When a band doesn’t change, the number of people saying they’ve stopped evolving and become boring is usually no smaller than those who complain about change 
Bands like Kizu or the GazettE, who focus heavily on lyrics and melodies, tend to have a lot of fans who are open to experimentation and love it, and their popularity doesn’t really suffer.
But DEXCORE have much less room to move. I think it would be hard for them to step away from their usual sound without losing a large part of their audience.
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Wow, a Jane take that i vibe with.
More to what Zeus was saying though, and to continue on my previous thought, i feel like this kind of homogeneous sound that Metalcore artists are striving for right now is exceptionally boring. Theres not a lot of risk in selecting guitar tones or drum hits in that regard because its all just preset use. The lynch. album works because these are old songs that needed the facelift, the DEXCORE album fails because it says the same thing 14 different ways, ballads not excepting. I’ve said this about this type of production before: its great for legacy songs. Works for Sadie. Worked for lynch., and currently working for Kizu. However, DEXCORE’s mixing on the album is the definition of “The Great Sound Wall of Japan”. Its too loud.
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100%, always gonna have people not happy its not the same and people that are not happy because its not different.
I like to think many people here listen to a lot of different styles of music and you listen to what suits the mood. So essentially, if youre in the mood for something loud and brutal, then Dexcore is a decent shout, except for one album you now have the choice of two. Its really not that deep. Dunno why VK fans are so ridiculously critical about the bands they supposedly like. Haha.
“Hey man, i loved their first album it was great, super heavy and killer riffs. Dont like the second album though because it’s still super heavy and killer riffs, just different ones” ffs, i give up. 
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At the end of the day it’s about all the different variations on how to do the UGHHH… FUCK!!! breakdown after it’s been played out by hundreds of bands the world over for the past two decades.
The difference between the previous album and this is rather minute, some poppier sensibility in parts perhaps and a handful of new musician’s tricks. The difference between this and the stuff from the 2010s I’d say is as substantial as you’re going to get from the same band playing in a style without large variation to begin with (when compared to visual kei which is extraordinarily varied for something that’s metal adjacent). Lineup changes and almost a decade of music making will naturally do that when you’ve got people with different abilities coming in and out regardless of who is the songwriter.
My rating is a few tracks go off in the gym out of ten
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