returnal

the moment you pull this kinda stuff you know you've fuh-lopped heavy
do feel bad for the members tho honestly, likely only doing this at the behest of their management

well i'm embarrassingly ignorant of j-indies but i do listen to a fair bit of poppy vk vocalists so for what it's worth: i can possibly see how some people might think the cinema staff vocalist sounds vk-ish, although personally i wouldn't think so myself.  i think the distinction is quite tricky because as much as people often associate theatricality with vk, you can find similar qualities manifesting in j-indies in another manner: e.g. the intense/"shrill" kind of execution, and on the other extreme of the spectrum, the "aloof", lounge-y, "flat" delivery. it's probably fair to say that the cinema staff doesn't fall into either of these brackets, so maybe that's why they don't sound as ostensibly 'j-indies'?
 
to me there's still a discernible j-indies inflection in his vocals though, quite similar to those you find in pop-rock bands like NEXX, [Alexandros], and Fo'xTails - i dunno if they are j-indies (probably not) although they definitely aren't vk haha. that said, he does remind me a little of UNiTE's Yui - but even his style of vocals is kind of a rarity in vk. actually i feel that most of the bigger pop-vk bands (Guild, Anli Pollicino, BB, Dangan, SID, Megamasso, etc.) don't even sound that vk - in that (i) people who aren't familiar with vk won't be immediately turned off, (ii) there's little common ground between their vocalists.  there are exceptions like the BPR bands; Royz probably comes closest to what i'll associate with a 'vk pop sound' if there was ever one.
 
of course, a lot of these are based on broad-brush stereotypes that don't do any justice to either scene imo. across both scenes, vocals vary to such an extent that even if you take some kind of a weighted average (assuming that was even possible) it's still not representative of the scene as a whole. that's also why it's easy to find correspondences, although i tend not to make too much of them.
 
i also haven't voted because i'm not that familiar with either band (my  interest in chanty only extends as far as hoarding shia chekis.. oops)

CLear new single "Surround" will be released at 2016/12/28 (2 sonsgs, 1080 yens)
 
[tracklist]
01. Surround 
02. Dizzling Dance

>implying i'm ever anything but

this is one of those things that will instantly turn me off a band forever because all it does is gouge the fans you currently have/fuck with their emotions rather than actually gain you fans, so yeah
 
see you never

Nice to meet y'all!

y'know on some level i know i'm not gonna be into vkei for my whole life, so i just hope whenever i do find stuff i like better i can still look back on this dumbass genre fondly like that.

If you don't mind me asking - what bands (in general) are you into now and which vk bands stood the test of time for you?

hi, i'm ryan... i've been lurking here since forever, created an account a few months ago, and lately something's been telling me i should try to talk here more.
i'm not terribly good with forums though - something about the way anything i'd say gets kept on the site forever seems to trip me out a bit.
and i'm not sure how much of value i'd have to comment - so, i'll try to make myself useful and get to posting some (probably wildly inaccurate) translations~

as far as me....... got into vkei with ナイトメア about when their s/t came out, haven't found a band that resonates more with me since.
p sure i can find something to like in just about any style/scene, but i really think vkei hit its golden age between 1997-2007. at least to me.
as of typing this i'm also stanning diru, mucc, the gallo, and meji pretty hard. and since 2014 i've been living in varying degrees of Worried About Royz.
 
IRL i work at a sushi/udon place, it's p great, and i'm trying to get the hang of this whole 'understanding and speaking japanese' thing. it's hard tho.
Oh, and i'm trying to get a band together. also hard.
and that's basically it for me because i have no life outside visual kei.

Nice to meet all of you though - even if i haven't said much anything before i owe y'all a lot for recommending a lot of my fav bands.
special shoutout to all the staff/mods, rarezhut guys, and everyone who translates band shit bc it'd be so much harder to get into this dumb scene without people like you putting in all the work.

Oh and @ everyone feel free to hmu on twitter, username's same there as here
 

by day, the fine ladies are spending their lives stifled in tiny office cubicles
 
but when tha night falls on the megapolis, their guttural deathgrowls rattle through corporate corridors, scaring the cleaning staff!!!!

yeah, at least it's a reason we can understand and support but still hopefully he will get better and the band will do okay without him.

Aw, that sucks
 
Good to hear that it wasn't some big fight or something, but it always sucks to hear about people not being healthy :/

minus(-) new album "Ｏ" and LIVE DVD & Blu-ray "V - memories of ecru & voltaire 2016-" will be released at 2016/12/28

@Tokage i didnt actually look at the comments yet so i cant help yet. I'll look later tho
 
I guess I'll only see him one more time before he leaves, huh... wonder what will happen after that
 
Jk, I can explain right now: the like first pic says he's leaving then the next paragraph says his physical condition is bad and it's not getting better which makes continuing band activities difficult.

Hopefully there wasn't some kind of blowup. Can anyone translate the comments?

I've mostly gotten shit from older visual kei fans or more ~brutal~ visual kei fans for liking Royz and similar bands. I guess I used to feel guilty about that and when asked what bands I liked, I'd really readily admit heavier or older bands and downplay my interest in newer catchy bands and any oshare kei. Lately, I've just not given a single shit and let me tell you... the guilt free visual kei life feels good. 

Probably SuG :x I used to turn off my last.fm plugin before listening to their music so that nobody would know and I wouldn't ruin my Solid Gold reputation.

loool basically it. vk -might- be the closest i have to a guilty pleasure but really i just wallow in everything i love

november 15th live digest last song is called "Fellatio Master." that... definitely came out of left field!

here's some unmentioned osare bands i remember from the depths of my teens. idk if anyone else here was a member of the oshare_kei community on LJ but it was a race to the bottom to find the most underground osare bands at all times. it was hell.

Eimy
 
Parfait

P*Route

duraluMin

Jack11

Pawn

Bagi-bogi

Maruru

Lilac Berry
 

"visual kei was invented in 1993 by cali gari" nice info!! I just know it!! Thx herpes!!

Something they do on arama often but i haven't seen here before, a timewarp. Since that oshare post got me reminiscing, what was happening in the glorious world of visual kei (JAPANESE BANDS ONLY) 5, 10, 15, 20, 25 years ago? if this does well i'll update it monthly? if it bombs then..... 
pls contribute important events that i'll miss accidentally and purposefully!!
 
5 YEARS AGO! 11/2011
9goats dropped draw and everything was right in the world   mucc dropped arcadia and they should've kept it that bizarre brief fad of visual kei cover albums gave us album number 2 with a moran cover of malice mizer no one knew they wanted but needed   kuroyume's comeback album bombed  
10 YEARS AGO! 11/2006
Angelo dropped their debut single AILE disbanded megamasso's line-up was revealed tomo (oh him!) left pashya (oh them!) daishi from plc crept back onto the scene after a little meth incident mucc peaked and released horizont  
 
15 YEARS AGO! 11/2001
not a great month???    
 
20 YEARS AGO! 11/1996
x japan dropped their most recent studio album to date, dahlia! kuroyume! did! that!!!   l'arc~en~ciel! did! that! too!! technically this came out at the end of oct 1996 however, guniw tool's debut single deserves to be with these iconic releases fanatic crisis dropped the Marble album  
25 YEARS AGO! 11/1991
Sleep My Dear formed when some silver~rose roadies got together and realised they can play better than them justy-nasty dropped a single and it wasn't bad buck-tick did the same with jupiter ladies room didn't with "sex drive" clutching at straws here tbh visual kei was invented in 1993 by cali gari

I know that some people already mentioned them, but I have to say it again: Vinett was friggin' amazing. Their album is so very sweet. One of my favorite moments from 2004.
 
And it's interesting to see just how incredibly influential バロック was. There were tons of copycats, but very seldom they were able to recreate the songwriting prowess of 圭 and 晃. That and the insane charisma and character that 怜 has. Damn, they are good...

Tonight's live at Ikebukuro Blackhole was ridiculously long (11 bands in lineup)... it opened at 15.30 and THE SINK played at 21.30 because they were up last... Honestly the lineup itself was pretty horrible (they were mostly sessions that comprise bandmen who haven't even formed a proper band before haha). THE SINK was definitely the best (not biased!!!) even though they literally had only FOUR people who went to see them LOL... but it's ok, some sessions had 0.
 
Anyway today's also Kate's birthday so this is a doubly important day for him
 
i also bought like 4 copies of snow fall season haha
 

i, for one, dig it  definitely something, tho. all for ryo being super fluffed out
also: ever since i got into baroque, i've been fascinated with this piece of mid-2000s jrock fandom slander
 
seriously tho it's wild!!! god bless johannes. god bless him

Shinjuku Gewalt - ''My dad totally does NOT work for Nintendo, he's in the army I swear!"
 
goatbed - ever heard about gays? BOYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY
 
Coaltar of the Deepers - ''fucc this shoegaze shit im gonna compose anime soundtracks now"
 
Psycho Le Cemu - Anime is real and they're playing at my house
 
Plastic Tree (old) - depressed puppet man forms smashing pumpkins/the cure tribute man
Plastic Tree (new) - [sound of a Loveless tribute record skipping]
 
[NOT FAVES SECTION]
Golde Bomber - Asian Milli Vanilli
 
''that'' band -