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    evenor got a reaction from Seiji in Which visual kei trope would you ban?   
    Awkward/sudden key changes.
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    evenor got a reaction from Wakarimashita in Which visual kei trope would you ban?   
    Awkward/sudden key changes.
  3. ASDFGHJKLAJGLKAG!!!!!
    evenor got a reaction from Xerath in RAKUGAKI 1st Full Album 「RAKUGAKI」   
    RxG are confirmed blink182 stans.
     

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    evenor got a reaction from Seimeisen in Which visual kei trope would you ban?   
    Awkward/sudden key changes.
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    evenor reacted to suji in New band "ヒッチコック" (Hitchcock) has formed   
    a visual kei pv featuring Birds, that's something i never thought I'd see
     
    love the song, i wanna hear more from them~ i live for that riff!!
  6. ASDFGHJKLAJGLKAG!!!!!
    evenor reacted to Yukami in New band "ヒッチコック" (Hitchcock) has formed   
    Interesting fact: Dr.Eve (ex. Lycaon) will produce the band.

    support members:
    gt.スカーフェイス(Scarface) (ex.メリーバッドエンド(Merry Badend))
    ba.シモン(Emma) (ex.シモン(Simon))
    dr.伊織(Iori) (ex.悪者(Warumono))
     
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    evenor got a reaction from mushi308 in DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release   
    https://fnd.io/#/us/album/1495498241-misc-by-dimlim
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    evenor reacted to leighla in GOTCHAROCKA New Album "POLYCHROME" Release   
    GOTCHAROCKA will release a new album this summer. Details TBA.
     
     
    Their schedule is usually pretty predictable. Album will probably be released early June.
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    evenor reacted to GuancheVK in DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release   
    Después de escuchar esto, estoy más entusiasmado con la banda Nazare ... seguro de que su nuevo álbum Menophila pateará traseros
    https://fnd.io/#/us/album/1495498241-misc-by-dimlim
     
    the samples sound almost the same, they look like a progressive funky rock band. I prefer its raw sound more than before .. a soft song is fine but the samples sound very bland for my taste
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    evenor got a reaction from Kabukichoatmidnight in DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release   
    https://fnd.io/#/us/album/1495498241-misc-by-dimlim
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    evenor reacted to saishuu in Plastic Tree new album "十色定理" (Juusshoku Teiri) release   
    couldn't be any less excited about this. please do something different this time? just rework donna donna into new songs and call it a day AT LEAST
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    evenor reacted to saishuu in Sexuality matters within VK   
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    evenor reacted to 薔薇の末裔 in Sexuality matters within VK   
    It might sound weird from a western perspective, but visual kei is like the straightest and most homophobic music scene in Japan. We tend to look at visual kei with western eyes and mix its cultural aspects with things that belong to the western culture. Fanservice and provocations used for shock value put aside, the androgynous aesthetics of visual kei band rarely expressed anything related to gender identity and especially sexual orientation. 
    After all, it started with people like X Japan who admittedly were inspired by glam rock bands and way of life, which I would find hard to connect to sexual orientation. Visual kei early bandomen were mostly chinpiras, bosozokus (bikers) and the likes. They really incarnated the somewhat glamrock aesthetic of riding bikes getting drunk, banging girls, etc. Of course X had their own decadent/romantic taste that made them different, and a lot of influences changed the scene over time. However, visual kei is still remains 99% driven by social outcasts looking for pussy and very rarely by something else.
    In Japan we also have onnagatas, who are kabuki actors specialized in female roles that are again 99% straight. Bandoman with feminine looks call themselves onnagata, not josou (crossdresser), implying that the cultural source behind their looks is not connected with crossdressing but just playing a female role in a band,  but again this something that might be hard to completely understand it taken outside of Japanese culture. For example Izam, the king of all onnagatas, married more than once and has more tha one child, and outside of his role in Shazna he rarely did anything ambiguous, just like the kabuki onnagatas out of stage. Both media and fans are everything but respectful of privacy, but I've rarely seen Japanese articles or message board questioning bandomen sexual orientation. That's because the number 1 reason people do visual kei is because the girls like it (well, liked it, I am not sure this is the trend with young girls anymore). 
    Soft Ballet/Ken Morioka are closer to Soft Cell/Marc Almond so I would not even count them as visual kei even though they had some influence on it. And of course, there are exceptions as you mentioned. The chinpira bandomen of the 90's almost extincted and younger generations bandomans are usually anime/game otakus. They grew up with different influences and values, and it would make sense if the current incarnation of visual kei instinctively appealed to more people with sexual orientation/gender identity concerns, especially after Japan started talking about these issues in a less obsolete viewpoint.
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    evenor reacted to Biopanda in List of where to buy visual kei/ japanese CD's, DVD's, Band merch etc...   
    *cough cough* 
    https://www.rarezhut.net
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    evenor reacted to suji in DISREIGN new single "HOAX" release   
    my sleep paralysis demon
  16. ASDFGHJKLAJGLKAG!!!!!
    evenor got a reaction from Demivee in Dir en grey   
    Important things to take from this:
    1. Die shares that his fav fast riffs are from deg's debut album gauze
    2. Toshiya describes their current sound as "psychobilly" lmao
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    evenor got a reaction from Jigsaw9 in Dir en grey   
    Important things to take from this:
    1. Die shares that his fav fast riffs are from deg's debut album gauze
    2. Toshiya describes their current sound as "psychobilly" lmao
  18. LOLOL
    evenor got a reaction from saiko in Dir en grey   
    Important things to take from this:
    1. Die shares that his fav fast riffs are from deg's debut album gauze
    2. Toshiya describes their current sound as "psychobilly" lmao
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    evenor got a reaction from raspberrynilla in Dir en grey   
    Important things to take from this:
    1. Die shares that his fav fast riffs are from deg's debut album gauze
    2. Toshiya describes their current sound as "psychobilly" lmao
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    evenor got a reaction from Joel in Dir en grey   
    Important things to take from this:
    1. Die shares that his fav fast riffs are from deg's debut album gauze
    2. Toshiya describes their current sound as "psychobilly" lmao
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    evenor got a reaction from inartistic in Dir en grey   
    Important things to take from this:
    1. Die shares that his fav fast riffs are from deg's debut album gauze
    2. Toshiya describes their current sound as "psychobilly" lmao
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    evenor reacted to Tanishi in Ⅸ -Nine- new mini-album "Psyche" release   
    They've also started selling some of the masks they wear on their online shop for 15,000yen and 36,900yen respectively.
    http://number9.buyshop.jp/


     

     
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    evenor got a reaction from Peace Heavy mk II in DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release   
    Track 8
     
     
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    evenor got a reaction from suji in DIMLIM new album, "MISC." release   
    Track 8
     
     
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