one-eyed waiter

it's two minutes of t-shirts and other tour merch shilled dramatically w dozing green playing in the background, u arent missing anything

This pompous fucker. Bet he only played the first movement. 

Needs more Yoshiki solos

They really need to announce that they're using 8 strings in drop E? Is it supposed to be evidence of something? Who cares?
 
Also, I'm sorry, but I've had it with Jin's vocals. That melody in the chorus sounds like a bunch of other NEGA/TBS songs. Get a vocal coach and take some music classes, dude. 

strongly feeling 2010 in chorus

inb4 jouren exposes band for forcing them each to buy 20 tickets each just so they could have a chance of selling out area meanwhile only 5 rows actually show up

he's single in case anyone was wondering

someone tell ruki its not 2011 anymore

Well said. Yoshiki spent the week or so just chilling at Sundance for promotions for the doc schmoozing with random celebs. He hardly looked like a guy trying to make an album deadline. Considering his supposed perfectionist qualities, you think he'd be behind the mixing desk everyday for the last few months stressing about their first album in 20 years!
But any X fan who's been following the band knows this is what happens time and again. So while unfortunate for Pata, you damn well know the delays they use in his name have nothing to do with him really. They could've still released the album if it existed but as most of us said above, it mostly was never close to being done.
And it's long been said that Yoshiki burned alot of bridges when he forcible broke out of the Sony contact. You member how they went major with a big splash with blue blood? Well most bands sign a record contact for multiple albums. How many did X release with Sony? Just two. Blue blood and jealousy. Of course he tried to sell art of life as an whole album of music but sony wouldn't accept that. Then yoshiki and x had dreams of being international or breaking into America with art of life, remember the Rockefeller center NY press conference, so they forcibly got out of the Sony contact and switched labels to go to Atlantic. Since then they've been somewhat blacklisted and known for being a difficult band. Rock music doesn't sell that much in Japan anymore, physical album sales are a fraction of what they were, so it didn't surprise me that they haven't found a label for all of these reasons. Who wants to sign a contract for what every music company knows will only be for one album with a difficult diva-musician?

Still working on the soundtrack to a movie that came out a while ago? What the heck is there left to do...

queen of returning to visual relevance after being publicly humiliated by his ex label head to snatch his has-been wig after his ochinchin surfaced on the web

Jin can still sing with the flu... he's been doing it for 10 years...

tbh all of their music sounds the same, they could as well keep the "new song A/B/C" thing as the actual finalized titles
 

Why would anyone in the band use an 8 string guitar when they can barely make sense of 6 strings?
 
god, does this mean Jin is going to attempt writing djent songs? Do we call him Djin now?

Okay, I finally listened to this.
First off, be aware that there appears to be two track lists out there, one of which has the titles practically in reverse order. So watch out for that.
Now The Black Swan is clearly Jin just picking up the mess that NEGA left behind, so it's obvious that he had a Ruki-like iron grip on which direction the band's sound was going in. And that's... not necessarily a good thing. NEGA wasn't that great. There were signs of promise here and there, but they were few and far between. The same applies to The Black Swan.
NEGA was notorious for having awful production; listening to a NEGA song was like someone shoving my head into a pile of pots and pans, then clanging on them with a hammer. It's the opposite here. There's almost too much bass at some points. You don't have to be a major band to have good production, so I don't know what Jin's problem is.
The songs come across as tons of ideas just mashed together with no regard for how they fit (and yes, the trademark "NEGA SWOOSH" makes an appearance). The band is promising, but that doesn't matter if they don't know how to compose a song that makes sense. My main problem, though, is the same one I had with NEGA:
Jin
This dude can NOT sing at all. I mean, we all know that VK vocalists are almost always lacking in terms of technique because they just never bother to learn to sing. But with Jin it's not just hitting wrong notes or having no breath control; he lacks creativity when it comes to melody and phrasing. When Jin isn't aimlessly mumbling and whispering his way thru a verse, he sings a melody that he's probably used several times before. It makes everything he's ever done just sort of blend together.
But despite all that, I think Jin is super sincere about what he's doing. He just... doesn't really know how to do it. He needs guidance.

I used to love Phantasmagoria very very much when they were around but every time 'Nil Frontier' started I wanted to die.
And I hate 'Merry Christmas, I love you' by Kuroyume with a passion.

I made this because I'm petty

rip in shit

number 6 on oricon indies!
 
 
so like 70 sales 

i cant at y'all saying that emo kinkade artwork is supakawaii

I hope I am able to listen to this new project as well as X JAPAN new album during my lifetime

cover

"I don’t really understand music theory. I know almost nothing about chords and scales."
 
This explains a lot.