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Album Rating: 2.0
"And making broadly dismissive statements about different parts of the band's style without explaining WHAT is wrong with it doesn't count. "
how much more explaining exactly would have satisfied you? The detuned guitars, the chugged riffs, the atmospheric sections, the singer's attempts at harsh vocals, the gothic metal general aesthetic, the way all the instruments are mixed, their ballads; all of these are very much done the exact same way Dir En Grey have been doing things since Kisou-era. and what's WRONG with that is that it doesn't make for anything particularly engaging, it doesn't make for anything interesting or new, cause I've already heard this thing done better by other bands several times before.
"All I've gotten from this review and a lot of the is the same broad comparison to Dir En Grey and its genericness (very descriptive). "
I think you'll find it's very fucking hard to be particularly descriptive about generic music without repeating yourself and what others have said before.
"By the way, the bands to accuse them of appropriating the most over their career would be western artists, particularly Mudvayne and Slipknot; I feel like if they dropped the VK style we'd never hear that DEG comparison again lol."
well, you know, it's just that Dir En Grey aren't really considered Visual-Kei anymore either................................................................................................. so hey!
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Such a brutal putdown God damn.
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"I've poked the bear enough to see that most of the perspectives here match that kind of monochrome heaven perspective where nothings as good as it was in the old days and everything new is called derivative and dismissed."
... but the year that I rated the most albums released in is 2015, so you're just being ignorant now. You'll also notice, in only one click away this time, that one of my all time favourite bands is a post-2000 neo visual-kei band.
"That attitude is what killed rock and metal in the west, and that's what people are trying to prevent from happening in the east to allow their music to continue to innovate and evolve.
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rock and metal are still very much alive in the west, obviously now though since it's harder to see where to progress with it, it's not as fresh sounding as it was back then, but there are still plenty of bands pushing the envelope. and bands like The GazettE are sure as fuck not the ones doing it in the east.
"Not being passive aggressive, just fundamentally disagreeing with you. "
but you don't even seem to understand what my stance on anything you've tried to fundamentally disagree with me on even is?
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"but you don't even seem to understand what my stance on anything you've tried to fundamentally disagree with me on even is?"
Help me understand that statement Jas, lol.
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well he keeps trying to say he "disagrees" with me, but then keeps saying things about my taste that aren't true so I don't know what he thinks I think
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Now that makes more sense.
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The fact that nearly every song except Ominous sounds almost like the same exact song to my ears isn't what angers me most about this album. It's the fact that Metal Injection "praised" it as being "Japan's answer to bands like Katatonia and Porcupine Tree".
And as a huge fan of both those two bands, I feel very insulted cause...really? Comparing PT/Katatonia with the GazettE? Come on now, LOL!
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"It's the fact that Metal Injection "praised" it as being "Japan's answer to bands like Katatonia and Porcupine Tree"."
I just gagged a little bit, wow.
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Did they? Wtf. I like this for a few reasons, but comparing it to those two is so inappropriate.
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"Did they? Wtf. I like this for a few reasons, but comparing it to those two is so inappropriate."
Sadly true and it's right here: http://www.metalinjection.net/av/the-gazettes-new-song-is-japans-answer-to-bands-like-katatonia
More power to those who like this album and the band's later efforts, but personally I felt their strongest albums were NIL through DIM and while I liked Division and thought Toxic wasn't as bad as most seem to think (I jam to The Suicide Circus more than I want to admit), it's been mostly been average or a complete miss for me with the GazettE after those albums.
I liked the heavier direction on Dogma on paper...but with the exception of Ominous which I think is a great song, everything except Deux and the title track for me go in one ear and out the other. That being said, I thought the Undying single was what I wished Dogma had more of, but that's just me.
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Well, they only talked about "Ominous" which isn't like most of the album, but still a stretch.
Indeed, the post-Dogma singles have been really great and could've replaced some tracks here.
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I just gagged a little bit, wow. [2]
*uncontrollably gagging
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Yeah, the first time I saw that Metal Injection article, it triggered my berserk button like crazy. I may not be the most objective listener, but I don't hear ANY similarities to Porcupine Tree or Katatonia at all.
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lol that article is what led me to The Gazette in the first place. definitely not an accurate comparison but that's to be expected from MetalInjection.
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I'm wrong....there is one thing that the GazettE have in common w/Katatonia (Porcupine Tree too to some extent) and that's darkness, lol.
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This review was hilarious. This obvious DEG fanboy thinks everyone is ripping them off. First of all DEG hasn't had a good album since Withering to Death and Marrow of a Bone era , all their work after that is just the typical generic trash metal sound with some decent songs here and there, , that is present in the western music scene.
The GazettE has a very interesting unique sound, I always say they are what DEG could of been like if they didn't sell out and start playing trash metal music. The GazettE has had a very great career their top 3 albums being NIL, Stacked Rubbish, and DIM, since then they have been putting out good material, the singles being much better than their albums. After Division their work has started to slump because they're going down this heavy metal trashy sound that everyone is following.
This reviewer is a clown though, you can't say the GazettE is a rip off of DEG when they're 100x better musically, discographically, and live.
If you like DEG's heavy trash music they've been putting out recently you're one of those disturbed self-hating troubled kids that likes listening to garbage like slayer. LOL
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Fuck me, another one of these? What is it with J-rock and super passive aggressive fanatics?
Anyway, I'd better tackle this the same way I always do with these big walls of text.
"This review was hilarious."
cheers
"This obvious DEG fanboy thinks everyone is ripping them off. "
gonna need some evidence that suggests that that's the case my man. Also this band very clearly relies on the kind of sound that Dir En Grey were absolutely key in establishing in the mainstream, they borrow very heavily from it.
"First of all DEG hasn't had a good album since Withering to Death and Marrow of a Bone era , all their work after that is just the typical generic trash metal sound with some decent songs here and there, , that is present in the western music scene."
that first statement is your opinion, and most people would disagree with you there. If anything their stuff before Uroboros was "generic trash metal" and was incredibly western sounding.
"The GazettE has a very interesting unique sound, I always say they are what DEG could of been like if they didn't sell out and start playing trash metal music."
Kinda hard to agree with you on that one considering, as I heavily emphasised, they sound very similar to DeG. I really don't see how DeG weren't always a metal band (Tsumi to Batsu, Schwein no Isu, etc.), nor do I see how developing more in that direction constitutes as selling out, considering The GazettE are also, get this, a metal band.
"The GazettE has had a very great career their top 3 albums being NIL, Stacked Rubbish, and DIM"
Stacked Rubbish is shit, but I agree those other two were good.
"since then they have been putting out good material"
disagree, as many people do
" the singles being much better than their albums."
wouldn't exactly make that my campaign slogan
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"After Division their work has started to slump because they're going down this heavy metal trashy sound that everyone is following."
so then how unique is their sound really?
"This reviewer is a clown though, you can't say the GazettE is a rip off of DEG when they're 100x better musically, discographically, and live."
but they demonstrably are not. DeG are far better at composing their music, miles better at building atmosphere and considering Kyo (was) one of the most remarkable vocalists in the fucking world and the history of metal music, that's a very difficult statement to take seriously.
"If you like DEG's heavy trash music they've been putting out recently you're one of those disturbed self-hating troubled kids that likes listening to garbage like slayer. LOL"
I don't have a single Slayer album rated and I'm comfortable enough with myself and maintain healthy and stable relationships with other people.
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Band lose seven and a half points for not just calling themselves Newspaper.
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*NewspapeR
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