Kirito

A good composition with some serious work.
 
It's shame i can't get into the voice of Jin : (

kirito's career

I'm glad he will never read this thread because some comments here make me uncomfortable. After 23 years of activity in a band so productive, he deserve a little bit of respect. These 4 guys were one of the best band during live shows, it's not about being a " technical drummer " or things like that. It's about emotion and alchemy between members. And I think most people who have seen them live would agree.
 

This is nonsense

Member leaves band  after 23 years and retires from music and instead of people lamenting that it's just a bunch of shit posts trashing him and the band. I don't get it... Well, actually I kinda do since some of you are a gimmick/act at this point. Just way too damn negative. 
 
Anyway... Surreal news because I was listening to their earlier stuff like 2 days ago and looking at their earlier photo shoots and those really young pics of them in the AISHUU booklet and thought to myself holy shit these guys have longevity.  I was appreciating how they've stuck together over the years and then I wake up to this news today. What a coincidence.
 
2020 has been wild between Kenichi leaving Merry, Ryo leaving Baroque and retiring from music, and now this latest succession and retirement... Like, what is he going to do now? I'm surprised he's leaving music entirely.
 
https://musicbrainz.org/artist/d293c00d-015d-4aae-9b76-b5754c63f6d3/works
 
He composed some pretty great songs: KINSENKA, NUKEGARA, MEDIA NO JUUSEI, REQUIEM, MAE E, HOTARU etc...

You know, I thought you were all kidding...
 
Gackt is a Youtuber. What the actual fuck.

Gackt is very talented but clearly he lost himself.. His YouTube channel is the good example of that. He became a boring Youtuber.
 
Also I won't believe 100 % his words about Malice Mizer, the guy is way too self center, and I know from experience where it can bring..

Some people said his voice is not as good as before. I totally disagree, he is amazing

it is lol they look glowing 

GACKT - ANOTHER WORLD
DIR EN GREY - C
Plastic Tree - アローンアゲイン、ワンダフルワールド 
Girugamesh - Having Betrayed is Why
RENTRER EN SOI - 神話
 

Absolutely love this album. They were such a cool band at this point in their career; everything is solid and the songwriting is tight. I love the guitars especially. Such a great fusion of industrial metal and VK tropes, and those octave chords that Karyu throws in are so recognizable to their style.

Yep. But what my point was is that if you have an actual drummer in the band it'd just make more sense to use the actual drummer and keep the production sounding natural as a lot of bands are over producing real drums to the point it sounds like a machine. haha.

To be honest it's totally possible to sound correct with a drum machine (VST). Just you need to know how to program it, to make it sounds realistic. It's a bit time consuming, but definitely possible.

The instrumentals make a song. The vocalist can break it.

If i understood well, this video only show the reharshal before the live

Gauze's production is a dream. You can definitely hear every instrument in there.
 
Perhaps they had the biggest amount of investment of their whole career at that time... Having Yoshiki arranging your A-sides should have been anything but cheap...

Production =/= mixing =/= mastering.
 
Production is song creation, choosing instruments, recording them, crafting them to get the right atmosphere for the project.
Mixing is the balance of the stems recorded for each song.
Mastering is making sure all songs across an album are balanced the same, and getting the final 'sound' of the album with effects like EQ and compression.
 
For example, The Insulated World is a pretty well-produced album (a little laziness in writing aside). The mix is okay, but it's absolutely destroyed by an atrocious master that makes everything sound far too compressed, creating a fatiguing listen.
 
 

If i understood well, this video only show the reharshal before the live

Yeah, it kills me a bit sometimes when I listen to something new and am like "is a shame about the drum machine sounding so clinical though" then check and the band does infact have a real drummer. Like why bother with a drummer if you're going to use a machine or produce it to such a point that it does anyway? But yeah a lot of bands seem to be taking the drum machine route these days, think it's just to save recording time/dollar basically.

hey guys! 
https://kagrra.livejournal.com/2020/05/10/
 
pretty recent post on kagrra's livejournal fanbase, the poster says that shin is working on sound/audio for GazettE, akiya does gameplays on youtube

When you have such an amazing drummer like that, the minimum is to make him record his drums parts on a good e-drums. Even if they go to a recording studio, i'm sure in 4 hours rent he would finish an album.
 
But this kind of drums sound  they did became the new standard. It's boring because all the metalhead seems crazy for this overcompressed and inhuman kind of drums sound

When you have such an amazing drummer like that, the minimum is to make him record his drums parts on a good e-drums. Even if they go to a recording studio, i'm sure in 4 hours rent he would finish an album.
 
But this kind of drums sound  they did became the new standard. It's boring because all the metalhead seems crazy for this overcompressed and inhuman kind of drums sound

Vocals are just another instrument for me. Can you have a nice without a flute? or piano? or drums? Yes.  I don't see it as if I had to choose between them.  All music is instrumental for me regardless of if they use vocals or not.

This album is legendary , everything is amazing. Almost every songs has such a big impact, it's so deep and emotional.

This album is legendary , everything is amazing. Almost every songs has such a big impact, it's so deep and emotional.