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May as well remove half the album while you're at it and you'll end up with a solid mini-album 😛

I've got a review for you guys:
 
It's good
 
9/10

I keep meaning to listen to these guys as I adore the song Iolite. I can't see a discography on here though?! 

My gf listens to Justin Bieber, Avril Lavigne and Backstreet Boys lmao. She at least liked Ranunculus off of this album. A lot of my other Japanese friends listen to K-pop or J-rock like Bump of Chicken or something. I have one friend that just listens to vocaloid and anime theme songs and sings them at karaoke. I scared her by singing Different Sense  

The best thing to do is come back to this in a few weeks/months. I can imagine people's opinions will have changed wildly by then

In fact, if you like anything after their 2 track demo tape performance as DEATHMASK, you're not a true fan. They sold out with MISSA and became mainstream trash.

Not really understanding how an opinion on personal taste has more/less merit depending on how long you've been a fan and if you've been to Japan or not. I personally have been listening to this album more than anything they've put out since VULGAR/Withering, so because of that it stands out as being one of their better efforts as far as I'm concerned. 

Uroboros > Vulgar > DSS > Gauze > Arche > WtD > Marrow > Macabre > Either Kisou or TIW
I already wore my protection and have a wooden club by my side if necessary.
 
Not sure what I'd place on the bottom place but I dislike both deeply  I'd have to listen to Kisou again in order to compare it to TIW but I haven't heard it in years and I'm not willing to rn.

The best thing to do is come back to this in a few weeks/months. I can imagine people's opinions will have changed wildly by then

Some more info on the album's tracks etc.:
 

Try turning the treble up a bit and the volume down. 
 
Honestly, it doesn’t sound great, but it doesn’t sound as bad as any rock album touched by Rick Rubin. Listen to the original mix of Metallica’s Death Magnetic for one of the worst example of brickwalling. 

Jesus Christ these lyrics are bleak as fuck, but then Ranunculus ends with “Scream alive, I am alive” so maybe he’s cool. 

I uh... dare I say this is the first time DEG has truly sounded heavy without sounding like they’re struggling? Like, seriously, that sludgy riff in Keigaku no Yoku is fucking HEAVY. 

it does!
 
dude gets a brutal (like papa Kaoru's guitar riff) sunstroke and the whole album from there on is his hallucinatory descent happening entirely inside of his headspace (cue "the insulated world") where horned daddy feeds him human flesh and little ppl hand out free abortions if he wears a beautiful bridal gown.
 

 
internalized homophobia hun x

The album is great but it’s having the same 2 issues as Gazette’s Ninth did. The mix is not so great(even worse than ninth), and there are no standout tracks on the album. I’ve come to enjoy Ningen wo Kaburu and Ranunculus even though I didn’t like them at first. These are my favorites so far
Followers,
Aka,
Zetsuentai,
Keigaku no yoku
 

What? Kanji ARE Chinese characters. 

The real question is: does this commercial still fit in with the theme of The Insulated World?

Sustain grew on me, at least its not as boring as the inferno

I really like Toshiba's part in Keigaku no Hajimari.

Seriously? 
 
I’m changing the track list for myself. Shifting some files around on my laptop isn’t going to alter the experience for anybody else. The original body of work is still out there for hundreds of thousands of people to enjoy, including myself. It’s just a fun little experiment. I did the same thing with Arche. 

Hageshisa to... also, the single version >>>>>>>>>>

Surely this is in reverse order? There are many here who would burn you at the stake for putting the holy quadrinity dead last 😂

Chedoara is hands down my favorite release this year so far. I like Vanitas, Malformation, and Shigarami the most but I like all the songs. I wasn't really into Ambitiosus (Ambitious?) Principles upon first listen but it's a lot of fun live so I like it a lot now.
 
Speaking of lives, I got some set lists for you guys. I went to all of Dimlim's lives this past week.
 
9/21 at Ikebukuro Edge
1. Grotesque
2. Malformation
3. THE SILENT SONG
4. Shigarami
5. Ambitious Principles
6. vanitas
7. Aizou ni tsuki
 
9/24 at Shibuya Chelsea Hotel
They played all of the album songs but not quite in the order of the album. Started with Grotesque and ended with Hito to Katachi but everything else in the middle was switched around.
Sadly it was only about 40 minutes long despite being a oneman but it was free so I can't complain.
 
9/26 at Takadanobaba Area
1. Grotesque
2. D. Hymnus
3. Malformation
4. vanitas
5. Aizou ni tsuki

The only track is strongly hate is UTAFUMI, which is surprising because it's like my second favorite single of theirs... Of their entire discography.  That's how much I love that single. I appreciate the raw-er vocals, but why does it sound like a live demo recorded on a phone, then someone broadcasted it on radio, and what was put on CD was a phone recording uploaded to youtube of the radio broadcast. It sounds really fucking weird compared to everything on the album.