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I hope you die first =)

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Tsuzuku used more vocal modulation in Vanessa to hide his deficiencies, which in retrospect worked out really well. His growls were always around the same level. They may have sounded more forceful on record back in the day due to aforementioned studio manipulation, but live he still sounded weak. I will agree that his singing has gone downhill. He used to be able to hold a note, even if his delivery was nasal. Now he sounds as if he's straining to even hit the note.

Artist: MEJIBRAY Single: 盈虧 1. 盈虧 2. 人間 3. 蜈蚣
Rating: | It's more pleasant than open face surgery at least.
 
I'm legitimately disturbed by how far MEJIBRAY have fallen.

I never expected much from them, but this is yet another step down from Theatrical Blue Black, and I wonder how this band keeps fans and continues their activities. For one, the singing is enough to make anyone run for the hills. The goat bleating is such a chore to listen to, and if it's not that it's either strained falsetto or some weird demented frog guttural yoga hums. Tsuzuku's inability to sing trivializes the skills of the rest of the band to a large extent. Their unorthodox vocalist may have worked for them at one point, but that time has long since passed. Tsuzuku needs to either improve his delivery on all fronts or cede his position to someone who can actually sing, because "sounding unique" is not a good enough excuse to hide the singing inability.

盈虧 is the soundtrack that plays on loop in the room where people go to watch paint dry. The excerpt at the beginning is stupid enough, but then it feeds into this aimless and bland melody that fails at being dark and moody. The repetitive strumming does not build up a convincing enough atmosphere, and that chorus is a train wreck of massive proportions. It's the most unengaging single I've ever heard in my life and it provides nothing to hook the listener in. The band isn't compensating for Tsuzuku's shortcomings by producing catchy music, and they're definitely not playing to his strengths because he sounds out of place, so I'm not understanding how this is supposed to work. The accompanying tracks are only marginally better, but still pretty awful. 人間 is a power ballad with an awkward metalcore section in the middle. It's a bad choice to follow one slow, boring song with a gimmick that they lack the tools to execute. 蜈蚣 is the banger that probably works better live than in studio that doesn't get my blood rushing the way a good core song should. For all it's aggression, it feels just as stagnant as the first two songs. If they fail to be convincing with their mother genre, I don't see much hope for this band.

As MEJIBRAY completes their transition from boring to disappointing, I struggle to find any reason why this band should remain relevant. It's frustrating how inconsistent they are. Their last album was met with a lot of unexpected praise, but whatever inspired them then didn't now. This is beyond disappointing; this is almost insultingly bad, and when I remind myself that they pumped this crap out in three different editions my stomach churns. There are claims that MEJIBRAY have potential, but much like Tsuzuku's singing ability I hear none of it. Unharnessed potential is wasted potential and even if the members themselves are individually talented, their music does not reflect on their abilities. In all good faith, I could not recommend this single to anybody. This is by far one of their worst releases in a long time. Even if you're a diehard MEJIBRAY fan, I recommend waiting for the next single.

If you're that brave trooper who actually bought this single, ask for your money back.

Today I will be reviewing Mejibray's latest Installment, 盈虧.
WARNING: THIS IS A DISCLAIMER FOR THOSE WHO ARE EASILY OFFENDED BY HARSH CRITICISM OF MEJIBRAY, SO IF YOU THINK I'M GONNA SAY SOME IGNORANT SHIT, THEN TURN RIGHT BACK AROUND AND GO LISTEN TO KYARY PAMU PAMU OR SOMETHING IDK. MY APOLOGIES IF THIS MAKES YOU HATE ME. lol

https://youtu.be/4qfHZ1b7LCw
inform me on how wrong my wrong opinion is. Eiki is Mejibray's second and last single in their 2 month single consecutive release. Seeing it's recent reception among the forum I felt it was necessary to write this review. As all my other shitty reveiw's go, post your opinion below and inform me on how wrong my wrong opinion is. lol
We'll start with Eiki itself and it's PV.
1.) 盈虧
As being the title track aswell as the PV track eiki is the Second track of this single. (Obviously that much you know, you aren't fucking retarded like me~) This track was uploaded to youtube before it's release just like it's older brother Nepenthes. This track went absolutely nowhere for me and it proves alot of perceptions I have about Mejibray and they way their aesthetic functions. This track although, something new tired by Mejibray impressed me not in the slightest. I was actually quite put off by the blandness and boredom the track gave me. As I said before do not get me wrong I do love Mejibray they just have fallen far from what they used to be, they are such as a roller-coaster, they have high and low points, loop de loops and a part where they pause and do it over and over again. As for the PV all I have to say that it was sprinkled with Mejibray's main spice, the visuals. What with Tsuzuku's pole dancing, to the Enviornment, to the Nicki Minaj looking drag queen's he had by his side.
☆☆☆☆☆ out of ☆☆☆☆☆
2.)人間
Ningen, being the first track was pretty....pretty ugly. Another one of Mejibray's slow generic track where it sounds like Tsu is trying too hard be to sexual with his ehhhh and ahhhh's.
AND THEN THERES TSUZUKU's CHUGGALUG AND THEN IM LIKE LMAO. I'm greeted by a bunch of indistinguishable chugging, and then between it comes Tsu's harmonic voice, the second time around it's stale like old doritos. and then theres that slow "br00741" break down with more chugging to follow. Then Tsu busts in with AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. And it's just at this point where I wanted to tell him to please shut up, but y'know he cant hear me so yeah. This tack was short and bad, like a rabid dog.
☆☆☆☆☆ out of ☆☆☆☆☆ "E FOR EFFORT"
3.) 蜈蚣
LMAO WTF IS THIS? Holy shit Mukade was a side splitter, I couldn't stop laughing while listing to this, it brought me to tears. omg. The Chugging needs serious work,the song is nothing but chugging and whispers, like really mejibray? Really? I know that they could do A WHOLE lot better, just look a At Nepenthes. They have potential they just don't know how to fucking use it. I don't understand why they keep holding back, I dont understand. Like sonic say's "C'MON STEP IT UP".
☆☆☆☆☆ out of ☆☆☆☆☆
But hey if you ain't heard it, here http://monochrome-heaven.com/index.php/topic/34904-mejibray-%E7%9B%88%E8%99%A7-eiki-20150506/
If I rated this too harshly for you, or didn't give enough insight on it, tell me below! I'd love you're opinion.

Love the PV and love the samples. Unlike most people i don't care much for their 'heavier' songs, and i'm glad they are going back to the kind of sound in their first few singles that won many of their (early) fans over. Also nice to see them recovering so well from kazuki's departure.

I'm hyped

I was so excited for this track over the previews, but now that I heard the full version...
Please, Ice, drop the dying mongrel sounds and continue your clean singing, please don't sound exactly like Tsuzuku being molested on any further records and singles.

I think you're being a little too defensive with the fact that someone doesn't agree with your opinion. I don't have to explain why i think they sound cookie cutter as I mentioned before the way you may take in things is different than how I would. I already said I respected your opinion or rather "u still cool for liking what you like." But even if I posted a whole list of bands with a similar sound and concept.... you like this song so you are going to hear it how you want to. And cookie cutter is such a loose term, if there was an actual definition of what the ideal cookie cutter band would be... then of course it wouldn't even be a term. Every band is going to sound at least a little different, but the idea of the direction of this sound TO ME has been done before and is very popular right now. Get a hot dark look, play a few heavy chords and throw in an ok solo. BAM success. A cookie cuter band to me is a band that plays it safe. This was safe. Their older stuff might not have been amazing either, but at least I could tell it was BFN right away. If this song came up on random, the only reason I'd know it was them would be the dying demon frog in Ice's throat. -shrug- That is my opinion. Take it or leave it. I'm not saying hey don't like them. Or hey they really suck a lot. I'm just saying this is bland. and the music isn't very impressive based on my tastes and views on the common mediocre standards.
 
I'm not going to post again because this is getting off topic and too tense. 

I never said Dir en grey sounded great either. 
And anyone who thinks I would say that or should say that, FAIT ME. 
Granted, regardless what kyo spews out of his god hole, their actual song structure and composure is on another level than this musically. 
So that argument is invalid. Because at least they have original guitar work.
 
But in all honesty. As ender-ender said earlier in this post, they just got real basic real fast.

I love them, but this song is a shit </3 hope the rest of the single don't be like this </3

idk. I watched the PV with Biopanda... and... It was so unsatisfying. Not to mention Ice has reverted back to terrible screaming vocals. This is really cookie cutter music and bad vocals. I feel cheated tbh.

It was announced that the new maxi-single "teenAge dream/Luv it!!" will be released in 2015/07/15 (3 TYPES), although more details have not yet been announced.

It was announced that the new maxi-single "teenAge dream/Luv it!!" will be released in 2015/07/15 (3 TYPES), although more details have not yet been announced.

Seriously regret coming into this thread, but anyway, gotta completely disagree with Jon Jonz:
 
 
Pretty bad way to start a post that just may end up outdoing any ignorance or bullsh!t that came before it in the thread.
 
 
Is that a statistic? Maybe I should listen to something else so I can open my mind, see the real world, be one with the universe....
 
 
Pretty darn narrow-minded and downright hateful way to feel about someone with a different opinion than you.
 
 
I seriously hope that this is about VK influenced bands outside of Japan only, and that you aren`t implying Yohio and co. help support actual Japanese bands in any way... Or maybe I am wrong and X Japan or Vamps would never play NYC without Yohio...
Pretty sure people will still want to see Visual bands they like even without forcing themselves to try and enjoy foreign imitations that don`t bring anything to the table.
 
 
Visual Kei is far from simply Glam. Glam, Hair Metal and so forth are some of the ancestors of the music, for sure, but they in no way define it, and any attempt to accuse modern VK of being a Glam or Hair Metal rip-off would be buried under the countless iterations of Visual bands which have put their own perspective and ideas into the a mix of ideas that come from all over the world.
 
Also no idea why tranny is said so much around here, and any sexuality at all is not a factor for me personally in terms of my enjoyment of VK.
 
 
Pretty sure you have more scrobbles of VK than most people here combined. But you`re exempt from any kind of infatuation with Japanese culture / products?
 
 
I don`t see `culture` being spread, I hold culture to a somewhat higher esteem than thinking a little boy who paid to have make-up put on and producers make his band sound like somewhat old Gazette is spreading `culture`. Japanese culture has been spread for a very long time, bringing the world a wealth of new ideas, perspectives, and technologies. This has nothing to do with that, in my opinion.
 
The reason why so many often fail (and fail hard) at creating many `Japanese things`, is they lack the cultural background, understanding of how things came about, and why, as well as the actual nuances of PERSPECTIVE that Japan can add.
 
No, you don`t have to be of pure Yamato blood and raised in Honshu to get it, but simply looking and or listening to something Japanese and then copying it (usually poorly) WITHOUT ADDING ANY OF YOUR OWN PERSPECTIVE WHAT-SO-EVER usually ends up creating something that is not a cultural import, not a new take on foreign ideas, and not anything interesting to most `educated` people at all. It ends up being DERIVATIVE (junk).
 
 
All ideas come from somewhere, The Waltz to The Schmaltz, Ragtime, Jazz, Blues, Rock, Metal, Hair Metal, Visual Kei.
Yet somehow, as usual, the Japanese thing is especially a rip-off, and Japanese people are up to their thieving ways again, right?
Let`s just ignore the fact that same Blues riffs are used in countless songs, guys like Jimmy Page and Ritchie Blackmore copied those riffs as well as other forms of music extensively, then that cycle repeated over and over again, until today where we can google current lawsuits or Youtube compilations of rip-offs from all around the world.
 
But VK is to be shamed specifically!
 
Something about Japan has always led foreigners to proclaim some sort of ill conceived notion that they are some special unique counterfeiters who make nothing of their own... Until the reality that Japan is one of the biggest cultural exporters and innovators of all time sets in (if it ever does, as in, if people ever actually learn more about the book than just its cover).
 
 
So you`re saying:
 
Hey, not much people support the Japanese bands in the first place, but let`s change any focus we had onto supporting these Western bands for some reason... Surely it is more important to support them than, you know, actually creative bands, or actual current or past ambassadors for Visual Kei and Japanese Rock, like Dir en grey, Larc, VAMPS, Girugamesh, X Japan, etc...
 
????
 
 
1:Okay, so why don`t we talk about those in other threads, and support them if we actually like them, for example, bands like Lilith, as opposed to you telling us we should care about this Yohio band that many seem to dislike and only follow out of morbid curiosity?
 
2: Disagree, and disagree.

Overall I would have expected a much different, richer opinion from someone who listens to so much Visual Kei music.
 
In regards to things expressed not solely inside of the post I quoted:
 
At this point, it seems like some terms are just becoming irrelevant due to over-use, like: Rip-off, or trying to insult a VK band by calling them Indie...
 
Also just lol at `better than indie-fag` bands, not even sure why the select use of derogatory terms is allowed, but whatever, moving on:
 
Since when are the Indie VK bands seen as lower quality or, more importantly, the term Major seen as any indication of quality?
I can name tons of Indie bands that play circles around the Major bands, and if popularity is your rating point, I`m guessing you think Pop Idols are the cream of the crop. Hey, in reality that`s what this Disreign thing kind of is, I see it as less Rock and more Pop considering someone did their looks for them based on a pre-existing style, someone made the video based on pre-existing videos, someone made the album art for them based on pre-existing album art, someone produced the track to sound just like at least one pre-existing track... Where is the creative input and process from the band here?
 
Also to the question of why would we listen to Japanese singing in English: Because again, they put their own perspective on it, and we get a fresh product (not all the time, but you know). No matter what people say VK and other forms of Japanese music are very unique and can`t be substituted. Contrast an Indie band playing a common style with some English lyrics to a recent Miyavi song co-written by other people. You see the difference perspective makes in creating a somewhat unique product compared to what many are finding disappointment with in Miyavi`s latest.
 
Anyway, just my thoughts, it goes off topic, it goes back on topic, then it goes somewhere else, but whatever, think what you will, peace.
 
EDIT: If you like this band or whatever else, cool. I personally don`t but am not judging anyone, just disagreeing with the blanket statements, prejudices, and weird spin that seems to be put on some things. No I don`t think this band is original or important for VK at all, but that`s just me and those things don`t even need to matter to everyone anyway.

New song ^^
 

Vo.AKT(Akito)(ex-HATED-->meth.-->404NOTFOUND, now in Sevenlize) & Gt.TKY(Takuya)(ex-NAINE) unit new song "サクラの雨(sakura no ame)" has been available for listening to through YouTube
 

Thanks for the first of April joke XD

[CD track list]
01.THE BEGINNING
02.0
03.HEIL (included in regular edition TYPE C)
03.umbrella. (included in regular edition TYPE D)
04.THE BEGINNING(inst.) (included in regular edition TYPE C & D)
05.0(inst.) (included in regular edition TYPE C & D)
06.HEIL(inst.) (included in regular edition TYPE C)
06.umbrella.(inst.) (included in regular edition TYPE D)

BAROQUE new album "PLANETARY SECRET" will be released at 2015/05/27 (3,240yen)
 
recording support members:
Ba.TOKIE (ex-RIZE-->AJICO-->LOSALIOS-->unkie, now in THE LIPSMAX)
Dr.かどしゅんたろう(kado shuntarou) (ex-MR.ORANGE, now in chocolate fuzz manics)
 
 
[track list]
01.PURIFY
02.PLANETARY LIGHT
03.DREAMSCAPE
04.CELEBRATE
05.SKY WALKER
06.SWALLOW THE NIGHT
07.SILENT PICTURE
08.ORIGINAL LOVE
09.MEMENTO
 

ベルカとストレルカ
 
I had hidden the knife into the desk.
It was for protecting oneself.
There was no intention of wounding someone.
I want you to believe.
Please don’t see me by your sad eye.
 
煙にまみれた数え歌
答えを探してた
僕は何処へ
 
綱がゆらゆら拍手する人
これが答えか？と太陽が僕を踏み付けがなりたてる
爪弾き  罵声       陶酔の舞台         顔を隠さず奏でる
 
傾く天井             数え歌
ベルカとストレルカ
僕は此処へ
 
ah鏡に映った踊るピエロが
あなたの涙を顔に刻むように歌う
 
僕に乗せられたリンゴが落ちる
 
濃くなる霧と月を眺め 呼吸を確かめていた
もう君は泣かないで      悲しみが募る雨に
僕は傘になろう
 
ah鏡を見つめて踊るピエロは
あなたの涙をガラスに摘むように願う
いつしか             空が晴れたなら
あなたと             二人で
 
 
 
BERUKA to SUTORERUKA
 
I had hidden the knife into the desk.
It was for protecting oneself.
There was no intention of wounding someone.
I want you to believe.
Please don’t see me by your sad eye.
 
kemuri ni mamireta kazoeuta
kotae wo sagashiteta
boku wa doko e
 
tsuna ga yurayura hakushu suru hito
kore ga kotae ka? to taiyou ga boku wo fumitsuke ga naritateru
tsumahajiki basei tousui no butai kao wo kakusazu kanaderu
 
katamuku tenjou kazoeuta
BERUKA to SUTORERUKA
boku wa koko e
 
ah kagami ni utsutta odoru PIERO ga
anata no namida wo kao ni kizamu you ni utau
 
boku ni noserareta ringo ga ochiru
 
kokunaru kiri to tsuki wo nagame kokyuu wo tashikameteita
mou kimi wa nakanaide kanashimi ga tsunoru ame ni
boku wa kasa ni narou
 
ah kagami wo mitsumete odoru PIERO wa
anata no namida wo GARASU ni tsumu you ni negau
itsushika sora ga hareta nara
anata to futari de
 
 
 
Velka and Strelka
 
I had hidden the knife into the desk.
It was for protecting oneself.
There was no intention of wounding someone.
I want you to believe.
Please don’t see me by your sad eye.
 
Among counting rhymes covered in smoke
I was looking for an answer
Where should I go?
 
The rope sways and people applaud
Is this the answer? I shout at the sun that bears down upon me
Black sheep, they jeer, a stage of intoxication where they perform without concealing their identity
 
A slanting ceiling and counting rhymes
Velka and Strelka
I came here
 
The dancing clown reflected in the mirror
Sings to engrave your tears upon his face
 
The apple hung upon me falls
 
I gazed at the moon with the thickening fog
To make sure you were breathing
Don’t cry any more, let your sadness become the heavy rain
I’ll be your umbrella
 
When I stare into the mirror
The dancing clown wishes he could take your tears away into the glass
When the sky clears without my noticing
I’ll be together again with you