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GENESIS Full PV 
 

Marvel's talent scout has something to say, avec a small teaser
 
source: https://twitter.com/CBCebulski

   
Woah. Also: quoted joke of the day
 

This legitimately made me run around my apartment laughing.

I'm uploading it to mega now...

My reaction to the creepy fangirl'ing in this thread:

I guess I should formally say goodbye (again)
who knows, I may come back but Im not really sure when I would...
Life is just taking priority and my interests are kind of all over the place right now and now a lot of emphasis is being placed on music.
I don't have anything to contribute.
 
So, see you later space cowboys~

Just ordered these;
 
Dir en grey - A Knot Of DVD
Merry - Nu Chemical Rhetoric CD
Alice Nine - Alpha CD & DVD
Kemuri - 77 Days CD
Jay Z & Kanye West - Watch The Throne CD
 
I don't even like Alice Nine and I've never listened to Kemuri (I think they're some sort of ska punk) but all of those were 1,90 € each so I had to buy

Moulin Rouge, that is all

shitty make up

Cover and spot for their 2nd album.
 

 
DVD (MV集)
1. GENESIS
2. DESPERATE
3. Strike in fact
4. Libra
5. V.I.P
6. Sphere
 

12012 - XII  

 

 
12012 have been rolling with a new style since one of their guitarists left them before the release of their self-titled. 
Overall, it's been a hit-and-miss with every new record since then, but the thing that remained constant in this transformation is that their music, regardless of whether or not it was bad or good, featured some very memorable content. I'm not too familiar with 12012's earlier years or even their mar maroon & Seven eras, but I will say that, within the context of these newer albums, I believe XI to be their best release yet. I will start out by saying that this album does not feature 12012's current heavy style (minus red).
 
The album starts with vicious of absolution, which begins with an intro reminiscent of their last album The Swan. It quickly picks up into a slick guitar line and Wataru later joins in with a smooth and flowing melody. This pattern continues throughout the song until its short yet efficient ending. If I were to describe the track in two words it would be simple and eloquent.
 
story of a different dimension kicks things up a notch with heavier fast paced drums and features some tight and distorted guitar playing. Even with this upbeat change, the song features a melancholy string solo and, almost, Gothic choir sequence. The best thing about the track though is definitely the guitars: They're charismatic and also played in a variety of styles keeping things interesting.
 
The album finally gets more into the band's recent hardcore sound with the red. It's what you'd expect from a recent 12012 heavy song except that it's much cleaner in execution and Wataru's screams are done much better without delving into ridiculous loud shouting and vomit noise territory. There's even a short acoustic Spanish guitar break that's oh so sweet. It does begin to feel too long near the end with the song being just 3 seconds shy of 6 minutes. A lot of this, I feel, is contributed from a weak second melodic chorus. It gets especially sigh inducing the second time around when it transitions/becomes the climax of the song but just kinda stays the same. Still, this can be forgiven because of the catchy main guitar riff.
 
alone is a sweet upbeat ballad that's somewhat of a throwback to their mar maroon/Seven era (at least in terms of the more poppy nature of the song). I find the bridge and chorus to be one of the more catchy melodic lines they've thrown at us in a while and just can't get enough of it. One thing I never really noticed in other songs but did in this one is the deep and rich tone of Wataru's voice. I usually don't notice this because he sings so high but alone really makes his voice shine.
 
We now come to the final and longest song on the album, aqua. The first thing I'll say is that it's way too long. This song did not need to be over 9 minutes. Basically, it's the main chorus repeated again and again. The chorus is sung softly at first until the climax when everything is played at full force and then slowly fades out. I don't like the way the song fades out on this part because nothing is really happening in the music; it makes for a weak and unmemorable ending.
Couple of suggestions:
-If the song went into the climax after the piano break, I think it would've been much more tolerable.
-Take out the bass solo (too flat and adds too much time)
-Place the guitar solo at the end of the song to create a much more interesting fade out and keep the listener engaged.  
I think its fine as the closer to the album, but these few qualities really take away from the impact the track could have had.
 
The songs individually are fairly strong, but I don't feel like that's where the strength of the album lies. Rather, I remember XII as a whole. I find it to be a fairly solid album from the start to finish having a smooth flow between songs, a uniform sound despite all songs being written by different members, and overall strong compositions. This is something their last few mini-albums lacked. 
 
Yes, the album doesn't have that recent hardcore and intense 12012 sound, but I'll trade a softer more refined album for a messy execution of a style that doesn't really match with them. I feel like this is a stable balance between their heavy and poppy sides. The album is brighter than Decida of Silence and The Swan but still retains a serious dark tone. I'm glad they're going on hiatus so they can take a break and perhaps think about what direction to go next, but I definitely don't want them to disband. I hope that they'll return with a fresh new release that continues to build on this style. 
 

 
[Kudos if you can guess where the skeleton image is from]

I think you misspelled "disband DEATHGAZE". Ai IS DEATHGAZE. No Ai, no DEATHGAZE.

Ok it's my turn
 
One Ok Rock - Smells like teen Spirit (Nirvana cover)
 
MiD Deracine - Sombre Dimanche (Rezső Seress cover) ---> it's very good
 
Fest Vainqueur - I don't want to miss a thing (Aerosmith cover)
 
Vamps - Life on Mars? (David Bowie cover) and Trouble (Shampoo cover)
 
And that's all at the moment... I will edit if something else comes to my mind
 
Plasticzooms ft Alina - Crash (The Primitives cover)

One of the best Japanese covers of a non-Japanese song that I've ever heard:
 
ORIGINAL: SADE - SMOOTH OPERATOR
 

 
COVER: OCEANLANE - SMOOTH OPERATOR
 

This is the worst release Sadie has ever put out.
It's inconsistent, repetitive, and unmemorable.
 
The first problem is that every track overstays its welcome. More than half the album is over 4 minutes, most going almost up to 5. While you might think that's actually a good thing, it isn't. There are plenty of tracks that would be fine if they ended about halfway through, especially the heavier ones, but they keep going and going repeating the same elements. It really drags the album down.
 
The inconsistency in this album is no secret. You've got tracks where M to the ao tries the rapping thing (2 only actually), a few that sound more like a poor rendition of a middle school jazz play soundtrack, one that tries to implement electronics and synth for that fun and poppy yet heavy sound, a heavy alternative song (that sounds somewhat like Yellow Card's "Lights and Sound"), an uplifting pop ballad, a "Spirited Away" instrumental piano track, and a majority of songs that feature Sadie's typical chug a chug who gives a shrug style.
 
I'm not even disappointed that the album doesn't incorporate any "gangsta" elements. I just at least expect a uniform sound throughout the album. The album is all over the place and has absolutely no idea what its identity is. I found "Madrigal de Maria" to be a poor album, but it still had a uniform sound between all the songs and you can tell they're all from the same album. 
 
But not using the gangster elements is another thing. If you're going to call your album "Gangsta" and even have a few tracks where you try to implement things like rap, why are there only 2 tracks that you do this on? What is the point to all this? You take these 2 songs out and you're left with nothing that relates to the title. Either go full out or don't do it at all. Make a choice and stick with it.
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I found barely anything worth listening to on this natural born trash CD that is only good as orange rotted.
 
-Shoot the targets, hidden in your mind - there's a lovely melancholy guitar break 2:40-2:50. The actual break is longer than that but when Mao comes in his vocals ruin it.
-Gesshoku - It sounds like Mao says "I scream for you p***y". It's kinda (kinda) funny.
-I find Tokyo Gypsy to be the only song I can listen to (the last guitar melody actually kind of sounds like something off the GazettE's Disorder. Tokyo Shinjuu, Tokyo Gypsy. Coincidence?...maybe?)
 
All in all there's about 5:04 worth of stuff I would listen to on this album.
Sadie needs to stop releasing material for a while and really think about what to do with their music. I think this album proves that they have no idea.
 
Gangsta is a prolonged cluttered wreck that needs to be banned and cut off from all access to consumers.
In fact, someone needs to take every copy and

Artist: KAMIJO
Album: Heart
Score:
 
The best Versailles album since Jubilee.
 
I basically stopped caring for Versailles after the mediocre album that was Holy Grail. Their next few releases weren't too impressive either and thus I found it no surprise they called it quits about a year later. While the other four moved on, recruited Zin and started Jupiter, Kamijo announced that he would be starting a solo project. My only thought at this time was "this solo project is going to be a fucking disaster". How wrong I was. I truly, really missed the musical efforts of "Japanese man pretending to be 16th century vampire from France singing in English". Actually, I'm daring to be as bold as to say that this is VK's best release so far this year.
 
Now before I go into the actual album review let's make clear what this album has that Jupiter sincerely lacks. It's character and charisma. Despite how ridiculous everything is, from the costumes to the incredibly bad PV intros, Kamijo knows how over the top it is but the best part of this is that it still brilliantly works. This was Versailles' charm before they started taking themselves seriously and I'm glad Kamijo never lost this touch for drama, it's what makes him stand out.
 
Kamijo was always my favourite Versailles member, mostly because all of my favourite Versailles songs were penned by him. Not to mention he wrote Versailles' best effort to date (God Palace -Method of Inheritance-). It's very clear Kamijo is a good songwriter, yet I was slightly worried how he would work out this solo without working together with say, Hizaki and Teru. Heart shows Kamijo does fine enough on his own.
 
Despite the fact that Kamijo chose to keep dabbling in power and symphonic metal, the songwriting on this album is far from stale. There are different influences in play here, both new ones and ones that can be recognized from his Lareine days. The synth use isn't always perfect, but it's done tastefully and moderately. Despite that it's clearly audible it isn't Versailles backing him up (though the lead guitar recordings were actually done by Hizaki!), their influence is still there. Death Parade is a song I can imagine that Teru could write.
 
The album switches up quite often, but never gets stale or boring. Despite it being a song not really fitting the rest of the album, Moulin Rouge is brilliantly placed after two more mellow songs and is the start of the album picking up pace again. Transitions are smooth despite all the different influences. There are a few filler tracks on the album that I had difficulty getting into, but in general almost each track offered something different, something that Versailles desperately lacked at the end. I wish some of the songs would've been more similar to stuff he did with SYMPHONY OF THE VAMPIRE, but it's quite possible that mini was so different because it consisted of stuff he had meant to write for Versailles.
 
For how shit he sounded at the end of Versailles, he really seems to have found a way to work his deep voice the best at this point. Tracks like Heart showcase a huge improval from Versailles' last releases, he hits the right notes at just the right time and it's just a huge pleasure to listen to.
 
At this moment I don't really know what else I could name. I mean of course I'm going to make you want to try this album when I say even Zeus enjoyed it. We have officially boarded the Kamijo hype train.
 
Never change Kamijo, never change. Stay classy.
 

 
Final score: and two big middle fingers towards jupiter, probably. good luck beating this hizaki, you're going to need it.

No caps. Incredible.
 
Okami Records will release ARCHE in Europe simultaneously with Japan.

He probably scares more people and probably would be described by some as cute rather than beautiful when he smiles, but I think the genuine emotions he shows when he's happy is beautiful. I adore his dimple smile!

Another one I'd love to add! Taroo~ This single gif cheers me right up!

I can't say you look like him but this make up and accessories suits you so much! You look really cute Keep doing this

do a clean install of your current windows. if the problems still persist then it's a hardware issue and upgrading is not gonna fix it.

the new song

sounds pretty great, good work!