helcchi 942 Posted December 11, 2016 We all know that VK bands breed releases like rabbits, so I've been trying to gauge out which bands are the worst serial offenders in coming out with new material and did some number crunching on some of the bands with the most extensive discographies (excluding remixes, remasters, karaoke/instrumental and re-recordings) So far I haven't been able to find a band that even comes close to being as prolific as mejibray with so much material in such short time, not even ains bands. Except maybe Grieva. MEJIBRAY years: 5.5 years unique songs: ≳102 time it takes to listen: 6.7 hours productivity rate: 19 songs per year - almost 2 full albums every year. seriously how GRIEVA years: 4.5 years unique songs: ≳76-86 (too many SEs) time it takes to listen: 4.7 hours productivity rate: 18 songs per year DIAURA years: 6 years unique songs: ≳97 time it takes to listen: 6.5 hours productivity rate: 16 songs per year / 1 album + single per year / 1 EP every 4 months Lycaon years: 7.5 years unique songs: ≳100 time it takes to listen: 5.8 hours productivity rate: 13 songs / 1 album per year KIRYU years: 9 years unique songs: ≳113 time it takes to listen: 7.3 hours productivity rate: 12 songs / 1 album per year DEZERT years: 5 years unique songs: ≳60 time it takes to listen: 3.5 hours productivity rate: 12 songs / 1 album per year girugamesh years: 12 unique songs: ≳130 time it takes to listen: 7.8 hours productivity rate: 11 songs / 1 album per year AWOI years: 9.5 years unique songs: ≳85 time it takes to listen: 5.7 hours productivity rate: 9 songs / 1 album + 1 EP every alternating year list is short because filtering out duplicates is hard. It would also be interesting to see how well some of the longer-tenured bands do on this list. 5 fitear1590, doombox, enyx and 2 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
doombox 4421 Posted December 11, 2016 This is really interesting. I want to look into some older bands like MUCC and BUCK-TICK to see what the numbers say but they got like 20 years of releases to sort through so this may take a bit of time lol. 2 helcchi and NICKT reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JukaForever 758 Posted December 11, 2016 it's that 420 bro, anybody could do a full album worth of material in a day as long as they have a steady supply of blunts 1 Atreides reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
LIDL 692 Posted December 11, 2016 (edited) Maybe ghost writers. Or maybe many of these bandomen are pulling Beyonce Edited December 11, 2016 by SEKHMET Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
saishuu 3220 Posted December 11, 2016 MUCC in mid 00's was terrifying. Sometimes I felt they had a new single like every week. 5 doombox, r..., Jigsaw9 and 2 others reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
emmny 4139 Posted December 11, 2016 (edited) add xaa-xaa in this, note tho that their short band life skewes how prolific they are they've definitely been coming out with more than an albums worth for 2015 and 2016 scapegoat and gossip have been really busy this year too Edited December 11, 2016 by emmny 2 doombox and helcchi reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
anakuro 847 Posted December 11, 2016 (edited) 9 minutes ago, emmny said: add xaa-xaa in this, note tho that their short band life skewes how prolific they are they've definitely been coming out with more than an albums worth for 2015 and 2016 scapegoat and gossip have been really busy this year too yeah i was about to say the same about XAA-XAA years: 2 years unique songs: 41 time it takes to listen: 2 hours, 38 minutes productivity rate: ~20 songs / year it is worth mentioning they made 12 songs in about a 2 month time frame before forming. Edited December 11, 2016 by anakuro 3 Komorebi, doombox and helcchi reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
helcchi 942 Posted December 11, 2016 (edited) 2 hours ago, emmny said: add xaa-xaa in this, note tho that their short band life skewes how prolific they are they've definitely been coming out with more than an albums worth for 2015 and 2016 scapegoat and gossip have been really busy this year too xaa-xaa and gossip's reproduction rate seem utterly terrifying, but give them another 2 years and we'll see if they slow down. gossip years: 2.2 years unique songs: ≳44 time it takes to listen: 3.1 hours productivity rate: 20 songs / year SCAPEGOAT years: 8 years unique songs: ≳74 time it takes to listen: ??? >4 hours? productivity rate: 9.25 songs / year and I was looking at mejibray's stats when 420 was released (2014) - they were ramping at a rate of 22 songs/year at that point, with 77 unique songs and 5.2 hours of listening material Edited December 11, 2016 by helcchi Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
r... 720 Posted December 11, 2016 (edited) 5 hours ago, saishuu said: MUCC in mid 00's was terrifying. Sometimes I felt they had a new single like every week. I think 2006 was their peak (granted, it was a special year for them). 2 studio albums, 4 singles + a cover album and special privilege live album for those that bought a bunch of their stuff during that year. But, I think KuRt got them beat. KuRt was around for less than 2 years and released staggering ELEVEN SINGLES and one mini-album. PLUS, distributed CDs and omnibus. KuRt unique songs: ≳40 productivity rate: ≳ 20 songs/year And, gosh, remember 彩冷える when 涼平 wrote pretty much everything? I'm pretty sure that between 2005/06 they averaged a single every 40 days. I don't like 彩冷える so can't be sure just how much stuff they released, but I'm pretty sure it's in that same "over-20 songs-a-year-ballpark". Fuck SPEED DISK. Edited December 11, 2016 by r... 2 saishuu and helcchi reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tokage 5930 Posted December 11, 2016 i feel like Liphlich deserves to be mentioned ITT as well these days, considering the rate at which they've been pumping out releases lately seems pretty high (2 full length albums in 2016 alone, along with singles) 1 crossparallel reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vanivani 558 Posted December 11, 2016 Reading this topic made me think of Megamasso. They release a lot too... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ShTon 268 Posted December 11, 2016 I think some other Danger Crue bands could fit in this topic. UNiTE. releases 15 songs per year if I'm not mistaken. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Komorebi 2193 Posted December 11, 2016 Since when has Morrigan been active? They have like 30 songs in a little over a year. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
The Moon 989 Posted December 11, 2016 2 hours ago, vanivani said: Reading this topic made me think of Megamasso. They release a lot too... Came in here to say this - they were crazy when they first came out. 1 vanivani reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
peffy 3568 Posted December 12, 2016 On 12/10/2016 at 9:30 PM, helcchi said: MEJIBRAY years: 5.5 years unique songs: ≳102 time it takes to listen: 6.7 hours productivity rate: 19 songs per year - almost 2 full albums every year. seriously how How? Well, many of their songs sound like copies of their other songs. Quantity > quality. (I do really like ~10-15% of their songs) Also it would not surprise me if most bands had ghostwriters writing at least some of their music. Kiryu's pace is not as high as I expected. Surprise. ... Here's some new-ish bands that I cared enough to think about. Obviously these are "young" bands and I'd expect the average to drop as they age. Or they could pull a Mejibray, who knows. I might have missed some live dists in the song count.. dunno, I don't really follow that stuff closely Liraizo years: 2 years (debut Oct 2014) songs: 22, plus 12 monthly 1-song live dist singles which I'm assuming are new full songs, so 34 avg: 17 Arlequin years: 3 years (debut Oct 2013) songs: 50 ? avg: 16.7 Pentagon years: 2 years (debut Feb 2015... or a few months earlier if you count their time as "Call Me"?) songs: 36 ? 35 if you don't want to count "FRONT" avg: 18 Avanchick years: 2.5 years (debut June 2014) songs: 30 ? avg: 12 ... wow that's much lower than I thought. Probably because their album only had 4 new songs. yeah i'm still mad. 1 helcchi reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
eiheartx 1310 Posted December 12, 2016 5 hours ago, The Moon said: Came in here to say this - they were crazy when they first came out. Oh yes, first 2 EP in 2 months (december 2006, and then january 2007), following by 2 albums (march and october ). Let's not forget the DVDs (february and september). That was hard to follow x'D damn you megamasso <3 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
vanivani 558 Posted December 12, 2016 27 minutes ago, eiheartx said: Oh yes, first 2 EP in 2 months (december 2006, and then january 2007), following by 2 albums (march and october ). Let's not forget the DVDs (february and september). That was hard to follow x'D damn you megamasso <3 yeah, I remember when I was first into visual kei, they were my favorite band and I bought their first three releases lol 1 eiheartx reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Karma’s Hat 3107 Posted December 12, 2016 Peak Gazette circa 2003-2004 must have put out around 35~ songs. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mamo 1172 Posted December 12, 2016 I don't fell like counting up exactly how many original songs they've released but THE SOUND BEE HD have a shit load of releases. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Peace Heavy mk II 7200 Posted December 12, 2016 Excluding remakes, remixes, omnibus tracks, and releases, Penicillin has released 234 unique songs. That's around 10 songs a year which isn't that much compared to some of the bands listed here, however they've also been around since 1992. 17+ albums is still quite prolific Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
platy 3018 Posted December 12, 2016 (edited) I feel like SuG should be here. 21 singles and 8 albums in 10 years. Their most active time was between 2008-2012 where they had 18 releases, including 4 albums. My count is probably a little off, but they released 103 songs around that time. It may not be as much as the bands listed here but it they were like a plague back then, needles to say the quality of most of those releases was mediocre/bad. Edited December 12, 2016 by Platy Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Tokage 5930 Posted December 12, 2016 Would be interesting if someone could like investigate the opposite... Investigate which bands have been around the longest while barely releasing any new material and/or just subsisting on remakes of remakes of remakes, things like that Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Mamo 1172 Posted December 12, 2016 11 minutes ago, Tokage said: Would be interesting if someone could like investigate the opposite... Investigate which bands have been around the longest while barely releasing any new material and/or just subsisting on remakes of remakes of remakes, things like that Shit I have your answer. Chaos System easily 7 years 3 releases, 4 if you count monstropolis which was an unreleased demo. 1 Tokage reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
herpes 1597 Posted December 12, 2016 1 hour ago, Tokage said: Would be interesting if someone could like investigate the opposite... Investigate which bands have been around the longest while barely releasing any new material and/or just subsisting on remakes of remakes of remakes, things like that this is a good quEstion, iM trying to think of prolific, infaMoUs bands who aRe notable foR doing this, but my mind is drawing a blank É 3 saltofstones, suji and saishuu reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites