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I'll have to wait till the full ver., but so far Mononoke Requiem still tops it by a mile

6 hours ago, psychonnect_rozen said:

Might start listening to these guys now. What do I start with?

most definitely MIRROR and Coll:Set

the chorus is formulaic and boring, but I LOVE everything else

21 minutes ago, Devilish_Eye said:

Yes it is so dunno if you should still include them. I don't understand sublabels and such at all haha 

99% of the time it's all the same, just a maneuver to avoid/reduce taxes

yass!

I hope we get more songs like '58'

excited!

Just now, Mr.0 said:

All PV are posted for 1 day only! (And of course all can be found on the DVD of the overpriced edition)

Shit, if only I knew beforehand I'd have downloaded it all, lol

dunno why the took down the album title song PV

it was great

I for once believe in the differences in music direction thing. I always thought their "directionless" approach was actually intentional, and I respect them for that, even if the disco ended up being 50-50 for me.

There is A LOT of talent in those boys, that's for sure. I hope to see them all back in action in the future, specially the drummer, he is great

This is so stupid I can't even

Ain't that bad. Definitely an improvement over the first single

feels like meev releases a new album every 3 months or something

Eh, it's okay I guess.

Still waiting for a release that will take Open your Heart / Siren from the top stop, tho.

second track could have been good, but eh... The first riff made me go "hell yeah they're going punk" but then they start the usual b-side wankery for my disappointment.

Mononoke Requiem still kicks ass tho

I'm really into this 小林太郎 dude's voice!

Wasn't familiar with him, gotta look for more

everything else is usual aiolin. never bad, most of the times pretty bland

56 minutes ago, JRD said:

I don't get the amount of hate they're given. I liked Mejibray too, but I can still dig this. Ready Player, Twily Boy, Starry Night, Flight Plan, Pictionary, almost a lot of them; if they played it at some sort of EDM event, I'd be dancing my ass off. If they have a live planned while I'm in Japan for a Month and a half in the winter; I'd buy a ticket.

Shit, I'm giving Ready Player and flight plan a spin and it's definitely some good shit. I'm positively impressed now, the new album just got into my radar

So are we calling 23yo people old now? I guess me and some other fellas here already on our thirties gotta start applying for retirement or smh, lol

Welcome to MH! Have a good one!

I've lost any hope of them releasing good stuff on a constant basis, it will always be this kind of rollercoaster. This one is blaaaaand, still waiting for the banger that will be hidden between all the fillers on the album

FINALLY something interesting again!

Ikuo is a beast, really looking forward to this!

47 minutes ago, Komorebi said:

I hope they don't. I hate music streaming and I love the concept of buying physical releases, with all the bonuses included, and attending instores. I don't  want to have to pay three or four times what I'm paying for my cellphone plan just because listening to music now is sucking up my data too.

Besides all that was mentioned, recording and studio time expensive and I guess smaller bands can afford more easily to start off with singles and EPs and grow from there. Newbie bands like Nazare can afford to release full albums because they record them in their drummer's bedroom.

If you do understand how elitist and entitled that sounds, okay, to each their own I guess

You do realize that they do instores to try to improve sales and bring more people to their concerts, and bonuses are there just because a regular release isn't appealing enough, right? Fighting modernity has never worked before and never will

I for one am really happy bands like dimlim and dexcore are putting their releases on spotify and I can somehow support them, instead of giving them exactly 0 cents, which would be the case if I had to download their stuff.

31 minutes ago, secret_no_03 said:

I wouldn't like everything to be on Spotify (although you could save stuff offline), but I would like for everything to be available on iTunes globally. It will never happen for plenty of reasons, but it would make stuff more accessible and cheaper and they could charge whatever they want in theory (not sure if iTunes has guidelines for pricing.).

This is a weird thought. You wouldn't like everything to be on spotify, but would like for it to be readily available on itunes? So people who can't afford the asked price wouldn't be able to have the same access? If you wish to support them harder, there are a lot of ways of doing that with merch, physical copies, instead of limiting access to music. If xTRiPx released their stuff on spotify I would love it and still buy every release I could, because I want to support regardless of access, so stream would just be another form of revenue...

I'm always down for new Akito! 1/f no yuragi was SO my jam, sad they were so low with their releases

It's a worldwide trend. Albums became less frequent, singles in the way japan do (before full albums) are much more common, sometimes not even being featured in albums. You can blame it on stream if you want, there are several studies noticing how spotify dictates even how songs are being produced nowadays (not that I see this happening in japan soon, as they are always stubbornly behind some trends).

In a way it's good, it extends songs longevity, which lets artists focus more on delivering good content instead of always putting stuff out.

And TBH, in the whole world music releases are a supplemental income to live concerts. Artists must survive with their lives, that's just the way it is after the internet. The sooner japanese bands understand that and adopt stream the way they should, the better for everyone.

remember kids, heavy isn't everything

that solo is GOTY so far, daaaaaamn