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Well they went down the shitter

super excited about Metroid: Samus Returns! finally a playable Metroid game in ages. 

I think the best way to really drive the point home to the fan base would be to make some sort of hilarious photo meme series.

One half of the meme could be an image with Yoshiki and some release date announcement or tease announcement - there are probably countless moment since they reunited. The other half could be what Yoshiki was really doing instead. i.e.: hanging out with random celebrities, going to events, doing selfies holding a hello kitty doll, promoting some weird product.

I mean, we fans have to keep ourselves entertained through the let-downs, shouldn't we!?

**since day 1, can we stop pretending they ever made anything remarkable aside from selling shounen ai fantasia front for mediocre rock music.
 
and this mess likely dates back to when they actually could sell millions of records, so it's all around surprising this only surfaced just now with no police investigation involved and hyde leaving "c u in court sweatie:)" post-its in his label's elevator.

In a few hours I'll be playing Tekken 7, hopefully it won't be as dull as Tekken 6 was, I'm hyped nevertheless 

the real question is when are plastic tree covering r-SHITei

i hope they back this with their obscure emo ballads instead of uh...4 versions of melancholic

I need to apologize. I finally managed to get the new album. And you know what? It's actually pretty damn awesome. It's definitely much better than the last one. It's shorter, more aggressive, and more to the point which is what I think their strength lies. 眠り姫 is definitely the worse song on here since it's the most plain one, but everything else is just so much better. The drummer has quite a few blast beats in here, there's some excellent riffs, there's awesome melodic reads, etc. This means that I need to pick up the upcoming single sometime soon.

I think that these tracks are remasteted now!

eeh. Most of these were already on their other best album Memorial 2005 - 2006. 

It's on track 9 - I may have misromanized it

he's a session drummer for wing works and some godawful electro-vk band as a full-time member;
they're embarrassing 
kinda almost fear and loathing levels bad

sick 5 month bump because the setlist at hzk's solo with takumi was kinda neato if you like covers
 
1. THIS COMA
2. anemone
3. above the skin
4. mizukagami (Cocco)
5. yuki no hana (Mika Nakashima)
6. keibetsu
7. kaze no yukue (L'arc~en~ciel)
8. MELODIES (Kiyoharu)
9. ain't afraid to die (Dir en grey)
10. FOREVER  & EVER (LUNA SEA)
11. PHANTOM
12. ETERNITY

likely:
unlikely: 
combination of charisma, well produced indie records and being spotted by nippon crown recruiters at the right time
they didn't really explode in popularity until siging to VAP who sold their music to animoo weebz hardcore for a few years.
 
fame-wise naito were always a few notches above gazette tho, idk where the comparison even comes from.

im actually enjoying this debate all sides are spilling tea and is probably one of the smarter quarrels i've heard on here in a while
 
ps the oricon sales were surprising...how did messiah and sabato flop when they're meji's best songs but shitatrical blue black was....shite
 
also @filth_ywho are these ghost writing bands you are discussing plz open our minds

I think I've said it here before, but the average Japanese person doesn't know DEG or even half the bands we talk about here. 
 
And let's be honest, these bands aren't exactly popular in the west either. But the western fan base is ridiculously rabid in the way they idolize jrock artists, and it happens in condensed, close knit online communities like this one. It gives the illusion that these bands are the biggest thing in the world. 

^ Saying you don't like any oshare vocalist is like saying you don't like any chocolate without trying the good ones. That's generalizing. Have you listened to ALL oshare bands? Because that's the only way you're qualified to dislike them all.

oops yeah i fucked that up. just swiftly googled and was 2 lazy to copypaste the original titles from the files. 
 
I wrote what I look forward from them, and then what I perceive they gave regarding this paradigm ( this is why I don't score also, to emphasise subjectivity. I just don't feel like pussyfooting and adding I THINK or IN MY OPINION in front of every sentence just to appease people ). Don't give a shite what anyone else wants or thinks, and 3 was indeed not what I was hoping to see. From them I pray for one thing only, which is indeed a certain stylistic direction that is not this one but what they've done a few times before. I call it like I see it. Listened to it probably five or six times now, i think it's tired af save for masturbation

You can't put a price on seeing some internet people act heartbroken and shocked over such an announcement from a band whom they claim undying devotion to yet....
 
..not devoted enough to know VK bands work. Like they are REALLY surprised as if they think some unforeseen tragedy has taken place to cause this.
 
They don't seem to realize how much in excess their output was... probably see no difference in the quality of releases either. I guess they assume songs just kind of write themselves if you spend enough time being cute and all. The boys do give that impression..
 
Stay on hiatus until their short-term attention span dies out, then quietly come back and.... try to build a better fanbase.
 
I'm a fan of MEJIBRAY and I think MEJIBAY fans deserve everything they've got coming to them in life lol

DADAROMA is, by all accounts available to me, one of the handful of bands from the new crop that have skyrocketed in stature and popularity to the levels previously held by the mid 2000’s indie stalwarts, crashing the party with probably the best case of intuitive visual kei marketing since conditional disbandment by first releasing Oboreru Sakana on Youtube for all gaijins to easily enjoy. Immediate hit in the west relatively speaking, due to its accessibility both in sound and availability, they’ve been on a continual upward surge since. And now two DADAism’s later, the third in the series has just dropped coinciding with the third year into their run.
 
Having now amassed a decent amount of bulk into their discography one can finally make some observations what DADAROMA is, and what they are about. What to note specifically, is that the overall image of their sound is uniquely scattered, and yet aesthetically consistent. Ever since their debut a polarity has been attributed to them; a struggle between the metalcore influence against their wacky, almost The GazettE-esque light-heartedness and a tendency to stick to more traditional nu-metal visual kei riffs and vocal stylings. At this point, three years on from their debut, it can probably be said that this is a false observation. Out of a discography of 47 or so songs, only about 4 or 5 put on their striped deathcore socks, while the rest tread the line of either appropriating the odd stylistic trick from the style or settle comfortably into the visual kei ballad/mid-tempo song territory. What does remain consistent however is their imagery of clowns, sex, clichéd visual kei political commentary and a very loud production that’s as slick as it gets. Looking at the entirety of their output from the past three years one notices that they’ve always been kind of the same; looking, sounding and acting pretty much like they’ve always done and whatever had been mistakenly attributed as a stylistic shift was merely a case of someone being unfamiliar with them. The palette of DADAROMA just happens to be very broad, and they happen to divulge in all the different aspects of it cyclically.
 
What I do think is true however, is that they do some things better than others, and DADAISM 3 is a prime example of it. In the third release of their EP series we see a band distilling all their worst traits into 20-minute slog that’s everything I hope this band will not be about in the future.
 
In their prime DADAROMA uses the interplay of their ability to use metalcore and traditional visual kei’s melodramatic potency to a great effect. In their first PV tracks Oboreru Sakana and Ame no Waltz they bang out a Suicide Silence 101 knock-off and whispery vk vocals at exactly the right times, and climax like the sinking titanic with a lazy vk fade out for the centuries. If perfect 2010’s visual kei was engineered in a laboratory, it’d sound like these two songs did. Fucking tremendous.
 
While for some of the subsequent PV’s they’d showcase their knack for doing other things, I believe that even if they didn’t continue chugging like before, at least they always stayed fun and sexy. When in form, Yoshiatsu gives a degree of gravity to everything he is on and there is no denying what a technically able band there’s behind him; so even when appropriating INSIDE BEAST or being really tacky with Nightmare Before Christmas Tim Burtony jingles, they’re awesome. With DADAISM 3 being something which they haven’t been before: boring.
 
Oddly enough starting out with a high note, DADAROMA’s PV cut this time is MASTURBATION that horrified a segment of the people on this board, and here I’ll make a case for it: MASTURBATION is interesting, loud and very obnoxious. One valuable life lesson I’ve learned from a childhood of watching pro-wrestling is that any reaction is better than no reaction. There’s an inherent value to the over the topness, and especially when it’s quite fitting for a band that’s always been kind of carney, and most importantly sincerely self-aware. Could I do without another mid-period Marilyn Manson dance live song? Yes, but I don’t hate it either and I kind of appreciate it for what it is. Despite everything it still bangs hard and remains true to the band’s spirit.
 
Things halt to a standstill right afterwards however, when DADAROMA apparently decides to churn out a EP’s worth of mid-tempo ballads and nu-nu-visual kei bangers, channelling pop Lynch and the worm-eaten corpse of that version of Girugamesh nobody liked. I’m making it sound worse than it is, but for a band that’s been so consistent a lull like this is both alarming and a curious choice. Before in songs like Yume Tarareba and Zouka what worked in their favour is both their colourful concept and the contrast in the sound of all their elements. Things that were generic were made cool by their skill and unique character. When a band like this then slows down and makes a collection of energetic live songs and heartfelt bittersweet ballads, I become disaffected when they fall short of the grand theatre of what they could be. Romance Gray is immediately forgettable compared to other songs structured the same way with the sampled rainfall and everything; Itoshi teru doesn’t hold a candle to the songs they’ve made before in a similar style either, and in fact every other song on here can as well be categorised into “they’ve done it before, and they’ve done it better.” Sincerely it is the first time this band has done something twice, and now it’s an EP full of very matter of fact diddies that lack the edge of their prior material, aside from the PV cut that’s a Risley Circus B-side with crass lyrics as its saving grace.
 
When this band takes its foot off the pedal, they can start sounding very generic and tired. This can be circumvented by doing things different. Working with your unique concept, not ripping off Lynch and utilising the tools at your disposal in ways that hasn't been done in the scene before. DADAISM 3 is a paint by the numbers EP from a very professional band no matter how you look at it; it doesn’t hit even close to as hard as 1 or have the diversity of 2. If they’ll settle on treading the same ground like a DOGMA Gazette junior, then they’ll absolutely have to bring back the deathcore for some desperately needed flavour, or otherwise we are due for redux of NOW and GO era Girugamesh. If the history of this band is anything to go by then they'll rebound shortly, but there's always that doubt...
 
 

I thought the only thing Satsuki was missing was talent...

Losing Para:noir was the real tragedy. 

If I see one more comment that's not related to MEJIBRAY's new release, I'm locking the topic and handing out warnings!
 
@frayed @Gichi Gichi @rvrgf @sheepprincessgara I don't know if you've heard, but there is a function on this forum that allows users to send private messages (PM) that aren't posted publicly for everyone to see. So if you wanna call each other idiots, argue about using the words "homosexual" and "pedophile" in the same sentence, you now have a fun new secret place that doesn't derail a thread from its topic. How insane is that?
 
@CarmelzorsIs there ever a time you don't make some half-witted attempt at "calling out the staff" for "not doing their jobs?" Here's a super fun, amazing, awesome idea: if you see problematic shit, report it! Does that idea just blow your mind or what?! Another cool idea: if you have any "suggestions" for how us staffers should do our jobs, take that "suggestion" to us directly, and if it's not a wall of text, we'll take it into consideration.

Losing Para:noir was the real tragedy.