Saishu

DSS has the least amount of reverb out of all of the Madsen albums. Maybe what I’m really focusing on is how Shinya’s drums sound, and in Unraveling and Arche he sounds like he’s playing at the bottom of a well. 

Literally just now hearing about rape allegations towards Kyo and Daisuke, but I do remember someone talking about a select group of dudes (Kyo, Daisuke, Tatsurou, a few others) that participated in questionable behavior. 
 
But there’s no doubt people just have it out for Kisaki. Of course his tax evasion bullshit and overall garbage approach to making money warrants the negative attention. But a few months back there was a “bad boys of VK poll/thread” and last I remember Kisaki was coming out on top over dudes that assaulted women. At the time, all we knew was about Kisaki’s poor business practices, but somehow he was getting more bad boy votes than Wataru, a guy that straight up fucking choked a woman. That has to be a case of serious blind fanaticism when assualt doesn’t register on your radar. 

As far as I’m concerned Gackt didn’t do anything after Crescent. 

Someone was clearly clicking a mouse, so they probably just chose a random spot and hit play. 

DSS has my favorite production out of all DEG’s albums. Everything sounds really tight and I like the “dry” texture of everything. 

Literally just now hearing about rape allegations towards Kyo and Daisuke, but I do remember someone talking about a select group of dudes (Kyo, Daisuke, Tatsurou, a few others) that participated in questionable behavior. 
 
But there’s no doubt people just have it out for Kisaki. Of course his tax evasion bullshit and overall garbage approach to making money warrants the negative attention. But a few months back there was a “bad boys of VK poll/thread” and last I remember Kisaki was coming out on top over dudes that assaulted women. At the time, all we knew was about Kisaki’s poor business practices, but somehow he was getting more bad boy votes than Wataru, a guy that straight up fucking choked a woman. That has to be a case of serious blind fanaticism when assualt doesn’t register on your radar. 

ReS had the potential to be fucking huge, especially considering they called it quits at such a high point with Megiddo and Takumi is just a fantastic songwriter. They were a little awkward with the heavier material, but that mostly fell on Satsuki’s almost complete inability to provide harsh vocals. 
 
Satsuki claims that ReS was forced to disband because two of the members didn’t get along and would get into physical altercations quite often. Given current events, this seems like complete bullshit. Replacing one of the troublemakers wasn’t an option? The fact that Satsuki rolled out his solo career rather quickly made me think he was the one that ended it, and I’m inclined to believe that he was in fact the problem. I think Mika played drums on Satsuki’s first mini, then after that no one was really fucking with him anymore. His complete lack of musical direction tells me maybe he felt limited creatively in ReS and wanted to move on. 
 
It’s sad really. He can’t even get musicians to play with him. Or he can’t afford to hire any, which is probably more likely. But to drag his ass up on stage and basically karakoke his way thru his catalog, he clearly doesn’t have one shred of dignity left. 

DSS has my favorite production out of all DEG’s albums. Everything sounds really tight and I like the “dry” texture of everything. 

ReS had the potential to be fucking huge, especially considering they called it quits at such a high point with Megiddo and Takumi is just a fantastic songwriter. They were a little awkward with the heavier material, but that mostly fell on Satsuki’s almost complete inability to provide harsh vocals. 
 
Satsuki claims that ReS was forced to disband because two of the members didn’t get along and would get into physical altercations quite often. Given current events, this seems like complete bullshit. Replacing one of the troublemakers wasn’t an option? The fact that Satsuki rolled out his solo career rather quickly made me think he was the one that ended it, and I’m inclined to believe that he was in fact the problem. I think Mika played drums on Satsuki’s first mini, then after that no one was really fucking with him anymore. His complete lack of musical direction tells me maybe he felt limited creatively in ReS and wanted to move on. 
 
It’s sad really. He can’t even get musicians to play with him. Or he can’t afford to hire any, which is probably more likely. But to drag his ass up on stage and basically karakoke his way thru his catalog, he clearly doesn’t have one shred of dignity left. 

I had a DVD of Nightmare’s Ultimate Circus Final live, which I believe was in 2004. He looked miserable even then. I think he was just playing the part of the stoic performer, but I’ve never seen him outside the context of Nightmare. 

DSS has my favorite production out of all DEG’s albums. Everything sounds really tight and I like the “dry” texture of everything. 

DSS has my favorite production out of all DEG’s albums. Everything sounds really tight and I like the “dry” texture of everything. 

I DONT!!!
EVEN THINK!!!
OF YOU AWWWRZZ MAH FRRREEEENNNDDD!!!

It’s just like I kept seeing so many people call the album meandering and lacking structure when that really only applies to Beelzebub. There’s no verse, chorus, bridge formula, it’s just an ever evolving piece. 

I found the guitar stem for Die’s part in Midwife. 
 
 

Not necessarily a bad thing. The more an album pushes 60+ minutes the more the possibility of there being boring filler. 

THAT’S LIKE ALMOST EVERY ALBUM EVER!!!

Not necessarily a bad thing. The more an album pushes 60+ minutes the more the possibility of there being boring filler. 

Not necessarily a bad thing. The more an album pushes 60+ minutes the more the possibility of there being boring filler. 

Fuck

Fuck

Kisou and Marrow are both raw, sound like they were recorded in tin cans, and have some of Kyo’s most vulgar lyrics. Yeah, Marrow is mostly expletives, but Kisou has weird sexual shit sprinkled around. 
 
I’d also argue that Marrow isn’t that focused on one sound. None of the ballads jive with the rest of the album. And... fuck the re-recorded Clever Sleazoid. Just because. 

D’erlanger came back and released, what, six albums? Dead End and Luna Sea both released two. And they’ve all been back together about as long as X Japan has been revived. 
 
That video is hilarious by the way. All of that guy’s jrock content is. Just to hear him butcher every single Japanese word and name. 
 
Not exaggerarion, in his Gazette video he pronounces Uruha “unroo”. 

Quite possibly the second of the two strangest albums in DEG’s catalog (the other being Kisou). That’s what happens when you write songs while touring with shitty western metalcore bands. 
 
Songwriting aside, what is up with Kyo’s harsh vocals? He is literally just screaming at the top of his lungs. Why is every other word “FUCK”?  Why does the mix sound like there are no mids? 
 
Its a lot like Kisou actually. 

Toshiya looks like he walked off the the set of a gangsta rap video circa 1995. Why is Kyo’s belt around his knees?