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That name does not fit them at all, I'll tell ya that right now~

Jesus fucking Christ. 
-Implying that Kyo and GaCKT look remotely similar. 
-Implying that a guy who shrieks like a hydra from the seventh hell would call some dude '' big buddy! ^_^"
 
These are the people who only go to bed after daydreaming about kyo being a bottom who when he gets home hugs his vanilla scented teddy bears and puts on diapers for fun and gets spanked by gackt
 

This is why I'm rooting for ISIS

I think it was on the PV for 「羽花」and someone asked who was the female vocals during the chorus 
> Getting butthurt whenever the word 'girl' is anywhere near your fav bandomen and acting like they're not testosterone filled men with plenty of girls at their disposition.

why are indians on facebook almost always like *that*?

I'll confirm it. I find it such an obnoxious song, I've listened to it through the end twice I think. 

Not sure if this is actually an unpopular opinion, but I'll state it anyways.
 
I believe that on The Gazette's album 'NIL', 'Namaatatakai ame to zaratsuita jounetsu' is the best song on the album, it's so, so catchy and I find it's the song on NIL that stuck out to me most, along with Taion. However, I find that this song is very often overlooked and ignored, not just in terms of NIL, but in all of the gazette's discography, this song is forgotten about by many imo, it deserves more love!

people keep talking about that first chase scene, but they didn't give this movie enough of a chance to realize that...the whole thing is crap
 
at least the english dub and classic gag attempts are decent

What the absolute fuck is this?
A great treasure of surrealist art, that's what it is!

I think it was on the PV for 「羽花」and someone asked who was the female vocals during the chorus 
> Getting butthurt whenever the word 'girl' is anywhere near your fav bandomen and acting like they're not testosterone filled men with plenty of girls at their disposition.

That's enough internet for today...

Since everyone seems to be scared of CAT5's peace and happiness mod color I'll revive the topic again.

One of the problems with sustaining visual kei is that future musicians grew up enjoying the music of their time. This may not sound bad but the trend is for each generation of musicians to have a narrower and narrower experience until the genre becomes nothing but repeated cliches and tropes. We've already witnessed that happening with visual kei. It is the occasional person who comes into the scene with outside experiences and ideas that brings new ideas into the scene and they are either hugely successful or rejected entirely.
 
Visual kei is definitely at that point where the entire scene revolves around repeated cliches and tropes. Of course there are the outlier bands that play unorthodox music (and are either completely ignored or hugely successful) but there is definitely a strong preference towards metalcore / deathcore mixed with pop. But since visual kei bands tend to be influenced by one another, few bands can truly expand on the sound. They either rehash ideas or borrow riffs from Western artists and hope that nobody notices.
 
It's the new bands that don't play metalcore that are the true saviors of visual kei. Visual kei needs some new ideas and these bands are the ones brave enough to play something different. Whenever one of these bands comes across a winning combination of ideas it's co-opted by other visual kei bands and expands the scope of the whole scene by just a little bit. The surge of metalcore as the preferred genre of visual kei music within the last ten years (and the surge of additional electronic elements within the last three years) is proof in itself!
 
So what's my opinion? If we look back at the last twenty years, there have been two gigantic shifts in sound. They occur roughly every ten years. Now would be the time where a gigantic shift in stylistic influences would take place yet I don't see the signs of it happening. Visual kei needs to switch it up to stay relevant and it needs to do something to regain the identity it's been slowly losing. Bands have beat the metalcore / pop combo to death for so long that we're now flogging bedrock, and a lot of bands just look like mannequins for tacky clothing instead of using the aesthetics to tie into their concepts.

I'm waiting for a band to come in and change the entire game. I see a few contenders here and there but no one has struck gold yet.

I suggest following a lot of different music blogs. This is how I discover a lot of "good"/indies Western music.
 
I think with older alternative rock/rock or visual kei, the problem is that times have changed so it's going to be difficult to find that exact sound by a modern band. It's kind of like trying to find new bands playing disco music from the 70s... Some might be influenced by it and incorporate bits and pieces of that sound, but it's not going to sound exactly the same. This makes sense, since most music is made in response to the trends and cultural shifts going on at that time. But since the VK artists from the early 00s on were generally not part of that culture themselves, they have no connection to its roots, and most bands now are just imitating previous bands for fashion /expression and/or to make money off an established formula. To people who have been in the scene for some time, it looks like the music of today's artists has no soul.
 
But I think VK was originally born out of a lot of imitation of punk and rock bands of the generations before it, so only time will tell if today's artists will lead to newer artists carving out their own version of the genre or if the genre will continue to stagnate until it dies out and something else takes its place.
 
 

I'm the same position.
My library is 70% game OST's. I have a ton of new bands I have downloaded in hopes of adding something fresh and interesting to my list of favorites but I haven't got around to it yet. I got a spotify account in the hopes that it would help me expand my western repertoire but I don't even know where to begin with this. There's some experimental Pop artists that I enjoy, but in terms of rock bands I'm clueless. I also find myself listening more to audiobooks than music lol

"We haven't lost the GazettE we fell in love with"
Yeah, if you fell in love with them in 2010 xD

Sorry for basically a double post, but I found this super old screenshot I took from gazette's Remember the Urge PV (Or just a picture compilation??). Another bunch of relevant material on it.

I think it was on the PV for 「羽花」and someone asked who was the female vocals during the chorus 
> Getting butthurt whenever the word 'girl' is anywhere near your fav bandomen and acting like they're not testosterone filled men with plenty of girls at their disposition.

I think it was on the PV for 「羽花」and someone asked who was the female vocals during the chorus 
> Getting butthurt whenever the word 'girl' is anywhere near your fav bandomen and acting like they're not testosterone filled men with plenty of girls at their disposition.

I think it was on the PV for 「羽花」and someone asked who was the female vocals during the chorus 
> Getting butthurt whenever the word 'girl' is anywhere near your fav bandomen and acting like they're not testosterone filled men with plenty of girls at their disposition.

CINDY HANSON it's always those dumb americans too who are resposible for 80% of the dumb shit in the english language

I think it was on the PV for 「羽花」and someone asked who was the female vocals during the chorus 
> Getting butthurt whenever the word 'girl' is anywhere near your fav bandomen and acting like they're not testosterone filled men with plenty of girls at their disposition.