NICKT

Expecting or hoping for Lynch. to do something experimental or different for an entire album more or less like asking the GazettE to do something like DIM again.  Not gonna happen. They dropping albums pretty much yearly at this point and they've been touring up the wazoo.  Wouldn't be surprised if this album is a compilation of mostly left overs and some "new" songs...actually that's probably what this album will be lol.  The last drastic change came with EXODUS into Gallows. Minus some of the B-sides on their recent singles, everything has been pretty much a fusion of that style with what they've previously done. They're pretty much complacent with this.
 
I wont keep expectations too high but still, I know i'll find gems on there as i did with DARK.

just noticed they didn't use a backwards R, which therefore makes this name change 100% invalid. totally missed the chance to use tЯaeh.

Tahw

Maybe just that at the end of the day all this is opinion and none of it counts for shit.

| A fitting conclusion to the Moon Saga arc.
 
It has been around 7 years since the king of visual solo artists has released an album. Granted, that album was basically a singles collection, but I digress. This would be enough to excite almost anyone, especially a hardcore fan of the man who worked with some of the most legendary visual artists. 
 
Gackt is one to focus a lot on themes in his albums and over the course of his decade-plus long solo career he has created three albums with the moon as the theme and primary focus. Beginning with 'Crescent' and followed up with 'Moon', he brings us the final installment in this series, 'Last Moon.' A pretty stellar thematic series of albums and other work, including the film "Moon Child" with Hyde from L'Arc~en~Ciel and VAMPS!
 
The album is supposed to be set in ancient Japan and the music and related videos have presented that visual quite well. The lead single, having been released 9 years ago, was named 'Returner' and utilized some of the musical stylings from earlier songs such as 'Mind Forest' and definitely continued this theme perfectly. Other singles also brought out the traditional Japanese elements including hard-hitter "斬 ～Zan～", mid-tempo ballad "暁月夜 -Day Breakers-" (Akatsukizukuyo -Day Breakers-), and over-the-top dramatic masterpiece and album-closer  "雪月花 -The end of silence-" (Setsugekka -The end of silence-). Even some of the new songs fit in with the elements of composition including "花も散ゆ" (Hanamo Chiyu), "傀儡が如く" (Kugutsu ga Gotoku), and "キミだけのボクでいるから" (Kimi Dake no Boku de Iru Koto), thus making the album largely cohesive and consistent. 
 
The remaining songs, while either catchy and fun or dramatic and emotional, don't fit with the theme of ancient Japan. "P.S. I Love You" is romantic and displays incredible vocal prowess but is clearly based on the 2007 film of the same name. It's B-Side "Ride or Die" conjures up the images of modern motorcycles while randomly selected B-side "One More Kiss" deserves no place on this album. These songs both helped and hurt the album at the same time. For example, I'm not sure why a song like "舞哈Baby!!" (Wuha Baby) and "恋のFriday!!!" (Koi no Friday) were included in a concept album as they're clearly just pop-rock songs, but they did help the album from being too much of the same thing. 
 
Otherwise, the album is phenomenal and one of the best albums I've heard this year. It proves that Gackt still has vocal ability like you wouldn't believe. I just truly hope this isn't his last musical effort. 

All these comments and no "bar mitzavla"? Have huge hopes for the first jewish-kei band.

01. INTRODUCTION (D.A.R.K.) 02. D.A.R.K. 03. ANTARES 04. GREED 05. BEAST 06. NIGHT 07. DEVIL 08. GHOST 09. ILLUMINATI 10. GUILTY 11. FALLEN 12. MELANCHOLIC 13. the whirl 14. INVINCIBLE 15. VANISH 16. INVADER 17. COSMOS 18. MIRRORS 19. THE FATAL HOUR HAS COME 20. ALL THIS I'LL GIVE YOU 21. pulse_ 22. MOON   EN1 01. ETERNITY 02. I'm sick, b'cuz luv u. 03. GALLOWS 04. TIAMAT 05. EVOKE   EN2 01. ADORE

13. the whirl
 
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lmao didn't they already go through like three other bands/identity changes before settling on Born?

Inb4 The Best Of: Butchering Old Hits 1997-2014
Will they butcher Embryo finally? Ain't Afraid To Die?

Five years later and people still butthurt that I think that Glass Skin looks like someone accidentally spilled ink all of their terrible painting and try to pass it off as intentional XD
...Now if only we could get a Bob Ross painting cover.

No Music? It's nice to see that people actually listen to Now, though, considering the backlash. 

No Music? It's nice to see that people actually listen to Now, though, considering the backlash. 

There must be a duplicate thread, because I know these have been posted before. Anyway, my "fave" worst CD covers:

Dear L'Novel - 罪と罰(Tsumi to Batsu) 

 
ViViD - Message
 

Dear L'Novel's is one of the few albums that I truly enjoy but refuse to buy, because the album art would haunt me. And yet, the ViViD one is somehow worse, because they were actually a major band. Can you imagine who designed these covers and thought "Yup, these are good to go!"

ぞんび(zonbi) new maxi single "墓場 de ラヴソング(hakaba de love song)" will be released at 2016/09/14 (3 TYPE), which will be sold in advance at 青井ミドリ(aoi midori) birthday one-man live "ミドリの日(midori no hi)" at Takadanobaba CLUB PHASE at 2016/08/14
 
[CD track list]
01.墓場 de ラヴソング(hakaba de love song)
02.細菌マン(saikin man)
03.アブノーマル・セラピー(abnormal therapy)

MIYAVI new album (title not yet finalized) will be released at 2016/08/31 (2 TYPE)
 
limited edition (5,378yen) will include CD+DVD, and regular edition (3,024yen) will include CD only
 
 

Did you know you can embed tweets just by posting the link? I love this update. So much.

get ready to reverse google image whatever he posts

Can't stop him. Gonna die living the vk life.

On the other hand, without the fans then bands wouldn't be able to earn a living.
If you treat your fans poorly then don't be surprised when the rug's pulled from underneath you.
 
So, like I said. Little of column A, little of column B.

lol @ "too soon", it'll be literally a year from their last one. Some J-bands release stuff even faster.
 
Anyway, cautiously looking forward to it. I disliked their last album, so I hope this one will pack more of a punch (and catchy memorable songs).

wow, how many "Schwarz something" bands were around in Japan?

Kiwamu buying a stock of chairs for blood reunion live show.

Discussion is a two way street. If you are as willing to listen to thoughts as much as you are willing to share them then that's not really elitism as I usually think about it. Elitists stereotypically don't care about what others think if it doesn't line up with their thoughts. CAT5 response is much better than mine at exploring different kinds of elitism.
Also I didn't put this together as a serious attempt to categorize fans. I'd need way more than 10 groups to do that. This is mostly for laughs. Don't get too wrapped up in how I broke them down and what I said.