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"hmm haven't checked MH news in awhile wonder if anything interesting has happened"


 

New downy, new TK, and now new stuff from THE NOVEMBERS? At least the end of the world will have an awesome soundtrack 🤣

After just over a year, THE NOVEMBERS returns for a new album scheduled for May and it's called At The Beginning !
Details like the cover, the release date and the tracklist will be revealed soon.
A tour is scheduled with May 16th as the starting live.
Yukihiro (L'Arc~en~Ciel, ACID ANDROID) participated in the realisation of the album.
 
 

New visual

My work place always encourages being sociable etc. especially now we're having skype meetings to keep the social aspect while working from home but  it's like only one specific type of conversation seems to be acceptable otherwise there's just silence and awkwardly moving on to another topic, so I prefer to just stay quiet. Luckily I'm an introvert, but also unlucky because i can't relate to any of my colleagues losing their minds over having to stay home. One on one conversations are much better and less draining tbh and I'm a good conversationalist as far as I'm aware. 
 
(also I'm loving being able to just work from home. I can't wait to go back to being self employed and limiting my people intake)

Somehow Lynch. was able to keep my interest in those string of Albums that dropped back to back.  Once AVANTGARDE came about, it was VERY clear that they were running on fumes but were starting to break out their shell a bit.  BLOOD THIRSTY,  and SINNERS were more great steps in the right direction even with the absence of AK. 
 
That momentum went out the window when AK came back. XIII was a mess.  It was worse than that one album ppl always killed me for hating...what was it? OH "I BELIEVE IN MID." Easily one of the biggest let downs  of 2018.  
 
ULTIMA is what XIII should've been. This album is LYNCH showing in length that they're evolving while still staying true to their sound. This shit is a breath of fresh air, dawg. Maybe they realized how they let a nigga down, and they channeled that energy and really  crafted something amazing. The energy in this album feels like a huge fuck you to me and anyone else who doubted them. They had something to prove here. 
 
Like dawg, why do I wanna do dirty things to my woman...but dance at the same time while listening to EROS?
 
Why do I feel like the band sat through a couple of the GazettE's recording sessions and used that influence to create the BANGER that's MACHINE?
 
Who told them to make DEVIL better by making IDOL?  WHO?!!!
 
What the fuck is Reo and Yusuke smoking?  Did AK give them the same weed he got caught with? The fuck is up with the nasty riffage in these songs?
 
Why do wanna cry after listening to ZINNIA? 
 
I have so many questions after listening to this album. This shit SLAPS. What the hell man.
 
Even XERO, which i killed sounds good with the rest of the album.
 
Man 20/10. Fuck the proper rankings.  
 
Unless DECAYS or KEEL is coming back,  I aint tryna come back on here and talk about J-rock for the rest of 2020 with yall. This album sealed the deal.  Corona virus can take its time. The endless replays this masterpiece will get shall hold me over. Have y'all seen someone so happy with a release that they quit  a forum over it? No.  Congrats, I just did it. And you just saw it. 
 
Bye.  I love you all  and ill see you in 2021. 

I put Kagerou on pause to listen to this crap. What a horrible 30 seconds. 

I put Kagerou on pause to listen to this crap. What a horrible 30 seconds. 

Everyone else: *Cancels/Postponed/Livestream their shows*
 
DIRU:
See you May 6th and 8th, bitches! Hihi!

No, I'm not a fan of Misc. nor Retsu's individual attitude, but I feel like many here are just plain mean/annoying.
Like, why don't you just ignore/let go of them if you're gonna be negative about everything they do.
 
DIMLIM is not just Retsu, so I feel bad for Sho and Hiroshi.
Also things are changing daily because of the Corona shit going on, so you can't blame any artist for saying "it won't be cancelled/postponed" 2 days prior cancelling/postponing the live after all. It happens all the time everywhere.
I live in Tokyo and I also have tickets for lives that have been postponed/cancelled 2 days prior, while the bands tried not to disappoint the fans at first. Lives/tours in Europe (from Japanese artists) have been postponed/cancelled too. It may have been decided by the venue or government, so the bands can't even do anything about it.
 
Japanese bands have the tendency to give up on their band too easily imo, so I do respect them for the "we keep trying and don't care about the haters" attitude. He's not a criminal or something.

Was out today and I saw this sticker
 

this is so clearly another one of retsu's lets's fantastic ideas, you can see it in hiroshi's face lmao

Yeah, don't get the wrong idea; I do like TIW. I just don't love it. Even though bad mastering killed the album for me, the songs aren't terrible, proved by how well they translated live. In fact, I vastly prefer it live, and I wish they'd recorded it that way. Kyo's vocals on Ranunculus live are fantastic. However, the songwriting itself is occasionally blah on this album. I feel like repetition has set in, with several songs being copy-pastes of material we've heard before. It's been the first DEG era where I've felt somewhat disconnected from the music.
 
I will admit that the endless Japan-only From Depression To... tours with appallingly expensive fanclub-exclusive Blu-Rays did not help my demeanour going into this album. That was a really, really boring time to be a DEG fan.
 
Best Of album was inevitable. Aside from FUKAI, the re-recorded songs from this suck tbh, and the videos are just trash. I don't really care for this release, but it's not intended for me, so it doesn't matter.
 
As for re-recordings, it's funny that they re-recorded Ash *again*, although this rendition is pretty good. Likewise THE DEEPER VILENESS is just disgusting; I love it. Acoustic DOZING GREEN is perfect.
 
The World of Mercy is a great single. A slow-burner, for sure. This should have been on the album to make it over an hour. Even so, I'm glad to see another long non-album single like ain't afraid to die. 

shut up about corona virus.
walk outside "did you know"
walk into another room "hey c-"
enter building "HEAR ABOU-"
bring up completely unrelated topic "lately I sa-"
shut up 🤸‍♂️

Its hard to believe Mikoto is a guy. He's too damn pretty to have a dong
How come they look hardcore edgy but when you see them live, they're all kirakira kei like?

Isn't that... kinda the point of a cover? To play another band's song? 
Not sure what there is to be disappointed about here. Deg's version is, for starters, an entirely different genre. They did quite a lot with it.

Trust me, I had all the same reservations and was pretty disgusted at the straight up sexism I saw. You're absolutely right, potential fans should be hooked from the get go! So when the episode ended with that attack I thought "hmm...I'll give it another shot". The next few episodes have the same effect admittedly but once it gets going, you'll enjoy it. Granted, Meliodas and Elizabeth are probably the most one-dimensional but the other characters are really likeable with their own respective, heart-wrenching arcs. 

I don't watch this series, the characters were too unbearable for my taste. But I keep up closely with any trainwrecks related to it lol

Man, the lyrics to What's Up? are pathetic as fuck. Grow up 🤦🏻‍♂️

Maybe another one of those docustyle dvds 
 
This is the best cover DEG has made period:
 
 
I like this cover more than most of their original songs at that time.

Best picture ever

I'm still just puzzled by the fact that no one told SHIN to take the jacket off. Like, who let him try to look sexy indoors in a down jacket?

Maybe she was trying to wish you a happy Valentine's day in her own... special way. 😆

Indeed. Actions > words. Always. You'll know them by their fruits.
 
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On a brighter note, a brief bit from a conversation I had earlier:
 
my future wife: ...so when you were a kid, you taught yourself how to ride a bike?

me: yeah, basically.

my future wife: so..."by-cicle-ly???"
 
me: ....
 

 
...and I thought my dad-jokes were unrivaled until now.

This lady dropped 20 dollars in walmart, i tried to get her attention but i guess she thought i was trying to hit on her? Whatever, i just got 20 dollars. ❤️

Not at all. Everyone makes out like the band only ever makes clown shit and that they've never been heavy or interesting since the first Dadaism. MOST of their output since then has been great. Sure they've had a few duds, but in VK who doesn't?