crucifiction

In shocking and disheartening  news, the infamous Takadanobaba SUPER LIVE THEATER AREA is closing down in a little more than a year. On December 31, 2021, the venue that's housed countess VK lives from bands like Nightmare, The GazettE and DEZERT is closing its doors due to the demolition of the building its located inside. Quite a few live DVDs have been shot in AREA over the years, so it'll love on in the footage and in attendees' memories, but it is a loss for fans of VK from the 2000s.
 
 

Got some new Crucifixion boiz 

La Rêve du Fleur - pride of sorrow

I've been into VK for more than 15 years now and what I find most common when it comes to people loosing their interest in the scene stems from what has drawn them to it in the first place. From my experience, people that started "listening" to vk bands mainly for the looks and - supposedly - to feel "unique" simply grew out of it, adding up to your regular "it was just a phase" stereotype. On the other hand, the ones that, instead of drooling over bandomen pics, actually did focus on the music itself, listen to visual bands to this day.
 
The other thing, that has already been mentioned, is that some people fix their taste on one particular type of music/scene, not willing to discover anything outside of this "bubble". This can often lead to getting fed up with it which later results in them trying to find an alternative stimulator... which they are most likely going to be tired of in a few years as well.
 
As for me, I see no reason why I would ever stop enjoying the music and visuals that I used to in the past. When something is good, it's just... good, it's not going to magically change over the years.

Feeling cute, looking dead

Crucifixion has announced that Gt.琉華(Ryuka) has left the band as of 9/15. The band has also paused activities going forward due to the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
 
 

Tbh it's impossible to choose just 5 but... in no particular order:
 
Crucifixion (and in general melodic, oldschool sounding vk)
Amethystium
Within Temptation (their pre-Hydra stuff)
ColdWorld
Secret Garden
 
 

Please love this baby.

The "ATTACK ON YOSHIKI" commercial campaign launched in Japan on September 3 as a promotion for Asahi's Wonda Coffee.
The 3D CG animated character was modeled after YOSHIKI, and the thundering drum sounds were recorded live by the X JAPAN drummer himself.
 
The Wonda coffee brand will include 20 different collectible Attack on Titan character cans. Additionally, customers can enter to receive one of only 500 cans featuring Survey Corp YOSHIKI or Titan YOSHIKI.
 
YOSHIKI is a composer, classically-trained pianist, rock drummer, and the leader of the rock group X Japan, who has sold over 50 million records. He is also the composer of the Attack on Titan theme song “Red Swan” which debuted at #1 on iTunes Rock Charts in 14 countries.
 
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Got some new Crucifixion boiz 

Got some new Crucifixion boiz 

Got some new Crucifixion boiz 

KISAKI's lucky bag
FerrisWheeL - 廻想ルナシエル
En:nesia - 蠱惑
Javelin - 忘れ雪
Zephyr - St.Memories Avenue
Celia'xeno x フィオーレ - 妖怪蝶上大決戦
méffist - BIRTH of DEVIL
Forestier - 魍魎ノ箱
 
 

 
+ some Marvelous Cruelty

KISAKI's lucky bag
FerrisWheeL - 廻想ルナシエル
En:nesia - 蠱惑
Javelin - 忘れ雪
Zephyr - St.Memories Avenue
Celia'xeno x フィオーレ - 妖怪蝶上大決戦
méffist - BIRTH of DEVIL
Forestier - 魍魎ノ箱
 
 

 
+ some Marvelous Cruelty

KISAKI's lucky bag
FerrisWheeL - 廻想ルナシエル
En:nesia - 蠱惑
Javelin - 忘れ雪
Zephyr - St.Memories Avenue
Celia'xeno x フィオーレ - 妖怪蝶上大決戦
méffist - BIRTH of DEVIL
Forestier - 魍魎ノ箱
 
 

 
+ some Marvelous Cruelty

@Chell, let me recommend you some other Polish bands worth trying out:

Abraxas
 
 
 
Quidam
 
 
 
Egrimonia
 
 
Riverside
 
 
Circle of Bards
 
 
 
Beltaine
 
 
Svann (side project of Abraxas' members, featuring Anja from Closterkeller)
 
 
Madame
 
 

Scrobbling isn't recording. Last.fm uses data such as the length of a song, it doesn't analyze the content itself in any way.

Today I wanted to post a hard rock band form my ventures in Sweden which I spent 2 years as a household for the sightseeing in the Netherlands it was very fun and unique lots of friendly people and thats where a friend recommended 
 
 
Amarenthe a five piece girl fronted hard metal edm and electro genre band
With male backing vocals currently I wanted to show Massive addictive since as I've been expanding genres from obscure bands to more known from every country 
 
 
While it sounds more generic it's not sullied and over produced 
While I still try to warm up to some bands half my day is spent what should I share but little steps will take the way 
 

Ooh what a nice topic. I made something like this a while ago on some other forums I frequented and found a lot of great music from other countries. Gotta admit my hearing sucks right now so no idea if these hold up to my first impressions, but some guy made me convinced that Polish music is perfect. lol.  Wish someone could point me to good Swedish music though, hard to study without music 😢
 
Poland 
 
 
 
... so while we're at it I listen to a lot of brazilian music as well, but much of it is like "sung poetry" and not so rich/interesting instrument/rhythm-wise IMO so not sure what to rec ??
 
(hopefully other brazilian users won't see my recs or else Ill get cursed at for only listening to pop music  👀)

Do you guys still "ship" band members with other members or anyone else? 
 
I personally have grown out a bit of the yaoi, boys love shipping. The only thing i do would be BroTP maybe 🤔,stuff like those guys are best friends forever and no one can convince me otherwise. 
 

I have approx. 900 releases (don't really have the time to count the ones that are yet to be added to my Discogs profile, sorry :P): mostly CDs, some tapes and LPs. Both Japanese and non-Japanese.
 
 

A new band, called Də'mëŋ†ɪa Ṃa:liϧ, formed recently consisting of vocalist 「XXX」 and keytarist 『xxx』.
While there isn't much known about them at this point, they did announce their first release.
 
PROLOGUE~Shuukyouteki na Mousou~ (プロローグ~宗教的な妄想~) is set to be released on April 16th.
 

 
Both the design of the cover and its medium (demotape) suggest
that we can expect an interesting addition to the new wave of bands that bring back the spirit of 90s visual kei.
 
More info: https://vk.gy/blog/a-new-mysterious-band-forms-dementia-malis/

They updated the description, mail orders are eligible for this offer as well:
 
 

I've been into VK for more than 15 years now and what I find most common when it comes to people loosing their interest in the scene stems from what has drawn them to it in the first place. From my experience, people that started "listening" to vk bands mainly for the looks and - supposedly - to feel "unique" simply grew out of it, adding up to your regular "it was just a phase" stereotype. On the other hand, the ones that, instead of drooling over bandomen pics, actually did focus on the music itself, listen to visual bands to this day.
 
The other thing, that has already been mentioned, is that some people fix their taste on one particular type of music/scene, not willing to discover anything outside of this "bubble". This can often lead to getting fed up with it which later results in them trying to find an alternative stimulator... which they are most likely going to be tired of in a few years as well.
 
As for me, I see no reason why I would ever stop enjoying the music and visuals that I used to in the past. When something is good, it's just... good, it's not going to magically change over the years.