#d visual kei

[mariafloscher]

VKEITOBER2025 LIST 1, day 6 - Asagi from D 🖤

Software: Procreate Brush by Kyle T. Webster Digital crosshatching Fanart of Asagi from D

[mouldymp3rotations]

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If anyone was wondering what had happened to 8, or why my numbers didnt line up, it's because i meant to post this before i started my 20 years of visual kei series. I did change the content a little, but i figured that posting this after having focussed on Selia made sense :)

As usual : Song titles link to individual mp3 file download

All 6 songs can also be downloaded together in a zip file from the link at the bottom

Alright, let's gooo !!! (Also, see the bottom of the post, under the cut, to watch me play 6 degrees of visual kei lmao)

D - 闇より暗い慟哭のアカペラと薔薇より赤い情熱のアリア (yami yori kurai doukoku no a capella to bara yori akai jounetsu no aria)

You know, originally this song wasnt in the rotation, but ,ngl, i had forgotten about it until i started listening to D, while working on my 20 years of visual kei series. Of course it has a place here !

*breathes in* Yami yori kurai doukoku no A CAPELLA to bara yori akai jounetsu no ARIA was a single released in 2005

this may or may not have motivated me to do a vk rewrite of the phantom of the opera, back then lol, i never finished it 💀

Femme Fatale - BABEL

This song is the reason why i wanted to make this one specific rotation :D Tbh, Femme Fatale kind of is yet another visual kei band, to me. Like if it was not Kaya's band, i literally would not give much of a shit lmao BUT. The break around the middle of this song, when they go in the high notes, just for a few seconds ! These few seconds made it worth trudging through the rest of the band's discography (not that long either, tbh, as they were only active for 2 years, so...)

Babel was on the -NOIR- version of the GLADSHEIM mini album, released in 2014.

RENTRER EN SOI - 鴉色の胎児 (karasu iro no taiji)

RES's eponymous album is probably the album of theirs i listened the most. I think this track was put on this album to remind fans that they were still Rentrer En Soi, despite the more agressive sound that was en vogue, at the time. I think it also low key show Satsuki's whole range, and i really appreciate when vocalist do that within one song !!

Karasu iro no taiji was first a single before showing up on the RENTRER EN SOI album (idk that there is a difference between the two, but my upload is from the album) released about a month later, in 2006.

sukekiyo - aftermath [collaboration with キリト] (kirito)

I had originally put the single version, here, but then i came to the conclusion that I listen to this version more, and that the high Kyo vocals i wanted to showcase also were in this version :3

This version of aftermath was on the second disc of the special edition of IMMORTALIS, released in 2014.

(this being said fuck the ai wave theyve been surfing on these days ugh)

ヴィドール (Vidoll) - Remind Story

Ok, not gonna lie, this song would not be much if it was not that Jui just breaks into a broken english aria, in the middle of the song dsahjakjjhdk. I think hearing this is what triggered my Vidoll phase, back then lol.

Remind Story was a single released in 2005.

.zip file available...

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(i left the kirito-less aftermath in there too, btw)

I didnt really notice when i put this list together, but all these bands are related one way or another, watch this :

D-members and Vidoll-members were friends and i believe they've toured together at one point. There are was also a photoshoot for i dont remember which magazine with Asagi and Ruiza from D, and Jui and Rame from Vidoll, and that's just from the top of my head lol

Both Asagi and Tsunehito are friends with Kaya (femme fatale), and with D being paused, lately Tsunehito has played live with Kaya a lot. I believe Asagi was part of the Node of Scherzo shows at one point, too.

Even more recently, Tsunehito attended Toshiya's art exposition

Toshiya being in Dir en grey with Kyo (sukekiyo)

Mika and Takumi from sukekiyo both were in Rentrer en Soi first

Giru from Vidoll (not in the line up featured here, but still) and Kirito featured in the sukekiyo song also were together in Angelo

Kirito and his band Pierrot toured with Kyo and his other band Dir en grey like last year lol

Kyo (sukekiyo/dir en grey) has vocally coached Satsuki (rentrer en soi) in the mid 2000s

Satsuki (rentrer en soi) and Jui (Vidoll) both have provided vocals for Kisaki Project

Im sure im forgetting some, but you get the point lol, me talking about visual kei = charlie day meme (dont get me started on how everything leads back to malice mizer !!!)

[goblin-tears]

Happy Birthday

Vampire King

🥀🖤🥀🖤🥀

[vampprince-sono]

NOT ME FEVERISHLY CHECKING TWITTER FOR ALL THE PICS OF THE ZEPP TOUR

For context, the Zepp Tour is Moi dix Mois, Versailles, D, and Matenrou Opera

THIS IS FUCKING HUGE FOR VKEI METAL I’M SCREAMING

I need to see these four in the same room immediately I am feral gimme the goods

[missghostlyshadow]

D - Der König der Dunkelheit PV

@thenightling i don’t know if you're a fan of visual kei or not but I kinda wanna share this with you. their outfits are really gorgeous.tell me what you think.

[mouldymp3rotations]

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Part VI of my 20th anniversary series and happy 1 year anniversary to this blog ! 🎉

Part I Part II Part III Part IV Part V

As usual : Song titles link to individual mp3 file download

All 5 songs can also be downloaded together, in a zip file, from the link at the bottom

This month's rotation focuses on bands that were brand new, in 2004, but were already on the way to become the staples of visual kei they are today :)

アンティック-珈琲店- (AN CAFE) - 踊るメルヘン時計 (odoru meruhen tokei)

This is how i discovered an café ! And it's their only song i'll really go out of my way to listen to, not gonna lie lol. Back in high school, it became my best friend's favourite band for a while, after discovering them through me, so an café will always have a special spot in my heart despite not being my style at all !

Odoru meruhen tokei was found on the √69 single, released in 2004

彩冷える-ayabie- - マゾチ(三月に見た夢の再構成) (mazochi (sangatsu ni mita yume no saikousei))

Now that i think about it, it's funny that i always put ayabie in the same basket as soroban (for me being slightly disappointed that their usual sound is more kawaii than this) cause yumehito did go from soroban to ayabie (and it made everything sorse but that's another story and shall be told another time :))

mazochi was the second track of the GOTHIC PARTY single, released in 2004

D - 空中庭園 (kuuchuu teien)

I got really deep in D before realizing that I wished I liked more than I actually did lmao. This being said, they still have a handful of songs I should probably put in a regular playlist and kuuchuu teien is one of them.

Kuuchuu teien was released in 2004 as the opening track of the 夢なりし空中庭園 (yume narishi kuuchuu teien) single.

ドレミ團 (doremidan) - 傘月 (sangatsu)

I hope we can all agree that this has gained its classic status since then because that song is really fucking good.

sangatsu was on the 素晴らしきかな過多想募 (subarashiki ka na kata sou tsuno) single which released in 2004.

Here's me uploading the song here cause i can only find another version on yt

Visit Original Link

(this is how i learn there are several version of a song like 90% of the time lmao)

ナイトメア (NIGHTMARE) - be buried

It's nightmare's fault i got into Death Note, but it's another unfortunate case of it all went downhill from there, oops. I always had a good time listening to one of their songs, but finding something to say about this song in particular made me realize that I always used nightmare's songs to plug holes in my 43247874 burned discs compilations, especially this early in my getting into vk... In the end, I think I went with this song cause it captures well their sound from the era :)

The 8th track of the LIVID album was be buried and was released in, you guessed it, 2004.

Get the .zip file

-> HERE <-

ngl that rotation was out of my comfort zone LOL

[goblin-tears]

🥀 𝕯𝖗𝖆𝖌𝖔𝖓 𝖐𝖎𝖓𝖌 🥀

[missghostlyshadow]

D「Hang in there」公開!!

Thank you Asagi, thank you Tsunehito, thank you Hiroki, Thank you Ruiza & thank you Hide Zou. Stay safe. Honestly, this song made me legit cry for like 10 minutes straight.*Pulls out glowstick*