Tanishi

Maybe he isn't paying anyone and he's just the most popular outgoing person in vk. Or maybe he has a really high up Yakuza connection that is gathering all these people together. Or his dad is really wealthy and is paying everyone. I can't understand how this album is even a thing but with all that talent crammed onto the one record it can either go really well or really bad. Edit: the previews sound really good. But if this is the album he always wanted to make it doesn't sound overly different from D.

VESTIGE OF SCRATCHES is not mastered by Tue Madsen is it? Googling turned up with nothing so I assume it's not.

Here are my votes: - Best Overall Artist/Band: Gibkiy Gibkiy Gibkiy, ZMORA, -真天地開闢集団-ジグザグ (ZigZag) - Best Album: In incontinuance (Gibkiy), Ubugoe (ZMORA), Menhera Hajimemashita (ZigZag) - Best Single/Maxi-Single/EP: Kinou no Kowai Yume (Kuroyuri), Watashi wa Kairai, Sarugutsuwa no Ningyo (Kiryu), Kimon (Meidara) - Best Cover Art: Ubugoe (ZMORA) - Best Song: Kinou no Kowai Yume (Kuroyuri), Collapsar (ZMORA), Aoguroi Hysteria (Sukekiyo) - Best Look: ARCHEMI's Kourin look, Kiryu's goth look for Oborozukiyo, Noulla's Nisshoku look. - Best Newcomer: Kizu, Meidara, Mamireta - Best Veteran: Vistlip, Luna Sea - Best PV: Ojamashimasu (Mamireta), Tsukiyo ni Kesson Shoujo (Noulla), Kawazu (Kizu) (Noulla's is mainly for the silly dancing and Kizu is because I love forest settings and its pretty well directed.) - Saddest Disbandment: The Black Swan, Kuroyuri (If these are meant to count for next year, just ignore). - Most Overhyped Band: Razor - Most Overhyped Release: The Core (Razor), DNA (Razor) - Most Underhyped Band: ZMORA, Liphlich - Most Underhyped Release: Ubugoe (ZMORA), BitterSweet (Vistlip), CLUB FLEURET (Liphlich) - Most Disappointing Release: Adoratio (Sukekiyo), Mozu (Gossip) (I'm definetely in the minority for Adoratio. Half the songs I really like but the other half just bore me to death even though the sound they have going is absolutely fantastic. Stylistically it is fairly similar to ZMORA's album but with less metal influences, but I like the songwriting on ZMORA's album more. - Most Anticipated release: Adoratio (Sukekiyo), In incontinuance (Gibkiy) I'm just gonna leave it that, I don't have much for the rest.

I hope they put the 2 recent singles + 2 new songs on a mini like Zougi no Nozoki Ana. Hope to see the members in new bands too.

I'm not sure it exists but if anyone knows any vk albums that are like a more chaotic version of Dum Spiro Spero or Ousia, please let me know (no deathcore). Also are there any vk bands that have experimented with harsh noise or power electronics?

The video is actually about time paradoxes, the old magazine article tells the story about a rape victim girl killing her parents and becoming pregnant (the mum), and then the journalist finds a recent online article about another girl (current girl) who kills both her parents even though the mum (first victim) is still alive at the end. Truly an intellectual PV of the highest calibre. Or maybe I got lost on what's going on.

Yeah it's a very valuable site. There's also this Japanese site that I'm sure most people know about: http://www22.big.or.jp/~yunisan/vi/dic.html

I cringed. Though tracks 6, 8, 9 and the R18 rerecording sound alright but it's too early to tell. My prediction is it'll be worse then the previous album which imo had a few decent tracks.

Even if this doesn't become an official thing you could still do a poll. Don't know how many people would vote though. I know last year there were some releases I really liked that weren't on the official list.

Yeah it's cool that a bunch of 40+ year old men can release music that sounds more inspired then 99% of what the new younger crowd can put out. Similar to how Swans 2010s output is better then pretty much all modern rock music despite the man behind it all being 60 years old. Gibkiy give me Swans vibes as well.

Gibkiy really blew it out of the park on this release. They went further then reimagining it, they changed it so much that it completely fails as a cover but as an individual song it is by far the most enjoyable thing on the album. Most the other cover's were actually pretty good despite playing it safe and I was expecting a lot worse. Sukekiyo butchered Gerbera though. I was expecting a lot better from them.

Found the rerecording info here: http://www.neowing.co.jp/product/BPRVD-272. Slightly more interested in this release now but I'm pretty skeptical.

I'm have soulseek open a lot of the time because I have a large wishlist that is yet to show up. Same username as here but I'm sharing userlist only so if you want to download something off me send me a message first. I still find rare stuff on there every now and then that you can't find anywhere else, usually from users who log in once and then never log in again

I thought they were pretty generic at first but their music has a very hypnotic element about it that keeps me coming back. They were really good songwriters but you don't realise until you give them a few proper listens.

I sort of expected it but I thought they would release one last album and maybe disband next year. Sucks though.

Relistening to Ousia today and I think it really is a fantastic album, much better then anything Nega did. At first I didn't like it because it's really dense and sounds very samey but every time I come back to it I like it a little more. Some criticisms are it's too long and too much metalcore/deathcore chugging but there is really great songwriting all throughout the album. Jin's voice contributes to the amazing atmosphere and he's gotten better since Nega. On all of Nega's releases there were times where his voice made me cringe pretty badly but this is mostly absent when I listen to Ousia. If they released a whole album filled with songs as good as the title track and 流声、相剋の廃と it would be vk album of the decade imo.

Imo Undying was their best song since DIM so I'm feeling overly optimistic about this album. ^Also I checked Ruki's twitter and he uses 最狂 (saikyou) instead of 最強 (saikyou), a play on words saying the album will be their most insane/crazy album yet. Might be looking too far into this but hopefully this means it won't be straight forward generic stuff like Dogma which was alright but far from great.

Hopefully we get some new music this time

Apart from the classics like Luna Sea (still the best 90s band), Kuroyume, Malice Mizer, Buck Tick etc I've only been getting into old school vk recently. Some of my favorites though: Most of Rouage's albums are really great and they have fantastic song's on all their albums. Favorite album's include Bible, Children and -312604806-. A lot of people really like Soup as well. Classic goth rock vk sound here but they stand out because of their above average songwriting. This band only had one mini but it's near perfect the whole way through. Their songs sound really 'dynamic' and have great energy. It's a shame they didn't last longer because this is probably the best record released on Key Party. Laputa was one of the biggest bands from Nagoya back in the day with their dark and catchy sound. Standout albums include Kagerou and Emadera but anything they released before the turn of the century was extremely solid. Baiser were another prolific band in the 90s I'm sure most people here know about. Favorite album is Ash but their later stuff is good too. There is so much good stuff from the 90s visual boom that the West doesn't know about that I feel like I'm only ever scratching the surface. Will probably lurk this group a lot for recs.

Is this post visual kei like sukekiyo

This album is definitely gonna take time to digest properly. The production is great though, no matter how much is going on everything sounds really clear and balanced. Could be their best but time will tell. Edit: love the drop in 首吊り遊具 too.

I'd like to see one of the bands cover Kuchiki no Tou's title track, though I don't know if anyone could pull it off.