Himeaimichu

Gonna try it!

Are they available on Youtube?

@saiko Some are. Here is the one I was talking about in the OP

I never knew there was such a band out there that is so stereotypically Visual Kei. Well, minus the stereotype of bad vocals and  bad production lmao. 

Well, at least stereotypical for the late 90s and early 2000s. 

honestly if you don't like eldorado and at least their album "aula" AND this song you can leave this forum right at this minute

aula is a top-notch album, i remember loving it when it came out. scored a cheapo copy on Third Stage back in the day and was super psyched. haven't organically thought about this band in years, but now i'm tempted to give it a spin again.

I've listened to them a few times and I really need to try them out more!

Some Suggestions (though some of them may also be from early 90s): DIE-QUÄR, Media-Youth, D≒SIRE, Silver~Rose, L'yse:nore, Canary, Speed-ID, Rapture, FANATIC◇CRISIS, Maschera, Kneuklid Romance, Romance for~

Pretty sure there's plenty others, the early to mid 90s were the best time for VK, lots of great bands as the scene exploded and reached its peak.

Kneuklid Romance [2] (haven't listened to their major era much, but their 2nd (?) vocalist material is some of my all-time vkei favorites)

L'yse:nore [2] (although I think they're also late-90s).

Canary [2] (they're basically Deshabillz with better vocals)

Ti+Dee

Penicillin (Penicillin Shock ~ Vibe albums should be what you're looking for)

Sleep My Dear

Blüe

Oml, I literally just found this band yesterday lol
Now I'm curious heheh

I listened to "帝都に死す", do they have more songs like that one?

@Enki

@Bunny-Usagii They have quite a few of them scattered through their discography

i wouldnt bother using fb since cambride analytica and cyber hackings and how info mation kept and now asking some users verify name and ID i wouldnt bother supporting the ceo or site not becux the ceo socialist or leftists but privacy not there they always get hacked 

@Enki You're right lol. The only reason I even use it is because all my friends are on there lol. If it were up to me, all of my friends would use FriendProject (a clone of old myspace with all the old HTML editing)

or make your own site or msngr on wix chat like that because we cant trust big tech websites now adays the privacys concern right now

These ones?

Yeah, basically

Hm. I think it's cute on girls.

Grieva often sing about murder and suicide, Gossip have a lot of topics about nationalism/anti nationalism etc.  But yes, Kuroyuri have similar topics so they should have that parental advisory as well I guess

It could be that Grieva and GossiP are more blunt with their lyrics. I mean, Mei tends to put LOTS of hidden metaphors in his lyrics and such, though I'm sure Kyouki and Saku do too. 

Or it could be the way Mei sings, since he sings in a more archaic way, using weird Kanji readings, and occasionally using obsolete phonemes such as "ye", "we" and "wi". But then again, so does Kyouki. Saku seems to sing in a slightly more modern way compared to Kyouki and Mei, but still somewhat Archaic. I have heard from a lot of people who try to translate Kuroyuri songs that Kuroyuri's lyrics tend to be really hard to understand due to Mei's grammar, because Mei is known for using the fluidity of Japanese grammar. Also, it's worth mentioning Mei slurs his vowels in different ways a LOT.  I've also heard Kyouki's lyrics are a little harder to understand, but I don't have much info on Saku's lyrics, since not a lot of GossiP's songs have translations. 

(If only I actually spoke Japanese xD. I could tell you all about the language theory and the archaic forms of the language, but I can't even speak it xD)

But the most likely reason is probably something so simple as "Kuroyuri doesn't use any English cursing" xD. We'll never know, probably. 

Update: I just realised only 2 GossiP releases have parental advisory, and only 2 of Grieva's. IDK what this means, but it's probably useful somehow in finding out this honestly arbitrary thing I just thought xD

same, except only my hair curls up on one side 😂😂😂

do you have thick, curly hair?
Mine too starts to frizz when I straighten. Unfortunately it only looks bad, like I have straw on my head. If it looked better it would be cool, because of then I could easily do 80s goff hair. 

@IknaYeah, my hair often gets curly, but like messy curly xD. Straightening is the only way I can look good, and it prevents what would be a lot of frizz, at least on my hair. 

I often use a little, but not too much hairspray on the bangs, so they won't curl out or frizz

jesus christ

Sorry, random shower thought xD

cher is a talented legend though

i see a lot of vk bands on that site all the time...

Yeah they're on their sometimes. The site is incredibly ambiguous about what is metal. Dir en grey still is for some fucking reason, but Kyo from deg is dafuq?

Honestly, if you look at the discussion about Dir En Grey on that site, it's cringey. It's all a bunch of homophobia and "core isn't really metal"

I do recall seeing pictures/reading somewhere that he did coach a kid team at one point many years ago.

Not 100% sure though.

it depends, do soccer teams make a good tax evasion racket?

@returnal  Omg I'm dead xD

That made my day

This is one of the main reasons why I hate beach, pools and such. It doesn't matter how much sunblocker you bathe in and how little is the time you stay under the sun, you will ALWAYS get sunburnt.

(global warming?)

I was forced to go since it was a family event. Even though I hate going to pools, this one was at some person's apartment, so it wasn't dirty, plus it's an escape from the area I live in. 

Update: It shows on my phone when using data, but not with Wifi, nor does it show up on my chromebook. I am in school right now and it could be that the links to the gifs are blocked

I can see the gifs in your signature.

Yeah, it's probably just the wifi where I'm at blocks the links, since my school's wifi blocks imgur, so therefore, the images don't show. 

Am I doing my job correctly, @sakurakurakura? lol

*inhale* and *exhale* BABY YUUNA

I FORGOT, I'M SORRY, DADDY. 

I'm having a blast reading his shit lmao

The irony is, it'll inspire so many people to make memes of him even more, just to make him angry. It'll be so funny to see him react to all the dankness. 

On another note.. if we get him to drink Chlorine bleach, does that turn him into Salt? lol. I mean, he's already pretty salty already lol

Maybe the exploding of anger is a chemical reaction that turns Issei salty (ok, make me stop with the horrible chemistry jokes lol)

He's DM folder on twitter is open for trolling. Let's meme him to death

http://www.rarezhut.net/product/cuartet-cuartetの裏ビデオ *cough*

That's what I was referring to lol. I'm planning to buy it for christmas ^^ 

<3

i hope you're joking (or can't see difference between school uniform and military cosplay)

Half-Joking. I definitely know the difference, but there are also a lot of similarities between the looks here. Especially the hairstyle, since Amano always had that same hairstyle. 

Don't take it all too seriously, it's just a simple observation.

ahh it's ok if it so! i just like them both and can't understand why someone noticed similiar details..w

Ok, so apparently, it's just some party some organisation is hosting, with a very misleading name (that's probably going to disappoint a bunch of newbies). 

This is IRL clickbait. Except worse because looking at it makes you cringe

literally this video

"ok i got the headline, 'Jrock Party 2018'"

"no no no, u gotta tickle their balls a lil bit!!"

"uhh ok Jrock Party 2018 feat. Dir en grey & The GAZETTE?"

"how bout this KYO VS RUKI"

"that... doesn't make any sense..."

It's most likely just one of those club nights we're they play two bands. 

Check out the band DreamSpirit. https://dreamspirit.bandcamp.com/album/general-triumphant

Yes, I do.

you probably already know 伏羲 (fu xi) right? youtube.com/watch?v=onlsbO3TmlI
there's also 末裔 (moyi), but this one track's better than all their rest imo youtube.com/watch?v=-EDhtbHB3PI

PREACH

Maybe they just want it to sound like that? Maybe that's what they like?

I'm in a band (and some), and while we could record everything better (you know, used 5 mics for the drums instead of 2, told the guitarist we want a clear sound, produced it better and so on), we don't want to. We have a very clear vision for what we want, and even though a "better" (aka more polished) production would probably get us a few more fans, it's not what we're after. It's not in our interest. First and foremost we want to please ourselves with the music.

As far as programmed drums goes, it all depends on the music performed. And if you ask me (something you didn't he e he he he hrhaha heh) programmed drums really only suit a few types of music such as hip hop, different kind of industrial music, music where you don't rely on regular beats and so on. Programmed drums in regular rock, punk and metal are usually annoying as fuck no matter how good the actual samples used are.

This is Starwave Records I'mtalking about here. I doubt Kiwamu's half assed production is for artistic purpose, as he cares more about easy cash grabs and keeping his bands on a tight leash, than he is actually promoting the art of Visualkei. He's more concerned running a practical pyramid scheme than he is about furthering any art. 

It must be Batman's signal

There probably exists a mod for that. 
If only there was an in depth guide on how to fucking install mods like that. 

"Replace the BMP in Particle.txd" ok I did that and nothing happened

There is, for the PS2 version

They were on the "Hysteric Media Zone III" and "Public Ego Dance 001" omnibus but I think that's it.

Ah, thanks! I'm able to find a rip of Public Ego Dance, but not Hysteric Media Zone. Do you perhaps know where one would be?

Sadly I don't :c

totally agree about ヘクトウ and ロマン急行 ,but gulu gulu i'm still not sure if they plan to become some kind of new KIZU/RSHITEI/ACME,it's not exactly something bad,but merry go round was so formulaic...i didn't expect that

Even though Merry Go Round did sound a bit formulaic, it still sounded WAY better than the similar sounding stuff from other bands. Though I'm pretty sure that's just me being a total Ai fangirl lmao

yeah,i got you,i feel like i'm going to support and buy whatever he may release lol

but i really hope they go more for the ヘクトウ/ロマン急行/Inugami direction instead of those bands i mentioned above.

Only, my music would be way more professional sounding, hopefully. And hopefully my screams are better lol.

Oh wow she's actually amazing, thanks for mentioning her!!

You're welcome! I absolutely love her aesthetic

Good catch, I can hear it! They probably have similar influences, maybe '80s post-punk and post-hardcore combined or idk. This short-lived band from the '80s also comes to mind (they were one of the main inspirations for the whole emo thing).

Oh yeah, I'm semi familiar with Rites of Spring because I like a few songs from their vocalists other band, Fugazi. I actually never knew they influenced Luna Sea, but that makes a lot of sense!

I feel like it's the vocals. I can hear some Ryuichi in Gerard's voice here. The music itself I'm not so sure it reminds me of LUNA SEA, except for that little part from 1:37-1:40 and the occasional screaming.