itsukoii

But...but...but it's so much more brootal metalz when they do that.
 
I hate it when a band has a really great rift and the screamer ruins it with awful vocal progression. Sometimes screaming in VK is just god awful.

Smileberry new single "サンタの正体 (Santa no Shoutai)" will be released at 2016/12/7 (3 TYPE)
 

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Yeah my bad I did some research and there was another  band with the same name. Btw I love them thanks for the recommendation.

the first post of their lyrics thread lists everything the band has released so far, including their live limited stuff ^^

Of course not, you both are so silly. It's because they're singing about me. 

I have always assumed they're referring to Mary (mother of Jesus). According to Japanese Wikipedia, she's called マリア (Maria) in Japanese.
It could also represent a virgin, or a chaste/virtuous girl, or a motherly figure etc.... Maybe?

Mejibray: 2007 emo kid, paris hilton, hipster who lives in a forest and eats shrooms, edgy 12 year old

where is all the Visual Kei figurines at? I want a little Kamijo, I want a little Hizaki, I want a little Yoshiki , I want a Meto

extras, in case anybody wanted to see em

translations are horrible but from what i'm getting from this is gay men were in a studio. 
 
dvlf you can come out now it's ok

extras, in case anybody wanted to see em

extras, in case anybody wanted to see em

extras, in case anybody wanted to see em

Interview with Deviloof

it's finally here!!!! 8D
 
Deviloof - PURGE
 

Honestly imo you have to be a certain type of crazy to accept VK especially those indiefag bands lol I have vkei bandmen friends and they also say that most people that have their arms open to vk are crazy. I mean compare vk lyrics and visuals to kpop... Vk is and never was meant to be super popular.  

doesn't this just confirm vk will never become the next kpop?? if people are leaving this small scene to join a bigger, already popular one?
 
i agree with@doomboxsaying "they didn't want this video to make VK some viral new thing" because let's face it, VK will never be some viral new thing. it'll never evolve like kpop did nor will it appeal to as many people as kpop does for various reasons already mentioned (which i'm totally fine with tbh, i'm not a hipster or anything but having vk mainstream, especially in the western world, would be weird as hell)

doesn't this just confirm vk will never become the next kpop?? if people are leaving this small scene to join a bigger, already popular one?
 
i agree with@doomboxsaying "they didn't want this video to make VK some viral new thing" because let's face it, VK will never be some viral new thing. it'll never evolve like kpop did nor will it appeal to as many people as kpop does for various reasons already mentioned (which i'm totally fine with tbh, i'm not a hipster or anything but having vk mainstream, especially in the western world, would be weird as hell)

I still don't think VK was ever in the same realm of popularity as Kpop, though. Sure, VK was more popular 10 years ago and a lot of fans moved onto the "next big thing" (that still happens a lot btw). But Kpop got a HUGE push from going viral with "Gangnam Style". Literally, millions of people were introduced to Kpop through that song, then 2NE1 was on American programs like "The Bachelor" and commercials. That's the first thing I thought of when @itsukoii mentioned that. That they didn't want this video to make VK some viral new thing that suddenly gets passed around at every work station and you begin to hear it over the music stations in convenience stores.

starting off with insanity injection was literally the weirdest decision ever, like god i'd be terrified at first too lmao
 
i certainly agree with the idea of exposing the youtubers to different sub-genres of vk. like i was expecting metal and then something cute or uppity like purple stone or kiryu. i guess the exposure is good for the bands they chose (besides the gazette) but wtf those were some weird choices indeed, i thought they'd choose bigger bands with varieties of sounds.

Same, the fangirls are rabid enough as it is.
 But my sister's a hardcore kpop fan. She's still freaked out by Mejibray videos even though I've been showing vk videos to her ever since i can remember.
I don't think these girls can leave the comfort of their clean,pretty, mellow-sounding men for the vk dirty,disturbed, satan-worshipping-death-wailing guys. So it's okay.

I dont think you have to worry about that. Since its rock genre mostly the circles for it will always be smaller than pop/dance music which kpop appeals to.

I totally agree.
I feel like something "à l'Occidentale" like Versailles, Kaya or Lareine would've been fun. They kind of neglected that side of vk which gets a lot of people interested in the scene (through lolita/harajuku fashion) and is more familiar to people from the West. And then something darker,  good compositions... something from Rentrer En Soi, D'espairsRay or Deluhi.  Anyways, they  did say that there's many different sounds and vibes but it would've been cool if they had shown that in the video. 
 
Insanity Injection is kind of a new "old school vk" band so instead of showing Aliene Ma'riage (which would've gotten a similar reaction honestly, kyouka is fcked up), they showed something "actual" and that's good. Gazetto was a safe choice and DADAROMA's a pretty damn popular bangya-magnet so that's representative of a side of the scene.
 
I don't think the video's bad at all, though. We could argue for hours about what band they should've shown but at least they did choose bands that are undeniably "visual kei". And like some people said earlier in the thread, this kind of exposure's always cool. I don't think vk could ever become the next kpop (15 years old bts stans are not mentally prepared for this lmao) but if it can introduce the scene to people who would enjoy it, then that's great \o/ 

thanks bby @kyoselflovefor the scans <3  part 1 part 2