After spending the last days getting absorbed in this discussion board and finding myself so often wanting to add my opinion I decided to join
Usually, I am not the type to participate in forums (but I do like to read them) but I really like the whole vibe here - pretty chill and mature (in a good way), not much drama or trolling.
Initially, i found this forum in search of information for the upcoming Nightmare Europe Tour, to which I also bought tickets.
I am from Germany and I just recently started to listen to VK and J Rock more again. I used to listen to that kind of music a lot from my early to mid or late twenties. At this time, I downloaded albums over a period of many days via soulseeker, limewire, etc. as there was no other way to listen to such music - that should give you a rough idea about my age
I never totally abandoned that kind of music, but I didn’t really kept up to date with the whole scene, new artists and stuff, listening only to the old stuff I already knew from time to time. Now, I want to listen more to japanese music again, discover new (or at least new to me) artists and, if possible, want to attend concerts.
What I learned so far is that it seems like Spotify might be a good source to discover new bands, but youtube has a much bigger selection. Most of the artists I used to listen to when I first started enjoying VK and J Rock are unfortunately not included in the Spotify catalogue.
If it helps anything we have two different threads with playlists
A bunch of them is on YouTube too.
Personally I am usually fine with Spotify, but I am the VK fan and I know a lot of VK bands don’t put their music on Spotify or it’s only half on it, so yeah YouTube is usually still the better choice
Welcome!! Nightmare!!! I’m glad!! I recently got into them and I was worried a little that it was a gamble to do a Europe tour but I’m so happy so many folks are planning to go, including you. What other bands do you listen to?
Finally I can answer, I already reached my limit of daily posts yesterday at around lunch time
It seems surprisingly common to return to this kind of music after some time of semi-absence I read something along those lines quite a few times in this forum.
Would be nice to met people with a similar taste in music - in the “offline world” I don’t know anyone who listens to japanese music
I do hope that their Europe tour sells well - they can then tell there musician friends about it so they know that Europe is worth a tour
I listen mostly to Miyavi’s old stuff, Malice Mizer (mostly Klaha Era), Moi Dix Mois, lynch., Hazuki, Kaya, Schwarz Stein and Közi’s Stuff. But a lot of the time I only like a few songs of a band or an artist so I wouldn’t consider myself a fan of them For example, I loooove Plastic Tree’s “Barrier”, it is one of my favourite songs from this music genre. There are also some other songs of them I like but most of them are just okay for me. But I really want to get to know more bands and artists.
I will be at the Hamburg show I live near Hamburg and it’s on a saturday, so it fits. Which show do you plan to attend?
I read something along those lines quite a few times in this forum.
