Tokage

sometimes you've gotta see the devil's advocate side and not play it sis

And consequently the source of much of my angst.

^ Thank you.

track 2 and 3 really are terrible

yeah pretty sad,  but not the end of the world their are plenty of alternative trackers for anime and their will be a official replacement for nyaa sooner or later. Not to mention going directly to the fabsubber's site to get your fix.

i hate you all for making me look at these

i hate you all for making me look at these [3]

what did I even expect opening this status jfc

probably plastic tree

Probably Grieva, Dir en Grey, or Kagerou. 

Probably An Cafe, A9, and The GazettE. And maybe Kiryu.

There's also a weird resurgence of fans that think downloading is morally objectionable and as such only like the 10 or so bands that got any sort of Western circulation, never diving any deeper than that.

I was under the impression this was just laziness / whiteknighting, but it could very well be there just aren't many resources for them to do so anymore. 12 years ago there TONS of blogs dedicated to sharing music for vkei and it was ofter regarded as "one of the easiest kinds of music to find" by people who didn't have the money to buy everything from iTunes. Now, it seems to be the opposite post direct download crack downs, although more groups are starting to embrace digital distribution.

I wonder how much losing lastfm played into this as well. There's next to no emphasis on trying out random small bands to appear worldly or because saw you someone else listening to it and liked their picture. It's just not cool anymore, I guess?

That's why I tend to upload random stuff I get from rarezcrates or stumble upon in my hard drive. No one asked, but more often than not it's just not online anymore since all of those upload blogs just reposted the same links rather than upping it themselves. 

I've been under the impression that this whole new-gen laziness to explore beyond like the two or three bands people decide to hyper-fixate on + the whiteknighting thing might stem from the fact that a lot of the newer fans just have no idea of how easy things used to be back during The Golden Days(tm)  and thus don't really know what they're missing out on either.

I think that losing out on something like last.fm may have played a part in the loss of the whole 'i just decided to try out this random band bc their bassist's dressed like an egg' thing for sure, though i feel like it's also kind of becoming a streaming generation thing in general to simply not bother digging deeper beyond whatever the Spotify/Youtube algorithm feeds you, isn't it? I guess RYM kind of allows for the whole 'peeping what your friends are listening to' experience as well but I feel like it's somehow still not quite the same

I personally believe it would already help out a lot if some new batch of dedicated 'curators' would spring up again. People who are deeply into particular niches of the scene w/ the knowledge, access to interesting stuff and  willingness to share for preservation's sake.. A lot of the titans from back in the day seem to have kinda 'retired' and i'm pretty sure that's had an impact as well 

Another insightful day at MH! Keep it, guys! Love reading'ya!

i'm really sorry about this. he's, as others have said, in a better place now.  i give you and your family my best wishes~

@crossparallelIt's really quite disconcerting, that sudden realization of life going on, having the potential to end just like that due to some dumb accidents etc... I mean, there is no way yu can help these things when they do happen most of the time, but still, it makes everything feel vulnerable

@itsukoii @DarkWaterThanks both of you, pretty sure my family's gonna need all the strength they can get

The GazettE will recycle it in 2.5 years anyway, so this is valid

^ i fucking laughed hard as hell

I quite liked it to be honest... the longer tracks are the best elements of the album and just for clarify, funny or not, I won't join the train "GazettE will recycle it in who knows what year" because I listen to both of them and they are different musically, even if belonging to the same genre... it's a question of shades imo.

I only liked 3 or 4 tracks so far, and a couple more will probably grow on me. shame that destrudo is a SE only. I like that it sounds like 15 recent years of visual kei throughout a single record. (keeping a faint hope that Deg will step up their western trash game for the new album.)

I only got 6 tracks in on my train ride. Nothing really jumped out at me yet, but I do agree they did a great job at making it submersive.

I already mentioned Orphaned Land and Melechesh, both whom fits the oriental folk metal bill. Myrath, Chthonic, Acyl, Dislocation, Arsh Anubis, Narjahanam and Master of Persia are others that fits that bill as well. Not all of these are folk metal though, some of them just have ome influences thrown in.

Sweet, gonna check 'em all out.

dir en grey

Every Major band has a fanclub, who release a lot of fc (limited) stuff. also if you wanna be in a fanclub you have to pay lots of money each year and the stuff you can buy as FC member are also not that cheap.  

Well, some people just love to follow their bands. if LOUDNESS does tour in Europe or America always a bunch of fans also will visit a bunch of lives. 

But that's more a matter of "having time"  a mid class money person can do it. 

But of course if you are very very rich you always have time for such tour. haha. 

Let's also take into account the kind of band though, because Japanese Rich Kids aren't likely to listen to rock music in general, unless it's really poppy, or was popular in the 80's and 90's and has a member who has connections to mainstream pop music *cough* X *cough*. While a band's merch may be expensive, their fanbase could mostly just be people who buy them at a discount. So I'd say it'd have to be a band that is pretty normie compared to other Vkei bands and really popular (remember that rich kids in Asia are normie as fuck), while also having expensive merch. 

I'd say X Japan, because they're basically famous, and have their share of expensive merch.

Is Sukekiyo Vk tho?

Neither was Dragonball, but they did it. Sure, it was shit, but who knows... lol

@Wakarimashita Case in point. May we never relive the anime holocaust that was DB Evolution.

Please no

anyone who says they arent great is a heretic and must be burned

^wait, Peace, is your infamous Moran-hatred based solely on that unfortunate Malice Mizer cover? Cause that's not fair!

I'll check out all the rec'd tracks here, thanks y'all 8D

os thwa's the vercitd so far on htta Oruyurik Ot Kaeg bmaul? Owhrt echgckni?

Are you drunk Cat? or is your keyboard just broken xD

#damn_you_autocorrect

^wtf?

goddamn レム why the fuck

Damn.... sending positive thoughts here. =(

All my best to you and your grandpa, I hope things will work out for him.

Thanks to all of you.. So far things seem to at least have stabilized, but to call it "getting better" is still a bit too early.

tokage are you meeting the pope? say hi for me

@Komorebi- My bad, that was a pretty poorly phrased joke on my behalf. I'd definitely never accuse an entire group of people of anything like that.

I'd burn him a copy of THE BUNNYGIRL PISS, just to see him smash the person nearest to him through the speaker in sheer rage.

Holy crap glad you're OK

oh my goDDDDD do u tihnk it was ur "did you know that even with seatbelts…" profile line manifesting itself

anyway I'm glad you're okay, take care x

holy shit, meme magic IS real 

im still surprised nobody managed to get hurt tho, that bus was still p. dead

If it's about loud masterings, all B. P. records catalogue from 2015 onwards. Kiryu's "Irodori" makes me regret liking them (not actually, maybe?). But I was about to make a joke about bad music ;-;

Ironically for me, a lot of early Kiryu stuff rather than later Kiryu stuff. Mostly because their early stuff (especially on Shuugetsu Heika) were engineered with too much treble, and ripped in low quality. 

DEG's Schwein no Isu, like all the Rammstein songs, bring more pain to my ears than whatever in my life... nothing has beaten that at all...

Happy Birthday~

happy turtlezday!

ayyyyyyyy

does korea have a djent scene

Korea doesn't even have porn - djent would be pushing it. lmao j/k. I dunno .>.

Huckleberry Finn! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=XLWysq6PJa0#!)

and u come back after blackdoll gets banned..... hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm

God bless you frypan

I have been back    & I'm not blackdoll

yeah i'm pretty sure there was another band with two bass players too but i cant remember atm, i know at least that Tokusatsu has NO bass player whatsoever afaik

G.O.Z. VII also had 3 guitarists btw

they also had 2 vocalists btw

Featuring school has two vocalists, two guitarists, two bassists and three drummers. Also, a guitarist and a bassist do the vocals too. Are you done?