Seimeisen

4 hours ago, nullmoon said:

Out of interest, is anyone remotely excited about this compilation? I have all the albums so far but can't see much merit in this, especially when the Decade releases are still relatively recent. It probably would have made more sense to do a new CD covering the last three albums and then tack on the re-recorded songs to the end as bonuses (if you can call them that). 

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

6 hours ago, chemicalpictures said:

What would be the translation to the album title? google says it's "Awkward City and Me and You". Is that correct?

3 hours ago, patientZERO said:

That's about right. It could also be read as "The Ugly Town and Me and You."

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.

16 hours ago, suji said:

SUICIDE ALI

THIS IS AN EVIL TEASE 😠

 - the GazettE's new album will KILL ME

 - DIR EN GREY will announce a new album, and maybe a single to go with it

 - Royz, 己龍, and コドモドラゴン will all release new albums, one week apart from each other; the コドモドラゴン album will be pretty awesome, the Royz one will be br00tal but also boyband-ish, the 己龍 one will kind of suck and be obnoxious with the synthesised bullshit; there will be a formula to these albums

 - More on BP Records, their sound engineers will take the loudness war and The Art of Garbage Production Quality to a whole new level; they will not be fired for the atrocities they have been committing since ~2015

 - THE NOVEMBERS new album/mini-album because they have to

 - New lynch. album because they have to

 - New 凛として時雨 album; Miyoko and Pierre will not shine enough on this album, TK will wrongfully hog the spotlight

 - Plastic Tree will release something, they might announce an album

 - Think NoGoD can't get worse? Think again! They can, and will

I still can't wrap my head around the logic of announcing a release before it's been recorded (or even written). I want a new GazettE album more than any of you, but dude, what were they thinking?!

On 15/12/2016 at 3:18 PM, Seimeisen said:

 - NEW FUCKING MERRY ALBUM  ✔

 - ザアザア will continue to kill it ✔

 - DIR EN GREY will release a single with embarrassing excuses for b-sides ✗

 - MEJIBRAY will release seven singles ✗

 - 己龍 will release five singles ✗

 - R指定 will release three singles ✔

 - cali≠gari 13 ✔

 - lynch. will release an album in September or October ✔

 - Plastic Tree will release a single that sounds like 瞳孔/落花/Silent Noise ✔ ✗

 - we might get a lot of surprise albums, since pretty much all we got in 2016 was fucking singles ✗

 

As for DEZERT ... well, I don't think they'll go major, but they will do things... they'll either:

 - Be super consistent and release some awesome shit ✔

 - Lose another member in the midst of upcoming releases, then scrap it all for a short sub-par album ✗

7/11

 - I would have rather gotten a pathetic utaboomy-ish DEG single than the announcement for VESTIGE OF ASSES, but at least they're [supposedly] working on a new album, sooo...

 - R指定 was technically 2 singles and a mini album

 - lynch. was only a mini, but still a great release, and honestly much better than BLØØD THIRSTY CREATURE

 - Plastic Tree did release a single, but it actually sounded different for once

 - I'm giving DEZERT points being consistent and releasing awesome shit, even though they just did one single and one live-dist track, but おやすみ is probably the most beautiful song released this entire year.

Am I the only one hearing Mamo growl "MISTLETOE" after the chorus? It sounds like he's saying "mistletoe"

Huh, so that photographer was just some detective. Are the mother/daughter gonna kill him too? They'll make a rather interesting serial killer duo. I'm guessing the mosaic'd parts are the girls chopping up the rapist boyfriend's body. Also, 3:06 is a whole new level of fucked up.

Why was that guy taking pictures of a little girl getting beaten up? Was that the PV director's way of saying "this is Mamo in 20 years?"

I usually don't care for djent, I hate it's over-saturation in metal and how any band that 'djents' is automatically labeled as "progressive metal" (bitch no ur not). But, I dunno... djent-y GazettE? I think I'd be down for that! I don't think it's something they need to do, though; I think their DARK AGE era shows they don't need seventy thousand strings to be heavy.

I actually enjoyed a lot of 漆黒の闇, surprisingly. I know the previews for this album are only 5 seconds long, but I'm not as into them. Curious to hear「脳内抹殺」though.

I cringed at リストカットして [2]

So I just got the limited edition of VERSUS, and it comes in a super thick case (like the standard edition of INCOMPLETE). This right here is the cover on the booklet inside:

Why didn't they just go with this for the main cover? Somebody has been lying to this band telling them that the other covers they've been promoting are better than this one right here.

Still haven't listened to the album in full, but I still have high hopes for it. Still not sure if I'll like Shangri-La or Noah when I do listen, but I'm not expecting them to be as bad as I thought when the tracks were released back in May. REM will probably be my favourite, and maybe is DEAD (that song kinda gives me a suicide ali vibe).

Was the part at the end with the girl gagging in front of the mirror in the original PV from 2011? I'm sure it wasn't included in any of the YouTube fan uploads. Adds to the fucked-up-ness of it all

5 hours ago, Seelentau said:

Stupid thing is, I told this guy that if he ever should sell his collection, he should ask me first... -.-

Stupid thing is, this guy should have just put a ¥20,000 buy-it-now price on GAUZE and I would have surely bought it

43 minutes ago, nekkichi said:

I hope king records DISBANDS nogod and signs those guys up as a replacement.

So down for that!

Hard to judge with the bit-crush sound quality (which I hope we aren't dealing with on the actual CD), but my fave previews were 屍を越えて and Dearest

Actually, Dearest is enough to make me consider buying the album

Super tempted to bid on GAUZE (the $100 one of course), but FJ requires full deposit of maximum bid, and yes I'll get it all back if I lose the auction, but it still feels like a huge commitment that I don't really want to make...

Ugh, I wish I could just bid without any bullshit shopping service

Also, if the guy selling GAUZE for $100 had a buy-it-now for $200, I would have snatched it already!

20 minutes ago, Kiryu999 said:

I hope they won't rush to release it on time and put tons of filler tunes on it 

Or rush production and it ends up sounding like it was recorded in a dumpster. They should have waited on announcing an album until they finalised the song selection, then it'd be easier for them to decide if they can release it in March/April as hoped, or if they'd have to push it back to mid-summer.

^ 上京物語 definitely counts in my book. I know it's just a MIDI + vocal track, but I still really enjoy it.

I don't even really follow KAYA and I am TOTALLY FREAKING OUT rite now, guess I need to make a trip to LA next year...

Was hoping we'd have heard b-side previews by now, but the full single should be up on iTunes/mora/etc. in several hours, so whatever haha.

I'm really digging this track, although it does feel on the short side. It sort of has an "end of the album" vibe, but I hope they don't stick this at the end of the next album, because again, it feels very short.