Kelrya

Kyo said in an interview that he doesn’t even know where the other members’ houses are. And they don’t even have each other’s contact info outside of a group chat for work stuff. They only hang out before and after shows apparently which is kind of sad. I do remember him saying that he’s closest with Shinya though.

Kyo said in an interview that he doesn’t even know where the other members’ houses are. And they don’t even have each other’s contact info outside of a group chat for work stuff. They only hang out before and after shows apparently which is kind of sad. I do remember him saying that he’s closest with Shinya though.

Pretending the “blessing to lose heart” refrain really is “prostitute you’re a prostitute” makes Ningen better. 

title track is nowhere near as awful as sustain the untruth lets get THAT out the way

The sad part is that live tracks COULD be interesting, if it was done right.
They COULD for example include some old live track from the early days, perhaps a special performance of some kind, something they rarely play... But instead it seems like they almost without fail choose boring material.
For example, they played the original versions of Karma and Byou Shin at the MARROW leg of the depression tour, they weren't featured on the DVD, so it would've been a neat live track bonus to have them included on the single.
But instead we get their latest single in one of the poorest renditions I've heard so far (and I've heard way too many I'm afraid). 
 
I'm just trying to say that including live tracks could be interesting if they actually had a clue what people wanted to hear.
 

http://direngrey.wikia.com/wiki/人間を被る
http://direngrey.wikia.com/wiki/Ash_(2018)
 
Lyrics in Japanese, Romaji and official translation. It's really hard to make out what Kyo says, so take these with a grain of salt. I'll revise them when I have a picture of the lyrics.

Kyo can’t keep up live with songs that change vocal style every 5 seconds.

I think the chorus in the teaser sounds amazing to be honest , I just hope there are some heavier moments coming as well. Since we have sukekiyo for Kyo’s softer side I’ve actually been hoping for something Decayed Crow-esque. Arche was good but it has the opposite problem as DSS. Both albums are great but with DSS I wished there were a couple more memorable melodic choruses, and then with Arche we got too much of that and I missed the more aggressive and experimental elements of the last few records.

It’s not the ballad, kyotaku said this one is half singing half shouting and that the ballad says ranunculus in the chorus.

At this rate the single will be out before the sample.
 

I agree that Uroboros is god-tier, the only thing that puts it below DSS for me is the production and some of the songs sounding kind of similar. Also, while I love Vinushka, it’s basically a 5 minute song stretched out over 10 minutes. I think Diabolos was a less repetitive attempt at a similar style. Ironically, while DSS is my favorite musically I think it is their worst era visually. Kyo looks pretty cringey trying to appear tough in all the shirtless photos with his shaved head. The music is the most important aspect for me but that was pretty egregious. Thankfully they went back to something closer to their older visual style. 
 
As for MISSA, I like Kyo’s older style of clean singing a lot so that bumps it up for me. He’s still a good singer but he sounds too nasally or something in some songs these days. Rinkaku is beautiful but the interlude around 2/3 into Utafumi sounds really strained. 
 

I was just thinking today how long it will be until this band runs out of songs they want to re-record and starts re-recording re-recordings. Well that time has finally arrived, they are making a third version of Ash for the b-side of 人間を被る.

I agree that Hydra sucks. My hot take is that Macabre might be their worst album

I hope that the remake of Ash isn’t almost completely unrecognizable (like Tsumi to Batsu or Hydra 666, although I do like both of these songs a lot I see them more as sequels than remakes) but also not so similar that it serves no purpose (like The Final or Kasumi).
I think their best remakes are the ones that have enough recognizable aspects of the original for fans to latch onto, but update the song in interesting ways, like Kiri to Mayu  or Zan or Karma for example. Of course at this point I’m just expecting a heavier version of the instrumental with a bunch of cat noises, angsty whispering and yodeling from Kyo.

This one should work.
http://youtu.be/0wAXkLd-XLg