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I see the whole mathmetal/djent thing as a natural progression. Certainly it is a more fresh sounding style of metal. Loving Periphery but also other bands from the same scene like Veil of Maya, Monuments, Skyharbord, Corelia etc.

its more like not real time updated at all, some isnt even updated at all after only a week.

just fyi, but 10 k sale numbers is indie gazette (circa 2004)/major ayabie sales, and they're quite hard to reach for an indie band. Yeah, I'm pretty sure most indie bands that are "popular" in the West don't even break 5,000. If I remember correctly, the Kiryu only sold around 4,500 on their singles before their second album (which is dramatically better than when they were unsigned) and Megaromania didn't even break 500 on most releases ( ). Even Rentrer en Soi's best seller only hit about 2000 sells and it was their Kein no something something / the other mini-album the released at the same time back in the early 2000's, way before everyone here loved them and started posting "I'll wait for this band to revive no matter how many years it takes [20934506023]." It's irony at it's best! and thats the largest problem, the bands that are popular here are necessarily popular in Japan. Rentrer en Soi sold more though, i cant recall how much exactly but a few releases where pretty well received. and you kinda confirm it, if a small band like Kiryu already sell around 4500 that more popular bands do better ofcourse. Kiryu is really not big at all in Japan. its damn hard to find the previous sales amounts of past releases though. but if you walk trough shibuya and shinjuku and you see large amount of posters from a cerain band you can know for sure it is a band that exceeds normal sales or else that type of marketing would be far to expensive. and depends about what indie bands you talk, many metal bands who are considered indie (roadrunner record, nuclear blast etc bands really sell that amount if you combine all selling channels.

just fyi, but 10 k sale numbers is indie gazette (circa 2004)/major ayabie sales, and they're quite hard to reach for an indie band. Major doesnt mean big. But it is not that uncommon. Bigger indie bands reach that amount more than you think. But it is nothing compared to the times ten amount of sells real big acts make. It is true that a small time indie band must already be happy to sell 500. But if they reach a certain plateau, lets say they are under contract of a bigger indie label then it is not uncommon to grow in sales. 12012, Vidoll and many bigger indie bands of that era had such sales.

Considering the speed with which the Japanese release media, D'espa were one of the slower bands actually. in terms of just cd's yes, but past years almost every year 1 album if you would spread them over a few singles like other bands do, it is still a lot.

this is a serious problem in the japanese music scene, the pressure to release music so fast is seriously hurting the musicians in a way they cant recover, it dries up inspiration and vocalists cant recover from their vocal injuries. There is a reason why western bands often stretch out releases a bit longer. Its not uncommon here to not release music for 3 years without popularity degradation. It gives time to heal and get inspiration to write and create new songs. Thats why bands here sometimes even survives multiple decades. How many rock bands can survive for 3 years in Japan? Sucks though, i like DesprairsRay a lot. Their later albums werent that great but still nice. I consider Collset one of the best visual releases ever.

it really depends on the location and type of bands, Gazette, Alice Nine, Gackt, or old legends lik X japan, Luna Sea etc are pretty big in Japan, 90% of the Visual bands are not like that and mostly play local. In such a crowded country and with a large music scene selling 2500 cd's is nothing. Even 10000 cd's is just indies there. So they might seem to have plenty of fans (and not even that is by far always the case) its just a subculture that became a bit smaller and became a more steady scene past 10 years just like many other subcultures that had a boom in Japan. Japan is just too diverse for that. The view on the visual scene simple depends the people and crowds you ask about it, many japanese like the ikemen (pretty boy, host boy look) type of men that play music, some think it is vulgar and dont like it. Same as westerners sometimes seem to think all japanese are all androgyn thin goodlooking boys. But the major bands area really big in Japan, indie bands are small but considered great and big here.

a great band, but live even better! the vocals seem a bit different live, but i like it in the recordings as well. simply a great atmosphere in their work

where is your signature from? anywayz,i think the temporary switch is a good one, recharging Nega while still being active.

I think its one of their best look yet. a bit more mature i think.

reminds me of deathgaze that did something like that, sounded a bit awkward, because the music was so focused on having vocals.

dunno know what they use, but downtuning the guitar and a good distortion pedal that gives the tone more "Attack" would help a lot. They do not have a hard to recreate distinct sound.

The new album is pretty cool. Especially the song blaze, i think the new direction suits them better.

Perestroika only sounds a bit brighter but still Nega-ish, i like it though. But it still is Nega XD