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Urbangarde: Do you wanna see what an acid trip looks like?
 
Dog inThe PWO: woof woof!
 
MoNoLith: Not really one of my faves, but according to my boyfriend's brother "A bunch of assclowns that can't decide what genre to be."
 
V-last.: people really only cared about the twins from what I saw.
 
The GazettE: Google translate the band.

Mejibray: 2007 emo kid, paris hilton, hipster who lives in a forest and eats shrooms, edgy 12 year old

gibkiy gibkiy gibkiy:

Oyuugi Wagamama-dan x PaRADEiS: Didn't one of them have sex with a minor?
 
SuG:  A bunch of grown men trying to pretend they are still teenagers.
 
NEGA: GOOD LUCK SAYING THEIR NAME IN PUBLIC!

FLOPPY - "My dad totally works for Nintendo you guys, I swear!"
 
MERRY - LIKE THIS IF YOU'RE A REAL TAISHO KID BORN IN THE WRONG GENERATION
 
cali≠gari - the gay man wants us all to keep it real... about NEW WAVE
 
Buck-Tick -
 
Strawberry Song Orchestra - [watches a Terayama Shuji play/movie ONCE]
 
 

MUCC (old) - Kermit the Frog sings about his struggles with depression
MUCC (new) - dude did u ever watch anime lol
 
Dir en grey - Sashimi Slipknot
 
sukekiyo - rowdy primate gets accepted into art scool
 
deadman - Chinese Marilyn Manson fronts a grunge band

KAYA   
 
New live DVD "The Birth of DIVA "  will be released at 2016/12/16 
 

I cut it from their super rare live DVD that probably only I own because I'm their #1 megafan ayane come back i miss u bae

Y'all forgot the queens of oshare
 

Are jumpsuits the new "heavy VK" wear? Also, you aren't a band unless you have a dude in a mask.

That moment when you meet Hyde and you fucking forgot to take a picture with him cuz you're hammered.
Fuck.

VK is a guilty pleasure, a very pleasurable one at that

this has probably been said/explored elsewhere on this forum, but "oshare" in its germinal stages was really a cauldron of heterogeneous strands of sound and style that probably meant 30 different things to 10 different people. there's a lot in there. arguably its definition only got murkier with time (today it means everything from "colorful clothes" to "bands that do sessions in suits" to "bands that don't scream" lolol, which is frankly ridiculous and totally unhelpful)
 
most of the representative bands have already been listed, so i'll just contribute a few from my own personal trajectory through oshare which inevitably reveals a lot more about my interests than oshare as such haha.
 
176BIZ was the シド that never abandoned vk, and its style survived into its later incarnation ZUCK which stayed 100% true to its spirit till disbandment. not surprising, given that Yuu pretty much wrote everything.
 
SwallowtaiL-スワロウテイル- and phase faith (don't be deceived by their host looks!!) belonged to the strand of late-2000 white-kei-influenced oshare that shared a similar kind of sound with other bands playing contemporaneously like レイラ.
 
 
 
 
 
ジミニークリケット came a little later, but sound wise they could totally have fit into the line of more subdued yet uplifting sound that possibly started with Clavier and subsequently inherited by Toon-Factory and co. This was written by shia and it's really not difficult to see how it foreshadowed some of Chanty's materials today as well (especially their earlier stuff)
 
 
i won't derail the thread too much but it's possible to map larger continuities between oshare of the 2000 and later bands if you look hard enough, even though the tendency is to look back on it wistfully as some kind of a bygone era.  as an example: the toolbox of sounds baroque brought to vk in early 2000 went in so many directions, the most direct one led to rap-oriented bands like bis and a little later: BAELSCOPE, 東京指定, TRA TRA TRA, etc. among the bigger bands, vistlip and SuG describe themselves as ミクスチャー("mixture rock") and regularly cite baroque as an important influence. if you're nostalgic for the idiosyncratic/quirky kote-osa sound (JRD is the expert here), there's SDM, the new (post-ritsu) GLAM GRAMM@R, and there's even a bit of it in early i.Rias. sure, it's not exactly the same, but there's a lot out there, still.
 
 

not drooling looking at that precious boy, nope. not at all

tbh when your first band is already called ichigo69 u don't get second chances ltr in life

Lolol I've got a Victor for your Yuuri
(from here)
 
 

yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrriiiiiii (on ice)
sauce

so many joints in this thread @______@ stuff i knew about and totally new stuff
that vinett song is so good omg, i need to check them out
them having two members from Eliphas Levi is brain melting to me lol

i love Juliette so muuuuch
 
anything Icchi and/or Rinku were involved in I love (Milphinne, Hoshi no House, Me'syu Dear, and Canzel tho i need to listen to the latter more), but their session band from 2004-05, Parade, has some bangers. super-bright, nearly-overwrought earworms and 電脳恋愛パラダイス's little orchestra hits are SO PRECIOUS. love love love
and "To You..." is definitely like, the most generic oshare song title ever. sounding nice tho and the bg vocals in the chorus are a nice touch

Been a while for me too, but I agree with the sentiment. Unfortunately with everything past that is rather questionable imo. First album 's legit thou
 
The fucking most heartbreaking thing about this stuff is how hard it is to find. There's already like three or four bands I have to search in the morning and I'm not looking forward to that at all ( especially with either impossible to search names like *long japanese title* or generic names like charlotte and parade that'll get you all over the place looking for 'm. )

This is a legit find for me. Never heard of them before and I'll have to make a request topic if I'm not able to find their stuff anymore ( this is a lowkey request for someone to upload ) 
 
 
Can you share any info on them? never heard of them either and google gave me jack shite
 
I think the blockbuster popularity of this thread in its infancy goes to show that it's time we as the collective visual kei fandom start to deify the 2000's oshare in the same manner as we do the turn of the millenia stuff, and give it the time and respect it's due. 

i love Juliette so muuuuch
 
anything Icchi and/or Rinku were involved in I love (Milphinne, Hoshi no House, Me'syu Dear, and Canzel tho i need to listen to the latter more), but their session band from 2004-05, Parade, has some bangers. super-bright, nearly-overwrought earworms and 電脳恋愛パラダイス's little orchestra hits are SO PRECIOUS. love love love
and "To You..." is definitely like, the most generic oshare song title ever. sounding nice tho and the bg vocals in the chorus are a nice touch

Quite a long read, but it's pretty shocking stuff and a good place to start if the South Korean presidency scandals are new to you. There's so much juicy stuff I'll end up reposting the whole article if I don't cut myself off. I just copied context & some juicy bits.
 
http://askakorean.blogspot.nl/2016/10/the-irrational-downfall-of-park-geun-hye.html
 
 
 
 
 
 
There's so much to this I can't even...

yuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuurrrrrrrrrriiiiiii (on ice)
sauce

let's see.... (unordered)
 
newer bands:
- Chanty (seein' them live was life-changing)
- dummy-xD (LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE)
- Purple Stone
- Develop One's Faculties
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- baroque (all years) - really the band to get me into vkei (thanks Ryan!) don't listen to them as much as i used to, but still love 'em to death!
- Dog in the PWO (also one of my firsts)
- 東京ミカエル。 [Tokyo Michael.] (another one of my firsts! when i started digging a little deeper... drummer now in PWO!)
- cali≠gari
- Schwarz Stein (and Kaya in general.... love Kaya!)
- 新宿ゲバルト [Shinjuku Gewalt] (and Toda and his affiliates in general)
- Missalina Rei (know this now 11 bands but after some thought i had to move them to the main list as opposed to honorable mentions)
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"they only released like a few songs before disappearing into the æther but i love them so much" list
- Rosetta
- REPLICANT
- Cinnamon
- ロマの碧猫
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honorable mentions, notes, whatevs:
- THE HAKKIN (R.I.P.)
- My Fairytale (R.I.P.)
- THE GALLO are becoming a favorite
- リンク/鈴育/link's bands (Me'Syu Dear, みるふぃね, PARADE; also vocalist いっち!)
- Shina's bands (NOI'X, モル・ノヲド (moll'e node), 弾丸少女 (Dangan Shoujo))
- ピュエラ (Pyuera) (especially the couple of songs they did with their female vocalist)
- BUCK-TICK (80s and 90s) (i don't listen to them enough even though i love 'em)
 
will cut it off here before i end up listing every single visual band in my itunes whether i want to or not
 
still so much out there...