Dudemanguy

I'm a big Ningen-Isu fan (I own all of their albums). I got this album and have given it three listens so far. It's nothing short than fucking incredible. Every Ningen-Isu fan will love it and people that aren't Ningen-Isu fans will become one after listening to it. For sure, this album is one of their best. It's got it all. Crushing heavy metal, some fast thrash, fun rockers, weird proggy stuff. From top to bottom, it's loaded with amazing song after amazing song. Wajima's guitar work is out of this world and the album is full of surprises. This is almost certainly going to be Japanese AOTY for me and quite likely just AOTY overall. These guys have been going for 30 years now and there's absolutely no sign of degradation or loss of creativity. They are the best grandpas in metal right now. Nobody can touch them.

The band has been in that vague "decent/good but not quite great" range for me, but with that new song that could change. That seriously impressed me. That's some good stuff.

This is going to be their weirdest album yet and that's really saying something.

Thankfully, this is miles better than everything off of LUV. Not bad.

Downright amazing. This album could make it into my top 10 Ningen-Isu album list when its all said and done (yes I own all of them).

This song and video are totally tripping balls, but I fucking love it.

It's really admirable how a band made up of a bunch of old geezers can still kick ass. Most dad rock bands their age just relive the glory days.

Oh my god that video is really something else. Sounds great though. I'm hyped.

And of course, I'll be a sucker and pay $80+ for this anyway. Well the BD disc on ADORATIO is actually really cool which made up for the overall uselessness of the collab disc.

It's a new album (disc 1 has 13 new songs). "音源映像集" ("sound/audio and video collection" to be more literal) is just a pretentious way of saying that they're forcing you to buy the extra collaboration disc and BD as well. ADORATIO was (is?) mail-order/live-limited too and initially released in the exact same format. Nevertheless, ADORATIO was actually my Japanese AOTY for 2017, so I'm incredibly excited to see what they'll come up with this time.

My body is ready.

Midwife is awesome. The only sorta crappy song on Arche is definitely 'the Inferno' since it feels like a DSS outake.

I'm not blown away or anything, but it sounds like the song could work in the right context.

The mixing sounds better than some of Arche to me honestly. I do wish they'd produce more in the vein of Dum Spiro Spero though.

A 60 second teaser clip of Ranunculus has been revealed.