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I believe new placebo album is called loud like love smh

This PV is pure awesomeness. I have the same feeling as some years ago after watching THE PAIN OF CATASTROPHE PV - I mean, that was the last time when they came up with a good song AND an unexpectedly good video for it.
 
12012 just proved once again that they are full of surprises.

01. http://mojim.com/twy109850x6x1.htm'>EXODUS
02. http://mojim.com/twy109850x6x2.htm'>ASHES
03. http://mojim.com/twy109850x6x3.htm'>VANISH
04. http://mojim.com/twy109850x6x4.htm'>BE STRONG
05. http://mojim.com/twy109850x6x5.htm'>INVINCIBLE
06. http://mojim.com/twy109850x6x6.htm'>NIGHT
 
>>> http://mojim.com/tw109850x6.htm'>whole album <<<

Sounds good, but this is their first song where the female vocal is actually irritate me a bit. Maybe I'll get used to it, but it seems a little pointless (especially in the chorus, which sounds awesome otherwise).

Do we have to hear "IT'S JUST A SAMPLE STOP HATIN" ever single time again and again. We are fully aware. 
 
This sample which someone who works for their label or they themselves picked, sounds atrocious.

FORBIDDEN BEAVER - a "chuggingly hardcore" outcry expressing Ruki's anguish about not being able to sleep with women that aren't attracted to pale, effiminate, emaciated, and poorly-endowed Japanese rocker types.

Ruki has stated that they just finished shooting FADELESS PV and they will be shooting photoshoot and single jacket tomorrow.

Looooooooool are they ever going to release another album.
Not that I mind, seeing as everything but their A-sides leave a lot to be desired. I honestly can't believe there are people that openly like ( or even don't mind ) atrocious shits like Worms, but dislike Die Kusse lolz.

When people say "generic", it's a less informed way of saying 'derivative'. Derivative art is something that draws heavily (and exclusively) on an already set style without doing anything to make it genuine / different. Consider Elvis Presley: great performer but he offered NOTHING new to the rock / blues genre in terms of technique, style, or innovation. We can all croon about how dreamy Elvis was, or how beautiful his voice was; but that's really it. Compare him to the Beatles who re-defined a genre.
 
the GazettE are not Elvis Presley. What I mean by that is it's not like they've stuck to the same formula over and over again. Sure their guitar work can be incredibly dry and typical without the saving grace of Uruha's solos (Drop B, 1st and 2nd Frets. There's your GazettE song. Let's call it 'ANGRY SONG'); but they've at least taken the VK 'scene' and evolved in it with their own sound. 80's pop hooks, pop-punk, metal, and electronica all come together to make the GazettE's 'sound', which I will say is pretty unique vs. Elvis.
 
the GazettE aren't derivative, they just rub people the wrong way. Personally I'm always shifting between thinking they're cool and thinking they're the lamest thing in the world; but that makes me even more excited for this new album: I want to see which GazettE shows up. The cool one, or the lame one.

radio edit of Unraveling.

Hizumi sent out an announcement to all of his fans on his UMBRELLA Mailing list. The translation can be found here. I will copy the source here in case it gets lost/removed in the future.
 
If you're wondering the significance behind it, that means he's fully healed!

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.

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.