Karma’s Hat

the Raid. ( est. 2011 ) OHP Youtube Vocal: 星七 (Sena) Guitar: bo_ya (ex. Яe:sK → the Raid.) Guitar: 由羽 (Yuuha) (ex. NeXuS → リルト → the Raid.) Bass. 庵 (Iori) (ex. LICKER(support)→ the Raid.) Drums: 一陽 (Kazuhi) (ex. Vanishlaiz → マディーデュオール → the Raid.) Former Members Guitar: 祐太 (Yuuta) (ex. the Raid. → Sicks → The Misery In August) ( courtesy of last.fm ) This band is actually alright and they've been around practically forever with a seemingly unproportionately tiny western fandom compared to their japanese following. I'm not an expert on their discography, but they appear to have started out as a rather average Royzcore unit 'til having fleshed out their sound and aesthetic with some desperately needed colour. From what I've heard the early shit can be pretty good at times, even though for me personally it pales in comparison with the dare I say a little r-shitei esque darker oshare stuff they've put out later.

Aicle & Metis Gretel revivals being so close to each other is a good opportunity to not to go to Japan again and regret it later

from this thread

Watched the preview a dozen times now. This band and its aesthetic all I want from vk right now and ever

If a chorus that isn’t supposed to get stuck in my head gets stuck in my head is it some scientific anomaly or...??

yeah for real how is utafumi decayed crow 2.0? No idea what to expect from the next slbum, but their lives sound great these days and sukekiyo is all I need. If they just tour and play old stuff I’m good

I liked the one they did with x japan

the guy from irokui don’t know any others

still crying by the way

There were no surprises for me after hearing the previews, and adding to the feeling of predictability the same problems they've had for a while now still persist. To start off with the negative: the covers they've had for this and the DVD's have been corny & awful, and it's symptomatic of the string of poor stylistic decisions that plague 'lot of the stuff they do now. When I heard that electronic effect in the beginning of Fukai I had a hard time believing this is a band with +20 years of experience with all the professionals of the business at their disposal that I'm listening to: because it's fucking stupid and adds absolutely nothing but terrible awkwardness, like a bird flying over a scenery only to hit the glass wall of a skyscraper and fall to its death with a quiet thump. It's, much like the covers, a lot of aesthetic pomp on the surface level that when you scratch it, it only reveals more surface or just sieves through your hands and shatters to pieces entirely. With that I suppose the best thing about this is that they didn't do anything drastic. These sound like they were trying to create that spontaneous and chaotic live, one-shot feeling with a super loud studio production backing it, and I still kind of appreciate the idea and I would have loved to hear a version like this of IIID EMPIRE... just not this one. This is one of those times when I love what Kyo is doing in theory, but not in practice, and had they done a few things different I'd fuck with it; and apropos of which I think Fukai works quite well and it almost sounds like it could've fit on Arche, and this largely comes down to the choice of sounds they decide to take. Spank and sperg or spark and spark makes a difference, as does adding electronic flourishes and noodling mini-solos betwixt an old song of theirs. Will it replace the old version? No, but I'll play them side-by-side if I'm in the mood for it. It does also feel like the days of remakes like Tsumi to Kisei are over, and they'll settle for an updated sound that's either more live adaptable or they feel like putting out a studio version of the live track. Either way I don't care what they do, since the only way it'll impact my life is if they do their live sets dirty like with insisting on playing the awful new Obscure instead of the old one.

Kana means chicken in Finnish. Just so you know

I refuse to believe this and the Lollapalooza booking from back in the day were anything more than industry favours to Yoshiki's burgeoning western conquest that's still totally happening by the way

They're finding ways to look worse and worse each passing release. I wouldn't have ever imagined seeing Yuuki wearing fucking Vans in a shoot rip lycaon

Huge fan, but I’m absolutely fine if Mejibray reincarnates with just those two

Would like to see the cute vocalist still around after this

hoping that Mei saves himself too, and possibly goes into a project with more singing 'cause I really like his voice. anything other than trash like memento mori is ok tho

I'd go as far as to say that it's dead and this was the final nail in the coffin. Most bands died and some made it "big," only to change styles right after. Only D-tier bands like fucking Virge and Damy are left

Setlist?

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I remember when I liked this band for like, two minutes. Jesus Phobia single/mini (?) and that mini with Popcorn Monster were quite fine, and the rest not so much.

I don't know what to do with my life anymore. Tzk is my refuge from the world please come back

Ruki's ripping off vetements now for the new merch lol

Not surprised. Afaik ( don't quote me on this ) Jin's vocals are polarising even outside of this forum and they have a style that is just a tad too hard and dark to not be in vogue. I remember late Nega sales being brutal and Black Swan is kind of like an extension, or a natural development of that sound. The real reason I believe is that they lost all their fans after Rena cut his hair

Yeah Tzk is obviously having vocal problems. I just today saw that the live dvd was out and it is, from what I could tell from the bits I listened to in the morning, easily their worst and their latest before that was the lamest thus far so. That 15 song set is like, what. Maybe the shortest full price vk dvd ever?