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@Nekkichi: For me personally MY MURDEROUS URGE (wow what a title...) sounds like a mix of Pierrot's Shingetsu and Mejibray's Chameleon Yummy (which goes all the way to the original song, also known as "Because" by SADS) Definitely the most mediocre release vk-wise AND pop music-wise. Say, this even has more cliches than Pitbull! 0/10, drool over your candy boy, fans.

If we would take certain, new "kotekote-ish" acts into account - Grieva also sported some obvious Kuroyume worship in their songs (Some songs in Oni to Kage actually reminded me of those present in Nakigara O...) - but yeah, it's kinda sad that no one even tries to pay a tribute to Kuroyume's old sound these days (the hell, there is even ~no~ Kuroyume tribute album with PRE-CRUEL SONGS) I myself am quite open to their changes, except when it comes to mediocrity called 'Headache and Dub Reel Inch' Btw, is it me or do I sense some possible old school comeback with "Kuro to Kage" title ("Blackness and the Shadow"??) Guess I am just dreaming

GOOD: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Kimi ni 100% / Furisodeshon Grieva - Oni to Kage Merry - Fukurou Alice Nine - Daybreak Spyair - Sakura Mitsu Tsuki (???) Miyavi - Ahead of the Light Justin Timberlake - The 20/20 Experience My Bloody Valentine - MBV A$AP ROCKY - Long. Live. ASAP BAD (or could just have been much better): T.M. Revolution - UNDER:COVER 2 Lynch. - Ballad Kyary Pamyu Pamyu - Ninjya re Bang Bang One Ok Rock - Jinsei Boku something Nightmare - Scums Sadie - can't remember the title Yeti - can't remember the title [2] Mejibray - Die Kusse Nogod - V WTF: BORN are making the same song for like 50th time. Also: Nocturnal Bloodlust is still a huge joke. Things to look forward to (for fanboyism or mainly curiosity): SID - Koe ni Oichite Kiyoharu's mega-stuff Vamps' new English album (???) Dir en grey - The Unraveling The Gazette's horribly named releases D'erlanger's horribly named album Tyler the Creator - Wolf HIM's probably generic release Fall Out Boy's new stuff (lol) Queens of The Stone Age + their future album ...

"LOL L'ARC-EN-CIEL SONG TITLE HUEHEUEHUEH" Interesting.

do you this one?(around 10:00 mark) That's lifted off their first "UNDER" VHS, which was released around late 1992, so I believe it's from the same time span...

As Wonrei said @last.fm, there's definitely some Dogville/Von Trier influences floating around - I wonder if Kyo's a fan of such movies and stuff...

Rinkaku part 2 with Akatsuki dabbling? Not bad.

Awful album title but looking forward to this piece

They kinda hinted that beforehand...oh well.

Roflmao @ album title Also, they seem to be in a big hurry with album/single releases, eh?

"SONY DID IT SONY IS EVIL SONY SHOULD STOP INFLUENCING SONY SHOULD BAAH" Pretty much sums up everything what certain person tried to explain in terms of DIVISION's flopping. I think you forgot DIR, yo.

Looks like plus Nine Inch Nails references, I see... (this is Kaoru's doing after all, you folks know)

Kuroyume - Feminism Dir en grey - Gauze Tokyo Jihen - Sports Buck-Tick - Aku no Hana L'arc~en~Ciel - Heart, Ark/Ray (Yes!) Luna Sea - S/T, Eden, Mother the GazettE - Stacked Rubbish Malice Mizer - Merveilles Mucc - Shion T.M. Revolution - The Force Laputa - Kagerou Plastic Tree - Hide and Seek Merry - Under-World D'erlanger - La Vie en Rose, Basilisk La'Cryma Christi - Dwellers of a Sandcastle/Warm Snow (same album, different mastering etc.), Sculpture of Time Alice Nine - Gemini Pierrot - Pandora no Hako Sads - Babylon Baroque - Sug Life Rentrer en Soi - Sphire-Croid Baiser - Ash Kiyoharu - Poetry Hyde - Roentgen Gackt - Rebirth The Mad Capsule Markets - Park X Japan - Jealousy D - Neo Culture Nightmare - Anima

Track-2-track review as always from Pretsy-sama: 1. [schwarz] of Hades (SE) - dance-ish intro with crunchy drop C guitars + baby cries and other weird noises. Imagine if "Gauze -mode of adam-" had a drastic, modern vk turn...It's okay 7/10 2. 孤独人形症候群 - As Jig said before, they are incorporating old school vk homages and twists with modern vk "metal" sound. You can hear familiar old swkl Kyo/Kiyoharu screams there and most of the parts are quite reminiscent to something what Das:Vasser did as well, wow. 8/10 3. True Grief - pretty much a "lil bro" of DEG's "Yurameki". A nice tribute to my favorite song- nothing against it, except that I expected a bit more originality here 8/10 4. 解離性同一性障害 - a huge time warp to '95 indie vk scene with deep, dark vibes and "deranged" chords (which can be easily applied to early era of vk when post-punk influences were cherished). You don't need drop tunings to sound "dark" or anything - an useful note to all of you, vk bands these days Nice song either way 9/10 5. 鬼経-kikei- - Oh my god, "Nakigara Wo.." - worship at its best. This is undeniably my biggest favorite out of this album - Horrortastic number with full of old school themes like suffer and psychosis. Digging the heck out of main melody, falsettos and screams. I'll toast to you, Grieva! 10/10 6. 蜥-tokage- - As with the track number four, this one continues the sound of early vk bands too - good old screaming and staccato riffage. Also, HEY - "Cage's" chorus! I wouldn't call this a "ripoff", since the band's concept itself is "to revive the spirit of old school vk". Not to mention that the sound from early decade is dying off due to "Br00tal" invasion. Quite short and dumbed down though 8/10 7. 拝啓、愛しのアイドル様へ - FI-I-I-ILTH! HIGH! FI-I-I-ILTH! HIGH...just kidding, I don't mind DEG references here as well - quite okay song with present old school riffing and melodies. Only if this were a bit more psychotic, then it would go up with early tracks - 7/10 8. 中絶 - ABORTION SONGS! VERY VK! A wicked child of Das:Vasser and Ikiteita-era Kuroyume. If I had to explain "the prime examples of old school vk sound", this - along with "Kikei" would be among the other songs. Great adrenaline trigger for lives, I guess. 9/10 9. 侵喰-shinsyoku- - Gets closer to modern vk sound, which ain't really bad. Also: THWACK THWACK SLAP SLAP. Lacks some interesting turns in my opinion, and gets dumbed down along the length. 7/10 10. 夕刻絶交センチメンタル - Twisted happy-happy early 2000 vk-inspired pop song with old school shouting and spoken word rambling. Enough to explain the content of this little bastard. Oh Grieva, you are so mental 9/10 11. 第39条第1項「心神喪失者ノ行為ハ之ヲ罰セス」- Das:Vasser/Gauze-DEG derivation strikes back with full force, oh yeah! Would go easily as a coupling with "Chuuzetsu" 9/10 12. 悲しみは巡りゆく季節と眠る哀 - Modern vk sound comes out from the corner again with "your everyday,necessary vk ballad as a closer"-cliche. Won't mind this, since this settles album quite well after many psychotic turns. 7/10 13. [Weiß] of Chaos (SE) - baby cries, reference to the intro, slowed down wails, merry-go-round themes, sudden gunshots, doors closing...oh you lil' creeper 10/10 As you see, this is actually one of the few young bands I have paid attention to lately - thanks to their obvious homages to different old school phenomena, like say, Gauze/Missa-era DEG or stan-worthy Kuroyume a la RnS/Nakigara Wo...-era. A HUGE IMPROVEMENT compared to their past with Dear Dolce-whatever it is (not worth mentioning to be quite honest). Great debut album, great songs, kudos to Grieva! 8,5/10 - makes you come back for more, and more, and more...

September, October and November.

Trying to think of much better, more appropriate title to this piece of news, but either way: SOURCES: Alienmaskedcreature@tumblr +

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6iVvIvmbiJ8 Previews Not sure how I feel about Wild Rush with Verbal's twist...also: Gazette's barking BG vox with Shakin Love? Hmm

BUCK-TICK DIR EN GREY Kuroyume L'arc~en~ciel the GazettE Luna Sea Guess that's enough for "essential favorites", those might change alot these days...

A PV for "Tatoeba Kimi to Boku" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XPxCErC3vJ4 A PV for "Mellow Hollow" Tatoeba's pv is quite intriguing, lol.

That just feels so random, especially the inclusion of "THE FINAL" (hope it won't be as butchered as OBSCURE) Oh, I am expecting another mindfuck PV on "Karma" (this time with green screen insanity)

Tracklist: 01. LEVEL 4 [Arranger & Guests: UZUMAKI] 02. Blue thunder [Arranger: solstice interest shore / Guest: Tomoyasu Hotei] 03. IMITATION CRIME [Arranger: KEN HARADA / Guest: JESSE RIZE] 04. INVOKE [Arranger: kz (livetune)] 05. Last resort [Arranger: Kosuke Oshima / Guest: May J.] 06. -Monopolize dictatorship- [ Arranger: Daisuke Asakura / Guest: TATSUYA] 07. Love new theory of evolution - talk prized possession. [Arranger: Hiroshi Shibasaki] 08. O.L [Arranger: Satoru Suzuki / Guest: Yasuharu Nakanishi] 09. Burnin 'X'mas [Arranger: INA] 10. SHAKIN 'LOVE [Arranger: IKUO / Guests: the GazettE, Masayuki Hasuo, 385 bonanzas] 11. Out Of Orbit ~ Triple ZERO ~ [Arranger: SHINGO Agitato] 12. WILD RUSH [Arranger & Guests: VERBAL m-flo] 13 Albireo - Albireo - [Arranger: Tom H @ ck] 14 vestige - Vu~esutiji - [Arranger: Takashi Matsutani] 15. Tomorrow Meets Resistance [Arranger & Guests: HOME MADE family] Limited Edition bonus: 16. Meteor - Meteor [Arranger: Onishi Shogo, Onetrap] It will be released on 27/02/2013 source: natalie.mu, CDJAPAN

Going with J-releases due to OP's part...(included samples in album titles) A good, consistent representation of early vk sound a.k.a. how VK should actually be these days instead of Americana endorsement. Don't mind the "bad" mixing of Extasy records - just let yourself go with the flow of this masterpiece! Although I prefer the rerecorded version to this one ("Dwellers of a Sandcastle"), WS still induces a nice imagery with exotic, 80s-like artsy numbers. The title track a.k.a. ice cream truck song is lovelier here than in DoaS, to be quite honest . *cannot upload an original ver. atm* Shows how bohemian, wild, elegant and original can Kiyoharu be in his music too. A nice punch of swing and many other influences from old genres. I guess that's all for now...

Of course not. It's just quite different these days - as in quite horrible way..

Bumping for MH FIN-miitti 2013 (vaikka 70% todennäköisyydellä en ottaisi edes osaa koko juttuun itsestään selvän asian takia)