Deloras

Welcome to MH! I'm also a fan of Buck-Tick, exist trace, Dadaroma, and Div. It's always nice to hear the vk scene is still converting people! Haha. Enjoy the forum.

Hello, welcome. The only thing you can do to avoid certain musicians on this forum, is to avoid topics related to them. Also, blaming an entire scene on one band is a little naive if you ask me. 

Hello everyone~ (^-^)/
ettooo~ actually I signed up a few months ago but I was a little busy, so I totally forgot to post on this forum … but THX to senpai, I’m back !! ( I wonder if senpai’s reading this~ fufu~ ๑>ᴗ<๑ )
 
So~ let’s get straight to the point :
My name is Sara. I'm a huge fan of Japanese pop culture, especially Japanese music. I live in a country so far, far away … where you haven’t even heard of~ ^.^
 
Some little history:
 
I fell in love with J-music when I was very very young ( maybe 4 year old ) … I used to memorize Anime songs when I was in elementary school ~ haha !! ( probably I’m one of the pioneers in my country !! XD )
But I have to say  I officially became a J-fan like 5 years ago. I’ve tried different genres of J-music but I like Japanese rock and techno-pop the most.
2-3 years ago, I learned about Visual-Kei . thx to the GazettE, I didn't like it at first but thx to Sadie, I was rescued and brought back to it again, so I’m really obsessed with VK these days. As you see, I’m still new to VK, so plz be kind to me~ >/////<
 
So what brought me here, to MH ? 
 
precious REVIEWS !! ♥
I ran into some reviews on my fav band’s album and I was impressed how everyone called it GARBAGE, etc. so~ I thought “ this site is AWESOME~ I need to sign up !! yay~ “ (｡ >艸<)
just kidding, but honestly, I really enjoy reading reviews here bcuz everyone’s so knowledgeable and I think it’s such a nice thing to be honest with your feelings about a band’s release instead of hiding them just bcuz you’re their fan.
 
OK, now, some little stuff, just to know XD :
 
1.I LOVE discovering new bands and I’m always open to recommendations. So don’t hesitate to show me your fav bands !! ^.^
 
2.I’m not a native speaker, so … SAURRY MAI ENGRISH BAD~ >.<
 
3.Caution! : I have allergy to RUKI, so plz be careful, especially if you’re a Ruki-gya~ XD
 
Looking forward to meeting you all and learning from you~ Yoroshiku onegaiishimasu~ osewa ni narimasu !! (✿◠‿◠)
 
I leave you with a list of my fav artists.
 
My all time fav Japanese girl group is Perfume !! ♥♥♥
 
And here’s a list of VK bands I love/like :
 
Sadie ♥♥♥ ( as I said before, Sadie has a special place in my heart )
Alice Nine
SID
Nightmare
DIAURA
Nocturnal Bloodlust
D=OUT
Kiryu
Royz 
DaizyStripper
Versailles
Jupiter
XJAPAN
Buck-Tick
exist†trace
SuG
ScReW
GUILD
LEZARD
An Café
Vistlip
Arlequin
Codomo Dragon
Plastic Tree
 
Updated 8/30 (thx for the recs ^^) :
 
Recently, I've been really obsessed with these bands ♥__♥ :
DADAROMA
Chanty
MBHI
DIV
AvelCain
 
 
“Waiting to be checked out” list:
 
Lycaon, R-shitei, gossip, Xaa Xaa, Develop One's Faculties, DEZERT, LOTUS, D.I.D, UNiTE, Anli pollicino, avanchick, Mediena,,lilith,pentagon,12012, Kameleo, 少年記, RUVISH, Black gene for the next scene, lynch. , BORN, Moran, SCAPEGAOT,ganglion,Grieva, MUCC, D'espairRay, and many many more. Still a long way to go~ XD
 
There are also a few J-pop artists I like.

Hello everyone~ (^-^)/
ettooo~ actually I signed up a few months ago but I was a little busy, so I totally forgot to post on this forum … but THX to senpai, I’m back !! ( I wonder if senpai’s reading this~ fufu~ ๑>ᴗ<๑ )
 
So~ let’s get straight to the point :
My name is Sara. I'm a huge fan of Japanese pop culture, especially Japanese music. I live in a country so far, far away … where you haven’t even heard of~ ^.^
 
Some little history:
 
I fell in love with J-music when I was very very young ( maybe 4 year old ) … I used to memorize Anime songs when I was in elementary school ~ haha !! ( probably I’m one of the pioneers in my country !! XD )
But I have to say  I officially became a J-fan like 5 years ago. I’ve tried different genres of J-music but I like Japanese rock and techno-pop the most.
2-3 years ago, I learned about Visual-Kei . thx to the GazettE, I didn't like it at first but thx to Sadie, I was rescued and brought back to it again, so I’m really obsessed with VK these days. As you see, I’m still new to VK, so plz be kind to me~ >/////<
 
So what brought me here, to MH ? 
 
precious REVIEWS !! ♥
I ran into some reviews on my fav band’s album and I was impressed how everyone called it GARBAGE, etc. so~ I thought “ this site is AWESOME~ I need to sign up !! yay~ “ (｡ >艸<)
just kidding, but honestly, I really enjoy reading reviews here bcuz everyone’s so knowledgeable and I think it’s such a nice thing to be honest with your feelings about a band’s release instead of hiding them just bcuz you’re their fan.
 
OK, now, some little stuff, just to know XD :
 
1.I LOVE discovering new bands and I’m always open to recommendations. So don’t hesitate to show me your fav bands !! ^.^
 
2.I’m not a native speaker, so … SAURRY MAI ENGRISH BAD~ >.<
 
3.Caution! : I have allergy to RUKI, so plz be careful, especially if you’re a Ruki-gya~ XD
 
Looking forward to meeting you all and learning from you~ Yoroshiku onegaiishimasu~ osewa ni narimasu !! (✿◠‿◠)
 
I leave you with a list of my fav artists.
 
My all time fav Japanese girl group is Perfume !! ♥♥♥
 
And here’s a list of VK bands I love/like :
 
Sadie ♥♥♥ ( as I said before, Sadie has a special place in my heart )
Alice Nine
SID
Nightmare
DIAURA
Nocturnal Bloodlust
D=OUT
Kiryu
Royz 
DaizyStripper
Versailles
Jupiter
XJAPAN
Buck-Tick
exist†trace
SuG
ScReW
GUILD
LEZARD
An Café
Vistlip
Arlequin
Codomo Dragon
Plastic Tree
 
Updated 8/30 (thx for the recs ^^) :
 
Recently, I've been really obsessed with these bands ♥__♥ :
DADAROMA
Chanty
MBHI
DIV
AvelCain
 
 
“Waiting to be checked out” list:
 
Lycaon, R-shitei, gossip, Xaa Xaa, Develop One's Faculties, DEZERT, LOTUS, D.I.D, UNiTE, Anli pollicino, avanchick, Mediena,,lilith,pentagon,12012, Kameleo, 少年記, RUVISH, Black gene for the next scene, lynch. , BORN, Moran, SCAPEGAOT,ganglion,Grieva, MUCC, D'espairRay, and many many more. Still a long way to go~ XD
 
There are also a few J-pop artists I like.

Artist: Royz Single: THE BEGINNING 1. THE BEGINNING 2. 0 3. umbrella. 4. THE BEGINNING (ins.) 5. 0 (ins.) 6. umbrella. (ins.)
Rating: | The beginning of something good.
 
Knowing very little about Royz before the release of this single, I had precious little by which to gauge my excitement. I had listened to their album, "Core," back in October and thought it was decent and showed promise. Then their single, "Supernova," and it's B-side, "Alive," really blew me away. So, I guess one could say that I was pretty excited even though I wouldn't consider myself a big fan of the band. Recently, the influences of the electronic genre have pervaded almost every visual rock band in the scene and it's been a pretty divisive issue. Nonetheless, if a band blends the perfect amount of hard rock with their electronic beats, I'm going to be a fan.

"The Beginning" is an interesting one, for sure. It's quite different from not only other Royz songs, but from a lot of modern pop/rock-esque songs. It blends together a few different genres to ultimately come up with one of the catchiest rock songs of 2015 so far. This band tends to work exceedingly well as a machine of fun, post-hardcore numbers with incredible rhythm and "The Beginning" is no exception. The one possible downfall of the song is the awkward-to-annoying introduction, but once that chorus hits, you will forget about any prior mess.

Oftentimes, the B-Sides make or break the single. If you didn't enjoy the song the band is promoting, well here's something else to make you feel better. For instance, "Alive" was much better than "Supernova." On this single, the B-sides were great compliments to a great promotional single. "0" was along the same lines as most of their recent work: uplifting, fun to sing along to, and great to just lose yourself in. "Umbrella" was a bit more subdued than the previous two songs. Mid-tempo ballad range, to be exact. Subaru's voice really carries well in this song, especially the chorus, where he displays a lot of personal emotion. One of their better composed and arranged tracks. The final track, "Heil," is exactly what I thought it would be. Heavy, fast-paced, and hard-hitting. The beat is incredible and the energy isn't misplaced at all. The only true con of this number is that the melodies Subaru has created aren't exactly strong. It works with the nature of the song, but he's definitely done better.

All in all, I feel like if you want to check out this band and haven't already, I would start with their album "Core" and work from there like I did. It sets up expectations for their career in a much more realistic way.


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I liked the album, I wont listen to it as often as allot of other albums that came out this year but it wasn't awful, people will put down Sadie before they even release anything and if that's what we are going to do to them as the listeners then what motivation would they even have to make some new and crazy creative if everyone is going to say horribly mean thing's about something before they even give it a chance. If the album is so bad you can't listen to it more than once you probably shouldn't review it, your job as the reviewer is to give it multiple listen's and tell us the readers the pro's and con's of the album and as someone who also listened to the album it is not so bad that it's a 0 out of 10! Every album has good and bad but if you aren't willing to find the pro's maybe you shouldn't review!  
 
 Sadie may have made some bad album's and sound a like album's but by no means are they a terrible band! They put time and effort into making a new album for us and people are saying how terrible it's going to be before it even came out, give it a decent review and stop being so quick to call everything they do terrible, why should they even make us music if we are this mean to them? Also about the name of the album, Gangsta is obviously a strange title name for an album but they were having fun with it, would you rather it be simple and just named one of the songs? They could have just titled it Gesshoku or Howling or some other track off the album but instead they had some fun with it, that should not detract from the album just because you don't like the title! The album isn't the best but it's not terrible!! Give it a shot listen to it at least five time's before reviewing it! Know the in's and out's of the album! Well I'm done with my rant! I like the album!!!!!!!!!