I find myself a bit underwhelmed by DOGMA after all, the midsection of the album is to blame - it gets sort of weaker after how good the album starts. Don't get me wrong though, it's the best album they've ever recorded along with NIL and DIM and light years better than Beautiful Deformity. But I had high expectations that were above of what the album actually provides. Aside from that the album is solid af, goes HARD as hell. Now I just need more spins in order to figure out what just happened.
Special mention for DEUX, got mind blown by that song. It literally had me like:
As I said, I highly rate DOGMA and put it in the top 3 of their best albums. I still have to figure out what place it's gonna take in the top 3 though.
Rating: 8.5/10. Thank you, the GazettE. I always had faith in you.
This is their heaviest album ever and very unusually for them that this album have only heavy/dark songs, but i agree this is the same old Gazetto as always, but i have no problems, their signature sound is why i like them. I really think Ruki shines on this album his new scream really enjoyable, and vocal performance on some songs is his best ever, some boring vocal too. Overall this is very fun album, people who likes "pop-rock/long ballads Gazette" maybe will be disappointed but their heavy songs much better this time than monotonous songs like psychopath for example.
Quick songs rating.
1 - NIHIL, nice intro, nothing special. 7/10
2 - DOGMA, I like structure of this song, very heavy and dark sound. 9/10
3 - RAGE, fun heavy track, i like melodic chorus. 8/10
4 - DAWN. 8/10
5 - DERACINE, this is already maybe in my top 10 favorite Gazette songs, awesome vocal, awesome chorus, ideal song. 10/10
6 - BIZARRE 8/10
7 - , i like intro but chorus is boring. 6/10
8 - INCUBUS, breakdown after female vocals OMG. 9/10
9 - LUCY, another great intro and another boring chorus. 6/10
10 - GRUDGE, my least favorite, Ruki sounds very boring in this song. 3/10
11 - PARALYSIS, so many heavy fun songs. 8/10
12 - DEUX, biggest surprise for me, I did not like this song when i heard concert version, but studio version is brilliant. 10/10
13 - BLEMISH, least favorite heavy track, still fun song. 7/10
14 - OMINOUS, not their best ballad, still good. 8/10
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