#resurrectVK

[efuru 255]

Masquerkeide

[suji 8317]

this hashtag is floating around again cuz of fucking mejibray, what a surprise

 

shows how much these fucking whiteys and Brazilians really care about jrock; if one band suddenly decides to take a break, then god forbid IT'S THE END OF VK AS WE KNOW IT!!11

Edited May 11, 2017 by sheepprincessgara

[Karma’s Hat 3107]

I've thought about this a lot and I think I've come up with a solution

 

 

We need to ban americans, scandinavians and anyone who's been into vk for less than a decade from the scene.

[Tokage 5930]

we need to ban everyone from posting about the scene in public, we need to go deeper underground

 

#radicalizevisualkei

Edited May 11, 2017 by Tokage

[WhirlingBlack 1043]

2 hours ago, Tokage said:

we need to ban everyone from posting about the scene in public, we need to go deeper underground

 

#radicalizevisualkei

 

Someone better move MH to a deep web forum next to all those hitman listings and drug sales.

[Tokage 5930]

imagine some shady-ass weirdo trying to look for a hitman online and accidentally stumbling upon a bunch of of MY DRAGON pvs

[Peace Heavy mk II 7200]

I just realized I've hit my 10-year mark in this hell

[-jibakurei- 111]

Trying to hire an hitman in the dark webz and accidentally hiring Yomi as Chiba thrusting his crotch against every vulunerable part of the victim's body while Izumi from Shibilebashir seduces him/her 

o m g 

The true power of those hookers is finally revealed!

[platy 3018]

Seriously, this mejibray hiatus has made the VK sphere the most exciting it's been in years. 

 

That or I just like to watch the world burn 

[suji 8317]

All I wanna do rn is grab that Bataar guy's mic and shove it far up his tight little butthole cuz all he does is talk shit

[diryangrey 121]

all the #drama going around w/ this tag made me think, there's a lot of people who'd be cool w/ at least the idea of visual kei from outside Japan, but those five scandanavian bands aren't really it & the other bands don't get much attention.

So, i'm not the most knowledgeable about this or anything but i thought i'd throw together a quick list of some bands i've heard of, and write them a quick tagline. they're super #basic, but i had like...... 100 letters to work with.

hope this doesn't seem like self-promo, but here's that list, in twitter convo form, if any of y'all are interested in checking it out.

Spoiler alert, i think some of the bands from Indonesia are my favs.

 

[seikun 317]

But what exactly people want to resurrect?

 

If we are talking about western VK bands, most of them never embodied VK really. Most took the aesthetics of 2000's VK (with relative success) but 99% of them never ever acquired the essence of a Visual Kei band. They never felt like one. The only serious and successful replications outside Japan that I can think of were Angel Heart from South Korea and Silver Ash from China. There was another one from South Korea, I think they were called Deva...

These bands really captured the essence of a Visual Kei band aesthetically, its theatrical performance and musically.

 

Any western Visual Kei band somehow reminiscent of or that took inspiration from bands like Aliene Ma'riage, Baiser (both eras), La;sadie's,  Syndrome, Due'le quartz,  SHAZNA or La'Mule, for example?

 

 

 

 

 

 

Edited May 13, 2017 by seikun

[Ikna 1225]

^ @seikun well, there was this:

 

 

According to their youtube channel they seem to have reformed (or at least played a few lives in the last years). Make of it what you will.

 

It seems there were a lot of mexican or latina american "kote" bands, but I forgot all their names, because they truly weren't that remarkable, let alone relevant.

 

Also this attempt at early 00s VK:

 

 

But we actually had a thread about crappy foreign VK bands on here. It featured glorious shit like this atrocity:

 

 

And this I feel is exactly what swede "kei" bands apparantly want to come back. 

[nekkichi 6043]

1 hour ago, Ikna said:

Also this attempt at early 00s VK:

 

 

I'm legit sizzling @ this, they actually got the aesthetics part right and it's a pretty authentic deal visually (given an all gaijin band with a matina production budget)

 

the actual music tho

 

[raphael 49]

Patrik stop lurking.

 

Spoiler

and fucking LOL

 

 

[suji 8317]

yes because mh is full of whites. nothing but whites. this forum's color should be white instead of black.

 

Fucking idiot, living up to both his name and the band's name (Bataar, more like Pataar, amirite).

 

[nekkichi 6043]

byyyye Patricia

 

stay salty

[saishuu 3220]

when people confuse elitism with actually having taste, oops

[suji 8317]

 

😂😂😂😂😂😂

[Seimeisen 4406]

6 hours ago, sheepprincessgara said:

yes because mh is full of whites. nothing but whites. this forum's colour should be white instead of black.

Y'know what I'll bring this up with the rest of the staff. I mean, you're right, we gotta come correct and all! Correctness is everything.

 

Also, those bataaaaaaaaaaar dudes are bullshit personified

[seikun 317]

14 hours ago, Ikna said:

^ @seikun well, there was this:

 

 

According to their youtube channel they seem to have reformed (or at least played a few lives in the last years). Make of it what you will.

 

It seems there were a lot of mexican or latina american "kote" bands, but I forgot all their names, because they truly weren't that remarkable, let alone relevant.

 

Also this attempt at early 00s VK:

 

 

But we actually had a thread about crappy foreign VK bands on here. It featured glorious shit like this atrocity:

 

 

And this I feel is exactly what swede "kei" bands apparantly want to come back. 

 

I actually had this conflict in my mind because especially en Argentina and Chile there were bands that wanted to replicate the old style and all that conveys,  but they were so small and amateur compared to their European counterparts that had more resources and exposure. In Latin America they were more bands inspired in the whole Visual Kei concept as opposed to what I could see from most European Visual Kei bands that were more about the looks and not really much (if any) about performance and musical patterns that one can  associate with Visual Kei.

 

I don't want to limit eventual western Visual Kei bands to a specific era of Visual Kei, but if they want to be a Visual Kei band I expect not only the aesthetics, but also theater and music so when I see them and listen to them I can say "yeah, I feel the Visual Kei vibe in them".

Edited May 14, 2017 by seikun

[BackStabbath 321]

Someone who thinks vk as the only real Japanese rock expects to be taken serious?

[Karma’s Hat 3107]

Iirc there was a pretty horrendous south american visual kei compilation that was uploaded on this board way back. They were kind of nu-kei-ish I recall, and also I think one of the bands had a member who posted here ( he might have in fact been the uploader. )

 

I do like how everything written here has been reduced to "white elitism." The only way shitty local rock bands can cope with flopping like they do is by telling themselves that everyone is a hater and that they're doing a public service by existing. 

[suji 8317]

goddamn white people uGGHHH

[Takadanobabaalien 3607]

 why white ppl gotta destroy everything

first dabbing and now vk smh