No.47

I still can't believe I have a malice mizer single. I was such a loser back than. >_

I think I may be the only one but I miss the old Gazette.
Like I think after their DIM album their music started to kinda lose its favor. 
 
I miss getting hype for them but I'm glad they are still kicking. I'm just not a fan of the new style.

thats it damn it.
I need to listen to their music.
So far I only listen to their song gravity.
I know its sad.

Don't know why but I'm just getting sick of all the make up, posing in the middle of a PV for fan girls, and all that junk
 
For example. I used to love Gazette now I look at reita and think he just look damn right silly. 
 
Should I feel bad about not giving a crap about VK anymore? 

Their new look is great ! RUVISH sounds like Nega (NEO DESTRUCTION for example).

Damn. I hate that.
If you wanted your band to disband and bring some (or all, which is worst) of the ex-members to a new band, THEN CONTINUE ON YOUR CURRENT BAND AND DON'T MAKE IT DISBAND
SHIT

when will PSC finally go bankrupt?

New York at the Playstation Theater on April 29th!!!!

UGLY PV DESCRIPTION LOOKS EPIC!!
Ending credits: after the encore, we expected a second encore, and instead of that we could see the projection of the next single’s PV, named “UGLY”. The music was catchy, with strong sounds and headbanging, but also melodic parts with Ruki’s soothing voice. The really shocking part was the video - tons of blood, religious symbols, dead hookers, Ruki’s red gloves - very strong images, tons of symbols, I think it’s going to be a big hit. I still can’t decide if the clip was shocking as Dir en grey’s Obscure, or a little bit over the edge of disgusting. The members looked fine in it, with the 80-100 fans who were participating in the video. (They sit and headbang around a small round stage, showing only their backs, wearing black T-shirts, while the band is playing in the centre.)
Tour haul: a lot, but most of them are for friends. A mirror, a towel, and a bear key chain for myself. And yes, of cause, Aoi’s pick. First concert catch ever! After 33 years and many dozen of concerts, Aoi took my pick virginity. I’m really glad it was him after all… ^-^
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VENOMOUSCELL

malice mizer UR NEXT

I still don't understand the DEUX love.

I marked it as a review just to keep some poor sap from clicking it thinking that it's the DL topic. 
 
Didn't feel like waiting so here's some first impression that are likely to more or less remain as the final ones, because there's nothing really to particularly digest here for a seasoned gazette veteran - I would also be lying if I said that I didn't play the leaks multiple times throughout the course of the last few days. Imagine a ginormous abbreviated in my opinion in the beginning just in case I'll end up flip-flopping completely.  
 
It's still the same Gazette on this album as the last one and the one before that. The riffs are still by all intends and purposes Gazette riffs, Ruki's still the same Ruki he's been since 2010 and drawing parallels between the BD and Dogma songs is very easy, but Dogma's thing is that everything has been jacked up. Ruki compensates the lull he's been for years now with the screams and growls he started using last year, while the music is undoubtedly their heaviest and fastest. I think there's an energy and momentum acquired here that they've been sorely missing from their tracks akin to these especially in the last album. It's conceptual and uncharacteristically thematically consistent for them, and the pace doesn't let up at all with not a single slower number -with the exception of the very last track - or a token ballad taking any space from the overall run time, and to my complete and utter amazement the obnoxious meat headed catastrophes like Psychopath and the below mentioned Beautiful Deformity songs are completely absent. It's their darkest and heaviest overall, also unarguably their corniest - but it's not really a bad thing because I think it has helped Dogma to be more fun than their other recent discography.
 
So regarding the general quality of work here, if you think some of the songs from here are bad then check out some of the bangers from the last one like THE STUPID TINY INSECT or whatever the one with the long name near the end was; those songs are so unfathomably banal it makes me wonder just how on earth did I ever give a passing grade to the album. It's the little improvements they've done here that keep the bar from ever ascending to the levels of their absolutely worst, although I wouldn't be caught dead ranking this as their best either. 
 
At the end of the day it is an album full of the 2010's Gazette live bangers taken to the very extreme they'll probably ever be able to take it to. So even now when in effort to do this they've added a little metalcore to their bag of tricks, their own identity on this album is still unmistakable and these songs really couldn't be from any other band; this however is perhaps their greatest weakness also. A The Gazette song is such an established thing you can rest assured they're never ever going to divert from the set formula. I couldn't by any means call this album ambitious or anything of the sort, like as if they couldn't even sneak a few over the top breakdowns and shit in there somewhere? No they couldn't, because that's just not what The Gazette apparently does. Gazerock is a thing and I have my money on that not changing. However it does seem like they can slightly improve the facets of the things they are already doing. Even though a return to The Gazette of yore is what I hold the closest to my heart and I far prefer them being sappy instead of edgy, I'd like to think this album seems to like an essential step towards whatever is next. inb4 disbandment. 
 
 

Great track - I'm all about the guitar solo love and the intro heaviness.

Not japanese but i still love this band...
 

Listening to Gazette Then
 

 
Listening to Gazette Now

Considering their look and Ruki being so obsessed with hipster aesthetics I would have preferred something like "Witchhouse kei" (dark synths instead of dubstep, alternative rock, maybe some punk or new wave elements). But as people say, the Gazette never do such severe changes, instead they lazily adopt the metulcooore music style that every other boring stale VK band plays nowadays. Seriously, when have they put out anything interesting in the last 8 years?
 
But then I am not a fan and stopped caring about them after their NIL album and so my opinion probably doesn't matter.

They have done it again! All the hype for... this?

YOU SHOULD KNOW YOU'RE LAME
 
I expected something more ''progressive'' from all the promotional material released in advance to be honest, but eh, I guess I'll still check the full album out when it drops

Byo still sounds boring AND bored.

ITS SO WEIRD HEARING ANTI POP BEING RECENTLY PLAYED. UGH.
IM IN HIGH SCHOOL AGAIN.

I hope they forgot that Beautiful Deformity ever happened and Dogma will be decent.

Please God let them and Plastic Tree do a song together.