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they will hold their one-man live "THE HOPELESS WORLD〜禁賀新年、救い様の無い世界に嘆く、救い様の無い全ての「君」へ〜" at Ikebukuro EDGE at 2015/01/04, at which their live-distributed CD "謎の円盤(nazo no enban)" (i.e. "mysterious CD") will be released (TYPE T,B,S, 3 TYPE in random)
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sGGCpzZMzQo

Hmm I actually think these sound rather decent, more immediately memorable to me than almost anything on V. I look forward to hearing the whole thing. My hopes are still high.

I'm really happy that there are so many new songs and their look is awesome for this! Can't wait!

Definitely agree with Loveless, what a song
 
1) Sink - 9Goats Black Out - 
This is one of those songs that explains a band's soundscape immediately. Really beautiful song.
 
2) Utakata - Kagrra, - 
Ditto. One of the first J-Rock songs I ever listened to and it's simply perfect.
 
3) Vinushka - Dir En Grey - 
If we're missing out intros, we can count the song after right? This song is brilliant; it quickly raised DEG's game from their previous album I feel. Furthermore, it's one of their best songs.
 
4) Utsushiyo Horror Show - NoGoD - http://youtu.be/0MQkj6CCES0
One of my very favourites. Riff-heavy and with an awesome solo, this is one of their better recent tracks.

Preview for each track,I came *o*:
 

Damn, a SCANDAL bis xD

...oh exist trace...its just really disheartening that they've turned this way in my opinion. I really wish they stay the way they were. They could have possibly been the equivalent of a female Nocturnal Bloodlust or something which would have been so much different from anything else for females at least. -sigh- 

their breakdown better look like this

title of their new maxi single is finalized as "青空ギロチン(aozora guillotine)"
 
TYPE A will include CD+DVD (including "青空ギロチン(aozora guillotine)" PV), and TYPE B & C will include CD only
 
[CD track list]
01.青空ギロチン(aozora guillotine)
02.汚染区域(osenkuiki)
03.世界はそれを見つめるしかない(sekai wa sore wo mitsumerushikanai) (included in TYPE B )
03.PreDatoR (included in TYPE C)

D.I.D. Vo.茜(akane) has attended band studio rehearsal at 2014/08/02

I think what made Gazette stand out early on is that they started out as a crossover between oldschool VK and punk, and slowly started adding more influences to their music. Their releases from 2003-2006 are pretty versatile and have many influences, and the songs range from pop ballads to jumpy punk songs to stuff bordering on the progmetal. In short, because they didn't stick to one genre, they could gather fans from all kinds of rock genres. Those guys are(/can be) solid songwriters, like it or not.
 
Sadly, after 2007 their songwriting became a bit stale (to me at least, I know other people won't agree with me), even though I admit there's still some good efforts scattered throughout their releases.

Okay, okay, I've got this covered as a pretty-long-time-fan of Kiryu. Like ever since 2009. Not meaning to sound like an elitist or anything, but I'm a fucking god in these circles (he he, hopefully someone get's my self-irony here and doesn't come bashing me for being egoistic )
 
To serious business then. Or as serious as I can be. Which isn't very serious. Read on with caution and sense of humour, babes.
 
First of all, I haven't seen too much of actual Kiryu hype. I've seen pretty embarrassing Hiyori (their fucking useless tranny bassist, if you didn't know already) hype though. Most of Kiryu fans tend to just... sleep under a rock while wearing headphones blasting their music. So there's that. That's my impression of the Western Kiryu fans including myself.
 
But they're filling a niche for marketing here. The fact is, there just aren't many neo-japanesque bands out there. From my head I can name three. Kagrra,; OROCHI and Kiryu. Kaggra, is fucking dead. OROCHI hasn't hit it big for some reason. Kiryu, on the other hand, releases stuff frequently, actually more frequently than most bands these days. They have a steady quality to their works which keeps old fans interested. They'll probably never be the next Kaggra,; just because their material is very, very solid. In the first quote @jduv86 said that their music sounds the same. That's true. That's what I refer to when I say "solid material". They don't "experiment". That's meant for MYDORA.
 
Regarding Mahiro's voice... what can I say? Some like it, some don't. That's all. To others he sounds annoying, to me he sounds impressively emotional. 
 
Also, jumping from point to another here but whatever, Kiryu is one of the very few bands in the history of VK or Japanese music at all that uses horror as an element to their music and videos. And not you know, halloween kinda horror which bands like Candy Spooky Theatre did/does. So fuck off if you're gonna mention that. Traditional Japanese horror. People, who like Japanese horror movies are bound to be interested in Kiryu's music videos as well, because they're majorly influential. I love Japanese horror, and Asian horror all together, and Kiryu, with their obscure sounds and sometimes intimidating tunes hits that soft spot for me. I'm sure it does it for others as well.
 
So that's my 2 cents of the topic. Now I'm waiting for someone to ask about Kameleo. Then it'll be a fucking rape of a text from this gal.

Am I the only one who has been obsessed with XtripX since they've come back? 
 
Also, anything TenTen does musically. Honestly, I hate the shit out of country music but if TenTen did it, I'd have to grab my cowboy hat and boots.

So your crediting all of Gazette's success to their promotion? If that's the case, how come other bands in PS Company aren't as big except Alice Nine. Also, PS Company gets a lot of slack, but they do spot really good talent Miyavi...Kagrra...to name a few others. They don't just sign anybody they find. So to give their hype to just their promotion I don't believe is the reason. The majority of comparisons people make on here come from a band either 1. sounding like Dir en Grey or 2. sounding like the Gazette. They have more influence then you think and I can spot numerous references of their songs which I will gather later but now I have to go to work.  

I'm glad some people are siding with KuRt, there is a certain rawness that can't be repeated, I don't think it's an irrational choice at all!

Full PV:

 
Song is awesome!

Just finished Attack on Titan....not as good as everyone makes it out to be...

Just finished Attack on Titan....not as good as everyone makes it out to be...