Chikage

Let's leave DEVILOOF, to do some DEVILOOF covers with my new band!
...lmao

they had some good tunes 10 years ago... RIP

Well... I've been following them since their Dice&Joker day, got all their albums/single, well almost. This is shocking, but no surprises. They should of sticked to VK. I'm glad I got their last live DVD. In 5 years of hiatus/nothingness they only released an EP... what a waste of talent imo. Pretty sad atm. Was hoping to see them release something eventually... If someone could translate their message, I would appreciate  

Nah
 
this ain’t it

They have recruited Vo.Nero for their new band "THE DESPERADO"

https://twitter.com/_thedesperado
Vo.Nero's YouTube channel (which is almost exclusively Dir en Grey covers)

Very excited about this.
Also Nero seems to be quite talanted.
Although i am kinda afraid of his outcome when it comes to anything else than making Dir en grey covers. Because from his yt channel he seems so focused on sounding like kyo that it eventually could be hard for him to sound like "himself" if you get what i mean....

They sound ok but I don't see them lasting more than 1 year tbh

Yep. It's the reason I skip the majority of new bands and just stick with those that are a bit different and continue doing cool stuff (for the most part), so unless a band really starts making waves and gaining popularity they'll more than likely be passed here. However, at the few VK shows I've been to, that's actually a nice way to discover the bands as well, something about seeing the performances sometimes can make a band that bit more interesting even if the music isn't that special. Like "well I enjoyed watching them so I'll get a CD" or whatever.

Why do these bands keep forming if all they're going to do is the same mediocre stuff that's been done a billion times over?

this looks like it could be the tracklist of an early mucc album

As far as I can remember, most of this drama was due to Yumehito getting married, engaged, or whatevs. Looks like his wife (who's an idol) gave him  delusions of grandeur or some shit. He then formed Belle, which's dope IMO, but never attempted to sing again. I heard fans used to bully him for his singing.
 
Intetsu said he'd retire by then but acted as a support member and composed for WING WORKS and Piko as well as composing some stuff for Sanrio and some game OSTs. 
 
Just like Aoi, KENZO also tried a solo carreer and some other projects but they all flopped.
 
Takehito is the only one that never tried anything not related to Ayabie and their current revival is his idea, so there's that.
 

You can take this as a rumor I guess but it actually happened. Whether the staff person who told us all this was telling the truth or not I don't know, but I don't really see why they would lie lol. This was over 10 years ago so I might have some details wrong but this is what happened to the best of my memory. So at Oni-con in Houston, TX in 2008 Dio -distraught overlord- and Sugar played. On Friday the bands played and on Saturday the bands were supposed to have Q&A panels and the Dio one went great, but the Sugar one kept getting delayed as we all waited outside the room for ages. A friend of mine and I started asking staff what was going on and this staff person for the convention started quietly telling us about the previous night and what was going on that day. Basically the night before, after the concert, the bands got really rowdy drunk and Loki (vocalist of Sugar) started causing all kinds of shenanigans and problems. They said he was flirting with male staff (really awkwardly because they were not reciprocating) and that apparently he forgot what hotel room number was his because he started walking around and knocking on every single hotel room door on that floor trying to figure out which one was his. ... Anyway, as if the staff's control of this situation couldn't get any worse, somehow Loki escaped before they had to do the Q&A and was apparently wandering around Houston and they had yet to find him. The panel ended up getting cancelled and the rest of the band apologized as far as I can remember. Not sure what happened after that. The whole thing was a messsssss. 

that reads like one of those ''i saw flying lotus in a grocery store'' copypasta texts so hard i was half expecting the story to conclude with someone seeing loki passing by while trying to hold 50 snickers bars in his hands or some shit like that

I believe that is called fanfiction

Oh, my, god. I can't believe that there actually WAS western people coming to Japan for, like, a tour final of Syndrome or even Dir's 2001 Budokan?! What kind of weird anime crossover is this?!
 
This is such gold to the guys interested in vk culture besides its music. We should start a thread (or even a board?) for you the aunties/uncles of the '1st wave' to tell us with as much detail as you want your antics back then!
 
Thank you SO much for this!

Does anybody remember this band that was put together in Japan to be marketed in the west? They folded immediately after failing to garner interest and instead of listening to the fans telling them "this is not actually what we meant when we said you should bring VK overseas" the promoters blamed piracy culture for the death of their little experiment.
 
The whole period was a hilarious trainwreck on many fronts but that tiny bit of visibility still felt like such a ray of sunshine, little things like the PV for Saku getting voted all the way up to #1 on some european MTV chart really testify to how large and optimistic the fanbase was around then.

Gt.haku (ex.Butterfly syndrome)

You guys are clogging up this thread.
Take it to PMs if it's really that interesting of a side-topic.

Idk why so determined to prove that Hizumi’s project is crap based on the encore, did he hurt you or something? Lol.

If I remember correctly, NICOLAS (ex-Gossip members' new band) or L'eveil en Roseraie did this for example, but I don't have the receipts. Actually back when I was in a band we did this a couple of times too with our most popular song, back when we didn't have enough tracks. It's not a super-common thing but it's not unheard of.
 
Anyway, good to see they came prepared with an album's worth of tracks already. Regardless of the quality of the demo samples, I'm somewhat still curious to hear more.

My assumption is that Hizumi is very out of practice. He said before that he still is not completely healed, but I guess his doctor must have given him a go to sing again. So before they all have a big re-unification as D'espairsRay, Hizumi will slowly train himself for the stage again.
So the music doesn't matter as much at the moment as does him standing on a stage again.
I guess an announcement for a re-unification will come at the 9.9. either this year or the next two years
All dates would be meaningful.
 

They just start the band and you think it would be smart to directly do a full album ? 

Sounds like just about what I expected, but damn he sounds just as good as he used to growls and all. I wonder how much of the songwriting he's doing too because that second song has some real Monsters vibes on it.

how dare you compare mejibray to d'espairsray, the level of disrespect