Album Rating: 5.0

Itoshisha's bassline is sooo good. It's also nice to see someone else agree that Kukoku is something special, has a sense of grand scale compared to their other ballads.

Album Rating: 4.5

Kyo is so good on Utafumi, like insane.



Just a shame there’s not much of a song to back him up.

Album Rating: 5.0

lol yeah, if it gets a proper mix the song would be so gud. Like this live part is insane: https://youtu.be/QR3rjIjUkx8?t=1m58s

Album Rating: 4.5

It’s those kitikitikiti noises he makes in the verse, almost like rapping but so damn unique m/

Album Rating: 4.5

Utafumi is a song that translates much better live IMO...I mean its performances in Mode of DSS and Marrow (the one that Calc shared) proves it and even the live take on the Ningen single was pretty good despite Kyo's voice being shot to the point he couldn't sing most of the last chorus.

Album Rating: 5.0

Who's gonna see them in London? Booked my ticket.

Album Rating: 3.5

Finally listened to the new single, needed to get back into the mood for metal. Been listening to too much of The Weeknd and that Ric Flair Drip song is fucking addicting.



Anyways, new single grows is ok and it grows on you but it sounds like they phoned it in and took them 2 days to make. Better than the first single for sure.

Album Rating: 4.5

Wanna know why Toshiya might be the unexpectedly most valuable member of the band? Besides his technical abilities which are no small feat (that spot in Akuro), just listen to the building part in Kukoku before the final chorus. I can't stress enough how tasteful and genius that little lick at 4:02 (to be exact) is. It just fits. His sense of musicality, in adding to or making the song more interesting, is next to none and rare.

Album Rating: 5.0

Yeah, he's always been the 2nd best member of the band to me.

Album Rating: 4.5

Booking my ticket tomorrow, hopefully it won't sell out before then.

Album Rating: 5.0

If it isn't sold out now I'll doubt it will be sold out by tomorrow. Would be cool if multiple people here are going.

Album Rating: 4.5

I'm travelling like 200 miles to see them haha, dedication m/

Album Rating: 5.0

So apparently Kyo is working with Junji Ito at the moment, they really need to have a full art project together.

Soooo the new singles are kinda lame tbh. I hope they’re better on an album

Album Rating: 4.0

thing is if those singles sound good in the context of the album we've got a fucking problem

Album Rating: 4.5

If the next DEG album were to be a concept album, I’d let it slide but I agree, it’s definitely a problem if it sounds good on album. The only time a single sounded meh but grew on me on album in recent memory was Converge’s I Can Tell You About Pain but The Dusk In Us wasn’t even a concept album either and that album was a quick grower for me last year so...IDK.

If they’re moving even further away from the more experimental stuff I’m going to be sad. I have a suspicion that the band has already peaked before Arche and are going down

Album Rating: 5.0

"I hope they’re better on an album"



More like they need to get a good producer, then the songs would be great.



"If they’re moving even further away from the more experimental stuff I’m going to be sad. I have a suspicion that the band has already peaked before Arche and are going down "



That's exactly what's going to happen/is happening, their career is coming to a close. For the most part, live is where you'll get the most out the band. If you want more experimental stuff I suggest Sukekiyo instead.

Album Rating: 4.5

I haven’t revisited the Sukekiyo stuff recently so my memory of it isn’t good, but I’d second what Calc said about the band as it’s shaping to be a natural progression for where Kyo’s heading when the day comes where DEG finally has its swan album.

“More like they need to get a good producer, then the songs would be great.”

It’s funny how when Tue Madsen (who mixed DSS, The Unravelling, Arche and the remastered and expanded version of Uroboros) is not the mixer on the singles that the band is sonically godawful cause it shows how he pretty much dialed in DEG’s sound to make the production sound awesome. On DSS, he made it sound suffocating and metallic, yet on Arche he brought in a lot of reverb to make it sound massive on the heavy parts but underwater ethereal like during the softer moments. And then he was able to salvage Uroboros’s shoddy production on what was otherwise IMO the band’s magnum opus.

Uroboros is my favorite too, though sometimes I feel like Dum Spiro Spero is tied with it

Those two are definitely the band at their peak though