-NOVA-

Call me crazy but I'm more excited to see the NINTH songs more than any "treats" they might throw our way.
I'd rather be surprised. Like I wasn't expecting Cockroach in NY and that was a fucking blast. 

@-NOVA- I like them too

Instead of capturing DAMY at their most mature, I feel that Jigokuchuu Shinteki Limiter captured them at their most conflicted. They attributed their separation to musical differences and I feel like this release captures that struggle well.  As mentioned above, most of Jigokuchuu feels half baked. Like they didn't try as much as they should have which could very well have been due to musical differences in terms of where the band wanted their sound to go so instead they settled on whatever was presentable, but not fantastic (which I understand can be difficult when there's conflicting opinions on what fantastic should sound like). 
 
My best guess is that some of the members wanted to keep the early-dezert sound through their career while others wanted to go the exact same way as dezert  and take a more pop rock-sounding direction. DAMY's sound had showed that conflict for some time now.  That's just my theory though and it could  very well not have been what was happening at all. Either way, it sucks that their last release will freeze time for them as a representation of this musical conflict and couldn't be as memorable as some of their earlier work.  I still like Jigokuchuu as a piece of music, but not for the reasons I liked DAMY. 
 
Also if I remember correctly wasn't their drummer Miharu and actual roadie for Dezert?
 
 

| It's hard to talk about an album that does nothing new but manages to be interesting anyway
 
I've heard whispers about the potential of DAMY from many corners of Monochrome Heaven, but I have an unofficial rule about listening to visual kei bands in their infancy. I don't like getting attached to promising bands only to watch them fizzle out, and bands that do that are a dime a dozen in visual kei, so I'm about six months to a year behind on what's new by design. I always had intentions to check them out, but nothing motivated me like their disbandment announcement. It's now or never, and 自己中心的リミッター (Jigokuchuu Shinteki Limiter) should capture DAMY at their most mature, and I figured it would be a logical place to start.

If you are anything like me, you know DAMY best by their aesthetic. It's dark and gruesome, with erratically applied makeup and synchronized outfits that drive the theme home. They sound exactly like they look; close your eyes and imagine generic metalcore riffs with a pinch of inspiration, and you're pretty close. DAMY has all the trappings of the turn of the century metalcore visual kei sound that I've come to both love and hate. The vocalist is a bit weak and nasal with a high pitched singing voice, but he has a quality and charisma to his delivery so I can overlook that most of the time. His harsh vocals can be quite savage sometimes too. The riffs are usually where I give visual kei bands a lot of grief, and to be honest I was expecting 自己中心的リミッター to be a monotonous affair, but DAMY spice it up and keep it interesting the whole time. Musical themes range from pure aggression to madness play, and even a few more lucid moments where the pop chorus hooks worm their way in, but I was disappointed to find that they didn't go outside of the box too much.

What I'm saying is that 自己中心的リミッター sounds equally generic and distinctly visual kei, a love letter to a time in visual kei long past. While you have definitely heard flavors of this style before, you haven't heard it combined in this way, and that's the strongest case I have for giving this album a shot. For example, the guitars in lead single "ままごと" (Mamagoto) are transported right out of the 90s, and is something I'd expect to hear on a La:Sadie's demo tape. On the other hand, album opener "心髄" (shinzui) rips 2:57~3:03 straight from MUCC's "蘭鋳" (Ranchuu) 2:20~2:23, and it only took me one listen to catch that bit of worship and know exactly what DAMY was all about. That is what makes DAMY the best 6/10 band one could hope for.

A part of me thinks that 自己中心的リミッター may mark the beginning of the end for a strain of visual kei that's stuck around for over a decade. It may not have the lasting impact on the scene the way Dir en grey's GAUZE did, which is widely regarded as the apex of the 90's sound, but for once I have no idea what band will step up to fill the void. I've always seen DAMY as playing second fiddle to DEZERT, who before they changed up their sound, were ultimately were playing homage to bands like MUCC, Dio-distraught overlord-, and UnsraW in their own right! Even まみれた (Mamireta) have moved on after exploring this sound for a few releases. キズ (Kizu) might step up, but the crown is open for the taking, and there doesn't seem to be a lot of bands wanting to take it.

Could that be because the scene has been saturated with this style for too long? Is it a feeling that "everything that can be done has been done", and that there's nothing new in this style anyone can offer? Or is it something else? I'm interested in knowing your thoughts and what you think the implications of DAMY's disbandment has on the rest of the scene.
 

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I won't expect a lot, if they could play hyena and/or dogma//ominous I'd be satisfied. 

LOOKS like someone watched a DIMLIM PV and got inspired . 👀👀 

Setlist at 2019/03/24 at Takadanobaba AREA 9th anniversary oneman live. They played all of their songs
 
[tracklist]
M1:リュミエール
M2:軽薄ナヒト
M3:箱庭
M4:WALK
M8:トウメイ
M5:叩けば誇り。
M6:モノクローム
M7:風穴
M9:イト。
M10:O3
M11:掌ドロップ
M12:五月雨
M13:造花
M14:「シェルター」
M15:永久地図
M16:ギザギザ回路
M17:ハイキ
M18:凪
M19:風見鶏
M20:僕達が描いたパノラマ
M21:hollow
M22:Frontier
M23:レッドシグナルデイ
M24:LoV
M25:スロウレイン
M26:ヒマワリ
M27:キラメキ
M28:セカイノオワルヲト
M29:ワスレナグサ
M30:流星群
M31:レイニングレター
M32:レクイエム
M33:微熱
M34:アマヤドリ
M35:anima
M36:ミラーガール
M37:非｢情｣階段
M38:電脳・少年・スピーカーーー。
M39:進化論
M40:太陽光線
M41:構想日記
M42:造形アリス
M43:東へ
M44:「管」
M45:「月」
M46:拝啓、雨日和
M47:アンドロイドと果実
M48:Labo
M49:オカルト彼女
M50:内向的声明
M51:Witch?
M52:黒猫が通る
M53:フェイク・アンダーグラウンド
M54:SCAB
M55:ヤマアラシの涙
M56:スカイフィッシュ
M57:ヨルノカーテン
M58:夕立

アンコール 
M59:Powdery Snow
M60:LOOP
M61:Door
M62:アラン
 

Coming soon...

You dont seem to have the slighest idea of what Nazism was, is and will be. You really should read something!!!
 
First, deniying the Holocaust is EXACTLY what neo nazis do. And Visual Kei Artists, do so, as posted by the japanese guy that lives in germany.
 
Second, IMPERIAL JAPAN WAS THE MOST IMPORTANT ALLY OF GERMANY AND THE WHOLE AXIS IN WW II BESIDES ITALY !!!!
How do you not know this???!!
THE ALLIES threw 2 NUCLEAR BOMBS to japanese cities full of people. 
Third: Swastika is originally indo-aryan (vedic) symbol, before it became buddhist, iranic (scythian) and Pagan (european) symbol.
 
Visual Kei artists are secretly neo-nazis, and they are angry at ex-communist and ex-allies countries.
 
Is this good or bad? well, depends of who you ask. Same goes for capitalists/communists.

another br00tal band coming, hope it's as good as some of the other metal bands we have now. metal scene is quite on a roll, i kinda miss koteosa tbh but as long as there's good music of any kind that's okay.

Seiya (ex-DEVILOOF gu.) tweeted today that he's searching to recruit a vocalist for a new metalcore project involving Hiroto (ex-DEVILOOF dr.). Requirements include being able to sing and scream, as well as be interested in VK.
 
 

Sioux will distrubute their final single "filled" at their last one man【the beginning of the end.】on 2019.3.29

Sioux will distrubute their final single "filled" at their last one man【the beginning of the end.】on 2019.3.29

U looks like SETSUNA (ex-MORRIGAN) to me.
 
Edit: because it is lol

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Yeah for the last two tracks I can see what they were going for and I like the tracks too
 
they'd just be better without this gimmick
 
inb4 I make a 180 on this and call them pioneers in two weeks 

@monkeybanana4 Agree ❤️ 
Moran's final releases were absolutely gorgeous and having them all connect was brilliant
 
 
 

@monkeybanana4 Agree ❤️ 
Moran's final releases were absolutely gorgeous and having them all connect was brilliant
 
 
 

@monkeybanana4 Agree ❤️ 
Moran's final releases were absolutely gorgeous and having them all connect was brilliant
 
 
 

Really always enjoyed Moran's single/album covers. I love their L'oiseau blue single and their All Time Best album covers.
 
 
Also thought of Kagrra's last album. Beautiful and enticing to look at its duality theme (between the two different versions).
 
 

i dig that last posture

I'm underwhelmed by the cover. Hopefully the music makes up for it.

Oh.

Their 【This Is The “FACT”】TOUR 2018 -FINAL-