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(Well, this is my first review here, so i hope you guys like it! ^^)
Kuroyume is one of the most influential bands within the japanese rock scene, they influenced visual kei bands and "normal" bands in many music genres, such as visual kei itself, punk rock, soft and pop rock.
Their first EP Ikiteita Chuzetsuji was relese 1992, a year where bands like Luna Sea, Gilles de Rais and L'arc~en~ciel were playing some kind of fast, dark, melodic music, a new scene was growing and taking all the attention in japanese media.
Kuroyume music was dark and agressive, it talked about suicide, depression and abortion, themes that would become very common until today by some visual kei bands.
So, lets go!
 
01.黒夢
This song starts with a kind of misterious riff that doesn´t give any tip of what is going to happen, after the intro fade out it blasts into fast drumming and a raw agressive riff, kiyoharu starts to sing repeatedly "onaji kono yume to kurai karada", this song has a nice fast solo. For some, this song may sound repetitive, the maniac feelings make this song even cooler.
8/10
 
02.狂い奴隷
The song stars with a agressive riff that was more a metal feeling, good for shake the head, i think it has the best solo in the entire album!
9/10
 
03.磔
A 2:21 minutes song that goes direct to the point, maniac vocals and fast drumming, but in a way that many kote kei bands did after them, i even heard some one call it "visual kei beat", kind of agree with that. Cool solo in this one too.
7.5/10
 
04.楽死運命
The song has a nice intro riff, it sounds evil and glooming, nice, but then, the song starts to get repetitive and feels like its going nowhere, the solo makes it, but after it, it gets boring again. God forgive me for saying that from a Kuroyume song.
6/10
 
05.親愛なるDEATHMASK
Well, this song is a classic, many say that it is one of the most influential regarding the kote kei bands, the fast drumming, maniac vocals and lyric themes made them legendary among the "true vk" fans, this kind of song became very common in the visual kei scene, until today, bands like Grieva are doing it, I like the album version better, but this version stills nail it!
9/10
 
06.鏡になりたい
This one is very different from all the other songs, different from any Kuroyume song may i say, it is just vocals and a clean guitar tone with lots of overdub and reverb. Kiyoharu sings with a lot of feeling giving a depressive feel to it, if you are not in the mood, this song may sound boring, but for me, its a very good one! In the end Kiyoharu keeps saying "shinitai", literally "i want to die", just don´t  kill yourself Kiyoharu, listen to Gazette's Tomorrow Never Dies, put a smile on that face!
9/10
 
This EP is totally a visual kei classic, if you like agressive songs with that feeling of mid 90s bands, git it a try!
Overall, the production raw in a good way, the bass is very audible, as well, usual in Kuroyume songs.
 
OVERALL:8/10

(Well, this is my first review here, so i hope you guys like it! ^^)
Kuroyume is one of the most influential bands within the japanese rock scene, they influenced visual kei bands and "normal" bands in many music genres, such as visual kei itself, punk rock, soft and pop rock.
Their first EP Ikiteita Chuzetsuji was relese 1992, a year where bands like Luna Sea, Gilles de Rais and L'arc~en~ciel were playing some kind of fast, dark, melodic music, a new scene was growing and taking all the attention in japanese media.
Kuroyume music was dark and agressive, it talked about suicide, depression and abortion, themes that would become very common until today by some visual kei bands.
So, lets go!
 
01.黒夢
This song starts with a kind of misterious riff that doesn´t give any tip of what is going to happen, after the intro fade out it blasts into fast drumming and a raw agressive riff, kiyoharu starts to sing repeatedly "onaji kono yume to kurai karada", this song has a nice fast solo. For some, this song may sound repetitive, the maniac feelings make this song even cooler.
8/10
 
02.狂い奴隷
The song stars with a agressive riff that was more a metal feeling, good for shake the head, i think it has the best solo in the entire album!
9/10
 
03.磔
A 2:21 minutes song that goes direct to the point, maniac vocals and fast drumming, but in a way that many kote kei bands did after them, i even heard some one call it "visual kei beat", kind of agree with that. Cool solo in this one too.
7.5/10
 
04.楽死運命
The song has a nice intro riff, it sounds evil and glooming, nice, but then, the song starts to get repetitive and feels like its going nowhere, the solo makes it, but after it, it gets boring again. God forgive me for saying that from a Kuroyume song.
6/10
 
05.親愛なるDEATHMASK
Well, this song is a classic, many say that it is one of the most influential regarding the kote kei bands, the fast drumming, maniac vocals and lyric themes made them legendary among the "true vk" fans, this kind of song became very common in the visual kei scene, until today, bands like Grieva are doing it, I like the album version better, but this version stills nail it!
9/10
 
06.鏡になりたい
This one is very different from all the other songs, different from any Kuroyume song may i say, it is just vocals and a clean guitar tone with lots of overdub and reverb. Kiyoharu sings with a lot of feeling giving a depressive feel to it, if you are not in the mood, this song may sound boring, but for me, its a very good one! In the end Kiyoharu keeps saying "shinitai", literally "i want to die", just don´t  kill yourself Kiyoharu, listen to Gazette's Tomorrow Never Dies, put a smile on that face!
9/10
 
This EP is totally a visual kei classic, if you like agressive songs with that feeling of mid 90s bands, git it a try!
Overall, the production raw in a good way, the bass is very audible, as well, usual in Kuroyume songs.
 
OVERALL:8/10

(Well, this is my first review here, so i hope you guys like it! ^^)
Kuroyume is one of the most influential bands within the japanese rock scene, they influenced visual kei bands and "normal" bands in many music genres, such as visual kei itself, punk rock, soft and pop rock.
Their first EP Ikiteita Chuzetsuji was relese 1992, a year where bands like Luna Sea, Gilles de Rais and L'arc~en~ciel were playing some kind of fast, dark, melodic music, a new scene was growing and taking all the attention in japanese media.
Kuroyume music was dark and agressive, it talked about suicide, depression and abortion, themes that would become very common until today by some visual kei bands.
So, lets go!
 
01.黒夢
This song starts with a kind of misterious riff that doesn´t give any tip of what is going to happen, after the intro fade out it blasts into fast drumming and a raw agressive riff, kiyoharu starts to sing repeatedly "onaji kono yume to kurai karada", this song has a nice fast solo. For some, this song may sound repetitive, the maniac feelings make this song even cooler.
8/10
 
02.狂い奴隷
The song stars with a agressive riff that was more a metal feeling, good for shake the head, i think it has the best solo in the entire album!
9/10
 
03.磔
A 2:21 minutes song that goes direct to the point, maniac vocals and fast drumming, but in a way that many kote kei bands did after them, i even heard some one call it "visual kei beat", kind of agree with that. Cool solo in this one too.
7.5/10
 
04.楽死運命
The song has a nice intro riff, it sounds evil and glooming, nice, but then, the song starts to get repetitive and feels like its going nowhere, the solo makes it, but after it, it gets boring again. God forgive me for saying that from a Kuroyume song.
6/10
 
05.親愛なるDEATHMASK
Well, this song is a classic, many say that it is one of the most influential regarding the kote kei bands, the fast drumming, maniac vocals and lyric themes made them legendary among the "true vk" fans, this kind of song became very common in the visual kei scene, until today, bands like Grieva are doing it, I like the album version better, but this version stills nail it!
9/10
 
06.鏡になりたい
This one is very different from all the other songs, different from any Kuroyume song may i say, it is just vocals and a clean guitar tone with lots of overdub and reverb. Kiyoharu sings with a lot of feeling giving a depressive feel to it, if you are not in the mood, this song may sound boring, but for me, its a very good one! In the end Kiyoharu keeps saying "shinitai", literally "i want to die", just don´t  kill yourself Kiyoharu, listen to Gazette's Tomorrow Never Dies, put a smile on that face!
9/10
 
This EP is totally a visual kei classic, if you like agressive songs with that feeling of mid 90s bands, git it a try!
Overall, the production raw in a good way, the bass is very audible, as well, usual in Kuroyume songs.
 
OVERALL:8/10

I want to imagine that those are car lights behind them and they're going to be doing Initial D-esque eurobeat.

EMIRU announced on July 22 that has opened his own music studio called "METAMORPHOSE STUDIO TOKYO"
 

Some Syndrome Tapes + Single
Matina DVD 
Fliers 
<3
 

they have played BUCK-TICK "惡の華(aku no hana)", MUCC "アカ(aka)" & LUNA SEA "FATE" at their live at Chiba ROUTE FOURTEEN at 2015/11/28
 
 
their new maxi single "Rha's Al Ghûl Gorgoneion" has been available for ordering through their official web-shop
 
[track list]
01.AVID OF SEX
02.sacred requiem
03.愛し過ぎて 刹那過ぎて 心苦しくなって(itoshi sugite setsuna sugite kokorogurushikunatte)
04.月明かりのDAYDREAM(tsukiakari no DAYDREAM)

Can ya'll just make a 'VK sucks' section on the forum so all these damn threads can go there?

SET-LIST at 2015/11/17:
 
01.秒「」深(byou「」shin) (DIR EN GREY)
02.業(karma) (DIR EN GREY)
03.予感(yokan) (DIR EN GREY)
04.JEALOUS (DIR EN GREY)
05.残-ZAN- (DIR EN GREY)
 
EN1
01.JEALOUS (DIR EN GREY)
 

the vk scene is so vast that it's only as interesting as the amount of effort you put into finding bands that interest you. for me, it really is as simple as that. as someone who unabashedly invests a lot of time in exploring new bands, i won't even pretend to know enough to make generalizations about "vk" as a whole. (but evidently these days listening to 3 bands is more than enough for ppl to prophesize that vk is dying, has died, etc.)
 
anyway i don't listen to 80% of current vk bands that i happen to know of, but whatever i'm listening to haven't gotten any less interesting/relevant to me, nor have new discoveries gotten any less exciting.

In a way I think Visual Kei could be consider a musical genre because many bands contributed to give Visual Kei a specific sound during the 90's mainly. Many have already pointed out this before. However, not all bands stick to that sound, not even the most representative bands of the style stick to it as if there is no other way out. Most Visual Kei bands experiment with different styles.
 
This topic will be always a bit complex but nowaways many people don't care about genres. Genres are something of the past.

ooo, which Lilith? the chinese band or XI/Kei's band? (there are at least 2 other Liliths but they have disbanded so i assume you aren't talking about them)
 
these 2 years have seen a lot of my favorite bands disbanding (Xepher, LUCHe., EVE, Diz, etc.), as well as a couple of bands that have gone in a direction that isn't really my thing (Belmosaic -> Xaa-Xaa, METEOROID -> MeteoroiD, Ray℃ -> zigzag) fortunately the sheer number of bands in the scene means that songs are being released at a rate 10 times faster than Trombe can do news updates - so rather than moping over the loss of my favorites, i always try to find new bands to get into. one of the most mind-boggling claims that people love circulating, usually without the tiniest shred of supporting evidence, is that 'vk today all sounds the same', which is just plainly untrue. there's enough out there to please almost everyone, do some work and you'll be rewarded.

Actually it'd be really interesting to find the earliest examples of this trend. But before anything like that happens in my head I just have to post this masterpiece. : v
 

 
Vidoll used jazzy tunes (and especially brilliant jazzy basslines) from the very beginning of their career, but Doll's bar "V.I.D" the most pure one.

Welcome to MH... BR, opa bem vindo \o/

welcome to MH land. Please keep hands and feet inside the ride at all times.
 
see you around~

Welcome to MH! I'm sure you'll fit right in  
 
 
Haha, very high! 5/5 for リライゾ, I have been blasting them all night and I saw you were listening to them just 40 minutes ago I just bought all their CDs and preordered their newest single lolol. As beni said, please join us in the chat sometimes! There you really get to know different people. It would be fun to chat more with you!

Nice to meet you, welcome to MH!~
I am well thank you, everything going good with you?
 
You'll fit right in here very nicely with that love and passion you have there. And with those bands of interest, no doubt at all! 5 stars to you dear for MEJIBRAY and AvelCain. x'3
Feel free to join in the chat you can find at the top called 'château de monochromium' as well as plug. For any questions, feel free to ask those with a blue and red name. ^^
 
Adding you on Last.fm! Thank you for that, a lot of us are on there, aha. Enjoy and see you around~

Hey guys, everything right?
I love visual kei, like i really love that, i hope meet lot of people here to share this love!
I love the old bands as i love the new ones(the good ones hehehe)
My favorite bands are:
 
Malice Mizer (Mana-Sama is god)
the GazettE
Kuroyume
Dir en grey
Luna Sea
Kagerou
Madeth Gray'll
Missalina Rei
and maaaaany others xD
 
The new ones are:
 
Dezert
AvelCain
The Black Swan
Mejibray
Grieva
Royz
Golden Bomber
and others...
 
My lastfm: http://www.lastfm.co...er/RickGazerock

Hey guys, everything right?
I love visual kei, like i really love that, i hope meet lot of people here to share this love!
I love the old bands as i love the new ones(the good ones hehehe)
My favorite bands are:
 
Malice Mizer (Mana-Sama is god)
the GazettE
Kuroyume
Dir en grey
Luna Sea
Kagerou
Madeth Gray'll
Missalina Rei
and maaaaany others xD
 
The new ones are:
 
Dezert
AvelCain
The Black Swan
Mejibray
Grieva
Royz
Golden Bomber
and others...
 
My lastfm: http://www.lastfm.co...er/RickGazerock

Hey guys, everything right?
I love visual kei, like i really love that, i hope meet lot of people here to share this love!
I love the old bands as i love the new ones(the good ones hehehe)
My favorite bands are:
 
Malice Mizer (Mana-Sama is god)
the GazettE
Kuroyume
Dir en grey
Luna Sea
Kagerou
Madeth Gray'll
Missalina Rei
and maaaaany others xD
 
The new ones are:
 
Dezert
AvelCain
The Black Swan
Mejibray
Grieva
Royz
Golden Bomber
and others...
 
My lastfm: http://www.lastfm.co...er/RickGazerock