# Hi :) **URL:** \ **Category:** Introductions\ **Created:** [November 26, 2020, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/hi/102 "2020-11-26T11:58:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Saku](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/saku/32/170_2.png) [@Saku](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Saku)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/hi/102/1 "2020-11-26T11:58:24Z")
Hi everyone, I’ve joined here trying to remember my teenage years in these strange times. A VK fan since 2003-2004 hoping to make some new friends. My favourites bands back in the day were D’espairsRay, Dir en grey, waruiyatsu! and √eight right now I’m really into the B.P.Records bands, ARTiCLEAR and NICOLAS (with all those old the gazette sounds \<3) ---
**Author:** ![nick](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/nick/32/85326_2.png) [@nick](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/nick)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 12:13pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/hi/102/2 "2020-11-26T12:13:04Z")
Hello, Saku! Welcome to the community! Looks like we have similar music tastes in heavy stuff. D’espairsRay’s disbandment was such a great loss to the VK scene though. I’ve just started listening to NICOLAS recently. I’m more into their non-heavy songs in particular, such as セピア, モザイク, and ミナミ. They are just beautiful. 😍 ---
**Author:** ![Masato](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/masato/32/22494_2.png) [@Masato](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Masato)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 12:17pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/hi/102/3 "2020-11-26T12:17:21Z")
Hey Saku! Welcome to the community! I love D’espairsRay haha. Still have their Monster poster that came with the cd on cdjapan right on my wall haha. Diru is a must too 🙂 Hope you enjoy it here! Cheers 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Saku](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/saku/32/170_2.png) [@Saku](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Saku)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 12:18pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/hi/102/4 "2020-11-26T12:18:36Z")
Their latest single ミナミ… is so awesome, I loved both tracks (the song 夕暮れにリストカット is a song from when they were JyuLie right?). And about the D’espairsRay’s disbandment I totally agree that we lose one of the most iconic alternative/industrial metal bands of the scene ---
**Author:** ![Saku](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/saku/32/170_2.png) [@Saku](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Saku)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 12:24pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/hi/102/5 "2020-11-26T12:24:24Z")
Thanks for the welcome 😄 . I have in my collection the american version of coll:set I bought on e-bay and that album came with wrong metadata lol. I’m not very familiar with anything that comes after 凍える夜に咲いた花,. It’s time to rediscover their music. ---
**Author:** ![nick](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/nick/32/85326_2.png) [@nick](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/nick)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 12:33pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/hi/102/6 "2020-11-26T12:33:39Z")
ミナミ is such a beautiful VK song. NICOLAS sure knows how to compose good pop-rock VK songs like this. Now you mentioned it that they sound like the old GazettE. I can agree with that, and I would like to hear more from them. 😋 ---
**Author:** ![smiley\_skeleton](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/smiley_skeleton/32/156_2.png) [@smiley\_skeleton](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/smiley_skeleton)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 2:25pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/hi/102/7 "2020-11-26T14:25:56Z")
D’espairsRay was such a great band back in the day… I really miss them, even though pretty much everyone is active in different projects right now. As a unit they were just a band you couldn’t get around… Good stuff, great memories there haha. B.P.Records seem to be doing pretty good for themselves in terms of sounds, I only follow Kiryu a little and occasionally see a glimpse of Royz, but regardless. What I see is good stuff! I think this new platform will be a great way for people to make friends, there are a lot of similar-minded people here which is always a good thing! ---
**Author:** ![Saku](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/saku/32/170_2.png) [@Saku](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Saku)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 2:37pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/hi/102/8 "2020-11-26T14:37:32Z")
> D’espairsRay was such a great band back in the day… I really miss them, even though pretty much everyone is active in different projects right now. As a unit they were just a band you couldn’t get around… Good stuff, great memories there haha. As a band they were top notch. I know they are in different projects right now but… they’re pretty meh for me. Maybe _nul._ is more a band I could enjoy but they are too new. From B.P.Records I encourage you to listen to codomo dragon they are really really good (of course I love kiryu too. They’re totally cool). And loving this new platform already and hoping it become a place of communion for all facets of japanese rock. ---
**Author:** ![Kuryou](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/kuryou/32/95310_2.png) [@Kuryou](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Kuryou)\ **Post date:** [November 26, 2020, 3:03pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/hi/102/9 "2020-11-26T15:03:24Z")
Hello and welcome. ^^ D’espairsRay were so great and yeah the projects the members are in now aren’t getting close to them. With NUL.'s last preview there was a short reminder of some Despa sound yet it wasn’t the same though. And THE MICRO HEAD 4’Ns were great live (even though that’s been in 2013) but I barely do listen to them from CD. And I’m not into Angelo at all since I don’t like the vocals. Just a matter of taste. Didn’t click with me those times I tried. I really should try NICOLAS with those old Gazette hints. Even though I do prefer their music from the past years those old songs were really great, too. And about waruiyatsu there’s just one thing I relate them to (never listened to them though), one of their members was in Jewel which I followed throughout all their activity (and Jewel’s bassist is in ARTiCLEAR now). ---
**Author:** ![gin](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/gin/32/85484_2.png) [@gin](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/gin)\ **Post date:** [November 28, 2020, 3:10am UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/hi/102/10 "2020-11-28T03:10:21Z")
Welcome!! Hope we all can be a help and enjoy music together.