Ballads are mostly pointless drivel to me anyway, but I would've honestly preferred if they'd went the Dir en grey route of re-recording/deconstruction instead of this regardless..
well....as most of you may agree with me,SHIROKI YUUTSU,GUREN,PLEDGE,WITHOUT A TRACE and UNTITLED,didn't need to be re recorded
so,i guess them tried to make it sound as refreshing and different as possible from the other records. (singing PLEDGE for exemple)
i still think that them should have re recorded these old,sincere and simple ballads: juunanasai,shiawase na hibi,okuribi,hanakotoba and the epic chizuru,
instead of those a mentioned above.would be the album of the year!!
wow...so the thing about phone is really serious...
yeah,i started to think that is not karma.
perhaps when he come back,he comes with some badass band,is too soon to lose my hope upon him
They will regret it. Aahahahahaha. My curiosity will kill me. It can't be Karma. Many AvelCain fans will call to that number. I will do it too probably. But it can't be Karma.....
Ready to call and scream "WHO ARE YOU?" in English and run. Yolo. I wonder will he answer foreign calls XDDD
"Before I start singing I want to know about the burden you carry on your backs.
These days distance between fans and the bands are closer than ever,
but for me who have never known something from the depths of the heart from fans
Let me know "who" and "what" I am singing for
I want to make some unique songs like that and for them to reach the bottom of your heart.
I'm waiting for your phone call
Vocalist of Kizu"
something along those lines.
tldr: bullshit.
from 18.00 tomorrow (japan time) someone will answer on the phone number specificed on the flyer. they've been talking about it on tanuki as well so I'll probably report if someone says who it is/what they say
Consider it a sister thread to the oshare kei one. I think this is a delightful dualism to make, and I am all about that vkei history anyway so I'll take any excuse to make another one of these.
The adoption of the nu metal riff and attitude into visual kei's musical framework happened just when the scene changed forever with the implosion of the old labels and bands. In the usual visual kei fashion we were late to the party just about a good five years too. It snuck itself in slowly, making cursory appearances at such places as MUCC's Antique from 1999, Kagerou's Biological Slicer from 2000, Aliene Mariage's farewell album 21st Century from 2001 and probably in retrospect most importantly, Dir en grey's Six Ugly from 2002. By the year 2006 ( which saw the release of both eight's ILLATIONAL and Girugamesh' 13's Reborn ) the nu metal riff had fundamentally transformed the landscape of visual kei. Below are some examples of the development that took place.
Before I get to that though, I have to say that there's not many scenes that can even begin to rival the longevity that visual kei bands, venues and its marketplace have enjoyed throughout its history. Still living both in the underground and occasionally even willing to take the L of performing at a half empty Budoukan, it ceases to amaze the spectators that stumble upon it; all the while all the goths of the bat caves, punks of 77' and dadrockers of the whatever, live out their legacies either through grandfathers or hack retro acts that suck by default. Granted it doesn't look the same, but indeed the willingness of its adherents to assimilate new currents have kept the hangman at bay and those nails off its coffin at least for now, which has allowed visual kei to remain a relatively recognisable brand for just about a few years short of three decades.
This thread while also about the seminal bands that managed to break through, is just like its oshare counterpart moreso dedicated to honor and celebrate those little bands that everyone other than south american blogspots from 2007 forgot. If you were that angry young man in your mid teens back in 2008 you ought to know this stuff by heart
If anyone can name an earlier instance of a just straight up nu metal riff I'd appreciate it greatly. Early Mucc is of course classic vkei and Tatsurou puts in just a canonical performance as the narrator of desperate hearts. Their nu metal sound would get thicker and thicker up until 2004, when they went literally out the deep end, supposedly almost disbanding by the sheer weight of the recording process. My preference however remains the very earliest releases up to 2002.
From the band that made one of the best visual kei albums of all time comes a ripoff of "Eyeless" by Slipknot - that's the sound of Aliene imploding into disbandment. While I think it's undeniably shit especially considering merits of their career up to that point, they lowkey took part in pioneering the nu metal sound in visual kei. Keep in mind that at the time of this recording Slipknot's s/t wasn't that old, and it is a sound that vk bands would keep on ripping off for almost a decade afterwards. Another thing of note was that the vocalist Kyoka also ditched the frilly dresses and adopted the nu metal fashion! While his sins are numerous, this has to be his worst offense. Either way an important document for visual kei's metamorphosis.
If the disease had only previously been a cough, after Dir en grey got through with it the scene quickly became hospitalised by it. They would continue riding roughshod over the genre until 2008's Uroboros where they'd go on to do more of the scene's pioneering work. Say what you will about them, they've continued to stay relevant through all these years and I think it's only very recently that the scene has stopped riding their coattails as much as it has.
I'll keep it at that, though rest assured there's certainly numerous other examples of the early usage of the nu metal riff from around 99 to 2002 of varying importance in the canon.
Early Girugamesh is what most people have their fondest memories of, and everything up to 13's Reborn is as good as gold as far nu kei is concerned. Their suit wearing while certainly not the first time it had happen in vkei, it was probably the context in which girugamesh presented it that made all the difference for the future: the blackclad angryman playing just nu metal influenced visual kei. Oddly enough I despised Girugamesh as a child EVEN THOUGH THEY SOUND EXACTLY THE SAME AS ALL THESE OTHER BANDS and it took me deep into adulthood that I finally warmed up to them at all.
Unsraw was my Girugamesh in a sense that they were the filthiest band I knew in my seminal vk years. Hearing Unsraw sent me on a quest of finding the most rad nu metal vk band out there, and more often than not it just led me to the disappointments that contributed to the failure I am today. Yuuki's vocals made a huge impression on me and it was ever the more bitter pill to swallow that they got very boring very quick. Their Core the Child hits being contemporary with Girugamesh' early ouvre, they can also be considered of relative importance.
This is what this thread is about. Look at those clothes, that breakdown from 2.10 that lasts for an eternity and Since1889 was in general just the quintessential nukei vk band. So bad it's good.
Despite this band having just about eek'd past the 2010 limit, they deserve mention being one of those final bands at the tail end of this fad. The look is still very much 00's and not the glitz of the 10's, and more or less free of the soon scene dominating metalcore riff. Glorious vocals as well.
There's a million of these bands, AND THEY'RE ALL GREAT. Post favs, early specimens in the scene, anything that fits within the parameters.
lol funny you asked cos my friend @cirrusand i were just talking about him a few days ago and joking that he went back to playing computer games 24/7 again
his official twitter is still around: https://twitter.com/MiNiMUMLiME
afaik he's just doing sessions sporadically now, but it says on his profile that he's not accepting requests/invitations from bands etc.
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