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  1. 14 points
    enyx

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    Not really sure how y'all could enjoy tracks like Rijin and Vanitas but somehow hate this. Sure they're emphasising the mathy elements more while downplaying the heavier side somewhat, but it's hardly a complete 180 from their last couple of releases or anything. Anyway I'm basically a math slut so I'll let this song have its way with me. All hail visual math kei etcetc.
  2. 9 points
    platy

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    It's fine. Dimlim have beepbooping and doing weird time signatures//structures for a while now so I don't get the complaints. It's what they do. There's a method to their chaotic songwriting imo, it doesn't sound incoherent.
  3. 8 points
    CAT5

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't this brand of indie/math (done to this extent) unprecedented in the VK scene? The sound itself may not be inherently unique, but contextually, you gotta give these boys their props. This is just the style. I can understand how it might sound chaotic and senseless to some ppl tho...and it may be that I'm biased because my ears are just acclimated to music like this. But to me, it sounds like a glitchy/IDM-like approach to composing, and you hear this type of thing done in ling tosite/Tk's solo stuff and haisuinonasa, amongst many others. The sokoninaru comparison is especially apt because they've been REALLY hammering, and in my opinion - overdoing-, this style lately. This type of composing can get REALLY tedious if overused, but I think DIMLIM did a fine job in this song of keeping things cohesive, catchy, and interesting, and not just being flashy for the sake of it. It's not an easy balance to strike, and trust me, in comparison to a lot of the stuff out there that takes a similar approach, DIMLIM are doing this style justice. Their VK leanings just make it even more special imo. That said, we'll see how well this plays out on the album...
  4. 7 points
    I think some people are missing the meaning of "conceptual" in the " MISC is a conceptual album" sentence. I mean, of course it's different from CHE DO A RA, shouldn't it be? And this notable confusion of directions, mixed bunch of ideas being throwed around would actually fit the concept of MISC., as in short of Miscellaneous, right? I'm pretty excited for this, is shaping to be a pretty interesting experience
  5. 7 points
    They dezertified themselves but at the same time got more wanky, and it works. I don’t know if I will care about an album of that but they definitely did not embarrass themselves. A bit worried about the other songs but this one is just as good as anything they did before imo
  6. 7 points
    -NOVA-

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    The unpredictability of this band is what i fucking adore. This new direction wont be for everyone of course and honestly im amazed this band is still going. They've lost 4 different members by now and dropping the vk aesthetic is a huge move. The band doesn't care about following formulas and this song really showcases that. They aren't afraid to try weird shit and even without screams you can really hear sho's voice give it all hes got. I wont lie i was hoping for a lil roar. And ofcourse Retsu's playing is nothing to scoff at hes really bringing out bunch of different techniques. Remember hes compensating for another guitarist. Hiroshi does a solid job; in final chorus he pops off with those crashes and i love that he didnt overly use them throughout the track. The build up really makes the final chorus worth while. It's not for everyone i think everyone has the right to like it or hate it.
  7. 6 points
    Saishu

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    It sounds like everyone in Sokoninaru and Develop One’s Faculties are playing at the same time while falling down the stairs
  8. 6 points
    Kaleidoscope

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    Appreciating the song more with each listen and man, Sho is pretty much the best vocalist the scene has produced in the last decade, he is improving so fast
  9. 5 points
    Saishu

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    Well still buying the album so the boys can eat
  10. 5 points
  11. 5 points
    Saga

    Sexuality matters within VK

    A easy example about how the looks don't necessarily reflect the person of a visual kei artist is the usage of the hakenkreuz by the earliests bands. We don’t see as much nowadays, but the SS caps always appears, sooner or later. Of course that there was some classic japanese punk nationalism in some bands here and there, but core of V系 was about shocking after all. So, the imaginary of the nazism is aesthetic, therefore should be used. As @薔薇の末裔 pointed out, understanding Kabuki is a good way to understand this theatrical musical scene. Kabuki in its first days was a female theater, a more accessible branch of Noh. But it was just too sexy for that confucian society. “A woman's place is in the kitchen”, said the Shogun (or it was my dad last night?). And then, the boys took the place of the woman, doing woman roles. But the boys turned out into fuckboys. “Notto disu shitto agen”, said the Shogun. And then, old man were doing woman roles. “Hmm”, long and deeply said the Shogun. Keep in mind that everyone was killing everyone in the past sengoku century, so the Shoguns could not fuck around (ha). “Ok, ok, And so what?”. Well, since being really sexy was not an option, the onnagata dudes started doing their own shit to emulate the woman sexyness. First come the fancy wig, then they started showing some little skin and so on. Little by little there was no more “man” or “woman”, but onnagata. A woman that no other woman could be. At that point, Kabuki without man doing female roles is not Kabuki. Visual kei without man doing female roles is not visual kei? I don’t think so, exist†trace showed their shit and we digged it hard. But I would say that is highly expected to see a man doing female roles in the visual rock scene. D’s “Ouka saki some ni keri” is my pick for today. The contrast of Asagi manly vocals with his woman clothing is a perfectly example of why we love it the way it is. They do it with passion (or for money), and we love them for it, not because their sexual preference. The whole pv setting is a love letter for their culture. And it is just one example, there is so many other bands with pvs with that scenary (and probably there is a “something-kei” for it too). The pompous and bold Glam Rock found it’s home in the japanese costumes and evolved into the coolest thing. To be deeper into to sexuallity stuff we could talk about how Japan society potentially repress the sexual preference of their people in order to have things working “in the right way” and how the west really needs to “talk about it” and not let the individuals be themselves without pushing some agenda into your fuckin throat so it’s fuckin hard to understand these japs using lipsticks just because they like it, but that stress me too much so fuck it.
  12. 4 points
    Bro I got this new DIMLIM song on repeat!!! I almost feel bad for all the shit I've talked about this upcoming album. It's still too early to tell, but these guys may have lowkey fulfilled one of my dreams of a fucking math/VK band. Crazy.
  13. 4 points
    emmny

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    This is actually a fantastic j-indie song LOL, lamenting the loss of the BROOTALITY but this is a really well written song and DIMLIM still shit on everyone's head PERIODT!!!!!
  14. 4 points
    filth_y

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    The "deathcore" style done in a good way (emphasis on done in a good way) is what I see the majority of people want to hear (as in most oversea fans (I do know in the idk 10 years you state your dislike for it that you arent one of those ), I feel japanese fans seem not care how a band sounds as long as it sounds 'good' and focus more on the bandmember look/behavior) The harsher/darker style done in a really good way in vk (that isnt dir) seems always missing in the scene since the bands doing it well enough change to a style that is, as you already wrote, done to death. Still good music, just creating a void again and forces people to listen to those 2nd, 3rd tier shit like Nazare etc.
  15. 4 points
    CAT5

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    THIS IS FUCKING GREAT Samples sound good too!
  16. 4 points
    nekkichi

    Sexuality matters within VK

    fuckyeahtan*ki translated a few (alleged) bandomen confessions from the satans board some years ago, and even those who aren't straight keep quiet about it. with the others (excepting the blessed 1 % of, like, Kaya?..and her dancers?..) it would be incredibly hard to tell because hyper-feminine/flamboyant straight men also exist and openly gay ones in VK keep on the masc/Morrissey-LARPer side it seems. my gaydar is completely defunct in relation to regular Japanese men, but I get off-het vibe from Kaoru (masc4masc grindr-tier), Atsushi Sakurai, Hazuki and Cummijo, already mentioned here - which all might be a part of an act. >I always liked @nekkichi and other users attempt here to call every bandoman by "her" thank u luv. it's an imprint picked up from gay twitter.
  17. 4 points
    platy

    Sexuality matters within VK

    I think the reason the musicians don't talk about it much is because they're not thinking about their sexuality. Their look is a costume, just like other performance arts have costumes. Through western perspective it's easy to analyse and put gender roles and other analytical concepts to it, but I don't think the majority of vk performers thinks about what wearing make up and feminine clothes means to them on a gender transgression level/ as an extension of their sexuality. It's simple as "as a chef I put on my white apron" "and as a member of kiryu I wear full make up and sometimes a skirt. " of course there are queer members out there who probably enjoy the freedom of visual expression in the scene but we don't know for a fact who and how many, after all, sexuality in Japan is a taboo subject that can only be broken for the sake of fanservice bucks, horny fujoshi and temporary high school exploration storylines (hello shoujo ai).
  18. 4 points
    It might sound weird from a western perspective, but visual kei is like the straightest and most homophobic music scene in Japan. We tend to look at visual kei with western eyes and mix its cultural aspects with things that belong to the western culture. Fanservice and provocations used for shock value put aside, the androgynous aesthetics of visual kei band rarely expressed anything related to gender identity and especially sexual orientation. After all, it started with people like X Japan who admittedly were inspired by glam rock bands and way of life, which I would find hard to connect to sexual orientation. Visual kei early bandomen were mostly chinpiras, bosozokus (bikers) and the likes. They really incarnated the somewhat glamrock aesthetic of riding bikes getting drunk, banging girls, etc. Of course X had their own decadent/romantic taste that made them different, and a lot of influences changed the scene over time. However, visual kei is still remains 99% driven by social outcasts looking for pussy and very rarely by something else. In Japan we also have onnagatas, who are kabuki actors specialized in female roles that are again 99% straight. Bandoman with feminine looks call themselves onnagata, not josou (crossdresser), implying that the cultural source behind their looks is not connected with crossdressing but just playing a female role in a band, but again this something that might be hard to completely understand it taken outside of Japanese culture. For example Izam, the king of all onnagatas, married more than once and has more tha one child, and outside of his role in Shazna he rarely did anything ambiguous, just like the kabuki onnagatas out of stage. Both media and fans are everything but respectful of privacy, but I've rarely seen Japanese articles or message board questioning bandomen sexual orientation. That's because the number 1 reason people do visual kei is because the girls like it (well, liked it, I am not sure this is the trend with young girls anymore). Soft Ballet/Ken Morioka are closer to Soft Cell/Marc Almond so I would not even count them as visual kei even though they had some influence on it. And of course, there are exceptions as you mentioned. The chinpira bandomen of the 90's almost extincted and younger generations bandomans are usually anime/game otakus. They grew up with different influences and values, and it would make sense if the current incarnation of visual kei instinctively appealed to more people with sexual orientation/gender identity concerns, especially after Japan started talking about these issues in a less obsolete viewpoint.
  19. 4 points
    platy

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    If it's written miscellaneous I pronounce it as that. If it's abbreviated to Misc. I always pronounce it as 'misk' 😅 I'm sure I'm not alone on this one.
  20. 3 points
    GOTCHAROCKA will release a new album this summer. Details TBA. Their schedule is usually pretty predictable. Album will probably be released early June.
  21. 3 points
    RAZOR new live DVD "RAZOR 3rd ANNIVERSARY ONEMAN TOUR III -third-@マイナビBLITZ赤坂" will be released at 2020/03/25 (6000yen) [tracklist] 1. ANOTHER 2. 消えない痛み 3. NEW ANSWER 4. 困惑 5. LIQUID VAIN 6. ADEPT 7. イノセンス 8. Choice 9. LOCUS 10. Disclosure 11. DAYBREAK 12. 千年ノ色彩 13. Labyrinth 14. ハイビスカス 15. 美醜 16. 埋葬 17. BRILLIANT 18. ADAMZ 19. 完全無欠 20. 嫌、嫌、嫌。 21. RED ZONE 22. PRIMARY their new album (title not yet finalized) will be released at 2020/05/06 it will include CD and DVD (3500yen) they will hold their oneman live tour since 2020/05/06 at OSAKA MUSE to 2020/07/03 at YOKOHAMA BAY HALL
  22. 3 points
    I dunno guize, to me it's still the same band that just decided to go in the indie rock dezert direction but just math'd up the song structure and riffs and jammed as much material in the four odd minutes as possible. I think in this case all this talk about whether it feels like its all there or that it's a mess or whether it has soul or not is just nonsense. I understand if someone thinks all the time signature shit and transitions are in bad taste, but at least in vk that's pretty novel. The chorus still 100% carries in the entire thing and that could've been in their old songs just as well as in this one.
  23. 3 points
    nekkichi

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    the guitaristé
  24. 3 points
    Zeus

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    Forgive me but I don't see what's so special about "What's up?". Sounds like a bunch of half realized ideas spread too thin over odd time signatures to me. The chorus is the only remotely memorable part. I've basically checked out of the scene and am coming fresh off CHE DO A RA so I'll ask one more time: which one of these members had the breakdown and decided to go j-indie?
  25. 3 points
    i'd much, MUCH rather take this noodly math rock stuff over deathcore any day of the week for sure, so from that POV i'm definitely not as disappointed with the samples as I could've been (plus I'm somewhat glad we didnt get any xXx_sadboigoth_xXx shit thrown at us, as unintentionally hilarious as that would've been).. At the same time, anyone who's ever listened to even a bit of non-vk j-indie probably knows this particular brand of pop math rock sound has already been done to death in that scene to about the same extent the nu-VK scene's dredged the swamp of mediocre xxxcore-influenced sounds, so I can't really see this ending up being anything other than yet another album to add to the ''vaguely sounds like cinema staff/sokoninaru/the cabs/tricot'' pile based on the samples.
  26. 3 points
    their new album "ぼくら100%死んでる" (Bokura 100% Shindesu) will be released at 2020/04/29 13 songs including SE, "ゾンビ死ス" (Zombie Shishu), etc. they will hold their oneman tour "ぼくら100%死んでる" (Bokura 100% Shindesu) since 2020/04/04 at Urawa Narciss to 2020/05/23 at 静岡Sunash
  27. 3 points
    couldn't be any less excited about this. please do something different this time? just rework donna donna into new songs and call it a day AT LEAST
  28. 2 points
    He announced at his oneman that he will have 6 consecutive CD releases this year and a free live on 4/24 at Urawa Narciss. 4/24 is Misery's (Megaromania, Lin) birthday if I'm not mistaken. http://sp.visunavimobile.com/news/352448/
  29. 2 points
    BrenGun

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    They are 100% visual kei, even the melody is vk lol but it's perfect vk. perfect melody and perfect vocal. because melody and vocal it fits 100%. 100% in harmony. non visual kei bands truly play different melody and also different vocal.
  30. 2 points
    CAT5

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    It's sho's voice and singing style. I was being half-facetious in what I said, because if they say they're aren't VK anymore, then who am to say otherwise? But that doesn't change the fact that that singing style is endemic to VK. What about you? Why do they no longer fit the criteria in your eyes?
  31. 2 points
    Definitely beats Lime's English from black rain lol
  32. 2 points
    The project is called David, like Mana’s solo project is called Moi dix Mois. He himself is still Sui.
  33. 2 points
    Axius

    DEVILOOF new double A side single release

    There 4th single will release 2020.3.11 called Devil's Calling/Angel's Cry for 1,200 ¥ Tracklist: 1.Angel's Cry 2.Devil's Calling The CD will be exclusive to mail order only on the website and will open for overseas orders eventually. No 3rd party sellers such as Tawareko, Amazon, or specialty stores etc... https://deviloof.thebase.in/items/26014879
  34. 2 points
    GuancheVK

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    Después de escuchar esto, estoy más entusiasmado con la banda Nazare ... seguro de que su nuevo álbum Menophila pateará traseros https://fnd.io/#/us/album/1495498241-misc-by-dimlim the samples sound almost the same, they look like a progressive funky rock band. I prefer its raw sound more than before .. a soft song is fine but the samples sound very bland for my taste
  35. 2 points
    I hope you can picture my jaw piercing the floor from a seventh floor and falling out of control listening to Sho. He is INSANE in the previews
  36. 2 points
    Good new for some of you. Since today, Double River Record band i.D.A started to sell some of their music also digitally. (Their first 2 singles) You can buy their music on itunes, google play etc. Of course it's also available on spotify free to listen. So if anybody is still curious about them, then please check them out! Their 3rd single will be out this APRIL! https://www.tunecore.co.jp/artist?id=362302 __ Hopefully NETH PRIERE CAIN will follow soon!!
  37. 2 points
    Komorebi

    Sexuality matters within VK

    Yeah, every single interaction I’ve had with him tells me he’s... atypical. I won’t push a label on him/her/them(?), but most gya agree he’s not straight, based on the whole way he acts, talks, moves, etc, not just looks.
  38. 2 points
    i.D.A stands for "i don't acknowledge [her]"
  39. 2 points
    Wakarimashita

    Sexuality matters within VK

    Don't get me wrong, I'm not that easy on judging someone's sexuality. In fact, I don't usually do. Bottom line is: it's none of my fucking business, but for Sena there's more than just the looks, it's more than one bell ringing if you know what I mean, lol
  40. 2 points
    same audience that leaves non-vk indie j-bands feeling disappointed and going nowhere x as a hater, it's a very easy decision! rijin was evolving on their past sound (and it already overdid some things i.e. guitar wank); this (and the majority of album samples) sounds like a product off a typical recycle spree VK bands fall into by their 2nd major album, except there's no remote chance of major labels hunting for these guys anytime soon. I'll have to say I never liked vanitas that much aside for the teapot squeal, which they don't do anymore anyway, so w/e.
  41. 2 points
    Gesu

    Sexuality matters within VK

    I'm always a bit iffy whenever I hear someone say "he must be gay, he looks it". Now, granted, stereotypes do often have a grain of truth in them whether we want to admit it or not and a lot of the time, camp men do happen to be gay but I wouldn't say it's unquestionable (even if, given the question, I would probably guess Sena was gay too so I guess I'm not trying to vehemently disagree with you). Actually, I once knew a guy who was about as stereotypically, histrionically camp as you could imagine but I know for a fact he wasn't gay. For the record, I have a shite gaydar (if that's even a thing) and can never really guess someone's sexuality accurately if I'm put on the spot to do so but the point I'm (perhaps clumsily) trying to get across here is that I don't think you can say someone is or isn't something just because they seem it or because someone on the Internet/your friend of a friend said so, especially in a scene defined by flamboyance and intricate hairstyles/makeup/costumes; basically, traits that would be considered "gay". Hell, I'm straight as a fuckin' arrow and when I was about seventeen, people used to think I was bisexual because apparently, my hair looked it, whatever that means.
  42. 2 points
    Komorebi

    Sexuality matters within VK

    As far as I know/have seen it’s kinda obvious to some gyas but they don’t really talk much about it other than the fact that he has no devoted gachikoi gya unlike the other members and that he is “cold” towards them (probably because he isn’t flirting back). It’s also common knowledge that Zyean is hot for his legs lol He’s the only bandmember I’ve met that gives me such a strong non-straight vibe. Idk about full drag on the street though. If someone did it it might be perceived as cosplay or something like that.
  43. 2 points
    TheZigzagoon

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    After listening to the previews, I’m not so worried about this album being a flop. ‘Do’ was my favourite track from Kidoairaku and I do like that these tracks follow a similar formula. However like I said earlier I wish there was still a hint of heaviness spread out here and there. Lament is probs gonna be my favourite track I can feel it, I don’t feel like ‘What’s up?’ should’ve been the song that got an MV
  44. 2 points
    zaa_zaa

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    The guitar parts are clearly written for two guitarists. I hope they will find new members. The song is good on its own.
  45. 2 points
    Kirito

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    One ok Rock.... Lol ... Miles away from this. It's excellent
  46. 2 points
    saiko

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    I'm FUCKING digging this. Excellent mix of poppy J-rock and today's metal progressive sounds, while at the same time keeps delivering Dimlim's trademark sound. Bonus points for Sho's look! The VK vibe's still there untouched!
  47. 2 points
    nekkichi

    DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release

    it def sounds like rijin's retarded mainstream sisTer, the lobotomy on the autotuned sanging parts is unreal, the lack of remotely cohesive style within a 4 minute song is something else too for a band that has been steadily regressing since the silent song they're doing well tho x
  48. 2 points
    Fucking hell I'm literally about to go to sleep lmao
  49. 2 points
    Paraph

    RAZOR

    New live DVD (3.25) and 2nd full album (5.6) announcement.
  50. 2 points
    meat

    How would you define Angura?

    My two cent is that angura-kei is a music/ visual/ theatrical exploration of the post war Japanese identity. I think a lot of artists in the Heisei period (post-Bubble and pre-millennium, so basically the 90s), the so-called "lost generation", questioned their place in a post-modern Japan that went through a century of extremes of war and peace. Some found inspiration and identified with the existential anxieties expressed by the counter-cultural movements in the 1970s, led by figureheads like Terayama Shuuji and Shibusawa. And the raccoon people have carried that subversive and transgressive context on to the present time by toying with time: some like the Inugami, Guru guru eigakan, etc. deliberately dress in pre-1945 ways with ghost/ butoh white face paint and sing about folktales and myths, as if to remind their modern audience of an innate Japaneses-ness by digging into the past; whilst the bleep bloop raccoon people, such as Metronome, Shinjuku Gewalt, etc. are trying to reconcile the technologically fast advancing future Japan with the lost identity in the present. Of course, a lot of raccoon people feel the need to dress like characters from Terayama's films and make nagomu music is probably because many were born around the 1970s and be deeply influenced by all the social upheavels then. But I think it is because of their play on time, by the subversive questioning of the past and future in a transgressive fashion, that I think set angura kei bands apart from other bands that dress in kimono or sing kayoukyoku.
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