Tsukasa looks like he is in a diffrent band 
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At this point Iām just excited for any new music. It wonāt be the same, but itāll be something new.
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I didnāt expect a full-on VK look, love that they added more edge than hizumiās other band/luv parade does these days. maybe the new song will be relatively heavy too.
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Seems like there is some problem with the song distibution, albums show up missing half of the tracks (except on spotify and yt music, but they were already available there before today)
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This new look is some heat.
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HIZUMIās look is awesome.
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I was reading their latest Interview and this comment of Tsukasa caught my attention. Surely he Is talking about the earlier mentioned story here of how they were slaves of their last label
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These are so awesome news!
I will try to catch them at Cross Road Fest but as my flight back home is going at the same day I hope they will play as early as possible.. 
But Iām pretty sure that we will see them in Europe again. Karyus communication in the last year was always adressed to international fans, too and I think he has a great attachment to us overseas. If it will be possible from the point of money I bet they will do a comeback here, too!
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Iām really curious what any new music is going to sound like, especially considering Hizumi canāt do those harsh vocals anymoreā¦ but this edgier look seems to vary greatly from their last few releases, making me think theyāre going down a heavier path.
I wasnāt aware of their issues with the previous label, but it sounds like it had something to do with the hiatus and the direction in sound? (I was always under the impression it was because of Hizumiās health issues)
Definitely sensing a āhere to stayā feeling from all this.
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This! If the issue with the label was so rough and they really got the rights to everything back now, they surely want to start over and do what they want with their Band.
Still makes me angry to think about. They are the artists who created everything and were beloved by the fans ā¦
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Actually he can, just look at Nul Latest stuff. Even during Nul first album in the song Xstream in 2018. The thing is that seems his throat issues werenāt that big of a deal. Not that didnāt happens, but he mostly likely used to cover the whole label stuff with a reasonable reason to disband.
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Thereās a small piece of me from 20 years ago thatās excited about this, and then thereās the me from 15 years ago that remembers āMONSTERSā.
No matter what comes of this tho, itās still nice to see!
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What is so bad about Monsters? I really canāt understand it.
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Itās not coll:set
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Monsters was ok and probably should have been an EP. But I still listen to Human-Clad monster regularly because imo that is one of their most underrated bangers, the rest of the album to me was alright but couldnāt hold the momentum from that song.
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Me neither. I love Monsters and it even has one of my all time favorite songs: Devilās Parade
But for me Despa doesnāt have any songs I need to skip on any album. So maybe I am a bit biased because they arethe closest I can get to a āfavorite bandā.
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I still like to listen to Love is Dead and have a chuckle at how itās basically āyou spin me right roundā
But I get it. I got into the band right before they released Monster and antique, and I was kinda surprised it wasnāt as stellar as their earlier work.
Dāespairsray had real staying power, but it was because of coll:set and Mirrors, imo. ((Then for the real ones thereās songs like ātatoebaā kimiā¦ gaā¦ shindaā¦ ra ))
Given that NUL. had a recent single é»ę basically sounded like old Hizumi vocalsā¦ I think they can still surprise us.
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Aye mang, if you enjoy MONSTERS, then thatās perfectly cool! Fuck what errbody else thinks! Like what you like unapologetically!
As for me personally, ācoll:setā was their only album out at the time that I came across them in 05. I was just dipping my toes into VK around that time, too, so thatās the era of Despa that I became most invested in.
MIRRORS was ok for me, and I actually liked REDEEMER quite a bit. But by the time MONSTERS came out, I was already far into exploring other things musically.
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I feel like monsters was a very safe note for them to end on. It was like Redeemer but less conceptual and smoothed out sonically with more electronic influence. I do think itās their weakest work to date, but I really like songs like āabyssā, āhuman-clad monsterā, ādevilās paradeā and ā13 -thirteen-ā.
With their comeback, if the band ditches the electronic fad that was rampant during the MONSTERS period I actually think continuing on from this point wouldnāt be a bad thing. Given their age I wouldnāt expect them to write anything as hard as pre-Mirror and the music on Monsters feels approriate for a band of their ripeness. But I do hope they bring back some of the bite they used to have.
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