Kaye

It's been a long 10 years. Never even realized I've basically been (somewhat) here since near-start.

"Only" been using this account since September 2013 no matter what the account itself says (the downgrade to new lastfm made the reset date disappear). I usually don't have my all-time top artists show so even I'm a bit surprised with some showing. But here you go!
 

 
@CAT5I approve of Aimer.

Completely missed a few of these disbandments (or misplaced them in time) but Giru's will always stick To this day I'm still somewhat sad about that. Some weird emptiness I don't think any other band will ever be able to fill up. Then again, I was there since about 2007 so it's been a while.

Completely missed a few of these disbandments (or misplaced them in time) but Giru's will always stick To this day I'm still somewhat sad about that. Some weird emptiness I don't think any other band will ever be able to fill up. Then again, I was there since about 2007 so it's been a while.

- Every Girugamesh release until "volcano" was always written "Very special Thanks to : 蜉蝣 (Kagerou)" or something similar on the credit page.
- If you're listening to 不純愛(L), it will show up as 不純愛♥ with a big red heart on MSN. Not sure if it's the band's intention.
- The song "Bombshell" by Powerman 5000 had been often used as the opening song of their live concerts in 2004-2006.
- The bassline in Sel'm's オリエンタルリリー sounds very similar to ミッドナイト at the intro.
- The correct romanization for the song 枯咲き歌 is "Karezaki Uta".
- Sadie's 迷彩 (meisai) and Girugamesh's 【獄】 (Goku) have the same intro. (Goku was released first.)
- 拒絶された机 (kyosetsu sareta tsukue) is the only song that's still unknown who composed it.
- The shortest track ever is 男魂 (Otoko Tamashii) which is just 3 seconds length.
- The live dist. DVD 千名阪ツアー配布DVD is one of their secret releases.
- The speech "An Appeal to the Red Army" by Vladimir Lenin was used in 亡者ノ行進 (Mouja NO Koushin).
- The single 零-ゼロ- (Rei-ZERO-) was sold in advance at the live concert on March 22, 2006 (which was also the date GLAMOROUS SKY was distributed).
- The live dist. CD "jelato" had been rare for over two years until it was leaked in September 2006.
- The live dist. CD ミッドナイト (MIDNIGHT) had been a secret release of theirs until it was discovered in 2006 and leaked in mid 2007.
- 零-ゼロ- (Rei-ZERO-) was co-written by the two members of the band, Nii and Ryo.
- DEATHGAZE's abyss PV was probably shot at the same location as 終わりと未来 (Owari to Mirai) PV. (Girugamesh was first.)
- Their first oversea live was held at The Wiltern Theatre, Los Angeles on May 26, 2007 (J-Rock Revolution Festival day 2).
- The lyrics on Reason of crying regular edition booklet are handwritten by Satoshi.
- The self-titled album "Girugamesh" was released on Shuu's 23rd birthday (December 26, 2007).
- ROCKER'S from the limited edition is sightly different from the regular one at the end of the song.
- The song "stupid" doesn't have lyrics written on the booklet.
- The Girugamesh logo on MUSIC CD looks similar to Metallica's.
- Mariko Goto (ミドリ Vo.) is the guest chorus in the song evolution.
- No even singles or old songs included in the self-titled album and MUSIC.
- From the album MUSIC onwards, the whole band has been given credits together as the music composers on the booklets.
- If you don't know this guy, you're not a die hard Girugamesh fan.
- ALIVE was the first single in 3 years since 2006.
- They used the photo of a 5 year old boy as NOW album art which referred to the years that the band had been active so far at that time. (And also their mental age? XD)
- NuTz (Fly Sleep Fly Vo.) is the guest chorus in the song BEAST.
- In DIRTY STORY PV, Satoshi sings "I wanna be a sincere man, SAY!!" which sightly differs from the audio track on CD.
- In July 2010, tons of the people on Last.fm were fooled by the fake song the foolish mindcore. (Me included.)
- The title of the album GO could also refer to their fifth album. (Go = 5 in Japanese)
- The previous singles, COLOR and Inochi no Ki, included in GO were left untouched unlike the ones in their other studio albums which were at least re-recorded.
- ShuU is the collaborating bassist in the song 翻弄(Honrou) on Daisuke's last album.
- They released a song titled "pray" as a charity song via iTunes Store on April 13, 2011 to help the tsunami victims.
- "Future", a digital single, was a song used in a Russia-Japan event in 2011.
- On October 19, 2011, their OHP had become a blank page with the number 13. Later, it was revealed on October 23, 2011. (Which was the announcement about their new tour and a new live DVD to be released in February 2012.)
- Satoshi is the guest vocalist as the screamer in the song No Reason in the Pit by ROACH. More info
- They had a song tribute to Tatsurou (ムック) called たたたつろー！！. It later became 絶頂BANG!! with alternate lyrics.
- 斬鉄拳 (zantetsuken) released in 2012 was a one-type single in ages since 零-ゼロ- in 2006.
- In late 2012, the band had paused all activities and stayed quiet for almost a year in order to focus on practicing to improve their musical skills, and they made a comeback on July 22, 2013 (Which was also Nii's 29th birthday.)
- Satoshi joined another band named REDMAN as the vocalist in late 2013.
- If you order the album titles they have released so far, it's gonna be "Girugamesh MUSIC NOW GO MONSTER".
- They had two distinct songs with the same title: Intro. One is from the self-titled album, and the other is from MONSTER.
- On February 20, 2014, Nii and Ryo opened a joint Twitter account, and Ryo clarified that they both were actual blood-related brothers. This was kind of a big shock to all Girugamesh fans. It had been 10 years they kept it a secret.
- The LIVE BEST tracklist order resembles a setlist they could have played live.
- gravitation was their first one-type album ever.
- They had a live distributed album containing 25 pre-13's reborn songs (2 CDs) titled "CORE BEST" released on October 11, 2014. This was the first live distributed CD in over 8 years since Omae ni Sasageru Minikui Koe in 2006.
- In May 2015, Shuu joined the band named KEEL as the bassist.
- 2015 was the first year the band had no releases.
- On May 2, 2016, they announced their disbandment ending their 12-year music career, and the last live would be held at Zepp DiverCity on July 10, 2016. (BORN and SCREW also disbanded on the same day. Coincidentally, it was on hide's 18th death day. )
- 希望ト夜 (Kibou to Yoru) by グリーヴァ is a 【獄窓】 (Gokusou) rip off.
- ラストダンス (Last Dance) by ザアザア (Xaa-Xaa) is a Dance Rock Night rip off.
- Their last song titled "period" was distributed at the last live and available to purchase online later on; unfortunately, it was never played live.
- There is a small typo on the last live DVD booklet. 縁enishi became 緑enishi which the latter is read "midori". lol
- All the ex-Girugamesh members participated in TRIBUTE OF MUCC -縁 [en]- as 左迅×弐×愁×Яyo for the song 五月雨.

To all the people complaining that now "there won't be any news anymore" let me tell you this as a person who's written for newswebsites for years: when you see one person do 95% of the stuff, you're easily demotivated to even go and try to see if whatever news you've bumped into is already there or not. So people who want to help but aren't as quick will either see that person as an easy way out, "they'll do it, I guess. Maybe already did", or will just start believing they're simply "not good enough" to bother posting anything at all.  With such a person not around anymore, people will be more inclined to actually post a thing when they come across it. The "next gen" MH news people will show up by themselves for sure.
 
That said, Trombe did lots of work through these years, and all of it was because they felt like it. While they might not have made the best decisions concerning issues and MH as a team, the work itself can't be ignored. But doing lots of work (essentially no one's asking you to do) doesn't equal being able to do whatever the fuck you want to. Rules are rules. And they are there for every single one of us.

LP was very important to my teen self getting into bandmusic. While I wasn't nearly as much into them as I used to be in their early days I have to admit this hit me more than I thought it would.
 
Rest in peace dude, you'll be missed by a near whole generation who grow up with your voice.

I think I've said it here before, but the average Japanese person doesn't know DEG or even half the bands we talk about here. 
 
And let's be honest, these bands aren't exactly popular in the west either. But the western fan base is ridiculously rabid in the way they idolize jrock artists, and it happens in condensed, close knit online communities like this one. It gives the illusion that these bands are the biggest thing in the world. 

I don't have much to say other than that I've been here since pretty much the beginning so it's obviously been a while. Even though I'm not much of a poster these days and haven't ever really been, I remember a lot of random and fun conversations, and of course a whole lot of (unnecessary) ridiculous drama. But I guess MH wouldn't be what it is now if it hadn't gone through all of that.
 
Also never thought a VK forum would end up giving me one of my closest irl friends who I've now known for a little less than 10 years as well. But hey, adventures I guess.
 
I rolled into this place thanks to VK back then but thank you for feeding my messy interest in Japanese music of all kinds. On to a lot more years?

I don't have much to say other than that I've been here since pretty much the beginning so it's obviously been a while. Even though I'm not much of a poster these days and haven't ever really been, I remember a lot of random and fun conversations, and of course a whole lot of (unnecessary) ridiculous drama. But I guess MH wouldn't be what it is now if it hadn't gone through all of that.
 
Also never thought a VK forum would end up giving me one of my closest irl friends who I've now known for a little less than 10 years as well. But hey, adventures I guess.
 
I rolled into this place thanks to VK back then but thank you for feeding my messy interest in Japanese music of all kinds. On to a lot more years?

I don't have much to say other than that I've been here since pretty much the beginning so it's obviously been a while. Even though I'm not much of a poster these days and haven't ever really been, I remember a lot of random and fun conversations, and of course a whole lot of (unnecessary) ridiculous drama. But I guess MH wouldn't be what it is now if it hadn't gone through all of that.
 
Also never thought a VK forum would end up giving me one of my closest irl friends who I've now known for a little less than 10 years as well. But hey, adventures I guess.
 
I rolled into this place thanks to VK back then but thank you for feeding my messy interest in Japanese music of all kinds. On to a lot more years?

I don't have much to say other than that I've been here since pretty much the beginning so it's obviously been a while. Even though I'm not much of a poster these days and haven't ever really been, I remember a lot of random and fun conversations, and of course a whole lot of (unnecessary) ridiculous drama. But I guess MH wouldn't be what it is now if it hadn't gone through all of that.
 
Also never thought a VK forum would end up giving me one of my closest irl friends who I've now known for a little less than 10 years as well. But hey, adventures I guess.
 
I rolled into this place thanks to VK back then but thank you for feeding my messy interest in Japanese music of all kinds. On to a lot more years?

I don't have much to say other than that I've been here since pretty much the beginning so it's obviously been a while. Even though I'm not much of a poster these days and haven't ever really been, I remember a lot of random and fun conversations, and of course a whole lot of (unnecessary) ridiculous drama. But I guess MH wouldn't be what it is now if it hadn't gone through all of that.
 
Also never thought a VK forum would end up giving me one of my closest irl friends who I've now known for a little less than 10 years as well. But hey, adventures I guess.
 
I rolled into this place thanks to VK back then but thank you for feeding my messy interest in Japanese music of all kinds. On to a lot more years?

Dai will come back and everyone is gonna have to choose which forum we want to be apart of. IAMWILL will come back and flame anyone that says anything bad about Diru, and don't forget about KAWON either, e.t.c,
 
I miss the drama T.T but here's to another 10 years of us BSing and going into our 30s and caring about guys dressing up and looking pretty for underage girls with their over the top host club look and more bad vocals please!?

shh you'll curse it...its a new album where pierrot try covering vulgar era DEG and finally accept defeat

Their tech was fun. You could tell he fell in love with coldrain while working for them too lol. The Revelation is one of my least favorite coldrain albums, tbh. When they added the Until The End songs for the deluxe addition I liked it more, but the original version of the album I tend to skip most of it. However, VENA is in a 3-way tie with Through Clarity and The Enemy Inside for my faves. I go back to those all the time.

I've been thinking a bit about how this reminds me heavily of Girugamesh...

But, at least with Giru, the sound they were going for was just a super light Giru, whereas this...
These songs really love to oversell themselves, they go for that vast "epic" sort of stadium song feel without anything to back it up, at all. It's empty, shallow and heartless, like it was written by someone else for them, like 90% of modern major pop acts. There's no energy to it, there's no emotion, it's just generic. It's not compelling, it's just slightly nodding whilst I'm doing anything else that's far more interesting.
 
I find it funny that the American label that signed them also produces a lot of similar bands that suffer from similar issues. I'm happy for them if this is their thing, it's not often we see a band of a language other than English make it into the market but at the same time it really sucks because of what they had to give up in order to do so, to be successful you have to tick boxes, the more you appeal to the masses you appeal less to the individual. It's easy to make something that thousands will like but harder to make something that hundreds will love and I suppose at the end of the day you need to ask yourself which matters more.

I love Girugamesh but GO needs to be buried and forgotten.

Currently playing (as well as all of you gamers on MH) Final Fantasy XV.
 
Jesus this game is hard to put down. Already have 8 hours into this game, and I'm barely level 13 lol. I've been staying up late trying to play this.
I've been fishing a lot, and scouring for materials for weapons. Barely 4-5 bounties in.
The filthiest of casuals right here.
 
Compare that to my brother, who is level 18.
Already has level 4 bounty hunter status.
A crapload of better gear.
Already Murked and destroyed high level bosses, including that LV 52-53 FUCKING ARAMUSHA THE SAMURAI, when he was level 14.
Barely on chapter 2.
 
FML.

It is not at all ironic that BP sounds the same as 2NE1

you mean lynch.'s isn't Hazuki's solo project?

From what Shuu's said that's exactly the kind of project he's looking for... 
 
I wonder if it'll come to firing him though, or they'll just take a small break and try to come back like nothing happened.

Dareka, Umi wo. performed by Aimer, written by Youko Kanno
 

First time in a while Ryo has put out something I haven't cared for (and I really dig the original)