Kelrya

The vocals on rubbish heap.

I love the songs themselves but the production and mixing is bad. I swear on the new version of Ningen Kyo recorded every other sentence with a different microphone and then they copied and pasted them at random volumes all over the place.

It’s so pretty though.

I assumed Toshiya wrote Devote My Life since he wrote Midwife. I knew he wrote Values of Madness since I listened to his radio interview the other day when he debuted it but I didn’t know the others (I mean I could guess the first track was Kaoru lol) so thanks for posting. Strange that there are no Shinya songs and only two Die songs. Shinya said in an interview recently that it was more collaborative and he couldn’t say for sure who the main songwriter for each song was.

That’s fine? I wasn’t trying to be an asshole or anything. Sorry if I sounded elitist or something. Personally I like that song because it reminds me of that style but fit into a DEG mold.

Idk I like Chedoara a lot, it has a lot of great moments (especially Grotesque omg) but that band needs to work on integrating its heavy and melodic parts a little better so that the transitions aren’t so goofy. Other than that it’s great. Haven’t really listened to Ninth.

It sounds like a more mature MOAB.

That’s fair. I assumed you were taking about the dissonant chords since you had similar criticisms of midwife and some WtD songs iirc. The drum beat at the beginning is a bit goofy I’ll give you that, but at least he’s trying new stuff.

This was the song I was least looking forward to based on the samples but it actually turned out to be great. This song was definitely the biggest surprise for me. That and now heavy the first two songs were. And how beautiful Aka is. Lol you would hate mathcore then (Converge, Botch, Vein, early Norma Jean, etc.) Personally I love it when it’s done well but it’s not for everyone.

If there was one more ballad in the first half (maybe after Devote My Life) I think the balance would be better. I LOVE the heavy tracks on here but having like 5 in a row at the beginning of the album is kind of bizarre. It’s weird because with Arche I though there were too many ballads and really wanted another track like The Inferno. Still I think the album is more enjoyable to listen to all the way through than Arche, I just wish the production and track order was a bit more polished. Thankfully there’s nothing that I really feel like skipping like Sustain the Untruth or Magayasou or Soshaku (good chorus boring verses) this time. Right now this isn’t topping DSS or Uroboros for me but it’s up there with their better albums in terms of aligning with my personal taste. Then again I love all of their different eras for different reasons so even my least favorite (Macabre/Kisou/Withering to Death) are still great albums.

There’s also the fact that he chose to re-record a song about suicide (理由).

Yeah Kyo seems legit suicidal. Not even in his usual edgelord way, but actually truly depressed. It’s kind of concerning. Plus some of his recent Twitter posts.

Yeah the pacing is the biggest problem. Idk why they decided to throw all the heaviest songs on the first half.

They did say they pushed this one closer to the deadline than ever before.

Aka to me is like the third part in a trilogy. Lotus, Rinkaku and Aka. They all have a similar feel. Instrumentally heavy but beautiful. So far I’m loving the album. My only complaints would be the really compressed production (I really prefer the production and mixing on the last two albums), the weird crackly clipping that appears on some of the harsh vocals, and the lack of more long songs/progressive song structures. But overall it’s great. The lyrics to Devote My Life are pretty concerning to me though after a lot of high profile cases of musicians/celebrities committing suicide or overdosing recently. I usually like depressing lyrics but not when they are this straightforward. Hopefully he’s just trying to be grimdark and edgy.

Alright this dude clearly says “Harry Potter’s kids” at 1:56 on Downfall.

On the first track at 2:37 all I can hear is “I like Pussy! I like Pussy!” lmao.

It leaked and it’s good so far.

There are specific moments where it’s like “oh I could see this happening on (x previous album).”

I can’t read the 2chan thread anymore because it’s become, as one user put it, a ネタバレ祭り. I’m gonna try to sleep for a while and then check for leaks. I am so pumped though, people are saying that it contains elements of all of their albums plus both of sukekiyo’s albums. Apparently the first track 軽蔑と始まり is pretty nuts (Kyo said it’s his favorite song on the album) and Aka is very pretty.

According to someone with the album the remakes were mixed by the same person who did the Hageshisa single.

I haven’t seen any yet. One person said his just came in the mail. Some other people’s arrived but they are at work. Im trying to just skim the thread because I don’t want to read really detailed descriptions before hearing it myself.

People who preordered in Japan have started receiving their CDs now.

Remastered. I can barely hear the vocals a lot of the time on the original version.