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Cardi B ain't safe from the legendary trap nihonjin chanteuse and her food-court crowds
 
I wonder how long this embarrassing phase is going to last for her
 
is she gonna drop an official mosburger urban EP
 
is Japanese rap doomed or saved

Tesseract’s album Altered State has drums that are partly programmed by the guitarist Acle, and partly played on a digital pad by the drummer himself because they didn’t have the time and money to record live drums. So if Traces Vol 2 was a quick cash grab, not having Kai come in to record is entirely feasible. 

Yeah, for sure lol
 
Meh it's okay as a whole but if you only count the new songs it's generic and the only real highlight is Leda on guitar. Also DIZAINERVE was just better seemed to be some effort in that mini-album.
 
Same. It sucks, they really need to buckle down on 1 concept and stick with it their sound is so back and forth personally I think they should do more like "inhale". Keita is under utilized because they almost never allow him to do all of the awesome metalcore songs CodeRebirth did. Combined with FED's Djenty nature and complex bass solos, more metalcore would be nice.
 
The highlight of the album and the highlight of their career. Honestly "inhale" is the only song that I think truly lives up to Keita and Leda's potential.
 
Overall though it's okay I'll probably listen to it a lot because it compiles some good singles and a few decent new tracks and as always some brilliant guitar work on Leda's part. Keita's harsh vocals would be nice to hear more often too. But yeah it's an okay album.

Look on the bright side, Keita isn't "rapping" at least.
Also, it was already established that Leda has an illness called Shit Taste, for which there is no cure.
 
But, honestly, as a package, it's an overall solid record, I mean, in context of Leda's previous works, it's certainly lacking, but considering the whole scene, it's still up there.
 
Though, my main issue with this album, and FED in general, is the utter disappointment (most notably with Tonick Dizain) that I get with nearly every release. It's good, sometimes great, even. But they have the potential to do so much more and that's what pisses me off.
 
(also including a 2-fucking-year old single...which is still the highlight of the album)

the swiss have so much money and yet so little taste 
 
rip 

this is the worst case of identity and midlife crisis I have ever seen

Guest bassist schedule:
4/22(日) リウ(メトローム (Metronome))
5/01(火) SHINGO☆(SEX MACHINEGUNS)
5/03(木.祝) KOUSUKE(Unveil Raze)
5/04(金.祝) KOUSUKE(Unveil Raze)
5/05(土) SHINGO☆(SEX MACHINEGUNS)
5/12(土) リウ(メトローム (Metronome))
5/13(日) リウ(メトローム (Metronome))
5/14(月) リウ(メトローム (Metronome))
5/19(土) 結良(Kra)
5/20(日) 結良(Kra)
6/01(金) 結良(Kra)
 

[tracklist]
01. ZERO
02. SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE (English ver.)
03. WITH BEAT I GO ON
04. REBOOT
05. FREEDOM
06. VAMPIRE'S MOON
07. SOCIAL NETWORK SERVICE (Japanese ver.)

People paid money to see this
 
1 like = 1 prayer

sorry Satsucki but this is only a 
 

This answers my question of whether or not he has a band. 

"OBSCURE" is one of the most graphic and notorious music videos ever crafted within visual kei, catapulting the band back into the spotlight after a sudden stylistic shift sent their fans into a frenzy. It's famous for both its shock value and its strong anti-abortion stance. Abortion isn't a dinner table conversation in any country, but I've always sensed that there's an extra level of taboo attached to this topic in Japanese circles. So naturally, Dir en grey went the extra mile with some of the best CGI 2004 could buy. Is there some actual meaning behind this imagery, or is it all shock value?
 
Watching it back now, this video isn't as extreme as a younger, more impressionable me thought. I discovered that there's mostly memorable segments, but most of the video is the band rocking out in a dingy room with bodies hanging from the ceiling. These also are the least offensive parts of the video too, unless you have a particular hate for vomit, leather, or white contact lenses. And if you do, how are you a visual kei fan? Anyway, the room resembles a hospital or a jail, although it's probably the back of an old fishing warehouse. There's nothing else to really discuss here.
 
I tried my hardest to weave together a story that makes sense. The closest I can get is depictions of their anguish over this topic and how it's treated, which could be all they were going for. The main scenes cycle throughout the course of the video, and each of these scenes seem unconnected to the others. To sum it up: there's a demon orgy, robot cocks, a monk ripping a baby's head apart covered in ofuda screaming to the Lord of Light, a dissected half robot/woman creation on a table with a mad doctor, circus performers, depictions of the band as monsters mutilating themselves, and of course the infamous demon geisha eating the apple baby head. The meaning of some scenes are obvious: the orgy depicts sexual irresponsibility, the circus is about how the topic is treated as a joke, and the doctor and robot is supposed to resemble abortion and the act of playing god.  Several elements appear in different contexts, such as the geisha and baby heads. The woman on the table is shown as not in control of her body, the doctor with the huge forceps symbolizes the invasiveness of the procedure, the ofuda which covers the monk is meant to ward off evil, and the constant depiction of monsters and demons is meant to associate abortion with bad omens. The rest of this music video is pure shock value and there's no real meaning to anything.

One thing I should mention before wrapping this up is that Dir en grey threw some serious shade at men in this music video. During the orgy scenes, the women have bare faces but the men are all covered with masks. I have several interpretations of this. One parallel I immediately noticed was to (surprisingly) porn, where it's all too common for the woman's face to be visible but the man is a secondary figure, and videos are associated with the woman and not the man. On a deeper level, it's also commentary on the unequal burden pregnancy puts on women. The men literally "don't see" what happens when they orgasm (hint: the women stop enjoying the orgy and start bleeding out their mouths with pained expressions on their faces), they don't have to deal with it, and they can carry on not caring, mouths transfixed in a smile. I dug deeper into the whole mask angle, and discovered that in Japanese mythology, oni masks refer to the belief in a spirit world in which demons carry out their roles of punishing the unjust and evil, as well as spreading disease. Double dip on the whole "spreading disease" = "venereal disease" bit if you want, but I don't think it goes that far. I think Dir en grey feel that men who do this and don't care are literally demons and worse than the women, but clearly the whole eating the baby's head idea also associates certain kinds of women with demons too. The band themselves aren't exactly human either, with Shinya's deformed body and Kyo's lovely tentacle mouth, so perhaps the band thinks everyone is a demon and that everyone is responsible?

As far as PV's go for visual kei bands, this one is near the top in terms of effort and production values, even for today's standards. I'm sure there's more left to be discussed. What do you think?

i can download them from youtube already

I really appreciate these Recommended Tracks threads and the Review forum in general because I've discovered so much dope music. kizu is pretty awesome

Wait, so they're all the prime members of BSC + a random singer?
Reminds me of Sonic Syndicate, where all members except for the bassist left, one after another, only to regroup as a new band...

Not quite: YUZUKINGDOM = BSC's current line-up + randomer from identikit girl group.
Elsewhere, RYU has managed to get RYO, SADEW,  and KiKi to guest star on some best-of self-cover album.

They already had one of the messiest membership histories ever and now this..? The song itself ain't half bad tho, but the girl's quite weak clean vocals does not really fit in that well.

she sounds like a dying gerbil no need to be nice with words, x

So she is Yuzuki?
If so, then I can understand why this project is called Yuzukingdom

I really appreciate these Recommended Tracks threads and the Review forum in general because I've discovered so much dope music. kizu is pretty awesome

In the new Unlucky Morpheus EP, there is a trick nobody has ever done before!
Try to read CADAVER's sheet music backward...it's converted to REVADAC's!
活動10周年を迎えるUnlucky Morpheus渾身のNew EP!
「1曲目”CADAVER”の楽譜を逆から読むと、2曲目”REVADAC”の楽譜になる」という世界初の仕掛けを施した、Unlucky Morpheusにしか作りえない名曲！

Unlucky Morpheus New EP「CADAVER / REVADAC」
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1300円（税込み1404円）
2018/3/28発売
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