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my thoughts exactly! This is actually enjoyable and reminds me of the time when I still liked them in Call Me/early Pentagon times please continue like this it sounds good!

full video is up and the song is really fucking cool

WING WORKS new maxi-single "ACID CASTLE / 未完成サファイア" (ACID CASTLE / Mikansei Sapphire) will be released at 2018/08/29 (2 types) CD (2 songs) + photobook "WINGRAPHY Ⅱ" (6800yen) CD (2 songs) only (1280yen) [tracklist] 01 ACID CASTLE 02 未完成サファイア (Mikansei Sapphire)

NvM 1st full album DAY BREAK will be released on 15.07.2018 for a price of 3000yen (tax in) tracklist: 1.SE 2.BELOW 3.CALL YOUR NAME 4.攻奏 5.LOVE 6.KIZU 7.SAKURA 8.BRING IT ON DOWN 9.WASTE 10.GIVE THE BIRD 11.GIFT 12.ESSENTIAL PUNCHLINE 13.DIM LIGHT

| One of the best GazettE albums in recent memory. I can't believe it's been three years since DOGMA. It feels like I just finished roasting it for being the "most underwhelming album of the year" and "ARCHE, Iowa-era Slipknot, and a quarter of DIM shoved in a blender and served cold". To be fair, most of my criticisms came from how stale and similar all the songs felt; the result of going a bit too far in the metalcore direction. Ever the perfectionists, it seems that the band actually addressed all of my complaints with NINTH. By combining the dark and heavy nature of DOGMA with the electronic rock explored with TOXIC and DIVISION and the retro "Gaze-rock" style of BEAUTIFUL DEFORMITY, The GazettE have succeeded in delivering an experience that mixes old and new sounds. NINTH won't win you over if you don't like the direction of the last four albums. If you took more of an issue with the execution of those concepts, than this is what you've been waiting for since DIM. It's been a while since I feel comfortable recommending an album of theirs. NINTH is an easier and more engaging listening experience than DOGMA, with smooth, slick, and balanced production. I don't understand the criticisms of "muddy production" because I don't hear it. I even pulled out my good headphones - the Sennheiser HD600s - and plugged them straight into my Logitech speakers to pluck out minor grievances with the mix and it sounded better that way. This reaches a level that visual kei music can rarely afford to reach. Ruki has advised fans to get great audio equipment to experience each album to the fullest, but I think it's more true now than before. The songs are also arranged very well and flow into each other, and I can't recall a single jarring stylistic transition. All of these elements together makes every song an attractive listening experience. There's also the absence of several elements which used to drag down prior releases: the lack of standout tracks, filler, and clumsy Green Day-ish all English punk songs that stick out. The GazettE cut the fat out of this album in a way I wish Dir en grey could. An album can still have highlights even when it's consistently good. I can't end this review without naming my favorite tracks. The first would be "その声は脆く", a rock ballad which starts on an unassuming note before effortlessly sliding into a thick, melancholic atmosphere. It even has a (short) twin guitar solo, a staple of rock songs I've been missing from their music lately. The follow-up track, "Babylon's Taboo", creates the best one-two punch on NINTH. I could be convinced that this is a heavier take on an unreleased 9GOATS BLACK OUT song. "Falling" is the de facto single of the album, receiving the first music video to push the album, and there's a damn good reason why. "The Mortal" is another track that deserves a shout out for mixing some of NIL-era flavor in the chorus with DOGMA-style riffs in the breakdown, and serves as a great summary for the journey the album takes us on. If The GazettE were still releasing singles, this would have been the second one. NINTH makes a strong argument for keeping a low profile until an album is complete. Visual kei bands can capture my attention with rapid fire single releases, but that makes it harder to impress me with an album of familiar content. NINTH wouldn't be as impressive if they gave us previews and teasers months or years before it was done. I hope other bands are taking notes. If you haven't already, put some cash towards this worthy album. It will be favorably remembered for years to come. Support the artist! iTunes

sis, this is a lazy attempt, step it up!

I know people are going to hate me for this but the song is reaaally catchy, and Koichi dancing all so cutesy just made me smile from ear to ear. (*´・ｖ・)💕

fyi, they actually formed in December 2017.

DictavE – DIVIDED BY ZERO breakin’ holiday – LILITH L.A bash all the emotions - Get Fxxk Hxx

Revive is available worldwide on iTunes and Spotify! https://itunes.apple.com/album/id1397819472?app=itunes&ls=1

This sounds really good! and I like the Louis Vuitton-esque pattern on their clothes with reverse "gucci" logo on it lol much love for the details

looking for bands/albums/songs/whatever which sounds similar to these. -dum spiro spero (songs i liked - dream box,blossoming Beelzebub, diabolus) -uroboros (vinushka,Bugaboo,Inconvenient Ideal) -The Marrow of a Bone (every song of this album) These are albums by metal band dir en grey.what i enjoy in them is the echoy dark atmospheric music with crystal clear melodious vocals,sometimes screaming,singing,growling or other weird noises. i enjoy variety in vocals. thank you.

WIG

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tn_OnGQZbog Reita needs an intervention.

https://jezvisualkei.blogspot.com/

On heresiarchy there's a couple of them already if you're interested, they're quite accurate!

omfg what ?!!!!???? I want to go just to make him sign an orange

I listened to the album a couple of times, but I don't have that much of a desire to revisit it anytime soon.... it's a completely okay album tho. I like how it reminds me a bit more of BEAUTIFUL DEFORMITY's playfulness and not DOGMA's hurrdurr-serious-business tone. It has a more positive aftertaste for me than their previous one overall.

@Yukimoto Im definitely picking up their first single. Do you like them ? They give me Malisend vibes xD

minor nitpick, this is probably fukyou waon like a play on 不協和音 i haven't seen anything this band has done since their cursed first pv song, i had no idea they'd changed so much... 不響和音 is kinda catchy

Just spent an embarrassing amount of money on these 3 singles at Puresound...

Ruki's a bit chubby if you ask me

Tanuki is a pathetic place but entertaining. Ah yes, they seems to have something against foreign vkei fans. Maybe because we are generally taller and prettier?

Okies...pm me with your PayPal ^^

優しさの代償 (Yasashisa no Daishou) Gt.Tera, Gt.Tatsuya, Ba.YOCO & Dr.emoco will depart after their live at 2018/07/06. The future for band is undecided for the time being.

The drummer is so cute!

I saw Hyde sign a bread once so go for it.

well, the part where they were blacklisted from venues came straight from the dudes themselves at their first show. it's not beyond the pale to think that this extends to other parts of the MEJIBRAY brand when they can't even rent the fucking venues(!), the most basic component of band activity that isn't actually associated with the band's image. of course it's still speculation that can't be proven unless some tsunagari has LINE convos to dump, but it's not a total asspull -- this is pretty much the accepted version of events in jp fan communities, and this isn't the first time a band's label has held parts or all of a band's branding hostage. regardless i'll be waiting for some sort of article from a known Japanese music publication that mentions 8P-SB at all, and i'll be waiting even longer for one that mentions them in the same breath as MEJIBRAY in the same way MiA's new project has been reported. 🙈