relentless

Picture this being extremely heavy. It's practically been confirmed by the band that it is going to be...so now we wait.

whoops! my mistake! ^-^

^agreed. The break up between firewall div. and Satsuki was kind of bad from what I've heard. Apparently he can no longer play in Free-will owned venues anymore. And they own a lot.

I sort-of enjoyed their first album...but it was short, bland at times, and poorly mixed and produced on certain tracks -- so naturally going into this new album I was expecting something more, especially with Stars Faded In Slow Motion. I wasn't disappointed! I would go as far as to call this a SERIOUS contender for Album of the Year, and one of the BEST metalcore releases of all time. Each track blends extremely well into the next, and presents that sheer presence of what an album should -- their first wasn't able to do this. Their first was simply rough ideas pasted together to come up with a good outline of what was to come, but it was still premature. There are absolutely no bad tracks on this album either. Each track just smashes you in the face, yet, have their own unique qualities to make them discernible from the rest. Oh and the production quality is pretty good! Several steps up from their first album. If there is any complaint, it is the overpowering synth and the mixing of the synth on certain tracks. The band would be phenomenal without so much synth-intervention, but it has its place. I feel like this is thoroughly shown with the new Stars Faded in Slow Motion where the guitars are CONSISTENTLY drowned out to give way for the synth. Overall: 9.5/10 Amazing songs, some of the best presented in a bland metalcore scene...but that synth irks me sometimes.

LOL!!!!

xD! It's weird that he's not listed on the official tracklist. Maybe he wanted to be kept anonymous? But how can you mistake his voice...lol

dunno if this has been said...but it's been confirmed that Kyo is doing the vocals on track 11

I can imagine it's his own bid. I doubt that there's a multi millionaire with that much money that is a die-hard X Japan fan. "Raising" that much money for his piano is probably some publicity stunt which is really newsworthy. Yoshiki wouldn't do something like this unless he was getting something of even more value out of it.

Felt the need to address: 99.9% of VK, and most of the Japanese music scene are all taken from western music. From all of your standards X Japan therefore is a rip off, and so is Luna Sea. The GazettE don't write the greatest songs in the world, but they should not be dismissed as rip-offs, because most of the time (aside from SHADOWS) there is no similarity between most of their songs and others. And if there is, it's common in music. Every band has a central influence and adapts on it, what the GazettE is doing here is no different. OK! Back to lurking =D