I love this band and I'll totally buy their rare stuff one day, even if it costs me much. *w*
I started to like Visual kei many years ago when I bought the Nocturnal Opera album by Moi dix Mois. After some time Dir en Grey (although not vk anymore), D'espairsRay, Unsraw and the Gazette followed. I stopped listening to the least ones except D'espairsRay, and found more information about Mana's previous band, Malice Mizer (who were active in the 90s until early years of the new millenium so I guess they can count as old school vk). But I just found out about the existence of old VK and Kote kei one or two years ago and the internet was responsible for that. And of course dwonload blogs...
It is really crazy how rare old vk is (even neo VK and modern visual bands are rare in europe and especially in my homecountry. It is even fucking difficult to lay your hands on CDs distributed by german sellers like gan-shin... so old vk copies are extremely rare). And there is no chance that such awesome bands like Syndrome will ever exist again. I know that there are modern Kote kei bands like Megaromania, Ru:natic and Vallquar, but they are nowhere alike to the great artists of the 90s. And all Kisaki bands after Syndrome were different from what he's done before. And I don't consider Phantasmagoria to be really kote kei.
The old school sound, image, look and the expression of their music won't come back. It's sad, but thankfully there are still PVs and songs floating through the net reminding us how that era was. (and I shouldn't begin with nostalgia and that thing since I'm new to Kote kei and were too young in the 90s to know the "movement")
