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Oh yes! Their last album was amazing

17 hours ago, nekkichi said:

修羅 is a Chronos b-side from 2014, but it's good

 

I don't think I've heard it either!

So there are five new tracks on this album.
Days, It's Just Love, and Chronos were on Story; Red Rose and Dead Man's Hope were on Duel; Live was on Jewel; and Yuki no Asterisk was released as a single.

That said, I never bought the minis or Yuki no Asterisk (I don't think I've even heard it), so I only own three of these tracks. So I'm going to buy it, primarily in the hope that if they make enough cash from it they can go on to write and record another album of actually all-new material.

I can also kind of see the point of it – they've been away for a few years so it's kind of like a catch-up compilation of their recent material for new VK fans who possibly don't remember them. And you would hope that the old tracks are re-recorded, especially as Hayato is supposed to have recovered from the dysphonia which was pretty painfully obvious on the last few releases.

19 hours ago, nekkichi said:

so it's basically a best-of mini lumped on top of a maxi-single/mini-album?

Hm yeah, this does seem a bit of a con. I'm happy though, as I never bought their last two mini-albums, so I don't have most of these tracks.

18 hours ago, Ada Suilen said:

OH MYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

^ This

You've gotta love D, they always give it their all, no matter what.

His vocals do sound even worse on this than on any of his other releases so far

Dafu is this band name... could it be "Noosemonger"?

After the abomination that was their last album, they're going to have to pull something pretty amazing out of the bag to win me back

Definitely getting this! "Don Buraco" was super cheesy but fun. Stoked to see an album arrive so soon – expected at least two more BP singles first. Love the '60s Star Trek look.

They've got back together?!!

This and the new Tool album news on the same day... I'm in Heaven

Woah, awesome! I thought these guys were gone for good

Zeni Geva are literal legends

Just listened to the four singles back to back... this album is going to be amazing. I especially like "Flower of Romance". No-one can make the guitar sing like Kei does.

I love their crazy song titles

I still like their music. Their last couple of singles might have been a bit duff, but I thought their last album was really solid. If a disband is on the cards, hopefully they'll squeeze out one more album before they bite the dust.

19 hours ago, Jigsaw9 said:

Nice of them to finally release 'regular' store versions of their previous stuff!

I'm ragin'... I just bought (literally a couple weeks ago) the webshop-limited regular edition of Adoratio through a shopping service. Cost me about 35 quid!

Still... nice to know I'll can get the new album cheaper, and sooner.

I'm really excited about this. I've liked everything he's done so far. Jakigan is my second-favourite of the post-Nightmare solo projects, after Gremlins. The criticisms of his vocals are valid, but imho the quality of the songwriting makes up for it. Looking forward to the previews and preorder info.

Significantly cheesier than I was anticipating... guess I should have expected as much from the costumes

They're not major so far as I know, I think they just mean the main chart as opposed to one of the specialist charts

Lovin' the crazy pirate look. Can't wait for the previews.

On 3/13/2019 at 7:52 PM, Tokage said:

What's with this new meme of bands calling <10 track releases albums though?

You get this a lot in the West now as well, particularly among major-label rap artists (e.g. Kanye) – release an EP's worth of music, call it an album, and charge full album price for it. Fucks me right off.

This sounds 100x better than Wolfman

New chapter: Gotharocka

25 minutes ago, BrenGun said:

under forum? eh what?

It's this bizarre linguistic thing of artists operating "under" a label. I don't know whether it's a Japanese or an American thing.