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It's not my opinion when I can prove it. Anyone that isn't tone deaf can hear that there's usually something wrong with how he sings a majority of the time. Take a listen to Hageshi Sato, Kono Mune No Naka De Karamitsui Ta Shakunetsu No Yami live and tell me there's nothing wrong. Listen to the chorus in the live version. Now listen to the Chorus in the studio version. You can't seriously tell me that there's nothing wrong with that? Or maybe you can.

The original. PRECIOUS is my favorite LUNA SEA song.

Lmao. Lowkey, she's pretty good.

Me after my first time watching Gypsy. I wasn't impressed by anything else I've seen from that band, but fuck me up fam. They really pulled it together for that one.

I should have noted that the last live I've seen of L'arc en Ciel was in 2012 (Nissan stadium I think). If I remember correctly, I wasn't the only one that had a "holy shit" moment when I heard Hyde's singing compared to just a year prior. Kiss? I mean... it was aight. Listening to anything with Yukihiro kind of hurts my feelings though. ---------------------------------------------- The "hobo yelling era of '90-'91" was my personal favorite. What Saishu said was spot on. His vocal style had that raw youthful energy that fit their earlier work perfectly. His "failed, vocal coached vocalcraft" was actually pretty great for the type of music they were making around the '98-'00 era. (i.e. Storm, Tonight). There's really nothing to complain if you're looking at it objectively. See 5:13 of the link. ---------------------------------------------- Division is their best live and album to date. Not going to even touch on the "Ruki lost a lot off his range after DIM actually". The songs are just different. The only proof that I need is 2:06 of the Undying video that I posted earlier in the thread. Overall I didn't care for Dogma, but Ominous was fun and Incubus had a catchy little chorus. Did anyone else notice the little annoying cuts in certain tracks? (see 1:40 of Incubus) I figured that when I compliment a singer on this forum, it will be within the bubble of vk/jrock standards (thought that was obvious enough). If I want to fap over "great vocalists", I'll go listen to R Kelly or Luther Vandross. ----------------------------------------------

Meh. Technical ability isn't worth it when you have to sit through this. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iwaIxF8Ypk

I haven't really give much of a fuck about Diru as of late. 99% of the time, Kyo can't hit notes properly, anything since Uroboros has been garbage (imo), Kaoru is an awful guitarist, Shinya is an awful drummer., Die is allright... not to mention how pretentious they are, (especially Sukekiyo), although you can't be too mad at them. They're Japanese, it's not like they know any better. ANYWAY Someone showed me this video, and I was actually impressed. Probably the best five seconds of Kyo's career. 5:12

Hyde is probably the best example of this. Pretty awful singer up until 2011. Now his singing is pretty much perfect. Amazing actually. idk why but Ryuichi was always a great singer. Ruki has definitely improved. His singing became pretty great around Toxic. Now it's awesome. See 2:06 of the video below. Fucking nails it. 100% perfection. Then go to 4:17. *cringes* Oh well. He'll keep improving.

It's highly unlikely that you'll ever hear a track like that from them again. It wouldn't even make sense for them to make one. Ruki has changed the way he sings and the rest of the band have all developed different styles of playing since then. Listen to 2002 Wakaremichi, then 2004 Wakaremichi. Now imagine the GazettE making a track similar to Ray in 2016. It would definitely be lacking the energy and charm of their earlier work. This is what happens when bands cover their old stuff.