Mamo

My first vk band as well as my first favorite was girugamesh and the first song I heard by them was Jarring fly.

Love this makes me cry:

No matter the genre or whether they're vk or not, what are your favorite Japanese songs utilizing auto-tune preferably throughout the song? I'll start things off

Yeah FIXER and THE SOUND BEE HD are probably the 2 biggest. FIXER is already based out of Tokyo plus they did that Oneman tour last year. Yeah for a Starwave band I think they have a decent amount of popularity, especially among Starwave Records fans.

Lmao. On a serious note though, they're one of Starwave's biggest bands, I think Kiwamu isn't ready to let them disband just yet. Who knows who the new drummer will be though, it wouldn't really surprise me if they did just use a drum program because they already like to use electronic effects so it wouldn't be that big of a stretch. Plus like you said Korey wasn't the greatest drummer. Mediocre at best. Also yes I'm really looking forward to argentum. Although I like all of their recent cds so not really surprising lol

Can't wait to hear the full version.

Sounds really solid, love the bass in CRIME No.666.

I had commented @emmnyBut I guess it got deleted/hidden by a mod but I'm not sure why I didn't say anything bad. In fact I responded pretty much the same as @123Sandman321only sorter lol oh well.

@itsukoii

Just gonna ignore the leader/main song writer part but the most skilled member? LMAO on what planet?

I was correcting it as you were posting lol give me a sec

2003. It was on Vulgar. You were way off lol

As long as they don't disband or pause activities I'm indifferent he wasn't terrible but he also definitely wasn't great.

They're fuckin' awesome.

Holy crap! Were you the one who uploaded the pic if so where did you get it? Was it just images from an auction? If not in well lol honestly I never even thought a picture of this cd would surface. I only wish I could buy it myself lol

This forum isn't about visual kei it's about J-rock or just Japanese music in general.

Pretty sure brengun aka darkwater already made this thread not to mention they're really barely enough bands of this sort forming each year to warrant their own news section let alone an entire sub-forum. If it happens it happens I guess I don't really care either way since I won't use it anyway but just seems like unessasary clutter when we already have an international music section. We may as well start a sub-forum for international music of every genre by that logic. Like I said pointless but I have no control over changes and additions to this forum, so I voted no.

+1 Yeah every release since inhale has been a disappointment for me and inhale itself is a constant reminder of wasted potential because it's their only truly special song. Both Leda and Keita are capable of far more but instead keep doing all of this playing it safe generic bull shit. Yeah they're okay but everyone seems to be coming to the same conclusion which is that they can do way better.

Very nice they're on spotify now!!! BLACK PIG sucks though but they've been good thus far so I'll give them a pass for now.

Yeah, for sure lol Meh it's okay as a whole but if you only count the new songs it's generic and the only real highlight is Leda on guitar. Also DIZAINERVE was just better seemed to be some effort in that mini-album. Same. It sucks, they really need to buckle down on 1 concept and stick with it their sound is so back and forth personally I think they should do more like "inhale". Keita is under utilized because they almost never allow him to do all of the awesome metalcore songs CodeRebirth did. Combined with FED's Djenty nature and complex bass solos, more metalcore would be nice. The highlight of the album and the highlight of their career. Honestly "inhale" is the only song that I think truly lives up to Keita and Leda's potential. Overall though it's okay I'll probably listen to it a lot because it compiles some good singles and a few decent new tracks and as always some brilliant guitar work on Leda's part. Keita's harsh vocals would be nice to hear more often too. But yeah it's an okay album.

ALTERED DIZAIN is bland other than the songs from the singles and Leda's guitar solos, completely forgettable. Dystopia is pretty good I must admit though. Maybe it'll grown on me because I'm over the initial shock of the first listen, on my 3rd spin rn and seems a lot better but still pretty boring overall. What I can appreciate about this release is Leda's masterful guitar work and all of the the old singles being included was wise to help avoid the album being a complete flop imo. Overall I think I might need more time with it to properly judge but I'd probably give it like a 6/10 mainly because of the old songs: Beyond These Walls, Nadir, and especially inhale, as for the new songs I would give Dystopia a 6/10 and Double down about the same because they have their passable moments. DIZAINERVE was far superior.

ALTERED DIZAIN is bland other than the songs from the singles and Leda's guitar solos completely forgettable. Dystopia is pretty good I must admit though.

I up vote yours every time so not sure who it is but not me.