Ro plz

I cant wait for the 2 man with BatAAr.

I cant wait for the 2 man with BatAAr.

Nice. Hope someone will get to share it 

Ready to listen to this for like a full week and then never come back to it unless its occasionally. 

Ready to listen to this for like a full week and then never come back to it unless its occasionally. 

heh , another SHALLOW fan with Nnothing to say abo ut the music. heres why yuou're wrong, Bitch:,

That’s one of the Arche tracks that doesn’t translate live very well though. 

I've seen em twice in the states too lol and literally the only thing they had over the EU setlist rn is Vinushka when I saw them, both times

I'd rather take the EU one over the times I saw them in NY and Philly though lol

B-T are one of my oldest and all-time favorites in terms of J-music, but those last two albums were not too great... especially the most recent one. Anyway, I'm not expecting anything mindblowing from them at this point (especially since they've already released 21 full-lengths so not much to prove anymore :D) but they still occasionally deliver some glimpes of genius. For example, "Arui wa Anarchy" was an amazing album I never expected they still had it in them.
 
So even though the last two albums left me a bit cold, I'm still looking forward to whatever they have in store next!

Just a hunch... no releases since 2017, multiple member changes in their short existence, not a lot of touring iirc...
I know DEG released an album this year, but even sukekiyo managed to get one (or two) releases out there.
Then there's SERAPH, which I'd already consider to be on hiatus.

No one saw the sarcasm in this?

Mejibray...its been a minute since they announced anything new.

@Ro plz save the day

Feel free to give us the word @Ro plz. I will write a review of it.

Found this on the DIR EN GREY tag on Instagram.
 
This is pretty good.
 
 
I think people are so (rightfully) tapped out from EU VK that they aren't even willing to give this a shot, which explains the lack of well deserved hype.

Lynch. is the only band this year that severely disappointed me. XIII isn't a horrible album because it DOES have like maybe one or two standout tracks but its pretty bad. There's nothing here that i can call a banger or says that "it slaps." In general this album is something that's just here and thats it. What's more infuriating is that you'd think with AK back, the band would kick it into overdrive and churn out something memorable. SINNERS, despite how meh it was, is more listenable than this. Normally I'm one of the people who stick up and defend Lynch. but i cant for XIII. I want next year's album to be better. 

3/10.

Friends, we need to discuss how perfect that Kiri To Mayu live take is....
 
It sounds so fucking CLEAN. Shinya really did a great job here. I thought he fucking killed it in the DSS Budokan performance but here he sounds wayyyyy more comfortable. 
 
And the fact that Die let Kaoru do the solo without joining in just makes the track sound more fuller. They need to do this for Uroko as well cuz it calls for the rhythm Guitar section to be played while the soloing is going on. Toshiya alone doesn't cut it. 
 
The whole performance just ROARS. YES. YES. YES....I AM SO HAPPY. 

There was a very very small hiccup in the timing midway through; but other than that it was damn near perfect. The band sounded HOT in 2018 apparently, which is extremely encouraging because I remember hearing performances from around 2013 - 2016 and found them to be horrendous. 
 
Man, and Toshiya doing those screams on Different Sense? Fuck.

I just have to say that I'm somehow just discovering/rediscovering (I don't remember it?!) Chain Repulsion and it resurrected my damn soul.

I hope whenever you see them from here on out, even after the album run is over that they play TIW from start to finish.
 
How funny your post was made my day dawg 😂😂😂😂😂

I hope whenever you see them from here on out, even after the album run is over that they play TIW from start to finish.
 
How funny your post was made my day dawg 😂😂😂😂😂

I don't want to sound rude but to say that this is some of their best work, is just so wrong imo.. This album doesn't even have one 10/10 song. The best would be Ranuculus, which is a 7/10 at best. Everything else is 5/10 (average) or below. 

This comes from someone who have been a fan of them for 15+ yearsm and moved to Japan simply to be able to go to their concerts, lmao. 

In fact, if you like anything after their 2 track demo tape performance as DEATHMASK, you're not a true fan. They sold out with MISSA and became mainstream trash.

I feel comfortable in saying this is some of the band’s best work. Questionable production aside, the songwriting is tight and focused aside from the two weird flubs from Toshiya. To be fair, the main problem with Devote My Life is that fucking main siren riff being too damn loud, but I love that breakdown with Toshiya rumbling away. 
 
Other than that, this is the first DEG album in a long time that I can listen to from beginning to end without feeling drained halfway thru. There really isn’t any filler, and they sound super confident in these songs. They’re short in length, but not in content. 
 
Fuck it, dawg, I’m happy. 

Production aside, this album isn't as bad as its made out to be on here.  The first 3 songs I admit are nothing but noise but once NINGEN hits, the album gets better. Despite who the song credits went to, I feel like you can hear everyone shine and that there was a lot more thought put into these songs.  I have my love for specific tracks on ARCHE but that record was just "lazy" for the most part. There wasn't that much enthusiasm towards it either. Listening to this, I guess i can say I appreciate ARCHE more. Its like DIR EN GREY's (inferior version of) Beautiful Deformity.  They needed to go back to basics to find what works again.
 
I really dig that post a few pages back with the individual members comments on the album. You can tell these niggas actually sat down and really gave this their all.  Also, from here on out I'm just gonna ignore when Kaoru or anyone else says that an upcoming album sounds like so and so. This sounds nothing like the Marrow of the Bone at all.  I love Marrow but the song writing there is inferior to a majority of TIW. I can for sure hear the ARCHE sound though with how simple some of the tracks are and how they stuck to the same keys to write the tracks. My only wish is that for the next release they at least throw in a couple songs with the Drop A# tuning.  
 
Literally the highlights of the album is Ningen to Ranunculus.  With ARCHE I have to keep skipping to find the songs I fuck with. Honestly this is DIR EN GREY's best work since DSS.
 
Without the first 3 songs, this shit is a solid 9.5/10.
 
Also I might've written this tipsy....