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I would just like to second that completely. The album is totally incredible. My only complaint is I would have loved to hear Psychic Paradise instead of Camel. Other than that one minor complaint, every song is brilliant. I think this is the first time that one of their concepts didn't fall a little short to me, it's their most cohesive album yet. Favorite songs: Gloria Innovational Symphonia Sword Plastic Lover Merry Drinker Midnight Fanfare Akuma no Tsubasa Kassai to Gekijou no Gloria

7 song mini album? Totally here for that. Very excited

Love the preview!!!

@Furik I only say it because it's suspicious and would make one think. Megaromania, Rin, and Versailles all released best of's because of their disbandment and it almost seems likely for -OZ-. I don't think D or DEATHGAZE are near disbandment, but it's just a hypothesis. @sixblacknine Didn't know it's the first time they're touring outside Japan, but still. No one tours America. "Maybe they will one day" is to open-ended for me. I'm never going to get to see any of my favorite VK bands because they never come anywhere close to me anymore. Missed Versailles and D'espairsRay for reasons and now that those reasons are irrelevant I'm not going to miss anyone else. Saw Dir en grey ONE TIME. It's just tiring to see all of my favorite bands go to Europe and South America (when they go outside of their own country), but meanwhile here I am with equal access to Philadelphia and New York City. I'd even go to fucking Boston or DC for most bands and yet they all seem to go to California and freaking Texas for some reason. I just don't get it.

Like the name of the new song, hopefully we can see the cover art soon... Unless it's up somewhere and I missed it.

Cool, cool. Hopefully we can get our hands on them somehow...

All of the songs sound totally amazing. I loved Justice, but this is an improvement even from that. It is probably going to be very hard to top this album in the future.

Amazing news for the single, but I wish they would tour America once. And I hope this best of album doesn't mean a disbandment or some sort of activity pause... Everyone is releasing best of albums this year...

UPDATE: CL spoke to Billboard about 2NE1's comeback, even though YG said merely two weeks ago that the album would be out in March, CL says it was pushed yet again until April. Wouldn't be bad if there wasn't so much precedent. She also said that after the comeback album, she would have a solo alum out and that there may be a 2NE1 feature on will.i.am's solo debut album.

Finally an alice nine. single I can get behind! That sounded great, loved the chorus, beat is really cool. Dance/rock is always good in my opinion.

Thank God my fav got negative awards Also couldn't agree less with the non-Japanese albums. But I do like how much I see Luna Sea and Matenrou Opera up there.

Yet another best of? Are they still putting out a new album this year?

For me, the album was really outstanding. Now, if they had put out a lot of albums and singles recently in the last couple years that really blew me away would this fact have been any different? Probably not, but I wouldn't hold it in such high regard that I do now. My own personal view on it is that Kakera and Genjitsu had maybe two songs on them a piece that stood out, but overall they weren't memorable and did nothing for me. The last full piece of work put out by this band that I took a step back and really had to marvel at was Gokusaishiki roughly five years ago. Now, I'm sitting here listening to the album for the third time as I write this and my love just keeps growing. The only bad part to me is Stand Up! which I can probably grow accustomed to after a while, even though it was a single and I never listened to it much after it's initial release. I'd have to say the strongest songs on the album include Gense Horror Show, Sora no Kouen, Pandora, Yume no Awa, IV-Tasha (Philosophia), and Kanjou. Those in particular show off a variety of different skills that the band has strengthened over the years. I don't know if anyone else is a Michelle Branch fan, and I'm well aware that this is such a huge stretch, but if you listen to Here With Me by Michelle Branch and then Yume no Awa the chorus of the songs sound very similar. Two totally unrelated artists, but they really do sound pretty similar. Even though I think Yume no Awa is a beautiful acoustic song, I think it's a missed opportunity for it to be a slightly longer song with voice... In the same way I felt about D's Hikari no Niwa. But really I mean that's all I have to say. The album is a solid 9 in my opinion.

That sounds fucking outstanding. I'm now hyped for this release.

This is pretty unfortunate. I loved Artistical Glint and thought they had just found how to make their sound the best it can be. I was finally over Metis Gretel's disbandment and now this Oh well, I'm sure Sui won't be totally done with music.

Totally amazing. This era hasn't let me down yet!!!

Last single was pretty cool, I'm hoping they'll recapture the epicness that was Natsu no Yukue as a single, but I doubt it. In any case, I am very excited for this because this is the only band that debuted in 2012 that I find to be worth anything.

I am 200% here for this. Sounds amazing, like usual.

I'm only on track 5 right now, but I'm not totally impressed as of yet. I think the first few songs all had separately really good elements, but they couldn't decide on ONE they wanted the song to be and threw all these good parts together to kind of make a mess of a song. I would have to say Riddle is my favorite before listening to Ame to Yoru ni Ochite, which I'm loving so far. I think that for the first 4 songs they could have chosen like... To eliminate the jazzy riffs in Riddle... Maybe take the breakdown from ASSaulter and make the whole song to fit that breakdown which was awesome and it would've been a really good track. Going to post the rest as I go: Dissemble seriously rocks. I think in terms of a non-ballad song, this takes the cake for me so far. Super fun, probably amazing to see live. Errors is pretty cool, but coming off of the coolness that Dissemble was I am underwhelmed. It's definitely NOT a bad song though. Great intro on Owaru Sekai... If they keep up this pace through the whole song it'll be decent. What a... unique intro to Droid. It's REALLY funky. I mean funky is the only appropriate word to describe it. But fuck is it cool. I love this song. 404 is appropriately titled since my interest in this song is not found. I think the best way to describe I'm Not is a power ballad. It's a big song, definitely well done. I like this one a ton too. Probably more than Ame to... Deus ex Machina: the better of two singles. Blackout is kind of simple, and your usual Nightmare song, which I like so I'm gonna say this song is a win. Behind the Mask... Sort of brought the album out the way it came in with a messy disjointed song. So, all in all I think it's a good album save for the couple of weak spots. I don't think it's their best work EVER, but it's better than most. I'd put it in the middle. Average.

Amazing. This band never disappoints.

Gonna have to disagree with you, sport.

World in Flames PV shoot? Fucking awesome. I cannot wait to see what that's like. That might be my favorite song of theirs. Also, why the hell does it take so long for UCP artists to release album art?

I don't know why I can't seem to find the link to listen to the preview on their OHP.

Saw this coming a mile away. But happy! Can't wait to hear his voice again