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How are you guys pronouncing Diaura if it's sounding like diarrhoea? da-i-a-ri-a / di-a-u-ra

"The Girl Who Didn't Hug..." makes me chuckle.

I started on Dir en grey the typical weeb way back in the day through Obscure and the Final, then backtracking from there. In my music library I star songs I like/tolerate, so going by that... Gauze [09/14] MACABRE [05/13] kisou [03/16] VULGAR [10/15] WTD. [09/14] TMAOB [00/13] Uroboros [10/15] DSS [07/16] Arche [01/16] TIW [02/13] Seems pretty typically partial to that mid weeb chunk where they were two feet in the shock bin but they were yet to fully thrust their head into the arsehole of br00tal. Shows how little lacking I am in articulated music taste, looking through OP's post and seeing some of my favourites in the worst song columns. ;-;

X-Japan the Visual Kei example of Seinfeld is Unfunny?

The absolute bitterness and salt in this topic gives me so much joy.

Can confirm.

Hizumi(D'espairsRay) - Umbrella.

NICKT. Nothing says stupid fan like basically ripping their name off.

*cough* According to the potentially erroneous tags in my music library, the following come up when searched for VisualKei/NuMetal: DEATHGAZE - BLISS OUT DEATHGAZE - CREATURE D'espairsRay - MIRROR D'espairsRay - REDEEMER (this one even I'm doubting already) DEZERT - 精神科医(拒食症)のスナッフフィルム集 DEZERT - 「暫定的オカルト週刊誌①」 DEZERT - 「最高の食卓」 DEZERT - 完売音源集-暫定的オカルト週刊誌②- DEZERT - TODAY Dir en grey - VULGAR EAT YOU ALIVE - REVIVE Girugamesh - 【獄-初犯型円盤-】初回限定盤 Girugamesh - 【理性壊乱】-乱調型円盤- Girugamesh - 13's Reborn Girugamesh - volcano Girugamesh - Reason of Crying Mucc - 朽木の灯 OZ - Versus OZ - Rouge Grains of salt, of course.

It's not VK unless it's stupid, makes no sense and has a bunch of ridiculous characters in it. Bonus if it's a garbled foreign expression. DAYS・Ｘマキーナ ha

Yes, yes and more yes. Only issue is that going through the library of D'espa shows that Karyu was the heavy lifter for composition so without him it might be a bit rough.

MISSA - Garden GAUZE - 304号室、白死の桜／アクロの丘 MACABRE - 理由 鬼葬 - undecided VULGAR - DRAIN AWAY／かすみ Withering to Death - 鼓動 THE MARROW OF A BONE UROBOROS - Inconvenient Ideal DUM SPIRO SPERO - LOTUS ARCHE - 輪郭 The Insulated World - Ranunculus I buckled and did two for GAUZE and VULGAR, my favourite of their albums and I just couldn't decide.

Awoi, Black:list, Clearveil, EAT YOU ALIVE.

funny 'cause he himself is doing a 20th anniversary album too

Fair point, I can agree.

I don't think it's so much that people are dismissive of events but rather that the scene overall is infamous for it's sleaze and underbelly. More along the vein of "this isn't all that surprising to me" as a thought, ultimately.

Ice (Eros) from XodiacK and Black Gene for the Next Scene.

I'd gladly go the rest of time without Deluhi for another UNDIVIDE album.

I believe they tried a surround sound mix and everyone's listening to it in 2.0 and it's not sounding so good, hyperbole.

I'll always love this version of Mizerable, how he holds the note at the end of the chorus is really nice.

B's used in Japanese to replace the letter V, so you could read that as cock lovin'. Which I recommend.

Your basic earphones are going to be a left and right speaker, or "stereo" I believe: 2.0 5.1 is centre, front left and right, back left and right and then bass, as far as I'm aware. Think surround sound and something cinematic, or your average pair of gaming headsets these days.

Gackt's songs in Dirge of Cerberus got me to notice Japanese music as a whole, whilst trying to find more music by him I came across a lot of visual-kei blogspots, I grew fond of bands like lynch. and DEATHGAZE very quickly. When I moved back to my home town several years ago, I decided to branch out my music tastes from just visual stuff, there was a topic posted here that was about introductions to non-visual rock groups and I found one ok rock and man with a mission. (Gackt also took me to Kamen Rider, one of the opening themes was by Shonan no Kaze, they had a song with Salu and he had done a song with Ken the 390 and T-Pablow which ended up with me bingeing on Bad-Hop and Aklo for almost a month straight.) It's all connected...