SUBLIMINAL

I used to be second daily top poster here and now I'm tenth. Anyway, should anyone care or notice, I am house-hopping two minutes down the street to a new apartment this afternoon and will be internetless until the weekend. But by then I'll be jetting off to the land of Canucks for my birthday, so I won't be around for two weeks. I'll miss you, TW! I wonder how many people will get the topic reference. Hah. Toodle-loo~

As for my ratings... Human-clad monster: without a doubt this is the greatest song on the album. Karyu wasn't lying when he said this is essentially all of their music rolled into one. 8/10 DEATH POINT: on par with Bullet; tremendously catchy, smart choice for a promotional track. Doesn't showcase Tsukasa's talent as well as it could. Flimsy bass, too, but it's overall an unskippable track for me. 6/10 13 -thirteen-: I thought this was promising when I heard the preview. Brilliant marching drum beat, but it's a relatively empty song. It could have had so much more energy a'la Fascism (I hope it doesn't replace that at Japanese lives) Again, reminds me of a Marilyn Manson song I can't recall the name of. 5/10 LOVE IS DEAD: Everyone has heard this song. It was love at first listen for me, unwittingly borrowed from 80s synthpop or not. I love it when they slap a nice layer of synth over their songs. Fun, flirtacious, danceable rock. 6/10 DEVILS' PARADE: This is another one of my favourites. Wouldn't be out of place on the Queen of the Damned soundtrack, lol. This is what Tsukasa promised. Digital horror. This must be the song they included the staff vocal recordings on, too. 7/10 dope: This and DEVILS' PARADE make quite a pair. I agree with Furik, this is incredible. That's all there is for me to say about this. 8/10 FALLING: Been done before, it basically could have been a single to follow BRILLIANT, KAMIKAZE and HORIZON. However, 2:38 is this song's saving grace. 5.5/10 PROGRESS: Love the melodic layers of guitar. Although, to be honest they shouldn't have grouped this, FALLING and FINAL CALL together at the end of the album. 6/10 FINAL CALL: Everyone has heard this, too. I could echo the two above brief reviews here. Except I loved the oriental feel to this song when it was first released and, again, the guitar work. There is nothing boring about these songs singularly to me, but they can be difficult to tell apart when grouped together like this. 6.5/10 abyss: The preview led me to believe this could possibly be another PARADOX 5, so I was admittedly disappointed when it was more of a Screen/Kaleidoscope number. Two listens in, I was of the opinion that this was quite dull. However, this is my sixth and it's grown on me already. It's beautiful. Zero is actually audible! The guitar solo is lovely. Hizumi's voice is rich. The drums plod along placidly in the verses, then it escalates into an upbeat chrous. And it's an appropriate way to end the album, it trails off gloomily into an abyss. Gorgeous ballad, imo, very melancholic and melodic. 8.5/10 Overall: I agree with Des. It felt a little bit short. But I'm wholly, wholly satisfied with this album. Well above average release, and it's a pleasantly dark album. No terrible songs. I didn't hate any of them, and I hated three on REDEEMER and one on MIRROR.

The intro to FALLING = BRILLIANT's chorus, with a slightly different melody. I hope I'm not the only one who noticed that.

I don't have this mentality. When I decide a band have lost it, I generally stop listening and hoping their new material will satisfy as much as their old music did. I was just curious.

FALLING is... well, it mimicks another one of their songs that I'm too tired to pinpoint. And I perhaps had expectations too high for abyss, because it fell short. 13 -thirteen- is less exciting than I thought it was going to be initially, and it still reminds me of Marilyn Manson. I do want to know why people continue to download their releases when they haven't enjoyed any of them since MIRROR, though. I am sincerely curious about this mentality.

BRB FAGGING. I'll review properly when I'm done. What do you guys think?

Dun dun dun another one bites the dust.

Gary Numan - Cars

D'espairsRay don't have a song called Zakura no Ame, if that helps at all. They have one by the name of Hai to Ame, but that's it. Maybe you mixed up the Dir en grey songs Zakuro and Ryoujoku no Ame.

Found two D'espairsRay tapes I don't and probably never will own. One is $700 Goddamnit.

What is this I don't even

I never pay attention to manga that's made into movies, so I haven't seen the film but Junji Ito is... my third favourite guro artist. Although I prefer Tomie to Uzumaki, most of everything he's done is incredible and disturbing. There should be a general eroguro thread. :X

Anathema - Pulled Under at 2000 Metres A Second

Aw yeeeeah. I still play this full blast whenever it comes on TV to piss anyone in the vicinity off.

Well I have a snowflake moray eel, and they only grow to be about two feet long. They are quite vicious and aggressive, but I haven't been bitten (yet!) :/ And I feed him frozen smaller fish. Not that they need to be frozen. I could buy plenty of live fish and he'd gobble all of them up as happily. I don't know of many people who successfully keep sea slugs, though. That would be cool.

We're all wrong and girugamesh held a secret live so secret they didn't even know about it themselves. It was strictly for one or two traders.

I was going to get a sea slug a while ago, but I ended up getting a moray eel instead because sea slugs are picky eaters. They're so striking, though! I love them.

Fffff. Abe's Oddysee? Nostalgia time.

I remember when one of D'espairsRay's most recent singles was released, in my review I pointed out how it sounded like an UVERworld song and I thought it was funny... and one of my least favourite songs by them coincidentally. I'm indifferent about them. I don't hate them. I don't care enough to. But I'm not a fan, either. I don't have their albums or .mp3s, but if a friend is listening to them, I won't bitch at them to skip the song. I actually wasn't aware "everyone hated them" until this post, so. D:

I told you people would like it anyway!

lol @ this entire post.

WHY WOULD YOU EVEN GO THERE. asldjal;dja this. It's alright, Ichiro is invincible.

has an awesome Pinhead avatar!

2011!

D'espairsRay - ???????