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Does anyone often find genres that they love, but actually can't stand most of the bands of? 
 
visual kei

I suspect a bunch of them get kidnapped by their own parents and forced back into being black haired, piercingless salary-men.

ビバラッシュ (Vivarush) new single "マドモアゼル (Mademoiselle)" will be released at 2017/6/7 (2 TYPE), although further details have not been announced.

Ban discussion of all artists other than Maria Cross. That is all we deserve.

what sort of gackt crying-in-the-rain nonsense

"and for this song, i'll be singing with binder clips clamped on my scrotum."

Not everyone can be Smileberry

They should team up with BFN's Ice and call themselves DEADLIFT GOTHIC LOLITA

YOU MADE MY DAY. Let's do it!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 
I'm calling !!!!!! The time has come.

that message dead-ass sounds like LITERALLY just about every "new dark-ish vk band trying to describe their concept" post that has ever been made in the last decade or smth

Anyone agree?

imagine your fav covered in natto and crying while his mom is chasing you & trying to hit u with a paper fan

>"The members of the band will listen to your pain, your worries, displeasure and anxiety..."
 
omg are they gonna set-up a pay-per-call hotline for troubled gya as a next step from host side-jobs/dating for money

Can I just pre-emptively add Baboo's image to this thread before they disband in like a year?

That one time Yoshiki got filmed beating a homeless man to death, but he managed to play it off by telling the cops ''Don't worry, I'm just practicing for the new X-Japan album''

yoshiki chips iiii-ligro anzi's debacle kisaki's existence kiwamu chair throwing iconic QWEEN of despair hisui returning from alleged death to MYSTERIOUSLY deliver white orchids to the last lin live gackt's vancouver love child the pic of kyo holding hands with some girl in shinjuku got posted on tumblr (originally from tanu) and the japanese fans made a shitstorm about the blog that dude from super boys' porn maria cross' porn (well not really, we're not surprised by anything he does) dada snapping at the 6 fans he had on facebook

Maybe that explains also why there isn't any previews, cause Melvel's vocalist have a really unique/weird singing so we would definitely recognize him 

What was once cool and new is destined to become uncool and old.
 
ANY movement is going to peak and then decline at some point.
 
It went from a huge movement/style down to a small niche thing in Japan. And like how there are still sleaze and hairmetal bands forming in Hollywood and playing the Whisky on Tuesday nights, just because there are new bands and an audience for it to a degree doesn't mean it isn't a dead genre. It said what it had to say.
 
Fans in the west were 5-10 years behind the times. We discovered Visual at the turn on the century, and spent the decade not only getting into the bands that were around, but all the cool VK bands from the previous two decades. Needless to say, there was a TON of great shit to discover.
 
But, eventually, the well ran dry. 
 
For most people I've met that were into the genre, VK was like Kiss: a gateway drug into music in general but for weaboo/nerdy kids. Some people got into goth stuff (guilty!), some got into screamo and numetal, some got into prog rock, whatever. But the common thread is that 99% of them left that shit (visual kei/kiss) behind once they discovered more music and refind their tastes.
 
What's left is us: the creepy Kiss fans still painting our faces and shit to come out and see Gene Simmon and Paul Stanley phone it in for the millionth time at our local casinos. Arguing about weather Kiss would have been better off to keep Ace around, speculating as to the whereabouts of Vinny Vincent, and debating what is truly the worst track on 'Hot in the Shade.' It's  the way things go. If you don't believe me, pop on over to the MetalSludge.TV message board and see old 80s rocker guys, now in their 50s, doing the same thing we're doing here.
 
I'm here because Visual Kei changed my fucking life, man. Defined who I was, what music I listen to (I own David Sylvian's Weatherbox FFS), how I dressed and wore my hair. Every smoking hot girlfriend, every cross country tour, damn near every good thing that happened to me can more or less be traced back to getting some shitty .asf and .rm files of Luna Sea, L'arc, and Malice Mizer music videos  back in 99 or 00. 
 
Look, we were there for it. Love it, accept it, talk about it, listen to the old albums that meant so much to you, maybe even find a cool new band or two (I like Xaa-Xaa), etc. but there is nothing sad about that graph. This thing, it was our thing. 
 
 
And that's all I have to say. Gotta get back to making fun of Yoshiki.
 

One of the issues that stand out the most to me is the difference in promotion. 
 
Kpop goods are easily available and for every release there's a huge PR campaign around it,  as if it was the release of the century. They create insane hype, my sister always goes on about ''so and so is having a comeback'',  here I am thinking they haven't released anything for a year or so,  but it's more like they haven't released anything for a few months and it's celebrated as a comeback. 
In VK they release a teaser and announce 20 different CD types. Guess what? Those CDs cost an arm and a leg. 
Whereas in kpop you get a photo book, stickers, this and that plus the CD at a SUPER affordable price! 
 
Of course this is likely because Kpop is POP therefore they make enough money to be able to sell stuff cheaper. 
 
I think VK was appealing back when scene and emo was huge (like other people mentioned) but now scene fashion is dead,  so is the interest in vk. The look scares people and it seems to be getting more extravagant/stupid by the day. I saw a bandman basically cosplaying voldo (Soul calibur V) for a release a while ago. Let me tell you... Very few people will be comfortable enough to approach a band where a member is voldo. 
In the 80/90s glamrock was a thing, men with make up and feminine looks were seen on daily basis on mainstream TV and androgynous get ups were almost accepted. So maybe VK was embraced more then. 
 
But just a few ideas:
- there's a new rise in interest in gender  non-conforming ideas in the new generation. This could *possibly * bring an interest to VK in the future as the new generation is more curious and open to '' weird looking men. '' 
Rather than embracing rock as a rebellious phase that will go away once they reach adulthood,  it will be something they embracing out of taste and a connection to... ?  I'm not sure how to word this. 
 
- the biggest trend in Western mainstream music is dance music right now. Maybe if we had more VK groups experimenting with that, getting creative then we'd get a revival in the scene.
Look at Purple Stone, they're already having some fun with mixing dance music & VK. If they get the boost in popularity they deserve they could  reach out to broader audiences. There's massive potential in 'panic panic'.
 
-I already mentioned the fashion, but look at GazettE,  an cafe, diru  etc all the bands that were huge in the west back in the day. They were popular around the time their looks were more laid back, nothing too crazy. It just makes me think vk is too extravagant/theatrical right now to appeal to western audiences. How many people are gonna look at Arlequin and not laugh at the singers hair and get up?  Whereas you can look at soft emo GazettE from back in '06-' 09 and easily accept the look.
Kyo back then had blonde hair and less make up than ever before, now that bitch is dressing up as a nun.  (I'm all for that,  but other people slowly back away when I show them) 
 
This could be just a bad period for the scene,  we'll look back in years and say ' remember the great lame period of '10-'16?.   We just need to keep hoping for those few bands in vk who will dare to be creative and their risks will pay off. 

BUILD THE WALL

rip kusokei icons
avanchick had a shit reputation among...pretty much everyone involved in the scene lol so i don't think noah will join a new band. if anything he'll go solo, he's too good at doing what he does, plagarizing the gazette I MEAN writing catchy af vk songs and his blind girls (what an ironic fan name LMFAO) will follow him regardless.
that dude from cindykate needs to make a new band and debut it on that other guy from cindykate's label so he stops flopping. rei should join him, the bassist's good too. idc about the drummer he can go n get a real job
 
i liked avanchick (from a distance) and i hope their new band (sounding like noah minus noah) goes big

Noah and Kisaki in a new band pls.

Bandomen chronicles

#chequem8