Daisuke

I think same,is much better than Stacked Rubbish and Toxic. 8.5/10 !.

Loving the track so much, i cant wait for the full version, please release it soon as posible 🥺

I want to listening this song D:!

Yeahhhhh.... whatever you say, bruh.

Anyone hear the samples?
 
http://www.neowing.co.jp/product/AICL-2894/track?from_cdj=1
 
AWESOME <3!.

Anyone hear the samples?
 
http://www.neowing.co.jp/product/AICL-2894/track?from_cdj=1
 
AWESOME <3!.

it is from yohsiki's instagram

"Heart" [CD track list]
01.Vive le Roi
02.Rose Croix
03.闇夜のライオン(yamiyo no lion)
04.Louis～艶血のラヴィアンローズ(enketsu no la vie en rose)～(Symphonic Metal Version)
05.Death Parade
06.Romantique
07.抱きしめられながら(dakishimerarenagara)
08.Moulin Rouge
09.サンクチュアリ(sanctuary)
10.片手に夢を持つ少女(katate ni yume wo motsu shoujo)
11.追憶のモナムール(tsuioku no mon amour)
12.Heart
13.Presto(Acoustic Version) (included in regular edition)
 
 
recording participating artists:
Gt.HIZAKI (Versailles, Jupiter)
Gt.Meku (ex-GALEYD)
Ba.MASASHI (Versailles, Jupiter)
Ba.根岸孝旨(negishi takamune) (Dr.StrangeLove)
Ba.IKUO (BULL ZEICHEN 88, Rayflower)
Dr.山崎慶(yamazaki kei) (Venomstrip)

Alright here we go:

1. The end of the world - Such an epic song with an awesome atmosphere! Gotta be one of the best songs in recent years holy shit. 100/10
2. Ender Ender – Wtf is lousy metalcore? This is a top notch high quality kick ass tune that gets me pumped up. 9/10
3. Ms.Fear – Another hard tune with a catchy chorus, love it. 8/10
4. Halo – Never liked this one too much, but still a decent track. 6/10
5. Tell me –  Love all the various parts of it, catchy and nice. 8/10
6. 999-21st Century World – Well, there has to be one or two fillers. 5/10
7. 369 – Dat funkiness! Mucc is a band full of ideas. Great melodies! 8/10
8. Japanese – Alright here we go again, epic shit. Got totally blown away. 10/10
9. Hallelujah – Like the dark atmosphere, reminds me of semishigure. Awesome chorus. 9/10.
10. The worlds end – If you took all possible melodic/catchy elements of music and put it in one song this is it. Mucc, I love you… 9,5/10
11. Shinde Hoshii hito – Blown away AGAIN, this song is so fucking beautiful. Muccs best ballad ever? 10/10

All in all 9/10
Mucc, you have done it again.

I love Karma even I have an original Limited Copy xP.

love the voice of yusa <3, but i hate the fact that hitsugi tries to be hide :/

Score:  | It's like they forgot how to be melodic


The fandom is very averse to Dir en grey remakes. Either they nail them perfectly like they did with the acoustic rearrangement of undecided, or they butcher it beyond all salvation as they did with OBSCURE. So when Dir en grey announced that they were unleashing a whole mini-album full of remakes and one new song, I immediately grabbed my riot gear for fear of the oncoming shitstorm.

It's really not as bad as I was expecting it to be, with Unraveling kicking off the mini sounding like a DSS leftover. It stays away from the maddenly introspective "I write for me and I'm so progressive so let's place together sections of song that don't work at all to be artistic and experimental" songwriting that made the last album such an insufferable cocktail of inventive but poorly executed ideas to listen to. Karma isn't new at all, but the original sounded like it was recorded on tape a monkey wiped their ass with, so it feels like a new song too. However deep they ventured into their back catalog to pull this out of some dark orifice doesn't change the simple, repetitive structure of the song. Considering what they limited themselves to working with, it's a wonder it even turned out this decent. So is that good or bad? You decide.

The main portion missing for some of the remakes is melody. A good portion of the songs they've chosen to remake are melodic in their original incarnations, yet here Dir en grey seem fit to turn up the crunch on their guitars. This leaves us at a crossroads with some very awkward sounding song segments since the tone doesn't match the intent. One could say that this was accidental, except the remake of MACABRE and the two unplugged tracks keeps all the melodic sensibilities intact (and in some cases add some). Therefore, what are songs like Unknown.Despair.Lost doing with thinly disguised chugs and a needless breakdown over Kyo's much improved English?

Other songs like Karasu and Bottom of the death valley are barely recognizable in their new incarnations. My biggest disappointment was the atmosphere of the latter track - what I loved most about the original track was how the bass created a nice "Western" atmosphere - which has been replaced with more of a "Borderlands-styled deserted planet what am I doing here?" feel. Karasu erred on the forgettable side (but is still better than the original) but Bottom of the death valley stuck out in a good way and is a worthy remake, with the bluesy solo easily being my favorite part of the song. Before I move on, I must point out Kasumi here for them upping the cheese factor. The original was perfect. All the reverb, wah-wah pedal and Kyo-crooning takes away from the somber atmosphere. Sometimes it's good to leave something the way it is and re-record it without having to put it through the Dirufier.
Now on to the good things - I am so pleased by the lack of tacked on, awkwardly sandwiched MIDI synthesizer garbage on this release. Amon was done terribly. LOTUS was done terribly. No song on this release is as bad as those two, or OBSCURE, or whatever AGITATED SCREAMS OF MAGGOTS was supposed to be. The unplugged version of Unraveling strays close to it but it stops short with piano and some flutes, which hints that maybe they realize that over the top style symphonic arrangements do not suit them. Plus points for that.

The new version of MACABRE is amazing. The first ten minutes are an almost straight rendition of the original version found on the album featuring the same name. This is all positive, since they took one look at it and realized that it is perfect the way it is and needs absolutely no tweaking. Then the last six minutes feels like a natural extension to the song, featuring some of the greatest songwriting I've heard from them ever. It trumps the original in every single way. Likewise, the unplugged version of THE FINAL sounds almost theatrical, which is a new for this band. I can detect no semblance of the original melody in the instruments, and if you removed Kyo's lyrics I would not be able to tell at all that this is the same song. However, the reinterpretation of this song is so excellent I simply don't care.
 
A step up from their last full-length, Dir en grey are finally learning that questioning everything doesn't always mean the end result is immediately good. Now if we could do something about their badly placed deathcore influences and persistent THE MARROW OF A BONE-esque "turn up the crunch and get metal" attitude, we could have a winner on our hands.
 
Also Shinya, tune your fucking drums.

I'm a lynchlover, but I think the band need more time between releases, love the last 2 singles, but is too quick for another album. But anyway I so excited for this.