Saishu

No one saw the sarcasm in this?

No one saw the sarcasm in this?

No one saw the sarcasm in this?

Looking awful has been Kyo’s thing for a few years. Remember he had a fucking bowl cut for the Ningen video. 

I really love how in keibetsu the main riff has subtle changes between each verse and completely changes by the end of the song. Very similar to The Inferno in that regard. I should just put those two songs on repeat for the rest of my life. 

But guys!!!
 
 

I’ve considered it. No one is going to miss FOOCHA FAMILY. 

Looks more like this:
https://goo.gl/images/q8xMa1

I've got a review for you guys:
 
It's good
 
9/10

Who’s gonna drop a proper review of this so I can stop watching YouTube dummies pretend they know what they’re talking about?

Utafumi is the most pointless edit they’ve done, but cutting Rinkaku down to three and a half minutes was a travesty. 
 
The non-singles from Arche weren’t edited though. 

I feel comfortable in saying this is some of the band’s best work. Questionable production aside, the songwriting is tight and focused aside from the two weird flubs from Toshiya. To be fair, the main problem with Devote My Life is that fucking main siren riff being too damn loud, but I love that breakdown with Toshiya rumbling away. 
 
Other than that, this is the first DEG album in a long time that I can listen to from beginning to end without feeling drained halfway thru. There really isn’t any filler, and they sound super confident in these songs. They’re short in length, but not in content. 
 
Fuck it, dawg, I’m happy. 

Watch the next PV be Values of Madness

Utafumi is the most pointless edit they’ve done, but cutting Rinkaku down to three and a half minutes was a travesty. 
 
The non-singles from Arche weren’t edited though. 

Opinions. 

I feel comfortable in saying this is some of the band’s best work. Questionable production aside, the songwriting is tight and focused aside from the two weird flubs from Toshiya. To be fair, the main problem with Devote My Life is that fucking main siren riff being too damn loud, but I love that breakdown with Toshiya rumbling away. 
 
Other than that, this is the first DEG album in a long time that I can listen to from beginning to end without feeling drained halfway thru. There really isn’t any filler, and they sound super confident in these songs. They’re short in length, but not in content. 
 
Fuck it, dawg, I’m happy. 

Opinions. 

I feel comfortable in saying this is some of the band’s best work. Questionable production aside, the songwriting is tight and focused aside from the two weird flubs from Toshiya. To be fair, the main problem with Devote My Life is that fucking main siren riff being too damn loud, but I love that breakdown with Toshiya rumbling away. 
 
Other than that, this is the first DEG album in a long time that I can listen to from beginning to end without feeling drained halfway thru. There really isn’t any filler, and they sound super confident in these songs. They’re short in length, but not in content. 
 
Fuck it, dawg, I’m happy. 

Opinions. 

Opinions. 

Opinions. 

Opinions. 

I feel comfortable in saying this is some of the band’s best work. Questionable production aside, the songwriting is tight and focused aside from the two weird flubs from Toshiya. To be fair, the main problem with Devote My Life is that fucking main siren riff being too damn loud, but I love that breakdown with Toshiya rumbling away. 
 
Other than that, this is the first DEG album in a long time that I can listen to from beginning to end without feeling drained halfway thru. There really isn’t any filler, and they sound super confident in these songs. They’re short in length, but not in content. 
 
Fuck it, dawg, I’m happy. 

Production aside, this album isn't as bad as its made out to be on here.  The first 3 songs I admit are nothing but noise but once NINGEN hits, the album gets better. Despite who the song credits went to, I feel like you can hear everyone shine and that there was a lot more thought put into these songs.  I have my love for specific tracks on ARCHE but that record was just "lazy" for the most part. There wasn't that much enthusiasm towards it either. Listening to this, I guess i can say I appreciate ARCHE more. Its like DIR EN GREY's (inferior version of) Beautiful Deformity.  They needed to go back to basics to find what works again.
 
I really dig that post a few pages back with the individual members comments on the album. You can tell these niggas actually sat down and really gave this their all.  Also, from here on out I'm just gonna ignore when Kaoru or anyone else says that an upcoming album sounds like so and so. This sounds nothing like the Marrow of the Bone at all.  I love Marrow but the song writing there is inferior to a majority of TIW. I can for sure hear the ARCHE sound though with how simple some of the tracks are and how they stuck to the same keys to write the tracks. My only wish is that for the next release they at least throw in a couple songs with the Drop A# tuning.  
 
Literally the highlights of the album is Ningen to Ranunculus.  With ARCHE I have to keep skipping to find the songs I fuck with. Honestly this is DIR EN GREY's best work since DSS.
 
Without the first 3 songs, this shit is a solid 9.5/10.
 
Also I might've written this tipsy....

I really wish the album sounded like the bonus tracks. Like, Jens Bogren’s mixes aren’t perfect, but I can pick out every single detail with no problem. I like how he went for a more natural sounding snare, but it does get a little lost in heavier parts.