Eraser

Somehow I think they tried to combine DEICIDA OF SILENCE (12012) with THANATOS -IF I CAN'T BE YOURS- (NGE OST) + added some random bullshit. Anyway, I can't wait to hear that song. : D

DECADANCE-Counting Goats…if I can't be yours- lolwhat

Yes, SINNER + forsaken (Diary of Jane ripoff)

Not a wise choice putting their 2 biggest ripoffs on a best album, but otherwise it's a neat tracklist. Btw, is DECADE a new song (or maybe just an outro)?

This Cat fisT single was most likely inspired by THE INVISIBLE WALL. Although I think both songs are great on their own, there are a lot of similarity between them:

Well, this one is so obvious I don't have to say anything else. Not sure if it was meant to be a D'espairsRay cover or just a pure ripoff:

(Sorry for the new post, can't embed more than 2 videos for some reason) lynch's Ambivalent Ideal PV was highly "inspired" by an Argentine band's music video:

Lament's new single sounds a LOT like an old 12012 b-side, especially the chorus:

+1, another SORROW would be awesome! (I think it's their best single since AWAKE)

lol, I said exactly the same after the DEAD BLAZE preview. When the full song came out (which wasn't as generic as the 30 sec preview), someone decided to bump that comment from nowhere and tell me how I shouldn't make early judgements based on previews, so I won't say anything this time... XD At least the title and the cover are quite good.

Wow, so random! I guess it means they won't release their next album this summer.

That was a bit disappointing, but still better than their self-titled (though I recently realised I like at least 3-4 songs from that album). Sounds like a combination of M (STUCK MAN ripoff from SEVEN) and SUICIDE.

CHABOO-CHABOO sounds like a leftover from their s/t, but other than that, I really like everything so far! Btw they've added some interviews to their YT channel. If it's not too much to ask, could someone who speak Japanese summarize in some words what they're talking about? I'd really like to watch these interviews, too bad there are no English subtitles.

Reading those positive comments at Last.fm, I was wondering what do you guys think about this single. I find it strange that I'm the one who starts this topic, to me it looks like people are not really care for Sadie these days - which is completely understandable, I must add. So here is my first review topic, apologies for any stupidity! 斑-まだら- After hearing the previews, I was thinking this will be a "retro" song, trying to bring back the early-2000's VK feeling (maybe it's the PV, I don't know, but this song is definitely not what I was expecting after METEOR). I liked it much better than the other preview, and now that the full songs are out, I indeed like it way more than the other A-side. However, it has the good old DIR EN GREY correspondence - especially the chorus, which sounds like audience KILLER LOOP met RINKAKU). But after so many years, I think nobody will be surprised by this. 雪月花 Here is the other A-side, as "safe" as it can be. It's like the remake of the remake of the remake of Kagerou or w/e, I can't keep up anymore. It's that typical Sadie song that everyone knows. If my above lines are not complete bullshit and they wanted to bring back some 00's VK with 斑-まだら-, I think the purpose of this song is to represent the "modern" and "trendy" Sadie. Anyway, I don't say I hate it, because it's still catchy as fuck (and probably that's why they still can release the same song over and over again), but I really hope they will stop with this nonsense and write more original (or at least different) songs next time. face to face After being a bit negative here, I can finally show some compliment to Sadie, because I really like this song. Even though it's a B-side and shouldn't be as strong as the others, I think it's easily the best song of the single. They've had written some really good closure tracks to their 3-songs singles (Break the silence, for example), and I think they managed to do this very well again. I'd say it's finally an original song, but since I don't know every VK track in the world, thus I can't be sure, I just say it's a really good song! Summing it up, I think it was a relatively good single. Thank God for not adding annoyingly bad B-sides like SUICIDAL ROCK CITY and LOUD UP, GENERATION this time (geez, even the titles are annoying as fuck). My only concern is the similarity to other songs, which means every song is good, just not that original it should be. But apart from this, I kinda like this single, and I'm sure I'll listening to it a lot more in the future. Overall score:

lynch. - BALLAD

Dir en grey - かすみ

Most of the albums I was looking forward this year already came out, just a few Japanese release left (new DIR EN GREY, lynch, MEJIBRAY, GazettE). The only non-japanese album I can think of is Alone Aboard the Ark by The Leisure Society. But I guess I just don't know whether my favorite bands will release anything this year or not.

Katatonia - One Year from Now

Awesome news!

Sure, here it is: Couldn't find a way to download it from their OHP, so I've just captured the whole page with print screen and edited out the rest. Hopefully someone can deliver a better version later.

<3 Metric, Nightmare and Alice Nine 01. ムック - ニルヴァーナ -Moonbug Remix- 02. Owl City - I'm Coming After You 03. Lady Gaga - Scheiße 04. Lady Gaga - Marry the Night 05. the GazettE - THE END 06. Michael Andrews - Manipulated Living 07. Explosions in the Sky - The Only Moment We Were Alone 08. Katatonia - Unfurl 09. Frank Ocean - Monks 10. Morrissey - You Know I Couldn't Last

Well, now that you said that, I hear a lot of similarity too (it's strange I didn't notice it myself, 'cause DIABOLOS is one of my favorites from DSS). Btw, I think most of you've noticed it by now, but the cover of their new EP is the second half of CUNNING KILLER's cover. This is how they look like together: (Sorry for the different text colors, couldn't find a better quality of CUNNING KILLER.) I don't really understand why did they use a mini-album AND a live limited(!) single for this though.

DEICIDA OF SILENCE PV preview: I kinda like it so far.

Wow, didn't see it coming at all. I thought DIVISION was a one-time thing and they will return to the "3-4 singles before the full album" formula. I wonder if it'll be anything different from their last two albums.

I really like those lynch. songs, and somewhat enjoy Diary of Jane too since DEATHGAZE plagiarized it. 1. Duran Duran - Too Bad You're So Beautiful 2. Coldplay - Low 3. 12012 - FORTITUDE 4. Coldplay - Daylight 5. The xx - Fantasy 6. D'espairsRay - DEVILS' PARADE 7. PLASTICZOOMS - UNDER///BLACK 8. Versailles - 妖 ～ayakashi～ 9. 12012 - KALEIDOSCOPE 10. Röyksopp - Miss It So Much It wasn't an easy choice, but I must say I like this track as much as I hate the rest of the album (still feel a bit bad for not choosing The xx or Röyksopp instead).