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my condolences
 
also your name is getting dubbed in so many languages lol

Good for him....?? 
 
You'd think after the "Opinions on" thread that the point was made that a lot of people here don't care for Yohio or what he does lol. I really don't get the need to constantly update the forum on ol boy. 
 
 

lol you are really trying your hardest to make YOHIO happen, aren't you?

Stay on topic, people.
This is the news section, if you don't care then don't comment.

The only thing I knew about Yohio was DISREIGN, and only because they followed me randomly on my private twitter. I gave their music a shot, it was alright to me-but Yohio as a person in general I don't care for and that's sort of a deal breaker for me.
 

just let this thread die already onegai

>Release a maxi-single
>Release a lyric video for a song of it eight months later

lol oh my bad.

This song is track 3 in the single

Is this from an upcoming single? If so shouldn't you make a new topic?

Good song overall; sounds like a mix of Uroboros-era DeG and Gazette. Drum sound could have been better, tho

I know, I know. I just wanted to know. 
 
And alright. I understand what you mean.
 
Thanks for sharing!

This horse has been thoroughly beaten. lmao.
 

 
I gave "Together We Stand Alone" a quick spin. It's a very Western release. I can see the appeal, just not my thing. Wouldn't be an album I would talk about in a VK forum. Has a lot of 00's teeny-bopper feel to it.
 
I can't point to a music niche that this album does well. Justin Bieber can write love songs that are more dignified than "You're the One". A7X's "The Stage" is a good example of catchy rock music that goes hard, not this album.
 
It's not a bad album. There's just better picks out there. I didn't actually listen to the album front-to-back. I just skimmed through parts to get a general gist. It was hard for me to stomach a full listen.
 
His work on DISREIGN is far better; but DISREIGN, in comparison to the standard VK fare like DADAROMA and RAZOR, leaves a lot to be desired in terms of originality. Being Gazette-lite is common for VK Indie bands, but bands like those don't get respect in the international VK community.
 

Okay...
 
And alright? Never really thought about it that way... And I probably won't because I'll probably not remember, but whatever.

For me it also simple
 
visual kei is something from Japan.
Of course you can play visual kei if you are not from Japan.
But then I prefer simply Japanese visual kei.
 
But there are enough bands of the west which can be also named as visual kei. actually all kind of not normal dressed rocking emo screemo bands.  It's still also a bit of visual kei.

It's not an inherent dislike of Western visual-kei in my case, but it's more that just about every Western visual-kei band has tried to emulate styles and hallmarks that I find to be the worst part of the scene, mixed with occidental influences that I also dislike.
 
I say most because there have been a handful of examples that really weren't too bad. 
 
While I do not have any official numbers, and this may just be confirmation bias, but it does seem like most Western vkei bands come from Sweden (especially in response to Yohio getting attention at whatever that European American Idol thing everyone on Twitter cares about, as well as in Japan from people like Dada and Kenzi. He more or less made the dream real).
 
There's a fair number from Brazil and Chile as well, but outside of their own attempts at promoting themselves on last.fm, here, or on Facebook, they never really got much attention.

Even though i do find that one DISREIGN sign boss, i vote we blacklist Western v-kei bands (or as i like to call em: Swed-kei) from discussion here lmao
 
 
Or black listing YOHIO in general would suffice. 

If there's no thread here, that implies no one cared enough to listen to it. I don't want to speak for everyone on this forum, but YOHIO isn't popular here for many reasons and opening discussion won't make him more popular. Some just hate because he's living the dream. Others hate because he sounds like a transplant of poorly-done visual kei (note NOT a poorly-done visual kei transplant; if he actually sounded decent he might have fans). For me, it always seemed as if YOHIO wasn't popular more so because he took the rose-tinted glasses off the scene so we can see what caked-on foundation and desperation looks like and less because he sucks musically. The man can shred a guitar, select western audiences are becoming slightly more receptive to less traditional metal aesthetics, and I've heard worse visual kei bands stanned for less. Seremedy was hot garbage and I'm glad that's gone, and whatever side project that spawned off of the four leftover members is equally as irrelevant, but DISREIGN is proof of western scenes willing to accept visual kei for me; it's a budget The GazettE clone but no one minds because they're palatable enough to get by.

consider this my mini review of his entire career.

the visual-kei facebook group also has an alarmingly high tolerance for eastern european 'vkey bands'

you miiiiiight want to give last.fm a shot in your pursuit of finding other yohimbe fans.

Who?

both albums were shite imo. disreign is the only good thing he has done so far.