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  1. Posted

    I hope they'll do a beastly/heavy mixing for UROBOROS too, like DUM SPIRO SPERO. URO' is one of my favorite DEG albums but the sound quality doesn't always live up to its greatness.

    exactly this. i'd fap all over this album if its sound wouldn't be as meh as it is now (drums sound horrible, don't like the drums that much on DSS either tho, their best sound was the hagehage-single or warasu i think...). just imagine vinshuka with their current sound :oshi: !!!

  3. Posted

    Best albums of the millennium - list is just another showcase of personal taste (which, in internet, leads to massive shitstorms everywhere),

    And it's no use to discuss this matter/exposure/whatever

    EDIT: why are we discussing this? Please stop.

    that, and also comparing DEG to Gazette Albums? :| you wouldn't compare a computerscreen to a roast beef, would you? apples vs. "that other fruit" ...

    but look at this toaster, it cooks eggs too!!!

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    hmmn, i'm not making any sense here?... whatever.

  5. Posted

    wont give a review here, pretty much everything has been said before, i love the shit out of this album,

    but i have to agree on the drumsound issue (and drumming issue perhaps).

    recording or mastering in analoge doesn't have much to do with that,

    thats just a tag to throw around, saying

    "we're so uber-oldschool and have much more natural sound than all you digital tetris playing techno-producers",

    when in fact both analoge and digital producing can lead to equally good results.

    it still only depends on the guy sitting in front of the equipment.

    what happened here is either that the drums were mixed and quantised beyond any recognition and human feel

    (happens actually far too often in metal) or maybe even badly replaced/triggered afterwards with drumsamples (nothing against that IF done right), with the result of them sounding like a fuckin robot.

    there's one song which begins with drums solo (akatsuki i think?) where it's especially riddiculous, just listen to that snare, brrr, each stroke is exactly the same... no, those are definitely not good sounding drums, even for metaldrums (which seem to by definition have to sound like crap, very few exeptions^^)

    TL;DR: love the album, drums sound like a broken sewing machine. Rating still sorta 9/10-ish

  7. Posted

    09. Karasu (new version)

    Holy shit want want want

    not so sure about the "new version" part, listening to the original now it sounded quite similar. but the sorta breakdownish part at the end of Gaika, chinmoku ga nemuru koro with kyo shouting "jumpjumpjump..." seemend new to me, but was a real killer live, in total this live's energy was awesome. kyo seemed to be pleased aswell :P

    direngrey-facebook: "Out of all the shows I have played to date, today's show was the best one ever. Thank you to everyone in Germany. -Kyo"

    edit:

    karasu is already up on youtube :)

    2x2mnrdgqxo

  8. Posted

    although the nazi-theme might be a little delicate i think it still is only about aesthetics

    (maybe with a littel edgy/offend touch, but still).

    probably the same way as i highly doubt that the members of versailles are fierce supporters of the early 17th [edit] century french politics...

  10. Posted

    performance was so-so. first half was awful, mainly because of mixing problems and maybe therefor bad monitoringsound, but lets be honest, kyo was always pretty "open-minded" about hitting the right pitch in his clean vocals, so no surpise here, but that bass sound was horrible, what the hell was the soundengineer thinking? those slap parts sounded like an elefants diarrhea... (volume and sound of the guitars was kinda not that great also a lot). second half (i'd say after different sense) was better, quite good actually, but yeah, some MC's of kyo (or whoever) would have helped a lot... i hope for their concerts when they have their own mixer and a sufficient soundcheck it'll be better...

  11. Posted

    Tooru looks very 2010 here.

    like he (and the rest of the band, too) just changed clothes after filming Hageshisa.

    i think that's pretty much been the case here (also die+kaoru are still playing their 6-strings...). would also make sense considering they where on the same single...

  12. Posted

    nice pictures, also i found this on kerrang website, actually don't really know what to think about that. serious or marketing strategy by management?

    full text in spoiler-box

    Japanese rockers DIR EN GREY have issued an open letter to fans.

    The band address the this year's tragedy in Japan and have spoken about their new album.

    "The earthquake this March took the lives of many people, including many DIR EN GREY supporters. Now, in many places throughout the country, high radiation levels have been detected; everyone including ourselves has been exposed to the radiation and there are even some who say the contamination is so bad we are at risk to not be able to travel to the USA and other countries in the future."

    "On March 11th, the band was in the studio in Tokyo working on the new album when the earthquake hit. Afterwards the power shortages and transportation chaos caused further complications, and our many thoughts crossed our mind: 'will this album really be completed?'; 'will we ourselves be able to continue working towards the completion?"; and "is it right to continue making this album?'"

    "August 3rd 2011 is the release date of our new album DUM SPIRO SPERO. This normally would have been a wonderful day where our work was to be released out into the world. However, there are still many people in Japan suffering from the disaster and so with the intention of self-restraint, we will to refrain from words of joy on this occasion."

    "But we cannot stop moving forward due to this. We are currently in Japan now; however it is unclear to what extent the government's statements are correct, and to be honest, no one really knows what is going on in Japan right now. The safety regulations for safe level of radiation exposure keep getting increased higher and higher, yet the only official announcement is that "there is no effect on health." We can no longer tell whether we are a democratic nation. Unless you are careful with your words, you will be taken down with significant force. At this point we do not have the ability to truly find out what is occurring in our own country."

    "However, we want to know the truth. People are able to overcome huge obstacles and problems if they know the truth."

    "In the album title While I Breath I Hope, and our music video Different Sense that we released just prior to the album, our sense of wanting to take action that will lead to a breakthrough in the current situation is reflected."

    "The beginnings of something as significant as the velvet revolution are said to have been in the Prague Spring which was started by a rallying of people of culture."

    "

    For all of you who have read this, we ask that you do what you can to support us in our search for the truth."

  13. Posted

    damn, lotus is the same length as single version... but some of the previews are really promising (really liked beelzebub, yuuyoku, shitataru.., and akasuki)

    high hopes for full album...

  14. Posted

    ... DIR EN GREY sound a lot like Europe to me now. which makes sense to me ...
    ... a lot like Europe to me ...
    ... Europe ...

    mHNnVNTrBUU&feature=fvst

    damit, now that you say it, FUCK YEAH, GLAM/COCK/Hair-Metal FTW

    :D:D (trollface.jpg)

  15. Posted

    Dir en grey have yet to make something heavy, so I don't see why that would be surprising?

    successfull troll was successfull...

    yeah, not heavy? sure... :lol:

    + boris blackout is amazing, but i'd say heavy friends has an even heavier feel :P (hell, its in the name, aaand in the album name...)

  16. Posted

    Yesterdays Blogentry:

    「宇宙少年」2011.8.10(WED)全国発売決定！！

    1.宇宙少年

    2.Friday, kiss me Friday

    ￥500 (tax in)　rep-042

    TOWER RECORD限定、枚数限定のシングルとなります。

    売り切れの可能性も出て来ますので、ぜひお近くのTOWER RECORDにて

    ご予約をお願いします！

    English/tl;dr :

    My interpretation of the Google Translate tells me, that they're going to release a new single on 2011.8.10 on Tower Records called 「宇宙少年」 ("Young Astronauts", but tell me if this is a horrible mistranslation ;) ), with two Tracks:

    1. 宇宙少年 (Young Astronauts)

    2. Friday, kiss me Friday

    good news ^^

  17. Posted

    That guy mentioned the same complaint i have had with the singles. The drumming is just there, nothing else. In different sense it just whacks along, but take away the other instruments and it is reduced into pointlessness. And i seriously hope they don't have any songs like Tsumi to kisei in there that sound like five minute breakdowns with no hooks and...
    Too often does the music meander about without going anywhere

    i fear pretty much the same after DS-single. although hagehage was pretty straightforward and catchy,

    lotus wasn't that complex and edgy either (it just seems unfinished and actually might deserve another 30-60seconds, if well placed...).

    just different sense so far is more on the hard to get side, which isn't bad, but i think kaoru said these three singles where kind of the "pop"-songs on the album?

    i hope this won't be an album full of tsumitokisei-mud, how can a song sound so similar to the great warasu and still fail so bad...?

    but i still have high hopes for it, at least i guess it will be something pretty unique and deg have so far always produced something i like listening to :D

    Analog also presents a more rich and live sound vs. the electronic distance that digital can present.

    might have been the case in early to mid 2000's but nowadays "analog" is just a nice word to flash onto productions,

    while mixes/masters made on a midpriced laptop can sound equally good (warm, rich, fat, lively, vintage, whatever).

    but it's a differnt style/routine of working nontheless, so if it sounds good it doesn't matter why or how, does it?

  18. Posted

    The A-Side is really cool to me, however Tsumi To Kisei is just completely and utterly underwhelming and it sounds like they just recycled Warsaw's formula a bit

    ^^more or less this, although the warasu formula worked on.. well warasu. this one is utterly boring and monotone. A-Side is pretty cool, but i guess for my taste they start to turn to much in the deathmetal (yeahyeah, inb4 "LULZ, DEG is teletubbies-thememusic, for metal listen to -somethingwithbloodandsatan-") direction, hagehage was still ok, this one might be too much...

  20. Posted

    this is shaping up to be a magnificent release (single and therefore album perhaps aswell). since i was absoluteley was blown away by warasu i obviously dig the impression that TtK is giving... can't wait for the live in august, gonna be epic.

    (and for the live thing, at least in this short sample i can't help noticing that kyo doesn't suck as much as usually live when it comes to actually hitting clean notes, perhaps he improved here aswell :P )

  21. Posted

    its funny to see so many people grew up with despa

    same here, first jrock/vk band i saw live, at Wacken 2006 and like the 3rd japanese band i started listening to after gackt and diru.

    aah damn, hope hizumi's condition gets better someday and they do a glorious revive=p

    lol, here aswell, first jrock-band i listened to. sad news is sad.

    like most i wasn't really into their last two albums, but the last live-dvd was awesome and i really hoped for something new by them.

    grmbl, day is ruined now...

  25. Posted

    Maserati <3

    Some guy in my neighbourhood has one and I was so gonna loot his when all hell broke loose. Well at least now I can look forward to October and looting it in October :hyper:

    Sorry, no looting this time. In October god will not only take away the faithful (which he somehow seemed to forgot to do on Saturday), but pull the plug on the entire universe. No Maserati for you. Unless there are some in hell. :devilwha:

    October 21st is a Friday btw. Maybe Rebecca Black got it right after all? We are all "gonna get down" on Friday.

    memerush!!!

    memes-the-last-friday.jpgfridaysdarksecretp1.gifmemes-gotta-get-down-on-friday-the-th.jpg

    [/showingmadmemebasecopypastskillz]

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