Agreed. As much as I do like the melodic parts of their first two albums, they shined to me when they were effectively a Slam band.
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Melody? In DEVILOOF? Wrong band for that. I want chaos and anger and disgusting vocals.
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To be fair Devils proof had small melodies that weren’t bad but this was also when the previous guitarist was around. However I agree
Deviloof = Brutal chaos and anger
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borderline “clown-kei with gutturals” band drops a PV that has less AI and better production than deg these days, what’s going on…
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Between the severely gated guitars and the keyboard clicky drums, I’m hard pressed to believe any of this music was played by human hands on actual instruments.
Nah.
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They played this song live…
when?
FC live I am pretty sure. I know my friend who is a bangya goes and sees this band live frequently and she told me they played the song back even when it was in the demo stage. I know they played it recently with a quite a few songs, since she went to support the bando
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I’m sure they have and will continue to do so. That doesn’t change the way this studio version sounds.
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I think the studio version blasted my expectations out of the water. Yeah though they will 100% play it even more now
Thanks for your reply, interesting to read what everyone thinks! For me who is kind of into the genre in the west as well (not trying to sound proud or cringe), I find Deviloof’s recent output extremely generic. I actually used to go some of their lives when they released the goujin-torture song and felt fresh, how fast they went on with the chaos, the tempo, it felt refresing. But after that I only think they have released one good song for… 6 (?) years, and that is The pandora’s box song, that one is badass. But evertyhing else and especially these recent singles are just sooo generic. I am again not trying to sound like an expert but do you follow the scene in the west? Of course the US, and much scandinavia like Sweden and stuff - they release the exact same type of music but better and even more brutal. Its these that Deviloof originally copied and keep copying, and sadly I think they aren’t able to find their own sound at all (they also lost their guy who wrote the “hit songs”? Right?) Really search for a list on spotify with the recent deathcore and you will be surprised that its deviloof, but its them that deviloof copy, and they are MUCH better and much more brootal. I hate to say that Deviloof’s recent songs are extreeeemely generic. And my hunch (this is taboo to write I know), is that people give Deviloof some extra points because they are japanese which is extra “cool”, and they have “cool” pvs… but man sorry the music for the genre, is as generic as it can be.
I am sorry if I stepped on someone’s toes, and trust me that I want to love Deviloof. I want to go to their concerts again!
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I think the vocal work is brilliant. Really cool stuff. The female wailing not so much; it just adds nothing, in my opinion.
dude needs to retire lol (it hasn’t been a long time, he’s been doing at least dir en greys music videos all this time)
Even in the west deathcore/metalcore has gotten pretty played out.
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idk, it’s at the biggest it’s been in years. The scene is very diverse rn
Heavy music is my favorite kind and most metalcore/deathcore I hear makes me think “wow this sounds just like 10,000 other bands who’ve done it better”. A lot of the song writing elements got tired to me a long time ago, if they were ever even good in the first place. I think most of the bands don’t do enough to stand out. I wish more bands would take from deathcore without being deathcore.
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recent interview 
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i got a 404 
Well asano used to be in a hardcore punk band so I’m sure this “just screaming without any melody” is his jam, I don’t particularly like this song but I doubt deviloof can hire this level of celebrity if asano not interested in the project
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