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@helcchiBless, your contributions is the heart and soul of this thread. You've just summarised the spirit of the fad perfectly with all of those bands. Some I had not even heard of before like Gemmik
 
 I'm surprised I didn't link the blogspot and top 10 brutal vk bands youtube video staple DIE3IRAE on the first post. It's them with Since1889 and yaminade that I usually think of first if the topic steers towards this crap. 
 
@aetarnaI started socialising with other weeaboos only after 2007 ( the kids in my neighborhood were more focused on getting 2pac from winmx while I was wondering whether scalpel tron porn type on limewire was a real dir en grey song  ) and so I missed out on every bit of fraternising and ostracising that went on amongst them. What it seemed like to me however was the scene was quite uniform as long as the An Cafe's and D'espairsray's were still around, which were the main culprits along with deg and gazette who brought vk to Finland. When the first went to hiatus and the second died, they took the scene with them and left only smouldering ruins behind, along with yours truly.
 
The Piass going nu metal was something I never understood. I guess Takayuki felt like wanting to take a part in the fad and make some cash for once after all those years of activity. The vocalist had literally the perfect vk chorus voice and it's a shame that allegedly he just took off without informing anybody, sending the piass into the netherrealm of eternal recording hiatus in the process.
 
A band that was very popular in Finland at the time, performing here on numerous occasions and fukken Mikaru even dragged his other band black line to flop in front of the Finnish public the first chance he got. A very important band to me as well; in fact I quite fondly remember once being angry at my parents and choosing to sleep on the floor in protest and rock the spanking new vk band called Dio all night from the headphones. Now if I wasn't the intended target audience for this crap then I don't know who was! Self-flagellating weeaboos congregate here.
 
 
Hey I just found out that apparently he is fronting Fixer these days! I had no idea lolol btw what company starwave uses to shoot their pv's? they're all horrific without exception

I have died from nostalgia. This thread is so relevant to my interests. I'll share some old favs that haven't been posted yet. 
 
 
 

@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)
 
 
 
 

My memory is hazy as best, but when Wataru from 12012 was arrested for assault in 2007 shortly after his band went major, his charges were quickly dropped. I don’t remember if it had any lasting effects on 12012, but my question is how would the severity of that incident compare to charges of an anti social act in Japan?
 
All I remember was that his arrest sparked a wave of memes wherein any band who had a photoshoot behind bars was “Cosplaying Wataru”:

@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)
 
 
 
 

@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)
 
 
 
 

caught redhanded grabbing a mitsu by the puss in ni-chome

you mean lynch.'s isn't Hazuki's solo project?

bands who release ONE REALLY GOOD heavy song and leave the rest of their discography soft as fresh dog shit and then disband need to rethink all of their life decisions

killaneth literally sampled girugamesh. Sel'm also sounds similar too. Here are the 3 songs in comparison
 

killaneth literally sampled girugamesh. Sel'm also sounds similar too. Here are the 3 songs in comparison