Seimeisen

Either the fans that actually voted have considerably poor taste, or the band threw out a few votes. I like both songs, but if I had to choose between the two, I'd choose 陵辱の雨. I'm trying to remember why I didn't vote. Did I not know about it until after the polls closed? Did I just not give a shit? 'cause I'm really wishing I did vote. If I did, I'd have more of a right to bitch about the song selection. DOZING GREEN and CLEVER SLEAZOID should have swapped places on the tracklist. Not only is it more chronological (especially since SLEAZOID is the single version, released 6 months after Wtd.), but it flows better. I mean, not that tracklist flow mattered in the slightest here... I'm done ranting for the 432,000th time. Disc 3 is a joke. I'm shutting up now.

YES 👏 FUCKING 👏 PLEASE!! Even if they were just released individually, I'd pay for a re-release of VULGAR and Withering. Those VESTIGE remasters were great!

I don't hate it anymore, I just did the first couple times, but I went back to it and it's alright. I've always liked the energy and the "oldie punk sound" of it, but at first I just couldn't stand the main riff, but it's fine now. It's not my favourite on M-OLOGIE (that one is a tie between 犬型真性MASOCHIST and 傘と雨), but still enjoyable.

Not sure about MORRIGAN, but I know that PITTTY was the main composer for XIBALBA (he has a composition credit for each song in their collection album) when he was URAKEN (for what it's worth). He and Aryu co-wrote DesiregardeN. I don't know if any of that can indicate what's ahead, composition wise.

Eh, I was hoping for an album announcement by now. And wait a minute... 脳壊す (which is actually romanised as Nou Kowasu)... that more or less means SMASH THE BRAIN. Are they really gonna rerelease that song as a single, or will it be a new song? Really hoping it’s a new song and the title is a coincidence (like what R指定 did with 青春はリストカット), ‘cause I don’t like STB.

For me, I can't hear anything but "and in the sound of all the Chanseys"

2018 is the year of bandomen ghosting their bands

If the guitar was recorded in mono, it should have sounded through mono speakers. When playing audio through mono speakers, (or playing through headphones with mono audio selected), a lot of little things you can hear through stereo sound are gone, but anything mono still remains. I don't know what the science is behind it, I'm no audio engineering expert, and I don't feel like I'm doing a great job explaining this. Another thing to note, is that some smartphone speakers (and small size speakers in general) only have mono sound.

- Everything (other than the re-recordings) was remastered, but VULGAR/Wtd. aside, the differences are very subtle. - Using the single version of 脈 before 理由 was kind of strange, they should have just used the album version. Child prey is the album version, not single version - Disc 3 is problematic; only a handful of the songs are terrible, but only less than half I would have voted to include on a best-of album On Disc 1, 太陽の蒼 and ain't afraid to die could have just been replaced by MACABRE (the song), and if there was still room on the CD, add in the original 羅刹国. My problem with Disc 2 is that they tried to cram in songs from 4 different albums. What I think they should have done is use that disc for just VULGAR/Wtd./MARROW, and put UROBOROS tracks on Disc 3. I made alternative tracklists for each disc, and here's what I picked for Disc 3: I refuse to believe that anyone voted for utafumi, OBSCURE 2011, or Sustain the untruth.

Wow I'm an idiot. I guess the event promoters went with the previous look because the new one is just that hideous.

Fixed a few, provided theories for another, I might try to translate the others later

Okay, FJ what the fuck. I instructed everything to be in one shipment, what the fuck is this 2 shipment nonsense? ARE YOU TRYING TO DRAIN MY CHECKING ACCOUNT? Well, what a stupid fucking question of course you are, or why else would you split what I instructed as one shipment into two without my instruction? OMG if I knew they were gonna pull this bullshit, I would have instructed separate shipments, motherfucker. And I can't choose FedEx because for some reason, FedEx won't ship goddamn food, so I have to pay EMS, which is ¥4,500 PER SHIPMENT ...... But on the plus side, I have zero other FJ fees, nothing but EMS charges, since I bought everything from Rakuten Still though, Fuck You for the ten thousandth time, FROM JAPAN! Now send me my goddamn KitKats

The only remasters on VOS that sound significantly different are -I'll-, the tracks from VULGAR, Withering to death., and UROBOROS (kind of, they sound much better than the 2012 remasters.). I really wish they'd have just remastered all of VULGAR and Withering to death. I'm not digging the new Beautiful Dirt or THE IIID EMPIRE. I would have been just happy with remasters of those two. And speaking of re-recordings, including the DSS/UNRAVELING-era re-recordings was offensive, especially OBSCURE. But I still love the new 腐海!

Their look has been updated for the 4-man tour with BugLug, vistlip, and R指定 FALSE ALARM, NO IT HASN'T THEIR JUST USING AN OLD LOOK TO PROMOTE A TOUR BECAUSE THEY'RE DUMB, ALSO SEI IS A DRUNK IDIOT They look... sort of less hideous with some updated hair styles and doing away with those embarrassing Yu-gi-oh NARUTO headbands. They should have gone with this look to start with, and fired whoever styled them in the first look.

Holy shit I am actually in love with the new 腐海!! I'm still not expecting anything incredible with IIID EMPIRE or Beautiful Dirt, but still wanna hear them. And I actually didn't know the other tracks on this were remastered, but actually hearing the teaser vids with my headphones, I can notice the difference (saku, ゆらめき). My opinion on VOS is turning around and I'm starting to get interested. I still think I could have come up with better tracklists for the CDs, and maybe they could have re-recorded some more (older) tracks, but who knows, maybe after a listen or two of the full thing I'll agree that the selection they chose perfectly captures the band's essence ... or something. And I'm also betting this won't end up on iTunes. If I had to guess, it's 100% because of pre-VULGAR material, and their label must be adamantly against digitally distributing such material for whatever reason. This is speculation on the grounds that DECADE 1998-2002 did not make it to iTunes, but DECADE 2003-2007 did (but I don't know if it's still there).

@itsukoii more details First link: http://the-gazette.com/discography/319.html Second link: http://the-gazette.com/discography/331.html Third link: http://the-gazette.com/discography/322.html First and third links are different versions of the same live release (first DOGMATIC TOUR finale, 2016/02/28), the second link is actually a documentary of their DOGMATIC world tour. Get the first link! It might be DVD only (no Blu-ray option womp womp), but it comes in a 12" package with a photo book and another tour documentary. I held a copy when I was in Japan, but wouldn't have had room in my luggage, so I didn't buy it sad.

If xaa-xaa disband this year, I will not be okay. Shimizuya closing would be nice; they murdered Lycaon and AvelCain. Kizu better be working on an album right now. I wanna hype those guys but I need fuel

Um, okay, whatever

I'm interested in hearing the re-recorded songs, but otherwise, absolutely not! If it wasn't for the re-recordings, I wouldn't pay this comp any attention at all. I think this one will feel most 'bootleg-y' to me, with the stupid title and the poor tracklist. With the DECADE series, at least they remastered (nearly) everything, and did some edits to a few songs, instead of just copy/pasting everything. If they were gonna re-record every song in the tracklist pre-2007, I think I'd be more interested.

I really hope they surprise us with a final album. The thought of 昨日の怖い夢 being their final release is extremely frustrating!

I completely forgot they existed. I saw the word ドラゴン and immediately freaked, thinking it was コドモドラゴン.

Of course From Japan has to do some fucking Rakuten sale AFTER I spend $60 at 伊藤久右衛門 and $50 at Nestle shops, of course, they couldn't do this fucking sale when I was ordering this shit, nor could they have announced it in advance, no no, they had to do this now, and only for a day, after I order all my shit. Fuck you FJ, just fuck you!

Larking Seals need to stop clinging to others to reclaim their so-called “fame” and feed delusions that they’re such hot shit. It hurts them and their victims.

What the fuck at all of this

I think a less awkward, more human English interpretation could be, "You, Me, And This Ugly Town" I know the word order is reversed, but it sounds more natural in English, as does using "and" only once in a list.