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WTF was that video... Yeah, I'm with Zess on this. I stopped following them after that one where Ryouga was a Crawfish and I shall continue on with that

I stopped following BORN a while ago...and I will continue to do so.

Voted Shuuei because for the most part, it's not a video where the band members are just performing in a room and I didn't like their look that much in Die Kusse (though the beginning acoustic part of the video with Meto lip syncing the song while Mia plays acoustic is awesome)

Voted Shuuei because for the most part, it's not a video where the band members are just performing in a room and I didn't like their look that much in Die Kusse (though the beginning acoustic part of the video with Meto lip syncing the song while Mia plays acoustic is awesome)

It doesn't say specifically to Japanese music so I'm going to spread out...
 
Pierce the Veil- Tangled in the Great Escape (because it has Jason Butler from Letlive. in it and that just made the song.)
 
...That's it from now but I'll remember some later

Kagrra,'s Guilty may be the only song I don't reaaaally like in their entire discography (yep, I genuinely like the rest, a lot);
RENTRER EN SOI's AMONGST FOOLISH ENEMIES is horrible;
LUNA SEA's SHINE album is bland and forgettable;
Some of the ballads from B'z (especially the ones from the MAGIC album, such as PRAY and TINY DROPS) are horrible;
Kiyokiba Shunsuke has some truly godawful bland songs (and most of his recent stuff hasn't been all that exciting either);
Perfume should never have released Kasuka na kaori;
Namie Amuro's Uncontrolled album is a mess;
NoGoD has Raise a Flag and it sucks so much.
 
I think this covers it all.

True...
I wonder why they didn't recorded any PVs...

If You haven't seen it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQAkfet4Eno&list=FLEw-PXrPL4p3nqwmcc0fm-Q
 
Just read the lyrics....so nasty. lol. On another note, what is it with VK going dancey and perverted lately? Gazette and Nocturnal Bloodlust...lol

http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.youtube.com%2Fwatch%3Ffeature%3Dplayer_embedded%26v%3DaQAkfet4Eno&h=uAQFZxYLA
 
Also, congrats to NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST for OMEGA reaching #1 in the Oricon indies charts

New MV!

Bro you like what you like. Yeah some of us may have our different opinions and such but all is good at the end of the day homie

Well I figure since KH3 is officially a thing now that square is working on, we should probably have a thread to post and discuss any news that comes forth in the coming year(s) till release.
 
 
E3 2013 TRAILER
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3LD-3tHgoU
D23 EXPO JAPAN 2013 TRAILER

 
The new trailer is seriously awesome and looks so good, really excited right now. Also is it just me but in the two trailers above (especially the second) does Sora look more badass than usual? It's almost like he looks way more composed and serious looking than in past games... which that is not a bad thing, I always thought Sora was pretty cool, but sometime his inexperience made the character seem less cool at times.. I don't know if I'm the only one who's felt like that but this new experienced serious looking Sora looks fucking amazing
 
Let's Discuss.

I actually think this is their best come back ever since like Lucifer. Sherlock was close, but I think that chorus for Sherlock is kind of "blah". The other songs that were lead tracks were IMO not memorable or just not that good (couldn't STAND Dream Girl). This song actually is very very good! I feel like they tore it up and the dancing is awesome! Probably my favorite SHINee song ever to be honest.

their live-distributed LIVE DVD will be released at that one-man live at 2013/12/07, which will include digest of their one-man live "GEARS OF OMEGA" at Nagoya ell.SIZE at 2013/10/26 and at Osaka LIVE SQUARE 2nd LINE at 2013/10/27

Score: | *sigh*
 
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome the most obnoxious visual kei release this year.
 
What makes Madrigal de Maria obnoxious?
Unforgivably cheap imitations of Kyo (Dir en grey) wails, shrieks, screams, coos, and gutturals for no other reason than to have wails, shrieks, screams, coos, and gutturals.
  Inconsistency of instrument quality. Compare the piano from Demons Cradle to the piano in 斑-まだら- and to the piano in 優シク殺シテ. Toy piano much?
  Very tacky use of synthesizer in some places.
  Sections of songs are ripped straight out of other Dir en grey songs. 嘘にまみれた真実の底 emulates 艶かしき安息、躊躇いに微笑み near the end. Demons Cradle's intro is reminiscent of THE BLOSSOMING BEELZEBUB until all that MIDI garbage kicks in. 斑-まだら-'s is Vinushka x Different Sense from the backing growls during the first half of the chorus to the guitar solo right after the chorus to the gutturals lifting heavily from the Opethian passages of Vinushka. There are others scattered through the album too. I'm not one to rag on Sadie for their influences but it's so prevalent and badly incorporated that it universally detracts from my enjoyment of the album. If I really want to listen to Dir en grey, I'm just going to listen to Dir en grey, not Sadie's poor interpretation of it.
  Decadence. That song alone is bad enough to knock a star off the total score.
  A complete lack of conceptual execution. The overly Photoshopped, Cunning Killer 12012-esque album art could easily deceive a listener into expecting a brooding, darker, more mature album from Sadie. Right?

NO.

Sure, the first three tracks sound like they at least made an attempt to be DUM SPIRO SPERO Diru on a budget, but then after Decadence they decided to throw all that out the window and progress with business as usual until the end. The sad thing is, I don't think that it was a bad decision at the end of the album. Those first three tracks should have been dropped.
  No sense of flow from song to song. I've got standard Dir en grey worship, electro rock, acoustic ballads, pop-rock and bluesy leads in the first eight tracks. I like experimentation but even within experimentation I expect consistency.
  A bottom-heavy tracklist forces you to get to track seven before you actually -meet- new Sadie. Anything remotely worth listening to comes after Viper. I actually wanted to like this album too, believe it or not, but this is almost everything I hate about Sadie encapsulated in one album. I despise how much I can separate actual Sadie from their influences because when they want to be original, they can devise some great songs. They just choose not to.
 
I won't front completely because I do like a select few tracks from this album, which is the only reason why this album gets that second star.  Those tracks would be 斑-まだら-, Viper, 優シク殺シテ (somewhat), Face to Face, and 雪月花 (note how all of those tracks are at the end of the album). There's nothing as face-obliteratingly bad as BLACK STARS or GREEDY EMOTION, but everything else is not worth your time.
 
Sadie, you were not ready to release this. Try releasing an album full of music independent of Dir en grey for once. Or for once just admit that you can't do metalcore and stick to lighter, frillier music because you really do do it so much better.

Drunk drinking a milkshake...lol

Thanks mate! I´m trying to give my best and sometimes not quite the best, but one simply does not evolve fast. Such a bummer, aye. Yet weeaboo kei strikes fast as soon as you say your first "hello".

NOCTURNAL BLOODLUST live-limited single "Triangle Carnage" will be released at their one-man live tour "GEARS OF OMEGA" tour final at Daikanyama UNIT at 2013/12/07 (1,000yen, limited 500)

Your avatar is perfect for this comment.
 
Whoever would steal another person's guitar is the biggest asshole in the universe. A guitar is your companion, an extension of your soul, IT'S THE POKEMON OF THE MUSIC WORLD!

Oh! lol My bad. I guess I should have clarified better. But I do agree that in those two songs his bassline was interesting though I expect that from Karasu since he wrote that. lol

Oh! lol My bad. I guess I should have clarified better. But I do agree that in those two songs his bassline was interesting though I expect that from Karasu since he wrote that. lol

I also thought you meant audio wise, haha
But still, the bassline sounded pretty interesting to me in "karasu". And I thought the bassline in REDO was pretty good too, in the other songs not so much :\

FINALLY!!!!!! WOOT!!!!!!!!

The problem is, you're not even 1% sure that the GazettE did anything like that because you don't know. You don't know if it was intentional or not, and I don't either. So that's why I'm not going to just start making stuff up and guessing.
 
All we know is that it's somewhat similar. That similarity becomes less remarkable when you realize the timing is the same in both songs (4/4), and both parts rely on quarter notes for the vocal delivery; but something like that, is so ridiculously common, you can't fault the GazettE for doing it twice.

This is an illustration for Sakurai's 80s song cover.