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So, I decided to start digging into Merry once for all. Is there any place where I could find their entire discography into 320 kbps? Thanks 😍

Seems that somebody has created a channel exclusively for purposes of sharing Kiryu video stuff. I think there are some full DVDs splited into videos for each song of the setlist. 

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKK-YzKZsikSkdyzXZrYZHw/videos

This is super good news, since Kiryu video stuff was always hard to find!

Is there any live or music video of Sui's solo project "David" made available? I'm starting to dig it, so I wondered if there's such material... I'm intrigued by how it could sound live!

Hi there!

I'm requesting a rip of these two DVDs:

- "Tafel Anatomie Tour 2006 ～12.06 Tour Final 渋谷公会堂～Tafel Anatomie Tour 2006 ～12.06 Tour Final 渋谷公会堂～" (D);

- "LIVE CAFE 15th Anniversary Year Grand Finale" (An Cafe)

Have any of you got any of these DVDs and would will to make the rip? 🙏

Is there any other well-know film-spot for VK PV's, aside from Lockheart Castle, Royal Chester and Oya History Museum?

Does anyone have an hypothesis about why Lin wasn't even a little succesful as Phantasmagoria? If Mago's sound managed to attract lots of fans, and if Lin sounded exactly like it, I can't figure out why Riku and Kisaki couldn't recover with Lin the popularity they had back in the track with Mago...

I really doubt there's something more iconic in the scene's history than Atsushi Sakurai's gothic voice flooding the stage and making the crowd go crazy at 1:51. This is so much graciousness for me to put up with... 

Never thought I might ask this, but is there any Aliene Ma'riage and/or Da'vid shito:al discography in 320 kbps around here?

After listening PVs at random on Youtube, I decided to listen to a whole album of Lastier. I picked up their second. The first track kicked out, and the chords are killing me.  Fucking glorious.

What the fuck, it's been so long since a band hooked up my ears like this. I hope this ride comes up with more great stuff!

MAKE VISUAL KEI GREAT AGAIN.

VK songs that I deeply regret they didn't become anime openings:

An Cafe - Snow Scene

Penicillin - NICE IN LIP+L

Janne Da Arc - Lunatic Gate

Seriously, I love this kind of anison-kei.

Hay guys, have you this bangya channel on your radar? 

I cannot but feel this is very charming.

We are all aware that Mana's music writing skills for Moi dix Mois are totally a flop and 90% of their catalog is worthy of a cringe compilation, but I wouldn't be fair if I don't recognize "Solitude" to be one of the most beautiful compositions VK ever had. I'm totally in love with the atmosphere of elegance and darkness, and overall over-the-top cheesiness Mana put into it, and how well Juka's voice manages to bring all the tragic tone. I feel it on the vibe of Malice Mizer works like "Garnet" and "Gardenia"; Klaha's voice could perfectly fit into it. Same opinion goes for "Vestige", another MdM track with the said vibe. Sometimes I wonder they were tracks already composed for MM before they decided to disband.

There should be more stuff shared like this on YouTube...

Is it too late to ask for a quality rip of D's "Tafel anatomie" DVD? 

I came across some clips on YouTube, and man, that was an AWESOME performance to give! I'd love to get to watch it entirely and not blurred a bit!

Yeah baby, gimme all those fast over-the-top dramatic VK choruses ❤️

Seriously, Kizu is the last band I would want to get overproduced. Their music is so fresh, skilled, well-produced, that it would hurt me a lot if they start releasing boring ghost-written formulaic music, as happened to many big acts of the last 5 years that were my favorites (R shitei, Kiryu, Arlequin).

Now that I think of that, only Diaura seemed to remain big but also produce 'music' instead of idol anthems 🤔

Mfw this song -that is basically one of my country's most memorable songs, while its live version had arguably the biggest mosh-pit ever- sounds almost identically to every early 90s Japanese indie vk band first album.

The over-the-top dramatic chords and the hyper-melodic long solo makes me recall inmediately the reception of post-punk aesthetics that Malice Mizer did during the Tetsu era...

Oh my, I feel so confused right now.

How didn't I never read this thread!

Does somebody have a clue about the story into Sid's lastest pv?

Does someone have a playlist made with VK songs that sound rocky yet kinda 'soft'? Pretty much like La'Cryma in here:

Or at least, does anyone have any recomendations on songs that could make said playlist? 

I need something 'rocky' to catch up some motivation vibes, but not that over-the-top br00tal or dramatic to blow my concentration plus my head off lol

I have a very soft spot for this kind of groove in the electric guitars and bass of a rock song. Luckily, 90s VK is plagued with this rhythmic pattern.

Any recommendations of songs like this?

Yesterday I realized I can say, sing and humb any word, lyric and sound fx of MM's Merveilles live, like I already did in my childhood with my 90s Disney cartoons VHSs hahaha. Same happens with Dir's 1999 Ousaka Jou live and An Cafe's Shikisai On. 

Do you feel the same about any other live recording?

Returning to the idol kei topic.

Nowadays, when I watch/listen back to ViViD —one of the first VK bands I came across and one that I enjoyed the most— I think I can acknowledge the hints that actually indicate how heavily they were produced to appeal to the crowds in an idol way. So, they surely weren't that pure and artistical about VK and stuff, and of course could have had more than one A-side produced by one or more ghost-writters...

But, let's be honest: can we ignore the fact that the arranges of their songs were fucking brilliant, and so were their skills as interpreters? Many, many kudos to Reno's polished approach to shredded guitar, IV's hyper-melodic bass lines, and Shin's VERY well managing of the VK vocal traits —whose exaggeration in some cases ruined great capacities forever, like what happened with Nightmare's Yomi— while at the same time enduring a full show delivering a constant and massive vocal flow.

This band was a fucking thrill, although the commercial intention of their project became so blatantly notorious in their last releases that many fans (myself included) lost interest almost inmmediatly.

That said, I really wish that nowadays' idol kei bands, even if they put their efforts to make that kind of career into the scene, at least make something commercial in the level of the quality bands like ViViD did back in their time. 

Aunt is bored