Zeus

^ Well no, not really. It's a lot more complicated than that, but this is definitely part of it.

Aion, he'll never be able to read this. You're going to have to contact him personally if you want that wish fulfilled.

You can't include 1998-2002 without 2003-2007. They're like ugly twins.

True, they've returned with a sound closer to Core the Child, but what made CtC so good were the fact that more members composed. They had a variety of composers and a variety of sound and I compare that to UnsraW where there is one main composer and Shou. Yuuki has a "way" of composing and now he sounds like he's trying to experiment with different types of sounds and has yet to hit that right balance. He may have the idea to go back to sounding more like CtC, but the best CtC songs were the ones he didn't compose.

They had a great release in Abel/Kein and SPIRAL CIRCLE-Complete-. What these new singles are, IDK. Kleza in Utero was the best out of all three, easily. That's not even saying much when you compare it to the last two singles. Everything since they've come back from their hiatus just hasn't been good. I don't know if it's because all our tastes have changed or if it's because this band isn't as good as it once was. Probably both, since they're no longer covering Core the Child.

I have a feeling EROS was a one-time thing. I read through both Satoshi and Rito's blogs and they referred to EROS as sexy, erotic and exhilarating before it was release. Although those aren't the verbs I would use to describe that song, I can't say we didn't get fair warning. I haven't seen anything on their blogs like that yet so I figure these next releases will sound more like the B-sides.

Might as well. Everyone called me Zesshoku anyway. Guess that name stuck

I'm guessing both. They only wrote 14 songs.

I'm supposing track 5 is the live distributed one. Also surprised nothing off the first single was played.

Are they holding their first live in a hallway or something?

Agreed. First Lycaon, now UnsraW. I might not download it at all anymore.

I'm just glad it's not something more serious. Trying to stave off the first 2011 death as long as possible.

I thought Pledge was pretty boring if I'm completely honest. There's still some hope in me left for their album. They've released so many singles they might not put them all on the album and that would leave some room for better content. MAYBE. The GazettE could always surprise us.

This...actually sparked my interest somewhat. Agreed with nekkichi, more VK bands need to do this.

We're not positive as of yet. All we can do is speculate, although I wouldn't be surprised if Erin.- was right.

I don't believe you fully understand the idiocy that some last.fm users can descend to over tagging. I hope you're right for my sanity's sake, but if you're not I'll get some expired lulz before I go spazzoid on some of the last.fm users. Either way, such a small amount of plays is surprising.

a) That name is so generic it's disappointing. I smell tag wars a comin'. Five bucks brodiaea man is going to be in this.

I'm disappointed Lycaon didn't put FRAGILE, LOVE SONG or Plug into the Socket on the omnibus. Any one of those would have been infinitely better than EROS.

That fish behind you is seriously creepy manda.

^ I agree. This is stretching into the ludicrous. I completely understand wanting to do something new and refresh your batteries but they could have just done that under the Nega project. IMO, almost all of Nega's music sounds exactly the same and they didn't start diversifying until GRAVE OF THE SACRIFICE with tracks like Nameless alice and 17sai no Kodoku (which I thought sucked, but I'll give them points for effort). The rub here is that PERESTROIKA is almost no different from Nega at all so I don't exactly get what they're trying to do with this project. They still sound just as overworked and stale as they did when they were Nega. The overarching problem I see here is that as Nega they composed themselves into a corner and are so used to composing only a few types of tracks that they're now unable to make music together that doesn't sound like Nega. I don't know if that's Jin's fault or the composers' faults, but when you have four members stop one project and pick up with another project almost immediately, the music's not going to change drastically. In the case of PERESTROIKA, it almost didn't change at all. I'll laugh heartily though if this is a highly detailed, cleverly thought out plot somehow involving Nega and a new album release.

DIR EN GAY SUX DICK!!!! *silence at obvious failtroll attempt* That's why I'm pleasant today.

I still haven't figured out the member of the band that could not continue activities. Can't be Shiki because he's in a new band IIRC and it looks like Gen and Kuro still wants to do music too. My thoughts are on either L or 6. Either way, to answer the poster above me he might just play regular rock/metal music. Compared to most bands DI3SIRAE wasn't overly flashy when it came to visuals anyway so him making the transition wouldn't be too hard to imagine.

Kai is "Versailles boy". It was in the Show Yourself thread. Dig around a bit and you'll find it. Also, lol. He just earned himself a permanent position in TROLOLOL HALL next to Mitsu and Mono2 with this one.

Don't talk about Prophet Kyo that way. >

I would guess eve, since he came from a band called holic and he was the main composer of Lycaon. Someone that has Sad/Sick:ness can clear that up for you though.