reminiscing2004

Start getting addresses to write letters to my overseas friends and download all I can. 

And buy a huge encyclopedia for work.

Suddenly so many closeted porn watchers come out 😂

Closeted?

What's that?

@reminiscing2004 yes, or live recordings 

they have songs like "Lost", "Noise" & "Orleans" which are almost unknown 

Interesting. Nice pic btw, that Heidi mini is v good

@reminiscing2004 thanks, it's one of my favorite VK releases.

you can check the tracks I talked about below, my favorite of them is Noise

https://soundcloud.com/3bdo_y/orleans

https://soundcloud.com/3bdo_y/noise

https://soundcloud.com/3bdo_y/justice

https://soundcloud.com/3bdo_y/lost

thx for your comments everyone. will definitely check out/think about a lot of these examples you guys gave

dolly. their earlier releases were pretty hit-or-miss but their last two albums are excellent

oh and I'm not sure it counts (because they seem to be active and going strong), but DIAURA's latest ablum is a huge step-up over their previous discog (which I only have a fragmentary knowledge of, but from what I've heard it's p mediocre until recently.)

Everything from MADARA to DISORDER is pretty great.

madara + reila + gama

miseinen too.

Reila is incredible, I totally forgot. Love all the songs on the maxi

@Jigsaw9haha you had me intrigued, a straight NOISE vk act. singer looks cool tho

@reminiscing2004 their singer is gene from sick2 (ex SectMa) btw. Quite the change the dude went through…

To say something unexpected, Raven by Mejibray. Ive always felt so about this song, especially the drum rolls with the guitars and how they even sound in the mix

for only 5€.

hey thats cool! hb wonderland was my first murakami read

im currently reading the 2nd 1q84 book

Nice chi, the first for me 2. I just ordered Wind Up Bird Chronicle after the double recc

Now to wait until Monday...

Do you mean gazette? XD

He meant the new supergroup Deathgazette *__* (scnr)

You know if they were VK they would be Sripnot

how bout shattered tranquility tho

Yes, Centigrade J was a lyric translation site. Loved it because it had tons of really beautiful GLAY and Mr.Children translations. I have so many good memories of reading them while watching live videos and stuff in like 2006~2008. It's crazy to think that was so long ago.

remember monochrome heaven?  that site went offline over 20 years ago.... damn......

Parade, Puppet Show and ドナドナ are my faves.

Puppet Show is their best album, by far.

If you want some weird stuff - Strange fruits -奇妙な果実- and Hide and Seek、if you want strange stuff with pop flavor - Parade or Puppet show (here's really tons of songs that absolutelly will stuck in your head)

site died after the redesign in 2012. good for maintaining statistics and sometimes for grabbing images of bands, but not much else. if you still want to sign up, you can find me here.

she's dead

Even pulling images from that site is useless, because they changed the image format to webp 

dead as fuck

What do you need? I have everything backed up in a cloud. 

Pro tip: google "D Asagi" and everything magically pops up.

this reminds me of the time I searched "X Japan" in thepiratebay... haha

thx u guys

I believe it's because these bands were originally rooted in the doujin/touhou scene which, from my understanding, isn't traditionally associated with Visual Kei. Though I doubt the two are entirely mutually exclusive.

@CAT5 For Wagakki Band, they were initially a vocaloid cover band, which is definitely a completely different continuum from Visual Kei (but that hasn't stopped Gackt or Yohio from jumping in on making a vocaloid lol).

I remember that i thought at first also they are a visual kei group. Beside the visual kei connections from some band members i think the main reason comes from them wearing costumes on stage, then their bassist asa crossdresses often, it comes easy to someones mind they could be visual kei.  There is a high chance that the vk refusal had to do with them being a major band like Himeaimichu stated. (They was contracted to avex)

Also Machiya is Machiya in Waggaki Band but Shin Oumura(its his real name) in m:a.ture and his solo stuff. 

 Always liked this one. 

Wow i acually didnt know about this one. 

@lichtlune That song makes me Nostalgic of listening to Cure's short-lived online radio station in 2009 (curemediausa.com). The DJ (was his name Shion?) wasn't shy about his taste and would basically play DELUHI, ALSDEAD, アンド and similar bands over and over again.

That was an exciting time and it really felt like those bands were all going to blow up in popularity..

mucc for sure for me, i like their older stuff but right around 2010 they got hella more interesting imho.
Boris as well, for a non-vk answer; Flood and Feedbacker are masterpieces but aside from those i think their songwriting's just gone up from Pink on.

not sure how popular either of those opinions are tho.

Royz is getting better every album. Their last album was a hard banger. 

IMO cali=/=gari peaked around the period when they released Dai 6 - Dai 8, which was after 2 vocalists had come and gone already, does that count?

Malice Mizer's first stuff w/ Tetsu is distinctly worse than everything that came after imo, so i guess they fit the bill for me

I somehow like Dead End's newer stuff more than their older material, possibly because I dig Morrie's "new" voice more than how he used to sound back in the day

The Gallo's like this for me if only cuz their older material's sort of iffy in terms of production values from time to time

Buck-Tick and Merry are examples of bands that are consistently good for the most part

For a non-VK example, for some reason I enjoy P-Model's later stuff more than their older material, idk why

oh - I never cared for kamijo (and loathed laleine back in the day), and was only excited because teru didn't vanish after aikaryu disbanded.

fast forward 10 years, and kamijo is one of the vk queens I'm really fond of these days.

I'm only listening to versailles once in a while, but I def. mostly prefer their earlier singles, their b-side output was phenomenal, but lead track often had an exaggerated sense of pathos, which I'm not really fond of.

**lead trackS

Ahhh, okay, I totally gotcha. I discovered Aikaryu, HGP, and Versailles at the same time around late 2007 and It just rocked my world because I loved them all so dearly.  Cool to know you were originally into Aikaryu ^^

And I do feel you on the whole excessively melodrama vibe on a lot of their singles.

squad up, fam!

ready for service

right here fam

only 90s kids will remember

SKIN was a mess lmao poor MYV was so out of place in that lineup

Both had a chance of being pretty good. A shame really. Karasu at least released somethng.

Hiroshima Second clutch lightning needle blaster cannibal kei OMFG

confirmed best bandomen 

the joy of someone discovering dof-era johannes

For me it's a tie between BUCK-TICK's "Devil and Freud - Climax Together 2004" and MERRY's "BURST EPDVD/Live at Shinjuku Loft".

oh damn, YES, MERRY! totally forgot about them. their PEEP SHOW concert in Hibiya is easily one of my favorites too.

A9's "Tokyo galaxy", the one they recorded at Budokan.

LUNA SEA's MOTHER.

MUCC - 鵬翼

BUCK-TICK - 狂った太陽

It really bothers me aswell, but I've accepted that this is just the way he intends for his music to sound. Yggdalive was a beast of release crippled by some real poor mixing table decisions, and this is more or less the case for everything after that. He also does that to the drums, which further proves my point. it's like he separates the base/percussion to serve as stepping stone to guitar lines and vocals. That's why everything he does sounds better live (he can't damp Sujk live, lol). and the thing with the 8-string does make sense, listen to Inhale's 03:02~03:30. The bass is there, you can listen to it in several moments, but the base guitar basically does the job for it. Nadir is another song with some killer bass lines that could've gotten some spotlight. The oddness in all of this is that Leda was a bassist in first place, so it's not like that's just guitarrists being guitarrists, lol

DELUHI is why i use the equalizer now

I have to admit I do too... and I love DELUHI. LOL!

It doesn't come out for another week right?

Hasn't Sujk always used triggered drums? I always hated that about him

@rekzerpretty much every (metal) band uses triggered drums for the last decade or two, but most of the time it will be mixed in with the original signal. a lot of the DELUHI stuff probably had triggered kick/snare samples, but it was layered with the actual drum kit. If you listen to like the single version of Two Hurt for instance, you can actually hear the dynamics of the snare (unlike this current FED stuff)

@MamoYeah, I'm just going off of the songs they posted on Youtube.

absolutely not. even if there was some release I waited a lot, I don't even remember those dates.

2013.07.10 - xTRiPx's Any verse. Their comeback album after the hiatus, I was CRAZY hyped for it. I've played the teaser a billion times on youtube

Jiluka - Ajna -Sg Version-, October 25th 2017. It was the first time ever I actually looked at the previews nonstop.

D - Kingdom, November 12, 2014. It would be their last release before the hiatus and I was both overly hyped and depressed.

On brighter note, at least, some-"thing" with fucking with you. 

I think it's up to you to decide. Take into consideration how long you've tried for and why it could be going wrong. Things might work out if you change so you can go back to what you were doing before. (hope that made sense) 

Generally when things aren't working like you want keep trying is not the best options coz that's will not working, is better to think about why this things are like or become like that now , how I can do for change that.

After you finish to think about that is more easier for find the good plan for this things can work like you want

Couldn't agree more

Don't forget the Koto parts. Even though they're simple, they really add to the song

An under appreciated ballad if I've ever seen one.