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I don't necessarily HOPE it's a jazzy song, but if it turns out that it is I'm cool with that. Nightmare is one of the only J-Rock bands, in my opinion, that can pull it off. Personally I'm hoping for a more Raison D'etre/Konoha/White Room style song.

+1 I love this preview. About 100% more than anything on Creature if I'm being honest.

Lmao. That's $150. I'd sooner die.

Love the promo pic and the album art is pretty cool. This is a band that really just gets better with time, in my opinion. I bet this will be their best release yet.

+1

Loving the look. And even though I can only see tiny little baby versions of the cover art... I like Them a lot too!

I like the cover art! Better than Mimic's, but that single was really good. Hope they outdo even that one.

I am very very impressed with Zedd's album. Clarity is probably my favorite one, but Stache is also QUITE amazing and I prefer the version with Gaga singing over it. I think it's beautifully sung with actually pretty funny lyrics. Love it!

I just saw this on Twitter and I almost broke down and cried in the middle of a Panera Bread from excitement. Holy fuck this is going to be amazing.

This is probably my favorite new band of 2012, so I'm incredibly excited.

2NE1 comeback pushed again to "possibly" November. Fuck YG.

Yeah that preview was pretty great! Oh I'm very excited for this now!

Thank you Rosa for the Kanji and Teru Versailles for the romanized lyrics! I have translated Created Beauty, Brave, and Truth and will try to translate Edge of the World later. I can post the lyrics later if anyone wants them?

I really like the track list. It seems... Like a fantasy or fairy tale.

Guess that means it's actually coming out this time! Lol. I'm surprised this is on amazon.com in the states, if I'm being honest. The previews sound pretty great though, I'm so excited to have the full thing!

Actually I just found the kanji and romanizations for the lyrics of the entire single of Gloria over at jpopasia.com. I can translate them tomorrow afternoon if anyone is interested, but I'd much rather translate Versailles! Haha

Kanji and Romanized lyrics are most appreciated, I prefer to translate them myself. I will be getting my copy of Versailles in the mail, but probably not for two or three more weeks so I'd like to have the kanji about now. Gloria though I'm just obsessed with and would love to understand his Engrish a bit better!

I can just second everything above. Apocalypse is basically nothing to me, but Thinker is really fucking stellar. Then there's Emily which is just a start to finish, epic, beautiful, masterpiece. Gorgeous ballad.

For me personally, the album was a really emotional experience and it is really impossible for me to look at it from an objective enough standpoint that I could write a legitimate review. But nonetheless I can always write some positive thoughts I had: I found Created Beauty to not be as epic as other songs throughout, but towards the end was just huge and absolutely wonderful. The instrumental that follows is essentially gravy. Edge of the World didn't strike me at first due to the "weirdness" of the intro. How it was sort of a heavy growling guitar-fest and not their usual mood. But once the intro transitioned into the chorus, it was truly outstanding. I love both single A-Sides equally. Structurally, they're kind of the same song, but whatever they're still awesome. Illusion and Ayakashi are both really good, but I rarely listen to them for whatever reason. The reworked Prelude sets an amazing mood and intro for the album and Sympathia (having always been my favorite Versailles song) was reworked to PERFECTION. Where it was good before it's great now. Brave and Truth are just really cool tracks. I like Brave a little more due to that one section of the song where it just switches gears and has a different melody for a couple seconds. I love that it feels so pirate-y. Truth has a certain finality to it, as does Sympathia. A lot of Je Ne Sais Quois about the album that makes it so perfect, but it's a perfect ten to me.

Very very VERY excited now. I love the title of the single overall, but the reworked Kugutsu has me extremely excited as well as the two new songs. This seems like sort of a new Gothic direction that isn't as tired and worn out as vampires and roses. Looking forward to it. But the new version of Glitter can blow me, So not here for more remakes.

But... The band name isn't........ Words........

Emily sounds real nice. It's really long though! Thinker also sounds pretty good, but that one is so short... So is Apocalypse which just sounds like a scream-fest/churning guitar song which can be cool, I guess. Looking forward to this single!

I was reading up on it and apparently Nicole Scherzinger from the Pussycat Dolls recorded a song with them/him which is CRAZY random. I can think of 5 more fitting artists off the top of my head for a project like this but anything to make this project more likely to perform in NYC/Philly il take.

I really do not know what to make of this, if I'm being honest. I remember when the project was first announced and I had no idea what to think of it and even now that it's allegedly to be unveiled and something is going to be done about it I still really don't know what it's supposed to do. Is it Sugizo on guitar, Yoshiki on drums/piano... Then who on bass? Will there be one vocalist or many? Male or female? American or Japanese? Then I recall how MUCH Yoshiki tweets about being in the studio. SOMETHING is going to release next year, so I guess it's going to be this... But he's ALSO been talking a LOT about SKIN... So that could definitely be happening next year also... What I wonder mostly, though, is what is happening with X itself? Is that band really just done? It sounded like they have a good album judging by their recent three singles if they'll all be on this alleged album. I think Yoshiki is an amazing artist, but he just doesn't seem to know what direction to go in.