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  2. Posted

    I agree pretty much with OP lol.  It's part of why I started listening to non-English music in the first place and it's now vastly most of what I listen to.  I had some album by a band...I don't even remember now, but the lyrics were so stupid and irritating that I couldn't get past it to listen to the music, which was actually good.  So yeah.  I'd much rather listen to music in languages I don't fully understand so I can fully appreciate every aspect of the music.

     

    And no, I rarely look up lyric translations, unless I'm trying to confirm what I think I'm hearing for whatever reason. I just really don't care what they're saying as long as I don't understand it lol.

  4. Posted

    Since I'm still shuffling today....  I only like Delacroix and Luzmelt from that list and it took me forever to warm up to the former lol.

     

    1.baroque — キズナ

    2.Lowdown 30 — 플라스틱에로모듈

    3.空想委員会 (kuso iinkai) — エリクサー中毒患者

    4.Plastic Tree — DUET

    5.キノコホテル — 回転ベッドの向こうがわ

    6.피아 (pia) — Misconstrued

    7.Sel'm — Spiral World

    8.This Is Not A Business — NOIZE

    9.Altan Urag — Yesterday

    10.ZILcoNIA — Little Nest

     

    This shuffle was actually really awesome and it's hard to choose a fave lol.  But that Lowdown 30 song is probably my favorite of theirs, so I'll go with that.

  6. Posted

    Casting 'Revive'...

     

    @mahoujin I like a lot of those bands, but i'd pick the emmuree song

     

     

    1.Crazy★shampoo — The place in which I am now.

    2.Eluphant — 미래로 돌아가자 (feat. Ra.D)

    3.Moran — 人間の人間による人間の為の恋路

    4.Galileo Galilei — ロンリーボーイ

    5.Nothing's Carved In Stone — Same Circle

    6.팬텀 (Phantom) — 얼굴 뚫어지겠다 (Re-Mastering Ver.)

    7.CHAGE & ASKA — SAY YES

    8.หวาย (Waii) — ผิดที่เขา

    9.The Flickers — non-fiction

    10.heidi. — 鳴笛

     

    Gonna have to go with the NCIS song

  8. Posted

    Lol, this troll thread. :'D

     

    I'm not really a "fan" of Diru, but I like plenty of their stuff.  That said, it's easy to choose the first era.  Lots of memorable songs there, my favorite album is still Vulgar, etc.  The other era has some decent tunes, but it also has MOO and a lot of pig squealing.  When I think of Dir en grey, I think of songs like the final, red em, bottom of the death valley, drain away, audience killer loop etc etc  so that's always gonna be my favorite era.

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    1: Don`t worry about others, is Visual Kei a genre, or a scene, or something else, to you?


     


    it's a genre


     


    2: Most of the time can you tell the genre, or if you will like a band based on their look?


     


    i can usually tell the genre, but not necessarily if i will like them


     


    3: Do the looks matter to you? 


     


    no


     


    4: Do you search for music by sub-genre, such as Nu-Metal, Alt. Rock, etc?


     


    i don't search for music by genre at all, except VK hahah.


     


    5: Do you get annoyed when others label your favorite music as genres which you don`t agree with?


     


    nope, don't give a crap


     


    Bonus: If a band starts as Visual Kei, even if they change, are they Visual Kei 4 Lyfe?


     


    yep. there's just a sound there that never fully goes away. plus, even the most t-shirty ex-vkers can't seem to help taking the stage in wacky costumes and/or makeup again at some point


  13. Posted

    Depends on what they have available. If it's a big band with a lot of releases, I'll typically go for the most recent album. I generally find that singles aren't enough to give me an idea of their sound. If that's all they have is singles, then I'll grab the most recent three or so.  I most prefer mini-albums and if they happen to have one of those, even if it's in the middle of their discography, I'll definitely gravitate towards that lol.

     

    In terms of chronology, I'll start with most recent always because I believe bands progress 90% of the time. Most of the time, as I go back, I like the music less and less. Not always though, just...mostly.

  22. Posted

    totally agreeing. In my "review" I also found OMINOUS and DERAsthsth the only somewhat rememberable tracks on this "effort". I have to disagree tho on the notion of them somehow utilizing the possibilities of two guitars. Especially in the immensely uninspired middle part (which, in this particular case, stretches from the second half of the first track to the second to last song) they play like 95% in unison.

     

    Also @pretz, i guess ominous doesn't exactly get that much praise because it's some kind of masterpiece or anything. It's just the only thing on the album that's not just another 5minute extension of the previous 50 minutes. I.e. a "stand-out song" so to say. (I do like it a bit tho...)

     

    re:the last sentence, those are my thoughts exactly. it stands out, but it's far from any kind of masterpiece and considering the album, you might say standing out isn't exactly hard....lol

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    well, the claim is more, that there aren't that many catchy choruses, and the ones that are there aren't any good, but that's of course subjective. 

    However, you may seem to notice, the main qualm people have with the album isn't that of lacking catchiness, but that of monotony.

    To elaborate on that, here my very in-depth, very scientific analysis, track by track:

     

    1: NIHIL                           80bpm, B-flat minor, intro, electronic

    2: Headache Man var. 1   100bpm, B-flat minor, Heavy GurrGurr song

    3. Headache Man var. 2   120bpm, B-minor, Heavy GurrGurr song

    4. Headache Man var. 3   150bpm, B-flat minor, Heavy GurrGurr song

    5. DERACINE                      75bpm, B-minor, Power Ballad or sth

    6. Headache Man var. 4   110bpm, A-minor, Heavy GurrGurr song

    7. Ruthless Deed v2.0        90bpm, A-minor, Heavy GurrGurr song

    8. Headache Man var. 5   105bpm, B-minor, Heavy GurrGurr song

    9. Hyena v2.0                   100bpm, C#-minor, Heavy GurrGurr song

    10. Headache Man var.6  120bpm, A-minor, Heavy GurrGurr song (with little ballady bits)

    11. Headache Man var.7  120bpm, B-minor, Heavy GurrGurr song

    12. Headache Man var.8  120bpm, D#-minor, Heavy GurrGurr song (with little ballady bits)

    13. Headache Man var.9  145bpm, B-minor, Heavy GurrGurr song

    14. OMINOUS                    90bpm, D#-minor, Song

     

    now, if i wasn't such an asshat i might give them, that Hyena 2.0 (i think it's real title is lucy?) is more of a punkrock track than gurrgurr, that maybe the gurrgurr/balladybit songs have a more suitable example than headacheman, but you get the picture. the overall impression of the album is, that more than 2/3 of the songs are more or less slight variations of sth like headache man, somewhere between 100 and 120bpm, probably in B or B-flat minor. On DIM you had one headacheman (maybe adding moth, leech and ogre to the same realm, but that's about it), which is why people loved it so much. Here you have a full album consisting of one single track, that in the end just feels like an hourlong forgettable slob of generic riffwankery.

    (which isn't helped much by the fact, that they once again fail to chime in on the possibilities of having two guitars. I mean, double-tracking is cool and all, but when the rhythm and the lead guitars are just carbon copies of each other for 90% of the time you really are doing sth wrong, or are being very lazy)

     

    Edit: Also, having listened to the album a few times more now, i change my rating from 6-7/10 to more of a 5.5/10 due to severe boredom

     

    Thank you for this post tbh.  And, sidenote, Ominous was the only song that stood out to me lol.  it's frankly nowhere near the level of DIM imo. Very good Deathgaze cover album though.  :thumbs:

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