saiko
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MASCHERA's first album "Akutoku no sakae" (1994) is what you have been looking for if you are fond of the sound created by Kuroyume within its early releases. Songs in "Akutoku" sound almost identical to the compositions of guitarist Shin, so this album won't guarantee you much of a almost perfect reproduction of the aforementioned. Although the lack of a more genuine work, the songwriting sounds pretty decent and neatly executed, praising Takuya's sweet solo work and Michi's strongly dramatic stream of voice.
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@HimeaimichuYou are welcome! Good listening! Say your opinion here after it!
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Also sadly true lol
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They are both actually enjoyable bands, but on the other hand I feel that I can't worship them more than other artists of their time, compared to whom they really seem so amateurish it hurts sometimes, heh. But hey, this is also me looking for 'quality' music, and, if there is anything VK taught me, is that 75% of the times I should enjoy other aspects of the bands within the scene rather than their musicianship, lol!
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Kyo isn't flawless, we already know he had always pushed himself so hard that today he has a pretty much messed up throat. But I feel his work in sukekiyo, while being way more melodic and sophisticated than in late Dir, let him put out the best of his performance all the way up rather than in his former band. So listening to sukekiyo feels actually really refreshing and more natural when it is about listening to Kyo, imho.
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Is this a VK Touhou project?
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They were really amateur. Some songs are catchy, but nothing more than that. When you listen 5+ songs you quickly find them uninspired and unskilled.
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That awfully played solo... Yikes.
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Don't know guys... The first albums are full of memorable songs, I mean, songs that are easily recognizable, they stick to your soul no matter what you try to keep them off, and thus made TG what they are now. Toxic, Divison, Beautiful deformity, Dogma... they certainly have memorable songs, but they are 1 or 2 out of generic Slipknot-Mansonesque fillers... If it wasn't for Ruki's awesome dramatic vocals and some epic solos by Uruha, they music doesn't deliver something worth listening to me, instead it sounds pretty uninspired.... Even Reita got lazy and left the full-melodic lines that define the climax of their songs (and are an essential item of what makes vk stand out of other music genres). For me, they are still certainly good composer and performers, but their time to shine has passed on. Nowadays they can only deliver "listeneable" music and "enjoyable" live shows, but always predictable and more-less formulaic, nothing compared to the masterpieces on Nil, Stacked rubbish or Dim scene, songs that, liked or not, definitely made them stand out at their time into a scene that fills very quickly with shitty acts made for the massive need of male-worship of hysteric bangya.
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This song is one of the main reasons why I started playing bass. Still there isn't anything that sounds like this in the whole VK story. Probably one of the best examples of Dir's versatility at composing.
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I was always curious about how come the pv for Diaura's "Lost November" got aprox 1.5 million views on Youtube around the time it was released. I mean, Diaura wasn't a bit of the huge band it is today, and even the songwriting is pretty basic in comparison to the levels of excellent Diaura achieved circa "Triangle".
In fact, I remember feeling really meh at it by that time; actually got into the Diaura hype a years after when "Sirius" was released.
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Basically every VK band that tried to jump on the West circa 2007. So cringey it hurts. Btw, my bandmates may act the same. Our songwriting screams "visual kei" in every sense but whenever someone points out anything towards that direction over it they would say "Wtf man, actually we do math rock, we have zero to do with those jap weirdos". ?????????????? Luckily I've recently gotten over it.
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Yeah, every song there is very formulaic, but if this is what assures them a good income of money to keep doing what they love... good for them. They are very talented and deserve to be succesful in what they do. Same goes for Kiryu among many other bands that are coming trough the same situation today. Also, remember VK is nowadays an item of urban night entertainment aimed to otaku and "alternative" girls, thus following this trend of "party" industrial tunes may be a must for every band active in today's scene. Btw, was Gazette's "Inside beast" that started it all?
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Is Maya non-straight?
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What's your VK-related guilty pleasure?
Mine are the first Malice Mizer songs of the Gackt era: "Ma cherie", "Après midi", and the like.
The compositions sound so amateur, the keyboards feel so overwhelmingly cheesy, and the live performances are so pointless and clumsy... they make me cringe when I think of them too seriously, like "What the fuck was Mana actually thinking" but I can't stop siging them. Damn!
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Pure management exploitation. That's all, folks. I stopped listeing to Kiryu a long time ago after Kyouka suigetsu because of this. Seriously, this is perverse. I still can't figure out how the members actually seem to survive Kiryu fans must reconsider worshiping this blood-and-tears effort, if they feel at least a little human empathy for any of these guys..
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My god, this is so accurate
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Thanks @hyura! And thanks @Takadanobabaalien for giving that girl a true lesson back then!
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After many (many) listenings to DeG's "Gauze", I could moreless figure out which are the sources of the majority of the songs in the album, in terms of styles and bands. For example, "Mitsu no tsuba", "Yurameki" and "Akuro no oka" recall Luna Sea very easily, "Cage" does for X songs like "Rusty Nail", while "304 blablabla", "Zan" and "Mazohyst" do the same for Kuroyume.
But there are still some songs whose arrangments don't fit in any "constelations" of arranagments I've heard before withing and out of the VK scene. "Yokan", "Raison detre" and "Mask"; the only word that comes to my mind while hearing them is "dance punk", but I can't tell anything else on the subject.
Any ideas?
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@Zeus What songs come to your mind for instance?
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So my bf said he didn't like Gauze beyond "Cage", because of Kyo's voice sounding "weird" at him.
Should I dump him?
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So... the pronostic you guys are making is pretty dark, isn't it?
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After looking at Michi (ex-Maschera) and Koji's (ex-La'cryma Christi) new project, a thought came to my mind. I love both musicians, and the music they've put out is ok. But I can't avoid getting cringy vibes from this kind of looks. Don't exactly know why... All I feel is like they are pretending too much; they don't carry that look like it's themselves. It actually feels like they are making fun, doing cosplay of some BL anime instead of doing "art".
This kind of over-the-top fantasy aesthetics looked great on 90s acts like Malice Mizer, Psycho le cemu or even early DeG; they felt "genuine", "fresh", "artistic". Nowadays, when there is a trend of bands that exploit it (the like of Grimmoire, Pentagon, the raid, Yumeleep, Mathilda, BabyKingdom) they seem always forced and, in that way, painful to look at. Those nekomimi and tails are... ugh...
Does anyone else feel the same?
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idk, isn't vkei all about selling you a fantasy? and nowadays more and more bands are capable of demonstrating nice, detailed looks which is not bad imo. it've become harder to distinguish bands that have actual sophisticated sense of style which comes out both in visual and musical aspects from total garbage bands who just can afford an okay-ish makeup tho.
as for alice in menswear, they just look a bit cheap - at that age you either use the full power of makeup and photoshop to look like a fucking fairy or just do something more simple but still stylish.
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Can you go into more details?
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Michi is unrecognizable... How can this almost-if-not 50s man look like a teenager anime character...
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Kizu always
