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7 minutes ago, TheZigzagoon said:

Arlequin are definitely worth following, they rarely disappoint! 

100% agree with this statement. I just discovered them earlier this year, went through their whole discography, and was pleasantly surprised how solid it is while also being experimental. 

Really love the aesthetic of the video, very, very pretty. However, the song was a bit meh for me. Similar to how I felt with Ningen no Kaburu. It sort of was just...there. It might take me a while to warm up to it.

The first band that comes to my mind would have to be DIAURA. I started listening to them when they first started and since then I've kept up with them quite regularly. I think their style really evolved to something unique and fresh, especially  during a time period when I saw VK starting to wane., for me at least. They're also one of the much "semi-older" (if you can call them that considering they started in 2010) that I still get quite excited with their releases.

Dir en Grey would also be another band I still keep up with but lately their most recent singles haven't really stood out to me. Same case with BUCK-TICK and their album this year and their single from 2017.

I’m really interested to hear their indie songs re-recorded. While I’m not that much of a fan of their current sound, it should be fun to see what they’ll do. 

They release so much music throughout the whole year it's pretty amazing that their quality is still amazing. Really looking forward to this new release! Based on the title, I'm thinking it might be a ballad.

FIXER is currently my favorite VK band at the moment. I'm quite surprised almost nobody talks about them.

They recently announced a new single, "NIGRUM", as well as posted the MV for it on YouTube:

What do you guys think?😊

29 minutes ago, Chi said:

hello and welcome to MH listen to kuroyuri to kage even tho they disbanded already x

Thank you! 😊

I'm currently listening to them and their style is right up my ally! A bit upset they disbanded tho! Thank you for the recommendation!

Hello! 

I've been a fan of Visual Kei for more than 10 years now. My love for Visual Kei really started with Alice Nine. They were my favorite band for the majority of my teen years, I even had a Twitter account simply dedicated to them (@AliceNineWorld for anyone that might remember!). I would  also try to discover new bands daily, listen to VK 24/7 and just emerge myself in anything Visual Kei. However back in 2014, my interest for it just slowly started to fade and left the scene all together.  I just felt Iike major bands were experimenting with sounds I did not enjoy and newer bands all sounded the same to me. You could say VK died for me that year. But occasionally, I would go back and check up on bands that I still had some interest in, such as Dir en Grey, Diaura, BUCK-TICK, and sometimes A9. 

Fortunately, this summer my love for Visual Kei resurged once again. Coming back into it and trying to catch up with everything I missed in the past four years has been overwhelming haha. The amount of older bands that have disbanded has come as a complete shock, but the newer bands that are starting out have seriously brought in new life to Visual Kei that I personally think really needed. In my opinion, I think we might be reaching a renaissance of Visual Kei, and that absolutely excites me!

All in all, I joined this forum because I wanted to be part of a community in which I could keep up with news and talk with other fellow fans. Visual Kei has always been a huge part of my life growing up, so coming back into it almost feels like coming back home.

Welcome back! This happened to me as well! I fell out of VK back in 2014 and just this year coming back to it!