We’ve entered hiatus.NOW IT’S YOUR TURN NEXT
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This is something I’ve personally been wondering across the board, visual kei scene or otherwise. I’m assuming that it costs a lot more to produce and release and promote an album than it does to release a maxi single every few months forever
I prefer a band like Kizu who can admit they need a break, than a band that keep release uninspiring music, again and again.
But I curious why bands like Kizu cannot still be active without releasing music ? I mean, Moi dix Mois is still active, and they don’t release music for so many years. It’s totally ok for me ! I would choose quality over quantity
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I am pretty sure it’s pressure. R/E/D just wasn’t the hit song, they wanted it to be and they got a lot of hate for it. And maybe there is only so much “epic” music you can write. Kizu is THE Visual Kei band of the 2020’s and i figure, if Lime feels like he can’t deliver perfection, they won’t do it at all.
So doing an album with the expectation of having only epic, perfect songs on it was too much.
But that’s just what i get from watching the sidelines. Maybe there are other issues, too. Kizu never worked like other bands worked.
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Well, the crushing weight of being a perfectionist Scorpio finally got to Lime.
Edit: Some say this news is a bit of a lemon…it’s more a…
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I don’t think it costs more per song but it generates less revenue per song. 
I have the same question. If you truly intend to come back, then what’s the point of all this drama?
Isn’t this mostly a visual kei thing? It’s like bands are expected to give fans a report on their activities all the time if they don’t officially announce a hiatus.
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I think you’re right. There was probably also pressure from missing their deadlines twice. But that was their own mistake.
Lime writes all of the songs, and he can’t write just for the sake of putting out more material. He once said that if he had nothing left to say, he wouldn’t write anything at all.
Maybe he’s simply burned out for now. The rest of the members have probably had a hard time with all of this as well. There are so many expectations placed on them. They’ve set the bar really high, which brings both a lot of admiration and a lot of criticism.
I hope they’ll come back as soon as possible.
Damn, I posted twice in a row again. Sorry about that.
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I really do not get the reason bands insist on only having one songwriter
if you like want to do a concept album I kinda get it but otherwise it just feels ridiculously self centered.
maybe it gives you a reason to give the other bandmembers a lower salary, but otherwise I see no reason to do it
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I don’t really think anyone is too surprised, and I hope Lime picks back up eventually. But considering the nature of the entire mess… Yeah, I don’t think I think I should expect a sequel to Mech Jesus…
Can the others members compose ? Not everyone can
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From what little I know about this band and their ADHD-fueled manic musical style, the guy running the show is Lime and everything flows from him. It’s his project, and some bands are just like that.
I don’t know if that makes him necessarily self-centered. The dude has an artistic vision and often times opening yourself up to collaboration can water that vision down.
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Kazoo is the DAMLAM of the decade
I mean yeah, but like bands like arlequin had the same person working on the composition of the A-sides and occasionally the other band members did songs for the B-sides, I would believe that to definitely be a good working system especially considering that with the bands usual single approach there is also seldom a interconnected concept which has to be held together by one singular composers vision.
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Kazoo is a good first idea but I think we need something which is more similar to their actual name than a reference to damlam
my first recommendation would be “Chizu” (loan word used in japanese for cheese)
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How about Fiizu? As in the Fees they require to even be an entry level fan?
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The fans cried for an album, not knowing that to release one would mean the death of kizu itself…
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considering recent information I got in regards to this group
just fuck all of them and the whole label and they better shall be gone forever
(I will not talk about that specific topic further as the thread got closed but we talk still too positvely about this group here)
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You’ve left me intrigued!
Appreciate the mods for letting it run as long as it did; as understandable as a no politics rule is and ofc no one wants to let a music forum turn into actual arguments - i learned a lot i didn’t know prior and wouldn’t have found out otherwise
Still don’t feel i got a full read on the situation, but appreciate whoever did so echoing what their Chinese friend said cuz at least here in Texas that’s not a perspective we get often - and for a band that’s played Budoukan and seems to be aiming international i think political reads/criticism towards political art is more than warranted
Hopefully it’ll be a situation like Karma and that dumbass hat where after hearing foreign sentiment he apologized for unnecessary edginess, reassured no earnest support, removed reference to it, and moved on with more music
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