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Has anyone checked in on Gackt recently? This guy is out here giving out f*nger*ng instructions set to his music on youtube with not a care in the world. 
 
The creepy old man phase is complete

Has anyone checked in on Gackt recently? This guy is out here giving out f*nger*ng instructions set to his music on youtube with not a care in the world. 
 
The creepy old man phase is complete

They didn’t fuck up Fukai because it was played straight for the most part. All they did was use the alternate lyrics from like 2004. 
 
Kiri to Mayu 2012 is my favorite remake because all the parts are there, just rearranged in a way that’s more interesting than usual. 

As for Clever Sleazoid, I find Kyo to be the only real problem this time around. A lot of his parts sound rushed/crammed in with no real regard for the change in phrasing in the switch to Japanese. The “witherwither” part sounds less goofy, but why is it where it is?

Kisou's sounds honestly never really bothered me. It sounds thin to me and sometimes sounds like it's playing through a plastic tube, but I've always thought that was a stylistic choice. At the very least it has personality and has a diverse sound palette. 

TIW sound has the character of a deep fried piece of mozzarella dipped in stone cold marinara. Every track sounds like it's a radio rip or something. I'd take a rain soaked copy of a La:Sadie's demo tape over TIW's sound any day. 

Actually, Arche is not as bad. It's loud but has a much cleaner sound. TIW feels like they threw overdrive over everything on top of whacking it all up to '11'.

Never liked CEH from even the first listen. It's the only song I still can't get into. Maybe I'm being unfair. It's... okay. I just feel that it's another loud, bleak, boring song with not much really going for it, and it bogs down the already difficult first half of the album.
No way! Downfall is great!

I'm not really feeling either track. Five listens in on Ochita and I can barely remember it. Definitely do not like what they did to my boi CLEVER SLEAZOID. I wanted a rerecording not a remake.

Maybe the tracks will grow on me with time.

Don't hold your breath, they're still holding TWOM hostage! 

Don't hold your breath, they're still holding TWOM hostage! 

did they pour the production budget for this straight into kaoru's bank account?..

Doesn't seem like it's worth the time to make a Spotify account for this. Never used a streaming service before. Not going to start now.
 
The whole situation with DEG, the fucking awful mastering of their last album, the handling of the latest single, and now this, rubs me completely the wrong way.

Was this supposed to make me nostalgic of my middle school cell phone and its built in ring tones🤣🤣

I just noticed while recording the song from spotify and cutting it for my collection, it's the same track twice.
Just with a different ending to the second one... and even parts of one part of the whole are the same...
It's so fucking lazy of them, oh man.

Thanks, I HATE it (or more specifically, I hate the track hiccupping every time it changes part), I didn't even finish 2 minutes of the track.
 
Is this a late april fools joke?
 
 
The joke is that you cannot even do it with how it hiccups from part to part every 30 seconds.

Of course! Just not for YouTube, channel is still on lockdown.
 
But there might be a mediafire link showing up later~

I mean if lynch spontaneously released a 3 track single after stopping doing singles for several album cycles why wouldn't these heffas spare us some tunes? I can always hope :')

... The fact that it's already been so long since those songs came out is really fucking me up right now. Somehow it feels like they came out only a couple of years ago but it's already nearly been a decade? What the good goddamn lol

reeeeeee just fucking do it on youtube like everybody elseeeeeeeeee

Mate I know how recording an album works. 😛 But even though what you're saying in theory is correct, I actually disagree and don't believe a "perfect" take exists, let alone a perfect song or album. But if you think about it, that's kind of the point, when you're in a studio, you're only looking to get that one take of that one riff which is "good enough" for the recording and the songs haven't really been rehearsed as a band (at least not to any great length, again this isn't true for all band obviously) but it's after playing that song so many times in a rehearsal/live environment that you really refine your performance of that song and could go into the studio and pull off the entire song from start to finish almost flawlessly with little effort and you only need to go and tidy up the messy parts perhaps. The studio environment doesn't make you always feel at your most relaxed in order to be able to play your best I can guarantee that. 😛

They're too linked to my late adolescence for me to ever rate them objectively. I'll forever associate them with Naruto AMVs and embarrassing early 2000s forums where we all used signature banners made for us by the one guy there who knew how to use photoshop filters.

Well, well, well, if it isn't the consequences of my own actions.
They better plan to use the stream for something. ><
 
Here's a reup:
 

Yeah you have pretty much summed up that news article. Can't believe he went to Sanrio though! lol The article quotes Kyo: "They (Sanrio) may want to avoid a slightly scary character. I don't like normal happy endings. I will publish this for people who resonate with the realism it depicts." And it also says he may do a sequel or create a mascot character ("yuru kyara") I would love to see his yuru-kyara XD
 
And the article opens with an introduction of Kyo as "vocalist of visual-kei rock band, DIR EN GREY". So yeah, DEG is still only recognised as a vk band.

Is he TRYING to be Yoshiki?

I think Shinya would rather die.

I think he looks the best he has in years. The bright dyed hair may be strange on a 40 something year old but he’s in a VK band and it looks fine on him imo. Mostly I’m glad he shaved that awful chin beard thing he had for so long.