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the GazettE new live DVD/Blu-ray "LIVE TOUR18-19 THE NINTH / FINAL「第九」LIVE AT 09.23 YOKOHAMA ARENA" will be released at 2020/03/04 (4 types) Limited edition A (12045yen) will include Blu-Ray, photobook and documentary Regular edition A (6727yen) will include Blu-Ray only Limited edition B (11136yen) will include 2DVD, photobook and documentary Regular edition B (5818yen) will include DVD only their another live DVD/Blu-Ray "LIVE IN NEW YORK&WORLD TOUR19 DOCUMENTARY THE NINTH [99.999]" will be released at 2020/03/04 (2 types : Blu-ray 6864yen / DVD 5955yen they will hold their 18th anniversary oneman live "18TH ANNIVERSARY DAY/6576" at 2020/03/10 at MUSASHINO FOREST SPORT PLAZA MAIN ARENA

BITCH REPRESENT!!!! 🙌🙌🙌

if you liked this, you should see the lyrics for DESTINATION. they don't beat around the bush on there, in fact lemme:

that was awful LOOLL but i kinda like it

cant believe ruki & the boys are finally legally allowed to FUCK

We enjoy hating everything

R.I.P my poor bank account but I’m hyped af! Had a feeling after the New York performance got aired on TV in Japan it would also get a DVD release

individual look: vo.澪-mio- gt.希-nozomi- gt.由望-yuno- ba.狛-haku- dr.鞍馬-kurama-

Kagrra, always had lovely album covers but San and Shizuku have to be their best.

Damn the new single is boring.... literally nothing stood out to me. How many songs like that haven't we heard from DEG before?

I think he wanted a straighter nose, but due to the implant it also became bigger, since his nose bridge is more prominent now. Just a speculation though, not a plastic surgeon lol

Cover CD:

All I will say is that there is a reason most of us will say what we listen to most are acts like X, MM, Versailles, GazettE etc...where are the newer acts that inspire us like those ones have? But, this is largely because I feel there isn't a lot of genuine intent in it right now. Compared to having musicians that used vk as a way of self expression and adding a new dimension to the music, you mostly have standard rock bands that want to dress up because of the history of its success. I also believe the imagery has grown really homogeneous. You get people dressing exactly like more successful acts before them with no improvisation. How often do we have to see a rhythm guitarist that looks exactly like Teru? The lack of creativity is born from a place of dis-ingenuity. Visual kei has become synonymous with marketing gimmick. Of course, there was always a marketing aspect to it, but there was also a rebellious nature to it, a way of expressing one's inner self and rejecting conformity. Adults on the large seem really afraid to be this way these days. So it's quite sad! But, I believe like all things, a resurgence will come. There are people who experience the artists I enjoy for the first time now and think "This is really interesting!" For example, that youtuber who makes all those reaction videos where he experiences Japanese artists and usually really enjoys them! This has been my experience showing Japanese music to others as well. Anything that is or was a pop culture phenomenon will fade out for a bit and come back eventually in full force. Remember how vaporwave was 'ironic' at first, "haha it's so corny and 80s isn't that silly" and now so many people are creating new genres to tap into sounds and moods of the 80s and obsessing over cyberpunk themes and imagery. I don't think visual kei will be too different in the end. Let's do our best to help it grow further!

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マチルダ (Mathilda) new mini album "少女A（※17才）(Shoujo A（※17sai）)" will be released at 2019/11/02 at lives and their webshop. (7 tracks, 2900 yen, limited 300)

Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas new album "HYPERTOUGHNESS" will be released at 2019/12/04

Their new single 「花鳥風月」(kachoufuugetsu) will be released on 2019.11.13.

How would you guys rank Diru's albums?: My ranking from best to worst Gauze/Withering To Death Dum Spiro Spero Kisou Uroboros The Insulated World MACABRE Vulgar Arche The Marrow Of A Bone

here you go.... don't share outside the forum please C:/users/turtels/documents/nude_goku/dir_en_grey_-_the_world_of_more_sea.avi.exe

DIMLIM CAN'T GET OUT OF THE VISUAL KEI! It's one of the few really good bands on the scene these days. It's my favorite band of my whole life. I love visual kei, and I love that my favorite band is from this scene, it can't happen! I'm very sad about this new "logo type". I look at him and give me the impression that everything to come will be really bad ... I'm not even so excited for this second album. I hope to be wrong. DIMLIM is everything to me! 😞

Tracklist: 01. カバートアゲレツシヨン (idk how this is supposed to be romanized, KABAA TO AGERETSU SHIYON ??) 02. 少女A (Shoujo A) 03. ヴアンクシー (VANKUSHI (???)) 04. はみがきのうた (Hamigaki no Uta) 05. コンフイトランキライザー (CONFI TRANQUILIZER) 06. クレプトマニア (CLEPTOMANIA) 07. 毒キノコ (Doki KINOKO)

I still don't get the trend of calling everything sub-par DEG does, a Sukekiyo outtake. Two Very different bands. And its already been made known that this is two tracks Shinya and Kaoru brought to the table and Kyo made the suggestion of putting em together. If anything Mercy is pretty much a TIW leftover.

Their new single will be released on 2019.11.27 in 3 types. Limited edition A : 1944 yen CD : 01.初恋(Hatsukoi) 02.New song (A) DVD : 01.初恋(Hatsukoi) (PV + making-of) Limited edition B : 1944 yen CD : 01.初恋(Hatsukoi) 02.New song (B) DVD : 01.初恋(Hatsukoi) (PV + making-of) Regular edition : 1620 yen CD : 01.初恋(Hatsukoi) 02.New song (A) 03.New song (B)

Both of them will leave the band on 2019.11.03. Once again, the reason is the difference in musical direction. http://www.ogyarity.com/news/

Official release of the 0th single postponed for 2019/10/16.

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Huh, this sounds very interesting. I can imagine that being the case. And yes, I also thought most fans were into decora 😂 Oh boy, was I wrong.... I still remember people buying sex pot revenge in online shops 🤣 Seems like such a long time ago. The style of sub cultures in general is in such a decline....15 years ago there were a lot of punks and goths around, nowadays people still enjoy the music, but the stores are all closing up because people don't tend to dress to such an extreme. Ahhh, the good old 90s/early 2000s...I feel like such a grandma now.

This isn't even out with a proper preview and I already know it slaps.

WHERE THAT FUCKING FULL LENGTH PV AT MOTHAFUCKAS

This song goes so hard!!!! Who are they? 0.0

As promised, some more faves of mine (this time it's "covers that don't actually depict band members" edition, lol). deadman - in the direction of sunrise and night light Dir en grey - 鬼葬 BUCK-TICK - 天使のリボルバー

I'm a sucker for simplistic designs, so pretty much every KEEL album cover is perfect in my opinion. Plus I love consistent designs throughout a band's oeuvre and with a couple exceptions, they've kept the + pattern consistent.

I have a bad feeling the album's gonna get llll ligro'd. I really hope it doesn't though but it's vk, you always need to expect the worst.

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

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...

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

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

Finally the new single will be released on December 4.

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.

Part of this is a combination of nostalgia, selection bias, and increased access to the scene. Sure, I’ve done it too when I’ve gone through discographies of the prominent 90s and 00s bands, and thought “Wow, I don’t think the scene will ever produce classics like this again”. But then I remember that there were probably tons of cookie cutter, derivative bands back in the day that didn’t even reach the West, because no one gave a shit enough to keep and upload their discographies. Now that we have access to the entire scene by means of the internet, and social media in particular, we see all of the shit that the OG hipsters would have left behind 15+ years ago (except perhaps to mock it, see: Glam Japan). Because most of us don’t live in Japan, nor regularly attend Japanese lives, it can be hard to really gauge where these bands fit in the hierarchy of the Japanese fandom. Having access to the entire fandom now also means that we have access to all of the cringe that the fandom has to offer. How much of the observed idolfication of the scene is “new”, and how much of it is just innovating the sentiment that was already there is difficult, because most of us have no real clue of how Japanese fans acted on a daily basis in the 1990s. We can make observations on how the Western fandom has evolved, because most of us have over a decade of experience with that crowd. The only thing I’ve noticed over the years is the increasing openness to pop music, especially J-pop and K-pop. Also, a slight trend towards fixating on one band in the scene, or even one member (specifically, from the fans who also listen to K-pop).

Just cuz they weren't around for it when it came out doesn't mean they never actually listened to it. Everyone's entitled to their opinions.

lame. give me the makeup fantasy i crave.

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You can see them in any scene. People who grew up listening to somethin in their teen years will stick to that and claim that anything that didn't somehow fuel their teenage angst is worse than watever shit they blasted on while sulking because their teacher hated them or whatever. Just like people who did move on will revisit with nostalgia crappy songs they know are crappy yet love due to said nostalgia.

Lol Kisaki 😂

this boy really out here calling himself pipi,,,,