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NEGA will revive for one day at Jin's birthday 2man event with ARTiCLEAR "「転生したら「儿」だった件」" on the 2020.04.02 at TSUTAYA O-WEST.

摩天楼オペラ (Matenrou Opera) new mini-album "Chronos" will be released at 2020/04/22 (2 types) Limited edition will include CD and DVD (2800yen) Regular edition will include CD only (2000yen) they will hold their oneman live tour "Chronos TOUR 2020" since 2020/05/06 at Tokyo Kinema Club to 2020/07/24 to Shinjuku BLAZE

took on the streets before deg /w @WhirlingBlack

Calling them a deg knock-off because Jin started screaming 2/3rds into their career is a bit of a stretch. Not even the DSS prog aspirations of like one song the last album really cut it for such a label. Early Nega is quintessential UCP sounding stuff that was musically going along the same broad strokes vk was in general at that time. Deg doesn't have the trade mark on screams, growls and chugs when you can find that in vk from like 2000 onwards, or 2001 in this case since Ray was already ripping off Slipknot by that time while the boys in Dir en grey were still dressed in drag.

Are people gonna really take this personal lmao

tbh without kisaki it isn't even mago, might as well be a cover band at that point. This band is so underrated I might go and resurrect the old Nega thread if there's one. Their long ballads from back in the day fuck

beyoncé did it first

breakin' holiday Dr. KAJI will depart after their live at 2020/03/25 at Shibuya REX

When they're on and firing on all cylinders, they're like the most talented vk band around and every member can play their ass off. I'm of the opinion that their concept is holding them back because it's those moments when they don't sound like something that would play in the wash room of a chinese restaurant when they're at their best. The last track from the most recent album was a great showing how they would sound without all that... you know... shit

Hey kids, this smells like a...

マザー MOTHER 3 songs will be distributed Today 2020.10.12 「アヴェマリア」(Ave Maria) 「SLAVERY DOLLY」 「MASK」 iTunes, Spotify etc https://music.apple.com/us/artist/mother/1498084610

Shazna should just release that album and stop messing around

NIGHTMARE have announced a 2020 tour alongside a 20th anniversary single release (date TBA)

yikes less than 300 views in a day lmaaoooo fucking rip yohio I can't believe how this dude can't dedicate himself to any project he starts. He can obviously rip off gazette musically, sing and scream very well and design merch for himself and what have you. And despite all that, he doesn't commit to a consistent release schedule, he doesn't stick with any project he starts ( remember the girl band? remember awoken by silence? remember this oskar he was hyping on his label? actually remember his label in general? or his podcast for that matter ) By the time a nobody vk band like Jigsaw or something has put out release after release while struggling to stay alive in cut-your-hair-or-die no welfare Japan, this dude has only flexed to an ever-dwindling number of people on twitter in an attempt to become a motivational speaker or something. He's accomplished astoundingly little after the second solo album came out and it's been years. He's obviously from a rich family and definitely hasn't worked a day in his life because his malnourished manlet child-body looks like wouldn't survive a day in the cold, so why the fuck can't he get anything done when he has all the time in the world to sit on his ass and play video games? I loved second and third DISREIGN pvs so I'm just blown away how someone can be almost legit for one minute and a total flop for the remaining 59.

New band from Nagoya "MeltyFate" has formed [members] Vo.xx Gt.xx Ba.xx Dr.xx they will hold their 1st live "Reason to Dream" at 2020/04/07 at Imaike CLUB 3STAR https://twitter.com/official_m_f

キズ (Kizu) new single, "地獄" (jigoku) will be released on 4/28 They will also hold their oneman live, "糸" on 4/18 at 下北沢GARDEN, and will also hold a separate oneman tour "地獄巡り", beginning in May!

アマノジャクシ (Amanojacushi) will release their 2nd live limited maxi single 「拝啓保護者ノ皆様へ」 (haikei hogosha no minasama he) at their ONEMAN live 「嫉妬」 (shitto) at HOLIDAY NEXT NAGOYA on 02.05.2020 for a price of 1500yen. The CD will contain 3 songs. Furthermore their 1st minialbum みつどもえ (mitsudomoe) will be released nationwide on 25.03.2020.

People are weak

The aesthetics from this era of vk are incredibly hideous and great at the same time. What's with the scarves? In another pv they have baggy pants and a guitar with a tribal symbol on it. The song rules tho Visual 'til I die

That's the entire crux of my argument. Let's stop pretending that band's didn't see what Dir en grey were doing in the mid-to-late-2000's and didn't rush to emulate their style. Some bands switched to 7 string guitars (lynch), some bands were direct copies (Sadie, 12012), some bands copied the vocal styles of Kyo (Nega, Rentrer en soi). The fact is, bands made sudden stylistic shifts when Dir en grey started getting (minimal) international recognition and it's obvious. You were around (I assume), I was around -- we all saw it in real time.

Bullshit. Nega is basic and bland compared to Dir en grey, sure; but their vocalist sure loved copying Kyo when he started incorporating a low-rent version of his high screams. Like I said, not nearly as unoriginal as Mao or Wataru; but derivative nonetheless.

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This band sucks so much dick. "Nega" is your typical mediocre mid-2000's VK band that thought aping Dir en grey was a good idea. They're second-rate. I put them a step below Sadie and 12012 in terms of unoriginal cringe; but it's close.

https://subthatsong.blogspot.com/search/label/DIMLIM this gal is translating the album and they are dissing us fans pretty hard in a couple of songs, lol

[tracklist] Tr.1 ショウジョノユメ-Instrumental- (Shoujo no Yume) Tr.2 優しさの箱 (Yasashisa no Hako) Tr.3 弱虫クエスト (Yowamushi Quest) Tr.4 City girl Tr.5 ×回目の春 (Eme no Haru) Tr.6 シャングリラ(Shngrila) Tr.7 宇宙と海月 (Uchuu to Kurage) Tr.8 見世物小屋グランギニョル (Misemonogoya Grand Guignol) Tr.9 負け犬の遠吠え (Makeinu no Touboe) Tr.10 innocent Tr.11 Call me QUEEN Tr.12 PARANOIA

That's ex.GANGLION's vivi on drums in the PV. She'll also do the drums for some of the next lives it seems. 😊

new song

Why are all of the ex-vkei-but-not-really solo projects a bastion of unhinged aesthetics

um where 🔎

Ever seen GAUZE -62045-?

I like the new song, like everything in Disreign’s Discography. Great Band, great musicians and for me one of the best bands in the "western" vk-scene. I don’t care for all the drama surrounding yohio, and i it’s difficult for him or not. i like the output of this band and i hope to hear more from them soon.

Seriously, that was my first thought too, lol.

this looks like it could be the tracklist of an early mucc album

mystery bands are still a thing in 2020, what else is new

Me loves some Reol! My girl is back to her roots here! 🤘

I love this.....

I stream to discover new music but when I like stuff I buy it. People I really like I buy physicals (vinyl if available and CDs).

We want Phantasmagoria revival too! T__T

Looks like it's another ''track 1 is the best song'' episode like with doorAdore and Ammonite... Tracks 6 and 9 also seem like they have potential but the rest isn't doing it for me 😕

o fuck. I miss them a lot actually

Album preview

These guys deserve to be one of the more talked about bands in vk, theyve been so consistently solid. Literally the only negative I can think of is that some songs on gracia had weird mixing/feedback to it but even then that's a very minor complaint.

Live videos from their oneman yesterday~ The song "万華鏡" in that second video is a new one I think! Maybe it will be released on this mini? It sounds so good!

This album rocks my socks off rn

Yup, really. It has very little of any vk signatures in it, and that's cool for a change. It's dumb and heavy and that's ok.

Extended gig report from Berlin since I did one from Warsaw a year and a half back. The scene: Berlin, shaking and dying, sporting a bloodshot visage from the night previous as usual, I had managed to score some decent vegetables from the bazaar at a rather handsome price for Germany, all in an effort to recover before the show, but I'm thinking: will these carry me over? Just how many gin tonics is too many? Either way duty calls and I head out to meet Gaz in a bar nearby, who already a few beers deep inadvertently encouraged me to go for one that was 15% and then it was off to the races. The bridge to Friedrichschain; running to take a piss somewhere in the corner I step on human shit, I was thinking that the only way that this isn't the worse thing that would happen to me today would be if they played The Final for the encore. I take out 40 euros from the ATM and it charges me 4 euros for the transaction. Fuck it. I'm getting beer, and this is the only way. No one takes card in a conspiracy to bleed me dry. I see Whirlingblack and two of our mutuals coming over; I bum a cigarette; the line is possibly the fastest moving I've ever experienced in my life, especially considering just how long it was; turns out the reason why it was moving fast was the inspection for the ticket was literally the door man taking a cursory look almost in the direction of my phone and going "boom" and letting me in. I got the ticket just the night before and it was nice to see that was for nothing. Could've used someone else's and I'll remember that next time. Lots of merch; I get nothing; I get a beer and some shots instead. In Warsaw I got three, now I got four. I've upgraded. The plan is that the second the lights go out we'll just strafe by the wall and when it gets heavy we'll just muscle our way to the center for the pit. Works every time and did so again. Okay, so the concert had exactly the same setlist as the previous, which is the full Insulated World album, World of Mercy, Merciless Cult and a rotating encore song. This was my first time seeing them with a set that was dedicated to promoting an album so I was moderately excited about that despite not being hugely into the fucking thing. This model works in a live context fairly well imo, like the mood is consistent and you get to see the thing in a slightly altered light; but most importantly of all that meant that this could just be the first time I won't get to hear The Final and an even better chance to never hear Sustain the Untruth ever again. The whole thing kicks off with Zetsuentai and the one marked difference from the 2018 tour is that the theatricality is even more present than last time. The first performances of Devote My Life and Keibetsu Hajimari went by like a blur in an underwhelming fashion, whereas now they've got synchronised head banging and a lot sharper performance by Kyo, who must've after performing all those songs like a hundred times now figured out how to make them work. The heavier stuff worked very well this time around and I wasn't the only one feeling the physicality since the crowd in Berlin was, for the most part, really good. Loud, energetic and the second I saw the pit was going I joined it and stuck by it til the very end. It wasn't even one of those usual weeb pits where you'll see people politely shoving each other, nope, it was the closest I've felt to a real one in one of these shows since 2010. Occasionally shit would be really tight like during Merciless Cult ( I actually in retrospect wish we would have gotten more old songs based on how good this was ) and Devote my life and although I'm just a bit saddened about no wall of death happening despite the chances definitely being there, it was still obviously really good; maybe even too good perhaps, because I do remember some of the looks from people nearby who weren't much having it. Too bad my philosophy is that leben ist krieg and if you're not in shape to hold your own, go to the back and sit on your phone there. By the end I remember one dude air punching himself a karate pit and at some point that enraged some other short purple haired dude; and of all the times to do this bullshit it was during the biggest surprise of the night which was NEW AGE CULTURE. I think eventually security stepped in on that dude flexing in front of his stupid girlfriend I guess. So yeah as far as the band goes, I honestly don't remember any moment when a complaint would've registered. The sound in the venue was good and that made it already just a bit better than the usual, and looking at the clips on youtube I'd say yeah, it's the usual for 2020 Deg. They're really good live rn imo, way better than before the mode of tours. One thing that has to be said tho is that Kyo did sound just a liiiiiitle more constrained that what I remember from last year. Followers is a rough fucking song to pull off, and World of Mercy has some difficult parts as well. I guess it just comes with the territory, doing all these tours like this; my opinion on the matter is that if you're actually minding shit other than your phone recording, you don't really care that much. The shows ends after the Followers, NEW AGE CULTURE and Utafumi encore that got such a loud reaction by the end that I was almost hoping for them to come back for a second encore. This was not to be however, so after picking up Die's pick from the ground by accident and waiting half a century for my jacket we scatter off into whirlingblack's hotel that was just around the corner, and what better way to cap off the gig other than washing away all the memories and a few others with a rather absurd and expensive haul for the already overpriced kiosk downstairs; and by the time I got back to my hostel all that red wine, sparkling wine, beers and a few others went back to where they came and where I should've went myself: the toilets of Berlin.

are grainy webcam photos and nasal tip piercings vk?