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  1. 5 points
    I post so much shit in the d*mlim threads while in reality I want them to get picked up by a decent vk indie label after they wrap up that tragic little overseas tour and get given some nice outfits and a couple support members so that ratsu would finally stfu about living his most pristinely authentic life and could focus solely on composing and producing instead of being a clown on IG
  2. 5 points
  3. 4 points
    Ruri

    How to make Visual Kei popular again?

    if vk becomes popular in the west, what will i use to scare people away when i don't want them to talk to me
  4. 4 points
    Zeus

    How to make Visual Kei popular again?

    In life? No. On Monochrome Heaven? Sure. You've already made 26 posts; that's larger than the majority of the user base tbh. Posting is the easiest thing you can do. You want to see topics about your favorite bands? Make them! Start discussion topics and write reviews. I can't read your mind and do it for you (although I really do try). When you put in genuine effort, you will be surprised by the response that you get. Maybe that response won't be immediate, and that response won't be what you thought it was or in the way you thought it would be, but it will be there. A lot of people lurk on this forum, so eye ball real estate is just as important as text responses.
  5. 4 points
    Zeus

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    The promotion amounts to an eighth baggie of weed being the album cover. I'm pretty sure it'll be loud and dank as fuck.
  6. 4 points
    Fyrnia4Maya

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    They've done good in not giving us any teasers in my opinion, now everyone is curious as to what the album will be
  7. 4 points
    CAT5

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    I don't necessarily mind if they change their sound to something more akin to ONE OK ROCK or whatever, cuz I can appreciate some of that stuff, and I can live without all the boogeyman vocals and pig squeals. I just hope that they go hard and really knock this shit out of the park, whatever it is. That said, the promotion for this album thus far has been utterly unappealing.
  8. 4 points
  9. 4 points
    Tokage

    DIMLIM

    cant stop imagining a timeline where they actually make it abroad but end up having their equipment stolen partway through the 'tour'
  10. 4 points
    -NOVA-

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    Until we hear samples i dont think its fair to make any assumptions just on the song titles. If the last release (live limited single) was an indicater of what they are trying to do im all in. Based on this teaser my guess is we are in for some weird shit. Im so here for that, they didn't get popular doing the same things every other metal band did. They tried weird shit from the beginning and have consistently delivered.
  11. 4 points
    Gesu

    random thoughts thread

    I can hardly find a single job that wouldn't make me blow my brains out and it's making me want to blow my brains out.
  12. 3 points
    heffalump-eater

    Hello!

    Hello! My name is Alice! ❤️🎐 My favorite vk bands are Pinokiwo, Sandwich de 120pun?, Elektal Shiki, Shu~Furuma~Ju, ErecSia and Maria Cross. I also love anime, mainly really cute ones and really gorey ones. I'm also super into older video games like on Game Boy Color, WonderSwan, Pokémon mini, Tamagotchis, and PS1&2. Some fun facts about me are I write surreal poetry, collect fake Pokémon cards, and make music as Garden Angel. My biggest passion is music and while I love vk, emo genres are my most cherished so if ya ever want to talk about emo with someone, I'm your girl. My favorite music genres are midwest emo, emo-pop, emo, emocore, emoviolence, screamo, scenecore, crunkcore, nintendocore, cybergrind, lolicore, breakcore, electropop, synthpop, experimental, noise, country, bluegrass, Appalachian folk music, and anything weird, nostalgic, or annoying haha. Thank you for readin' this mess. (^~^) Anyways, I hope to get to know y'all and meet others who like the same bands as me (although if ya hate 'em that's totally fine too :p).
  13. 3 points
    Zeus

    DIMLIM

    > please stop stealing and buy more albums > tfw all your albums are out of stock or on 2-4 week back order Like I get it. Piracy is a net loss leader for DIMLIM. But when all your albums are sold out and you (Retsu, not you) keep bitching about piracy, you look completely unaware to what the real problems plaguing the band are. We can't buy your music even if we wanted to, and I'd love a copy of CHE DO A RA tbh.
  14. 3 points
    the final deal breaker was when they saw that he was a part of some group called Al-icenine
  15. 3 points
    Poor dude. Immigration office prolly read his name as Hirohito.
  16. 3 points
    Jigsaw9

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    This will either be completely mind-blowing or laughably awkward, and I'm here for both.
  17. 3 points
    ya'll bunch of INFIDELS when the boys have ever disappointed you since that drummer dude left? HAVE FAITH
  18. 3 points
    platy

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    They're gonna end up sounding like Screaming Inside Can Kill aren't they? RIP. Good or bad, it'll be entertaining to see the aftermath of this album.
  19. 3 points
    Tokage

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    this aesthetic & tracklist are both SCREAMING ''we want the nu-Bring Me The Horizon audience''
  20. 3 points
  21. 3 points
    nomemorial

    DIMLIM

    lofi hiphop radio - beats to delay your album/not wear makeup to
  22. 2 points
    CULA ended their "first chapter" at O-WEST today, but we won't have to wait long for chapter II! https://twitter.com/OfficialCula/status/1217057905825869824 Two lives (pre-consept 💀) have vebeen announced, as well as a new release in Spring (Probably named 煙痕-ENKON- as well) PRE-CONSEPT STAGE 3/3 「黒煙の筵」新宿 (Shinjuku) clubSCIENCE 3/15 「白煙の筵」恵比寿 (Ebisu) clubaim https://twitter.com/OfficialCula/status/1217070460770250752
  23. 2 points
    Royz new maxi-single "DAYDREAM" will be released at 2020/03/18 (4 types) Limited edition A (1980yen) will include CD (2 songs) and DVD including "DAYDREAM" PV & making Limited edition B (1980yen) will include CD (2 songs) and DVD including "DAYDREAM" PV multingle ver Regular edition C & D (1650yen each) will include CD (3 songs with different track 3) and karaoke ver they will hold their oneman live tour "DAYDREAM" since 2020/03/21 to 2020/05/29 at Mainabi BLITZ Akasaka
  24. 2 points
  25. 2 points
    Not to sound like a hipster but i usually associate with stuff becoming more popular also becoming more bland and boring (with rare exceptions) so I'm kind of happy with this being as niche and small as it is. Last thing I'd really wanna draw in is crowds that act like kpop or ariana grande fans lol
  26. 2 points
    sleepy coffee

    DIMLIM

    Tbf piracy is a digital thing and you can buy their stuff digitally. Not being able to buy a copy physically sucks but it shouldn't be a reason you resort to pirating (doesnt apply to their live limited stuff)
  27. 2 points
    Zeus

    How to make Visual Kei popular again?

    You have to be the change you want to see.
  28. 2 points
    Demivee

    DIMLIM

    Yeah they should take good care of that laptop with samples.. 🙃
  29. 2 points
    chocobuzz

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    dimlim should just join forces with 8p-sb at this point and become the ultimate "what the absolute fuck happened" band
  30. 2 points
    I'm not exactly sure what people are sad about, there's plenty of good jrock music out there, vkei too, there are some decent bands, newer and older that still remains. In regards to Japan making things popular, as some people mentioned before, the Japanese artists are starting to take advantage of twitter, youtube, instagram, spotify, apple music etc. that is recent, I mean, even Arashi did history last month I think (or november) with the opening of all the SNS accounts, they even have a Netflix documentary with subtitles in all language. As Japan opens more to the new ways SNS works, the artists will have more reach to overseas audiences, big acts like Arashi will be the ones to create interest in global audiences to look at what Japan is doing. Our generation back in the 90's were used to investigate/dig more, but young people nowadays do not investigate.. they just consume what's in front of them in the SNS, so it's important for Japan to follow that transition, even if it's a bit late. But the bands are still there doing good music, so we can just enjoy it while it exists the major income for bands is concerts, and all the active bands do a lot of touring around Japan, that is enough for have sufficient earnings and continue their music activities. Also, Japan is the 2nd biggest music market, they really don't need the global market that much, so it's still a good thing to see what they are doing to penetrate SNS more, even when they don't need it.
  31. 2 points
  32. 1 point
    platy

    random thoughts thread

    The manga has a beautiful style and the short has adapted it well into animation.
  33. 1 point
    Saishu

    DIMLIM

    Well the problem is that Retsu was whining about people pirating Kidoairaku. You know, the live limited release that was only available at ONE live in Japan.
  34. 1 point
    suji

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    release date has been finalized as 1/28
  35. 1 point
    Saishu

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    They didn’t get popular at all based on the current situation, but they also weren’t doing anything different or weird either. At least not to western ears
  36. 1 point
    nekkichi

    DIMLIM

  37. 1 point
    Kabukichoatmidnight

    DIMLIM

    The funniest thing about that is Retsu takes himself so seriously he doesn't realise he's actually being hilarious.
  38. 1 point
    Saga

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    I_don't_know_what_the_fuck_is_going_on.jpg
  39. 1 point
    nekkichi

    DIMLIM

    he has good potential for stand-up comedy after quitting vk/music scene for good x
  40. 1 point
    you have to pay ten dollars to leave???
  41. 1 point
    Zeus

    random thoughts thread

    .,...this might explain why i've gained so much weight recently
  42. 1 point
  43. 1 point
    Ikki

    Your last music-related buy!

    I haven't been able to post what I have purchased recently because I've been working 12 hours/7 days a week since November. Too lazy to post exactly what I got. The Dog in the PWO single is extra copy of one that I already owned, but I haven't opened it to see which bonus cover was included. Also, here's my recent KPOP trash haul just because no one asked for it.
  44. 1 point
    nekkichi

    random thoughts thread

    so I've posted this in the vk popularity thread a few days ago and today I'm accidentally stumbling up this glorious gothic lolita queen: her first globally-released album came out in Europe first despite being recorded in the US, with a 3rd press released through starwave mail order & limited 10 copies the end records; she played with Courtney Love and a bunch of other Real musicianS which you can look up on wiki and for the past 10 + years she only does theatre w/o venturing into music. which probably has some correlation to how VK would have been received in an imaginary scenario with US music industry picking up on it same way game dev used to do with wEirD'n'QuIRkY Japanese games in early 2000s.
  45. 1 point
    Ah now I see clear. Their masterplan was to step away from VK so that they can‘t be crowned for the worst rollout in VK history. 😂
  46. 1 point
    donwea

    How to make Visual Kei popular again?

    I think the fatal blow to visual kei, at least in Japan, will come when Kiryu disband, after all along with R-Shitei (RIP?) are the most important bands that emerged from 2007 to now
  47. 1 point
    I always bite my lip when this comes up in general discussions about rock music because I never want be or sound like the sour adult who's mad that a scene they loved is dying out, but this, from what I observe, is true. I don't know what it is, but rock music doesn't seem to be picking up with the zoomers like it did with previous generations (yes, rock music has always been an alternative scene, but it still had a notable presence both in the charts and in fans). Now add that to the fact that once rock stars like Radke and Barker have implemented hip hop to their work and rock music aesthetics have been adapted by rappers and other pop music musicians, and it feels like our presence is nearing irrelevancy further than ever. It's also a hard yes to what you mentioned about how what would have been the present-day vk western fandom is now just another part of the kpop fandom and that point hits an emotional string in me because it was that realization that first made me notice how a taste for rock music seems rarer than ever with today's kids. I worked as a substitute teacher when I was in university and got to work around middle schoolers frequently and at some point it dawned on me that all the kids who were really into anime were also really into kpop. If I thought about that crowd in my day , that would have been the crowd where you would find the vk-fan kids (which as mentioned in other comments were in large responsible for the perceived popularity vk had around 2010). Anime is more popular than ever/Japanese fashion is more mainstream in the west than ever, and scene/emo fashion is popular again. All these trends are moving along. What's not being taken with them is rock music. And that hurts like heck to write. All of that being said, I would love to see zoomers make me eat my words and have them experience a proper rock movement of their own. But at the moment, that's just not what I'm seeing. Mind you there are some kids who still like rock music and vk, but their numbers are considerably lower than what we had in the 2000's.
  48. 1 point
    "You can't make something popular again if it wasn't popular in the first place " was my initial thought when seeing this thread. We could aim for a revival of the scene we had in 2010ish, but even back then it wasn't actually popular. At least not at the level of things like Kpop or the emo music scene. And if "making it popular" meant morphing it into something it's not, I'd rather it not get popular. The 2010 boom happened naturally and a number of factors were lined up just right for it to happen. Fabricating something to intentionally make it popular (like the kpop scene or the kardashians got done to them) sounds like we might lose some of the things that make vk unique in itself.
  49. 1 point
    Himeaimichu

    How to make Visual Kei popular again?

    Visual Kei was, and pretty much always will be a counterculture movement with a cult following. Things come and go in popularity. That's been the case with Nu Metal, Eurodance, etc. Part of it is the fact that Harajuku culture is dead and J-Fashion is so toned down, and a proper J-Fashion revival is possible, but no matter what, Visual Kei isn't going to be the mainstream phenomenon it barely even was at one point. Its always gonna be a niche movement with niche music tastes. Japanese people and Americans always have, and always will be mainstream taste-wise. Thats the nature of things. No use getting mad about it, because there really is nothing you can really do about it. Just enjoy Visual Kei while it's still a thing.
  50. 1 point
    I have only scanned the rest of the posts here but so far haven't seen anyone mention Issei from Nazare. You all know. lol.
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