Karma’s Hat

so awkward and sad I'm still not if they are actually friends or just label mates owing a few favours

I would go as far as to say that Beautiful Deformity might have sounded they even on its release, it had way more variety than DOGMA or NINTH. The ballads and IN BLOSSOM might even be a little underrated in the gazette ouvre.

Yeah I was referring to the youtube culture not at bandomen on youtube, which would actually be interesting and ok. Like the Girugamesh guy he's fine Honestly MacRyanMac is not the worst but even looking at his thumbnails give me a stroke

Literally one of the best in vk history tbh

And I wonder of Ruki is still using the Kiyoharu song title generator ironically or not I pretty much agreed with everything you've posted on this album so far tl;dr: I can listen to this album even though it's a whole bunch of nothing. Everyone except Ruki performs better than last time around. The album itself is lacking in any standouts that'd make you think this is Gazette in great form ( although arguably Falling is top tier new gazette even if it is as light as a souffle. ) It does entertain a fair bit. Whether it'll have any lasting value to me personally remains to be seen And i'm betting on that it won't. New GazettE just is not great metalcore, it's not great gazerock either. It's great at nothing while being ok at a few

Ruki has been on cruise control since Shiver. I still remember the time when he used to do different sounds for different tracks, like compare the vocals in the first four albums even with songs on the same album. I wrote some thoughts on Word that I might eventually make into a review, but it's just so fucking hard to say anything about this album. It's not, as far as gazette goes, horrible. It's not great either. It's just them continuing from BD with the things they acquired and learned from DOGMA. It's the Gazette doing The GazettE and what can you really do with that without tearing into the entire genre as it is. How I'd describe this album is DOGMA GazettE finally committing to larping Manson's Golden Age of Grotesque

We've seen them: on our feed, on our related and recommended videos. Reacts, reviews and today I even saw a podcast while I was out hunting for the The Gazette's anniversary live! I remember VK reacts being around for way longer than the recent "boom" ( probably caused in part by the one big react video an year or two back featuring such scene stalwarts as Insanity Injection, who are now off to headlining at the dome or something ), but usually they were both awfully made and nothing to say even to the low standards of the crowd those generally cater to, so it wasn't that big of a deal other than the occasional laugh. Now, I don't recall how long ago this was, I remember the first one I kept seeing frequently was that baldman doing reacts to The GazettE and Dir en grey songs, and I found them such fiery motorway car wreck that I kept going back for seconds to the point where his, and other peoples, videos would show on my feed and sidebar all the fucking time. (Oddly enough baldman actually kind of grew on me since he seemed like the type of guy who'd check out stuff like that anyway, while for the rest of them I still wish nothing but pain and misfortune.) These days they are all over the place with new ones trying to fish out them youtube hunnid views a Gazette react will get you. I've been a bit shy in checking them out since I don't want to give them any traffic no matter how tempted I am. I'd still go ahead and say it's worth making a thread on since everyone is exposed to the phenomenon by this point. Do you tolerate them, or even enjoy some? I reckon one or two of those people even lurk on this forum. Thoughts anyone? ~didn't post any links 'cause I don't want to give them any views. anyone else is more than welcome. and this thread isn't too much of a mess since I'm very drunk as of writing this~

Since you're in the know, is the explanation to Sana's constant European tours pretty much the same? There's a video of him doing a show in Ukraine or southern Russia in a "venue" that looked like they had chickens nesting in there just 2 hours ago. How and why do these guys do it

Question: do you know how he managed to procure so many overseas shows, and most imporantly of all: why?

which one is more tragic satsuki's career or this thread

The stories of him talking to underaged girls, trying to hook up at shows through staff and giving out fangirl gifts to other fangirls are at this point like years, if not almost a decade old. He just generally seems like an unlikeable dude considering almost no one in Japan associates with him anymore ( at least to my knowledge ) and that's it really? When you're forced to tour Europe in the latter half of the 2010's as a career move then you're in trouble.

the parents of the band members are hype

If the album title is anything to go by it's only getting worse from here

I started to vibe with the latest song a little. Reminds me of a post-DOGMA Vermin actually, and that's pretty much as Gazerock as it gets. Leave to the gazette to get all the wind of the hype sails by releasing a snoozer ballad for everybody though

This is pretty much a disbandment fuck

It totally sounds like that, like how he skips the growl in the middle of the song and just shrieks almost like back then

They'd probably be long disbanded if they weren't making as much money as they probably are

didn't know gan shin was still a thing why would a band even bother with this market anymore

ah man it just keeps getting worse hype winding down to nothing

This seems to be in the continuum Kago no sanagi and Kagefumi, so no wonder it's not well received ( comparisons to BD I find off the mark, although then again most gazette is always relatively the same so people are able to see what they want to. ) Not going to lie I don't care for it either, and Ruki is really coasting there compared to the hooks in FALLING. Hype for this album just went down a notch, and I'm bracing myself for the same ol' I've gotten pretty bored of since I checked out of the fandom an year or two back.

there goes the one bandman that follows me on social media

There's so much going on in the soundcloud rap/and rap scene in general that the trends and sounds evolve and go on a monthly basis. Sunday listening

If it's truly closed down to you recon the same shit would just move to a new existing platform like twitter, which everyone seems to use anyway

Ahh man they into this game already. At least it shows that they're going to places, being able to bust out the album format after like year and a half of activity.

Ruki is so hard into flavour of the month aesthetics that a lot of their visuals, merch especially, dates really badly because they’re essentially really bad knock offs