CloudyTree

pURPLE STONE (2013-)
 

 
Vocals Keiya
Guitar & programming GAK
Bass 風麻
 
Purple Stone is one of the most promising new visual kei bands. Sharing the same label as hyped 少年記, I think they deserve a lot more hype too. Their first mini-album NEXUS was released almost exactly one year ago, and now they’re finally back with their first single (not counting their first one-coin single Scar).
 
 
 
 
甘酸っぱいマンゴー (amazuppai mango) 
 

 
 
 
As much as I love NEXUS and Scar, I must say that 甘酸っぱいマンゴー (Amazuppai mango) is an amazing single. One of the strengths of Purple stone is undoubtedly vocalist Keiya’s amazingly powerful voice, combined with catchy melodies and well composed songs. Being a part of the new era of visual kei, they also utilize a significant amount of synths composed by their guitarist GAK in their songs. Add a dash of SINCREAesque metal parts, and that’s pretty much what the single Amazuppai mango consists of.
 
The A-side Amazuppai mango is a song, whose PV and song title make you giggle, because who the hell would make a song about mangos? I’m still 100% convinced this single was created because of “I dare you to make a song about mangos”, but nevertheless it doesn’t take away the fact that this song is one of my favorite singles this year (and yes I know, I declare this fact like 10 times a year…). The A-side combines beautiful riffing and carefully placed synths, and Keiya’s powerful vocals just take your breath away. The B-side Hysterical Lady is a harder song, and the chorus somehow reminds me of girugamesh, even though I’m not that familiar with their discography. This is undoubtedly a song that is super fun live, with lots of jumping and head banging.
 
If you can overlook the title ‘sweet and sour mango’, I think this particular single deserves 5/5 and a golden star, even though it doesn’t add anything new to the world that is visual kei. Purple stone hasn’t done anything ground breaking, nor do they deserve a gold medallion for creating something totally new, because they by no means have done that. Not every band has to be always creating something new. As generic as this single is, it’s beautifully made and definitely deserves your attention.
 
TL;DR: If you don’t like new visual kei, don’t try this. If you like new visual kei, try this. It's awesome.
 
 
 

 
 
 

Samples are now available on their OHP: http://purplestone.jp/discography.html#1stsingle
Image change aside, I still love what I'm hearing

Purple Stone new maxi single "甘酸っぱいマンゴー(amazuppai mango)" will be released at 2014/11/26 (2 TYPE)
 
limited edition (1,500yen) will include CD+DVD (including "甘酸っぱいマンゴー(amazuppai mango)" PV), and regular edition (1,000yen) will include CD only
 
[CD track list]
01.甘酸っぱいマンゴー(amazuppai mango)
02.どこか遠くへ(dokoka tooku e) (included in limited edition)
02.Hysteric Lady (included in regular edition)

I did. He also told me they're gonna spend the hiatus debating whether to change their name to Alice Eight or Alice Ten.

Despite all the hate for PSC: They made fucking good music under their management!
But I'm interested in which direction they head now and hope also that they depart of Universial Music.

Full PV:

 
Song is awesome!

Exactly what I thought! It sounds as if you would bring Patriot and Chronus together, which count for me to their best works 'til now ^^

wow I really really like this song it seems like they're returning to the lighter and more "romantic" style that characterized much of their earlier works ^^

Full PV:

 
Song is awesome!

Full PV:

 
Song is awesome!

awesome!! =D

And I feared they would disband, because the live on 7/25 was the last on their schedule... Great that he recovered, hopefully it's a full one!

omg, somehow i missed your introduction.
 
vistlip and DELUHI are my all-time top 2 bands and i thought i will *never* find another person who loves BOTH of them (they are rather different after all )
 
nice to meet you and hope you enjoy the forum. maybe you can drop me a message sometime

Hello.
I`m from Germany and a great fan of Visual-Kei music and Japan in general.
I lurk around on MH for i think two years now, informing myself about new relesases and things like that, but only as a guest or ghost. In this two years i was really impressed by the great atmosphere in this forum and so: Here I am!
I`m glad to meet all of you and i think that it will be a great time in this forum^^
So here are my favourite bands:
 
Alice Nine
vistlip
DELUHI
GALEYD
 
So lets go;)  Hope to see you all in the forum^^

Thank you for the nice welcome!
 
Difficult question because ich have two. On the one hand it is Gemini, because i love the intense atmosphere and the whole album has a unique sound, which fits perfect to A9. On the other hand it`s Vandalize, because it is the Cd which brought me to Visual kei and I love the diversity of it with slow songs like Waterfall and the hard ones like Drella.
What`s your fav?

Hello.
I`m from Germany and a great fan of Visual-Kei music and Japan in general.
I lurk around on MH for i think two years now, informing myself about new relesases and things like that, but only as a guest or ghost. In this two years i was really impressed by the great atmosphere in this forum and so: Here I am!
I`m glad to meet all of you and i think that it will be a great time in this forum^^
So here are my favourite bands:
 
Alice Nine
vistlip
DELUHI
GALEYD
 
So lets go;)  Hope to see you all in the forum^^

Hello.
I`m from Germany and a great fan of Visual-Kei music and Japan in general.
I lurk around on MH for i think two years now, informing myself about new relesases and things like that, but only as a guest or ghost. In this two years i was really impressed by the great atmosphere in this forum and so: Here I am!
I`m glad to meet all of you and i think that it will be a great time in this forum^^
So here are my favourite bands:
 
Alice Nine
vistlip
DELUHI
GALEYD
 
So lets go;)  Hope to see you all in the forum^^