nullmoon

^ Damn, at least post somebody else, shit ;w;

love how they're practically insulting other vk bands by announcing that their new album will only have 1/4 of it as old single tracks.

Hopefully you mean it should be condemned.

r ur meds working today

Let me first say that I don't believe we are all entitled to music in principle. If we have to pay to consume a product (chips, cars, etc.), why should music be any different? Nevertheless I don't think anyone should be demonized for not buying music, only by virtue of the fact that no sane person will prefer to pay for something they can get for free. And this "free access" to music is an inevitable consequence of the digitization of music over the last 2 decades and how the Internet works. Nothing can be done about this, as unfortunate as it may be. Record labels have tried all kinds of weird tactics to ameliorate this (wiki "cccd" for starters) but in the end it always either backfires spectacularly or turns out to be a waste of everyone's time.
 
That's why I feel that there's a sense in which this whole "fight against piracy" thing is misguided, because it's akin to fighting the entire landscape of how music is digitized, stored, and circulated. Let us accept that pirates are not going to be "persuaded" to stop pirating. If they're threatened by law, they will just find a more covert/discreet way of going about their business. Get rid of megaupload and now we have Mega.nz. So, rather than tweeting their disappointment and dealing with the x% of fans who will pirate music regardless of how cheap/available the music is (again, I don't think piracy is a service issue), how about actually coming up with ways to grow the pie so that the x% is rendered numerically insignificant? The reason pop music etc. survive is not because they suffer less piracy (seriously I don't even want to know how many people have pirated Adele), but because their fanbase is large enough for them to financially survive in spite of the piracy problem.

hope they all realize it was an act of divine intervention/karmic justice twd akb48's crimes against music.
baby might as well have been a disgruntled 9GBO fan, acting out of sheer love for ~real music.
 
 
 
probably claimed it a part of his aidoru reaper cosplay outfit!
 
 
I see what you did there

Lmfao this. It's not like people get hurt when two gay people marry. "BUT HOW DO I EXPLAIN THIS TO MY CHILDREN", really simple, the way my mother did it: sometimes people don't like people from the other gender but from the same gender. That's it. THAT'S REALLY IT. People talk about it like it's some difficult math formula but it really isn't.
 
Also people who claim it ruins "the sanctity of marriage" bc marriage should be between a man and a woman is a load of shit because 1) Britney Spears got married once for 7 hours while drunk and that's not ruining the sanctity of marriage while a gay couple who has been together for 10 years that wants to get married does? 2) These people always yell that the bible forbids it but hey the bible also forbids you to do a lot of other things but they don't seem to care about those lol.
 
In short: being homophobic isn't freedom of speech, it's being a douche and highly illegal.

The band is nothing without Rookie though He's one of the big things that set them apart from other bands (as well as writing every single one of their songs, I believe?)

he doesn't look very good on the second pic, hate both the contacts and the camera angle, but first one is divine/fabulous/iconic/2014 vk genre reviving
 
dude should tuck his ears completely tho, we don't need another reminder that he's approaching seventy already.

I love how this thread has outlived this album's fleeting relevance, lol.

YouTube maybe? People do remixes on there all the time and link people to their pages etc.
 
You're idea is awesome by the way, I really love the song up until the middle section. 

^ Agreed. Virgin Snow Color was their BEST!

secretly waiting for either aoi joining them back and hiring his session members as fulltime ayabies or ryohei's comeback & megamasso disbanding all within next 6 months
 
this epic band can not just stop like that, there would be a 3 years money milking kaisan campaign followed by member's retirement from vk
 
&& also can't wait to hear yumehito's jpop solo project, I wonder if we get another takeru with that one
 
  I think AYABIE is the new panic channel except w. shitty post 2005 music

So this is kind of weird but I created an edit of "hemimetabolism" without the loud middle section.  I like the original song but I really like the calm and relaxing mood of the beginning and end and wanted version I could listen to with just those parts. 
It's a simple cut and paste with some fade in and outs to make the transition clean and cuts the song to about 3 minutes.
 
I was just wondering if anyone wanted the edit or if this was even allowed if I were to upload it.

Everyone's classic favourite:
 

 
I had no idea this was in English until I searched for the lyrics, lmao.

I did a quick search and was shocked we didn't already have a thread like this?
 
List some of the songs where the vocalist so so incoherent with their mumbles that you have no idea that it is in English. For me the first song that comes to mind is The Gazette's Filth in the Beauty. I literally had no idea that the song was mostly in English until I looked up the lyrics.
 

I'm not so much bothered by the tracklist as much as I'm bothered by the fact that they're actually releasing this. The entire concept of  "Greatest hits" albums has always been supremely cheesy to me (especially if you haven't been around for several decades).

ok, right upfront, am i the only one, that deson't really get all the exitement about this album? it pretty much falls into the cathegory "appreciate the effort, but no thanks"
i'll start with what is (very!) good about this release.
you can tell that there went a lot of effort into all of these tracks.
there are tons of different and interesting ideas incorporated into pretty much all of these songs
by every single member and the production team aswell at some points.
it is also great that everyone seems to have stepped out of their comfort-zone a bit
doing things a little different than in their previous bands to create something new.
also there isn't any performance that only goes by the standard procedure of a bass/git/vox/drum formula.
everyone tries to add something unique to it, so it doesn't become a "kyo+friends"-sideproject.
with all this effort, with all this willingness to take a risk, with all the creativity-input from every side,
i really really really wanted to like this record.
i tried hard to, but now after four listens or so i think i don't, and here is why.
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unfortunately the songs in their completed stage don't work. that is as themselves, and as the 16-track combination that is this album.
you can tell that this is a very new project, that hasen't really accustomed to each other yet.
you can tell that there is always eclectic stuff going on in the guitars, some eclectic stuff with the bass and some offbeat drumming going on,
all buried under eclectic multilayered falsetto-choruses from kyo, but none of this really fits the other.
it feels more like an endless stream of random ideas in each part, that every member had lieing around somewhere on their harddrive
added afteranother and layered over another.
there is very few occasions, where one of the parts actually serves the other or compliments it.
furthermore there then is very little developement or dramaticality in the tracks, they start at some point, morph their initial idea/groove a few times around and then at some point they end, like a shapeless form of music, that just happens to be as long as it is.
no progression, no (or very little and poorly executed) transitions and very little to be exited for then.
this results unfortunately in an album where very little sticks to the mind and which is, despite all its originality, pretty boring.
there are only 3 or four tracks that manage to make a slight dent in my memory,
but even those are only kinda meh-ish, all the rest is a shapeless blob of random noodling.
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and now for the obligatory (current!) DEG refernce,
deg members have most of the time a very similar, boxy and eclectic, un-catchy type of playing,
even their "melodic" tracks aren't really that melodic at all.
but they have managed to put all their weirdness together.
to know when to take a step back and just do chugchug, when to abruptly end phrases to get into a completely different gear for a bridge/chorus/whatevs.
despite everyone sucking pretty bad at their instruments of choice, through knowing and considering each others abilities and giving each other space they managed to incorporate their ungroovy ideas to create breathing and obscure lively behemoths of songs that keep you on the edge of the seat.
this is the very quality, that sukekiyo still lacks greatly,
a good songwriter/arranger to put all that creative brilliance into good use in a dramatical and organic song.
not doing a track by track, but in general this album would probably get sth like a 6/10 (4 of that for effort), who knows, mabe it'll grow on me, but i doubt it.

Just fuck you, Yoshiki

Oh I see.... this image explains all my thoughts

wtf... dresscode? what the hell is this? school? that shit's kinda lame tbh.

I truly think Aftermath is one of the best songs I've ever heard and it really got me psyched for this album. However after listening to it a few times, I really don't think it lives up to the hype at all. Apart from the aforementioned track and a few others like Zephyr and Latour, I feel pretty let down. It's too long, the tracks don't flow and there aren't enough songs that stand out.
While I find their slightly menacing tone really enjoyable to listen to, I don't think they surpass 9goats or Deg in the slightest. Personally I would give this a 6/10.