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    I would have to say Shin'ya from Saga, a band that was active during 2007 and 2008 if I well recall. I actually like the band, but the vocal certainly lacked singing skills at the time. A friend of mine love one of their songs because of his funny singing style due to lack of singing skills. :-P

     

    I wonder what he is doing today.

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    In my opinion, bands like Shazna and Missalina Rei most likely inspired the birth of Oshare in an unintended way. As far as I know, Shazna was very famous during the time they were around and Missalina Rei being a smaller band still managed to gained some notoriety, especially thanks to TO-KI-ME-KI.  Both vocals exploited a sort of childish appearance during their last period and their music also became more childish and playful, especially Missalina Rei in this respect.

     

    They didn't create Oshare-Kei, but they inspired it to become a thing by providing key elements.

     

     

     

  7. Posted · Edited by seikun

    I don't see how Kazuki ex-Due le quartz was a bad drummer.

     

    And as for Sakito, I remember a friend of mine once suggested some singers like him possibly sing like that due to their hearing. It is not that their voices are unable to hit certain notes; it is the way they hear that conditions their singing...

    I never had problems with Sakito's singing style and, even though it would have been nice if he could have always hit the right key still I like his voice.

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    14 hours ago, Ikna said:

    ^ @seikun well, there was this:

     

     

    According to their youtube channel they seem to have reformed (or at least played a few lives in the last years). Make of it what you will.

     

    It seems there were a lot of mexican or latina american "kote" bands, but I forgot all their names, because they truly weren't that remarkable, let alone relevant.

     

    Also this attempt at early 00s VK:

     

     

    But we actually had a thread about crappy foreign VK bands on here. It featured glorious shit like this atrocity:

     

     

    And this I feel is exactly what swede "kei" bands apparantly want to come back. 

     

    I actually had this conflict in my mind because especially en Argentina and Chile there were bands that wanted to replicate the old style and all that conveys,  but they were so small and amateur compared to their European counterparts that had more resources and exposure. In Latin America they were more bands inspired in the whole Visual Kei concept as opposed to what I could see from most European Visual Kei bands that were more about the looks and not really much (if any) about performance and musical patterns that one can  associate with Visual Kei.

     

    I don't want to limit eventual western Visual Kei bands to a specific era of Visual Kei, but if they want to be a Visual Kei band I expect not only the aesthetics, but also theater and music so when I see them and listen to them I can say "yeah, I feel the Visual Kei vibe in them".

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    But what exactly people want to resurrect?

     

    If we are talking about western VK bands, most of them never embodied VK really. Most took the aesthetics of 2000's VK (with relative success) but 99% of them never ever acquired the essence of a Visual Kei band. They never felt like one. The only serious and successful replications outside Japan that I can think of were Angel Heart from South Korea and Silver Ash from China. There was another one from South Korea, I think they were called Deva...

    These bands really captured the essence of a Visual Kei band aesthetically, its theatrical performance and musically.

     

    Any western Visual Kei band somehow reminiscent of or that took inspiration from bands like Aliene Ma'riage, Baiser (both eras), La;sadie's,  Syndrome, Due'le quartz,  SHAZNA or La'Mule, for example?

     

     

     

     

     

     

  10. Posted · Edited by seikun

    I got stuck in time with them in 2006 when they released Guren. That song is awesome, very emotional and penetrating. After that I lost interest in the band because their music changed, but nice they have managed to last as aband for over 10 years now.

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    Their music has been going down in my opinion. Even though they were taking a lot from Dir en grey at least they stood out musically. Now the band has become monotonous and their songs sound ununspired. The weakest side in their music is the chorus, they always lose strength there.

     

    The last song I liked  by them is Fake.

  12. Posted · Edited by seikun

    On 27/4/2017 at 2:41 PM, saishuu said:

    Renaissance in the west? Was it ever alive? Does anyone want it to be?

     

    Well, during last decade it received a lot of attention and popularity in the west, in subcutural terms of course. It cannot be compared to KPOP, for example, because Visual Kei even in its most maintrean form it is not the majority's taste, but it was kind of popular and that popularity allowed bands to start playing outside Japan.

     

    In my country TV stations tried to squeeze money out of followers of Visual Kei in talk shows. "My mother doesn't accept oshare" was one of the recurrent titles for different cases where teens followed Oshare Kei but parents hated their children dressing like that. XD

     

    I think Visual Kei's popularity in the west was especially evident in Europe and Latin America.

     

     

     

     

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  15. Posted · Edited by seikun

    If they had incorporated some subliminal singing lines in DoomsDay like old VK bands used to do (I'm thinking La:sadie's here) it would have added a more sinister and darker effect to the song. It would have been a nice complement to strengthen the song.

    Spoiler

     

    By the way, all those minisets are getting tired, even Maccho29 are using them. If only they used some filters to disguise a little bit and create atmosphere they would be more tolerable.

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    On 17/4/2017 at 9:31 PM, Komorebi said:

    The first time Diru perfomed in Chile (back in 2009) the audience sang along, because it's what we do here. Kyo threw a tantrum and left the stage, the tour manager had to take him back out.

     

    Or at least that's what I heard from a few assistants, since I didn't go :P

     

    Chilean here too :P

    I remember I once watched a video with fans welcoming the band at the airport in Chile and, Kyo and the other members look very serious and like not in the mood to be receptive of the fans' enthusiam with them. 

     

    On 18/4/2017 at 1:31 AM, gekiai said:

     

    Not from my experience. I saw DEG back in 2013 and we had a pretty rowdy, moshy, (American) audience, and he didn't seem the least bit bothered. Perhaps it just depends...? (Or he's grown more into a grumpy old man since then, who knows).

     

    From all the concerts I have watched (mpg, avi, vob files) people always sing along and react to the songs. It is new to me hearing at least Kyo has his episodes with his audience at lives. But still I find it unikely that he would mistreat his US fanbase because one of Dir en grey's biggest interest was to make it in the US and they certainly don't want to put all that in jeopardy.

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    2 hours ago, helcchi said:

    Viored's Kei - 10 years on, Kimikage Kusa still tugs on the heartstrings

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    Aota Yuu - Betty, 176BIZ, Zuck

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    btw@Zeus, the photo you added was Tomozo. Hajime is this one: Triggah-triggah-29868147-280-420.jpg

     

    Kanashii uta, the very first song I listened to by Awoi and my favourite. It was in december 2006 that I listened to it for the first time.

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