Axius

I would agree to this, to an extent.
The album is refined, and like you mentioned, it's easy to see why some fans don't like it.
I too, would love to listen to a version of "Eve" that had prioritized higher frequencies more than trying to balance the entire track. It needs more "life" to it.
 
What made AA so great in the beginning of their career, was their determination to be the loudest fucking band out there. Making noise essentially, not giving a single fuck about anything else.
What we see now is the band truly focusing on creating pieces of work with meaning behind them. What they want to achieve is making music that's just right for them, showing their maturity as a reunited group of friends once again, letting go of past BS.
It's actually very commendable, as most bands never stay together long after some drama, let alone forgive, to then embrace this change. Danny certainly has vastly improved his vocals, and its one of the highlights of the entire album, as songs that may sound bland, hold their own with his singing.
 
You can also look at it from the other side, saying that the band is trying to be mature to a point where you may say "they're trying too hard".
Focusing too much on trying to make the music "just right", to then sound "watered down" as you put it.
Some fucker on Sputnik said they come off too "Nickleback" haha cracked me up.
 

This exists on youtube actually, i didn't know that this was the live in question because the footage was short (the YT edit cuts out the outro so i thought more was to follow, LOL)
thanks though!

Did you mean this VHS? Something i randomly found while on google its in a unexpected mpeg format and Audio is 192 kbps: (I dont take credit and the Video quality is badd....)
 
 
 
In addition i have other stuff. This video was original taken from a videos folder i found on the internet entirely japanese idk how to make sense of any of this (Dead link as of yesterday) but i did find out one of the artist in which i posted a .vob recently in the videos section.
 
Here is the site i got this videos link from may contain something im unsure. If you skip to line 3909 it starts listing off bands most i never heard of.
https://pastebin.com/9j3LvtK0
 
 
 

Ahh thank you for informing me i might participate in these in the future whenever i have the time. I would definitely wanna expand on music.

Not sure about MORRIGAN, but I know that PITTTY was the main composer for XIBALBA (he has a composition credit for each song in their collection album) when he was URAKEN (for what it's worth). He and Aryu co-wrote DesiregardeN. I don't know if any of that can indicate what's ahead, composition wise.

Shit thats nothing Creature Creature, girugamesh, L'Arc-en-Ciel , MUCC were on their. Let me just say this is a HHHHUUUUGGGGEEEE step for them.

...  Noooo </3 why ????!!!!! this really sucks he was my fav. 

probably bought too many damn teddy bears!!! 💸💸💸

The songs sounds decent and they look good. I'm gonna come back to them when they drop a mini album or something.

Very true, the label pressure and demands exacerbate this whole issue.

I honestly agree with you. If you gonna have a band that sticks when it comes to the visual kei genera you need either a sht ton of money or just simply be patient but then again sometimes i don't think that's the bands fault 100% of the time sometimes they just might be under a crappy label.

PV already leaked
 
 

Recording quality takes a nosedive in the span of one release? Possible money problems No free-agent guitarist wanted to join an already semi-well-known and established band? Band has a history of being inconsistent and disappearing/disbanding on a whim. I'm going to go out on a limb here, but something associated with chariots stinks to high hell. Name is stigmatic at this point. They'd be better off doing the visual thing and "disbanding", then turning around and reforming a new band with a new concept.

It always feels like vk bands promote backwards. They start to book gigs as soon as they have enough songs for a set and then hope to generate enough interest in their band while slowly going broke (we all know vk ain't cheap) instead of slowly building interest in their band THEN booking shows. You see a lot of the J-metal and indie bands doing this, where they're together 3-5 years before they even put out a real album, but vk just throws everything at the wall and prays that it sticks. I really don't understand the thought process sometimes. 

How the fuck is tsuzuku a bad vocalist?

(full statement is threaded on twitter)

they were able to confirm Kana is safe as they received a handwritten letter from him wherein he stated his current situation makes it hard for him to continue music, and that he wants to distance himself from the band. the band will still try to speak with him directly.

another year another tobu
out of curiosity has there ever been a case of a bandman disappearing where he didn't just run away? because afaik the rate is 100%

are we sure he didnt just get some fangirl preggers and ran off?

No worries. Why there needs to be three completely different bands named ダリ will forever evade rationality.  

This almost sounds like THE 3RD BIRTHDAY. No complaints here! Sign me up.

Agreed.
 
@Reikatsumi Lately I've noticed you've been quick to confront people when they share an opinion that's different from yours. Putting your two cents in and trying to maintain that it's fact to everyone else isn't gonna help anyone change their mind. Either chill out and let things be or don't bother posting if you have nothing constructive or nice to say.

too bad they are disbanding... not gonna lie i didn't really liked anything they released so far BUT this is by far their coolest look yet and also that pv preview sounded like this could be their best song so far...

Pretty sure that wasn’t the case. He’s been fine the rest of the tour. Not a mind reader but it doesn’t take much to assume he was upset.

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