aetarna
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Updated the list with bunch new artists. Sorry for delay, I ended vegetating for too long.
@Peace Heavy mk II thanks for all the great updates. I noted that Buck-Tick seems to be region locked since it shows an empty profile for me. I'm so excited to see Grieva and La'veil MizeriA added to the spotify library
@emmny Thanks! Noted the mistagging issue
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6 hours ago, clow_eriol said:I was wondering how he has been broked historia leg
It's just Poland strikes again. It looks like touring here is a dangerous thing....
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His leg is broken?? Oh shit! I mean, his fall in live on Warsaw live looked pretty terrifying. I was on a side a bit above the crowd [in sort of "lounge place"] and saw it clearly. He resumed singing while he was still on the ground, and the staff helped him up, and then on stage. He finished the concert, wincing, and strutting about.
I was hoping he didn't sprain his leg. But looks like it was much worse.
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The thing is, it's okay to get bored with music genre or scene, and search for something new and exciting elsewhere. Styles changes, tastes change. The little vkeaboo me from 13 years ago would love current scene with how brootal and black latex with black lipstick it is. Meanwhile my current self, wouldn't mind to find an oshare band carrying the tradition of Shazna with similar skill.
And speaking of brutality, that Golden Bomber as Malice Mizer was the most brootal thing ever
It's not just visual kei scene, I had a surprise when I wanted to relieve the music of my childhood only to find that in recent decade only two or three bands surfaced that are listenable and not forgettable to me... and I use the word "surfaced" on purpose, instead of formed, because they "formed" a lot earlier. Fortunately around half of the old fossils are still there and making new material, but still
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Yes. And no. I first got "over VK" in 2007 or was it 2008? But then a year or two later I returned. Then I got bored again. And thus begun the cycle.
Now I'm just having years when I'm "less interested what's going on in VK, but still checking out from time to time" and years when "gotta work with that backlog of stuff".
I might not be as enthusiastic fan as I used to be when I was younger, but I can't really just drop the scene like it never existed either. Especially since I still can find listenable new stuff, and few old favourites (Buck-Tick, L'arc en Ciel, Dir en Grey) are still around and kicking.
Oh well, joys of getting old.
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It's fifth and second wave for me, even though I really enjoyed third and fourth, and everything before. I'm still looking for favourities in sixth and seventh, so I'm checking it, hoping for something to stick. But I'm coming to realization I might be stuck in the past a bit.
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On 1/2/2017 at 4:34 PM, nekkichi said:I'm actually pretty curious regarding what the trans-othersex people who use "it" and "zir" as their pronouns listen to on the reg. (like I really would like someone in the know to chime in on this)
Fine, I'll bite. Trans people are people, and as such, they have varied opinions on every subject. I have two friends who have like... totally opposite opinion on the subject. And oh neither uses "zir" or "it" pronoun, just "he" .
One is indifferent to the music, but loves the clothing and variety it gives. He's a fashion maniac hah, and an ancient goth so guys in make-up and corsets isn't anything new to him... The visual kei amps up the production quality a lot. The other hates visual kei with passion, along with Japanese games and pop-culture in general, that is full of androgynous men. It makes him uncomfortable.
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Rentrer en Soi, D'espairs Ray and Kagrra are like, my main trio, so the choice is tough. I miss them all, but I think my voice goes to Kagrra. I know there's Kiryu around, and argument could be made that they have a band going into their steps but.... colorful kimonos isn't what made Kagrra awesome. Kiryu went completely different way musically. What I miss about Kagrra is that unique elegance in blending beautiful singing voice and melodies incorporating traditional japanese elements. I'm probably getting old, but their "softness" is also what I miss and can't find anywhere.
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Huh, by 2009 I was heading into my longest break from visual-kei so to speak. Especially after disbanding of Kagerou, Rentrer en Soi and Phantasmagoria. Some of other favourites followed soon after, cementing the break for me. The fandom in my country fragmented itself few years earlier, and I had no idea how to approach the groups of young, new fans. I was way too old for this stuff in their eyes.
I also remember it was the time v-kei fandom started losing its presence on manga convention - before there was always j-music dedicated room, or even two - one for prelections, events, contests, make-up presentations etc, and other for pv viewing.
Global fandom wise I think it's a combination of several factors. Tightened anti-piracy grip which made it harder for new people to find something and gain their introduction, could be one thing. Fall of myspace and great livejournal exodus too. I still fondly remember numerous communities either focused on band, label, or other kind of activity, like live reports, magazine scans, making pretty graphics, lyrics translation, fanart and so on. Fansites died a bit before too.
Tumblr might be okay for pretty graphics, but it's hard to hold a discussion there. You can have a blog dedicated to one thing, where you only reblog things related to that - but it's a blog, not community of people who interact with each other.
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Those photos look good! Despite all the drama I hope this project takes off. Call it nostalgia factor.
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2 hours ago, Peace Heavy mk II said:One thing I would add is if there are regional limitations for artists. I remember Kamijo had a single on Spottyfly and then region locked it, then re-released it after his 20th anniversary album came out. From the few I've clicked through, it seems like that doesn't seem to be much of an issue.
One thing to note is that there are two artists named Kiryu on the "Kiryu" page, both are sort of visual-kei related. One is the colorful enka-metal one that releases a single every 4 hours, and the other is the solo project of someone who I cannot remember.
Good point! That's why I kept D on my list, even though all their releases disappeared both from their page and from favorited library - though I still have the songs on the playlists, just greyed out and inaccessible. Similarly with Kiryu, I'm only seeing one album from the single-every-4-hours-band. For Kamijo I'm seeing 2 albums, one mini and two or three singles... also some Vampire Stories OST lol.
I'm wondering if I should add Dolly up there. I don't see any albums from vkei Dolly there, but a friend of mine said he listened them on spotify - if anyone can confirm their releases on the Dolly profile then I will add them.
Thanks everyone for more links, I've added them to the list!
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Because I have no life, here have a small list of visual kei artists available for listening over spotify. Some have full discographies some only few albums or singles. there are also instances on several artists from all over the world being grouped together on one page, because of shared name.
What is spotify? - to put it short, a digital music streaming service. It comes in two flavors - free with ads, and paid via subscription, with no ads and few useful perks. Sign up, log in, most likely download their application to your computer or mobile and you're set.
Isn't that piracy? - no it's completly legal and artists and/or their label (we know how that goes...) are getting paid for each listen.
For the start I cut this list into two categories. First one is the bands that retain their japanese song tags even on spotify - for all purists who want their last.fm scrobbles accurate
Angelo - mixed with different artists
Black Gene For the Next Scene - mixed tags
BUCK-TICK - region locked
Capella - mixed with different artists
D - ??? they used to have few albums, like Vampire Saga there, but it seems to be gone now. Perhaps region locked.
Fixer - several different artists mixed together on that page
girugamesh - mixed tags
Grieva - romanized name, but correct song tags
Misaruka and their other profile ミサルカ
Nightmare - some albums seems to have romanised tags
nue - mistagged nüe, also different nue releases on the same profile
Sirene - mixed with different artist
Suicide Ali - mixed tags
the fool - mixed with different artists
And now artist with no japanese tags
ADAMS - mixed with different artist
Amber Gris - mixed with different artist
Blood - sharing profile with other Blood band
Chanty - again, releases mixed with other artist of the same name
Chariots - 3rd era only
Kiryu - depending where you are, you might have two different kiryu's there
Shiva - releases mixed with other artist of the same
THE GALLO they also have another seemingly empty profile ギャロ
umbrella - mixed with different artists
ZORO - mixed with different artists
V-Anime Rocks compilation
Obviously this is a work in progress not an absolute complete list.
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that's incredible... in very bad way.
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Then they start releasing 3 month consecutive singles, each with A, B , C, X, Z versions, and disband before the 3rd single hits the shelves.
Then half of the members start another band VK IS DEAD.
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always looking forward to these guys. hope the band will live long and prosper
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2016 strikes back
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I liked them, I hope the new band will be even better.
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It's the same cesspool it always has been, we just now know more details and can follow all the dramas, thanks to social media.
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That probably depends on how bullshit contract they had with Shimizuya...
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plottwist: it really is a band organised by Lycaon ex-management,
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I hope they will keep that name - and twitter - after reveal.
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@Disposable Vulgar and the nu-metal dilemma was very divisive, at least in my country's j-music fandom.
This is going to be a little TL;dr story time, but I still remember the fandom split that happened around the year between Miyavi's solo debut and Vulgar release. Basically, the fandom that was rather unified around one space, split into two different communities, which could very roughly be described as
community A) which generally loved Vulgar, the new DeG direction, which they considered more mature musically and less focused on looking pretty [no more fancy dresses for Shinya or miniskirts for Toshiya!], while generally hating the trend of Miyaboos - aka this kid can't sing, but is hugely popular because he's so pretty.
community B which wasn't populated by miyaboos, as the A) insisted, but admitting to liking Miyavi there wasn't a social suicide. They mostly focused on trv indies like Mucc, Kagerou, Baroque, karimero, Fatima and early Undercode which includes mentioned above 12012 and Vidoll, and wrote-off DeG as amurrican nu-metal sell-outs who betrayed the scene, and were generally horrible now.
Of course this was centuries ago, and my memory didn't kept all the details, but I just find it so greatly ironic, that currently we can throw Mucc, Kagerou, 12012 and Deg's Vulgar into one bag of nu-metal influence.
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BLESS THIS MESS is also on spotify. And yep, seems like Deluhi was removed/blocked in regions in the meantime. Once I'm less dead from December, I will edit the masterpost.