Wonrei

Some neat artistic comparisons concerning the album's cover art and band style:
 
http://blog-tick.blogspot.com/2014/04/arui-wa-anarchy-tracklist.html

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

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.

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.

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 

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

all them harsh english words, full caps mode.
 
this album couldn't get any more japanese

all them harsh english words, full caps mode.
 
this album couldn't get any more japanese

all them harsh english words, full caps mode.
 
this album couldn't get any more japanese

The music video is obviously directed by the same guy who directed Plastic Tree - Piano Black and Straightener - From Noon Till Dawn, haha

>INCREASE BLUE<
 
u wot m8

after that yokan acoustic on die's show I'm almost sure they are probably working on yokan ballad version for one of their next b-sides

after that yokan acoustic on die's show I'm almost sure they are probably working on yokan ballad version for one of their next b-sides

yeah, they'd never put a full music video on TV. they need to reserve it to AVERAGE LATIN
 
By the way after the new album we'll probably get the long awaited PV dvd since the last one was MOAB+Uroboros and was launched after Uroboros, so maybe a new one would be DSS+New album

yeah, they'd never put a full music video on TV. they need to reserve it to AVERAGE LATIN
 
By the way after the new album we'll probably get the long awaited PV dvd since the last one was MOAB+Uroboros and was launched after Uroboros, so maybe a new one would be DSS+New album

Yeah, and their two Budokan concerts this year are called Dum Spiro Spero. What now? Most tours are riding on the "DSS ride" too if you consider all the Latin names and how they kept Kyokutou no Nari for the entirety of the tour.
 
We just don't know what they did guise. To keep arguing that Dir en grey wants X or wants Y is just pretty stupid. For all we know they could be trying to become a boyband but they could have done that before if they wanted too. Could've just stayed in the Yokan train.

Yeah, and their two Budokan concerts this year are called Dum Spiro Spero. What now? Most tours are riding on the "DSS ride" too if you consider all the Latin names and how they kept Kyokutou no Nari for the entirety of the tour.
 
We just don't know what they did guise. To keep arguing that Dir en grey wants X or wants Y is just pretty stupid. For all we know they could be trying to become a boyband but they could have done that before if they wanted too. Could've just stayed in the Yokan train.

in b4 they become vk to attract their chilean fanbase

in b4 they become vk to attract their chilean fanbase

in b4 they become vk to attract their chilean fanbase

in b4 they become vk to attract their chilean fanbase

This subject deserved its own thread. We've been trying to discuss this on too many different places.
 
Here I thought we could try to understand the whole history behind visual kei(and along with it, japan's 80s and 90s rock and pop come along, I guess). For years we've had really bad wiki texts trying to write about visual kei and failing along with it. To abridge the entire scope of the visual kei scene to only "a bunch of guys influenced by glam metal" like every copy-pasted lastfm biography says means next to nothing. Here we had for the late 80s and 90s bands playing speed metal, gothic rock and new wave and they were all part of the same scene. Some bands mixed these genres, others played only one of these, and there were even bands that introduced other stuff in the mix - but all of them using the strong visual element as the way to hit their message. As much as I tried to find, it's hard to see a scene as convoluted and intriguing anywhere else in the world.
 
My idea is to mostly focus on late 70's, 80's and 90's japanese music and the western influences, trying to guess how it became what it was and what it is today. Maybe to try to answer a question that never really goes away on japanese music boards: A scene or a genre?

This subject deserved its own thread. We've been trying to discuss this on too many different places.
 
Here I thought we could try to understand the whole history behind visual kei(and along with it, japan's 80s and 90s rock and pop come along, I guess). For years we've had really bad wiki texts trying to write about visual kei and failing along with it. To abridge the entire scope of the visual kei scene to only "a bunch of guys influenced by glam metal" like every copy-pasted lastfm biography says means next to nothing. Here we had for the late 80s and 90s bands playing speed metal, gothic rock and new wave and they were all part of the same scene. Some bands mixed these genres, others played only one of these, and there were even bands that introduced other stuff in the mix - but all of them using the strong visual element as the way to hit their message. As much as I tried to find, it's hard to see a scene as convoluted and intriguing anywhere else in the world.
 
My idea is to mostly focus on late 70's, 80's and 90's japanese music and the western influences, trying to guess how it became what it was and what it is today. Maybe to try to answer a question that never really goes away on japanese music boards: A scene or a genre?

LILLIES AND REMAINS new mini album "LOST" will be released at 2014/02/12 (1,890yen)
 
[track list]
01.This City
02.You Stand Alone
03.Composition IV
04.Slowdown
05.Don't Go
06.Peak Experience-extended ver.-