itsukoii

lmao who cares if y*hio's japanese is awkward, it's not like japanese vk vocalists sing in english any better

@Seimeisenput the truth into words

Cringing like I've never cringed before. Life was better before this image barged into my life
People like that ^ make me NOT want to introduce VK to any of my friends. If you're gonna be the poster-person of 2010's VK, let it die.
 
Also, and correct me if I'm wrong, I'm pretty sure it wasn't ever really "alive." I think there was just a point in time when it was widely recognised by gaijin weebz who have abandoned it for the evil, abominable k-pop, and have become koreaboos.

i think l'eprica is a good examples of what you're looking for.
 
zodia are more heavy and less atmospheric, but i think this song of theirs might also fit into what you're looking for.
 
if anybody else knows more i would like to know as well.

I'm enjoying this read a lot, particularly the historical stuff.
 
It's funny to see people admit to thinking fondly of this stuff, because I loved this sound when it was current and I assumed I was in the minority. Around 2004 when I was just getting into VK, I was exposed more to D'espairsRay, UnsraW, Gazette, and of course Dir en grey, and that was the sound I associated with VK. I really didn't discover the "classic" sound beyond Dir en grey's early stuff until a few years later. I played in metal and -core bands in late middle school and high school so the heavy vibe spoke to me more. Truthfully I did listen to some nu-metal like Mushroomhead and KoRn but I didn't see much similarity between those bands and this style of VK until later. I'm not entirely sure why.
 
Where does stuff like early Devil Kitty fit in? It has some odd turntable usage (0:43) and some awkward, sort of metallic riffing but I have no idea what to make of this weird garbage. 
 
 
 
While not as nu-metal as most of this thread, it's a fairly early example at 2003, and I always enjoyed this song more than I care to admit:
 
 
 
I'm not familiar with this version of the song which is apparently a more recent re-recording, but I always dug the original's riffs: 
 
 
 
This is a good example too. It's like if Coal Chamber was fronted by a child:
 
 

visual kei who?
THIS is real music.

oh, this is a thread i'll be paying close attention to. i love this stuff yet my library is deprived of it,,, therefore i can only offer this:
 
 

I was going to say that but you said it first, thanks my thoughts exactly lol. Although I am now curious about  "FAR EAST DIZAIN" and "My BACTERIA HEAT IsLAND." What do they sound like?
 
Edit: btw do are those bands  heavy on base like nagoya kei bands? I'm referring to the ones I mentioned above. And I have heard of deviloff but not the other two. lol

^ that hurr-durr-deathcore vk band is deviloof LOL and they unfortunately don't fit into the description sume7 posted

@emmny Consider despa clone wad blown all over the keyboard by that fucking Berlin. I lost it at the fucking keys.  
 
Early Kagerou is obviously an essential inclusion, not only for their part in the whole travesty but because the first album is just amazing. It must have been my most played album in the summer of 2014
 
 
 
@itsukoiiThe name of that band R made me so angry I got PTSD from memories of having searched those bands with stupid unsearchable names- speaking of which, does anyone remember a band called celsius? Their was just the symbol and finding them on youtube and on the web an impossibility. In fact I tried to search them for this topic in vain early on.  
 

a couple more i remembered

I have to post alice nine's former PSC-labelmates - bis - for this unlikely number:
 
and what's gossip without their predecessors Visage?
 
aaand a barrage of more bands
 
 
KANSAI
 
 
NAGOYA
 
 
I shudder to think how low would this scene have to sink in order to instigate a retrospection on vk-core...

@Kaleidoscopeoh my god, how did i forget gossip? i LOVE those guys (and yeh, they're disbanded, not the same gossip that's around now)

visual kei who?
THIS is real music.

visual kei who?
THIS is real music.

EYA were great! And I remember gemmik, never heard any other song but the PV one though unfortunately. 
Actually, I think quite a few of these bands had fairly decent vocalists - the guys from D'espairsRay, Awoi, Kalimero, MUCC and Kagerou are all pretty good singers for example.
 
I also just remembered these guys, I think it's another Gossip than the one currently active though?
 
 
@DisposableWoah I had no idea Vidoll did a song like this, only ever listened to one album of them back then and didn't find it edgy enough haha
@helcchi  DAMY do indeed sound a lot like DEZERT, but I like it!
@Licio123 They disbanded, but some of the members moved on to form heidi. from what I remember!

@DisposableIt's important to note that the music scene in Nagoya, which birthed Nagoya kei, has traditionally looked to the West for influences and developed independently of Tokyo. Perhaps that's why a lot of 00s Nagoya bands such as EYA were still lingering in that consciousness, even though EYA was an extreme exception as Ryouhei actually spent time living in America.
 
Nu metal seems to have particularly manifested itself in the Kansai and Nagoya VK scenes (and by extension Shizuoka due to the influence of Sequence Records and Tomozo's fondness of the genre maybe) - almost every band south of Tokyo carried this sound to some extent.
 
 
Other bands from the mid 00s include 
 
Reivier's contemporaries VanessA and As if in the darkness
 
 
 
@Kaleidoscopedezert clones DAMY (Miharu was a dezert roadie which may have influenced their sound)
 
 
 
 

not unless it's SPILLED

oh, this is a thread i'll be paying close attention to. i love this stuff yet my library is deprived of it,,, therefore i can only offer this:
 
 

@robkun That's one of those bands I always knew about, but never listened to! I always put it off for some reason even though I enjoy the pv songs...
 
@itsukoii Gregory was great for the couple of songs they put out. Really a shame that the band petered out so fast and the members seemingly went nowhere, which seems endemic to these bands. 
 
Here's more contributions of my curatorial genius 
 
A band time will certainly forget. Yaminade sporting the most generic fashion and sound of the era and what happens at 0.53 is one of the most nu kei things ever ( in fact the only thing that's more nu kei, happens at the beginning of the song DESPERATE GAIN by a band called Hated. I was unable to find it on youtube but if you manage to get your hands on it, you will not be disappointed. ) Should be recognisable to anyone who scoured through blogspots at the time.   
 
 
Considering that they made it to like 2013, they must have been the last one of their kind to disband. Born in the heyday of the fad, there's probably a box that they don't manage to check. Also named after one of the most classic songs in the genre: Blind by none other than Korn from their s/t that's a western vk album if there ever was one..
 
 
I remember when Sadie was referred to as Dir en grey's juniors so much so that you'd think they were stealing riffs from the left and right like Grieva. That's not exactly true, and while the influence is certainly there ( l does that drummer remind you of anybody? ), this is more a case of the musical illiteracy of the dumb western weeaboo who can't discern a clear case of the nu metals from just music where a boy with big hair yells a lot. Sadie is also a band that stuck around for way too fucking long instead of just disbanding the second they had conclusively blown their nu metal wad.
 
 
Although nowhere near their best releases, Neo destruction deserves a mention because that riff is still being ripped off to this-a-day. I must have counted four instances of having seen it elsewhere, although the only ones I recall off the top of my head now are DEZERT and Mediena who took it wholesale. Nega got nu metally right after their first demo ( their best release ) and more or less stayed so until their disbandment. This goes to show that Kyoka wasn't the only one with nu metal aspirations towards the end of Aliene, and it's strange how they were suddenly unable to work together despite being into the same music. Maybe that just has more to do with that Nega actually started out really good and Kyoka hasn't been a part of  anything even remotely decent since like, 1999...
 
Because he sucks.

This thread... I am home. <3
 
My humble additions to the nostalgia train:
 
 
 
Also, props for mentioning GREGORY and Kalimero, hell yeah!
 
Also, lmao @ that Aliene track casually ripping off both "sic" and "Eyeless" by Slipknot. :'DDD At the time I somehow didn't notice at all, even tho I was heavily into Slipknot.

oh this is good
deg and unsraw kind of cover my nu-metal vk playlist, but those guys had a lot of replay time back in my winamp (rip)
 
 
 
 
 
remember when everyone was so ~ vocally offended~ by this riff reused by one single wonders
 
 

oh, this is a thread i'll be paying close attention to. i love this stuff yet my library is deprived of it,,, therefore i can only offer this:
 
 

oh, this is a thread i'll be paying close attention to. i love this stuff yet my library is deprived of it,,, therefore i can only offer this:
 
 

oh, this is a thread i'll be paying close attention to. i love this stuff yet my library is deprived of it,,, therefore i can only offer this: