Wonrei

They are probably the only band that manages to make actual decent deathcore in the visual kei scene. Pretty interesting, will check later

The album trailer... wow. There's a song with the participation of Atsuo from Boris, Shuuji from cali gari, Shinobu Narita and Miya from Mucc mixing. That's not the kind of thing you see everyday.

And the last song features violin by Heather Pauwee, Morrie's wife. Heh

Well, it's been 15 years since he died. So I get why they're doing this. It's also his 50th anniversary if I remember. So I'm pretty interested. I don't care for 99% of those bands, but well, what can we get. I secretly hoped we'd get a studio version of Mucc's Dice, as that was just glorious

Just realized how defspiral is essentially Transtic Nerve, and they also did ever free on the original tribute spirits. Seeing their take on this track after so long is going to be interesting. I hope they keep the part where they let hide's vocals play on the background, I always loved that section

Well... the vocalist guy really is trying to do the Daisuke... but it's pretty awesome.

Instrumentally this one's actually pretty decent. I like the metalcore in it. Wataru really shouldn't be the vocalist of this band anymore, though. If they want to keep doing metal please get that guy out of there. His harsh screaming is bad. Really bad and people should feel bad for liking it. Probably will never listen to it again because of Wataru, but the instrumentals are pretty nice, a lot better than their self titled album.

The song titles and the 2 songs we've heard until now give me quite a Lazzaro vibe... huh

Does anyone know what Shun from Deshabillz is doing? Haven't heard about him since deshabillz disbanded again

Just notice how everything always involves Juri, Leda and Sujk but it's never Aggy... the problem was probably that guy. They should just start a new band without him, it's getting kind of weird to see these guys collaborating every release

Melody-wise this sounds a lot more interesting than what their self titled was... the problem is I really hate the way Wataru screams, it's just really really bad. And most of the samples are just the chorus, so he may actually scream on all tracks and ruin every single one. Door to the Sky for example sounded really good instrumentally and the chorus sounds great too, but that shit before the chorus... HELP

lol even japanese people are calling stuff EDM right now, must be great to mislabel music this much

anyways I absolutely loved Ahead of the Light so I can't wait to listen to this

This reminds me of Audioslave. Except they'll probably sound just like Versailles with a different guy. I wonder if Versailles even has a chance of coming back after seeing this.

The acoustic guitar on the intro and Kyo's vocals are such nice little touches

Thank you based Dir en grey

Well Headache was too bland for me, that was the only problem. I actually quite like the punk/alt rock Kuroyume. They've made some pretty good songs and I'd say that's just more of their thing - they just grew out of the extremity of their vk days. Let's see what we get for Kuro to Kage, for now we can only guess...

I'll try going to the Sao Paulo one if I find people from my town wanting to go too...

Haha oh lol'd

I knew if they ever bring this one back again it would be in acoustic form

Well those names they gave to their last CD and tour... it kinda went obvious.

Holy shit so progressive

Next album is going to be their best ever if they keep this shit up

Excited for the remakes too, specially the new Macabre, as it possibly is the most different of them

That song sounds unexpectedly symphonic and poppy. Hell, what the fuck, I like it. Toshiya's bass is extra loud this time, too

Damn, I've missed you D'erlanger

Beast In Me is great so I can't wait

Holy shit please be true

This guy's voice is pretty distinct and I miss it

I've added everyone's suggestions to the list

 

@Wonre: ugghhh Canon in D brings back so many awful memories for me. I don't recall "Blurry Eyes" having any Pachelbel in it, though. I also added a song by Arc that uses the melody as the guitar solo which I had completely forgotten about until seeing your post. Zioovachi also has a song that's pretty much the same introduction but in a different key, but I'm trying keep it to just Vkei for now.

 

@ Jigsaw: That's taken from somewhere? I guess that kind of proves the point of my thread: showing where original melodies come from and learning about classical music I'll add it to the list once we actually know where it comes from.

Many of the songs who use Canon have it as a sort of variation in the melody, it's generally not straightly ripped off, Blurry Eyes I think has it on the bassline, it's the same chord progression I believe(haven't listened to it in a lot of time, so I may be wrong, sorry)

I'll post more if I remember them, I have a list with non japanese songs based on it that I kept adding and it's really huge already... there's also many 90s vk pop/rock songs with it, I remember at least one Craze/Body song having it... it's on the same away as Rocket Dive or Green Day's basket case, probably on a different key, but I'm pretty sure the notes are there...

But yeah, the canon is almost a staple for pop music melodies so it kind of floods everywhere.

Also, there are some melodies which aren't classical but almost all oldschool vk bands have at least one track with those... the one that Aliene Mariage used on Suicide, for example, I'm pretty sure I've heard 1000 aggressive oldschool songs with that melody

This is like my favorite song ever, so I've spent quite a lot of time finding songs that use its melody in it.

hide - Rocket Dive

Lmc - Boys and Girls

Moran - Fender

Raphael was really influenced by it on lots of songs

The Cherry Cokes - Forward Again

L'arc en ciel - Blurry Eyes

Like, almost every japanese pop rock song from the 90s

Not counting obvious ones like Jun Togawa's Mushi no Onna and Michiro Endo's Canon. And I'm sure I forgot lots of songs I have already heard that have the Canon on it... those are just the ones that first came to my mind

I'd also mention Erik Satie's Gymnopedie no 1, but I'm not really remembering the names of the tracks I listened to that were influenced by it

!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Nice song titles

Dog Days cover is going to be great too!

HOLY SHIT GOD TIER LINEUP

Morrie from Dead End and Creature Creature's English honestly took me by surprise. I would have never expected him to be that good.

This. For anyone curious: 

He did live on the states for some 10 years and his wife is american, so he probably had a lot of time to develop his english...