reminiscing2004
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Is there a reason Wagakki Band isn't associated with Visual Kei? I just watched one of their really popular videos for the first time and everyone looks the part. Went to look at their wikipedia page (lel), and vk isn't mentioned at all
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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.
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@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).
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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.
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Laybial easily one of the best matina bands.. every track bangs
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Try Eze:quL, you will love them too
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I understand what you're saying essentially. I used to not really hear it, but nowadays there are a lot of vocalists I can only enjoy when I'm "in the mood". Check out early Janne Da Arc and Rentrer en Soi. After like 12 years of listening to visual kei, Yasu and Satsuki have consistently stuck out to me as some of the best vocalists, and tend to avoid a bit of the excessive vibrato and pitch slurring that a lot of other talented vk vocalists tend to embellish their singing with
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I was thinking the same thing. What does the 12012 reboot mean for breakin?
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Minus Jinsei Orchestra and brutal death metal till my ears bleed
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totally forgot about the stripper girl opening act in Janne's boys only live DVD... sort of spaced out for a sec and forgot what I was watching
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"Boys only" yo wtf Yasu I wanna see a hot girl take her clothes off too 😤
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Mucc are basically the masters of re-recordings at this point
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Also quite curious to hear this
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i know this is blacklisted and morally wrong to mention, but the new yohio mv showed up in my recommended feed when i was feeling weak and I...
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just one of those nights you think about due le quartz era myv stage presence 👀
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Does last.fm culture exist presently? Is there any social utility to getting on last.fm?
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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.
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Having an outright spiritual experience with Janne's debut right now.... 😵
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@reminiscing2004 yes, or live recordings
they have songs like "Lost", "Noise" & "Orleans" which are almost unknown
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@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
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Hit or miss! If the music feels right, I'll forgive the most abysmal production! And if it doesn't feel right ... ,
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getting hammered and binging Vidoll PV's
#livingmybestlife
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Thinking back on all the instances where I mentioned Visual Kei to non-VK fans (usually people who listen to a wide variety of genres, or even to people who love certain subcultures of other J-music), I've had this cumulative sense that the biggest barrier to entry for people is the VOCALS. I think it's easy to think the least accessible part of VK is the visuals, but that seems more like a positive draw nowadays, considering how increasingly trendy anime and Japanese cute aesthetic shit is in mainstream youth culture. I believe there is something about the general style of how VK singers sing that is kind of uncomfortable and dramatic for western rock or metal fans, who otherwise like the instrumentals. Of course, there's a gradient of how guilty vocalists are of this, and I think the more normal (to western ears) vocalists tend to be the bands that do better with general music, but not vk, fans. To help think about how to better communicate this, I clicked shuffle play based on the tag 'visual kei' in my library. Sure enough, a Due le Quartz song comes up, and it has 1) seductive sounding vocal fry spoken word throughout 2) sudden ultra deep voice ad libs coming from far left and right 3) falsetto ghostly vocals 4) whispers 5) gasps 6) whistles 7) occasional gag screams ...on top of the normal sung vocals, which have a typical vk vibrato fetish. Also, I would say bad engrish vocals sound weirder than japanese lyrics to foreigners.
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Amazing list! Definitely a year that got me amped on VK. Only album that really stuck out for me by not being on the list was Matenrou Opera's "Anomie" -- awesome record!
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ahahah, pressed control-z to undo a word i had pasted in my review and deleted that last 6 paragraphs, niiiiiice
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Too bad that the internet doesn't work the same way as notepad
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I don't know if I agree with this, but I think it's an interesting point. If I think back 10+ years ago to the forefront technical/fast players, I think of Versailles, Matenrou Opera, Deluhi. Go listen to Teru's earliest work with Aikaryu, Hizaki with Garnet grave in 1998 (let alone the Schwardix & Solo stuff), Anzi's old power metal band Masterpiece, and Leda's playing in Crimson Head. They were always shredders. Of course they improved with age, but they were always speed-geeks from the start. Also, because visual kei musicians are almost always influenced by musicians in the global rock/metal world, I think its unfair to compare the 2000's with now. With the global waning of rock music from the 2000's to 2010's, a lot of this decade was defined by music with high technical merit. The icons of the early 2000's were often nu-metal bands with no guitar soloes like System of a Down, Disturbed, Slipknot and Linkin Park. Whereas in the early 2010's, metal kids were getting excited about Animals as Leaders, Periphery, and 'djent'. Even now, a lot of the big NEW rock/metal bands of the 2010's are proggy shred bands (Polyphia, Intervals, Chon). There wasn't as much of an audience for those kind of bands in 2005. So it would make sense that visual kei in the 2010's has a higher skill level, because it reflects the global trends.
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next trade off when @ team admin :0
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We're in the middle of one right now
so maybe in two months lol
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south america never gives up
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after listening to them since I was like 9, I saw Symphony X today. super satisfying. russell allen was nothing but good vibes
