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I hate Angelo. Angelo were a lazy, low rent GARBAGE band when they debuted, and now, even with Karyu in the fold, they continue to make GARBAGE a decade later. And people buy it (apparently)! Their best songs sound like songs that weren't good enough for a Pierrot album ten years ago.
 
Versailles is a freakin' joke. They're how I imagine a Saturday Night Live skit mocking Visual would sound. If I had to genre-tag them, I'd label them Anime Convention Rock.
 
Inoran should be publicly stoned for this bullshit. This is the guy who wrote Gravity... and am I watching a music video by him or, like, Pitbull? 
 
I hate Kiyoharu releasing garbage ass new songs and calling it Kuroyume because Hitoki's playing bass. COULD YOU FUCKING NOT THANKS.

Their purple suits don't really seem pimp-like to me but rather like low budget Batman villains. Haru's hat especially makes me lol because it's a different color and material from their suits.
 
As for their releases, I'm in agreement with anakuro's opinion. コワイクライ is their most solid release but my favorite song is ララララ with 花占い and 子守歌 in a close second/third.
 死にたい is my least favorite. I only really listen to are もうすぐ雨が降るから and 不感症. I like 闇 as well but I'm just never in the mood to listen to it.
 
Also, they announced instores since I last posted in this thread and it looks like I'm going to 2 or 3 of them. I'm really curious what their メンバーとお話したいだけでしょ？&お菓子欲しいだけでしょ？ instore is gonna be like cause that sounds like one weird instore based on the description. Are they going to give us candy or something?

This was my childhood!


Crash Bandicoot: Warped (with lenticular cover)

as far as instrumentals go I love all of baroque instrumentals of course. baroque's SE, unless they changed it, is lord of the myanmar.
 
I personally really like Souiumono's ragnarok SE. Their old SE was ok but ragnarok is way better.
 
Sel'm's SE, Rebirth, is also nice. 
 
Minus Jin-Say Orchestara's 登場 is probably my favorite though as far as SEs go.
It's fun, catchy and we generally freak out those who have never seen MJO before because we all turn around at one point

 
I think those are the only SEs that I really remember out of all the bands I've seen..oops.

I wish Gackt would accidentally stand too close to a candle and have half his face melt off

Good music is enough

I like this a lot.
I'm honestly not really sadden by this but rather happy and relieved to see that Yuuki is still singing.

I like this a lot.
I'm honestly not really sadden by this but rather happy and relieved to see that Yuuki is still singing.

tanuki says every band will disband
tanuki says every bandman has a girlfriend / will get married / is married
tanuki says every bandman has an STD
tanuki says that all foreigners are stinky, have bad manners and shouldn't come to concerts
tanuki says a lot of things and sometimes it's right, sometimes it's partially right and sometimes it's wildly wrong
 
tbh if you can't read Japanese, I'd suggest not going on tanuki. There's so much slang and so many words that are used specifically for visual kei that translators will just botch it.
 
moreover you have to understand that more often than not people who are writing these things are people with a grudge taking advantage of how tanuki is anonymous. One person can write over and over pretending to be different people to make it sound more true. There are people who put their own name out there etc by themselves to get people to talk about them or to make others believe something (usually that they are "tsunagari"--have some sort of relationship with the band). 
 
the only reason to go on tanuki is for shits and giggles, not for reliable information

Definitely agree with what Tetora said. 
I think their older sound was more cohesive but recently it's definitely all over the place--but while I recognize the talent none of the newer stuff was really my thing. 
 
 
and re: CRIMZON I'm also wondering. Because actually it was CRIMZON and Rozetta that were sister labels and Rozetta bit the dust since Belmosaic and RevleZ both broke up. So now CRIMZON will only have Purple Stone and it doesn't seem like after all this time they're about to sign a new band? 
 
also, I agree about ARTLESSNESS BOY. I hope to hear it one more time...(T_T)

Strong rumour mill churning.
Sales peaked at Rank 82 in the charts, lasting one week on the charts; their last three single being their most popular.
Not high enough to be a moderately successful Indie band by chart measure alone, but not a disaster for bands in that stage of their lifecycle. There are many bands who have lasted longer with similar or even lower sales, and have been on a bigger label. They also had no major work to act as their defining moment in early career, you have to sort through shorter releases and receive a mixed bag sound wise.
Though the label has been pushing them producion and promotion wise to gain an audience, and their last PV is not location heavy but has better production than bands in the top ten of Oricon, so I would say there was a lot of expectation for them similar to the expectation that me and other fans had for a band that was so skilled in blending pop hooks into rock music.
They definitely could have gained traction, and been more successful, in my opinion.
First, they had an unpopular release approach, no album and single after single, meaning lower output of songs compared to other bands, also meaning live shows had a redundancy to them since you were always seeing a very similar performance.
Second, hard to pin down Shounenki sound signature, since their releases changed quite a bit, most new acts develop a distinct callingcard first then branch out, developing their demographic then pushing the boundary. Harder to pin down Shounenki sound and attract the market for it, even if there is one.
Then you have the style of vocals and style of band possibly clashing. Differing songs including drastic changes in some B-sides, there is a possibility that not all members always agreed or wanted to focus on making that kind of music. And again, may be hard for some fans to follow,or choose Shounenki as 'their band' when you never know what you're going to get. Most creators with a business plan develop a base first.
After that, they are all young and you never know what is going to happen, we don't know the labels plans, what kind of pressure they were under, if the label can afford all their bands at the moment, if the members can afford it, if there was a strong leader in the band, or if they had differing personalities or some major issue arise, if all members can handle the not-so-easy task of writing songs in great number to meet a schedule, etc...
Anyway, just my speculation, don't know why I wrote this. Great band, hope to hear of a new group forming soon, they could have went places, if the vocalist especially forms a new group, he especially can go places, etc...

THE GALLO's 東京破廉恥劇場 ヱデン (Tokyo harenchi gekijou Eden) has a stylistic bleep in it, though the preview on Youtube cuts out right before it
 
As for the poll I voted Mazohyst of Decadence but I also like the merry go round song.

THE GALLO's 東京破廉恥劇場 ヱデン (Tokyo harenchi gekijou Eden) has a stylistic bleep in it, though the preview on Youtube cuts out right before it
 
As for the poll I voted Mazohyst of Decadence but I also like the merry go round song.

Oh boy. I still don't understand the point of this poll, but RENTRER EN SOI easily gets my vote.
 
All that I can say about Lycaon is that they started out strong and lost their way after those members left. They sure must have some good songs in their catalogue, so I'm not gonna take away any merit or whatever from them.
 
But regarding RES, they were one of the top bands during the 00's. Hardly any band could reach the level of emotion and musicianship they were able to put into each and every one of their albums. I could easily use them as a sole recommendation for anyone who's interested in getting into Japanese music as a whole - they were that good. They decided to call it quits at the top of their game, and that's something you can almost NEVER say about a visual kei band. To be quite honest, I'm still a little heartbroken over their disbandment and it's been almost 8 years.
 
tl;dr, I'm a huge RES fanboy.

+1 to everything said here.
im not even here to troll despite the fact that lycaon being mentioned in the same breath as RES is blasphemy as i dont wish to incur blackdoll sama's wrath
i just wanna gas RES because they're insanely underrated imo. no band will ever be able to touch RES' hyper melodic older days and the metallic brutality--and despite basically playing in two opposite genres, you can clearly tell they're by the same band. so not only did they play two opposites, but they killed every style they did. no -core bands have write anything with the fury behind "growl" or "karasu iro no taiji", no one will do a ballad like as angelic as "full moon", no one can write songs as multifaceted as "metempsychosis" or "eyes of forest".
the more i wanna write, the sadder it  gets knowing that res has ended considering they could have been still active and still at the top of their game. saishuu's totally right, they left as their compositions were getting sharper and more fascinating; no band has left on a highlight as strong as theirs.
its nice that satsuki, mika and takumi are still active but had they stayed together they would have been the best band in the scene hands down.
/creys

Hey guys, let's not derail the topic and let's also try to be respectful towards the band and the fans of the band.
 
While everyone's opinions are valid, stop and think to yourself "is this really a good time and place to express my opinion?", "Will my opinion add anything of value at the present?". It's never pleasant when one of your favorites are going away, so at least try to be considerate of the fans. 

lol people were saying that back in 2008-2009 XD Oh how funny a thing time is huh?

Apparently I come to this thread when I've done a shitty closet cosplay of someone. Today's victim is Byou from Avelcain. 

To add to Flame-X's post, Part 3 of the Jojo's Bizarre Adventure anime uses Walk Like An Egyptian by The Bangles as its ending theme
 

Itadakimasu

DEZERT - Saikou no Shokutaku (Limited Edition)
Dir en grey - Average Psycho 2 (Blu-ray)

I cry
what the hell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ai1xZaEZjYo

I will be there.
Ensoku, Minus Jin-Say Orchestra, Otome Kokka and The Black Swan will also be performing that day, by the way.

I will be there.
Ensoku, Minus Jin-Say Orchestra, Otome Kokka and The Black Swan will also be performing that day, by the way.

And then there's Tara. Also Icchi and his hobby of starting bands only to "retire" 2 or 3 years later.
Too many cursed bandomen for one band to handle.