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I shall play, although it seems you healed Gazette along with SID

 

Hurt ViViD/Heal Versailles

 

L'Arc~En~Ciel - 10
SID - 11
The GazettE - 11
ViViD - 9
An Cafe - 10
ScReW - 10
Alice Nine -8
D=OUT - 10
SuG - 10
BORN - 10
NIGHTMARE - 10

Girugamesh - 10

Versailles - 11

LM.C - 10

Taste differ I guess

 

And as for Masashi, I wanna see more songs like 'Edge of the World', that was fucking amazing. Also I think Hizaki has the skill and talent to pull of Syu's Angel of Salvation tier guitar work, but as you said it probably won't happen unless he pulls out material which matches 'Faith and Decision'.

 

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that's one of my faves in that album

 

oh I don't doubt his skills, I just don't think it would match his music, Syu always has this aggressive feel to his music while I find Hizaki has a certain "romantic" edge

Ya I think we can all agree that Holy Grail was their worst album and Kamijo's low point when it comes to his vocals (even though i'm a sucker that brought the Deluxe Box Limited Edtion of Holy Grail ). Also I definately agree that Kamijo proformed brillently on the self titled (especally on Created Beauty) and was a definate comeback for Versailles after Holy Grail, great album . For me a Versailles without Kamijo is losing the main reason why I adore Versailles (especally in Noble) so unless Hizaki can pull of Galneryus' 'Angel of Salvation' tier guitar work/songwriting and/or Masashi is on top form in a large part of the songwriting, i'll can see myself very easily writing off Jupiter when I listen to their single .

 

It was my fave album, I loved all the songs in that album except vampire, to me it was the self-titled one that felt lackluster and didn't really represented them at their best.

 

But yes more Teru and Masashi(really love thanatos) should do like 2-3 songs each and the rest can give it up to Hizaki

 

I doubt Hizaki could do Syu type of metal, I just don't see him doing it

Merged the thread into the Music Recommendations Thread ^

oh thanks

 

After watching Yeti's PV the first band that came to mind was Plastic Tree. Dunno how similar they are to their other songs tho.

will try them, thanks

I'm really digging the Yeti mini-album right now with the light vocals and abstract-hard-rock feel. Any recommendations to similar bands?

Been a hip-hop head since 2002, I know quite a bit from Juice Crew to now. But my preference has been the golden era.

I still really like this band, although their lead guitarist is a little too classical metal as I saw him perform in their live DVD, it really ruined the groove LuLu had with their original guitarists

Diru is the biggest one also Luna Sea

This is actually quite off-topic (considering Kamijo is not part of this project), but I'll give my two cents on this.

 

When it comes to Kamijo's Versailles vocals, I think you can split them up in three stages.

 

Stage one: debut - Noble

Stage two: major debut - Jubilee

Stage three: DESTINY -The Lovers- - hiatus

 

Stage one included Kamijo still experimenting and getting used to singing in a lower tone. It sounded quite forced at some points, but it never bothered me too much. Then stage two was (in my opinion) when he had pretty much mastered that voice. He sounded great on Jubilee, and great live too when I heard him (note, WHEN I heard him, blame the loud fangirls). After that it...I don't know, he kind of seemed to have lost the power he had back then. I don't know what caused it (perhaps the excessive amounts of smoking), but it really made his vocals sound less sincere. I hope he'll be able to get that power back for his solo songs if it's not health-related.

well said, although I would attribute Stage 3 to their light~rose~darkness concept which seemed to call for a lighter voice. In comparison to stage one which imo is just them doing undead themed songs which I loved but I made more sense with a darker voice

 

Don't forget, before the deepness of Lyrical Sympathy ("stage 1"), he had his awkward high-pitched (Lareine-ish) vocals on the Revenant Choir debut ("stage zero" if you will, haha).  Prince and "stage 2" are definitely my favorites for Kamijo vocals.

I wonder if ZIN might also have some vocal experimenting in their first few releases.  (Another reason for people not to make snap judgements, especially based on a sample that's like 3 seconds long, haha)  If he is indeed the SLOD/ Tokami guy, I wonder if his voice has "matured" any.

that Lareine vocals seriously threw me off when I first heard it lol

 

I don't mind the ZIN guy if he truly is the Tokami vocalist. As I went back to listen to some Tokami, not a huge fan but I did like them when I first heard them, he was very similar to Asagi and I liked Asagi. That band just had less metal to them compared to D.

 

Is this confirmed to be Hizaki's band as in Hizaki will take full creative control?

its been like 2 years since I've heard anything from them but will defo buy this