Reiko

Same here! Have you listened to Shun's current project, NEiN?

no but I will check! thank you!

You are a person with a good taste.

love them. as spectralion said, their "dark" mini is brilliant. 

they excel more at ballads/melodic/slower numbers IMHO which is why i think they never caught on here. also hitomi's lyrics can be difficult to grasp if you haven't studied japanese a ton.

my favorite moran songs:

kimi no ita gosenfu <-----god-tier
the entire dark mini<----also god-tier.  honestly should be a classic in the vk world. EVERY song is perfection. even fairy tale.
bulbs

honestly i stan everything. those just come to mind when i think "moran." 
 

the first 4 tracks of heroine (and onaji yami no naka de) are god tier

Thanks for the input y'all I'm liking them a lot but haven't dove deep. I'll start with the recs!

ugh, me too. 春、さくらの頃 does the same to me as well sometimes. 絶景色 is such a great album.

春、さくらの頃 for me too!!!!!!! I'm not a huge A9 fan, but  good lord, they have some screamers.

Is it really that good? lol

How does it compare when high and listening to techno? Asking for a friend.

This is the most @The Moon thing I've ever heard

im calling the cops

they occupy a space no one else does

They really do. Out of all the bands with that super-Japanese flair, they were one of (if not) the best.

a legendary band for sure

their highs were certainly high

Their albums 1994-1997 are some of the best '90s vk imo, after that they've gotten kind of 'meh' for me, but still not too bad I guess.

i like queen but liked nothing else. kuroyume, laputa and lamiel outsold.

i liked them back when I was just getting into jrock...i need to start listening to them again lol

They're like a cheap Moi Dix Mois. They're okay.

Sadly disbanded in 2016.
However now we got SARRMATH. And I like SARRMATH much more than Calmando Qual.
Even if was maybe worlds international biggest Calmando Qual fan ever. (^_^)" (Which is still much respected by Hibiki, Tak and Kenka) 

Also Kenka's current band is lovely! 

I have indeed browsed your posts relating them. I will check SARRMATH for sure!

When i got a hold of them, it was right after I discovered Velvet Eden and Pride of Mind. I checked them because I was looking for more electronic vkei, but they were way more industrial and heavy than I  was looking for at the time. Out of that context I'm really appreciating them.

In their early years with Tasc kinda until 2009 they where much more industrial rock. When they signed up to Starwave they went more to "normal rock sound" without much industrial sound. 

When they decided to disband they actually went more back to their orgin sound.

I always missed somehow Kenka on stage after he left the band in 2013. Because the way of playing bass on stage you only see that way rarely. 

Till is a nice bassist but his performance is like watching a BAG of potatoes. o.o

All members are doing fine.
Tak: supports a bunch of bands. Rosemadder is his main band now. 

Maya:  supports also a band, but I'm not sure if he recovered fully from a sickness. But he is alive.

SIO, (ex-drummer) nobody knows what he is doing.

Kenka; he plays in スネメガマフィー (Sunamegamafy)  and he looks better as before. He totally cut of his hair and looks like Ken Watanabe now.  But still as known, he drinks a lot of beer everyday.  But he plays his bass with perfection. (a while before a gig he doesn't drink)

Hibiki, SARRMATH and THE HIGH GRIP

Kiri (support drummer for about 2 years) she plays in silent... and some other bands.