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  15. Posted

    On 1/24/2019 at 9:01 AM, yomii said:

    oh i forgot that in the same interview issei said that people who know him for a long time will understand what judas is about so yeah.

    DIMLIM DRAMA HOOOOONEEEYYY

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  16. Posted · Edited by emmny

    Most recent bands arent worth your ears--SORRY. There was a phase 3/4 years ago where like, all the hot startups were good but now we don't have much of anything to rely on. Dominor bands are flopping hard lately.

     

    Kizu, DIMLIM, Virge, Rands and RAZOR are promising. DIMLIM are incredible, out of all the bands I would highly recommend them.

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  17. Posted

    6 hours ago, kuyashii said:
    Spoiler

    You know, the album is nowhere the trainwreck I was expecting! Those are just my impressions from a first listen.

     

    Let me start with the biggest problem: Mio's singing. He is trying WAY TOO HARD to sing in a range he doesn't have. He is indeed a very good screamer (he's way better than Sho when he started out, he doesn't overabuse inhales and is overall more versatile) but for now his clean voice is making me have a harder time to enjoy the music. Maybe he can go under an impressive improvement like Sho did, but who knows?

     

    While this whole wave of VK bands that put A WHOLE LOT of emphasis on musicianship sometimes to the expense of songwriting, I feel like the musicianship is not only capable but also used in a way it tries to compensate for bad songwriting (not something like Jiluka's lastest album which is nearly unlistenable). Despite the over-triggered drum sound that doesn't make him much favor, Issei is indeed a good drummer and way more capable than the repetitive machine gun double bass blasting I've heard in a lot of his stuff. The bass-heavy production renders the music a bit messy, and it doesn't help that their sound is very layered, so the mix is kinda muddy (I had wishes of DeG going for 8-strings before but this album reminded me that with their awful production values of late, the music would sound like a total mess).

     

    The songwriting is all over the place (there are proggy pieces, the all-out aggressive stuff, synth-heavy anthemic live-oriented stuff, ballads here and there) pretty much like early Dimlim but I consider it to be a slight improvement over something like Various (sorry, but I really dislike it). One of the biggest complains is the abundance of synth sounds that a lot of times subtract more than add to the song (not to mention how they clutter the mix even further). Couldn't care less about the anime ED ballads though and the unabashedly "live-oriented" songs with all the gang vocals and call-and-response bits.

     

    My favorite tracks were "Judas" (which suffers from some of the worst vocals of the album), "unknown" and "Blink".

     

    Excellent review mate, hit the head on the nail with this. This was a hot mess, as was early DIMLIM, but it was somehow a breath of fresh air with all its excess

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