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They were so good, this sucks

With the exceptions of Sense and Mirage, I already own all of these songs, which unfortunately won't stop me from buying both albums regardless. At least they're about a month apart which will hopefully minimise the damage to my wallet

Well that fucking sucks. And with the last single being live limited I can't wait to buy it on auction for 18 times the original price, this is depressing.

On 6/29/2019 at 3:13 AM, johnesh said:

This sounds great. Anybody know where you can order it? It doesn't seem to have a catalogue number. Is it self-released or are they on a label?

late response, but now that release day has come and the album has, from what I've seen, yet to appear in any stores, it seems the only place to order it online is from their webshop (located here)

This is the cutest thing I've heard in ages, I need it

It sounds like every song from VEIN thrown together. It doesn't sound like it'll be their best song or anything, and I was honestly hoping VEIN was a one-off style they never touched again, but I still like it.

WELL FUCK.

I wasn't expecting Yakazu to leave so soon after Liru. I can understand disbanding, Yakazu composed the majority of their music if I recall. Pretty sure Hakubishin only released a mini and a single too, actually. This sucks.

I actually like this group, though it's mostly ironic. The thing that really irks me about them is that there are times when I genuinely can't tell who is singing, and it's not like Koichi is a good singer so most of the time it's Tsuzuku holding back. You could maybe argue that it's just the way he's singing and I'm sure that does have a lot to do with it, but honestly he just sounds like he's not really trying most of the time because on the odd occasion where he does sing with some actual enthusiasm he very easily overpowers Koichi (which I'm sure also has a lot to do with it).

Anyway cute song I guess, glad the furry stuff is (mostly) gone

This song is just as much of a mess as the last one, maybe more. I kind of love it. That said, I really don't see the point of a 5 member band when 4 of the members are almost inaudible. If the instruments were more balanced with the synths I think they'd actually be really good.

Doesn't sound like Saika is in this, so I guess Yuzuki is the only vocalist now then? Kind of a shame, I liked Saika's harsh vocals. Might just be this song though, but now that Saika's out of BSC, I'd imagine he's probably not involved in this either any more, and I don't think Sadew would really want anything to do with this project so I guess it's just Yuzuki.

As for the song itself, I really like it. I like the more screamy style of it compared to their more 'poppy' songs, if only for maximising the novelty of Yuzuki screaming.

I forgot DIE/MAY was even a thing. To be honest, once Seike left and they changed their style, I completely lost interest. Tsuomasu could arguably be considered more technically capable than Seike (though for as much as I like Seike, that really isn't saying much), but I find his voice a lot less interesting/more forgettable. Having said that, I will say the previews were a lot better than I was expecting them to be, though riotcolor's mixing skills still leave a lot to be desired and I feel like the music suffers somewhat because of it. Definitely promising, though.

What even is this. There's nothing new on it so it hardly counts as their second album, and it's obviously not a best album because Dystopia is on there while Dependence isn't (neither are any of their A sides either, which is probably more relevant to note), so it seems to just be a random collection of B sides. That's not inherently a bad thing, given how much I usually like their B sides, but it seems like a bizarre decision to release something like this. Given that I own most of these songs anyway there's really nothing to make me interested in this album, and I can't even hold to any sort of hope that the older songs have been rerecorded because of how abysmal the rerecordings were on VICTIM. I genuinely don't understand what this band is even doing any more.

Edit: I forgot to note the fact that Greed and PSYCHOPATH are both from their first album, and given how low the price is, I'm pretty sure this is actually just a B side collection album, which I'm fine with.

I get that this band has all the members of Blood Stain Child in it, but I still find it bizarre to see Yuzuki being mentioned on this forum. It's good to see the band is actually sticking together though, I was kinda worried it'd be a short-lived gimmicky side project (on both Yuzuki and BSC's part) and that they'd split up after touring around with the material from their album for a bit, so it's nice to see they're still writing new stuff.

8 hours ago, Kknnii said:

Is there going to be a full version? It's a day after the official release, and I see no full Pv on youtube.

Not sure, but there's only one edition of the single and it doesn't come with the PV so I imagine they'll probably upload the full thing eventually. It's pretty common for bands to put out music videos a week or 2 after release dates, and because the single only comes with the one song (plus the SE), they might just be waiting a bit before putting up the full PV, considering the PV would basically be the entire single.

I love it! If the full version is as good as the preview makes it sound, I think this could easily be their best song.

Lyrics aside, I personally really like it, much more than I liked GRAVITY. Granted, it does both look and sound like something that would be released by a somewhat generic, non-visual metalcore band, and I don't like it as much as KILLANETH or NOCTSCURE, but the chorus is catchy enough and the rapping is kind of interesting so it's still enjoyable. Plus this is their second single, so most likely Kai's going to be calling it quits any day now so I may as well take what enjoyment I can from the project

Wow that cover art is amazing. Their album was a surprise favourite of mine, so I'm really looking forward to this.

Well fuck. This really sucks.

I'm kind of curious about what their best album will contain, though. Based on their first album, I'd imagine FIXER II will essentially be a collection of things they've released since joining Starwave, which means the best album will either contain songs that are also on FIXER II, or will more or less be a third release of their first album. Unless they have a whole bunch of new songs for the second album (which would be amazing) I can't really imagine the best album containing much they won't have already released between their 2 albums.

Also this news has completely ruined my day, just felt I should point that out.

1500 yen for effectively 1 song, holy shit. I'm still going to get it but that price is ridiculous.

Price aside, I love the name and the cover looks phenomenal, I'm excited.

9 minutes ago, chocobuzz said:

according to their lyric booklets Shin has only composed "蓮華". "夜明け、灰色の呼吸", "凶夢" and "ワイセツCandy" were composed by Sizuki and all the rest by Ryo. ^^

That so? I'll have to double check later but I swear Shin was credited for most of the compositions, though I will more than gladly take being wrong here.

Edit: I just checked and it seems you're right, I have no idea where I got the idea that Shin composed all their music. Thanks for letting me know, I was about having a heart attack and would never have thought to actually check if I was even right or not.

Well R.I.P. Virge I guess, Shin was their main (sole?) composer so they're more or less screwed without him. This really, really sucks.

Edit: I'm a moron

man they're really going the extra mile in plagiarising Grimoire

I hope they find someone new soon because I do actually like these guys.

if they abuse that synth any further I'm calling the police

Seriously though this could almost pass for an Irodori cover. That's not a bad thing (I really liked Irodori), but I don't particularly love that one synth so I was kinda hoping Takeru wouldn't bring it with him, or at least used it more sparingly. But alas. Still love it and will be getting it ASAP though, so I'm not complaining or anything

Didn't she say something about this a while back? Or am I thinking of someone else? Regardless, this is really disappointing. Here's hoping she can come back some day, I really love her voice.