Dillinger

They should throw an acoustic track in there.
 
 

Breaking news : "inhale" is the best track on the album.

Seems like Gazette has their ear towards current heavy western music more than DEG does. 

If I really want to buy something, I will buy it, doesn't matter if I've already illegally downloaded it or not.
How many acts of piracy are actual "lost sales"? IMO a lot of people weren't going to buy in the first place. Some others prob download to see if they will like it or not and maybe buy it - that could count as a lost sale. Making your discography avaiable on itunes and spotify might help with the whole foreigners pirating thing since it will be less expensive for us. Regarding the last question, I voted that things would stay the same because people would share things somewhere else. We always find a way. We have always found a way.

here's an important announcement from matenrou opera :
- Jay officialy recruited as guitarist
- CLUB matenrou presents "11th ANNIVERSARY LIVE" in may,4th at hatsudai DOORS.
- New single "Invisible Chaos" in June 2018
- New tour "Invisible Chaos Tour" Will started on juny,17th at 柏 PALOOZA and final on august,4th at AKASAKA BLITZ
- Final 10th ANNIVERSARY「PANTHEON TOUR -overture- 」TOUR FINAL LIVE FILM in EX THEATER ROPPONGI 2018.3.2】will released in Blu Ray ( fanclub only )
 
http://matenrou-opera.jp/

I think it's Vietnamese but I have no clue what it means lol 
 
Edit: Aparently "Che do" means this:
 So possibly means "Regime of Ra" the Egyptian sun god. But I'm not sure because I can't find out what "a ra" means.

9mm Parabellum Bullet - Inferno (Berserk 2016) takes the cake for me
 
 

Devil
 

really like the pv and the song's pretty cool too!
 
but i gotta get something off of my chest although its not really on topic...
 
everytime i read "KEIOS ENTERTAINMENT" i have to think about the fact that in november 2011 i published a freezine in my current town that i live when my dream was still being able to work and earn my money with something Vk related...
my freezine was called "系-OS/kei-os" like i proof down in the spoiler... and although i am not 100% sure, still i suppose i came up with the term "kei-os" before yohio used it...
 
*should've trademarked it back then... XD*
 

Thank god that they ditched that rapper. lol.

Kinda disappointed the MV doesn't have the members but damn this sounds amazing. 

it probably
 
....declared independence.

Wait, what happened to his project AMERICA?
 

Thank god that they ditched that rapper. lol.

Thank god that they ditched that rapper. lol.

ORZ has been cooking up a topic that a good bunch of you would find very interesting but it is not ready yet.
 
Visual en grey had a lot of good moments, but their early albums also have a lot of weak moments. MACABRE is the most consistent of the visual trifecta and has the least amount of filler, which is why a lot of fans hold that album up in particular as a favorite. GAUZE has the biggest collection of listenable tracks, with a side of help from YOSHIKI when he was still relevant, but it also has it's fair share of tracks that I wouldn't listen to more than once. "MASK", "Mazohyst", and the "Mode of.." tracks are examples of things that drag out the experience and add nothing. Kisou ... should have been an EP. I can go on and on about just how bad that album is, starting with the inconsistent track list, the recycled B-sides, literally filler instrumentals, and too much of an effort to be vulgar and provocative, but I won't. Even then, that had its good moments. But regardless, what it comes down to for me is that I prefer to listen to certain tracks over going through an album from start to finish, and this holds up for a lot more of their albums than I would care to admit. I liked Vestige of Scratches precisely because they cut out a ton of their filler tracks and distilled all of the things I liked about Visual en grey into 80 minutes.
 
Dark en grey suffers from its own unique set of problems. For as much as the fans shat on six Ugly when it came out, it's the most consistent release they've had with zero filler tracks IMO. VULGAR was playing it safe, trying to show their visual fans that the sound may change but the core of the band is still intact, but in exchange there aren't a lot of stand out moments. Nothing good, nothing too unlistenable, nothing really memorable not named OBSCURE. And "Child prey" is a lazy single. Withering to death. sounds like a rebellious teenager proving that they can be metvl with the rest of the older Western sempai bands that shamed them for their interpretation of alt-metal on their previous albums. It starts strong and ends strong, but the entire middle of that album is the most forgettable Dark en grey experience ever released. TMOAB is even more of the rebellious phase, going all in on the metalcore, and it's okay, but it still feels like the band was trying too  hard to not be visual when the only people they were really trying to convince were themselves. UROBOROS feels like the band discovered Tool & prog metal & could begin embracing their roots again without having to look effeminate and go all in on the leather straps and thigh high boots like they used to. It's no surprise that this is the period when they begin re-recording their old tracks again. DSS just feels like they went too hard in the prog metal direction, biting off more than they could chew and ultimately crumbling under the weight of their own ambitions. Both of these albums has pretty questionable mixing decisions, and UROBOROS was exposed with that R&E version which pushed all the flaws to the center and sounded even worse. DSS had that farting bass which was a cool experiment but became really annoying by the end of the album, and it really lacked ballads to break up the pace, which is funny because Dir en grey at their visual days were best at ballads and failed at almost anything else. ARCHE is them trying to find a happy medium for themselves, but in the process didn't create an album with any engaging moments, just like VULGAR.
 
Ultimately, I feel that the band's albums would be much better received if they axed the four weakest tracks off each album.

DracoVirgo
A band project of 女角兎 MAAKIII (VOCAL), 重弦龍 mACKAz (BASS) and 打楽龍 SASSY (DRUMS).
These three are the principal axis of creation. They are destined to evolve as a group of mixture rock artists who are to keep incorporating with various creators of the world who resonate with this project. Holding unlimited possibilities, they freely swing by the world of "dream and reality" and "yin and yang".
 

 
"DracoVirgo" members:
vo.MAAKIII
ba.mACKAz
dr.SASSY
 
Their first single "KAIBUTSU" will be released in 2018/02/26.
 
 

HMMMMM

I miss since1889. 

Generally, I'm not much of a person to binge single tracks, as my tendency is to listen to albums. However, according to my iTunes, my top 5 played VK tracks are 
 
1. DELUHI - s[K]ape:goat  (103 plays)
2. Versailles - Princess (64 plays)
3. Versailles - ASCENDEAD MASTER (58 plays)
4. the GazettE - 未成年 (44 plays)
5. Rentrer en Soi - LAST SCENE (36 plays)
 
Seems pretty accurate! These are all total classics for me, though if my library playcount included my listening pre-2011, I'm almost positive Aristocrat's Symphony, The Revenant Choir, and HYBRID TRUTH would be on this list