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I haven't heard anything of Matenrou Opera since ABYSS, so the "old" singles were new for me. Sadly, the already released Helios and 落とし穴の底はこんな世界 were some of the best tracks. Just Be Myself, AGE, アポトーシス (all three in a row!) were probably my other favorite tracks. As Zess said, AGE is a nice break from the usual "EPIC SYMPHONIC HOLY SHIT SO EPIC" sound. Just Be Myself was a great instrumental and although アポトーシス had a bit of an obvious Versailles feel (not a bad thing, though!), the guitar solo was fantasticals. Justice, 21mg, and ニューシネマパラダイス just missed the mark, being tarnished by either terrible Ayame synth or awful Sono vocals. The rest of the album was forgettable/bad, imo. To substantiate the Ayame/ Sono claims... This has been something I've felt for a while with this band. I find myself rarely complaining about the guitarist, the bassist or the drummer so much. It always comes back to Ayame. Tbh, I don't know how much he actually plays himself, and how much is just the studio arrangement, but man does this band overuse the "hah" choir thing. And cheap synthy strings. The fact that the album opens up with midi-sounding keyboards in Justice is already a bad sign. Maybe I'm just bitter since "風の鳥" by the first keyboardist is one of my favorite MO songs... I think Ayame's probably the weakest member of the band. His keyboards hardly bring anything special to their sound and they'd probably just be better off with a second guitarist (since they could add extra synths and stuff in the studio arrangement anyway, to maintain their "symphonic" quality). Sono is very frustrating to me. I want to like his voice! He has a lot of technical talent, but I feel like he doesn't know how to use it. I never complained about it really until the release of "murder scope," where his voice just irritated me for some reason. Ever since, he's been totally hit-or-miss. First of all, he sometimes affects his voice in a really grating way. Take the last 45 seconds of Justice, for instance, with all that "Hoooooooooooo-ohhhhhhhhhhhhh!" stuff. Then, in 21mg, all of the repeated lines "wasurenai de! wasurenai de! x1000" and then "YEAAAAAAHHHHHH. Ohhhhh YEAAAAHHHHHHH". In the chorus of ニューシネマパラダイス, Sono takes the infamous VK vibrato to ridiculous, extremely unpleasant new heights, where it sounds like he's gargling or gulping, or something. I guess it's just personal taste, but all of these parts of the songs put an instant cringe on my face. (Just wrap a big "imo" around these 2 rant paragraphs, haha) So, I'd probably give the album a 5.5 or so, out of 10. Some definitely good and great songs. Surrounded by lots of bad synth, some unfortunate vocal parts and other bad overall songs.

Lol, I love that they don't take themselves seriously. At all. More VK bands need to embrace that mentality!

Omg, they Kiryu'd us. to Kiryu verb 1. to announce another CD release only days after the release of the previous CD Also, Love_Duck_Core_Nothing is the best/worst song title I've ever seen. Not sure. Oh well, haven't been disappointed by them yet. Looking forward to it!

I need more chanson and/or non-everything-is-electronic songs.

Yes. Let's do it.

Got some previews for the AIVIE singles: http://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/aivie- ... d510896945 (AIVIE and プレテンス) http://itunes.apple.com/jp/album/aivie- ... d510899388 (AIVIE, ハイスピードフェイスレスネス, and 鳥籠好餌責務-TORIKAGO like obligation-) ハイスピードフェイスレスネス is sounding positively LiN-tastic. I've really warmed up to AIVIE too. It was "aight" when I first heard the PV, but it got better with each listen.

Agreed with the general sentiments here. I never cared about Erina and Dio, but when I first heard about this band, I looked forward to hearing new stuff from ShauJuk and Mikage. Kaz proved to be a talented member as well. But the idea of this band was much better than the execution, which, as people have said, was just messy and totally uninspired. And the failsettos... It's best this way. Now they can move on to other, hopefully better projects!

I'm not too well-versed in these styles, but from what i've heard, I like! One of my friends introduced me to Slowdive and they are fantastic! Highly recommended. A2NB41QUIdU Moreso "inspired" by shoegaze/dream pop, Rose Elinor Dougall is a favorite of mine. (See the second half of the song) iVX0YWrspO4 And I don't know if they count, because they have a much more 80's "indie pop" approach, but The Pain of Being Pure at Heart's guitar and vocal styles do seem to fit. KLVrTruj_Aw I really like a lot of what you posted, particularly Tamaryn. Also, never even thought about Yuck from the shoegaze perspective, but I love their album.

Definitely better than what I've heard of Seremedy, so good job to him for going solo, haha. Still, the way everyone was describing his guitar playing, I was expecting something different.

Because Sailor Moon never had any theme songs performed by a vk band - or any rock band whatsoever. Just look at the tracklist, it's not just a vk-bands-covering-anime-songs V.A. but vk-bands-covering-songs-of-other-vk-bands-that-also-happened-to-be-used-for-an-anime V.A. Yeah, I now see, it's the VK bands cover VK band's anime theme songs. Ah well, 'twould have been cool. Like Versailles or Matenrou Opera doing a cover of the "Animetal" version of Moonlight densetsu.

Why didn't Sailor Moon make the cut, on an anime compilation...

I don't care about BORN, but the title is pretty funny.

I so agree!!!! I completely loved it!!! I can't stop singing it hahaha I wanna get away, tsukamunda ♪ The more I listen, the more I like! I wonder what tracks will be on the DVD...

album art (regular edition): Here's the Gundam opening and a live performance of "sharp" 9tgs7Vi-bhY DIUaMRm6ifA EDIT: Dammit, the live performance was removed within one day. Insane.

Lol, 90's "diversity" was so formulaic.

Not blowing me away on first listen, but it sounds pretty nice. I enjoy their softer, more pop-rock style anyway. The main thing I have to critique is the vocal effects. It sounds like they overproduced Yui's voice a bit.

Some small updates. Album art was released. As usual, it's very simple and clean looking. Limited: Regular: Bonus "privileges" were announced for the various shops: I'm in a hurry right now so I can't translate them, but they appear to be mainly photocards/ photo sets

The song seems quite nice so far, but the effects on the video are actually pretty distracting!

I got kind of a PIASS vibe from that PV! Anyway, I'm extremely glad and excited it was good news! 47 one-mans sounds ridiculous, but I'm looking forward to the album! @lilychuu, I'm sure the album will be available on CDJapan/yesasia, which both do overseas shipping.

Jealous! Have fun, takes lots of pictures (and buy lots of stuff!)

I don't know if you can necessarily judge from the titles though. "Ascendead Master," "God Palace," and of course "The Love from a Dead Orchestra" are all pretty cheesy titles, but the songs rule. Hopefully "Rhapsody of the Darkness" will follow in that trend. Also, they're a symphonic metal / VK band, so cheesiness in some aspect is inevitably baked right in.

Cool, finally some more information! I hope they'll be available on the various international iTunes stores, and not just in Japan.

I got your PM just fine! (We'll keep talking there) So, for now, consider "己龍 (Kiryu): 屡流 C-type maxi-single with 2 trading cards" on hold, for lilychuu!

Doh! Champ, I might be gone that weekend... I will know for sure, soon. But does the weekend of March 10th work? (lol, that we're planning this so ahead of time)

Seriously though, the official Guilty Pleasure Night needs to happen. Can people do it this weekend?