else. As for continuing a relationship with him, definitely do not pursue dating this guy any further. Just don't! If you think you can be platonic friends with him, not resent him for being out of touch, and most importantly, stomach the sight of him being serious with someone else, go for it. And if you ever have the opportunity to, tell him about your feelings, at least for the sake of clearing the air. Be honest with him. However, if you have even the slightest problem with a strictly platonic friendship, drop his ass. If he can't make time for you, he doesn't deserve you. Plain and simple!

Honey, he still had sex with you even when he knew you're drunk? And y'all not even official, on top of that? Red flag. He is not a good man. Let him go. And call the police. Like, even after married, people still need to ask for their spouse's consent to have sex. Let alone someone who's on dating phase, and always seems so ambigious about his feeling for you. He might just taking advantage of you.

this whole album is gold ♥

For some reason I'm really attracted to stylish/stylized covers featuring only band members so here's a batch reflecting that. BUCK-TICK - 悪の華 BOØWY - BEAT EMOTION Laputa - 私が消える Madeth gray'll - Lucifer ～魔境に映る呪われた罪人達と生命の終焉～ SOFT BALLET - DOCUMENT Might come back here later and make another post with my fave pieces of artwork not featuring actual musicians, lol.

a bunch of dimlim merch, a verxina shirt (the black and red one), and Rands' album Inferiority Complex and Narcissism

This time, I'll hold it all the year ! (no) -edit- 01/18 : As I expected, King Gnu's first major album is clearly a amazing album, I wasn't bored one minute !

Pretty telling how people dislike it because it involves Karma, but since it's not br00tal and AvelCain-ish enough it's regarded the worst of all (even tough AvelCain was even shittier, since additional to sucky vocals no one could write or play instruments). The same people however praise nostalgic indie shit like La'veil Mizeria to the heavens, despite Kikyo being just as incompetent in holding his notes. If this band had some no1curr vocalist people would be creaming themselves, yelling "true saviors of Visual kei!".

At first I thought 'wow, the song isn't halfway over and I've heard the chorus 3 times' Then I realized these MFers made a music video that is 40.2% credits.