I always thought it was meant to look like a syringe.
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I can’t underline on the forum, so underscores had to do.
I know, I know. Just saying that the rest of the second line is also underlined, as opposed to “TOUR16-17 FROM DEPRESSION TO _______”.
A lot of VK bands people say are metalcore, musical wise, are actually alternative metal or alternative rock.
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% agree, people don’t seem to know what metalcore is and instead use it as a term for metal in general that has some harsh vocals.
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Osare-kei sucks. I hate it
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I’ll never understand why ppl pay to see ppl that look like they just got out of bed and went straight on stage (ex. undone hair, no makeup, t shirt and pants) like… where is the excitement? Where’s the passion?
Ig this can be targeted toward any artist not just Japanese but that’s what I think
you’re overexaturating, right?
The passion should be inside the music.
Let me turn this around once, would you go and see a band with an absolute crap sound, just because the guys are hot?
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Who said the guys gotta be hot, I said they have to look like they actually care and didn’t just roll out of bed
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I don’t know any band that looks like they just rolled out of bed.
But i do account that we might have different standards here.
If you dont mind, do you have examples of what you mean? I am just curios by now.
For me it’s as simple as different types of music requires different types of live performances.
I would not want to see Cannibal Corpse and Diskord enter the stage highly stylized and shit, just like I wouldn’t want to see King Diamond, Sigh or Arcturus enter the stage without something theatrical in their performance.
Different types of music require different types of approach and stage presence.
The most important thing for me is that the image and music goes somewhat hand in hand, and that the band look like they’re actually in the same band. There needs to be a red thread in appearance and outfits, and they just need to look like they belong in the same band, be it in plain clothing or dressed up etc.
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lots ov kpop fans who got into vk since covid & tiktok have definitely attempted to migrate that fandom cult to their new interest i feel.
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truuuueee. ive seen people complaicent(or maybe just projecting) abt not the image or style ov bandmen but like their personal features and how ugly they are. not sure if i misread but ppl are more than willing to get catfished until theyre like ‘oh no this musician is actually tapped, this changes the music for me’…
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Its fair to say that often you dont think its done well but its short-sighted to say it cant be. some ov the bands who are open to this sound are also contemporarily some ov the most experimental…
While I can appreciate when a band comes on stage with a cool visual presentation, I also don’t care if they don’t. Even if they literally DID just roll out of bed, as long as the energy is raw and the performance is solid, that’s where the passion for me comes from more than anything else
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After my concert run last year, I can’t think of a single artist that I saw who put zero effort into their visuals. It’s not just what the band is wearing, but how cool their instrument is, how the lights are programmed, if there are visuals on a back screen, a live band, a full-on theatrical performance, or a 3D projection over a veil. And then there is also the aspect of the energy and the performance itself! You gotta be starter as hell to take the stage in nothing but your Adidas.
Or an absolute god. 
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I can’t believe @Jigsaw didn’t pull out the most famous adidas victim, and also for your example, those guys still had to coordinate their adidas suits.
I am late on this. But i kinda get it and i am on the opposite of you, i like that kind of metal. But i dont like how metalcore started to become so common in the VK scene.
Tbh i do think that trend might have started because metalcore is actually pretty niche, but a thing that is there… there are currently no labels that take those bands under contract. So being VK opens up the loophole of getting signed to a VK label.
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as soon as I heard addidas, I thought of slavic bands all decked out in matching track suits… Codomo Dragon does that on their youtube channel but I don’t think they do live.
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