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Apparently the reason I still have rather strong feelings for D'espairsRay's music, though admittedly more Hizumi than anything that's why I'm addicted to NUL, is bc I never fell out with them like I did with previous faves like MUCC, Merry, L'arc, EXO, etc. It's hard to overcome that lol, esp with M&M bc my main reason for falling out was the music. With L'arc it was Hyde's annoying ass and the fandom. With EXO, i pretty much need B and K to leave completely in order for me to care about the group again.
But I was a strong fan of DR's music until the very end and their breakup and esp Hizumi being unable to sing was like, the absolute worst lol. It didn't get me out of VK at the time, but I can't really think of a worse breakup. Or a worse retirement. NUL honestly doesn't sound a ton different from DR even though it was mostly Karyu composing DR's stuff from what I recall. Obviously Hizumi has similar tastes. I would say it's a bit more EDM to an extent, but at the same time, there are some pretty solid guitar parts as well. I like his 90% clean singing in NUL even though I always thought he was one of the absolute best in the scene at transitioning from growls and such to clean singing. And powerful clean singing at that. Like, he always had great resonance, a good range, and super clear and clean falsetto, no thready weak shit.
So yeah, he was pretty much my favorite singer in that scene even though I did like Tatsu from MUCC a lot, but I honestly don't think he had the sheer range that Hizumi has. His falsettos were pretty shit for one thing lol. But Hizumi also never overused falsetto like a shitton of VK vocalists did. And lbr, most VK vocalists sucked. He was just always a surprisingly really professional singer to me lol. And that's the other part to this addiction I have right now is that even though DR was the first VK band I ever heard, I was never into them as a band so to speak. Not like I was with Merry and MUCC for example, following all their stuff super closely and buying untold amounts of shit from them lmao.
Bc of that, when I fell out with them, none of the members I considered my faves or whatever could save it. With DR it was different. I really didn't follow them other than listening to their stuff and buying new albums and I saw them three times in concert. It was only Hizumi that I actually had feels for. So going back to listening to them has turned out to be super easy to do and well, they WERE the only Jrock act at the top of my Last FM since I started anew account back in 2012.
I've been tryna explain this to myself for the last week lol. Bc I honestly thought I was totally done with caring about VK, including old bands I used to like, but when I found Hizumi's new band, I couldn't resist going back to listening DR too. So the not caring about VK thing still mostly holds. I wouldn't even call NUL VK. The two other guys with him are just like, a couple of old dudes lol. One's from ABS and the other from Def Spiral i wanna say? I think they might have been VK idk lol. Either way, there's a sound, and they don't have it.
Anyway this is just rambling lol.
But I was a strong fan of DR's music until the very end and their breakup and esp Hizumi being unable to sing was like, the absolute worst lol. It didn't get me out of VK at the time, but I can't really think of a worse breakup. Or a worse retirement. NUL honestly doesn't sound a ton different from DR even though it was mostly Karyu composing DR's stuff from what I recall. Obviously Hizumi has similar tastes. I would say it's a bit more EDM to an extent, but at the same time, there are some pretty solid guitar parts as well. I like his 90% clean singing in NUL even though I always thought he was one of the absolute best in the scene at transitioning from growls and such to clean singing. And powerful clean singing at that. Like, he always had great resonance, a good range, and super clear and clean falsetto, no thready weak shit.
So yeah, he was pretty much my favorite singer in that scene even though I did like Tatsu from MUCC a lot, but I honestly don't think he had the sheer range that Hizumi has. His falsettos were pretty shit for one thing lol. But Hizumi also never overused falsetto like a shitton of VK vocalists did. And lbr, most VK vocalists sucked. He was just always a surprisingly really professional singer to me lol. And that's the other part to this addiction I have right now is that even though DR was the first VK band I ever heard, I was never into them as a band so to speak. Not like I was with Merry and MUCC for example, following all their stuff super closely and buying untold amounts of shit from them lmao.
Bc of that, when I fell out with them, none of the members I considered my faves or whatever could save it. With DR it was different. I really didn't follow them other than listening to their stuff and buying new albums and I saw them three times in concert. It was only Hizumi that I actually had feels for. So going back to listening to them has turned out to be super easy to do and well, they WERE the only Jrock act at the top of my Last FM since I started anew account back in 2012.
I've been tryna explain this to myself for the last week lol. Bc I honestly thought I was totally done with caring about VK, including old bands I used to like, but when I found Hizumi's new band, I couldn't resist going back to listening DR too. So the not caring about VK thing still mostly holds. I wouldn't even call NUL VK. The two other guys with him are just like, a couple of old dudes lol. One's from ABS and the other from Def Spiral i wanna say? I think they might have been VK idk lol. Either way, there's a sound, and they don't have it.
Anyway this is just rambling lol.
