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  5. Posted

    Their initial run up to the first album is legendary. Really a perfect example of those initial post-explosion bands that retained a lot of the classical form while also ramping up the musicianship and weirdness. 

     

    Kichigai TV always reminded me of Madeth Gray'll being interpreted by a newer vk band; and I mean this band's early output is so rich in different influences and it's just top tier vk.

  7. Posted

    IN MEMORIAM 

     

    I will first and foremost remember Grieva from two things: Their 妄想主義者ノ背徳。 mini from 2015 and their track for the AINS VA.

     

    That mini I don't think has their strongest singular tracks or anything like that, but I think as a whole it's the strongest with unique songs and perfect length. In a way it also condenses their whole thing well, having those brief flashes of their own intensity ( I thought they were always a more furious band that was held back by the times they tried to 90's melody their way to a hit ) marred with liberal amounts of IP theft, albeit in a far more subtler way than on their first album for example, which I haven't really warmed up to. Second album was a little filler heavy and by the third I was a little like "whatever. "

     

    The AINS VA track is awesome, and their madeth inspired look for it is even better. In fact I think the AINS VA is one of the better vk releases of the past 5 years.

     

     

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  8. Posted

    I desperately want to fuck with their new stuff more than I actually do. The band is tremendously talented, conceptually impeccable and Gara's is just about everything I want from a visual kei vocalist, but the stuff they do now has this degree of polish and poppy finesse that I can't really get behind. That said, it's a band that could get back to me any day now just because of how good they are and how independent their direction has always been.

     

    the covers are nice

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    Got drunk during the day and checked out if there were any bands in town and August Burns Red was, so I went to see them. I hadn't heard their music aside from a few snippets here and there, but my impression was that they played emocore until settling into some loungy major deal post-hardcore territory to cruise control it a career. 

     

    And I was wrong. Apparently they've played more or less the same music their entire career, and it still averages two breakdowns and a "GO!" *parkway drive riff* sequence a song. Naturally I had a decent time despite having my energy levels sapped by the flu.

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  13. Posted

    You can tell there actually aren't that many unpopular opinions in this thread, because the second you actually post one it turns into a page long polemic within the span of a single day :lleft:

     

    @CAT5 I agree. Their alt-rockiness feels more western and direct, and it's something they took straight from the source to fit their own sound and concept, and not like how it usually works in vk where you get the western influence second-hand by looking up to a domestic band. I also don't think there's a vk band that sounds like d'espairsray, so that's something.

     

    RAN OUT OF POSITIVE THINGS TO SAY i can't even listen to stuff like maverick these days. I immediately get this mental image of whatever comes up when you google "fishnet goth"

     

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  16. Posted · Edited by Disposable

    D'espairsray is the most unjustly lauded band in the scene curiously with next to no detractors.

     

    Started out as a fairly generic band of the times that made one decent EP before essentially making it a career playing vk's brand of linkin park for about four albums. They always looked terrible too, either ruining theoretically fine vk looks by mallgothing it too much or just giving up entirely and looking like l'arc en ciel jr later on. Their last album is the fucking pits.

     

    and as a personal note, I've started to dislike hizumi's voice despite really being into it when I got into vk. 

     

    edit: I decided to listen to in vain a little bit and it's... it's fine I think. For what it is. So it's not that they were obnoxiously horrible, but that they're regarded as potentially a top 10 vk band and coll:set a classic is absolutely ridiculous to me.

     

    I refuse to take anyone seriously who thinks this is even passable 

     

     

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    the savage files

     

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    Rubik Vo.Kei has been fired at 2013/06/08 due to his "inhumane acts"

     

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    クロノギア(chronogear) Dr.suzuya has been fired at 2015/07/31 due to his repetitive breach of band rules, absence in live performance without notice, insufficient practice rehearsal, lack of social norm consciousness etc.

     

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    サムクロ (Samurai Crows) Dr.冬音 (Fuyune) has been fired at 2017/5/11 due to his conduct at their live at Ikebukuro BlackHole at 2017/5/5, which includes destruction of equipment, refusal to apologize for said destruction and verbal abuse via SNS.

     

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    アイヲロスト(aiolost) Dr.SHINTARO(real name: 高田信太朗(takada shintarou), aged 34)(ex-BLACK CAT) has been arrested at 2016/01/25 as he is suspected to have sexual relationship with various high school girl fans, and he has been fired at 2016/01/27

     

    a moment of silence for all the homeboys out there without a job rn

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  23. Posted

    ˆ exactly the same feelings about it here. Realistically I can't imagine anyone feeling any ways about the second song, the third is sorta 'aight for it's live purpose and the PV song is actually pretty cool and different from the rest of their A-sides. I still maintain that the overall direction they're heading towards is not good, but as long as they can churn out A-sides of this level I'll stay along for the ride.

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