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I can't believe a guy who's almost 55 doesn't know that putting whole ass eggs in the microwave makes them explode wtf

guysssss this is clearly a reference to that totally finished new album!!!!!!! It's gonna be explosive! and FXXKIN SPICY!!!

It looks like I've had this account for nearly 10 years and have never said a word. Somewhat impressive, if you ask me. One could also assume that I'm probably old as hell. Anyhow, I'm from Finland and my musical taste is quite vast. According to my last.fm (my username being ksms) I've listened to nearly 13,000 artists, so that in itself says something. One of my absolute favourite bands is COALTAR OF THE DEEPERS, who can hop from one genre to the next within the confines of a single song, sometimes several times. I appreciate electronic bleep bloops, massive walls of sound, ethereal reverbs, minimalism, cute things, brutal things, video games, movies and so forth. Anyway, good to meet you all.

I found someone in the comments who tried the same 🙈 Well he did some good stuff back in the days. Now he reminds me of some girl with too much money that is hot to get a pic with any celeb she mets and calls them all heir friends .... Or so... Oooor maybe its just a never ending midlife crisis 🤷 Prelayout for their new album

I can't 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 why does he has to tell us stuff like that

As a 30 year old who can't grow facial hair that doesn't make me look like a sex pest, I am offended 😂

It's going to be an entire webstore identical (with some exclusive overseas only items) to the webstore that just opened tonight: https://www.dimer-tokyo.com so it will not be a proxy/third party site but rather you will be buying directly from the guys. My company will be handling the order processing, shipping, promotion and advising on what items to sell. Right now shipping is blocked from Japan to most countries so we're awaiting for that to lift and we will open a dedicated webstore, in English.

Hello! First post here. I run a company in Tokyo named Japan Music Revolution and we've just teamed up with DIMLIM to make their CDs and goods available overseas. Because of COVID-19 we are unfortunately going to be delayed in opening the webstore as we can't ship from Japan right now, however I've have taken this time to look over this thread and take into consideration fans' feelings and wishes. We have some exciting surprises to announce in the near future about what's going to be up for sale and we hope you'll like the easier, cheaper (no tenso fees!) access to the merch vs auction sites and so forth. We're planning on implementing Paypal, offer several shipping methods and overall making things as smooth and easy as possible. I'm available on Twitter and through email at [email protected] to listen to any requests; the guys are very open to suggestions on what kinds of things you'd like to be able to get your hands on. I'll post any official information as it becomes available. In the meantime, feel free to read the full announcement here and spread the news if you can: https://twitter.com/jpmusicrev/status/1256177104997081088 Thank you guys in advance for the support.

6th Single: 不貞(Futei) Release: 2020/05/29

Finally realizing that I really like Angelo; can't believe it's taken me 13 years.

Same 😔

nah, I don't trust niggaz over 30 without facial hair.

I do not like this look. Please shave, SUGIZO.

10 years in silence..... the true power of the finnish.......

The most important livestream ever was held today: deads live @ Ikebukuro CHOP 2020/05/01 deads is: Canou (MUNIMUNI) + Sou (emmurée) + Haruka (emmurée) I listed the songs/skits just for fun, unfortunately there are a few short ones I could not recognize. I bolded the ones that are the "actual serious" covers, lol. The one I marked as (2) sounds super familiar tho, probably by some early '90s poppy VK band? Or maybe it's just their "deads theme song". 03:26 - D'ERLANGER - UNDER THE PRETENSE 04:20 - D'ERLANGER - LA VIE EN ROSE (beginning/skit) 05:05 - BOOWY - BAD FEELING (beginning/skit) 06:18 - ??? (1) (beginning/skit) 07:17 - ??? (2) (beginning/skit) 07:50 - ??? (3) (beginning/skit) 08:30 - Gargoyle - Shinpan no hitomi (beginning/skit) 13:44 - ??? (2) (beginning/skit) 14:24 - BUCK-TICK - SILENT NIGHT 18:32 - Kyosuke Himuro - ANGEL (beginning/skit) 18:47 - RC SUCCESSION - ANGEL 24:46 - Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi - Captain of the Ship

You're one step ahead of me, hahaha - just tracked it down in the same place. This made my day!! Thank you!!

I found it already on Facebook!!!!!!!! I'd say your career is as legit as say nazares, even if your budget and audience are smaller, you make alot of good quality content and have many albums under your belt, in fact I was thinking of asking if you were lying about being on the bands, it's pretty insane and a career isn't really validated by economic success I believe. Just so you know I will be rocking your ep for some time this quarantine, so you made me very happy and I think you can make many others happy too, you have power

me before listening to this song: wow i am really ''craving'' some new music me after listening: haha JUSTKIDDING ; ) please follow my blog for more daily jokes & funny j-rock memes

aaaand it's cancelled but they'll do a 5days livestream on youtube Starting tomorrow at 7 pm JST. Not sure what they will show, it just says "member-devised setlist"... and it also won't be archived, sooo I'll see if I can record it.

There's also a muevo crowdfunding page for this release. Rewards because that's always fun to look at:

Welcome friend! COTD is

really gonna miss shopping for jp stuff for a while...

That video is a gem lol

This basically. I have a Miyako poster on my wall... but I think my fave album is Gozen. Very sentimental for me... it was one of the first new albums I bought from Japan and I feel like in 2002 that was no easy task.

i will let kyuho speak for me

Great song! Reminds me of this nice song from Wolf’s Rain called Gravity (also composed by Yoko Kanno, sung by Maaya Sakamoto)

Thanks for the links. Not gonna lie I admire your work alot and I'm looking for a rip of your first ep, it sounds amazing. I'm also gonna listen to your latest band for a while because I can't decide whether or not to support you

Hey, Plant! Good to see a familiar face. 😎

that explains his singing

Dope set, sis.

I will be posting coronavirus-themed songs here as well: This one is by gives, with footage from a previous livestream already posted here LUNA SEA BAROQUE and Dokusatsu Terrorist came back from the dead to release this tune

Final Fantasy XIV. Also just bought FFXII, one of the few mainline FF's I haven't played yet, but I'll wait to play it until my sub for XIV runs out in a month.

Can't believe I missed this but he did another broadcast yesterday https://live2.nicovideo.jp/watch/lv325385933 He talks about Corona being annoying, his blog, 911, the Yoshiki mastercard, the Yoshiki wine, Japanese curry, stuff like that. I like the English quiz he did in the middle of it. Also like that one Japanese person who wrote "Where the fuck is the new album" but in Japanese [so politely]. Stream has a nice message though, I'll make sure to “ネットを通じて. "Even though we are apart our hearts are connected" Yoshiki has confirmed that he will do another live broadcast for hide memorial day.

they are husband and wife

At The Beginning will be released on 27 May (CD in Japan, digital/streaming worldwide). The album is currently available for pre-order on their online shop, and orders placed by 17 April should arrive on 13 May. The album will also get an early release on Bandcamp, on 16 May. The cover, done by tobird, was inspired by the track 消失点 (Shoushitsu-ten). "The sphere of the jacket beautifully expresses the three-dimensional, clear and noisy sound of the world." "The artwork is a symbolic object that can be felt at the beginning or end, positively, negatively, naturally, or artificially." tobird set out to create something that could be put on display in someone's room. Tracklist: 1, Rainbow 2, 薔薇と子供 (Bara to Kodomo; A Rose and A Child) 3, 理解者 (Rikaisha; Supporter) 4, Dead Heaven 5, 消失点 (Shoushitsu-ten; Vanishing Point) 6, 楽園 (Rakuen; Paradise) 7, New York 8, Hamletmachine 9, 開け放たれた窓 (Ake-hanatareta mado; The Abandoned Window) 薔薇と子供 is streaming on YouTube TOUR -消失点- will go from 16 May to 11 July, and a ¥2,000 student discount will be offered on tickets. source

Now you mention it, some users and I discussed this hypothesis a months ago, and the agreement was over the fact that it may be true. It is almost impossible to explain other way how a group of little to no known indie musicians (yeah, I know Lime was in Lezard, but anyway... who the fuck are them?) launched from night to morning a project with such level of excellence both in music (compositions, recording), looks, videoclips and overall advertising campaign (remember the whole thing of the telephone number where bangya could talk to Lime to make catharsis of their suicidal thoughts? Crazy!). They definitely had a ton of money behind them to do such, and if someone risked that amount of money for funding a band of nobodies in an currently almost dead genre/scene, I think it's obvious that those investors still now take every chance and tool they have acces to to make Kizu deliver profit in the most effective and eficient way. I'm still amazed about the fact that someone decided to take said risk; if I had the money I'm not sure if I would do it considering the situation, tbh. And I'm not against it at all, because it was Kizu the band that (along Dimlim) retained the dignity of VK all this time within a scene full of ultra cringe-worthy newcomers and slowly-dying big fishes...

Someone who knows better about kpop imitating black culture should tackle this but yeah, it's a thing. Thankfully a thing that my Shinee boys don't do. Hopefully? I live in south east asia so kpop is unavoidable for me. I can only speak for myself, but what I noticed around me was that the people who first got into kpop weren't into jpop. They were 'mainstream normies' so to speak, so 2000s kpop being more accessible from the start meant that they had much greater exposure to kpop than jpop in the first place. My general impression back then was that kpop was seen as 'fresher', 'more polished' than jpop which has been around for a few years already. So there was the general public getting into kpop + jpop/vk/etc fans getting into kpop but little to no fans gained for jpop/vk. So that was that. Though it was obvious that kpop was taking trend cues from japanese music, like how early dbsk had visual kei hairstyles lol. But they quickly found a style that simply appealed more to the foreign public than jpop/vk did imo. I mean, they had government backing, so.... What I dislike about kpop is how they pigeonhole members, like oh guy 1 is the singer, guy 2 is rap and so on. It's weird how they introduce themselves explicitly like that. Of course they have their own strengths but why do that? I don't know about 2010 kpop but I think the surviving groups and artists from 2000s kpop are still quite good and are beginning to have their own musical input. I specifically like songs (partially) written and composed by Donghae of Suju for some reason: Also key's solo albums are prime kpop goodness. Odd eye best kpop album of the decade tbh, bts can't compare

It's penis music lol. Okay, I'm not here to talk shit about pop music, especially not Kpop. There's more artistic merit to it than some give it, and many perfectly sane Kpop fans get unfairly lumped in with the Stans. But man, I used to be really neutral and happy towards Kpop back when I first got into VK, y'know, being like "Hey guys, let's all get along and talk music and have fun 🤗" but then some of them got into my DMs and completely disrespected my music taste, insisted that "It's all Asian, it's the same, so you should love BTS too or something's wrong with you weeb" and I even got into a fight with one because she said some super ignorant things about--not VK or the band--but just metal music in general (didn't help that she attacked Insanity Injection whom I really like but she said "this isn't music, it's people screaming into the mic" and so I just reversed the logic with "[Kpop] is not music, it's meaningless noise created for brainless consoomers"). All of this shit wasn't even on Twitter, it was on fucking anime Instagram posts and random or VK Youtube videos. And nothing, not even saying "I don't like western pop" or "I'm not fond of Jpop myself" calms them down. I've been called racist against Asians because I don't like Kpop--never mind the fact that I'm on this forum so that says something about what I think about Asian people--I'M FROM ASIA. I don't even pass for white more than like 25% of the time... Honestly, it just makes me more and more irate as the years go by, because I was so open minded about it and willing to be friendly and actually listen to their damn band recommendations. At this rate I'll be an unironic Anti before I'm legally old enough to pour my own drinks. That background is needed to understand my current stance. I did genuinely try to get into Kpop; I started with BTS like they all tell you to and I listened to about 5 different releases of theirs. I was far from impressed. They sounded behind the times. Not in a charming way, but in a way that made me feel... Uncomfortable? I recognized the electronica-infused choruses and hip-hop inspired verses from Western pop music and even some elements from 2010s fads like tropical house production [God I hated that fad] and asked myself "Why is this any better than the white people stuff?" I don't think it is. I think it's on par, personally. I think this stems from an issue Kpop fans have. They can't just call a mediocre album a mediocre album, or even acknowledge a bad song/album because of hype. It's all got to be amazing, flawless, like the second coming of Christ. Honestly, even bands I consider to be absolutely amazing have some songs I don't hype because they're a step in wrong direction or have questionable production choices, but when I say "Yeah, this album is pretty great, but stay away from track X Y Z, they're not the best" the person receiving my recommendation often finds it funny and listens anyway, and then we can have a laugh about how weird it was for a VK band to do Ska or for the vocalist to think that now's the time to try opera vocals for the first time in his life. Sometimes I even completely shit on a band I love because they're an acquired taste or have an endearing charm and originality that lacks any and all technical savoir-faire. Personally, I don't understand how anyone from any counterculture/alternative music group (wassup punks and Goths) could be really into something mainstream at the same time, I thought we gathered around this stuff because it was alternative and had messages in it that differ from the mainstream. Sure, you could remark on all the Oshare bands that aren't particularly deep or meaningful to say that VK in general is artistically bankrupt but it also wouldn't be fair if I pretended that this whole scene is just deliciously layered social/political commentary like Diru or idiosyncratic cultural experimentalism like Guruguru Eigakan. On the mainstream aspect, I mean, the mainstream kind of defines the space that creates a counterculture. It's not what they are. Well I mean, what's not mainstream is the they, and mainstream is the us. I think this sense of othering VK bands and fans experience is central to the culture's structure, as something that exists as a byproduct of failed standard conformation. I don't know how some VK fans can up and leave for Kpop so quick. Maybe they just liked the Oshare stuff, I guess, but I can't believe they would leave behind all the great post-punk, experimental, speed metal, alt-rock, etc. groups behind when Kpop doesn't offer anything similar. When I listen to pop music, I long for that missing guitar solo, or lack of Jpop chords (if it's Western pop music). Also the PVs are completely different--least from what I see. Every Kpop group I've seen is good at dancing. Hella good. And I've been doing dance for 8 years of my life, I know good technique and stage presence when I see it. When I say that, you might be shocked to know that I still prefer VK PVs where the bandomen just stare at the camera and sulk, or dance around while playing guitar or something. There's been masterful executions of this simple formula, like in cali≠gari's 歪んだ鏡 which legit gave me nightmares of Hage Shuuji staring into my soul. Might be a false positive because that song dredges some mental trauma other than his face but my point still stands. There's also a lot of PVs that don't have killer dance moves but have a lot of creative spirit to them, like BUCK-TICK's EMPTY GIRL or literally anything Malice Mizer filmed, and that's the stuff I like the most. I've lost interest in big-budget MVs, and prefer a smaller scale spectacle.

holy shit, I used to be a huge Seiji fan until Art Cube disbanded in 2015 or whatever, then, amidst the Covid Crises I come here to see whats happening to find out he is into some Enka bullshit. Thats rad 😂

having traumatic flashbacks of this comment rn

He still seems sort of limited as a vocalist but interested nonetheless.

Sutari's new band now has a guitarist and they are still looking for a second guitarist and a drummer. In the meantime, Sutari himself has been doing covers of popular songs on Nana Music. https://nana-music.com/users/2705577 btw I found an instant classic https://nana-music.com/sounds/047e6959

Well it goes to show. Its never too late to come back to the scene

nice news!!! ;D

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