Number Girl

The rumor has to be bogus: I would have been jumping up and down and praising the Lord if I knew I wouldn't have to be around Kamijo and Hizaki anymore.

In July they released a new album.

Adding more to my list: Flag - Vola & the Oriental Machine Never Coming Again - Blindman Holding You Heart - Blindman

The first two samples do nothing for me; they aren't bad or anything, but there's really nothing . . . all that new about them. "Libido" is the only one that seems interesting, though l feel I may need to hear a little more of it to determine if I actually like it or not. Understandably they are only samples, and I've quickly learned that with some bands, first impressions can be very misleading.

If such a thing were possible, I'd want to be sure: -I could listen to the song/artist/genre I wanted to at anytime and not have to wait or filter through any crap I dislike -Every artist whose music was put on there gave complete permission for it to be and/or it is absolutely legal -Some sort of subsidies were given to the artists or companies for being streamed in some shape or form But I still enjoy collecting CD's, so for artists I love a lot, I would still purchase their music in CD form. I like being able to look at the notes, the lyrics, and various other things that downloaded items don't have.

Since I've got nothing better else to do . . . Kiyoharu J Eizo Sakamoto Naoto Shibata Heesey Koshi Inaba Tak Matsumoto Ryo Kazama Yusuke Ide No girls I can think of, sorry.

D'aw. This would be sweet if it weren't so creepy. And lol at tranny bands , ~you know my taste so well~. Just listened to the song. jfc, Kyo is a truly bad vocalist. Yeah, lets all just forget Dir en grey would have gotten renowned for piddly squat if they never decided to be trannies themselves one point in time.

Have to concur with CAT5, there are so many bad ones it's a little hard to just think of just one. . . @__@ Um, probably in terms of incredibly thick accents and overall pronounciation: Ryo Kazama from Sunsgrind. I thought he would have improved since he last was their singer. Nope. It makes some potentially good songs unbearable sometimes, sad to say. In terms of overall horribleness may it be in accents, syntax, or structure: Probably 90% of visual kei singers (especially ones mentioned already in the thread), half of power metal singers (see Galneryus' new music - L-O-L at the lyrics), and a good half of indie rock singers (eh, as much as I love you, Inazawa . . .).

The only female vocalists I really like are from American bands, eh. I think the only Japanese female vocalist I ever cared about was Yako from Melt-Banana. :/

An Cafe. Is everyone happy now?

Yeah, not in my country either.

Well . . . I guess I'm just glad I didn't decide to pre-order any more MUCC this time around, eh? So many non-suck bands one can buy for the price of a MUCC import. . .

^ Not on the topic, but . . . *o* Oooohh, 7gatsu8ka, I loooooove your siggy!!!!

Really good news! Thanks for sharing.

I think early, early Kuroyume were pretty brutal and D'espairsRay, but I don't know . . . Most visual kei bands I care about aren't the brutal ones.

Nice line-up! Love Ging Nang Boyz. A shame Vivisick and Melt-Banana didn't have anything on there. Michiroooooooo!!! Coolest old guy in the world.

I like Merzbow because I find the music soothing and it helps put me to sleep, for background music, etc. Akita Masami is also fun to make fun of; I like looking at his unintentionally hilarious blog photographs. <3 I don't necessarily take the concepts or the noise itself seriously though; not something I'd "rock out" to or pay to see live.

The Yellow Monkey - Mother of All the Best

I've never seen Loudness widely recognized as visual kei before, the band usually identifies itself with "regular" HR/HM bands. Especially nowadays, they are nothing close to visual kei in sound or likeness. Even when they were 80's hair metal, they still didn't even wear that much makeup when compared to some American and European bands (if Loudness even wore makeup at all O.o).

I won't post pics right now either, but I've always thought SO much more could have been put into Luna Sea's self-titled . . . and X Japan's Dahlia. Oh and I just remembered that I hate any of the album covers that are just Google-searched photographs. . . LAME

Gackt's "Wasurenai Kara" PV is just retarded. . . and I usually really like his PV's. 50 billion of the same camera rotations around a non-moving motorcycle. Wow. Doesn't do the song justice, imho.

Many people would probably say Gackt and Sunsgrind for me. Gackt . . . obvious reasons, and Sunsgrind because they are a "sk8er band" which that alone sounds like an embarrassing genre to be into. I guess I'd even go as far to say D'espairsRay - new and old stuff alike; they have some bad songs, but I just can't help but like them! D: Also, I there are a few Gackt-era Malice Mizer ("Le Ciel") and some Dir en grey songs (like "Yokan" and "Saku") I consider my guilty pleasures . . . and L'arc en Ciel's "My Heart Draws a Dream." Really any stuff from bands that are nostalgic that I've moved on from a long time ago. ^_^'

Well, my list would be longer if I actually cared about enough active bands, I guess. So far, I have found only a handful that I would actually bother to keep buying their new stuff if they actually come out with anything more than once in five years.

Glittery vampires are all the rage these days.

^ Haha, definitely go for it!