helcchi

So this is something I’d completely forgotten about - Nokubura’s Masa had my artwork as his lock screen one time in 2012. And for some reason, “rediscovering”  it four years later, I’m way more excited about it now than I was back then. But not only that, back then the only place I uploaded it to was deviantart with no mention of any of the bandmembers and how Masa was able to find it is anyone's guess.
 
I know many of you will not care and have not seen my artwork, but I was most artistically active between 2011 and 2013, having drawn about 60 bands in that timeframe. One of the reasons for my eternal hiatus after that was the amount of art theft that started to kill my motivation. And as I got older and busier, it’s not easy finding the time to do these hobbies as I used to. However the other reason was my own fault, seeing no real improvement in my art style and subsequently sitting on a shitload of unfinished drafts from 2013.
 
But enough of my life story because I finally decided to pick up that tablet again and so here’s to my first band artwork in almost 4 years - Jiluka
 

 
If I have the guts, I'll be posting them onto my social media accounts in the following days, but this forum gets to see it first I hope you enjoy this "advanced screening"  (Suggestions are welcome!) 

So this is something I’d completely forgotten about - Nokubura’s Masa had my artwork as his lock screen one time in 2012. And for some reason, “rediscovering”  it four years later, I’m way more excited about it now than I was back then. But not only that, back then the only place I uploaded it to was deviantart with no mention of any of the bandmembers and how Masa was able to find it is anyone's guess.
 
I know many of you will not care and have not seen my artwork, but I was most artistically active between 2011 and 2013, having drawn about 60 bands in that timeframe. One of the reasons for my eternal hiatus after that was the amount of art theft that started to kill my motivation. And as I got older and busier, it’s not easy finding the time to do these hobbies as I used to. However the other reason was my own fault, seeing no real improvement in my art style and subsequently sitting on a shitload of unfinished drafts from 2013.
 
But enough of my life story because I finally decided to pick up that tablet again and so here’s to my first band artwork in almost 4 years - Jiluka
 

 
If I have the guts, I'll be posting them onto my social media accounts in the following days, but this forum gets to see it first I hope you enjoy this "advanced screening"  (Suggestions are welcome!) 

So this is something I’d completely forgotten about - Nokubura’s Masa had my artwork as his lock screen one time in 2012. And for some reason, “rediscovering”  it four years later, I’m way more excited about it now than I was back then. But not only that, back then the only place I uploaded it to was deviantart with no mention of any of the bandmembers and how Masa was able to find it is anyone's guess.
 
I know many of you will not care and have not seen my artwork, but I was most artistically active between 2011 and 2013, having drawn about 60 bands in that timeframe. One of the reasons for my eternal hiatus after that was the amount of art theft that started to kill my motivation. And as I got older and busier, it’s not easy finding the time to do these hobbies as I used to. However the other reason was my own fault, seeing no real improvement in my art style and subsequently sitting on a shitload of unfinished drafts from 2013.
 
But enough of my life story because I finally decided to pick up that tablet again and so here’s to my first band artwork in almost 4 years - Jiluka
 

 
If I have the guts, I'll be posting them onto my social media accounts in the following days, but this forum gets to see it first I hope you enjoy this "advanced screening"  (Suggestions are welcome!) 

We all know that VK bands breed releases like rabbits, so I've been trying to gauge out which bands are the worst serial offenders in coming out with new material and did some number crunching on some of the bands with the most extensive discographies (excluding remixes, remasters, karaoke/instrumental and re-recordings)
 
So far I haven't been able to find a band that even comes close to being as prolific as mejibray with so much material in such short time, not even ains bands.
 
Except maybe Grieva.
 
MEJIBRAY
years: 5.5 years
unique songs: ≳102
time it takes to listen: 6.7 hours
productivity rate: 19 songs per year - almost 2 full albums every year. seriously how
 
GRIEVA
years: 4.5 years
unique songs: ≳76-86 (too many SEs)
time it takes to listen: 4.7 hours
productivity rate: 18 songs per year
 
DIAURA
years: 6 years
unique songs: ≳97
time it takes to listen: 6.5 hours
productivity rate: 16 songs per year / 1 album + single per year / 1 EP every 4 months
 
Lycaon
years: 7.5 years
unique songs: ≳100
time it takes to listen: 5.8 hours
productivity rate: 13 songs / 1 album per year
 
KIRYU
years: 9 years
unique songs: ≳113
time it takes to listen: 7.3 hours
productivity rate: 12 songs / 1 album per year
 
DEZERT
years: 5 years
unique songs: ≳60
time it takes to listen: 3.5 hours
productivity rate: 12 songs / 1 album per year
 
girugamesh
years: 12
unique songs: ≳130
time it takes to listen: 7.8 hours
productivity rate: 11 songs / 1 album per year
 
AWOI
years: 9.5 years
unique songs: ≳85
time it takes to listen: 5.7 hours
productivity rate: 9 songs / 1 album + 1 EP every alternating year
 
list is short because filtering out duplicates is hard.
 
It would also be interesting to see how well some of the longer-tenured bands do on this list.

Kinda bummed to see that this became a Ryo-only thread. 

How? Well, many of their songs sound like copies of their other songs. Quantity > quality. 
(I do really like ~10-15% of their songs)
 
Also it would not surprise me if most bands had ghostwriters writing at least some of their music.
 
Kiryu's pace is not as high as I expected. Surprise.
 
...
 
 
Here's some new-ish bands that I cared enough to think about.  Obviously these are "young" bands and I'd expect the average to drop as they age. Or they could pull a Mejibray, who knows.
I might have missed some live dists in the song count.. dunno, I don't really follow that stuff closely
 
Liraizo
years: 2 years (debut Oct 2014)
songs: 22, plus 12 monthly 1-song live dist singles which I'm assuming are new full songs, so 34
avg: 17
 
 
Arlequin
years: 3 years (debut Oct 2013)
songs: 50  ?
avg: 16.7 
 
Pentagon
years: 2 years (debut Feb 2015... or a few months earlier if you count their time as "Call Me"?)
songs: 36 ?  35 if you don't want to count "FRONT"
avg: 18
 
Avanchick
years: 2.5 years (debut June 2014)
songs: 30 ?
avg: 12  ... wow that's much lower than I thought. Probably because their album only had 4 new songs. yeah i'm still mad.
 

Mozart - Eine Kleine Nachtmusic

We all know that VK bands breed releases like rabbits, so I've been trying to gauge out which bands are the worst serial offenders in coming out with new material and did some number crunching on some of the bands with the most extensive discographies (excluding remixes, remasters, karaoke/instrumental and re-recordings)
 
So far I haven't been able to find a band that even comes close to being as prolific as mejibray with so much material in such short time, not even ains bands.
 
Except maybe Grieva.
 
MEJIBRAY
years: 5.5 years
unique songs: ≳102
time it takes to listen: 6.7 hours
productivity rate: 19 songs per year - almost 2 full albums every year. seriously how
 
GRIEVA
years: 4.5 years
unique songs: ≳76-86 (too many SEs)
time it takes to listen: 4.7 hours
productivity rate: 18 songs per year
 
DIAURA
years: 6 years
unique songs: ≳97
time it takes to listen: 6.5 hours
productivity rate: 16 songs per year / 1 album + single per year / 1 EP every 4 months
 
Lycaon
years: 7.5 years
unique songs: ≳100
time it takes to listen: 5.8 hours
productivity rate: 13 songs / 1 album per year
 
KIRYU
years: 9 years
unique songs: ≳113
time it takes to listen: 7.3 hours
productivity rate: 12 songs / 1 album per year
 
DEZERT
years: 5 years
unique songs: ≳60
time it takes to listen: 3.5 hours
productivity rate: 12 songs / 1 album per year
 
girugamesh
years: 12
unique songs: ≳130
time it takes to listen: 7.8 hours
productivity rate: 11 songs / 1 album per year
 
AWOI
years: 9.5 years
unique songs: ≳85
time it takes to listen: 5.7 hours
productivity rate: 9 songs / 1 album + 1 EP every alternating year
 
list is short because filtering out duplicates is hard.
 
It would also be interesting to see how well some of the longer-tenured bands do on this list.

this is so weird
Umebo and AK from lynch. are buddies and basically the same person 


what kind of conspiracy? AK this is your chance to Parent Trap your way out of jail and come back to me

I think 2006 was their peak (granted, it was a special year for them). 2 studio albums, 4 singles + a cover album and special privilege live album for those that bought a bunch of their stuff during that year.
 
But, I think KuRt got them beat. KuRt was around for less than 2 years and released staggering ELEVEN SINGLES and one mini-album. PLUS, distributed CDs and omnibus.
 
KuRt
unique songs: ≳40
productivity rate: ≳ 20 songs/year
 
And, gosh, remember 彩冷える when 涼平 wrote pretty much everything? I'm pretty sure that between 2005/06 they averaged a single every 40 days. I don't like 彩冷える so can't be sure just how much stuff they released, but I'm pretty sure it's in that same "over-20 songs-a-year-ballpark". Fuck SPEED DISK.

This is really interesting. I want to look into some older bands like MUCC and BUCK-TICK to see what the numbers say but they got like 20 years of releases to sort through so this may take a bit of time lol.

add xaa-xaa in this, note tho that their short band life skewes how prolific they are
they've definitely been coming out with more than an albums worth for 2015 and 2016
scapegoat and gossip have been really busy this year too

yeah i was about to say the same about XAA-XAA
 
years: 2 years
unique songs: 41
time it takes to listen: 2 hours, 38 minutes
productivity rate: ~20 songs / year
 
it is worth mentioning they made 12 songs in about a 2 month time frame before forming. 

We all know that VK bands breed releases like rabbits, so I've been trying to gauge out which bands are the worst serial offenders in coming out with new material and did some number crunching on some of the bands with the most extensive discographies (excluding remixes, remasters, karaoke/instrumental and re-recordings)
 
So far I haven't been able to find a band that even comes close to being as prolific as mejibray with so much material in such short time, not even ains bands.
 
Except maybe Grieva.
 
MEJIBRAY
years: 5.5 years
unique songs: ≳102
time it takes to listen: 6.7 hours
productivity rate: 19 songs per year - almost 2 full albums every year. seriously how
 
GRIEVA
years: 4.5 years
unique songs: ≳76-86 (too many SEs)
time it takes to listen: 4.7 hours
productivity rate: 18 songs per year
 
DIAURA
years: 6 years
unique songs: ≳97
time it takes to listen: 6.5 hours
productivity rate: 16 songs per year / 1 album + single per year / 1 EP every 4 months
 
Lycaon
years: 7.5 years
unique songs: ≳100
time it takes to listen: 5.8 hours
productivity rate: 13 songs / 1 album per year
 
KIRYU
years: 9 years
unique songs: ≳113
time it takes to listen: 7.3 hours
productivity rate: 12 songs / 1 album per year
 
DEZERT
years: 5 years
unique songs: ≳60
time it takes to listen: 3.5 hours
productivity rate: 12 songs / 1 album per year
 
girugamesh
years: 12
unique songs: ≳130
time it takes to listen: 7.8 hours
productivity rate: 11 songs / 1 album per year
 
AWOI
years: 9.5 years
unique songs: ≳85
time it takes to listen: 5.7 hours
productivity rate: 9 songs / 1 album + 1 EP every alternating year
 
list is short because filtering out duplicates is hard.
 
It would also be interesting to see how well some of the longer-tenured bands do on this list.

We all know that VK bands breed releases like rabbits, so I've been trying to gauge out which bands are the worst serial offenders in coming out with new material and did some number crunching on some of the bands with the most extensive discographies (excluding remixes, remasters, karaoke/instrumental and re-recordings)
 
So far I haven't been able to find a band that even comes close to being as prolific as mejibray with so much material in such short time, not even ains bands.
 
Except maybe Grieva.
 
MEJIBRAY
years: 5.5 years
unique songs: ≳102
time it takes to listen: 6.7 hours
productivity rate: 19 songs per year - almost 2 full albums every year. seriously how
 
GRIEVA
years: 4.5 years
unique songs: ≳76-86 (too many SEs)
time it takes to listen: 4.7 hours
productivity rate: 18 songs per year
 
DIAURA
years: 6 years
unique songs: ≳97
time it takes to listen: 6.5 hours
productivity rate: 16 songs per year / 1 album + single per year / 1 EP every 4 months
 
Lycaon
years: 7.5 years
unique songs: ≳100
time it takes to listen: 5.8 hours
productivity rate: 13 songs / 1 album per year
 
KIRYU
years: 9 years
unique songs: ≳113
time it takes to listen: 7.3 hours
productivity rate: 12 songs / 1 album per year
 
DEZERT
years: 5 years
unique songs: ≳60
time it takes to listen: 3.5 hours
productivity rate: 12 songs / 1 album per year
 
girugamesh
years: 12
unique songs: ≳130
time it takes to listen: 7.8 hours
productivity rate: 11 songs / 1 album per year
 
AWOI
years: 9.5 years
unique songs: ≳85
time it takes to listen: 5.7 hours
productivity rate: 9 songs / 1 album + 1 EP every alternating year
 
list is short because filtering out duplicates is hard.
 
It would also be interesting to see how well some of the longer-tenured bands do on this list.

We all know that VK bands breed releases like rabbits, so I've been trying to gauge out which bands are the worst serial offenders in coming out with new material and did some number crunching on some of the bands with the most extensive discographies (excluding remixes, remasters, karaoke/instrumental and re-recordings)
 
So far I haven't been able to find a band that even comes close to being as prolific as mejibray with so much material in such short time, not even ains bands.
 
Except maybe Grieva.
 
MEJIBRAY
years: 5.5 years
unique songs: ≳102
time it takes to listen: 6.7 hours
productivity rate: 19 songs per year - almost 2 full albums every year. seriously how
 
GRIEVA
years: 4.5 years
unique songs: ≳76-86 (too many SEs)
time it takes to listen: 4.7 hours
productivity rate: 18 songs per year
 
DIAURA
years: 6 years
unique songs: ≳97
time it takes to listen: 6.5 hours
productivity rate: 16 songs per year / 1 album + single per year / 1 EP every 4 months
 
Lycaon
years: 7.5 years
unique songs: ≳100
time it takes to listen: 5.8 hours
productivity rate: 13 songs / 1 album per year
 
KIRYU
years: 9 years
unique songs: ≳113
time it takes to listen: 7.3 hours
productivity rate: 12 songs / 1 album per year
 
DEZERT
years: 5 years
unique songs: ≳60
time it takes to listen: 3.5 hours
productivity rate: 12 songs / 1 album per year
 
girugamesh
years: 12
unique songs: ≳130
time it takes to listen: 7.8 hours
productivity rate: 11 songs / 1 album per year
 
AWOI
years: 9.5 years
unique songs: ≳85
time it takes to listen: 5.7 hours
productivity rate: 9 songs / 1 album + 1 EP every alternating year
 
list is short because filtering out duplicates is hard.
 
It would also be interesting to see how well some of the longer-tenured bands do on this list.

Nice! So many bands aren't on spotify and it's hard to make a playlist. Will you be updating your list as the master post?
I've got some more, forgive me if there are any duplicates
 
176BIZ
Amber Bullet
Angelo - mixed with different artists
Annie's Black
Capella - mixed with different artists
Creature Creature
CULT the Movie
DEAD END
Dunkelheit
the fool - mixed with different artists
GOLDEN BOMBER
heidi.
Jilled Ray
JILLS BLUE ROSE
L-Lotus-
Lost Ash
MirialD
NEU
Orochi
Otogadead
RED universe
the riotts.
SUGIZO
umbrella - mixed with different artists
Un=(xag)
ZIg+Zag
ZORO - mixed with different artists
V-Anime Rocks compilation
 
Just realised most Starwave bands are on spotify, they're probably all there but I haven't searched them all

Nice! So many bands aren't on spotify and it's hard to make a playlist. Will you be updating your list as the master post?
I've got some more, forgive me if there are any duplicates
 
176BIZ
Amber Bullet
Angelo - mixed with different artists
Annie's Black
Capella - mixed with different artists
Creature Creature
CULT the Movie
DEAD END
Dunkelheit
the fool - mixed with different artists
GOLDEN BOMBER
heidi.
Jilled Ray
JILLS BLUE ROSE
L-Lotus-
Lost Ash
MirialD
NEU
Orochi
Otogadead
RED universe
the riotts.
SUGIZO
umbrella - mixed with different artists
Un=(xag)
ZIg+Zag
ZORO - mixed with different artists
V-Anime Rocks compilation
 
Just realised most Starwave bands are on spotify, they're probably all there but I haven't searched them all

Nice! So many bands aren't on spotify and it's hard to make a playlist. Will you be updating your list as the master post?
I've got some more, forgive me if there are any duplicates
 
176BIZ
Amber Bullet
Angelo - mixed with different artists
Annie's Black
Capella - mixed with different artists
Creature Creature
CULT the Movie
DEAD END
Dunkelheit
the fool - mixed with different artists
GOLDEN BOMBER
heidi.
Jilled Ray
JILLS BLUE ROSE
L-Lotus-
Lost Ash
MirialD
NEU
Orochi
Otogadead
RED universe
the riotts.
SUGIZO
umbrella - mixed with different artists
Un=(xag)
ZIg+Zag
ZORO - mixed with different artists
V-Anime Rocks compilation
 
Just realised most Starwave bands are on spotify, they're probably all there but I haven't searched them all

Awesome thread!
 
(I have no artists to add that you didn't mention already..... X Japan I guess)

@helcchi Sure thing! I'm leaving house right now, but when I'm back I will update the masterpost with those new bands you posted!

Nice! So many bands aren't on spotify and it's hard to make a playlist. Will you be updating your list as the master post?
I've got some more, forgive me if there are any duplicates
 
176BIZ
Amber Bullet
Angelo - mixed with different artists
Annie's Black
Capella - mixed with different artists
Creature Creature
CULT the Movie
DEAD END
Dunkelheit
the fool - mixed with different artists
GOLDEN BOMBER
heidi.
Jilled Ray
JILLS BLUE ROSE
L-Lotus-
Lost Ash
MirialD
NEU
Orochi
Otogadead
RED universe
the riotts.
SUGIZO
umbrella - mixed with different artists
Un=(xag)
ZIg+Zag
ZORO - mixed with different artists
V-Anime Rocks compilation
 
Just realised most Starwave bands are on spotify, they're probably all there but I haven't searched them all

Nice! So many bands aren't on spotify and it's hard to make a playlist. Will you be updating your list as the master post?
I've got some more, forgive me if there are any duplicates
 
176BIZ
Amber Bullet
Angelo - mixed with different artists
Annie's Black
Capella - mixed with different artists
Creature Creature
CULT the Movie
DEAD END
Dunkelheit
the fool - mixed with different artists
GOLDEN BOMBER
heidi.
Jilled Ray
JILLS BLUE ROSE
L-Lotus-
Lost Ash
MirialD
NEU
Orochi
Otogadead
RED universe
the riotts.
SUGIZO
umbrella - mixed with different artists
Un=(xag)
ZIg+Zag
ZORO - mixed with different artists
V-Anime Rocks compilation
 
Just realised most Starwave bands are on spotify, they're probably all there but I haven't searched them all

Here's some hard data from visunavi, twitter and ameba.
 
Their followers on social media might be a good metric. Athougth Len from TBS has 94K followers on twitter (even more than dir en grey and almost as much as much as lunaseaofficial :O), it was due to his rescued kitten Kotetsu going viral. So individual band members might have more fame, but that fame won't necessarily extend to the rest of the band.
 
Paradeis and Piass are no longer active, but judging by their follower count on their old ameba accounts, they all floated around the 2K number.
 
 
Live data:
Elysion's first one-man will be at Ruido K3 (capacity: 150), but the largest venue they played at is Holiday Shinjuku which houses 450 people. THE BLACK SWAN's biggest one man was at Tsutaya O-West (capacity: 600) and they regularly play at ~300 capacity live houses Liphlich's biggest one-man was at Ebisu Liquidroom (housing a capacity of about 900) The biggest venue Grieva has played at was Makuhari Messe (10,000) for Visual Japan Summit 2016 Scapegoat's many one-man's have played out their finals in ~300 capacity live houses, but they have been a part of bigger events at O-EAST (1300) UNDER FALL JUSTICE seems to centralize their activity around HOLIDAY NEXT Nagoya (capacity: 300) Kuroyuri to Kage headlined a live last year at Shinjuku LOFT (500)  
 
Social Media Data:
THE BLACK SWAN Twitter: 5795~10.6K (not including len's 94K followers) Ameba: 167-444Insert other media LIPHLICH Twitter: 2234-10K Ameba: ~971 Grieva Twitter: 5872-9349 Ameba: 1630 SCAPEGOAT Twitter: 2304-8643 Ameba: 868-1507 Kuroyuri to Kage Twitter: 3646-5744 Ameba: 774 UNDER FALL JUSTICE Twitter: 1029-2415 Ameba: 52-488 ELYSION Twitter: 1735-2200 Paradeis Ameba: 929-3046 THE PIASS Ameba: ~1268 (Takayuki only)

Here's some hard data from visunavi, twitter and ameba.
 
Their followers on social media might be a good metric. Athougth Len from TBS has 94K followers on twitter (even more than dir en grey and almost as much as much as lunaseaofficial :O), it was due to his rescued kitten Kotetsu going viral. So individual band members might have more fame, but that fame won't necessarily extend to the rest of the band.
 
Paradeis and Piass are no longer active, but judging by their follower count on their old ameba accounts, they all floated around the 2K number.
 
 
Live data:
Elysion's first one-man will be at Ruido K3 (capacity: 150), but the largest venue they played at is Holiday Shinjuku which houses 450 people. THE BLACK SWAN's biggest one man was at Tsutaya O-West (capacity: 600) and they regularly play at ~300 capacity live houses Liphlich's biggest one-man was at Ebisu Liquidroom (housing a capacity of about 900) The biggest venue Grieva has played at was Makuhari Messe (10,000) for Visual Japan Summit 2016 Scapegoat's many one-man's have played out their finals in ~300 capacity live houses, but they have been a part of bigger events at O-EAST (1300) UNDER FALL JUSTICE seems to centralize their activity around HOLIDAY NEXT Nagoya (capacity: 300) Kuroyuri to Kage headlined a live last year at Shinjuku LOFT (500)  
 
Social Media Data:
THE BLACK SWAN Twitter: 5795~10.6K (not including len's 94K followers) Ameba: 167-444Insert other media LIPHLICH Twitter: 2234-10K Ameba: ~971 Grieva Twitter: 5872-9349 Ameba: 1630 SCAPEGOAT Twitter: 2304-8643 Ameba: 868-1507 Kuroyuri to Kage Twitter: 3646-5744 Ameba: 774 UNDER FALL JUSTICE Twitter: 1029-2415 Ameba: 52-488 ELYSION Twitter: 1735-2200 Paradeis Ameba: 929-3046 THE PIASS Ameba: ~1268 (Takayuki only)