Karma’s Hat

Theoretically I should like this, just don't. It'd actually be better without the terrible metalcore riffs, 'cause I like the chorus and the stuff the vocalist does is fine and the image is good. Can't wait for Mathilda to save us from this

I live one bedroom flat with no curtains or nothing and when the morning sun gets in it's excruciating. Also if I want to keep the window open at night the mosquitos get in even though it's the shit fucking center of Helsinki. There's only one more week left...

A ton of Dir en grey imagery in that PV, and even in the music you can hear the influence and still they're 100% doing their own thing. The samples sound great. Lime is brilliant, especially when he varies it up and does less of that shouty thing he does ( u know which )

That thrashy dad riff is killing me it's so fucking bad

Is withdrawing like departing, or does that mean he’ll stay as a member but they’ll have a session drummer from now until the hiatus?

Tastes like pellets made out of food that’s been digested and stripped of nutrients, in this case of character and spirit. To repeat something that somehow constantly begs repeating: it doesn’t suck because it’s ”not heavy,” but because it’s a lame band stripping themselves of a sound by committing self-lobotomy, leaving behind only the dried, flesh-stripped bones where even the vultures won’t find nothing.

To me it's all the fucking same too. It might be the most SADS influenced with a certain effort in having lamestream appeal, but you know that's a side of the gazette that was always there, if not present then lying dormant. DIVISION is the one I think has gotten the most unjust treatment as it really is in the continuum of the latest albums from the first song to last. I understand not being into some of their albums if your relationship to gazette is lukewarm anyway, but having a hard-on for any post-DIM album while despising another is just silly.

holy christ who is their producer? sounds like someone recorded these with a cellphone in a karaoke booth.

guize https://www.setlist.fm/setlists/dir-en-grey-43d6c33b.html https://www.oricon.co.jp/prof/6902/rank/album/

I only care about the EU tour coming up if they keep zetsu

The PV track is aight, but at this point it’s always the same blastin’ riff to the same chinese restaurant OST instrumentals, with vocal melodies about as varied as the tones of gray on concrete slabs. A band of impeccable musicians throughout, reduced to treading waters that’ve other times slightly risen, other times slightly receded. As as mentioned by someone else in this thread before: they used to have riffs that one could discern, changes of mood and colour.

I think what filth_y might have been getting at, is that the almost military-like structure of hazing and the strict code of conduct eliminated a lot of the fair-weather fuckbois who didn’t give a shit about vk in the first place.

This was literally like, only a teeny tiny period during WtD and MOAB eras when they mostly played their newest material ( as most bands around the world usually do while promoting an album. ) Before the Mode tours were even as much as a thought, even the fine people of Finland had the chance to hear the tracks Zakuro, old Karasu, old shokubeni, Wake/Riyuu, 24ko Cylinder and Drain away played live in 2007 and 2011. They got a gigantic repertoire and still there was only a small handful of songs they didn't play after 2006

sounds like a friday idk

This band surely has the most DVD's out of any visual kei band ever

The word going around is that the new X album is being aged in the very same barrels

Is anyone else from Screw doing anything? I follow him on instagram and he seemed content just doing the modelling and posting pictures of food and stuff

Jesus christ dude. Their latest stuff is not great but if this is because of entitled fangirls hating on my boys just keeping it real them fuck ’m!!! come of finland gosan I promise you’ll get 20 people instead of 15

They have more merch out than music just saying and 60 bucks for a fruit of the loom XXL t-shirt with their shitty logo on it oh my god

If I was a member of this band I'd disappear too

I liked the mention of DIMLIM, because whenever I get out of my vk bubble or one band shows even a bit of ambition it does bring into perspective just how much same shit these bands end up churning out, and just how much I tolerate it, being a man of lower standards. Idk I kind of like the samples, but it's just the DADAROMA ersatz factory in full swing, putting out another single because it's that time of year again.

Not surprised that it's alright. They're a very capable band that's stylistically hampered by their tendency of trying to make music for doctor's waiting rooms and hotel lounges.

First thing I thought of when I saw that album cover: That's The Spirit they might as well take that too since they already got a song off of it in there as well

Nice the BMTH rip off is on there. This album is going to suck. and the production on the first album is fantastic. Now they sound like all the core bullshit around but remarkably with even less testosterone* *the production I mean. The music itself is even worse than the average glitzy loudness war corebands