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Wow, that's quite the compliment! Thank you!

Feels good to post some work again.

Yeah, I saw that. I was all over the drops. Sorry you weren't able to nab a clear : ( It sold out literally in 2-3 minutes. I actually went for both so woke up at 6 this morning for the black. Thankfully there were more copies (500) so it didn't sell out nearly as fast.

It's a future funk kinda afternoon

I definitely agree with you there. It's better here than on the singles, but it still bothers me on this song. The toms do sound so much better, but they're a bit too prominent in quieter parts and I wish I could hear the guitars more. Yeah, let's hope for a. But, just in case, I'm ready

The mix on the drums is making me want to thrust my fist into my speakers. It's the same obnoxiously wooden thacking from the previous two singles and I'm concerned that mixing will be the downfall of this album. Song wise, I'm actually really digging this. I think it hits a nice balance of commercially catchy and compositionally complex. That piano break with the string synths in the middle also gives me major Rentrer en Soi vibes.

There's kind of a thread like this already, but for video games. Are there any people here that are into film soundtracks and scores? I'm talking about original music, not music from other bands used in a film or show. Let's talk about them! Some of my favorites are: Akira Highlights Battle against clown / Dolls' polyphony / Exodus From the Underground Fortress / Requiem Mary and the Witch's Flower Highlights Mary's Theme / Help of Mary / Magic Science / Essence of the Spell Inuyasha Too many songs to go through Over the Garden Wall Highlights Into the Unknown / Patient is the Night / Ms Langtree's Lament / Send Me A Peach Turbo Kid Highlights Wasteland / Highway 64 / Tequila Sunrise / 58 Minutes Pour vivre

6 years of searching and I finally found a first press copy of D'espairsRay Kumo.

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Antichrist mother fuckin' Superstar!

Kyo's eyes look like his mouth.

Def agreed! That's another great ballad. "Higeki ha mabuta wo oroshita yasashiki utsu" is also a fine piece of work I think doesn't get talked about enough. It's one of my favorite moments on WTD and I love the visuals for this on the Despair in the Womb tour.

Mmm nahh. Rinkaku is great, but it ain't no "ain't afraid to die" It's probs my favorite vkei ballad.

The first one is a fun idea, just like Vinyl Me Please and their cocktails recipes. Let's see, let's type in Dir en grey, click and...ohh... The second one is DOPE! When I click on a name it just plays a music sample. Really cool to sample many bands quickly.

I found two super rad tools. One, for comparing artists and another for finding new artists. Music Map The first is called Music Map. It shows you bands that are close in style and, the closer they are, the more similar they are apparently. Here's an example using the band Tom Waits Check it out Gnoosic The second is called Gnoosic which is a learning AI that asks you to type 3 artists you like, and then it tries to recommend artists similar to them. Check it out

Haven't shown myself around here in like a year. Hi.

I bought this record but am just not feeling the music. It's brand new and unplayed. It came unsealed so I'm grading everything as NM. Asking $20 + $4 shipping (US) Not my image, but this is what the color looks like:

Yup haha.

G A Z E S T H E T I C Looks like bad the GazettE art. Also, I can't tell if the model is having an epiphany or a hallucination as a result of insomnia.

I'll take my chances.

Also, my contributions to the thread: Good for futurefunk vibes Good for laid-back videogame-y vibes. The artist used a lot of SNES sounds for this. I think I recognize some sounds from Zelda a link to the past. Also, thanks @colorfuljinsei for starting this thread!

Every neoncity release has eluded me. They're doing represses of A Million Miles and Sailorwave and I canNOT sleep on these again.

I think that's because by not announcing this as some side project or concept album, it communicates to the fans that this is now the direcion they are headed as a band. And, it's just not at all the same kind of music that fans got into band for in the first place. If I'm optimistic, then yeah I'd hope this is just a phase that will end up enriching the band's music later down the road in ways I couldn't imagine. But other bands' histories of this situation (going from hard music to pop) say otherwise. Examples for me are D'espairsRay, Mucc, Girugamesh. At best, I expect some throwback album in a few years that attempts to "go back to the roots" to please old fans but ends up being a watered down attempt that lacks the punch and nuances of what they're trying to re-capture. The major label bug bites hard. Here's a very extreme and weird analogy. It's like if a bicycle company decided they were selling utensils now. Old customers are either leaving or wondering when they'll make a new bike instead of selling another damned fork. You think, "they've gotta go back to making bikes sometime." Then later on, they decide (to bring old customers back) they're going to release a new bike, the first in years, and it ends up being a fork with wheels. That's only going to cater to a very niche group of people and you end up pleasing no one from old and new customers. They should've just opened a new shop with new branding to separate the two. Kinda weird, I know. But all I'm saying is that bands should similarly stick to a few select genres/styles and build off of that. Industrial metal and pop really have nothing to do with each other. Unless you're doing something like Babymetal or some other kind of experimentation, it just ends up being jarring and divides fans.