Hey folks, I’ve been seeing this website here and there while searching for bands so I finally decided to join, during all these years i’ve been very passive in my search for new things to enjoy on the jrock scene but this place seems what i’ve been wanting, I admit I’ll be a lurker most of the time, I suck at engaging in content but who knows.
Cheers
Yooooo welcome aboard. What are your favourites!
Thanks for the welcome, to me favorite artist means how much I’ve been trying to keep up with their work, of the top of my head Morrie (Dead End’s ex-vocal) would be my favorite VK artist, both it’s work on solo and the Creature Creature releases are what I return to listen every time, there’s the singer Ryo who I started following since 9Goats Black out in 2007 and since I’ve been trying to keep up with their other projects, same thing for contemporary artist Hakushi Hasegawa, scouring the internet for news of collaboration songs for other people or his own works. For bands/artists that I hold close and keep an eye on releases: GOATBED, Plastic Tree, Buck-Tick, The Yellow Monkey, Nakada Yuji (ex-singer of Tsubakiya Quartet), in lesser form L’Arc-en-Ciel (mostly Ken, hoping he gets to do more music as solo), AKFG, Nico Touches the Walls’s ex-singer Tatsuya Mitsumura, Dir en Grey, 9mm Parabellum Bullet, Shiina Ringo.
I’ll leave it at there, I have a last.fm account you can check for yourself if you feel curious and/or you feel like sharing recommendations, have a good one 
What’s your favorite MORRIE album? The last couple of DEAD END albums (late 2000s ones before You died) sound a lot like Creature Creature.
What good timing! We have a poll going on right now and DEAD END is one of the participants. You should vote for them (and others)!
https://forum.jrockone.com/t/the-2025-vk-unpopularity-contest/14921/8
I do share that thought too, but I can’t say why or how exactly, I have sit down to listen only Morrie and I admit I don’t know who was behind the majority of the creative process back in the Dead End days, neither I know what the other members did during D.E’s downtime.
For what you ask of my favorite album, Shambara, I think that the album strikes a balance between this heavy metal sound, sometimes close to what they did at their debut and maybe what bands like LOUDNESS (which I’ve been researching and listening) did in it’s time and the other sounds more contemporary of the rock of the late 80’s and early 90’s.
For the late 2000’s ones I like all of them, they’re all great!
P.S: Morrie’s ones, that’s difficult, I enjoy the his Ballad D one because new versions of the already great songs, I don’t have a specific album but I do find interesting the sounds on “Romantic na Amari ni Romantic na” and it stands out to me the most.
Wow! 7000 artists is a lot. I see your music taste is very spread out. Welcome to JRO! 
