12012

[Jigsaw9 6783]

Only the material from 2003 to early 2006 is real, the rest is just different shades of embarrassing imo.

[sleepy coffee 1476]

6 hours ago, YuyoDrift said:

Ouch, I actually enjoyed some of DIAMOND lol.

dont feel bad, i hard  fuck with their self titled LMAO 

[Saishu 1589]

I forgot Cunning Killer was a thing so I just listened to it. When the music drops so Wataru can scream “self-awareness release of the go” like a 5 year old stomping his feet at his mom, I lost my shit. 

[nekkichi 6043]

On 11/30/2019 at 11:15 AM, YuyoDrift said:

Ouch, I actually enjoyed some of DIAMOND lol.

they did their little nobudget glay copycat act relatively well for a while, the embarrassment of a former UCP band recording their major album streak is unreal tho.

[raspberrynilla 85]

On 11/30/2019 at 7:55 AM, sleepy coffee said:

dont feel bad, i hard  fuck with their self titled LMAO 

Finally someone else! It's probably my favorite album by theirs haha

[BlackSwan_86 84]

4 hours ago, raspberrynilla said:

Finally someone else! It's probably my favorite album by theirs haha

It’s also my favourite album by them 🙂 i think they never did better like on the self-titled.

[Ro plz 1290]

On 11/28/2019 at 10:04 PM, Elazmus said:

The return album and Deicida of Silence were equally DeG-derivative, but I still think Deicida was notably better. Aged or not, that album sounds like a really long playlist of demos lol.

I wouldn't be surprised if that was the case. Those tracks minus the first two (?) are 2 minutes and some change lmao. Seeing as though the style switch was really sudden, its not hard to believe that these tracks have been chillin in the vault for awhile. Explains why it sounded SO dated at the time. 

[Saishu 1589]

I can’t listen to songs like Baal-zebul, Abuse, and Madman and take that self-titled seriously. 
 

I’d like some sort of chronicle that explains the sudden style shifts they went thru in such a short span of time. Yuusuke probably decided to quit when he saw where things were headed. 

[Ro plz 1290]

Part of me thinks the style change and Yuusuke leaving are interjected. IF I had to take a guess then id say he probably felt a way about going back to "dark" music after the Wataru scandal, which IIRC was the reason why they went pop....

 

But this is all speculation so idk 

[Saishu 1589]

Diamond and the Wataru choke out we’re within three months of each other. The shift back to darker music started with Seven, but I can only assume going full on GRAWR was just too much and Yuusuke bounced

[Bear 1817]

On 11/30/2019 at 9:03 AM, Jigsaw9 said:

Only the material from 2003 to early 2006 is real, the rest is just different shades of embarrassing imo.

 So true!

[zombieparadise 487]

PLAY DOLLs is my definition of a perfect album. Washed out, hazy sound, full of melancholy, and raw as hell.

Love listening to it every winter on those cold, bitter nights.

[zombieparadise 487]

On 11/25/2019 at 12:24 PM, Ro plz said:

Not a lot of bands have a holy trinity.

 

These three are 12012's

I would say Bell Salem, 深～deep～ Knight mare were their trinity, but the ones at the tail end weren't too bad either

[Saishu 1589]

Shudder is probably my favorite 12012 song. 

[zombieparadise 487]

18 hours ago, Saishu said:

Shudder is probably my favorite 12012 song. 

Man, Shudder gave birth to VK for me... Before that, I was just a nasty, J-pop loving anime fan. It's not even an understatement that that song single-handedly changed the trajectory of my life hahaha.

[nullmoon 784]

18 hours ago, zombieparadise said:

PLAY DOLLs is my definition of a perfect album. Washed out, hazy sound, full of melancholy, and raw as hell.

Love listening to it every winter on those cold, bitter nights.

I love pretty much everything by the band but I just can't get into this album

[sleepy coffee 1476]

Despite really liking 12012 last 4 or 5 releases, I will concede that shudder was not only peak 12012 but peak vk

[zombieparadise 487]

3 hours ago, nullmoon said:

I love pretty much everything by the band but I just can't get into this album

Honestly, it took me like 2-3 years of listening to it on and off before I really began to appreciate the nuances between the songs. Before that, I thought all the songs sounded really bland and same-y.

[chemicalpictures 1888]

As much as I love early 12012, Wataru was clearly the weak link. People can say what they want of major 12012, but the dude went through some MAJOR improvement there. In any case, SEVEN is my favorite release of theirs, but I'd argue that they went out with their most concise work ever. THE SWAN and XII are the sum of all their experiences, it's dark, it has  pop nuances, Wataru delivers, the composition is top notch... I would go far and say they are the best way to introduce someone nowadays.

[sleepy coffee 1476]

1 minute ago, chemicalpictures said:

Wataru delivers

Also turns out the dude straight up was also the composer for the red which makes him even more impressive 

[Tokage 5930]

I remember reading at some point that the lyrics for all of their songs were supposed to form some sort of story, was that just something western fans headcanoned up or did they just drop that whole thing somewhere down the road?

[Saishu 1589]

Wasn’t the band’s early concept something like “human madness”? That may have been their initial direction 

Edited December 19, 2019 by Saishu

[nekkichi 6043]

4 hours ago, Tokage said:

I remember reading at some point that the lyrics for all of their songs were supposed to form some sort of story, was that just something western fans headcanoned up or did they just drop that whole thing somewhere down the road?

that was the concept for play dolls, but not for other releases, as far as i can remember now

[Ro plz 1290]

 

I can't fucking believe this lmaoooo

 

I HATE IT HERE!

Edited January 9, 2020 by Ro plz

[suji 8317]

So Wataru and Hirotaka (from R-shitei) are in a gaming group called Shibuya GGAMING, which also includes Tik-tokers (yes that's a thing), illustrators, and designers. According to their plans for the future, they'll have distributions, events, music production, and live performances.

 

yawn

 

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