Mr Bacon

Bleh fuck the live distributed and live limited shit and just release a full album. Or even an EP, I'd be content with that.

Somewhat different than everything that has been suggested before but you should try it out.

Holy shit that vocalist is bad.
I mean, the music is pretty shitty too, but the vocals are definitely awful.

Cool! Will they reform or will it just be one-time only?

Even though Monsters wasn't very exceptional (I liked only Human-clad monster, lol), I still prefer it over Coll:set. Coll:set for me is very hard to get into and it sounds like it tries too hard at being something that it hasn't succeeded in. Monsters is a way more accessible album than Coll:set is, generally. That's why I usually don't understand people recommending Coll:set to people who want to try this band, mainly because I myself would rather recommend MIRRORS. MIRRORS still has something the newer albums don't, but it's more accessible than Coll:set is. Though I guess if the person who is asking for recommendations is into the kind of stuff Coll:set is, I'd understand why you'd recommend it. I myself got recommended Coll:set and I couldn't make it through the first 4 songs because it really REALLY seemed to annoy me because the tracks felt like they weren't going anywhere.

 

I'd have to say MIRRORS > REDEEMER > Monsters > Coll:set

People probably recommend Coll:set because it's the release the band is the most recognized for, and is what got them "out there" when the album was released. A lot of D'espairsRay fans also got into the band because of the album, I guess that weighs in as well.

For me it's still one of their best releases(after Born and Sexual Beast), but I think that Mirrors is nearly as good even though it deviated from their previous style, because the band still had plenty fresh ideas. Redeemer was quite boring to me though, and Monsters was just not good at all because it lacked inspiration.

How many people would actually spend that much money for a shitty CD-R? Lol.

√eight - Illational of the People = Zilch - Electric Cucumber

√eight -名も亡き神の行進 = Zilch - Psyche

I'm thinking you mean "歪んだ青春" for that second one? Haha

There's also THOMAS, they started out as a somewhat okay and somewhat promising angura-esque band and then they turned into girugamesh-lite

 

Oh, and let's not forget ~controversial statement incoming~ MUCC, either. Their nosedive after Shion is amazing

Dude stop posting my thoughts.

I loved Thomas' first song with their first vocalist, and their first actual single with the new guy was even better. But after that it got so, so bad.

Too bad though because the vocalist is pretty okay and the guitarist used to be in otoiro(one of the most underrated angura bands out there).

And yea Mucc, Gokusai was their last decent release. So sad.

What the fuck lol.

Is it just me or did they move the video?

Gonna have to bring up NoGod, though they're relatively old compared to most other bands in this thread so far. Their indie stuff ranged from 'pretty aight' to 'amazing', but nowadays it's just bland bland bland bland

 

also, though i haven't been keeping up with them as much anymore, cocklobin is sort of this for me. I absolutely LOVED their first mini-album, but after that it sort of felt like they were slowly heading into a much more 'harsh' direction which just didn't do it for me? I haven't really kept up with them anymore at an in-depth level since somewhere around their full-length, which was somewhat good to me, so idk how it is now though.

Agree with the NoGod thing, kinda stopped following them after their first few releases. Those number songs are pretty cool tho.

And same for cocklobin, DDC was amazing and even black was pretty good, but after that it became kinda repetative and boring, sadly.

Lol so random.

This'll be their first release to be sold in indie stores afaik, might make it easier to get. 

I know that SINNER is a ripoff (The War is Over by Thievery Corporation IIRC), but which other ripoff?

Oh wait wasn't a song on Awake a blatant Diary of Jane(Breaking Benjamin) ripoff?

So finally a grave re-rec, or did I miss that?
Pretty much the only thing I'm looking forward to.

東京ヒーローズ / TOKYO HEROES

01. 絶望記念日 (Zetsubou Kinenbi)
02. 涙枯レ桜咲ク  (Namida Kare Sakura Saku)
03. humanity
 

√eight / THE EIGHT

01. 兎のスープ (Usagi no Soup)
02. ピンクモンスター (Pink Monster)
03. 必殺eight斬り (Hissatsu eight Kiri)

ROACH

01. 春と夢 (Haru to Yume)
02. too fast to die
03. 太陽 (Taiyou)

As for old VK, like pre-00, I don't dig it. The more rock-influenced bands were kinda boring and the punk-influenced bands were just plain awful with their dissonant chords and badly screaming vocalists.

VK between 2000-2005 had some gems, there was lots of bad out there too of course, but this is probably my favourite era. It just all made sense.

2005-2010 the mainstream VK got worse - every band sounded even more the same and musicianship got plain worse. Don't get me wrong, I know that that has always been the case, but starting then even the bad bands got more and more exposure. The angura scene still had some pretty cool stuff tho.

As for VK from 2010 onwards, the "worse" trend has, well, gotten even worse. Apart from a handful of inventive bands I honestly don't see why people would want to listen to the repetitive crap that's put out nowadays. I'm mostly talking new bands, but too many old bands have also gone down that path sadly. 

My $0,02.

same as always

This, sadly.

Even though I think Ai is their best vocalist (well Hazuki's better now, but not back then), his compositions were much better before he became vocalist.

Jeez why live-limited AGAIN.

Really curious though.

Wow sounds really good, this music suits the vocalist's style way more than Sel'm's actually.

Cool! Daichi also does lead vocals in this band right?

I hate it when dem Japs use the term chorus, just use "backing vocals", the universal term...

Bleh, musically it's pretty cool, but... the vocals.

I mean, his clean vocals have really improved and are pretty good, and his low growls are decent, but the rest is just awful.

But in all seriousness, everyone saw this coming the minute YOHIO realized they needed him more than he needed them and struck out on his own.

This haha. Even though his solo stuff sucks balls. I was okay with Seremedy's recent sound though, wasn't half bad. Just nothing spectacular.

Parkway Drive. Yea, I know.