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  2. Posted

    Many sources:

    Punk.

    Metal music.

    Gothic.

    Kabuki theatre.

    Japanese culture in general.

    and a looooong etc.

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    I didn't read the rules. I just thoughtit was other kind of thread.

     

    Well...

     

    GRIEVA too obviously influenced by Dir en grey. Maybe "copied" should be the word...

     

    GRIEVA - Tokage

     

    This inspired by:

    Dir en grey - Cage

     

    And Unknown... Despair a Lost

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    Yeah, then they lost one of their guitarist, but before that they released that crap of a single called "Happymaker"

     

    And I am here to add "SuG" They went downhill after Mitsuru left

     

    This comment is downright blasphemous to me. If anything ever since the start of 2010, they've been maturing as a band in both sound and style. I think the only things that have been slightly OK was Heart of Gold and Niji no Yuki (Just that title track, the b-sides were amazing as always)

     

    Also, how is Versailles, NEGA, and BORN not on here. NEGA, we all know when that happened. BORN, basically after DOGMA came out, and Versailles, after Jubilee, even though Holy Grail had some high points

    That's why I said this is subjective. It is all a matter of personal taste when it comes to music. As for me Alice Nine has gone downhill for years. I just don't like their pop style. Although I liked Senkou I forgot about it after a short time.

     

    I really liked Vior gloire and I still see talent there, but I listened to their album and there are just too many unnecessary songs there. Inspire in my opinion is a very good song and I would suggest they would stick to that style and got rid of any pop sound completely.

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    I think GRIEVA can give us a new thread...

     

    I have read GRIEVA's members have said they are influenced by Dir en grey, but it rather looks like they are mixing different songs from Dir en grey to give birth to new songs.

     

    It is a good idea of GRIEVA's to make old school Visual Kei music as there are people (me for example) desperate to listen to that sound these days, but it wouldn't be a good idea to keep copying/mixing songs from Dir en grey for their next releases anymore. They need to find their own old school Visual Kei sound.

     

    I think GRIEVA is the only current VK band I listen to. I just don't like 99,9% of today's VK bands. Their music just doesn't appeal to me at all.

     

    It is all a matter of taste, but it would be great that both modern VK bands and old school VK bands could find a place in today's music scene to satisfy all tastes.

  10. Posted

    Gakkido was always bad, people only started paying attention to them after they had that horrible car accident that killed their manager and singer.

    Until their song called Mou nakanai to sora ni chikatta hi (hope I wrote it correctly) they kind of seemed to be a promising band. However, after  that moving song they started to released very dull poppish songs.

  12. Posted

    I also thought of the old Visual kei band Lagna XD

     

    Anyway, I don't have many expectations for this new LAGNA band. They sound just like most bands these days. Nothing interesting in their music.

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    Aside from his days in Crack Brain, HIZAKI has pretty much grounded himself as a metal musician with this style he works with. His solo projects and the bands he has joined usually always had some variant of frilly metal riffs, solos and song structures. So I don't know why people expect anything else other than frilly HIZAKI metal from him? That's what he does and has always done for the majority of his musical career. Expecting him to do a kote kei song is silly when he's never really played that style of music.

     

    Now Teru I think really branches out and does neat things, all the songs he composed in Versailles were some of the coolest they had and stood out from the rest. I'd listen through an album and without looking at who composed what, it was easy to tell which one was a Teru song. I hope Teru composes more music in Jupiter because his songs always were a breath of fresh air after two or three HIZAKI/Kamijo songs.

    Hizaki doesn't have to leave metal music totally behind, but it would be a good thing to add something new to make the difference. I mean and, as I have said before, this is my very personal opinion, metal music tends to sound monotonous in the end because of the same old riffs (like hearing the clock every single day tick-tock. No change >.<). Nowadays many musicians blend musical styles to find new sounds/styles.

     

    I also agree with a comment on youtube saying Jupiter doesn't sound that inspired anyway...

  16. Posted

    I agree with you and i love old school visual kei too ^^

    Hizaki has so many sources to blend musical styles and offer something new to us, but he has decided to keep doing the same old riffs we have been listening to for years...

     

    As an old Visual Kei artist himself, Hizaki should be ahead of most recent bands amazing us with new sounds, etc. Not the case this time u.u

  18. Posted

    I think so too, since he's working with his Lareine members again, too.

     

    Also since he's born in 1975 from what we know / are able to find out, it is his 38th birthday in 2013.

    Which members exactly?^-^

     

    I thought Kamijo was 40 or a bit more.

  20. Posted

    Yeah, Jupiter sounds quite much like Versailles. Not 100%, but almost close.

     

    However, my main problem with Jupiter is the monotonous sound metal music tends to be bound to. I mean I am tired of the same old riffs I hear everytime in Versailles and other metal bands. There is nothing new about Jupiter apart from the new vocalist. Hizaki should blend more musical styles, take something from the 90's Visual Kei sound, etc etc etc.

     

    Sorry about my poor English. I cannot express myself properly...

  23. Posted

    Visual kei as it is now will die out some day, just like it has with every generation. Then someone 10 years later decides to bring up this crazy host-boy-dressed-up-in-glitter-only VK that is now in.

     

    But saying VK will die completely just because it is the way it is now? That's bullshit. Nothing is referring to that. And I think that's what Kyouki actually tried to say in that interview rather than pointing out that current VK is horrible and will kill the whole genre. Every era of VK will die. New waves come and go and nothing can stop that. 

    I don't think Kyouki tried to say current Visual Kei is horrible, but that its current state will not last long because maybe ti doesn't offer anything special or different, so to speak...

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