Euthanasia

Cool look.

keiya will compose  Kuraki Mai's new single "Yesterday Love", which will be the ending theme for Detective Conan from 12/7
 
 
Btw they are label mates (Crimzon is a subsidiary of GIZA, whose artists have been doing OP/ED for Detective Conan since like... forever). This song will be credited under "Kubota Keiya" (the same name he used when he was in GARDE/HAZZE)

I have not shut up about this all day to the point that I think my friends are annoyed with me. I'm so excited. 

Seems like they are on the cover of GAB <3
 

 

 

Seems like they are on the cover of GAB <3
 

 

 

Seems like they are on the cover of GAB <3
 

 

 

"甘い暴力(amai bouryoku)" members:
Vo.咲(saki) (ex-少年記(shounenki)(コウ/kou)-->白日ノ夢(hakujitsu no yume), 黒姫の夢遊病(kurohime no muyuubyou))
Gt.文(aya) (ex-少年記(shounenki)(eiki)-->白日ノ夢(hakujitsu no yume))
Gt.義(yoshi) (ex-少年記(shounenki)(Nao)-->黒姫の夢遊病(kurohime no muyuubyou))
Dr.啓(kei) (ex-ELIO-->黒姫の夢遊病(kurohime no muyuubyou)(support))
 
 

Seems like they are on the cover of GAB <3
 

 

 

hi, i'm ryan... i've been lurking here since forever, created an account a few months ago, and lately something's been telling me i should try to talk here more.
i'm not terribly good with forums though - something about the way anything i'd say gets kept on the site forever seems to trip me out a bit.
and i'm not sure how much of value i'd have to comment - so, i'll try to make myself useful and get to posting some (probably wildly inaccurate) translations~

as far as me....... got into vkei with ナイトメア about when their s/t came out, haven't found a band that resonates more with me since.
p sure i can find something to like in just about any style/scene, but i really think vkei hit its golden age between 1997-2007. at least to me.
as of typing this i'm also stanning diru, mucc, the gallo, and meji pretty hard. and since 2014 i've been living in varying degrees of Worried About Royz.
 
IRL i work at a sushi/udon place, it's p great, and i'm trying to get the hang of this whole 'understanding and speaking japanese' thing. it's hard tho.
Oh, and i'm trying to get a band together. also hard.
and that's basically it for me because i have no life outside visual kei.

Nice to meet all of you though - even if i haven't said much anything before i owe y'all a lot for recommending a lot of my fav bands.
special shoutout to all the staff/mods, rarezhut guys, and everyone who translates band shit bc it'd be so much harder to get into this dumb scene without people like you putting in all the work.

Oh and @ everyone feel free to hmu on twitter, username's same there as here
 

only ten...
 
1. MEJIBRAY
2. MORRIGAN
3. Acid Black Cherry
4. DEZERT
5. ペンタゴン
6. 摩天楼オペラ
7. FIXER
8. ザアザア
9. the GazettE
10. DADAROMA
 
(DIAURA, Dir en grey, lynch., ect.)
 
Not in order.

I love his long hair but he looks good in everything imo
 
just please don't go bald like your senpai kyo

lol I don't like yohio and his gang myself but there's no point to divide groups because of their races. If you don't like it just ignore the threads. The whole "confusion" argument sounds like BS to me.

So nobody is allowed to express their opinion on the matter but you? 😂 sorry but that's what a forum is for, and you created the topic. 

lol I don't like yohio and his gang myself but there's no point to divide groups because of their races. If you don't like it just ignore the threads. The whole "confusion" argument sounds like BS to me.

I agree with you! (Although I like Yohio)

lol I don't like yohio and his gang myself but there's no point to divide groups because of their races. If you don't like it just ignore the threads. The whole "confusion" argument sounds like BS to me.

I support this idea and I propose that we take it one step further by imposing strict eugenics on all bands, since there might be members of not 100% pure Japanese descent who mask themselves as members of the purported master race.
 
It's time we start a fund to send one of the fine gentlemen who are an expert in this field to Japan in order to meticulously measure the skulls and ensure the racial purity of our Japanese musicians. Perhaps we can make various sub-forums for degrees of Japanese-ness in order to let people decide on their own tolerance for racial deviation? Maybe they're fine with bands who have members who show slightly Caucasoid/Negroid facial traits but not so much as it shows in their skin tone for example?
 
...Or we just don't care. I'm the last person to think swede-kei and the various other weeaboo scenes are anything to listen to, but honestly, if a band is based in Japan, sings in Japanese, has it's social circles in the Japanese Visual scene, the only thing separating them is race. Kind of silly to make a deal out of, in my opinion.

LONDBOY Dr.玲牙 (Ryoga) is expected to resume activities at their live at Takadanobaba AREA at 2016/11/23 and Gu.かなで (Kanade) is expected to resume activities at their live at Shinjuku RUIDO K4 at 2016/12/2.

omfg johannes was that person from ichigo69???? i've seen that picture a lot but didn't listen to them much. that music sample is pretty good tho.
and ahh yesss, i forgot to mention bis!!
 
i never knew about this lol wtf.
 
@Euthanasia i think akihabara shounendan dennou romeo counts. i prefer them over shin's later band ViViD.
 
there's also soroban, which i like more than zoro.
 
anjyu' aren't bad either.
 

this has probably been said/explored elsewhere on this forum, but "oshare" in its germinal stages was really a cauldron of heterogeneous strands of sound and style that probably meant 30 different things to 10 different people. there's a lot in there. arguably its definition only got murkier with time (today it means everything from "colorful clothes" to "bands that do sessions in suits" to "bands that don't scream" lolol, which is frankly ridiculous and totally unhelpful)
 
most of the representative bands have already been listed, so i'll just contribute a few from my own personal trajectory through oshare which inevitably reveals a lot more about my interests than oshare as such haha.
 
176BIZ was the シド that never abandoned vk, and its style survived into its later incarnation ZUCK which stayed 100% true to its spirit till disbandment. not surprising, given that Yuu pretty much wrote everything.
 
SwallowtaiL-スワロウテイル- and phase faith (don't be deceived by their host looks!!) belonged to the strand of late-2000 white-kei-influenced oshare that shared a similar kind of sound with other bands playing contemporaneously like レイラ.
 
 
 
 
 
ジミニークリケット came a little later, but sound wise they could totally have fit into the line of more subdued yet uplifting sound that possibly started with Clavier and subsequently inherited by Toon-Factory and co. This was written by shia and it's really not difficult to see how it foreshadowed some of Chanty's materials today as well (especially their earlier stuff)
 
 
i won't derail the thread too much but it's possible to map larger continuities between oshare of the 2000 and later bands if you look hard enough, even though the tendency is to look back on it wistfully as some kind of a bygone era.  as an example: the toolbox of sounds baroque brought to vk in early 2000 went in so many directions, the most direct one led to rap-oriented bands like bis and a little later: BAELSCOPE, 東京指定, TRA TRA TRA, etc. among the bigger bands, vistlip and SuG describe themselves as ミクスチャー("mixture rock") and regularly cite baroque as an important influence. if you're nostalgic for the idiosyncratic/quirky kote-osa sound (JRD is the expert here), there's SDM, the new (post-ritsu) GLAM GRAMM@R, and there's even a bit of it in early i.Rias. sure, it's not exactly the same, but there's a lot out there, still.
 
 

Oh this thread bring back the memories!
lol not sure if Akihabara Shounendan Dennou Romeo are oshare but If they are they are worth a mention, I liked them a lot.