just watched the video, to me it’s easily the best thing they’ve done since Newspeak.
i think their appeal depends entirely on them being right on the absolute frontier of the scene - it makes any other band contend with “if we’re not as heavy as Deviloof what are we instead?”
so now all the br00tal kei bands that are chasing max heavy have a clearer sound and identity; heavy for heavy’s sake isn’t a viable path when the edge has been explored further.
I’d say Deviloof fell off this role of challenging if not taunting the rest of the scene since Dystopia dropped. i don’t know exactly what, other than the visuals, make me feel like they’re back now, but this song felt a lot more awake and purposefully changing with clear tension + payoff like they had back in their first two albums, but with the uncompromising all-harsh-vox of their third and on.
it feels like a challenge again, they feel like they’ll be relevant again, and even tho this isn’t really the side of vkei i seek out & i probably won’t listen to this record much, i think the scene improves as a whole from its existence.
do they really not see the glaring diffrence in quality?