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this sounds like some metalcore ballad circa 2007 do not want

I just wonder sometimes how can the japanese market(not only the music one) be so outdated. Every band out there in the west does album streams, or at least lets you listen to 2 or 3 tracks before the release. With japanese bands you may end up getting only 1:30 minutes of a PV and you will only be able to a full track if you buy it or illegally download it. In some bands it's even worse... Dir en grey only lets you listen to the chorus of the single. And there's also the bands that block their youtube content to countries that aren't japan. The japanese seem to try really hard to make no one listen to their music. I know it's the country where they still use Fax, but pls japan 2014 already

It's like some people realized Dir en grey isn't THAT good and you guys come "Hey, I've already aknowledged Dir en grey as a sucking entity for longer than you, so git gud", it doesn't even make sense. Dir en grey's fanbase has always been about this "I'm a bigger fan/hater than you!" but sometimes it just gets ridiculous - like when people started reviewing DSS it really sounded some people were hating it just for the sake of sounding like bigger... haters? Probably the only artists in the world that have people competing to be bigger haters are Dir en grey and Justin Bieber. At least we can agree it's really funny. About the comparisons: they were just unavoidable, man. Specially when some of us have been unsatisfied with Dir en grey's recent output (Sustain the Untruth, for me) and then a member goes and makes his project, where his vision is allowed to shine, and it turns out to be nice, you start to wonder "hey, what's wrong with Dir en grey?" Are some members feeling "restricted" or something like that? We'll never know, but it just makes us wonder.

A bizarre yet refreshing mix of a progressive rock sound with the sound nagoya bands developed years ago - this album's sound just sounds like it came out of nowhere, just like the band itself. No one was expecting Kyo to ever come up with something like this - after all, everyone thought he was the antisocial member of Dir en grey who had no friends and didn't smile on camera. Here he grabs long time DEG collaborator Takumi, Mika(also from Rentrer en Soi), and members from kannivalism and 9gbo and manages to make a sound that comprises everything these bands make yet having its own identity. From the first track, it's like Sukekiyo is inviting you for a journey in their world. Every track is almost like that - an adventure by itself, with some moments making you go and wonder if you're still listening to the same song. Like whatever the fuck went on with Kyo's vocals on the second part of "the daemon's cutlery" where he does some of the coolest screams I've heard from him, the fast metallic end to "latour", and the ambient-like style of the first half of "hemimetabolism". On this album it seems they get everything Dir en grey seems to try right - and it sounds really natural, unlike moments in Dir en grey's last album, Dum Spiro Spero, where it sounds like they were putting complex stuff just for the sake of it. Besides the obvious nagoya sound and the overall "prog" aspect of the album, you can also spot some different influences, like the jazz in "mama"(the piano in the re-recorded mama eerily recalls some tracks from Daisuke's last album), the flamenco-like guitar in "斑人間" and perhaps some oriental influence, akin to Dir en grey's, on tracks like "elisabeth addict". Kyo also brings his vocals on a really wide range, using the screams, growls and screechs we already now and his infamous "kyopera" falsetto. I had moderate expectaitons about this - the previews didn't really make me confident - but hell, this is GOOD. That good. Dir en grey's november album will have to really be a lot better than those singles to manage to grab my attention now. Time will tell, but I believe I'll probably give this more spins than any Dir en grey album. Kyo could even make this his main band now. Here Kyo finally manages to portray his "pretentious" style of making music and art on a way that isn't really pretentious, it's actually pompous, big, grandiose, and immersing. Nice way to start, and I hope they don't become a one-off project, and show us even more of this sound in the future. 9/10

Tracklist kinda reminds me of 13kai wa gekkou mixed with some disco stuff kek Loving the reference to Baudelaire. And yeah, the A-side from the single sounds better than I thought

Sounds like a poppier version of Kyuutai's metalcore? What? I like the whoooahs. The chorus reminds me of Shion stuff. And that's a pretty nice dubstep breakdown

they'll never reach the glory of sug life again. to be honest that's a hard feat anyways, as sug life is just a really bizarre album when compared to all vk from the same era and also when compared to baroque's sound before and after it.

Every Yoshiki classical song SOUNDS THE EXACT SAME But it doesn't stop me from liking every one. Damn.

I guess I'm getting my RES-check. The hard tracks sound pretty cool too(Vandal reminds me of how 9goats had it right with "690min" but never made another cool hard track again). And mama sounds like it's going to be so much better.

this SETLIST I kinda hope now that he just disbanded punk kuroyume and is making goth kuroyume a reality again pls kiyoharu san pls

so kirito came back for his mic? awww nice

This song oh shit (that solo section was damn cool) I'm a lot more hyped to this than anything new by deg. step it up kaoru senpai

finally aie's cock rock project comes true

The kinda pop-punk feel of this reminds me of their early albums. Great stuff!

Just to correct a little something: It's getting released in Japan too, it's a bigger edition with bonus tracks, some being the ones used for some NDS game and some commercial stuff I think. From http://www.borisheavyrocks.com/top.html BORIS "NOISE" 2014/06/18 Release tearbridge records / avex group 2CD, Digital NFCD-27364 / 2,800yen (2,593yen+Tax) Disc 1 (本編) 1. 黒猫メロディ 2. Vanilla 3. あの人たち 4. 雨 5. 太陽のバカ 6. Angel 7. Quicksilver 8. シエスタ Disc 2 (ボーナストラック) 1. Bit (映画"告白"劇中歌) 2. 君の行方 (NINTENDO 3DS/PS Vita用アドベンチャーゲーム"極限脱出ADV 善人シボウデス"CM曲) 3. 有視界Revue (ジュエリーマキCM曲) 4. ディスチャージ (新ヴァージョン) Daymare Recordings 2LP 同時発売 DYMV-994 / 5,184yen (4,800yen+Tax) 180g重量盤 完全限定生産

top kek @ the novembers, they're completely out of place there but nice list, and back drop bomb has got some cool songs

I guess all these collaborations on this single kinda remind us of the album's rumour of featuring various artists.

top kek @ the pablo comment nice to see shin and the yosei teikoku girl too. sounds like kyo knows everyone in the japanese rock scene, from indie rock to vk and metal

that vk guy in the middle of all those sparkly enka singers YES.

"Before the Next Sleep" I guess he's implying they might come back again later. kiyoharu/10

Holy shit they fully embraced the metalcore in themselves. But I'm really excited, enjoying this so far. the first seconds of phoenix kinda surprised me because hazuki isn't using his usual overly nasal voice