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Both bands are 10/10 musical gold with lots of great innovative music, high sense of musical integrity,  dedicated members and even their own share of highly educated, well-spoken and mentally stable fans who are all amazing and unique and should not ever be fucked under any circumstances
 
This thread has destroyed my family, save me

I have no idea what you guys are talking about. This is the most successful band battle by far with passionate discussion and healthy debate amongst members. So what if there wasn't drama? It managed to be interesting without it, and the outcome in the polls was not at all what I expected. This thread is awesome.

If you want to know a few good headphones in a lower price category, you can always ask Zess, he's the expert. As you might've seen around the Headphones threads on here I used to have a pair of AKGs that were like $40 (and come in like 5-6 different colors, groovy) and produced really great sound. They lasted about 4 years with heavy usage and they have a really good, balanced sound quality for their price range. The only minus they had was what I'd say the obnoxiously long chord and the fact that they'd start to painfully clamp after a few hours of use. Also it took a while for them to be comfortable on your head. In general I'd rate these headphones a 7/10, though definitely a 9/10 in their own price category.

come on, magatsu, don't give up like that! show 'em who's da boss!

Oh... my bad... Must have seen some wrong info somewhere then because I initially thought it was Sawano too. Went to check after the first episode and I saw Kajiura everywhere. (Or maybe I was just tired) Either way, OST is pretty awesome so far!

Apparently Wikipedia says Hiroyuki Sawano did the OST and not Kajiura Yuki? It says Yuki did the opening credits for the anime and the general OST was done by Sawano, but Wikipedia can be edited by everyone so I can't say for sure.

Bumping this because I'm going to buy a new pair next week. I've been thinking of getting Audio Technicas, but I'll give a few headphones a sample to see which one sounds best imo (or well, which one fits best for my kind of music anyway).
 
Also lol @ people who wear enormous headphones in public. It's kind of annoying though, because I've had to do plenty of emergency brakes in my car because they're cycling/walking with their headphones on (volume set to max, of course) and just cross the street without looking. Young'uns today *shakes fist*
 
The only people I see wearing headphones in public are the ones wearing Beats by dr. dre and I think they're wearing them more as a fashion statement/accessoire than actually wanting to enjoy music to the fullest while on the road (I mean you already don't want to enjoy music to the fullest if you buy beats anyway, lol).

Started Aldnoah.Zero because the teaser looked promising. Seems pretty promising, definitely going to continue this one. Also it seems this show is going to have a killer OST, amazing soundtrack what I've heard so far. Not sure who does the OST but my hunch says it's Sawano.

BAND BATTLE

 

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Which one is your favourite and why? Figured we'd get these band battles started up again!

BAND BATTLE

 

LYCAON

 



 

VS.

 

CALMANDO QUAL

 



 

 

Which one is your favourite and why? Figured we'd get these band battles started up again!

BAND BATTLE

 

LYCAON

 



 

VS.

 

CALMANDO QUAL

 



 

 

Which one is your favourite and why? Figured we'd get these band battles started up again!

BAND BATTLE

 

LYCAON

 



 

VS.

 

CALMANDO QUAL

 



 

 

Which one is your favourite and why? Figured we'd get these band battles started up again!

BAND BATTLE

 

LYCAON

 



 

VS.

 

CALMANDO QUAL

 



 

 

Which one is your favourite and why? Figured we'd get these band battles started up again!

Nice review, haha. I can't verify everything said here because I just had to turn off the album after track-4, couldn't take it any longer. Seems like it was the right choice to do.
 
0/10 would bang with a hand grenade tied to a baseball bat

Artist: I.T.G. Album: Instigate the Grief Score: I have 99 problems and it's all this album.
Apparently, Zaku left all his talent with RedruM and acquired his musicians from the discount bin outside the office that was once Dear Dolce. It's the only reason I have for why it sounds like everyone in this band is so awful at their "profession". Any hope that you may have had that this band would be decent should have been assassinated with those YouTube previews that were black metal demo quality at best. The album sounds exactly like those previews and it really makes me wonder what they invested their money into. Then, I look at the outfits and realize that they look really snazzy and then all my questions are answered. Then, I get this dreadful feeling crawling up my spine to inform my brain that I'm in for a really bad trip. I still wasn't ready. This took my expectations of how terrible visual kei can be, encased it in concrete, and threw it off the side of a fishing boat into the ocean.

Instigate the Grief is the result of when a band thinks they can cash in on the visual kei craze while doing no work at all. Zaku and co. must have seriously sat down together after the recording for this album was finished and banked on the fact that all ten of their fans and those baka gaijins on Monochrome Heaven would buy enough copies for them to cover the 500yen down payment for the studio time in someone's garage complex. This is exploitation at it's finest, being a cookie-cutter collage of visual kei's creative drippings with some attempts at an industrial rock and gothic atmosphere that fails completely due to issues that should have been rectified before this album was pressed to disc.

For starters, the recording quality of this album is abysmal. The attempt at the D.I.D. sound fails miserably. Any studio additions are there to give the illusion that there's depth to the music. There is not. The band literally took anything they could and placed it on top of their music without regard for balance or space in the mix. Some samples they used are at such a high frequency they can cause deafness! It only gets worse. Zaku is the biggest culprit and is responsible for sinking this ship. He manages to both sound dreadful on every track and get worse as the album goes on. Any time Zaku comes onto the microphone to do harsh vocals it either sounds like he's gargling peanut butter or everything devolves into noise. Every single vocal effect in ProTools was applied to his voice before they transcoded the master tracks to and from 96kbps four times for that authentic-kei feel. I envision that afterwards, they all sat around, stroked their cocks, and nodded in agreement, "Yes, yes, this is exactly how we want to represent ourselves!". Is every member in this band deaf?

This is the antithesis of musicianship. They stapled together as many visual kei cliches as they could find. Track names are so edgy I can shave my face with them. Songs jump between "aggressive" verses and poppy choruses, as if the formula hasn't already been beaten to death. Even the breakdowns lack any type of moshable rhythm and just sound lame and lifeless. I can even point to sections of songs where they just didn't try, like BABY ON THE DEATH VALLEY where Zaku repeats the title in Engrish before they free form shit all over your eardrums for a minute straight. Then there's also numbers that would make Black Gene for the Next Scene blush at the reckless abandon of synth in tracks like DIGITIZED FAMILY.

There are no redeeming qualities to Instigate the Grief. Every track ranges from terrible to torturous. Questionable decisions in both composition and production make you wonder if anyone listened to the music after it was recorded. For example, the drums in No Answer are panned almost entirely to the left and right for no reason, leaving a gigantic gap in the sound stage that's unaccounted for. It takes a track that had one or two ideas and makes it just as vapid as everything else on display. If you want another example, the drums in BABY ON THE DEATH VALLEY get a mention for being the single worst drums I have ever heard recorded in my life. Bedroom doujin bands with prerecorded drum loops sound more professional than this. And no, once again I am not kidding. Guitars are weak and have no life, and it seems like the distortion on the guitar placed in the mix and not out of the amp, making things sound even more terrible. Bassist? What bassist? I can't hear any bass underneath all that low end distortion and typewriter drum pedals.

This album is an example of why piracy is good. If I had purchased this album, I would have asked for my money back. If you bought this album I really feel bad for you. I deleted this album immediately after I finished the last track. You couldn't get me to buy this if the government paid for my trip to the otolaryngologist. I'd much rather play frisbee with this CD than ever listen to it again. I was fundamentally changed as a visual kei fan by the end of this album, after discovering that there are bands who think they can insult my intelligence with such awful music.

You will never catch me say this again any time soon, but this band deserves to disband. Now.

Got a better pic of me -  This was from a photoshoot about a year ago (same photoshoot as the one of my avatar, but this is much easier to see)
 

I know Sai and Zess are aware of the idea. Actually Sai told me to stop being passive aggressive and make a thread about it

1. You have that "last.fm level" bar that doesn't really mean anything, it doesn't even tell us what algorithm it uses, so it may as well be a random number that supposedly only serves the purpose of massive e-peen enlargement.
 
2. You are actually listening to the hype band of the season, a.k.a. sukekiyo. They may as well have called the band sukii-kyo, because Mr. "I can't sing falsettos but I will do it anyway" is pretty much the only reason why they get so much attention at all.
 
3. Newsflash: listening to Boris doesn't give you underground creds anymore. Everyone and their grandmother listens to Boris these days.
 
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http://www.last.fm/user/Champ213

I don't even have to strain myself. Only one word: Aldious. *drops mic, victoriously goes out*
 
'kay, come at me bros~ http://www.last.fm/user/JigsawJohnny

The interest towards this album went from 0 to 10. 

HAHA YOU LISTENED TO GAROOGAMESH YOU N00B. And GALEYD is your currently highest played artist? C'mon if I wanted to look at you listening to derivative power metal I'd much rather you listen to DragonForce. Then I'd actually have something to laugh at you about. Now I just feel sad because you wasted your time on a DELUHI copycat (which in turn was a budget GALNERYUS).

You also use last.fm tags? It's like the most useless things in the world, unless I'm looking for a band tagged "skullfuck revolver metal", "demon burger", or "AIDS". Then it's indispensable. But the fact that you spent so much time categorizing bands to expand other people's knowledge is so trivial. You don't even give me these great tags to work with. How am I supposed to find anything tagged indie? That's like, not specific enough bro.
 
http://www.last.fm/user/ColdNRG

Started Soul Eater today, after marathoning 20 episodes of KnB I pretty much saw enough basketball for at least a good month.