ambivalentideal

In the grand scheme of things every DEG album sounds like sweaty cheeks, so I don’t know why we even continue to have this discussion 

i only listen to my music through recycled mcdonalds drive-thru speakers and TIW sounds amazing tbh

new band "ひととなり (Hitotonari)" has formed and will commence formal activities at 2019/11/7 at Shibuya VUENOS.
 
In an unusual twist, they have opened a crowdfunding page: https://checkeredflag.jp/product/new-band-hitotonari/
 
Vo.H∧L (ex-キボウ屋本舗 (Kibouya Honpo)-->マイナス人生オーケストラ (Minus Jin-Say Orchestra))
Gu.クマ (Kuma) (ex-beaU-->AibeLL-->GizeL-->レクレンズ (Reclens), also in リムキャット (Rimcat))
Ba.進藤 渉 (Shindo Wataru) (ex-LIPHLICH)
Dr.DARI

http://hitotonari.tokyo/

Like an Edison Nagoya will close on October 18.
http://la-edison.com/news/?p=2787
 
 

There's something about the cover of Vulgar that just so perfectly represents what the album is like. It's a very simple cover that still manages to give off such a sinister and evil feeling. Less really is more in this case. My favorite part is the fleshy, purple parts at the top. It's disturbing because you don't quite know what you're looking at - is it gloves? the arms of some twisted creature? both? - to where it adds to the feeling of unease. Setting it against the pure black of the background gives it an even more intense feeling of dread and I absolutely love it.

There's something about the cover of Vulgar that just so perfectly represents what the album is like. It's a very simple cover that still manages to give off such a sinister and evil feeling. Less really is more in this case. My favorite part is the fleshy, purple parts at the top. It's disturbing because you don't quite know what you're looking at - is it gloves? the arms of some twisted creature? both? - to where it adds to the feeling of unease. Setting it against the pure black of the background gives it an even more intense feeling of dread and I absolutely love it.

They said they had plans to start work on a new album after the final, I think in an interview while in Mexico.

Excuse me....
 
Mine are 8.99.

After looking at their new pics, it's clear they had their hair done for the session, and also used make up at least for delivering a 'natural' effect. So they still look pretty elegant, dramatic, gothy and androginous in this 'new look'. Although them announcing they are going to tone down a good part of their old looks, maybe they won't completely erase the key elements of the 'VK' look. 
 
Feeling positive today, lol

MH kei is official

This is brief, biased, vague, and most likely wrong but here goes!
 
-Everyone ditched Aoi (because the music was getting lame) and made a new band, creatively named AYABIE. Aoi stayed on the record label out of a sense of duty?
-Aoi did a poppy solo album and some boring side projects. 
-AYABIE released some pretty good shiz. People hate on Yumehito's singing but he's a'ight. 
-Everyone left AYABIE except Takehito for various reasons. Maybe it was because of that keyboardist they took on? I think Intetsu quit music altogether? 
-I assume Takehito called it a day too. 
-They all came back together (including Aoi) to do some one off gig I think? Sans keyboardist I assume. They later announced they were coming back and recently brought out an incredibly forgettable album. 

ppl out there are gonna be like ''wow the mastering on this is awful. they REALLY messed up the production on this one fellas'' & will then go right back to listening to music on $5 earbuds

I feel like I should be more knowledgeable on music dynamics and such since I do write music for fun but tbh
 
...maybe my ear isn't as trained as everyone who has this HUGE issue with the production but to me, its nothing that drastic. I feel like I've heard worse.
 
Musically its easily one of their best efforts in a long time and these lives are a great testament to that.
 
 

1. Withering to death
2. Vulgar
3. Gauze
4. Uroboros
5. Macabre
6. Dum spiro spero
7. Arche
8. Kisou
9. The marrow of a bone
 
Vulgar and withering to death keep changing places, I can just never decide which one I find best. Kisou has some amazing songs on it, but in general the sound is just....too much? If I liste to the whole album, I usually get a headache. Embryo, Mushi or undecided are great songs (and Zomboid is super fun), but in general I would put it last with the marrow of a bone (which had the same problem, basically.) Arche and dum siro spero are very well put together albums imo, I can just listen to them while relaxing on the train, the beginning and endings of songs are seamless. However, some of their older albums such as WTD had more highlights for me.

Were already their best friends nice

who's gonna take one for the team and explain that i actually like the music lol

Seems like the guys know about existence of MH, @Tokage
 

girugamesh - ALIVE CD+DVD
girugamesh - BORDER CD+DVD
cali≠gari - ≠
 
Found someone selling those two girugamesh singles for 3$ each, and if you bought both they were offering an unnamed caligari CD. I didn't much care for the singles cause late girugamesh sucks but figured the free CD would make up for it and IT DID \^^/ 
 

(im being lazy so here's the auction photo)
 
SARIGIA - AGARTHA
SARIGIA - AGARTHA CD+DVD
SARIGIA - RUIN
SARIGIA - RUIN CD+DVD
SARIGIA - ANOTHER PAIN
SARIGIA - DECAYED
SARIGIA - EVERGREEN
SARIGIA - that youtube collection CD
SARIGIA - Gesshoku

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I'm listening to the world of mercy rn and tbh it would slay as an opening TIW track
(and they optionally could've scrapped the first two or three shit songs or idk release them as singles later, ending the album with ranunculus and everything would have been better that way)
 
but I'm p sure they didn't have enough rejected ideas ready to get rearranged at the time album was produced.
 
 
I'm trimming it to 6:20 for my playlist lol idc papa kaoru's composing genius up his ass again
 
nnnnn @ takumi's shitty new synth jumping out again I hate it sfm I literally can't, another reason to end this thing early
 
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does anyone else think the way they recorded the kyopera around 09:00 sounds p similar to studio fuckery that yomi from nightmare and hayato from duel jewel were resorting to shortly before announcing their hiatuses/semi-retirement? thots?..

Yep, Uroboros. Now that's an album.
 

Edit cuz double post, also just cuz an album has two or three bangers doesn’t mean it’s good
 
also also Kisou is DEG’s worst sounding album. It’s the aural equivalent of chewing foil and sandpaper 

See, but I wonder if it's a matter of stylistic choices or poor production choices. I've heard other bands I like with lots of music industry experience (Japanese and other countries) release albums with some very questionable audio quality. Like, it'll be their 6th album and their album will be brickwalled and have clipped audio everywhere, or instruments balanced poorly. To me, those things are not a stylistic choice but amateur audio production. I haven't followed the release of this album at all so don't know anything about what the band has said about inspiration for the album or any production decisions, so maybe they did consciously decide on this sound, but just from my listening experience that's not the feeling I got. I may not be able to, but it's great you're able to overlook the production aspect of music since it allows you enjoy more music.
 
Is that a "Fantano" rating I hear?
 
Yeah, I agree their discography is really solid. There isn't anything I absolutely hate (except R to the Core) and they experiment a lot so they have a wide range of material.  But I still think World of Mercy is a burning Rubbish Heap 😂

withering to death gave y'all dead tree it literally never been more obvious their current pedestrian stans don't understand ART

Withering to death
Gauze 
Macabre
Uroboros
Kisou
DSS
Arche
TIW
 
I miss the catchiness and simplicity of Withering to death. I think i don't really like the extremely low tuning of their new albums. It makes everything more muddy.