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I don’t want to live in a world where Dimlim disbands while Nazare continues to thrive

i hope they enjoyed their weekend break before they were sent back into the recording studio sweatshop

Let's start a movement by buying dimlim's next release, digital or physical... Doesn't matter. I understand most of us are broke but this is for the greater good. Issei's (possibly having a) smug smile on his face gives me cramps.

are you cold?..

The Ghost inside of Me's Museum cover is really beautiful.

I hit cancel on a post I've been working on for the past 3 hours... that was some 5 seconds of horror and disbelief. thank fuck for the restore option omg~

I so desperately want DIMLIM to survive what they’re going through rn. I agree that their next release (should be their second album) we should all attempt to support them

does it tho

They still look better without makeup than half the scene so who cares

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The world just gets better and better

Happy Earth, Wind, & Fire Day!

Now that's just depressing, imho Rijin is way better than IDEAL. I bought it both digitally and physically. And I can't stand the thought of Issei being comfortable in NAZARE, wearing a smug grin, while DIMLIM are struggling.

By the way, like a week back I was looking at Nocturnal Bloodlust's live schedule from their OHP, and it has since been removed, but iirc they were not doing anything vk related and in fact were doing gigs with metalcore bands. I wonder if they were also leaving the scene or trying to do both sides of the fence which DIMLIM used to or still does as well I guess. And Rijin selling less than Nazare is just depressing. I wasn't a huge fan but come on...

Hmm, perhaps I got the opportunity to experience Japanese music at the right time. Not only Visual Kei. I don't think it would have turned out the same way if the current state of Japanese music had been the rule in my time. Hard to imagine myself without it since it has had an impact in me to this day that today's whole Japanese music scene hasn't.

The Ghost Inside of Me - Museum The Ghost Inside of Me - Scénario Soirée The Ghost Inside of Me - Acoustic Oneman 「-unplugged nocturne-」~2018.4.6 Himitsu CLUB Anima Animus~ plus a random Kamijo's "Moulin Rouge" lim. ed. B

Not sure about that song... The 'Japanesque' stuff in it sounds kinda tacky to me, but otherwise it's an okay track.

you can read the comments too

Ten and ruze have been in the scene for ages and have never had striking looks and considering muku came out of nowhere I'm betting on him

As much as it hurts, I'm sure I would do the same if I were in their place. VK isn't nowadays a good scene to be related to in the eye of the public if you want to do actual art (at least not with 0.1mg, Chicboy and the like being around). Btw, "leaving make up" shouldn't be a radical choice; maybe they are leaving the flamboyant look for a more quiet one, I hope so.

They're on whatever digital store, itunes, apple music, play music (for android). But for their first and second singles, the digital only release doesnt contain tracks 4

The new look, bigger: Individual photos (now I can see differences on Mahiro's nose): About the single (it will be released in three types): About the tour (which is eponymous):

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The traditional instruments are the the only interesting parts of the song Imo. The video really looks cool though! Someone help me, what's with the attempt to ruin it by releasing that vocaloid version first? I've never really understood vocaloid in general but that was one of the more confusing things I've seen/heard following vk this year lol.

Dear All, Please don't take anything in this thread too personally. Whenever you find yourself getting too invested in the posts here, re-read the title. It's something we can all practice a little more.

wow racist much?

Bigger: Individual photos:

I'm always in for more Kiryu... but Kiryu isn't. Well, let's see. Today's video on B. P. records channel is about a prank which happened during the recording of the music video. Getsu

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this is such a wild statement to make regarding a scene that has a plenty of - bands that dropped putting in any resemblance of effort a single into a sell-out major contract (I'll use fucking an cafe for this to avoid the elitism punch) - bands that relied on outside producing help from people who left the music biz/passed away which let to an immediate drop in quality (see - pierrot/ex-pierrot) - which on top of that regularly happens in literally every other music scene out there; - bands/members that understandably lose enthusiasm for creating anything at all in a scene sandwiched by tangible and narrow walls and piss off to grow organic lettuce; - bands that never were anything in the first place but the gya got the HottS - and this is where bar for "elitism" drops to "minimally developed taste" - why "2010"

well I hope we're seeing new wig and beat once they secure that lynch. replacement major contract or something, but they must be pretty low on income right now for a band with this level of net hype.

lame. give me the makeup fantasy i crave.

You can also go through my posting history where I like things both new and old ( or ask anyone on this board who’s been here for longer than two minutes since they ought to know me if not in person then through the chat and my presence here otherwise) despite mainting a very firm stance on when things were better; and in addition to this I refuse to placate to the people and their opinions who I wouldn’t even piss on if they were on fire, and I most likely wouldn’t have to do that since by the time I’d get there to piss on them, these people have moved on to some other scene to adopt a new identity for themselves.

Said every VK elitist who got stuck listening to moth-ridden bands yet is still active in the scene shitting on anything post 2010 that comes out lol

Daisuke is the vocalist from THE SOUND BEE HD, and he was the singer for the band media youth back in the 90s.

If anything I feel like Sho uses growls when it fits the lyrics. Kyo, on the other hand, often seems like he just randomly makes noises.

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.

It still shocks me that people got into VK during the 90s and early 2000s. I always thought it was a MySpace era thing but seeing all the poorly aged blogs was such an eye opener. I know someone on the Diru subreddit who actually went to their Blitz 5Days concert during the Macarbe part of the tour.

Haha nice! the new site has their whole discography now

an iconic visual kei band: goes through with their long awaited return and seemingly to their former style of music by extension as well the iconic visual kei band: fucking vocaloid cover???? are you deadass????

So I just looked them up and found this: Not unusual, my arse. As an autistic person, I'm offended. How could you even say something like that in front of your child? "This school doesn't meet the standards I set for my child's education so I'll murder her". Appalling.

Autism Speaks is a fucking awful organization that demonizes people with autism and acts like its some disease. I feel like a bunch of Karens run that joint. Can’t believe people support them

@monkeybanana4 Agree ❤️ Moran's final releases were absolutely gorgeous and having them all connect was brilliant

I'm quite fond of DIAURA's Focus album cover. Regular: Limited edition: And how could I forget DELUHI's Vandalism album cover? It's my go-to profile pic on a lot of sites. Also, every Lycaon album cover with Yuuki on it because daaaamn.

9GOATS BLACK OUT - Karte this was very beautiful to me. sonically and aesthetically. it's probably one of my favourite vk releases of all time.

AvelCain was a band with good moments in a largely forgettable discography, and those moments were when they managed to sound somewhat like a band and still retain that spirit. The problem wasn't that they were raw or something ( although the general consensus on MH is still that if a vocalist wouldn't be up to scratch competing in American Idol, he's probably shit and certainly not something one could be playing to their friends and relatives, ) but that they could barely even decide on a sound between all the chinese restaurant ost gimmicks, nu metal riffs and vaguely old school ballads and freak outs; and all of this exploration was being done with minimal musicianship while still insisting on having a clean studio sound ( which sounded awful to the point of almost being reminiscent of western vk production ) and making defined songs instead of bursts of noise which they probably should've been doing instead. For every Psycho and ID they had an ocean of mediocrity that Karma's lifestyle performance art took a level above. Idk what's the totality of their composition credits but I wouldn't be surprised if everything they made themselves was shit. This project sounds like he's finally going for something, a sound with a concise aesthetic and the influences he's working with here definitely mean that this is in the right side of history even if it isn't the best thing going so poseurs leave the hall.

here everyone

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.