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Jeez, what a hideous album art.

+ Never liked Mio's clean vocals, he uses too much vibrato which doesn't fit the heavy low tuned guitars. His voice would fit with a band like Matenrou Opera way better, the dude legit ruins Nazare for me. This band with Dadaroma's vocals would have been 10/10.

1 hour ago, CAT5 said:

 

one of my all-time fav. anime OPs. Maaya Sakamoto + Yoko Kanno was a legendary combo.

Interesting African influences. 

1 hour ago, nikuman said:

From under reporting numbers? I think pretty much all countries are under reporting due to the lack of testing, not just Japan. I’m from America and I know for a fact that we have waaaay more cases than we’re seeing reported because we aren’t testing.
 

 In Japan’s case, I wouldn’t be surprised if the olympics (and work culture over there in general) had a hand in the hesitance to test. The less you test, the less confirmed cases you have. With less confirmed cases, people feel less likely to get the virus so they carry on as usual. 

That is true. They were massively under reporting cases due to Tokyo Olympics 2020, thinking it's just a bubble and it will eventually pass. But once they realized how serious it is, they announced that the Olympics were reported till 2021 and out of a sudden the reported cases exploded over night. 

Now, that was under reporting. But I wouldn't call not testing enough people under reporting. To me under reporting is when the government  knows the numbers but decides to not reveal them to the masses, like what China is being accused of right now, and what Japan did to protect Tokyo Olympics 2020. 

But as for now, I don't think they do. As I just can't see what they would gain from doing that as opposed to China. 

On 4/5/2020 at 11:06 PM, nikuman said:

I hate sounding like a conspiracy theorist but I honestly feel like numbers are/were being under reported. Plus Japan hasn't been testing as much as China and South Korea. It's really irresponsible considering how old Japan's population is... Not enough measures being taken and the measures that have been taken are infuriating i.e the whole "two masks for every family" debacle.

What would they gain from doing that though, out of all other countries.

I personally never was into old school Visual Kei (both music and aesthetics), even back in the days I was only listening to the bands who went for a more modern/heavy sound and sleek black leather jackets (instead of the extravagant cosplay look most bands went for at the time) such as Dir En Grey, 12012 (Post Deicida of Silence) and lynch.

Started getting more and more into the genre as more heavy bands have started emerging on the scene. The turning point for me was the release of Dogma by the GazettE which was kind of the official announcement that the Visual Kei scene fully embraced the heavier sound and was ready to follow the prophecy of Dir En Grey.

Not usually into contemporary Pop music, but discovered this through a Sony Japan ad spot and been loving it. 

Obscurial is a gem, reminds me of Dadaroma's good stuff. Red Masquerade is a cool song but the chorus is underwhelming. 

Quite a promising band, looking forward their next release. 

I'm still wondering how Japan has such low numbers compared to China and South Korea. They are the country with the highest ratio of elderly population.

6 hours ago, saiko said:

Perhaps you want to refer to what some people here call the "guitar-wanking"? That sort of excessively chopped guitar lines and/or fast high-pitch melodies. That work is featured in both djent and math genres as well, although their differences. 

Yup, that exactly. Thanks.

It's very unpleasant to my ears. 

18 hours ago, Saishu said:

It isn’t djent. Like... at all. 

Whatever the name of the guitar tuning they're using. 

3 hours ago, lichtlune said:

I think you would like heavier DADAROMA tbh. 

 

Imagine if all their songs were like this and Oboreru Sakana. I'm so salty that they wasted their potential making ridiculous Circus Kei. 

Had a short convo with the vocalist of the underground band Suggestions. Highly recommend their music if you're into downtempo deathcore.

the GazettE - Ugly

Dir En Grey - Vinushka

Dir En Grey - 我、闇とて

Nightmare - Alumina

Girugamesh - END

Really digging this band. I wish more Black Metal bands had this good of a production, most of them sound like they have been recording on a Casio calculator.

The vocalist comes from a Deathcore background, which explains why I'm liking this so much.

The online live concert this morning was a good initiative from the band. They've made a respectable sum of money from the YouTube donations. 

My criticism is about as similar as a lot of people here, the bass is almost non-existent. Other than that, it's way too djenty for my taste.

On 3/27/2020 at 7:04 PM, Ro plz said:

PM me your location, fuck the Corona virus.

 

i just wanna figh....I mean talk.

You should be mad at the 2/10 guy. At least I gave this a 6 boyo. 

XIII is a much more homogeneous record. This one sounds like a debut album of a new band trying to show off all the different styles they can play.

I gave it a decent rating though because the brutal tracks were a blast.

5 minutes ago, Ro plz said:

Actually, now that I think about it...this album would’ve been more dope if it was just ballads. 

Yeah It would. At least it would have its own niche for people who are in the mood for ballads. 

This chaotic mix just doesn't do it for me. XIII takes a deuce on this record.

Meh, they should have sticked to music style like Oboreru Sakana, the whole circus rock killed this band for me.

If all the songs were like Allergie it would probably be my favorite album of the year. Too bad we got a bunch of mediocre ballads with 0 personality instead.

Will have to give it more playthroughs but don't think my opinion would change much. 6/10.