NICKT

You people didn't expect artsy angel bullshit from the project name alone? Pleb work, guys, pleb work.

to be fair this is the exact same vapid bullshit that basically every single VK band seems to use at least once in their career
(then again, mb they all have the same ghostwriter :^) )

there's a practical reason for using japanese anyway, imho
those melodic, vibrato-y, interval-jumping vocal lines vkei is known for are a lot easier to manage in a language where half the sounds are what english calls consonants & half are vowels, and where emphases aren't intrinsic to words/phrases
that's why Kyo singing in english just sounds /different/ compared to him singing the same lines in japanese; i say Kyo bc glass skin & dozing green are recorded in both versions and make for great comparisons like that.

Not to say one language is better than the other - i think on those two diru songs english actually suits them way better and i'm def not saying that bc i can understand Kyo's english better.
There's just different sounds/techniques/styles some languages have less difficulties in expressing than others, so i think there's reason for overseas bands to sing in japanese beyond just the ~aesthetic~ of it.

I definitely don't think there's anything wrong with Westerners having visual kei bands, but it would be great if their music and style was anything more than mediocre and if they weren't cringey narcissists as people. Also in terms of not being able to pull off the style, they COULD do it. I do and I'm a chubby average-looking white person. It takes a lot of practice and effort to learn to style yourself correctly, but some people are so cocky that they're convinced they're already perfect when they're only halfway there, in both fashion and music. 
 
ALSO I've literally seen people whining that "visual kei is dying" or "it isn't what it used to be" since I got into this shit in 2003. It's usually from people who have been in the scene like 2-5 years and haven't come to terms with the fact that the life expectancy of a visual kei band unfortunately includes their favs and they get bitter when all the bands they liked when they got into vk are now disbanding. 

Something about the visual kei aesthetic is lost in translation when Westerners try to do it. Let the scene influence you but to be derivative of a derivative scene is just copycat at that point. Come up with your own fashions. Set your own trends. Learn photoshop. Try not to look like a $5 Five Below reject. Small things would help me to take his opinion even slightly more seriously than I do now.

God why are all the weebs trying to say every Japanese subculture that they are into is dying?  
Oh my god guys! What are we gonna to our vizual keys are dying! Our haroojookoo fashions are no longer popular, even though they never were to begin with....

Renaissance in the west? Was it ever alive? Does anyone want it to be?

imo this sounds awesome.

Harsh vocals in visual kei are never going to happen. Bands need to stop forcing it to happen for the sake of being brutal, because those without the proper training are just fucking their throats up and it doesn't sound good. I'm reluctant to call them harsh vocals because a good majority of the time it's either screaming or grunting. Out of the few that can, the top of the list is easily Hiro from Nocturnal Bloodlust. He's the only vocalist in the scene that can do what he does. Akane from D.I.D. is second with the squeals, which bonsai and I have verified he can pull off live.
Why is that important? Any type of ranking of who does what better than whom has to take into account the live performance aspect of it. The mark of a vocalist that has truly mastered vocal fry or gutturals are being able to pull it off live and most visual kei vocalists can't hit the right singing notes live. None of them ever nail the gutturals. They always sound embarrassing and not at all like they're supposed to. Even the "best" harsh vocalists in visual kei are just barely passable from a technique standpoint, and that's when they record in the studio and can compensate for their vocalist's shortcomings.

I just expect them doing an above-average number of releases over this year to made up for that end of year incident monetary loss.
 
a live dvd/DVD bundled with something else is one of the things VK bands chug out all the time.

That cover art is LITERALLY tattoo shop window cover-core

Reminds me of Hazuki's look from Ambivalent Ideal way back when.

seems he wants to go on with the DEATHGAZE stuff but with different people
honestly i can't imagine Ai singing something different than DEATHGAZE style
his solo carrer was DEATHGAZE in disguise.he can't create a different concept like Kyo did forming sukekiyo

gate of grace is a euphemism for dis pussy

fucking gorgeous 
 

that message dead-ass sounds like LITERALLY just about every "new dark-ish vk band trying to describe their concept" post that has ever been made in the last decade or smth

...and the contestants are
1. Gackt
2. Takanori
3. Ice
4. Tzk
 
Damn, I can't think anyone else. 
 
Sorry for off topic. 

It played Gazette for me. i'm personally more triggered by this. : |

LMAO. Autoplayed music on blogs? What year is this, 2005? Myspace and Friendster doesn't even do that anymore.

I also agree w/ the other ppl here who think writing fanfiction about real people is fucking weird & kind of creepy 
 
i kind of dont rly see the point of fanfic in general anymore these days tbh, like, just focus yr creative energy on trying to write something original instead of leeching off other ppl's creations and totally derailing them???

Closer by the Chainsmokers sucks. 
F*ck, everything by them just f*cking sucks. I thought their song "Selfie" was just a joke.. turns out, "We ain't never getting older" repeated 848639751937567417^10*485018589 (A number so big, it's in scientific notation) times is not a joke, and it's authentically repetitive, generic trash. 
And the general public eats that sh*t up! I don't see what's so appealing about a bunch of autotuned guys saying the same double negative in an amount so big, it, it has to be in Scientific notation.
Then again, it's pop music. Why am I annoyed if I don't even listen to it? Because IT'S EVERYWHERE. Everywhere I go, I hear that same song. How does it not get old for people? 
Am I just a "goth" person who only listens to trash, or am I the only one with a brain that gets annoyed with monotony? 

This is not the title of their single, it just say that the title is not yet finalised. And it is not the tracklist as the first one means "live limited", the second "mail order" and the third "details to be announced" ^^