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    12 minutes ago, Axius said:

    Juzeus i realized how many views this thread has 160k. Any good place to start with this band i never really had much time to actually full dive into the Crazy fk storm of releases these guys have. Thanks in advance for who ever takes the time to guide meh :P

    Considering that each of their albums sounds differently, there's no real starting point. I'd listen to VESTIGE OF SCRATCHES front to back, first. It's their recent best-of album. Just be careful, the last song on each CD (three total) is a remade version, so they kinda don't count.

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    True, but there are magazines etc. out there, such as the minikomi "Mercure", that lists more information.

    And there are also stans out there who collected all the information back during the j-rock craze, so maybe one of them might read this... :D

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    34 minutes ago, inartistic said:

    Everyone knows one of kyo's early bands was Visnu, but it's actually supposed to be written Viṣṇu (with dots under the s and n--dunno if it'll show up here).

     

    A recent fav of mine is CμЯЁ-βLAST. Just a random no1curr band, but I'm a fan of the “more is more” band name.

     

    If I had to give an actual guess as to why this is a “thing” in vk, I'd guess that it probably traces back to gothic influence in late 80s/early 90s. And I also bet that it became popular in the early 90s due to computers making symbols/alternate letters more accessible. (Crazy that vk is old enough to be influenced by the “rise of computers” huh?)

    It's actually Viṣụn :3

  20. Posted · Edited by Seelentau

    @OP does it have to be band names?

     

    Another unnecessary stylisation I just noticed: Toshi is writing his name as "Toshl". With a lowercase L. Not an uppercase i. Just... why? Of course it's still read as "Toshi", too. I mean wtf xD

     

    Edit:  Apparently, this has to do with his old label still having the rights to his artist name? Dunno.

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  24. Posted · Edited by Seelentau

    There are actually two versions of the 2ND DEMO tape:

    Special cover: https://www.discogs.com/LALIENE-2ND-DEMO/release/11695644

    Regular version: https://www.discogs.com/LALIENE-2ND-DEMO/release/2161768

    Also, is there any source at all that DEG took their name from that song? Wouldn't surprise me, but I read that the "translation mistake thing" was their own fault, not Lareine's...

     

    At the very start of the song, the singer sings "Haiiro no anata ni - dir en gray", so it could be that the "silver coin" thing was made up by DEG... or so? Confusing @.@

    And there was also a band called "Dir & Gray" in the early 90s? :D

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    Maybe not as interesting as the other examples in this thread, but DIR EN GREY always makes me chuckle.

    They took the Japanese 灰色の銀貨 (Haiiro no Ginka = Grey Silver Coin) and, for whatever reason, decided to translate it into three different languages: German, French and English - Dir En Grey.

    The only problem? "Dir" doesn't mean "Silver Coin": https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/dir#German

    What DOES mean "Silver Coin"? https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Silbermünze

    I wonder when it dawned on them that their name is a mistranslation...

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