lichtlune

a fave for sure especially after that full length 

I hope they can maintain it after jaki's departure, though.

I love love love them. One of my current faves no doubt. Agreed with the point above, though - hope they can keep the quality up.

Truth.

Never listened but this conversations has made me curious to.

they're pretty neat

Here it is: http://drkreviews.tumblr.com/post/157334715161/lineage-of-rose

I hope you like it

I read it! It was nice to hear your thoughts. ^^

Thanks

Lol I didn't say anything about the 90s. 

I just assumed. Anyway, you can exchange it for basically anything you want, from the past.

The golden age was in the 2000s imo. 

I love them I don’t care what anyone says.

I COMPLETELY AGREE!

They have TOO many bangers not to be. Sad to see how they've diminished over time though...

I think they are of a pretty high "Legend Status", so to speak, at least based on their success in Japan. They probably get a little less praise then you'd proportionally expect in the western fan world.

Every time I revisit Nightmare, I'm impressed at how good a lot of their songwriting is. Particularly, from like 2004-2008 I find, every album is full of really dense, but easy to listen to, tunes. I listened to Killer Show for the first time in ages a few days ago and I was amazed how much of a melodic contribution the bass was. Great bass lines and total earworm guitar solos on every track, it's crazy. Only thing that got a little annoying was how formulaic every track felt on that album, but you've got an album like anima, in contrast, which is full of some really varied and progressive tracks.

+1

He is *o*

I agree listening rn

I go back and forth on his vocals. Sometimes they're fine, but he doesn't have as much of a range as some of their songs call for.

My problem with them is that their compositions seem kind of pedestrian; like they're trying very hard to be an off-broadway radio-friendly-Versailles or a watered down Stratovarius instead of just a their own symphonic metal band. I loved "Schwert" on their mini, and their opening instrumental track was great as well, but the rest of the songs seemed like they lacked the punch that their earlier stuff, like "Eternal White" or "揚羽蝶乃夢" as an example, had. Maybe if they wrote songs in more than 3 different tempos or the same 2 kind of songs structures (bombastic epic metal or slow """"heartfelt""" ballad) they'd have more of an appeal.   

disband during 6 years, need money, do a "10th anniversary" tour. far far away your growls  www

I guess there will be new info on Versailles after their revival live next month hopefully.

oh also the rarezhut auction stream is going on right now, so that might have something to do with XD

@Original Sakuso there wasn't one today? Thought I missed 'cause I came home quite late today...

@SwampMannot that I know of... unless there was one early this morning before I got online. If you want to you can start one now, I'll come by for a little while

protip: one way to do this is to use quotation marks, and you'll get more accurate results; ex. "malice mizer"

For some reason I can't search for BLESS THIS MESS at all. Even when I do that. haha

There you go: https://www.monochrome-heaven.com/search/?&q=mess&type=forums_topic&search_in=titles

I actually liked this Greatest Hits collection wayyy more than I thought I would. My interest in Versailles all but died with their lackluster 4th album, but seeing as NONE of those tracks made it on this collection, the band felt similarly about their 2012-era, haha. The 2 new tracks are pretty cool, but I need to listen more. Overall, I feel like my Versailles fandom is rejuvenated and I'm excited to hear whatever their first real "new" release will be.

LOL, just post your thoughts in the review forum. You don't have to write anything fancy or long. Just write however you feel. Hell, even if you just post a thread to start the discussion and then come back and fill in your thoughts later -> that's cool too. Ain't nobody gonna trip about it.

If you go through the general review forum, you'll see that plenty of people have done that in the past. It used to be a really common practice here, but I suppose it's dropped off a bit. But fuck all that, just take the initiative and start one of you own. ; )

MH is NOT ready for me to slay the house down boots covering miyoshi seiji's miren bashi. 

I would love to see him back in black gene. Maybe with a new line up or similar new band since he's been having frustrations. Probably why he went solo.

Black Gene had some okay songs but  It's like they went a million different directions. I need something more consistent sound wise from ice/eros. 

Yea that is one of the main reasons as to why i would love to see him in a new band.