@“drinkrust”#p69232 that's interesting stuff! I certainly would never have heard this otherwise.
As for why I came to this thread, it was to post this song that I find compelling despite having basically 3 notes in it. Visual kei is good and bad at the same time quite often.
https://youtu.be/FHa3yx2MPWQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vzWds5gWS6c
I like this song pretty well. I like a good dose of humor in my music and they've got a couple songs with lyrics that crack me up.
Also [the new Kendrick song/video is reeeaal good.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uAPUkgeiFVY)
@“exodus”#p69320 wow that's really cool! i heard some visual kei in the past but none of what i checked out sounded like this one.
@“drinkrust”#p69511 some of the lower-tier visual kei bands got into this zone a bit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J1OO54o21Iw
I feel like there's a few main camps of visual kei:
a lot of them cross over and bleed between, but there are a few bands that have a more punk-ish sound. and some that are even scrappier, and just don't fit in to the main groups. Penicillin doesn't always sound like that, but there are definitely examples out there if you look. It's a pretty wide genre despite being incredibly niche, so it can be tough to find the stuff you like.
Anyway here's some from different styles:
cabaret style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TvwDMKa8FQw
ska style:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufwevjRm4bg
symphonic metal:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnszD2YWJFc
goth:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SLn-5r8j3tA
post hard rock:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_ClNl7Jhi8
weird:
everyone hated on these vocals back in the day but it's kind of fun now: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_FtvveNsFGs
kozi from malice mizer doing whatever: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hlZlLiuVm8
psycho le cemu with their sentai/japanese matsuri style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDmzDCsP2O0
To some extent I feel like artists like mafumafu are the next extension of visual kei, but I don't have a lot to back that up (and it's not like visual kei is gone), other than to me it feels like something other than pure j-rock.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yV0j3-SGaYA
Anyway! There's some music
Gonna post one more lacroix despheres because I feel they're an extremely slept on band if you like absolutely overwrought nonsense.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_jxVBR86XTk
to me that opening guitar riff at 0:35 is what visual kei is all about, but I'm just an oldschool malice mizer-liker.
(visual kei was absolutely the soundtrack of early insert credit news posts being written so I have a lot to say about it)
@“exodus”#p69515 this list was so comprehensive that I couldn‘t resist listening to all of the songs there. it made me go from curious to interested in the genre. the Luna Sea, Psycho le Cemu, and mafumafu songs you picked were my favorites. it feels really good to hear these melodic instrumentals paired with the mostly theatric vocals. Kozi’s songs were also significantly different from what I've heard from Malice Mizer and pretty fun 
@“exodus”#p69520 whoa this is great. i might have to look into this genre that i thought i wasn't into.
New Kendrick album is very very good and has some songs with very difficult subject matter that is spoken about very honestly. Not a fun time listen haha
I was really excited about it and then I heard Auntie Diaries and now I'm mulling over whether I want to listen to the rest of the album at all at this point.
Yeah that song and Mother I Sober are very layered in how weird/difficult/tough/troubled they are.
It‘s just so corny/clunky/clumsy. Like I get that his heart’s in the right place but just….no. Try again lol
Meanwhile, this new They Hate Change album is incredible.
A band that springs to mind that some people know about is Bo Ningen. I saw them support Guitar Wolf around 10 years ago and they were pretty rad - kinda psychedelic, kinda gothy, kinda something that I can't put my finger on.
https://youtu.be/lXXpLHKWlVA
@“LeFish”#p69733 I think I‘d put this in the post-grunge post-sonic youth-y zone that we had going in the US and japan for quite a while, ala a place to bury strangers. People were calling this post-punk but I don’t think that's quite it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxsVOF9KH1I
Grunge might not be the right thing to invoke either but it's definitely a reaction to something with those production values and guitar sounds.
A Place To Bury Strangers has a very good pinball table at Wonderville Arcade
I was talking about Luminous Orange with @saddleblasters and I mentioned my favorite song (which they hadn't heard yet) and how it was originally named after Tay Rail Bridge which, as explained in the linked wiki, is pretty fudging dark for such a beautiful song.
Anyways, like I was telling saddles- I hope to one day be able to make something as beautiful as this song.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PEWYjpiDVks
fuck it UP Mariah
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWfYIUBiTKA
best album of the year so far IMO
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_7gHlCRjo8&list=PLcZMZxR9uxC_CunBZV46hhvpKJWoPRjTW&index=1
also been listening to some Takeshi Terauchi(I'm sure many know him here, I did not until yesterday lol), curious if anyone has any recs along the lines of his music! Maybe just more broadly like japanese surf punk kinda stuff.
@“sabertoothalex”#p70045 I like this a lot. Definitely on my albums to listen to list now. The singer‘s voice reminds me of the vocalist from TV on the Radio so much I had to Google to make sure it wasn’t a side project.
I haven't listened to as much new stuff as I typically do. This is probably my favorite so far of stuff I've listened through:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ-rR9H5wVI&t=30s
@“TracyDMcGrath”#p69736 I didn‘t know this existed! that’s neat. I am curious to hear what the game sounds like.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u5J5mHw6u3s
https://www.deathbyaudioarcade.com/a-place-to-bury-strangers-pinball
some stuff I discovered this week
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dT3nCu8oaPg
was feeling emotional and checking in on some old favorite artists on pixiv I hadn‘t looked at since 2017. one of them has recently done the art for this album. not everyone’s cup of tea, but since I was in a mood, and miss those days I used to ride my bike in the humid night and draw pictures and listen to music, the album was good for me to listen to today…
https://youtu.be/IxeYYpiBCmY