None of my honmei have had super large changes, so I guess I’ll finally talk about my pre-gya intro to vkei period.
ナイトメア is a definite worst, especially looking back. I recently tried to rewatch my Beautiful Scums DVD (actually a Blu-ray for once笑) and had to stop two songs in. anima/the WORLD Ruler ナイトメア was their best period, but they were okay until they joined avex. Embarrassingly, SCUMS was actually my favorite album but in my defense, ナイトメア was the first time I ever properly listened to rock outside of the odd vocaloid song/utaite cover so I didn’t have a quality measure. I was still a RisingPro otaku when I started listening to them…あぁ懐かしすぎる
For other bands, exist trace basically slowly lost everything that made them interesting in the first place. I don’t remember the release, but MUCC lightening was pretty bad. 我、在ルベキ場所 was peak MUCC for me.