Seimeisen

Go back to nü metal rip offs of d'espa pls

Bruh you'd be bitching too if you couldn't download something to repost on your own Facebook page.

"Values of Madness" and "谿壑の欲" (Ravenous Greed) sound like names for the DSS song: "The song they played at mode of DSS reminds me of "Bring them to light", tempo-wise. It's entirely guttural, too. There's a slower, more melodic part in the middle. ~3 minutes long."
 
The other, no idea.
 
btw:
軽蔑と始まり = Keibetsu to Hajimari = Beginning With Scorn
人間を被る = Ningen o Kaburu = Wearing Human Skin
詩踏み = Utafumi = Poetry Rhyming
赫 = Aka = Illuminate
谿壑の欲 = Keigaku no Yoku = Ravenous Greed
絶縁体 = Zetsuentai = Insulator
The name Ranunculus is Late Latin for "little frog", the diminutive of rana. It's also a name of the buttercup flower.

Thanks for the constructive criticism and alternate translations, guys. Appreciate it!
 
But now that I have more time, let me revise the names:
軽蔑 means "scorn", "disdain" or "contempt". と can mean either "and" or "with". I decided to go with the latter on a whim, maybe because it's the first track and 始まり means "origin" or "beginning". So, "Beginning With Contempt". Could also mean "Contempt and Beginning", but that sounds weird. 人間を被る is "Wearing Human", but because of their tour title "Wearing Human Skin", I decided to translate it as that, to keep it more official. 被る also means "to bear a burden", so the title could also be understood as "Bearing the burden of mankind". 詩踏み isn't "Poetry Rhyming", but "Poetry Trampling". I forgot to change it on the wiki and copied it from there. The latter kanji possibly refers to 踏み絵, tablets with Christian images, on which Edo-period authorities forced suspected Christians to trample. 赫 is a rather rare Kanji, comprised of the Kanji for "red" times two. It's used in a variant of "kagayaku", which means "to shine", and you might know if from Tokyo Ghoul, where it's used in the word "Kagune". But with the reading "aka", it's (apparently) really uncommon. 谿壑の欲 comes from a Japanese saying that desires aren't satisfied if they happen one after another. The actual saying is written as 渓壑の欲 and translates to something like "Desire of Ravines". 絶縁体 means "Insulator" (https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/絶縁体), but I suppose the deeper meaning would be along the lines of someone isolates themselves from humans. Something like that.  
So, if you guys want to criticise something, please don't do it like those two. That doesn't help anyone.

Everyone thinks you're a robot there I said it

I just looked at some videos on dystonia patients....this is fucking awful. He says he only has it on his upper right arm, but I'm scared that it may progress all over. I wish the very best for Yusuke. 
 
As for those who are saying the band needed this hiatus because "their music sucks anyway"...shame on you. This announcement was very sudden, and losing someone like Yusuke over something as devastating as this is a huge blow to the band, and this man may have to deal with this for the rest of his life. Shame on you.

Taking a break may not have done these guys any favours

kaya has been from the jump an artist who loves club/dance/pop music with occasional dalliances in other genres: her VERY FIRST SINGLE, kaleidoscope, fell into this vein.
 
why the fuck are y'all so salty when kaya has said MULTIPLE TIMES that she  intends to further explore darker sounds with schwarz stein? that side of kaya ain't going away. 
 
the level of ignorance in this thread is fucking ridiculous. 
 
FURTHERMORE, while a lot of RPDR queens make campy music, many do not, so i find fault with you equating them all together.  ginger minj, jinx monsoon, shea coulee, aja, trixie mattel etc, make "serious music", not unlike kaya.  drag music is the closest thing to vk in the west & TBH these queens r much more authentic than a bunch of misshapen scandivanian assholes screaming in broken japanese.

I expected something darker than this. I don't know why I expected this band to make an album with a consistent theme, but I did. I'm actually not sure if SHAMBARA and 毒廻る will fit in. But then again, this is all just chorus previews, who knows how the rest of the songs will sound. Definitely digging the first and last tracks. Their albums are always scattered as hell.
 
Also, they're putting the album up on iTunes early? That's... different! Usually if anything from SPEED DISK goes on iTunes, it's several months later.

I’ve been in Japan for two weeks and, well, this happened
 

 
The regular edition of cali≠gari TURN-3 was bought before I realised the limited edition was available at littleHEARTS, so that’s ¥2,000 wasted.
 
Something about being in Japan makes me feel like hunting cali≠gari...
 
When I bought the umbrella album I had a brief encounter with the band members themselves. I didn’t recognise them until they said who they were, they were wearing no makeup and two of them had surgical masks. I was too shy to talk to them but it was still really cool to see them hanging around Closet Child Harajuku!

ITS LIT !!!!!!!!!!

The album title should have been named TENTH.

It's not supplied by Amazon. It's from some third party seller called ネヤガワ文芸堂. Pre-orders that are directly from Amazon will be up eventually, I'm sure
 
Keep in mind that 99.99% of Amazon JP third party sellers don't ship internationally. Even if their items are marked as "fulfilled by Amazon." It wasn't always that way, though. There was a time when marketplace sellers fulfilled by Amazon would ship internationally. So many things I regret not buying.

my reaction:
 
the Gazettttte was still signed to PSC??? PSC still exists??

If I was 100.1% drunk at a club I would go apeshit when this song came on.
 
(the name of the song bothers me because I can't figure out what it means)

| One of the best GazettE albums in recent memory.

I can't believe it's been three years since DOGMA. It feels like I just finished roasting it for being the "most underwhelming album of the year" and "ARCHE, Iowa-era Slipknot, and a quarter of DIM shoved in a blender and served cold". To be fair, most of my criticisms came from how stale and similar all the songs felt; the result of going a bit too far in the metalcore direction. Ever the perfectionists, it seems that the band actually addressed all of my complaints with NINTH. By combining the dark and heavy nature of DOGMA with the electronic rock explored with TOXIC and DIVISION and the retro "Gaze-rock" style of BEAUTIFUL DEFORMITY, The GazettE have succeeded in delivering an experience that mixes old and new sounds. NINTH won't win you over if you don't like the direction of the last four albums. If you took more of an issue with the execution of those concepts, than this is what you've been waiting for since DIM.
 
It's been a while since I feel comfortable recommending an album of theirs. NINTH is an easier and more engaging listening experience than DOGMA, with smooth, slick, and balanced production. I don't understand the criticisms of "muddy production" because I don't hear it. I even pulled out my good headphones - the Sennheiser HD600s - and plugged them straight into my Logitech speakers to pluck out minor grievances with the mix and it sounded better that way. This reaches a level that visual kei music can rarely afford to reach. Ruki has advised fans to get great audio equipment to experience each album to the fullest, but I think it's more true now than before. The songs are also arranged very well and flow into each other, and I can't recall a single jarring stylistic transition. All of these elements together makes every song an attractive listening experience. There's also the absence of several elements which used to drag down prior releases: the lack of standout tracks, filler, and clumsy Green Day-ish all English punk songs that stick out. The GazettE cut the fat out of this album in a way I wish Dir en grey could.
 
An album can still have highlights even when it's consistently good. I can't end this review without naming my favorite tracks. The first would be "その声は脆く", a rock ballad which starts on an unassuming note before effortlessly sliding into a thick, melancholic atmosphere. It even has a (short) twin guitar solo, a staple of rock songs I've been missing from their music lately. The follow-up track, "Babylon's Taboo", creates the best one-two punch on NINTH. I could be convinced that this is a heavier take on an unreleased 9GOATS BLACK OUT song. "Falling" is the de facto single of the album, receiving the first music video to push the album, and there's a damn good reason why. "The Mortal" is another track that deserves a shout out for mixing some of NIL-era flavor in the chorus with DOGMA-style riffs in the breakdown, and serves as a great summary for the journey the album takes us on. If The GazettE were still releasing singles, this would have been the second one.
 
NINTH makes a strong argument for keeping a low profile until an album is complete. Visual kei bands can capture my attention with rapid fire single releases, but that makes it harder to impress me with an album of familiar content. NINTH wouldn't be as impressive if they gave us previews and teasers months or years before it was done. I hope other bands are taking notes. If you haven't already, put some cash towards this worthy album. It will be favorably remembered for years to come.
 

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I agree completely with your take on the sound production, and the efforts to use better sound equipment must have made that much more of a difference.
I had a similar experience, as that itch for experimentation got the best of me, and I decided to listen to NINTH again and again, using 3 different types of headphones (open-back, closed-back, and noise-cancelling) with and without a DAC/Amplifier, as well as listening to it in the car (windows up and down), and even on the plane during my vacation trip haha.
 
Ruki's recommendation to obtain better audio equipment in order to listen to their albums at their best is solid advice for sure.
Guess it would be no surprise then to anyone that listened to NINTH through something similar to Apple earpods and complained about the sound, simply because of the frequencies that overlap entirely from it's production (could be that muddiness everyone is referring to). Even in my own search to find the right balance of equalization and driver amplification to make this album sound amazing, I could feel that GazettE standard being set higher and higher. Perhaps we have become a bit too jaded with past expectations from the GazettE to present new ideas, that now we even criticize the sound when it differs from what we are used to. Perhaps this issue with the sound production is the first of many complaints to come until fans actually take Ruki's advice. Just gotta wait and see.
 
Here's my review on NINTH.
 
 
With that said,
 
| An album that GazettE fans have been waiting years for.
 
What I felt I listened to in NINTH was what a lot of us were truly waiting for. Something that kind of stopped with TOXIC, and DOGMA was the complete opposite of. It’s weird, but this feels like a GazettE album. There exist tracks that can be rightfully placed into the hall of Gaze-favorites. The sound is reminiscent to their days of spontaneity, where they just went at it with a collection of ideas, and in this case those ideas became NINTH. Is this is rival to DIM? I’d say no, and that’s because it is too sporadic in sound and execution to be heralded as one (too mashup-y in simple words). I can comfortably say that NINTH is a rightful successor, as it checks all the boxes that I feel made me a fan all those years ago, and even has the potential to be an album in 2018 that you can easily recommend to new fans of the scene. I think most would agree that if the album still holds its appeal even after as many listens as I have gone through, then it will most likely stay that way.
 

Completely agree. This is the first album in a while I can listen to the whole way through and not need to skip any tracks. As Zeus said, they cut the fat from this one. I am an album oriented person and always love when there isn’t the need to edit tracks out. I would rather have a solid album like this, then a bunch of singles. I didn’t think I was ever going to get another album like this from them. A solid album in my opinion and a job well done

Their new single 『マグロ』(Maguro)  will be released on 2018.08.08. It will feature イガグリ千葉(Igaguri Chiba) (Yomi (Nightmare, etc)
 
TYPE A : 1944 yen
CD :
1.マグロ(Maguro)
2.マネキン(Mannequin)
3.青春狂騒曲(Seishun kyôsô kyoku)
DVD :
1.マグロ (Maguro)
 

 
 
TYPE B : 1620 yen
CD :
1.マグロ(Maguro)
2.マネキン(Mannequin)
3.青春狂騒曲(Seishun kyôsô kyoku)