Saishu

I mean, I can give Bugaboo Respira a pass since it is included on the original vinyl release, but Hydra 666 is clearly tacked on and adds nothing to the album. And, fuck you, the extended Sa Bir is pointless. A four minute SE? That’s fine for building anticipation at a live, boring on an album. Then there’s just the overall sterile sound of the whole thing. They ripped all the life out of the songs. It’s like Kyo is singing to MIDI backing tracks.

Uroboros remaster is poop

Pretty much just Dimlim at this point. And to me they’re new because I only like the post-Issei stuff. I liked Xaa-Xaa, but I lost interest quickly. Kind of got numb to all the stuff they were putting out. I heard one Develop One’s Faculties album and liked it a lot. I should probably give them more of a listen.

Nao has his own thing but I can’t remember the name and I can’t seem to find a way to pull it up.

Most of them are the worst

That artwork looks like something I’d see printed on a plate at my grandmother’s house.

Retsu probably just got tired of dealing with Issei’s train wreck songwriting.

What’s up with all these bands having technical issues lately? Kind of sad that they can’t play certain songs without computers.

There’s a reason why Yoin is one of the best songs Gazette has done in the last 7-8 years. Ruki didn’t fucking write it.

Is this you???

I think Nega’s (and Black Swan’s) problem was Jin didn’t know shit about music but insisted on writing it. The potential was there in both bands in terms of musicianship, but they were stuck playing middling j-core that did little to really showcase what they were capable of. Jin’s voice was always a problem though. He tried so hard to make every syllable that came out of his mouth sound pained and tortured that he sacrificed good tone and delivery. Nega is an occasional guilty pleasure of mine, but I am not unaware of how bad most of their discog is. I fucking hate Guilt Trip. One of the worst VK songs in history.

Am I wrong in thinking you haven’t been all that impressed with Dimlim?

There’s no X X in the lyrics book for Macabre. Band scores are weird anyway. Usually some outside source tabs the stuff out. Is that the band score that attempted to tab out the Egnirys guitar solo for a few bars then quit?

First of all I don’t even hear a sound covering anything up. Also, I don’t think there are any extra lyrics there, Kyo is just enunciating really badly. I hear “hone no zui kara god, god god god G-O-D”

The rapping part? All I hear is Kyo’s awful word slurring thru the whole thing

Dude can’t even write “merry christmas” normally. https://twitter.com/direngrey_jp/status/1077533030883815435?s=21

The promos for Vestige of Scratches had those weird animated shorts featuring creatures that represented the band. Also, I work with several Japanese people and none of them have even heard of Dir en grey. They’re mostly familiar with L’arc and X Japan though.

I would expect that in an article about Morning Musume or something.

Lol ”graduated”

During the middle section of Jyunboku, Yuchi totally stops playing bass to diddle some keys or something. Kyo has a weird station where he goes and freaks out too.

Goddamn I hate Issei’s “drumming” so much!!!

There is/was a full live on YouTube. From what I could tell Mika was playing an acoustic kit, but everyone else was shifting around messing with synths and pads, so who knows.

Love when a band has a fantastic drummer, then released music that makes it sound like they have no drummer.

It’s alright.

Wow, Vulgar seems to be the sweet spot.