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This entire Dark Age movement has slain me! Frankly, I hadn't liked The GazettE's previous releases for the past 2-3 years but DOGMA really took my attention, Ugly didn't disappoint and I'm really looking forward to Undying!

It sounded pretty boring, and sounds uncannily similar to the Girugamesh song :/

1: Do you buy multiple versions of releases, or buy at all? (Judgement-Free-Zone) It depends. If I have enough money, I'll splurge and buy all the releases, but if I'm broke (which I am 90% of the time), I won't buy any at all ;; 2: Do you collect cheki or other non-music related items from bands? I wouldn't necessarily say I "collect" cheki since I only have a couple, but I DO collect flyers, I have a ton of them. 3: Follow them on Ameblo, Twitter? Yup, I even have notifications for a few. 4: Would you follow them on the street? No, that's just really creepy. Like, really. 5: Dig through their trash? (Judgment-Free-Zone) Of course not, it's not that serious lmao 6: Does Visual Kei or other forms of your musical taste influence your style or personal life? It has. I started wanting to wear darker colors all of a sudden, and buy chokers, and wear different colored braids and such. But I think that's a good thing. I feel more comfortable wearing more "nu goth" type of fashion than what I usually wear or used to wear in the past. 7: Desire to move or visit Japan influenced by music? Hell yes. I'd even go as far to say that my love for Japanese music has influenced me to start learning the language and reading about the history and culture. 8: Do you read dirt-sheets of bands, like rumours, gossip, etc...? Yup. 9: Ever fantasize about being friends with band members? (JFZ) I'm so happy that it says "friends" and nothing more because yes! Anything else is just....really idk and never gonna happen so why make myself upset? :'D 10: Do you want to be in a Visual Kei band (or any other kind of band)? I have no talent but it's something to dream about. I'd definitely be a drummer so my face would be hidden whenever there was a performance.

Well done! The song had a couple parts that took me by surprise, but I loved that!

I'm not sure what I specifically want to be yet, but I want to major in International Relations and Japanese Language. I really enjoy studying about other countries and I've been learning Japanese 3 years on my own, and I'm in love with it. Not sure what I'd do with it hence why I want to double major. But lately, History has really been tugging at me. It's been my favorite subject forever and my history teacher is so dope, I'm not sure, I might want to pursue a degree in that later, too. I graduate next year so I have to have this all figured out soon ;;

Sad to say, but the only artist I heard of on that list is Fall Out Boy (and only heard about two of their songs, oops). "Cokeheads-under the society-" ~ ヴィドール "Romance" ~ 砂月 "ラバースフィルム" ~ Spiv States "Alive" ~ Arlequin "Crying Rain" ~ Girugamesh "Rainbows" ~ Alice Nine "Dying Message" ~ ヴィドール "Lib [lo] ve" ~ ヴィドール "Universe" ~ ユナイト "Yami" ~ ザアザア I didn't expect so much of my Vidoll to come out haha, and I'm amazed there's no kpop that found its way into this list.

I second this. A lot of bands are discussed here that I either haven't heard of or seen any samples or PVs of their music online.

Welcome to MH! We happen to be mutuals on Tumblr.

Finally an appropriate place where I can voice my very unpopular opinion about a band everyone seems to be in love with: MEJIBRAY First of all, I want to say that I love MEJIBRAY's older releases (2014 and back), but ever since they got an upsurge in popularity, I really think that their music has began deteriorating. Can I also mention the fact that so many of their songs sound the same? That they use the same tone, chord, etc. in so many of their songs that now it just makes me yawn? I think their songs this year were the worst (especially Eiki oh my god do not get me started on this garbage). I can acknowledge that all of them have some talent (especially MIA, his guitar solos always slay me), but there are some notes that Tsuzuku "vomits" out that do not sound very pleasant at all (but his screams are amazing, really, but comparing him side to side with other renowned vocalists in the industry, he will fall flat). And their looks are like...wtf now? I think they're trying way, way too hard to be edgy (although Koichi's current look is beautiful, he looks very good). I think most of their popularity comes from their looks, though. I cannot go a day without finding someone literally "melting" over Tsuzuku's appearance. (dude has some nice tats and a very nice makeup-less face but he isn't that hot). It's come to the point now that I cringe every time I hear they're coming out with something new (they literally come out with things at rocket-fire speed. I think they need to settle and conjure up something really good), and their fans...holy crap, their fans. I avoid most of them like the plague. I admit Meji has brought a lot of newcomers into the jrock/visual kei fandom, but many of them....have little to no courtesy. Anyway that's my two cents, with excessive use of parentheses.

I'm very sorry I misread what you said, I think my eyes imagined a "not" there for some strange reason ;_; But that's very true. His voice immediately drew me in when I got into jrock <3 he's so great And that's understandable, I mean sometimes we are not used to change. I think Toya and he gets along though, and Toya can (and has) learn a lot from Jun! ^^

All of these are very good songs! Polaris is just plain bad ass, Alarm already holds an Nostalgic feel for me, and I like how they had a snippit of Beautiful Life in Onomatopoeia! Very clever of them! ^^

Aaaw well I like Jun in his past bands too, but I think it is all good for a change, I am sad that Iori had to go so suddenly But I am curious as to why you don't like Jui much especially since he's my fav, I won't judge I'm just curious!

I can't believe no one has started a thread for this group until now, so here goes! From Left to Right: JUN Guitarist ex-Spiv States, Phantasmagoria TOYA Guitarist ex-Charlotte JUI Vocalist ex-Vidoll GOTCHAROCKA is a visual kei band formed in 2012 under GOD CHILD RECORDS. The band originally started with 4 members but Shingo (ba., ex-Sugar) left the group because of musical differences in the beginning of 2014. Of recent news, the band has announced a new single for Spring 2015 and another one-man tour. DISCOGRAPHY 2011.07.01 ~ Gotcha6ka (single) 2012.08.29 ~ Hydrag (single) 2012.12.19 ~ Virginity (mini-album) 2013.03.06 ~ Poisonous Berry (single) 2013.07.17 ~ Crisis (album) 2013.12.04 ~ Shortcake (single) 2014.06.04 ~ Gekiai (single) 2014.07.02 ~ Alarm (single) 2014.09.23 ~ 8kaiki (live distribute) 2015.01.13 ~ GPS (live distribute) 2015.04.08 ~ Emotion/Directors Cut (single) 2015.06.17 ~ Royale (album) 2015.12.02 ~ Marry me, 'cause I hate U (single) OHP // YT

7 types is a bit excessive, especially with how much money they've already taken from me lol. I'll probably buy only 2 versions.

Of course, this is all my opinion. Cool Band Names MORRIGAN GOTCHAROCKA ( I actually saw a few folks saying this name was stupid, but if you actually watched an interview of them describing the meaning behind it, it isn't that bad or "stupid". Oh and they're my favs so ofc I think it's cool ) THE BLACK SWAN Anli Pollicino Avelcain Blesscode (cheesy, but cool) Bad Band Names COLD WOMAN Glam Grammar (Grammar's not glam...more like stressful) NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST (okay i love them but this is cheesy on a whole other level) DOG in the PWO HOLYCLOCK and the one that absolutely takes the cake: BLESS THIS MESS

I'm so happy they have PVs now!

Welcome back! Couldn't help but notice you have Jui as your profile pic too!

I was impressed with the more heavier songs. It's been a couple years since I've liked anything new from The GazettE but this album just might break this trend. Looking forward to it!

So lately I've been in sort of a "dry patch" when it comes to finding new bands I can actually start to like and become a fan of. Okay, so here's some backstory (is this necessary, idk but I'm adding it anyway). I'm a newer fan of vkei jrock since I got into it around mid-2012. And even though I came in at a newer era, I really fell in love with older bands like Vidoll (and many other UNDERCODE bands), D, Versailles, The GazettE's and Alice Nine's older releases, D'espairsRay, Malice Mizer, and others I can't exactly recall now. And now I can say the active bands that I really enjoy are Gotcharocka, Arlequin, Mejibray, Nocturnal Bloodlust, UNiTE, AvelCain, and Pentagon (this is the band I most recently started liking a lot). Addition to this that yes, I know DIAURA is very popular now but there's something about Yo-ka that makes my skin crawl, and I mean in a bad way. So since this a community filled with very seasoned vkei fans, I ask for your recommendations! ;3; I prefer newer bands probably 2012 and beyond, popularity not being something I care about. BUT you can also throw in some recommendations of some older/disbanded bands as well since I really love the sound of older visual kei rock. I can't quite describe my taste...the subcategory of rock doesn't really matter. I guess I can say I like unique sounds (like added electronic elements, crazy guitar riffs, or other things, and holy crap I'm bad at explaining this). But just anything outside of the typical generic sounding bands that have been coming out lately ;_; nothing against them, but their songs don't really grab me. btw shout out to staff for the favorite/best tracks of month threads, those have been helping me a lot. Okay I'll shut up now, your recommedations, please?

Vidoll. I wish I could've been a fan when they were still around, and it's sad because I stumbled across so much of their music (I love nearly all of their discog) just to discover they were disbanded already. I was crushed. :'D

Hello, I just joined a few minutes ago! I found the place on a whim; I was googling for Mako's new band and I came across a forum post here. I was really surprised to see a seemingly active jrock forum so I had to join. I've listened to jrock for about 3 years now and I'm hoping to reach out to even more jrock fans via this forum. My favorite bands as of right now are Gotcharocka, UNiTE, and Arlequin. So...nice to meet everyone.