Zeus

13 minutes ago, Moon said:

Thanks Zeus, great album Maou Taiten but my favourite is Kishibojin. The others I like are Fuujin kaikou, Raijin Sosei, Hoyouku Rindo, Karyobinga and Fuin Kairan   I think these are the best for what concerns sonority, production and writing of songs. I agree with you  for what concerns Garyotensei I think Kongo Kyuubi is better.

 

 "Some of their albums around the turn of 00's weren't that great"  What albums do you mean?

Mostly Chimimouryou and Kongo Kyuubi lol! I thought the former was a snooze and the latter good, but could have been much more than it was. Kishibojin was the beginning of a new era for them in my mind since that's when I felt they found inspiration again. They're not going to return to that mystical, eerie sound of the early 2000s that I adore and can't find in any other band, but their new heavy metal tendencies are awesome.

I can list B-sides all day! B-sides are where most of their magic lies for me tbh.
 

• Crucify Sorrow is a classic. Should be a single on it's own quite frankly. Every GazettE fan should hear it just once.
• I wish the mastering on 紅蓮 single wasn't so bad, because 暪し, 虚無の終わり 箱詰めの黙 is a seriously baller song let down by its shit production. Love it anyway.
• 千鶴 is most well-known and almost shouldn't even count, but Defective Tragedy is the true winner for that single.
• For something old, 関東土下座組合!!!! totally love the wacky vibe I get from it.
• For something new, GODDESS!

It's crazy to think that they've never suspended activities before. Take this break boiz you need it.

20 minutes ago, Moon said:

Great review zeus, what do you think of the older albums.

Now that's a loaded question! Haha!

I'll start by admitting I haven't listened to all of their albums. I don't even have all of their albums, though I am tracking them down slowly but surely. The earliest ones can be the trickiest to get my hands on. Unlike many other bands, I got into them with their 2006 compilation album. I didn't really know what was "new" and what was "old" when I was listening, and the first track I ever heard was "Manji" because I recognized the symbol so I decided to start there. My favorite album by them has to be 2007's "Maoutaiten", although I think that this album surpasses that just slightly. I hear a lot of praise for Garyotensei but that album doesn't do too much for me I think a lot of the hype has to do with the anime tie-in and the 20 minute 3-part epic near the end that they never tried before. With rose-tinted glasses I can confidently say they do the epic saga better in later albums. Some of their albums around the turn of 00's weren't that great either but even at their worst Onmyo is 70%.
 

I always thought that was Last.fm's job!

But in all seriousness, this is something that crosses my mind often. We have difficulty as a scene pinning down our roots because a lot of that information has been lost to time. There are probably all types of cheki, casettes, and photo shoots from the late 80s and early 90s that have never been converted digitally. It's important to catalog our history for the sake of fans yet to be, and my first thought for how this would be done is Last.fm. But from using the internet, I know that nothing is permanent. The biggest websites could be here today, gone tomorrow. I don't use it anymore but I don't know of a better music encyclopedia than Last.fm.

I've never been the type to care about visuals alone. It's the melding of visuals and audio that makes visual kei what it is for me.  The closest I get to cataloging anything is putting album artwork on things in iTunes and I've fallen off that wagon too. So, I have nothing to contribute to this endeavor. But I like reading so many people are still invested in the scene and their favorite bands, and I can guarantee you one day in the future you will be glad you saved all those pictures. Keep preserving history everyone!

So back to making this topic about me for a second...anyone know the difference between bronchitis and pneumonia?

4 hours ago, nekkichi said:

is this a recent thing, or has it been accumulating for a while?

It's usually something I either talk myself out of or just ride out until I feel better which could be anywhere between a few minutes or days

4 minutes ago, CAT5 said:

Being black in America.

2real4mern

7 minutes ago, saishuu said:

you're fucked either way does it even matter

Yes I would like to know which position to assume

bioplar depression which is it?

So what is it called when your mood goes from happy to legit pissed in 0.5 seconds for no reason?

I still bang these guys pretty frequently. It's hard to think that they're gone. TBH their disbandment hit me almost as hard as ReS looking back at it.

Yeah like many others have said I don't expect much from what remains of Jupiter. One band is stressful enough but two that do the same style of music is overkill. If Jupiter was a different genre I could see the need for hizaki to juggle 2 projects to fill his creative needs. But they aren't, so I'm happy to see Jupiter either fade out or find their own niche.

Feel bad for ZIN though. I hope he knows 90% of our ragging on him is jokes and that he was put into a position that he could never measure up to. I'd like to see him in a band that can cover his flaws and boost his strengths.

2 hours ago, cthulhu said:

still can't get over this 

You never really will you just learn to live with it

On 9/11/2017 at 3:11 PM, ArtFart said:

I CANNOT believe I really just got into an argument with a bunch of white girls from England about how the N word is not about them, so just because they think it's funny means they can use it as a casual cuss word. LIKE WHAT YOU GUYS LTERALLY HAD A PERSON THAT THAT WORD WOULD APPLY TO STEP IN AND SHOW THAT THEY DONT LIKE IT BEING USED THAT LOOSELY AND YOU ARE STILL LIKE NAH ITS OK?????

It's because it doesn't affect them and they don't have the brain capacity to take two seconds out of their day and put themselves in someone else's shoes. Call them a bunch of slags or whores and watch how fast they "get it".

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Here's the original text in case ryuusei ever gets wet feet and deletes the blog entry

"The nail that sticks out gets hammered down"

I believe this is the perfect application of that observation to a real situation, both in how everything built up into this shit storm and how poorly the band members are handing this. From my comfortable armchair, it looks like this miscommunication between Ryuusei and the rest of Kyogetsu is an ongoing thing, probably because Ryuusei gives no fucks anymore and the rest of the band doesn't want to be black balled by next week for speaking their minds. It should not be a shock to anyone that yen lubes the scene. deadman, one of the most revered bands by """NET0GYA""" the world over, called it quits because they didn't have enough money to continue. Plenty of other bands threaten disbandment like a manipulative, suicidal lover. Unverified sources have churned out lazy, drama generating articles about how exploitative the scene is for years. But this, this is gold, because it  comes from the mouth of a visual kei band man. We should do our part to save the post about just how expensive it is for a visual kei band to make it these days. At least, it gives me an appreciation for those vk bands that give it their all no matter the outcome, because I can quantify monetary costs instead of effort or dedication, both invisible things that can't be measured well.

This also is an interesting insight into the psychology of the Japanese. In America, if an article like this was sensationalized, we'd run with it demanding changes to some or all of the injustices faced by the band. Ryuusei would be a notable figure for stopping the visual kei exploitation. In Japan, he's a nuisance that removed a lot of the sparkle and splendor from a mysterious scene and thus needs to learn a lesson. Shit's cray yo.

 

I ran through it very quickly and the first half is him talking about how the finances typically break down for a visual kei band and why Kyogetsu can't continue on like this after three years. Will read the rest later.

This jumped into my head the other day as I was walking home and it was so perfect I had to throw in on for old times sake. As an album I don't think 13s reborn's production aged well but this song is still bad ass as fuck . If they ever did a proper re-recording album this should be on it.

Is your name D'espairsRay influenced?

Tracklist:

1. Massive Passive

2. 色彩 (Album Ver.)

3. ハレルヤ

4. End of Refrain

5. Loop

6.たりない

7. さよならワルツ

8. Q and A (Album Ver.)

9. 失う

10. Ego-izm

11. Reset

12. Self

| Ambivalence in its purest form

siraph may have the soul, but la la larks has the voice, and as long as Yumi Uchimura can sing I feel obligated to sample whatever project she is in. Culture Vulture is the debut album half a decade in the making - la la larks emerged from the ashes of school food punishment in 2012 - and this is both a blessing and a curse. On one hand, I've matured enough to appreciate la la larks for what it is instead of what it is not. On the other hand, if an album takes five years to make, I expect a damn good album. la la larks isn't the only band on the block anymore, and competition breeds incentive, so the only expectation I had was that they would give it their all.

Listening to Culture Vulture is ambivalence in its purest form. I want to rip la la larks for releasing such little music for the last five years, but I also want to dig into them for having released half of Culture Vulture already. It's two shakes away from falling into the Chinese Democracy category, lacking the feeling of having been toyed with for too long, but already I feel like I've heard this years ago. It is a great album, engineered to perfection, and the experience only intensifies with great audio equipment, but the recipe may as well be printed on the back. I raved about "ego-izm" when it was released as a single, but every other track in that vein feels like an alternate, less effective take. Things get good when la la larks unshackle themselves from their oppressive, self-imposed pop constraints for the tracks such as "loop" or the jazzy ballad "たりない", which have grown to be two of my favorites. It's the biggest indication that there's more to this band than pop songs that would double as juicy anime cash-ins, but they hardly ever show it.

Perhaps I haven't changed after all and just want Yumi to throw me a bone. Her voice over dissonant noise and reverb is addictive, and we get close with the deceptive opening of the last track "Self", but close is not enough. Culture Vulture could have taken more risks and been more unpredictable. I'm looking for a figurative wink and nod towards the darker, more contemplative moments similar to sfp's "loop, share", "deviswitch", or even la la larks' "earworm"! It would have done wonders to invigorate my interest.

I like it, but I wonder how much of that was engineered and how much of it is my honest opinion. In chasing the goal of creating their perfect pop album, la la larks gives us no indication of how close they are to the apex of their sound. I can clearly hear the talent in every member, but no one does anything that wows me musically. The album never reaches critical mass or picks up a pace faster than a jog, and that turns the tail end of this journey into a slog. When their direct competition made it a point to make a statement with their first release, I'm left disappointed that it took so long to create an album that left such an underwhelming impact.

But what did you really expect when you crystallize school food punishment's two eras into two bands and pit them against each other?

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At least YOSHIKI has an amazing sense of humor, I'll give him that. That video was hilarious and they could barely keep their composure. 10/10 maybe YOSHIKI should think about being a comedian if music isn't working out for him.

I hope that girl had her receipts so she can get her money back. That's just sad. Someone needs to audit their systems code to look for bugs because stuff like that is not normal.

2 hours ago, LIDL said:

Seems they left out this part about Cersei that should be there. Maybe they saved it for next season? I am guessing this part of story will be turning point for her to go full mental.

Is there anybody alive for Cersei to do that thing with?