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My favourite bands there: Vice+Risk, Eze:quL, Madeth gray'll, Syndrome.

I want it!

Is Kyojei in good terms with Kisaki and does he consent to this release? I snooped around his twitter and he even made fun of the Z in COLLECTIONZ.

I don't know what to think. I need a longer sample.

Metis Gretel had very nice riffs and melodies in general with the exception of the synth they used to create those sort of sudden squeaky (perhaps not the right word) noises that can drive someone mad >.<

He should have found a different look as it is too reminiscent of Kamijo. Or perhaps he didn't have much choice in the looks...

8 hours ago, The Piass said:

 

That's a nice song.

I think I kind of liked the song posted by OP, but someone should tell Visual Kei bands to stop having those overused and horrible synthecizers, they ruin songs like this. Give predominance to guitars and bass and only use mild complementary synthetic sounds for deep dark atmosphere effect.

And they need a new stylist too.

Under-Code Productions was a much better label to produce this type of bands.

I used to like Misaruka, but then you see the band didn't progress through time.

I had no idea about this.

It's going ot be interesting to see the two bands together.

Gazette leading the rankings

(Sorry, I won't call them The...)

Not fully in English, but "I will walk together..." is a classic by now.

I don't think the sound of their music is good. I find it poorly produced and saturated with synthetic melodies and other sounds, especially that ridiculous violin sound >.<

Apart from what the band itself has to solve I think SR also has to improve its production quality.

My impression is that bands under Starwave Records don't grow professionally much. With the years that Misaruka has been around they don't really show progress in the quality of their music.

Perhaps it is time for SR to bring a change in the way they do things.

As far as my knowledge on the topic goes, gender non-conformism in the aesthetics of Visual Kei is not necessarily from a social cause perspective though... I mean, they are not dressing like that for awareness and empathy with gender non-conforming people; the looks of Visual Kei started as disruptive and  provoking elements to shock a very conformist and rigid society and, as time went by it became just a form of artistic expression which can be exerted from many angles.

Being gender non-conforming isn't a ticket to liking Visual Kei. The interest in it is a matter of personal taste regardless of gender expression.

Another one of many:

Due le quartz: Re:plica.

I love everything about that song. I love paying attention to Kikasa playing the bass and his elegance to play.

More of the same.

I feel bad for saying it >.<

I think that with the exception of the obvious labels such as Kotekote, Oshare, Angura, Eroguro, Nagoya and  perhaps one more all others are irrelevant and you can classify them as simply Visual Kei.

Today's bands seem really hard to put in a specific subgenre. I don't think bands today need to be thought in those terms anymore...

Visual Kei was always a relatively small niche. The thing is that between 2005 and 2010 approximately Visual kei faced a lot of exposure and popularity that attracted many people, sometimes not so much because of its music but because the looks were cool. Then many of those people left because it wasn't really or them, but the people who really love the scene and the music remain.

I saw a lot of people getting into the scene during the mid 2000's, but after 2010 the old ones the new ones  who truly developed an interest in the music stayed.

I think releasing so many songs in a year is not good. It takes its toll on the quality of their creation beacuse they are releasing material like a machine in a programmed time frame. No time for true inspiration and polishing.

Their releases after Fake haven't been much of my interest. Their music is sounding a bit formulaic and uninspired.

Some of their songs begin so awesome and then it all falls into a pit of poppish choruses >.<

Good talent is found in Grieva, but they are managing their work poorly or someone eles above them is causing this...

7 hours ago, Mr.0 said:

It's not really a session band, KISAKI recorded several CDs and did lives under KISAKI PROJECT, with differents singers (Jui, Satsuki, Sui, etc) but yeah, the line up change often. All the song are from this project, except World In Flames, by LIN.

Thanks for informing me.

So many.

Missalina Rei.

Noir fleurir.

Even though I came across these bands a couple of years after their definite disbandment I loved their music from the very first day I listened to them. I always loved the way their music made me feel as if entering a different world.

The possibility that they could revive for one day seems so unlikely and all the years that have gone by I can't help seeing these bands like some distant myth.

I'm very uninformed about this.

Is this a session band?

Are the songs new and what kind of style is it?

I'm not really fond of KISAKI's romantic stuff unless they're conceived in darker sinister crazy Visual-Kei-ish sound.

Watching that last pic and thinking about KISAKI making music again makes me want to listen to Phantasmagoria so much right now!

Childish comments. ó.ò

Hmm, like I want to like them, but I'm not totally convinced. They seem to have potential, but the music is a kind of cheesy in sound...

I think the guitar player needs to do more than playing monotonous notes all the time.

Missalina Rei is being ingored even though the band clearly was a precursor and inspiration.

I don't know. Things change over time.

10 years ago people outside the fandom were more prejudiced towards Visual Kei, for example, but many of those people who would look down on Visual Kei in the past now may like some bands because the variety in bands and musical styles have broaden some people's musical appreciation.

Some (many) metal heads were very prejuidced, but once exposed to bands like X Japan or Versailles some of them have changed their opinion on Jrock/Visual Kei.

I have a friend who loves proggressive rock and jazz and he used to criticise Visual Kei, but because most of my friends love Jmusic he was a exposed to a lot of Visual Kei bands and not he actually likes some bands.

How about Missalina Rei? I bet the band also inspired some aspects of Oshare-kei, visually, musically and attitude.

There is this singer in that band, Decola Hopping (or something like that) and the vocalist reminds me a lot of Arisu.

I had kind of a love-hate relationshipwith Oshare-Kei at the time. I loved bands and I didn't like others. The ones I didn't like were those that had more of a mainstream sound and those that started with the indies sound and then went mainstream/major.

An Cafe, for example.  I love their music until 2005. I think their initial sunds was awesome but they went major with what the market was demaning from bands in terms of sound/music and it ruined it for me. Their music became uninteresting to me. A friend of mine loved them and we would argue about change in music many times >.<

Similar thing with Ayabie. First song and PV I watched was Gothic Party Speed Session and it was love at first sight, obsessed with the song, but I soon realised the band was not going to stick to that sound and showed signs of something more mainstream so I stopped listening to them. Similar thing with Lolita23q.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TeaS0A5JavQ