Album Rating: 4.0

Nightmare are unique in that for their last three releases, they haven't worked hard on the music or their looks (still love the shit out of them though, even though their new stuffs shit).



But yeah, every single band is like: clean vocals and pretty guitar opening first verse, then djunz djunz, vocal harmony, shitty guitar solo in a major scale, then first verse reprise. And they all fucking sound like Gauze.

Album Rating: 4.0

Like, just listen to this and then think of any modern vk band and look up one of their songs and it's either this or something like Cage or Tsumi to Batsu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7v6HL_H3Qc

Album Rating: 5.0

I don't like Nightmare to matter what era so I'm not including them :P. Oh, add Deluhi and Moi Dix Mois to the list of tripe (despite Frontier being a very good song).

Album Rating: 4.0

Yeah I remember you saying you don't like Nightmare, but then you're more into the X Japan/Malice Mizer stuff and Nightmare are more Luna Sea derived.



Xepher were another shit band when they were active.

"Diru an gurei niu arubum"

Logging off

Album Rating: 4.0

@CalculatingInfinity X Japan related, Hide would have been 50 today I just noticed.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Regarding some of the more modern visual kei-inspired acts, I'm never concerned about the band's image so much as I am about the quality of the material; speaking of which, the music itself can mostly be generic as fuck, but still passable. This is kinda like an inverse of those that once said, "Just because something is catchy does not equal good." Dio - Distraught Overlord, Moi dix Mois, and D'espairsray for me come to mind...



But some of this is irrevelant in regards to Arche. Revelation of mankind is a bit of an odd closer for this album, but not because it's a primarily aggressive track.

Album Rating: 4.0

@CalculatingInfinity How could I have forgotten Vistlip, they're one of the worst offenders.