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lol Awww... I hope not haha

@chemicalpictures thanks!! let me know what you think once you've checked them out ^^ looking forward to your list as well!
 
@Mihi ilu2
 
@yakihiko honestly it was really difficult to choose between Lava and Step bye step ._. i feel like Lava might be the "better" song but Step bye step probably suits my temperament more? haha
 
@vanivani thanks for dropping by! unfortunately a third of the bands here have disbanded lol. but i think we have enough favorite bands in common so hopefully you can pick up  some bands to follow... that would be awesome
 
@Komorebi yay thanks for looking at my list!! ^^

Love looking at your list, because that's how I can discover new artists!!
Thanks for sharing your favorites of 2016!!

I dunno. I like the current wave lol

I'm also happy about him continuing solo because now he has no excuse to not go on forever<3

the plot thickens!

The font is EXACTLY the one used by Grimoire in their lyrics and on their website (I haven't seen another band use it)
and written in hiragana like they do it; and the music sounds like Grimoire previews when they first started out.
Too many coincidences... I think it's either a Grimoire side project or some band copying them.

Is it just me or is anyone else noticing the similarity between this band and Grimoire?...
The writing's pretty much the same, the music samples sound similar, the "0th minialbum"?....
All seems a bit too familiar.  

^ Nice! Like the new look and hope this band release something new soon!

They sound decent and gotta still love the look.
Hope they release something soon.

Yeah, I'm glad he's continuing activities!! even if glamhaze has disbanded :/

Yeah, I'm glad he's continuing activities!! even if glamhaze has disbanded :/

I am so excited for his first solo minialbum!! I can't wait  
 

- REGULAR EDITION -
 

- LIMITED EDITION -
 

pretty damn catchy lol

OMG... I love this!!! His voice is so intoxicating!
He's my favorite visual kei singer...hands down!

OMG... I love this!!! His voice is so intoxicating!
He's my favorite visual kei singer...hands down!

But what if a spent counterculture is actually more subversive than an active one?
 
For me, there are two very different ways of thinking about countercultures and the transgressive work they are performing. The first is where you try to build rapport, get more people interested in the subculture, then flag it up as some kind of collective protest. In practice, this has always been the mode by which identity politics operated in the public domain--through aggregation, coalition-building, and ramping up the numbers. There are good reasons for this, but there are problems with it, especially for its cultural parallel. Some of us here might be familiar with a book published some decades ago by Dick Hebdige on British youth subcultures (punks, mods, etc.), in which he observed that every subculture that has historically evolved in ostensible protest against popular/mainstream culture cannot elude the inevitable fate of commodification by social and cultural institutions. This spells the death of that subculture either because the ‘transgressive’ force has by that point been entirely neutralized through its absorption into mass culture, or because the “angry young men” who are in them just to make a deafening aesthetic/political statement about themselves have migrated to another fledging subculture en masse before that could happen. I have a hunch that the "scene culture" today that Disposable alluded to might be linked to precisely this. Just look at how cultural scenes have become increasingly dispersed, and interest groups increasingly fragmented (and alienated from one other) since the last decades of the 20th century.
 
The other way of thinking about transgression, I think, is to simply not concern oneself with it. This might sound somewhat counterintuitive but I’ve always been struck by how it’s actually incredibly difficult in this day and age to be totally useless. Think of NEETs who are sitting around at home relishing how they aren't contributing to society; but by being held up in the mass media as exemplary negative "case studies" that parents ought to dutifully warn their children about, they are nevertheless serving an important social function. All of this is a very laborious way of saying that even as we admit to ourselves that it's no longer possible to be radically transgressive in the way most of us had hoped to be at some point in our lives, at least the Wildean decadent who doesn’t give a damn whether the subculture he’s participating in is still relevant or subversive wouldn’t rehearse the problematic we encountered in the first case--where, by reacting violently against the mass culture we absolutely detest we’re in some sense being held hostage to it and playing by its terms. Which reminds me of something Slavoj Zizek said: sometimes, doing nothing is the most violent thing to do. He isn’t taken very seriously by most of his colleagues within academic circles, but I think there’s at least a grain of truth in what he said there.
 
In any case...
 
If nothing else, people who stick by visual kei even after it’s no longer the fad are usually those I enjoy talking to the most. I had an uncannily similar experience in classical music: over there, the same handwringing we’re having now in this thread had taken place approximately half a century ago and by this point everyone I know has basically given up trying to ‘make it relevant’. Thankfully, it’s always more fun associating with people who consume a cultural product because they genuinely enjoy it, and not because they want to appropriate it (consciously or not) as a proxy to make a conspicuous statement about themselves.
 

lol the single was sold out looooooooooooooong long ago<- this may be true reason they are in album

^ Nice to see them on a cover of a popular magazine!!

Well
 

 
 

That's so cute and catchy!!!

they probably did their own eye makeup lol

Oh, that makes sense. I can't wait to hear some samples.
I wonder if his solo work will sound like glamhaze or be different.
 
SaToRu is gorgeous <3 The new hair looks amazing!
And haha Ray is awesome!!

Is there a website for his solo work? Or samples yet?!