They said that if they create new songs, they will try to bring something new. Instead of just continue what they already did. We will see. But the mindset is already good
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I didnât hate MonsterâI actually preferred it to REDEEEMERâBut if I think about the songs I remember, itâs really only Human-clad Monster and Death Point.
As much as I love Coll: set, MIRROR is my favorite Dâespa album.
Dâespairsray had real staying power, but it was because of coll:set and Mirrors, imo. ((Then for the real ones thereâs songs like âtatoebaâ kimi⌠ga⌠shinda⌠ra ))
I had this wet and wild fantasy as I was listening to them last night that they announced their come back with tatoeba as the first track on their next album⌠A boy can dream ;^;
Interesting theory. I really need to give NUL a good hard, intentional listen.
I wonder, if Hizumiâs voice condition means he canât do that as much as heâd been doing in the past without meaning he canât do at all.
Regarding future songs I donât expect much of the old stuff (but I werenât sad, if they surprised us). Considering Luv PARADEâs music that sounds way more like late Despa than early Despa in my opinon. Which I donât mind. My favorite album is Mirror but I also loved Redeemer and Monsters (needless to mention Coll:set of course).
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Crossing my fingers for a new song debut at Cross Road
They need to reheat their old nachosâŚDEZERT made a career off of it so they need to go back to redeemer era puss but a little heavier
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If you mean that Dezert does heavy stuff every now and then and incorporates their nu-metal elements in songs frequently â thatâs a very smart decision by them or their label. The thing that plenty of bands forget about â just because you succeeded in the heavy music, it doesnât mean that you will be as successful in the pop-rock / light stuff. Because the âlightâ music not only over saturated, but also because there far more competent writers and singers (voice control, range, etc) there. And if you go full light mode, you will lose all your heavy core audience while risking not obtaining the lighter one.
So yep, from that perspective Dezert does a good job retaining the old audience, because thereâre still Dezert elements so many people came to like
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Someone on reddit posted this live journal entry from September 2011. Reads like a prophecy:
A conflict with the management and no rights over their music and their own name, which belong to the label, thus no royalties whatsoever from CD/DVD sales etc. Being paid months later or not at all like in the case of their share from goods sales at Yokohama Blitz final (at least that was the situation when I heard about it back in June, 6 months after the live). They were left with no income while the label cashed in from sales of Yokohama final DVD and another forced âBest ofâ album.
Asiaâs showbiz, be it Korean or Japanese, is notorious for slavery contracts, exploitation of the artists and almost nonexistent royalties. Unfortunately DâespairsRay is a tragic example of a band worked to death and, when they no longer could or wanted to continue, they were discarded. Itâs been two and a half months, but I still feel the same rage over what was done to them and I donât think it will ever change. A part of me is also resentful of DâespairsRay for being so stupid, naĂŻve or just so very desperate to make music that they got themselves into this mess and their only way out was the breakup, that they let some scum in business suits use me, their fan.
I do have hope that they will be back. Be it under a different name, with different songs and after who knows how many side projects, I donât care. It will still be the four of them together.
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I mean i understand that but at the same time in my opinion no other Dâespairsray album will hit like Coll:set does. Its one of the critical best albums in loud keiâs history in my opinion.
MONSTERS they did a small experiment with and in my opinion that succeeded. We still have some somber moments of the album while showing the rock side of Dâespairsrays with some of the songs on that album remind me of: Ark in the storm or Going on! etc..
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Damn, I was a huge fan and had no idea they went through that. Sucks they had to end things not even on their own terms. Super excited they can finally do things their way this time. With projects like LUV PARADE, etc. itâs clear they always wanted to.
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Should clarifyâDEZERT literally ripped off old DâespairsRay songs and then made a career out of softening that numetal/metalcore aggression. Iâd like to see DâespairsRay tap into their older sounds and bring them back, just because so many bands in the current scene are indebted to that sound
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As much as I would love it, I donât think this will ever happen 
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I just think of a possible nightmare : ryo trackmaker gonna mix new Dâespairsray. They would sound exactly like lynch., the thirteen etc.
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screams and itll be on my birthday, plus Zero rocking those sexy ass braids (remember drooling over that) and Tsukasa looking 20 years younger with his hair like that 
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And despa ripped off Western bands. Whatâs your point? VK is a copycat genre.
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They have shared their new merch store (over bitfan): Link
Link to Tweet: https://x.com/despairsrayinfo/status/1969373223579230456#m
The items are for pre-order and will be shipped on Oct 27. Although I have no idea whether they ship overseas, the tweet says youâll get a free postcard if you spend more than 5000 Yen.
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Iâll be in Tokyo on 11/15 and I would go to this but Iâll be seeing Kaijin Nijuu Mensou that night. Would have liked to see Shazna as well.
Like Dir en Grey and Kuroyume? Which songs?
You can get the items through CD Japan proxy shipping.
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Good to know for the future, but the pre-order period is over now.