Saishu

Metamorphosis and Yamibi are fucking awesome, but sorry, I cannot listen to A WILL or LUV in their entirety.

Even if that’s the case, being tied down to a specific style doesn’t mean you can’t write a good song.

Like Gazette.

The studs seemed like typical Nagoya stuff for the most part (or typical aie stuff I should say), but it was Daisuke’s wildly incongruous voice that kept the band from being truly great in my eyes. That and I feel like alansmithee was mostly forgettable.

No goddamn way is Daisuke a better vocalist than Mako.

I mean, shit, I saw them play Ugly and Amber in New York back in 2009. I believe they busted out Schwein no Isu and Akuro no Oka a couple nights before that.

Yeah, bands do it all the time. Besides, isn’t Withering to Death their most popular/successful album in terms of Oricon charts and fan response?

It’s not positive attention though.

I don’t think anyone is sleeping on Luna Sea, it’s just that they were inactive for years and there wasn’t much reason to talk about them. And honestly... there still isn’t.

I mean, Joker sounds like a bunch of other shuffle beat VK tracks, then straight up uses the riff from The Beautiful People. And one of the vocal melodies sounds like this:

The “why” joke is just way too easy.

I’m just going to have to throw in the towel and put Lynch next to D’espairsRay as “popular bands I don’t get”.

15-second sample for the entire album?

The other dudes definitely do gang vocals in the studio (including Shinya), but live they seem to have specific roles.

Ah, I see now. Yeah, I think that’s pretty common for a lot of bands. DEG encores tend to feature a handful of songs that don’t rotate much. Metallica is super guilty of this. I think they’ve been playing the same setlist for about two decades now, regardless of what the new album is.

Yeah, I don’t get what you mean. There are only so many songs a band is going to play at a show, and most of it is going to be the latest material.

Testu should have stuck around to give tips on how to mix the drums.

YOU CANT X THE X! (oh god Yoshiki might use that won’t he?)

Well yeah, indies Gazette was different, but I feel like there hasn’t really been a significant change since NIL. Even as they’ve gotten heavier, the songwriting still generally follows a very specific formula. Dogma was a slight departure, but only because it was heavy and aggressive for a vast majority of the album.

Are Lynch and DEG in competition to see who can release the most poorly mixed music?

Below both of them.

I really don’t think they do.

Repetition is the best way to make people tired of listening to your music.

Everything sounds boring after hearing the most recent Dimlim songs.

This is hilarious considering it was on US iTunes on day one.