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Yes exactly! It's not an unreasonable suggestion to narrow your scope to a few favorite bands and set aside $10-20 a month for buying music. Especially if you talk big game about how music is your passion.

Chedoara and Rijin are still available digitally anywhere digital music is sold. I bought mine via Amazon. Rijin is literally $1.99. I'm not trying to put words in your mouth here, but buying albums shouldn't be a radical death saving throw we don't do until things get dire.

Soooo this was almost a month ago. Has anyone heard anything yet? I'd go digging through the other members' twitter, but I don't speak Japanese and google translations are basically useless when you're trying to figure out more than just the topic of conversation...

I was already into goth music and a couple different kinds of metal, so I probably would have gotten deeper into those, since I still like that kind of music too.

I got into visual kei around 2004 and didn't really listen to any new music that wasn't visual kei until 2011 because I was SO DEEPLY INTO IT. In 2010, basically all the bands I listened to disbanded or went through major changes with their sound, then Isshi from Kagrra died. It made me feel a little empty and betrayed by visual kei. Sure there were bands still around and new bands forming ALL THE TIME, but they weren't MY BANDS and I was getting kind of tired of the cycle of short-lived bands. So I got really into Plastic Tree (which is obviously still vk, but more stable) and then I got really into a whole bunch of other non-vk stuff that I still really enjoy now. I probably wouldn't have found some of the bands I like now if I didn't get burnt out on visual kei in the first place. Of course, I'm back into visual kei now, or I wouldn't be on this forum. It's okay to like more than one kind of music. I think it's healthy to let your taste in music grow naturally without feeling guilty. Visual kei doesn't miss you when you listen to something else.

Versailles. I don't dislike them or anything. I saw them at A-Kon in 2008 and I had to take a plane to get there because it was really far away. I didn't really follow them closely after Jasmine You died. I don't know why because it's not like the music changed. I'd still see Versailles live if they were within a few hours of me, but they're no longer a band where I'd be like BETTER BOOK MY FLIGHT if they were playing too far away from me. Also, I was really into D when I first got into visual kei and now I can't remember the last time I listened to them. It's probably been a few years.

I used to post on batsu, but my memory is so bad that I don't remember my own username there, let alone who anyone else was. Anyway, welcome!

@sheepprincessgaraThank you!!

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I love coupling singles when it's two bands I like and I actually know the songs that are being swapped. The Gallo x Scapegoat one is definitely my favorite.

I don't see a problem with this at all. If everyone involved is okay with it and they've improved the song, changed the way they perform it, or just have access to better recording, then why not? The fans that followed them over from their previous bands probably appreciate it, too.

THIS GUY

This hit me really hard. I've had a really hard struggle with mental illness my whole life and Linkin Park was such an important band for me as a kid. I felt really alone in my feelings until I heard them.

I've been waiting so long for this to happen

Just The Gallo, Schwarz Stein, and Rides In ReVellion. I had Versailles and Alsdead, but that was with stuff I had to get rid of when I moved about 5 years ago.

AAAAAAAAAAAAH I HOPE THERE ARE PICS AND EVEN VIDEO!!!!

Maybe it's not shitty enough to make the list, but remember when Toka from Vexent stole money and equipment and disappeared for several days and got fired?

I definitely don't think there's anything wrong with Westerners having visual kei bands, but it would be great if their music and style was anything more than mediocre and if they weren't cringey narcissists as people. Also in terms of not being able to pull off the style, they COULD do it. I do and I'm a chubby average-looking white person. It takes a lot of practice and effort to learn to style yourself correctly, but some people are so cocky that they're convinced they're already perfect when they're only halfway there, in both fashion and music. ALSO I've literally seen people whining that "visual kei is dying" or "it isn't what it used to be" since I got into this shit in 2003. It's usually from people who have been in the scene like 2-5 years and haven't come to terms with the fact that the life expectancy of a visual kei band unfortunately includes their favs and they get bitter when all the bands they liked when they got into vk are now disbanding.

Hal looks like a wizard now. I'm into it. Hal's Moving Castle.

YES YES YES! I could write an essay about "my fav can do no wrong uwu" visual kei fans that will reach so far to defend literally anything, but especially nazi symbolism. Goddddd how blind of a fangirl do you have to be to defend the nazi uniforms or even be like "oooooh I love a man in uniform" like... a nazi uniform tho???? Then they always try to back it up with like WELL CULTURALLY, IN JAPAN like I don't even care about that. I want to know why you, as an American or European fan, are defending this. One of my biggest peeves in visual kei because I never realized this was a big thing and then I was like "wait you guys are okay with this? really???"

It's April Fools Day, so today I'm my favorite dang fool

Speaking of which, is Shion from Durandal still missing? It's been 2 weeks. Like damn broes just quit your damn band if you want out.

He dragged the band in general, which includes Yu-ki, and when Yu-ki talked about disbanding, he talked about putting everything into the band or something. I guess I'm putting two and two together here, but if I felt like I passionately put myself in work and then someone dragged me (even collectively with my other band mates) for being lazy or not serious enough, I'd be like "Man fuck that guy"

Some of the tweets/blogs they wrote around the time of disbanding weren't obviously directed towards each other, but Rino kind of dragged the rest of the band for being lazy and not seriously enough and having to do everything himself and was kind of good riddance about it, but based on Yu-ki's tweets around the time they were disbanding, he did take the band seriously and didn't want to disband. There wasn't all out drama, but just the general vibe that they didn't agree about things that were going on.

I don't know why I thought I'd be excited about this since I like Malisend but I really don't like Mediena and I knew Yu-ki wouldn't do another band with Rino, so I knew it was either gonna be Yu-ki's vocals with Mediena-ish music or Ryo's vocals with Malisend-ish music. Either of those is a compromise to me tbh.