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.

It's actually post-progressive avant-garde experimental metal with death metal and j-rock influences.

Just an FYI since it hasn't been mentioned yet. This will actually be sads final album. They are breaking up at the end of the year. (source) Edit: Oh nevermind, SakuraFox mentioned it right above me lol. Well having a source link is good anyway.

I love you Dir en grey, but holy fuck what an eyesore of a cover.

By the way, a spot for the first song, ache, is out.

Just some notes from reading the page to the best of my ability, Toshi pretty much started it. Of course these things are never concrete, but Toshi talks about how he was reaching his limit in the past few years with the band's activities. He had an important meeting with Kiba and the other members, but in the end, Toshi and Kiba simply could not come to any agreement. So Toshi decided to focus on another life and leave the band. Katsuji himself doesn't say it, but Toshi's comment says that his withdrawal also caused Katsuji and Kentaro to leave. Kentaro seems like the last person here, he mentions having to make a decision between continuing with just Kiba or also leaving with the other two and in the end he choose the later. Kiba does specifically say that he will continue on. How? I have no idea. He even mentions he thought a lot about formally breaking up the band and not wanting to sully their name, but in the end he decided to press forward.

It's fucking over. I have loved Gargoyle for years (own all of their albums, their EPs, most of their various re-recordings, that massive 10 DVD boxset, etc.) and seeing this news earlier this morning has ruined my day. Toshi was there from the very beginning in 1987 and Katsuji joined a year later. Kentaro came into the picture a little later (1994) and replaced She-ja (along with Yotaro who later left in 2001). These aren't just random saps leaving. It's the lifeblood of the band. Even if Kiba decides it's solo project time (keep in mind he's like 52, it would be a logical time to call it quits) but with Gargoyle's name, it wouldn't be the same band. It's basically the end. Quite a shame really. It's like a piece of history is ending to me. Gargoyle was one of Japan's earlier thrash metal bands and easily one of the most creative ones. Hell, they're one of the most weird/creative thrash metal bands period. I never would have guessed their last album in 2016 would end up being their last one. 31 quality years is not a bad run. RIP one of my all time favorite bands.

No one's posted White Veil from his youtube channel yet? I'll do the honors then. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZXa4hombas

My memory could be off, but I think the melodies you're referring to really have their origin from songs off of Holy Grail. It's not like 1-1, but I think it's pretty similar. I've noticed both Hizaki and Kamijo like to take stuff from that album.

Bleh, it looks like it'll be limited to some in-store events and some other sponsorship event for now. Fortunately, the descriptions says that there's a possibility it'll be added to other stores.

I've been expecting this for a while now actually. If you've looked at the lineups for Jupiter's previous lives (the ones after Zin left of course), Kuze was always a guest vocalist (along with some other guys). He abruptly left Concerto Moon a few months ago, so I was thinking it was very likely for Kuze to join Hizaki & co. in Jupiter. I quite enjoyed the new song and will be looking forward to this release. Kuze's vocals fit right in. My biggest question is whether or not Jupiter will completely drop the melodeath/extreme metal elements. It wouldn't be too hard for Hizaki to get someone like the guy from Gyze to do some guest growls or something.