Your First Favorite VK Band

[returnal 543]

going through @diryangrey's ipod in the middle of physics class and wondering what this colorful-looking album by "baroque" was and then falling in love with them and then falling thru the rabbit hole. still wondering what a "ガリロン" even is, tho

Edited February 17, 2017 by returnal

[heresytrash 250]

Kagrra, was my first Visual Kei band, then it was the GazettE and possibly....LM.C. [?] I forget after that. lol

[For my dears 58]

For me it was D with their album 'The name of the ROSE'.

[NBT 5]

It was probably the GazettE and some other mainstream PSC bands

[gekiai 231]

The first band that I claimed was my favorite was Vidoll, despite the fact that I got into them after they had disbanded (this was in 2013), but the first ONGOING band that i felt was my favorite was GOTCHAROCKA around the time they released Poisonous Berry...I can't say they're my favorites now tho :') no matter how much I love Jui

[JukaForever 758]

Started with Versailles, still with Versailles

[qotka 433]

Funny story: it was Plastic Tree, but I had no idea they were even considered v-kei and had no idea what the band looked like until a year ago. A friend recommended them to me and I've been listening to them on and off since 2004. I didn't have an internet connection at home back then and relied on copying friends' music folders whenever I had the chance. Shirochronicle got me through a shitty military service, I'll always have a place in my heart for this album.

 

By the way, I found out what they looked like when I came to Japan and started looking into tour dates. It was a pleasant surprise! Love Ryutaro's emoboi hair and Moroccan grandma getup.

[nekkichi 6043]

it's either this album by penicillin

or malice mizer, and I was obsessed with glay for a while

 

 

I also liked gackt's debut mini and mars albums before Dir en grey's vulgar came out and their satanic reverberation practices took me over.

[Karma’s Hat 3107]

D'espairsray, who coincidentally were also the first vk band I ever heard. After they lost me with the post-Mirror singles I think it was An Cafe a short while, and then finally Dir en grey. After that I pretty much stopped having any favorite bands 

[CAT5 9075]

First heard Rentrer en Soi's single for "Wither" in either late 2004 or early 2005, and fell in love. Funnily enough, I had no idea what Visual Kei was and hadn't even seen a picture of the band at the time. The title track is still one of my favorite VK songs ever.

 

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[saishuu 3220]

First VK songs I heard were MALICE MIZER's BEAST OF BLOOD and D'espairsRay's Marry of the blood, and that was back in 2003. First band I actually considered to be my favorite was Kagrra, though, and they still are to this day.

Edited February 17, 2017 by saishuu

[chemicalpictures 1888]

Janne da Arc. For some reason I've stumbled upon 'Feel the Wind', was love at first sight.

 

Couldn't find the PV on youtube, so here goes a live ver:

 

 

[Spectralion 394]

My history with VK is kind of vague.

 

My first VK song is definitely the GazettE.

Because I remembered that I spin cassis for almost one month straight on high school.

But after discovering their other songs, I went to "what the hell was that?!"

 

I remembered I discovered Malice Mizer's Bel Air around that time too.

 

...wait, did my first favorite VK band is really The GazettE?!

Well that kind of embarassing :/

[Ikki 807]

I can't remember exactly what band was my first band as that was almost 20 years ago (1999). XD  

I do remember the first VK songs I downloaded as it took me a couple of days with dial-up internet, which were:

• GLAY - Yuuwaku
• L'arc en Ciel - C'est La Vie
• Dir en grey - Cage
• La'cryma Christi - With-You
• Malice Mizer - Madrigal
• Luna Sea - I For You
• Ladies Room - Maniac Love
• Zi:Kill - I Love Cat
• Lareine - Metamorphose
• Baiser - Kuchizuke
• La'Mule - Inspire

Out of that bunch of bands, I was super crazy into La'cryma Christi until Koji left the group. 

[lichtlune 915]

Mine was UnsraW definitely.  Still like them.

[ShTon 268]

Mine was also Alice Nine back in 2007.  I still love them but not as much as I used to.

[Akuma2017 0]

Dadaroma Belka to Strelka. ❤

[qotka 433]

On 2017/2/18 at 2:03 AM, CAT5 said:

First heard Rentrer en Soi's single for "Wither" in either late 2004 or early 2005, and fell in love. Funnily enough, I had no idea what Visual Kei was and hadn't even seen a picture of the band at the time. The title track is still one of my favorite VK songs ever.

 

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Holy hell!! This was on my playlist for YEARS and I had no idea what it was because for some reason the file name and tags were all in gibberish.  

[Nagisa 131]

It was Kagrra's 咒葬 since I was into theme songs of horror movies at the time.

[visualcrisis 7]

Malice Mizer was my first a long time ago.

[peffy 3568]

 

Psycho le Cemu - Roman Hikou (2003)

First "VK" song I actually liked (PV is great too), and was sort of into the album FRONTIERS. However I pretty much hated any other VK I tried at that time... stuff like Luna Sea, X Japan, Dir en Grey.. 

(actually, if you consider Janne Da Arc/Gackt/L'arc~en~Ciel circa 2003 to be VK, they'd probably be first, but I would call them J-rock at that point..)

 

So, aside from Psycho le Cemu, I continued to ignore all VK until 2009 when I chanced upon exist†trace's VANGUARD. They helped me get over my aversion to growling/screaming. I listened to them extensively for nearly a year until I discovered D'espairsRay's LOVE IS DEAD, which I paid attention to mostly because I thought the "You Spin Me Round" similarities were hilarious. Thus began my VK obsession.

Edited February 27, 2017 by peffy

[Aferni 2381]

Kiryu at around 2012 

Mugen Houyou was my shittt agh so nostalgic

[desparejo86 160]

A .rm (RealVideo) file of "Au Revior" by Malice Mizer got me into visual way way back in 2001.

Edited February 27, 2017 by desparejo86

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48 minutes ago, desparejo86 said:

A .rm (RealVideo) file of "Au Revior" by Malice Mizer got my into visual way way back in 2001.

 

Ahhhh, that takes me back...

Great times.

 

[desparejo86 160]

7 minutes ago, r... said:

 

Ahhhh, that takes me back...

Great times.

 

 

No doubt. I used to have a sweet collection of like 4 hide music videos in .ASF format. Simpler times, man.