Sakura Seven

Welcome. Nice taste (DEZERTTT!)

Lame.

I knew there was a catch. 

Loving the duality of opinions W/R/T to aqua. 

cool & totally necessary thread

Don't know who this is but I hope he gets better

You should check out JILS! They were pretty big in their time.

Kain has been a mess since their formation, but their full-length is alright.

DIM is a lot more atmospheric and coherent throughout - something I like to see in albums, so that's my vote. NIL has some good songs, but it's a lot more disjointed and doesn't seem to have any sort of guiding concept behind it. DIM appeals to me more on this basis.

I really think DIVISION is stronger than both.

BOO. Hope they're on the supposed album.

Cell promised the same thing and didn't deliver in the end.

MRC and the subsequent singles have really been the best shit this band has put out, and they've become the only visual kei band I give a toss about anymore. Blackdoll's insistence on discrediting the "old school" all the bloody time is very strange, considering that I don't think any other band today takes cues from the visual kei tradition and does it as respectfully as Lycaon does. Their sound now is such an unique blend of contemporary influences and old school trademarks that they can actually make songs like TABOO without coming across as a parody band like all the revival bands that have been popping up lately. 

 

The peoples fascination towards their earliest releases I wish was a mystery to me, but quite frankly it isn't. It is not the first time the bulk of the community gets conned by a repackaged Asian Limp Bizkit. Upon closer examination one should note how they're more aggressive now than they've ever been before, it's just that they're being more subtle with it. Long gone are the simian nu-metal grooves of their old music and Yuuki's performance has evolved beyond the juvenile cries and growls of a solipsistic coward into something powerful that actually bares relevance in the visual kei canon. Yuuki's undeniable front man chops and the aggressive as shit synth, drops and church bells on 残酷のサロメ get more across than the imbecilic meathead riff and bland VK shtick on 88 ever could. 

 

Their concept has been developed to a fine point and unlike pretty much any other band in the scene today, they're getting more abrasive as they go along. The divided opinion on this band only goes to show that they're more relevant than all those sappy droning dogshit bands that the visual kei intelligentsia approves of. Eros pissed people off? Good. They can sod off and go be false elsewhere ( maybe bad metal is still in the vogue, go pollute their scene ). 

 

In short: This band rules and people who don't like their visuals should give up on visual kei and go listen to Korn instead like they really want to. 

THIS. ENTIRE. POST.

I think there's been several, actually.

This is fantastic. VK is so exciting recently.

That look is EVERYTHING.

The first track is so GOOD. I keep replaying it and ignoring the b-sides. 

I gotta have this! 

What does everyone think of the new single?

They're a band I always thought I'd like but never really bothered to listen to - I remember their first single being really nice and I really liked Kazoku.

Interesting - I wish I had stanned Lycaon when this album first came out. I'd have snatched it up in a heartbeat. Thank you! 

I want it too - CDJapan has it, but it's categorized as a "collectible" and about as twice as expensive as other albums. I don't know what's up with that.

That picture is tripping me out. 

That voice is unreal. I'm seriously impressed.

I study the language (French, too) as a hobby and have done so since I was a kid - I don't practice writing and speaking as much as I do with studying grammar and kanji, so my abilities are kinda spotty. I'm excited to study it formally next year when I attend Uni.

I just can't take them seriously after that disastrous MM cover. 

lmao what's his problem w. eriza though?

can anyone please properly translate that two-tweet rant?

I looked it up and they seem to have some sort of friendly rivalry. I took it as him calling him out.

His sentences are hard to get so I'm not gonna try it. LOL.

I misunderstood something on his twitter and spoke out of turn. IGNORE THIS.

Why'd they take Michael and Whitney but leave Yohio?