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    Nope. Do you have a driving license?
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    Suddenly curious about if this will be a total failture or just mediocre. Really hope both of my predictions are wrong anyway.
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    Any news from ex.Phantasmagoria/SPIV STATES gu. Iori? Also, is there any info on what boogieman is doing?
  4. "How far would you go in hating/disliking a band because of its fans? Can the fandom of a particular band or genre turn you off from liking them or influence your listening habits?" Fanbases don't make me hate bands or music but they really hurt the image of the musicians when they are bad. I had bad experiences with Versailles, Dir en Grey and plastic tree fans for example. And though it did not change my mind about the band's production itself it raised the question "do I want to belong to a group composed by this kind of individuals in the portion I experimented?". I still enjoy the work of those bands but I still don't want to be labeled as their fan since what I have experienced with such people does not feel like something I consider a part of myself.
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    Nightmare´s Yomi has a quite deep voice too.
  6. madygrain

    Well UNiTE absolutely had a pretty bold and determinated aim for their sound, and their performance and production was nice. I did not find them special or makeing something that specially connected with me. But at least you don't see potential being wasted as in the bands you metioned, for example.
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    I am shocked with all the love Starting Over's is getting on this post. I like VK pop rock for the most part but this release really did not stand out for me in any way. Cool to see people liking it so much tho!
  8. So sad life does not reward honest people.
  9. madygrain

    This year was a really good year over all, many good releases. But the ones that truely stand out for me are: XA-VAT - 艶℃: pretty good album. Easy to enjoy even for a person who's not into dance music. Great retro catchyness. Galapagoss - Soy Sauce Impulse/Black Including All: best newcomers hands down this year imho. Recovering the spirit of metronome and putting all the things he learned with FLOPPY to good use is the best thing Sharaku could do (that are not reuniting metronome of course). Both releases are great. A - White Album: the big surprise. A delightful collection of songs full light and exoticness with an outstanding performance. I hope the band explores this not-so-dark style in the future. Megamasso - Loveless more Loveless: the band's best to date. Varied easy-to-listen and intense pop-rock songs. You don't see such good taste when it comes to arrangemets when it comes to this kind of visual key pop. Nightmare -NIGHTMARE: Finally delivered their album! and sure it did not disapointed me. The band expanded their limits quite a bit with this one and raised the level of their performances and their creativity, really blurring their confort zone. There is no song that it's not AAA material. There are other good releases such as Penicillin's WILL, Kaya's Queen and amber gris' Pomander but this ones really pleased me. Also, looking forward to Cali+Gari's new LP.
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    Their last album was the first time I ever liked something they did, so I really hope they keep that path.
  11. Hmmm what kind of privileges are we talking about...? I would like to consider all options =3
  12. madygrain

    Cofee! Listen music with your headphones/ipod or using full music equipment?
  13. madygrain

    No idea. Ever dreamed you were able to fly?
  14. Also it seems their concept for this newest CD are "dolls". So new recordings will suit this new message. Whatever that means.
  15. The release is aviable for purchase at CDJapan! Preorder now! ^^
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    a) It's not a fast announcemet because it has not been announced - just leaked. They have been doing studio work for two years in order to reboot the band. You can call it leftovers or long therm goal. c) Yeah, avex is pretty much moneywhoring them. But hey, they chose to move there and ot's allways nice to have more releases if the quality does not drop. Expecting an official OHP update on this close to late January next year.
  17. The OHP illustrations are gorgeus! Previews sound interesting might check this out.
  18. madygrain

    I finally got my album today. I like it a lot. Eleven is a nice intro, a bit too long but it's nice how the track flows into VERMILION. directly into the drum segment without the single intro. VERMILION. itself is still good and catchy with that percussion-driven writing ruka uses. The guitar work is also awesome. Fragment felt like a really mature and dark song but in a classy way, with that powerfull and emotional rock completed with the expressive acoustic solo. Indeed nice. Swallowtail is good also. As a song it's really motivating and I like bands try new things, and doing them well. Q. is maybe one of the tracks that stands out the less because it's more conservative. That kind of song could be in the WORLD ruler oor Killer Show's second half. In aln album like thism in wich every song sounds special, this one is the only lacking something. Still good, but not as surprising. RAY OF LIGHT is also cool. I like it's almost shoegaze-ish feel, it's relaxing but not boring, and the solo is well done. Rem_ was their weakest single since Majestical Parade imo but suits the album just fine. As Q. does not feel as special as the others, but is quite enjoyable. The new backing synths work well. Cherish is possibly the most unique song of the bunch. It's tough for me to describe but I really liked this song and how it trolls the listener xD I was specting a heavier tune form The Sorrow of Deciever, it tunerd to be more emotional than heavy, but it's cool anyway. I liked how they used the synths combined with their trademark sound. Regarding a:Fantasia, it was mu¡y favorite single a side form this era and still rocks. A short but powerfull headbanging song that is really motivating and epic. Still one of my favs. The disguised GIANIZM does not disapoint either. Rinne was one of the weaker songs, this band has better ballads but this one does allright. The brutal distorsion on the guitar solo really helps to make this song easy to remember. $eam was not too amusing at the beggining but it recovers with nice and upbeat melodies that don't sound as cheesy as the opening. The guitars solo is really good and everything that cames after really ends up compensating that not-so-interesting start and ends uo being a pretty cool song. SLEEPER is still an OK song. As it's on the album now seems to me like a mix between Q. and fragment since it retains the acoustic arrangements and matureness of the second and the catchyness of the first. Dazzle is really fun and interesting. Sounds really american with all that classic rock influence during the verses and the jazzier chorus. Also the trumphet solo and general trumphet use in this song is great, better that they did on Killer Show, imo. Overall this album feeels really varied and polished. I would say is one of the best this year, despite the hard competence. I am not sure were I would put this ono on my personal Nightmare chart but it's for sure more interesting than Majestical Parade, World Ruler and Ultimate Circus. Still far from anima it can really put up a fight with Libido and Killer Show as my 3rd/2nd favorite album by this band.
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    I was totally blown away by this CD. I loved black album, but this is really awesome and a quite solid candidate for best VK EP this year IMO. Every song is charming and feel different from each other despite all sharing an overall sense of exoticness. My favorite track is Masquerade, wich I see as a really complete work, with softer acoustic parts and harder riffs. Greatly arranged and emotionally intense, racionates with me as a spanish person as I feel this song blends well the image my coutry has tradiotionally exposed to the other countries mixed with rock+violin. Viva laCasta! was also really interesting upbeat jazzy song. The rest of the songs are also great, being Sakura the only one that I liked less. I would not give this nothing lower than 9/10.
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    I was also expecting more, but sounds quite decent. Vocals could have been arranged in a more appealing way imo.
  21. madygrain

    Japanese stoner rock bands, please?
  22. madygrain

    That's great news for me, since I love when bands make albums with songs that feel really different from each other, I really like the variety of albums like DaizyStripper's Bless, to put some recent example.
  23. madygrain

    Nice to read such positive comments! I hope someone else enters so we can get more opinions =)
  24. madygrain

    I usually don't download the albums I purchased because I like to hear them when they arrive, but I would like to hear some opinions on the band's latest. I hope this is not against the forums rules since I am not posting any review at all at the moment.
  25. madygrain

    Lc5 felt to me like an attempt of copyng DaizyStripper music but taking anything that could make the songs spund any interesting.
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