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Recently the spring sun was shining into my apartment again and I was almost blinded trying to take a sunny picture of myself.
 

 
I'm like an axolotl. Simply not used to any light brighter than that of my computer screen.

Some shitty quality phone pics of myself, my little brother, and my older sister that we took today.

Here's two pictures of me. The first one is probably from November 2013 and yes those are prescription glasses not image glasses, I'm pretty much blind without glasses or contacts.
The latter is a glorious and amazing bathroom selfie straight outta Instagram from summer 2013.
 
I'm amazed of the tiny amount of "normal pictures" I have of me. In almost all of my pictures there must be either 1. my student overalls, 2. student cap or 3. shitloads of other people in it. And yes, student overalls and student caps (technical universities only) are a huge thing in Finland.

Machete Approves.
 

I answered this question a while ago. It's neither, although it leans closer to being a scene. It may have started out as a genre at one point but it's long since surpassed those boundaries. It cannot be a genre because not every visual kei band plays the same type of music. For any genre you name, someone else can find a band that considers themselves visual kei that don't play that genre. Visual kei is simply music with a focus on visuals (hence visual style). Visual kei can't be pigeonholed into a scene or a genre without losing some of the picture.
And in case you missed my answer from before:
 

Now the history behind visual kei is something else altogether. I don't think there is one person on this forum with a vast knowledge of the history of visual kei because even by the 90s much of that was lost. If we come together as a forum we may be able to piece enough together.

Drunk loli is here/

let's get us another Case;A shall we?

I agree, their last album was a surprise. Sure it had some candy-coated songs but their last couple albums haven't really disappointed me and I am okay with the fact that i'll never get another 666 or Kuchiki no tou because those albums are just long behind them.

yeah it wouldn't have to be limited to ten, it could be five or whatever.

just had a hair cut.
 

here's one more. we couldn't resist to make Darth Vader style hadouken.
 

Since the only band clothing I have is the stuff I buy for myself, probably not XD There may be a few miscellaneous things added later like photosets and magazines. I was thinking for a while about selling flyers, but just decided to include a few of those for free with every order(I should probably mention this somewhere...).

First, I would like say sorry if I make no sense in some of my sentence, I try my best to make the least amount of fault as possible and be as clear as possible.
Thank's
 
For me it's a good album, and if I does choose between the 4, I choose this one, But, I have the strange feeling to listen an other band and not Sadie. (regardless about what band I think listen) but forced to observe (in my opinion) they have never been better than they are inspirated by the band of Mao's Idol rather than their more personnal composing.
But, expet that, this album is good, the three first song introduce wonderfully the album, and the unplugged of face to face is really their best unplugged (from the threewho their are released). where they get the idea for make unplugged ?
Jealousy might well have be replaced by Rosario (this song have more her place in this album more than TBD) and Yasashiku Koroshite don't affect me, maybe here for fulfill...
 
So some people will say "shit they plagiarized [band x]" and, seriously ? They start their career as a copy band of DeG, and Kyo is Mao idol's, so that's totally normal to hear a certain influences, but of course it takes nothing away of the Sadie's talent, because, they have a lot of talent.
(and to be honest, my favorite work by the band, it's all of their release before Crimson Tear)
 
-That's totally my own point of view, and don't forcing anyone to accept mine, but I respect all of you point of view about this album and this band, made the same-

I'll start by saying that this release actually Rivals Cold Blood (which is what I believe is Sadie's Best album to date). Except for a few songs that I believe the album could do without (i'll get to that shortly), it was actually very enjoyable. 
 
With the exception of The Requiem, I do agree that the first few songs on the album are terrible. I wont even talk about them because they're just THAT bad to the point where Kaoru would shake his head in shame if he even bothered listening to them.
 
Once we get to Kannou (best song on the album by the way), the album indeed does pick up and progresses from there. A lot of the songs sound like tracks that are pretty Original and Sadie tried their best on and didn't rely too much on their Dir methods, which I really appreciated.
 
Compared to the Black Diamonds, this is such a step up and it shows that when Sadie wants to, they can def write awesome songs. I will say this though, they suffer the same thing the GazettE and 12012 (UNTIL THE SWAN), suffer from now. They're too comfortable with what they are doing and it does get tiring. Yes, its okay that Dir is a main influence but even Dir got influence from other bands, which is what they should start doing if they want to be taken seriously. But it seems like they're okay with being the shadow of what Dir was back in the day or being a copy band. Hey, its what got them famous to begin with and if thats what they wanna do, then whatevs. We'll still find thing's we like out of what they do anyways. 
 
I give this a 7.5/10 

I took this picture in the walk in closet and the light in there made the image come out super yellow. Boyfriend was poopin in the bathroom and couldn't take a selfie in there.
 

^ my first thought too. looks really similiar.

so yesterday we celebrated our first month of marriage.
 

lol
Ok I just had to show myself on a bigger scale n_n

Hi guys/gals! Showing myself for the first time. Please be nice to me

The hate does not come from the music sounding identical (aside from select cases); but it's the fact that Mao has drawn soo many influences from Kyo that it's hard for someone not to notice it. People go wayy too overboard with the comparisons (calling Sadie a Copy and Paste band, etc.); but it's not coming out of nowhere. From technique (sudden switch to gutturals and attempts at "inward screams") to the report propagated on this very site (long time ago) that Kyo had a hand in Mao's vocal lessons. It's less the music and more based on the influence Kyo has had on Mao.
 
I will agree wholeheartedly that it's getting annoying because people bring it up as a way to DISCREDIT the band.
 
Regardless of how GOOD this album will be, I'm excited nonetheless because Sadie is a band that intrigues me even if I gravely dislike most of their discography.

Raise your hand if you saw it coming after the announcement of that complete best CD 8|

radio edit of Unraveling.

Interesting, thanks for the excerpt.
 
edit: 15sec THE UNRAVELING teaser is uppp
 

I like how they're giving their mini album titles with data extensions.
Slivers.exe and MESSIAH.bat, what's next, third mini album being a .dmg?