BrenGun 2261 Posted January 21, 2015 We know that LI'VERT is already a while under us and today they released their first album ANIMA. And they give us 5 new songs and 1 SE. I will only talk about the new tracks. 01. Appearance (SE)02. Dim the animus (New Song)03. Circle of sorrow04. Anemone (New Song)05. Seijaku no Toge (New Song)06. Regret07. Alive08. Shinkirou (New Song)09. Proof of Waste10. Psycho11. Rasen (New Song) The CD start with a really cool strong and nice SE. It's really played good, its fades over into Dim the Animus. Which also has a strong melody however without grunting. only clean vocal. But Mukuro vocal~ It sounds as he actually cannot sing and that he should improve his vocal skills asap. Maybe he had a cold? or totally not his day? while recording? Because when you hear him sing in REGRET then his voice is fabulous. Up to the next new song; Anemone it's a calm song still with heaviness inside but pretty calm. But once again vocal....... Up to the next new song; Seijaku no Toge again not such heavy song also no grunting only "clean singing" however again he fails in the vocal part. But the melody of this song is good again. Up to the next new song; Shinkirou Muroku clean vocal sounds a bit better in this song, but there is also grunting in this song and that sounds much better but little bit powerless. But the melody of this song is a little bit boring. It could have more HEAVYNESS inside its a bit too calm too prudent. Up to the next new song; RASEN, his singing voice, bad again. And the melody is boring. Its nothing special. its not even a cool melody. its to simple. they could write such more cooler song. Its not LI'VERT best release. Mukuro really failed on "real" singing. I guess he really did not had his day?! But the quality of the melody is very good. Your really can hear that the band knows what they are doing. And that makes it able to listen even if the vocal sounds so horrible. You still can headbang and Heavy dance very good on this album. Hopefully Mukuro improves is vocal skills at their next release. Because then this band really would make amazing music. And hopefully their next songs will be much more HEAVY. not so much calm songs. LI'VERT still stays a band for more GRUNTING and more brutal melody. Still fun to see a bit of different side of LI'VERT but it was simply to soon to go on "only singing" for their new songs. since Mukuro really should improve in singing first. But I'm very curious to their next work. and hopefully they will come with more HEAVY shit. RATING: Free to listen "HERE" 1 Elazmus reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Elazmus 1873 Posted January 23, 2015 Honestly I thought all of the new tracks had cool atmosphere and promising instrumental. I've always liked how Mukuro doesn't "hide" behind growling all the time and is always willing to be dark-melodic and not just typical heavy even knowing how weak his clean singing is. I personally really enjoyed the D.I.S/Fears single as an example of this, but the fact that these new tracks are 90% clean singing only is just pushing it too far. I am truly pulling for him developing a stronger singing voice, but based on this, he is clearly NOT there yet. So why he decided to cut off his stronger leg and stumble through a hyped release on his clean-singing string bean I cannot begin to understand... I kind of got the feeling that LI'VERT was picking up a niche fanbase, which IMO they are deserving of. They remind me of UnsraW, and since we are probably all going to die before we ever get to hear what ERIZA sounds like, LI'VERTs presence is very welcome. They just need to give people more of what was clearly their selling point, which (like UnsraW) lies in staying more towards the truly heavy songs... 1 Shir0 reacted to this Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blackdoll 907 Posted January 24, 2015 he can sing just fine, he is just shitt here Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrenGun 2261 Posted January 24, 2015 ^ thats not really a proof. We need to hear is clean singing LIVE voice Hopefully their will be a one man live DVD. with these new songs. so that we can hear it better. But this recording of his clean singing voice is shit made or he had bad day. So I keep my fingers crossed for a clean sining live voice video! Well lets see what their next release will be. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blackdoll 907 Posted January 24, 2015 ^ thats not really a proof. We need to hear is clean singing LIVE voice Hopefully their will be a one man live DVD. with these new songs. so that we can hear it better. But this recording of his clean singing voice is shit made or he had bad day. So I keep my fingers crossed for a clean sining live voice video! Well lets see what their next release will be. are you going to go see them live? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BrenGun 2261 Posted January 24, 2015 Hopefully yes. if they will have a gig while im in japan i will go for sure. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
blackdoll 907 Posted January 29, 2015 Hopefully yes. if they will have a gig while im in japan i will go for sure. oh ok then. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
