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黒夢 2014.04.12 Zepp Tokyo
The second coming of 1994『地獄の三夜』
SET LIST（セットリスト）

01.楽死運命
02.磔
03.狂い奴隷
04.& Die
05.FUNERAL SONG
06.人時 Bass solo
07.麻薬
08.MARIAS DEAPIR
09.G-BONDAGE
10.Telegram Sam（Bauhaus）
11,MISSING GLORY-狂人-
12.IN SKY
13.浮遊悲
14.黒夢
15.中絶

EN
01.親愛なるデスマスク

Score: | How disappointing...
 
Let's get something out of the way early: this album sounds like shit.
 
The production is abysmal. Their standards have been slipping ever since I BELIEVE IN ME, and the EXODUS EP released not too long ago was a little dry for my taste. In comparison, this is a desert. A vast, barren desert where the bass and treble are too damn high, and the midsection is non existent. For a casual listener of music, this may not be an issue. But for an enthusiast like me who invested a few hundred bucks into his listening equipment, I hear nothing but production flaws. It's enough to turn potentially great songs into good songs, and mediocre songs into indistinguishable rumbling, and it's enough to take a point off the top automatically.
 
There is the odd occasion in which I can overlook lackluster production if the quality of the music is great. I've been a fan of lynch. for years, and they are one of my favorite bands, so this would be one of those times...except it's not. This album is both too long and too repetitive, and whatever ideas lynch. had didn't stretch over all songs equally. There are tracks like ENVY, DEVIL, and PHOENIX that are okay, but there's nothing that's really good. Just average songs and shit songs.
 
What's lacking is enough to scratch off two more points. There's not enough clean vocals, pop influence, or melodic variety for my tastes. For example, BULLET was decent up until the one minute mark, where the band launches into 2014's dullest breakdown. If it were just BULLET, I'd write it off as a bad track. But there are too many nameless, faceless tracks that follow one after the other that feel like cut and paste sections of melodies. Almost every track is awash with monotone harsh vocals, which becomes unpleasant to listen to after the sixth or seventh track. If it weren't already bad enough, every time there's an opportunity for a track's arrangement to grow they either repeat themselves or launch into a breakdown. The songs themselves feel too constrained and recycled, and while I don't mind if a band recycles riffs from time to time, three times in one album is too much. If you want examples, attempt to describe to yourself the differences in riffs on MAD, MERCILESS, and GUILLOTINE. I can't.
 
So 2014 comes and goes and lynch. swings and misses again. The constant misplaced metalcore influences are irritating, and lynch.'s inconsistency on the detail and creative fronts are sinking their credibility as a band that can produce decent albums at worst. If they're going to continue to show so little compositional enthusiasm, they may as well just stop.

^I informed about it in their thread already tho, but eh.

"We're sorry about Angelo and LM.C, really"

Bear actually nailed it quite well - considering that "both sides" , as in (some prime examples) 1) hiring some Jedwards/Eurovision composer/writer to write your "renewed major" songs or 2) being the main composer with hasbeen-ish ideas, and not giving  enough room for your bandmates writing-wise (*cough*Kuroyume and Gazette again sorry*cough*)  can end up as equally bad, so it doesn't really matter who did your songs - credits are obviously imporant to mention, and arrangement is the key point of "good song" tbqh (well, at least it's a obvious choice for me) - you could make a good composition with decent lyrics, but with sloppy arrangement, you won't definitely please anyone...
 
As a case in point (I apologize beforehand for straying off-topic): imagine if songs by lynch. were performed by a different band representing the same sound, but with more intact/less sloppy performance (+ good mixing). Big difference, huh?

i'm not sure what kind of gazette rumours are those (because they would actually better hire a couple actual ghostwriters), but the closest thing vk currently has to the whole creative artist ≠ performer situation thing is miyavi's atrocious self titled album, which ironically features zero of his own writing and to me, that drove the authenticity of this person even lower. not to mention that the album in question's lyrics were outstandingly bad as well??
 
as a rhianna fan i probably should not judge vk acts who would have done this at all, and probably wouldn't, if their music hasn't sucked regardless of uncredited creative effort. 

I don't have anything against it, good music is good music no matter who wrote and who performed it. But I do think it's pretty pathetic to use ghost writers and take the cred as writers. Just give the actual writers the cred they deserve for fuck sake.

well no one cares I know eheahah /going overdramatic

I like how much effort you put into the track titles, GazettE should hire you for them (because really I could see these pop up at some time).

Is this about white people?

Things you never hear VK bands say:
 
 
 
 
sorry i had to 

New Shiina is NEVER NOT A GOOD THING.

Yeti (RADWIMPS)
For people following Japanese rock "from both sides" (as in both "non-vk" and "vk") like me, it's really not hard to see that Emiru (and co.) , funnily and obviously enough, "worships" Radwimps - especially their frontman Yojiro Noda. There isn't really anything worth mentioning "plagiarism-wise" (read: I can't find anything to accuse them for, lol) but yeti's indie-like position, visual and audial styles is something what you'd apply to their possible idols, or so.
 


(if I'm really understanding what bear was trying to say...)

new look/album cover for "Gyakuyunyuu ~Kouwankyoku~" - regular edition (the other one is not really any different):
 

 
She will have 4 lives in the end of May/beginning of June, for album promotion (more info on Ringohan, as usual)

* CAT5 slowly transforms into GOAT5

so CAT is actually a gurl?

...

all this time, all these years... ._. wtf

Poster for his first solo debut live a la guest appearance in Handa Koji's show. He's billed as a "visual-kei enka singer" in both TM4NS ohp and Kanagawa prefecture.

that vk guy in the middle of all those sparkly enka singers
 
 
YES.

Poster for his first solo debut live a la guest appearance in Handa Koji's show. He's billed as a "visual-kei enka singer" in both TM4NS ohp and Kanagawa prefecture.

Poster for his first solo debut live a la guest appearance in Handa Koji's show. He's billed as a "visual-kei enka singer" in both TM4NS ohp and Kanagawa prefecture.

I am not going to spoil this to anyone but those who have seen the series - you know why...;_;
 
Daft Punk - Digital Love
Basically one hell of a nostalgia trip - and romantic one!
 

Sailor Moon is the necessity in everyone's happy childhood!1!!
 

one of my "eternal favorites", seriously. (even if my taste might change for "worse", this will be still my favorite - 15 years since my first listen!)

CISGENDER SCUM

#Wikisakileaks
 
But yeah, at this point I wouldn't be surprised if Kisaki just made these bands up by himself.

Well, considering that this is Jrock-based forum, I can see people ignoring this thread : /
 
Either way, my favorite era off Capsule's repertoire might be lying in between SF and MORE!MORE!MORE! (I am more into that housey stuff Nakata did in the past /still does with Perfume and Kyary)
 
my current jams btw:
 

(check the ghibli PV for that off Vimeo!)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0dU8_8fDDxk
and JUMPER of course
 
/// pardon for my overexcited post...