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蘭図 (Rands) will release their first full album in 2020/01, they'll have a oneman tour as well

It felt so good deleting a negative person off of every social media. 15 years of friendship down the drain, but I don't fucking care. I hope he can get all the help he can, if he wishes me failure. I still have a job and I'm not living under unemployment I help him get. So fuck you, dead beat bitch with no irl friends now. Leech, scumbag, etc.

Hi. I’m one of the really old fans. I visited Tokyo in 1995 and came back to the US (NYC) with a pile of Luna Sea CDs and VHS tapes. At that time there was nothing about Luna Sea or visual kei on the English-language internet. Actual nothing. Well, the internet barely existed, it was just transitioning to websites from bulletin boards. I made some mix cassettes and handed them out to my friends. Around ’96 or maybe ’97 I checked the internet again, and now we have something: California sisters Freda and Joannie’s website Rockin’ Heaven, and the X Japan ML on cohprog. It was tiny at first, like maybe 100 people. This was the entire Western VK fandom. We had all discovered Japanese music either on a trip to Japan, or through a Japanese friend. A few of us were so noisy about talking about other bands who were not X that the Jrock ML was formed, so we took our OT over there and it exploded. There was no file sharing or international online stores at that time. I created a page to bring something like tape-sharing classifieds online, a manually updated list of people who had stuff to trade and what they were looking for. We copied cassettes and sent them by postal mail. It’s laughably low-tech compared to nowadays, but suddenly we were all listening to multiple bands instead of just our one gateway band. The Jrock ML membership and traffic was exploding week by week. There was one loud and cynical French guy who was really into super-obscure bands and claimed that he went to Japan and was friends with bands, but nobody knew whether to believe him or not. Word of mouth was definitely a thing — I gave my little sister a few mix tapes when she went to college and she came back for break cursing me out for those tapes, because all her friends had fallen in love with them and now she had to listen to VK all the time. I think it was around ’98 that we started to see some improvements in bandwidth and webpages that let us take it to the next level. There was a guy in Singapore (Paul? maybe?) where they had better wiring, who first started putting up a few tiny RA and RV files on a site, and he had one of the early message boards too. By this time I was out of school and my circle of friends and I were working in the early internet, which gave me access to equipment, software, and bandwidth that almost nobody had at that time. My friends were installing the actual wiring and servers to build the NYC internet, and uh… while they were at it, they stashed an old computer somewhere to be our own FTP server. We put up my files (I had a ton of stuff because I’d been running the tape-exchange listing, and also I bought stuff from the Japanese stores in NYC) and allowed other people to upload their own. I added a message board which was originally supposed to be for requests or whatever but it took on a life of its own as a discussion place. Maybe ’99 or 2000, CD Japan opened. The fandom was growing exponentially and everyone was trying to explore new bands, and even tiny indie bands were getting fan bases. Lots of people were putting up file sharing sites, using multiple GeoCities accounts to create these huge octopus sites. We started to have meetups IRL. Go (JrockNYC) and his friends had a cover band and put together some meetups around NYC. Cameron was in Tokyo and writing on Glam Japan, and some of us were traveling to Japan too. A few people went to that huge concert that Luna Sea did, Dir en gray had fans going, me and a bunch went to Lareine’s last tour in August 2000. (I met Cameron there for the first time) By maybe 2002-ish most of the file sharing was happening on the P2P networks, and Livejournal was becoming popular. I moved to Tokyo in early 2002. Go was living in Tokyo too and documenting the scene on JrockNYC. It would be nice to read it again but I don’t think his old stuff is on line any more. This is getting to the time period where there are lots of people who were around to remember, so I’ll leave it.

Promotional album will be distributed for free on 2019/09/11. In the flyer you can find more activities such as: Full version of lyric video or MV released from one song every month. New look: They have opened their official website.

The second guy to the left is... peculiar, to say the least

-Thanks to laurence02 on discord, and here for helping me with the lyrics. This is the first time I'm doing something like this, so if there's some bits that are off, it's my fault.- I just fallin'love You just fallin'love illusion lonely machi wa silence I just fallin'love You just fallin'love seek sadness kimi wa Labilynce amai Sweet Day owaranai Endless rain sou mou ichido Once again What time is it now? wakaranai kaerenai Game Playstation2 DON TACOS BABY STAR BOSS SEVEN DECAVITA DON TACOS BABY STAR BOSS SEVEN DECAVITA itsumo Tenderness dakedo Lonelyness blue feelings setsunasugiru hakuchuumu ni tada White evening dream Day uragiri no Rainy days sou nageyari na I'm lonely What time is it now? tokei nante minaide, minaide Jane London girl London girl London, London DON TACOS BABY STAR BOSS SEVEN DECAVITA hanarenai hanasanai nani mo iranai itsumo Tenderness dakedo Lonely Blue feeling tsukiakari no shita de rendez-vous miteta shinkirou I just fallin'love You just fallin'love illusion lonely machi wa silence I just fallin'love You just fallin'love seek sadness kimi wa Labilynce amai Sweet miteirukai amai sweet nigai bitter DON TACOS BABY STAR BOSS SEVEN DECAVITA DON TACOS BABY STAR BOSS SEVEN DECAVITA itsumo Tendernass dakedo Lonelyness blue feelings setsunasugiru hakuchuumu ni tada White evening dream I just fallin'love You just fallin'love illusion lonely machi wa silence I just fallin'love You just fallin'love seek sadness kimi wa Labilynce amai Sweet...

ゴールデンボンバー (GOLDEN BOMBER) new PV for LINE's BGM has been released

Wholeheatedly agree. Adding to this, I feel like the scene needs more memorable characters like Mana, hide, YOSHIKI and Kiyoharu. Even Kyo during his scratching-his-mouth-apart phase. They all brought some sort of mysterious aura that drew people to them and consequently the scene as a whole and that's important too. We have people like KAMIJO, Gara, Ao Sakurai etc who pull their antics to a certain degree, but it's all rather subdued compared to the theatrics we used to have back then. We all know visual kei isn't all about the music, but once you couple some sterile metal with boring personalities who literally bring nothing to the table performance-wise, things are faded to be unmemorable.

Their first single「真昼の蜃気楼」(Mahiru no shinkirou) will be released at their live on 2019.07.01. (1080 yen) Tracklist : 1.真昼の蜃気楼(Mahiru no shinkirou) 2.遮断(Shadan)

ドレミ・ファ (Doremifa) new maxi-single "霰曲第-273.15番" (Ararekyokudai-273.15-ban) will be released at 2019/11/13 (3 songs, 1620yen) [tracklist] 01. スノウ・フロマージュ (Snow Fromage) 02. アドレス・ア・ドレス・アクトレス(Address a Dress Actress) 03. ブライドネス (Blindness)

D new maxi-single (title unknown) will be released at 2019/11/13

as an insider tip if you want to check out the most choatic band i've ever heard in my entire life thus far make sure to check out braqkotone! their first full length is absolutely mindblowing!! although i gotta say i've listened to their songs so often by now, i don't think of them to be that chaotic anymore but it sounds just extremely sick but listen for yourself! ;D

thanks for the rec. will check them out

I've gone really far down Yuuki's instagram and ... did he really? I mean wow ❤️❤️ those are the times that will never come back I suppose

http://livesetlist529.blog133.fc2.com/blog-entry-26519.html Setlist from the second one man. Probably fake news tho, since I read on MH that a band would never play songs twice for the encore, and in here it seems like they did so twice. Sending out prayers for rands since someone clearly has it out for them posting rubbish like this

why are these girls in a band with these uglies

Hi there! I need to english translation of Insanity Injection's B.R.N Thank you in advance! ^-^ lyrics (from the booklet): Le vin du sang　des innocents Fromage de sang　bon appetit Gelée de sang　c'est tres douce, délicieux I didn't mean to kill him I am just starving to blood It's just my nature's call This is no cannibalism It's my nouvelle cuisine Assorted recipes for the new epoque 溢れ出る血液は蜜より甘く　紅血に口付け 横たわる体から血を纏い　とても甘美な快楽 言語を絶するほどのplaisir sexuel 湧き上がるlibido 抑えられず・・・ 動脈を切り裂いて喉を鳴らす　湧き上がる欲望 血に塗れてた　死体を入れ　跡形も残さず溶かす

thank you for your service to this world. i cry every time i hear 'GAME PLAYSTATION 2 OH HOOOOOOO'

I would have liked this if his voice wasn’t so high pitched and nasally. Bummer 😕

If you're a big X-Files fan you need to watch Millennium asap. It was created by Chris Carter who created X-Files. Very good series.

Idk if non vk bands get threads so I'll just post this hear but solitude a sleepless nights is dropping a mv for their upcoming single basically a day from now on and their stuff is super sick and worth checking out

If you need another fix, I'd recommend checking out DAMY. They're much better and more consistent in my opinion

oh wow but isn't it a blast from the past ^^;;

kinda late, but I would be interested in the magazines if they're still available is the Plastic Tree book a photobook? as for shipping...I guess whatever fits in a USPS flat rate box?

The Godfather .....why have i been sleeping on this, omfg ((here's to watching the rest, I got the trilogy set on a whim))

yess, i do still wanna get to it! thanks for reminding me, haha. it's just been really busy for me the past few months but i'll see if i can have a translation up sometime soon~

Your right. On second thought saying he is on par with kyo or sho sounds like exaggeration. But i gotta admit his clean singing and their music definitely reminded me of kyo and dir en grey's ballad songs which rarely happens as far as japanese musicians are confirmed. i dont understand tuning so idk about that but if tuning can make you sound this good then i dont mind it either.

Anything but deathcore

Oh come on😓😓. I was waiting more even if they left Kerberos. Hajimari hajimari was awesome and sumairu so random and unexpected...

Just received my copy of 荊海 CODA today and I can say I was expecting a bit more from them. I was disappointed to hear less of Mio's vocals than usual in 駁-baku-, and the first half of the song was just background noise to me. Sense of distrust was a lot better with actually including some solid vocals, but the song itself didn't really click with me. And after all the waiting, the third track ended up just being an SE. Nonetheless, NAZARE is still one of my favorite bands atm and I didn't actually hate the single, but I wasn't blown away by it either. I think all the hype created over hearing this release was mostly due to the fact it was so hard to even get imo. I really like the band and have to say after finally being able to give this single a listen that my favorite releases of their's still remain 荊海 BEYOND and IDEAL.

This has been on my desktop for about year and a half now xD

I really thought Vanitas -White- and Aizounitsuki -Black- were gonna be fully fleshed out acoustic remakes, that was kind of a bummer.

DGD have just released a remastered version of Acceptance Speech, along with an instrumental version. God, does it sound glorious, just so HUGE. Such an amazing time to be a fan.

Is this the same house that Asty shot their latest MV at? Japan only has one house with a pool confirmed

BTS is shaking

sometimes the only band i wanna listen to is dimlim is this good?

Instead of having the scene go around appropriating gimmicks I'd just rather have it go back to what it used to be. It's not like anything has happened in rock music in over ten years other than metalcore dying and a collective turning back the clock to feed on nostalgia, which then as a result synthesised what he have now with our impression of the past. It happened in vk too sort of with nu-metal coming back and bands getting darker and edgier, but it petered out finally once AINS was gone and now what we got is r-fucking-shitei and raido cutting themselves in music videos. The best thing that I could hope for is bands like that we got with that wave but just better, and with more (post-)punk and definitely less metal. I think a lot of band guys miss this old school attitude and music too from what I can tell from interviews, and yet they seem to be hopelessly inept in realising it. I guess they can want what they want but if the gya ain't buying it, they ain't going to do it. And since we're here I wouldn't mind something going were bands like La'cryma christi, Luna Sea, L'arc and Eins:Vier were going at their most ambitious but this will never happen. Either way I want something darker, visceral and ambitious done with the genre's already existing foundations instead of some fucking flavor of the month metal gimmick. I mean come on that's just terrible.

Jazz; it's such an underrated genre.

I second this. In general, just less of those annoying synths a lot of VK bands like to build off of these days.

i'm only hyped abt toshiya's earrings.

No "hats in VK" thread is complete without the KING OF HATS, Full (GUNIW TOOLS, NOOKICKY, SHILFEE AND TULIPCOROBOCKLES, etc).

On 2019.05.05, the band will hold a man-limited live at Live House Fever.

悪者 (Warumono) will disband at 2019/12/26.

They came for 8P-SB's entire career.