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Seeing that visual kei has gotten a bit of a revival these last few years, with more and more people liking the style and music of older bands, I wish the fandom for the first wave (mid/late 80's to early 90's) bands would be bigger.
Their looks are super cool, extreme but laid back at the same time, with focus on big hair. And I think the music is just awesome with a mix of rock, punk and even metal sometimes, but always very catchy.
I think those who like the newer bands within the genre would like them too! There is more to visual kei than just Malice Mizer you know...
When it comes to this genre, most people would probably say that X-Japan is one of the first bands, but there are many more great bands who played around the same time, and that in my opinion is just as good!
Some of my fave bands when I was a kid, that I remember used to have somewhat of an international following, at least back then:
If anyone else likes bands like these please lmk!
Would love to have someone to fangirl over the bands with again but I feel like a majority of people have forgotten these, if they ever even heard of them (^^;)
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yukari
kamitachi, color, by-sexual?! i love them all! omgg, color is mentioned a lot when talking about kote kei bands, but not recognized in this new era, and by-sexual is still recognized as well, but not as much
Sorry about my late reply... But that's really nice to hear someone else likes them still! :o
I know that By-Sexual used to be active again some years ago, but the other bands I don't really know what they are doing today. Some members are deceased sadly.
Also I see you like The Piass! I used to listen to them a bit too. I think they are pretty good :D
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hey! I just stumbled across this post while looking for a different persons. I've recently entered the vkei/jrock fan space (I've grown really attached to Plastic Tree, BUCK-TICK and the Gazette).
I just wanted to say, i totally agree that older vkei often gets overshadowed. I haven't really looked into any of the bands you posted here (i have heard of BY-SEXUAL before but never listened to them) but your post has inspired me to check them out :) hope you're having a good day!
Hi! Thanks for reaching out :)
I feel like whenever "most people" get into a new music style, what is often recommended to them are the biggest and most famous bands (for obvious reasons I guess), but I wanted to do something different.
I found these bands randomly when looking for other japanese music from the same time. I didn't even know what they were when I saw a picture of one of the bands, I just thought they looked interesting (^^;)
I'm glad you've heard of BY-SEXUAL, they're probably my favourite of all of these!
And same to you!!
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