Saishu

Yeah, clearly a radio edit. Some of those transitions are pretty bad.

Well. Okay.

The demo version of Diabolos is missing the best part, which is the guitar melody/solo after the first “blue velvet” part.

Using “melodious” instead of “melodic” bothers me.

lol

Shinya will perpetually be a 15 year old girl.

Been listening to a lot of Sugar lately, so I bought the singles Blossom, Antlion, Ruddy Afterglow, and Yokusou. I’ve only had shitty MP3s of this stuff for years, so it’s great to hear it all in better quality. The bass in particular really stands out.

No one ever recommends Nega to a reaction channel.

Exactly. What the hell happened to him? I would assume that less aggressive material would be more inspiring to him, but that’s obviously not the case.

Album is gonna fucking suck then Shinya’s drum patterns are getting boring too.

sticking with the bad overcompressed mixing they’ve been using for like five years now already makes this sound old.

I knew it was here when I saw like 20 people replied to this. Sounds like Un Deux and Soshaku had a baby.

Obscure PV has now been reduced to reaction bait.

You’re not the only one.

So they’re doing that thing anime series used to do where the first volume came with a box to store future volumes.

Well it certainly looks and sounds bad.

Yamibi is the only song I like, but it’s a killer song.

Don’t worry, Wes Borland to the rescue. http://www.metalinjection.net/latest-news/x-japan-joined-by-limp-bizkit-guitarist-wes-borland-to-be-rejoined-by-drummer-at-coachella-after-surgery

Reminded me of the Dir en grey performances on the Family Values DVD where they overdub cheers from the crowd when Kodoku ni Shisu kicks in.

Only problem I have with D.L.N. is the way they keep repeating the chorus at the end.

Guren is so... stale. It’s pretty much the only track I don’t like on DIM. Pledge is a huge bore too. I feel like Ruki’s vocal delivery in most of the more recent ballads has been more or less the same each time.

I see the confusion now. The Moon mentioned Hana Kotoba and I said THAT was their greatest ballad.

I didn’t say it was their greatest ballad, but I agreed with Ro plz saying it’s overrated.

Dir en grey did acoustic just fine:

Shiroki Yuutsu is the only ballad you listed that I like. Other than that, I like Hana Kotoba (the greatest Gazette ballad), Nakigahara, and Ominous. It’s called having an opinion, like you said, but the thing is not every opinion is going to match yours, and you seem to take a lot of criticism towards the Gazette as a personal attack.