/cgl/ - Cosplay & EGL

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Pride of Mind, synthpop band with the vocalist who would become Malice Mizer's Klaha. Dada from Velvet Eden was also vocalist of this band for a brief period, before Velvet Eden. Really good band, it sounds like a Depeche Mode fanboy band, which is cool by me.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuchMmuf188

Blam Honey, industrial/darkwave band that also influenced both VE and SS.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW3C98lu9vk
I think at some point Kaya or Dada worked with someone from Blam Honey? not sure. There's also Suppurate System which is another project by one of the BH members. Never got into them much personally but they're definitely interesting.

Amadeus, neoclassical band led by keyboardist and songwriter Hiron. Starred by a male and female duet, Seiji and Nene, a soprano trained vocalist. Seiji would later become Seth in Moi dix Mois, Art Cube and whatever his new band project is called.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0JEgALvV4M
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bhze-L1CGec


And before Amadeus there was After Image, a more metal, hard rock-oriented proto-Amadeus without Nene. This band sounds a lot like Moi dix Mois, besides having Seiji on vocals, the music has lots of chord progression, organ and harspichords with a hard guitar sound wall. Though it has a more 80s feel to it, it was an early 90s band after all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BNMSVRcapRM

Lareine is a given, you probably know about them.
This was from their recent one-night only revival night a year ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRW71knHkzY

Raphael, another classic you probably know. Both Lareine and Raphael seem more like Malice Mizer in their Voyage era, very poppy, romantic and rococo. But they also have their darker side.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yTWeLIX1pPg
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Still love them so much.

Nene <3