Saishu

Still think DEG should go analog prog rock and Kyo should primarily stick to his low-to-mid range with the occasional falsetto for color. Like I said, fucking reign that shit in fellas. Try to age gracefully

Kyo needs to reel it in. He sounds like shit.

Oh hey, maybe the lyrics won’t be 6 point dark grey font on black paper.

I hope erode and umbrella are covers.

What do you expect when you drop four paragraphs of pretentious interpretations, then insert an edit insulting everyone for not discussing an album cover more seriously?

I like how the alternate version is “guy looks right instead of left”.

To be fair, you have to have a very high I.Q. to understand DIR EN GREY album art.

I still don’t like it.

Maybe the thought process was “WELL GAZETTE HAD THAT SHINY RED COVER LETS DO A CRAZY THING!”

That’s what I’m saying. Something this goddamn ugly needs to do some crazy Tool shit like a lenticular cover or have stereoscopic 3D glasses built into the packaging. Years of dark, muted colors to this. It almost looks like a CGI render of the Glass Skin cover.

If it’s a lenticular cover I’ll let it pass, but this is unbelievably gaudy compared to most of their cover art.

That album cover is almost worse than Sustain the Untruth’s cover.

I put Vacant Image in front and Un Deux at the end. I like ending Arche with a positive song, and the final chords ringing and fading out are perfect.

Same here. I put the single versions of Lotus and Hageshisa on DSS, and the Japanese versions of Glass Skin and Dozing Green on the original release of Uroboros. They didn’t muck with Rinkaku and Sustain too much so I left them as is, but I completely rearranged the track sequence. I tried to go for an old school A and B side feel with And Zero splitting the two sides. Though lately I’m about ready to remove Midwife entirely. It’s not even heavy, it’s just goofy as fuck with all that ridiculous atonal/dissonant shit.

Eh, I mean I like Garden and all, but it was so typical ‘90s VK right down to the section with palm muted/delayed guitars and the PV filmed in the woods. Kiri to Mayu has always been the standout track for me on Missa.

Sugizo is a bit of a one trick pony on the violin, isn’t he? I think it was lame because it was just Sugizo playing over the album track. I think an acoustic version would have been better.

Tousei and Kaishun?

They’d probably break up rather than play Garden again.

Die at least has varying hair lengths and dyes it red once in a while. Shinya has had the same Yoshiki hair cut for as long as I can remember.

I like how Shinya’s look hasn’t changed in like ten years

I want to live in Die’s hair.

Finally got my copy. These dummies actually spelled it “ambitiosus”, lol. Edit: my bad, it’s latin. Sho loves him some Kyo...

Arche just sounds like you’re sitting in the room while the band is playing.

Overall, the original mix of Uroboros reminds me of Macabre a lot. Oh yeah, Jay Ruston mixed the Ash remake.

Is Shinichiro the guy that joined 12012 right before they called it quits?