Random note. Reading a 2006 interview of Shinji in issue 155 of Shoxx, he told the interviewer that when he was asked to join SID, he was shocked to hear that the band would be Visual Kei. "At the beginning, I was indeed against it, to be honest. My band [Uranus presumably] wore makeup as well when we first started appearing at livehouses, but I was the leader then, and strategically steered us in a direction in which we quickly stopped wearing makeup,". So he didn't consider Uranus vkei, interestingly, considering he had the most visual hair out of Uranus lol. It's just interesting how categorization has changed over the years to be inclusive of bandmembers who were initially averse to being referred to as visual. In both his interview and Mao's in that issue, they made a point to say that they want the focus of SID to be the music and not the visuals. I get it, being afraid of your band's public reception being reduced to gimmicky looks, but it makes a bangya a tad sad to know their favorite bandmembers seemed standoffish about the scene we love - -' This isn't really a complaint or criticism, just an expression of slight disillusion.
Anyway. Listen to Uranus, I've found a couple of their songs, they were a pretty good band! Definitely worth while if you're a SID or fuzzy knot fan.