If you want to try and listen for samples, my first suggestion is listen to parts where the same drum is hit multiple times in a row, like snare rolls - if you listen to a lot of their recent live output especially, if you listen closely to Shinya’s snare rolls you may notice that there’s an inhuman consistency, like it’s the exact same hit every time. And not only that but it’s the same powerful hit every time.
This is usually the first giveaway for me
Had the chance to watch the blu-ray yesterday. Remember when I said:
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Well, this concert is just absolute fucking chaos.
It’s shot with shaky hand-held cameras. While the quality isn’t the best, the fact that it’s ripped from VHS only adds to the madness, with analogue noise and tape distortion patterns all over. Very punk, very of the moment, pregnant with vitality.
They only play a selection of the heaviest songs from the time. No ballads or pop songs to be found. Only the most intense, crushing tracks. And yes, get your pitchforks out: they did play both -I’ll- and GARDEN but refused to include either of them here. If that’s not a statement on how they feel about this era, I don’t know what is.
Sangeki no Yoru
-I’ll-
304-goushitsu, Hakushi no Sakura
Ash
Unknown…Despair…a Lost
JEALOUS
GARDEN
And here are the full details courtesy of setlist.fm.
What a brutal show.
蒼い月 (Aoi Tsuki) closes the main set (last song before Encore 1) and is a whopping 16:30 in length. However, at a monstrous 21 minutes and 54 seconds, Encore 2’s 残-ZAN- takes the cake. These absurd extensions are not only a sick joke, it must have been both physically and mentally punishing to be in the same room. People were passing out from the sweaty mass of far too many bodies in far too small a venue, being pulled out from the crowd in various states of comatose. The crush alone looked intense, not to mention the effect this sort of music has on a person’s brain (and ears; presumably the volume was excruciating).
Both tracks are so unbearably dragged out that they begin to resemble Post-Metal tessellated sound sculptures in the vein of Godflesh or Swans.The repeated ostinato sections become abstract, hypnotic, trance-like, creating spaces where time no longer has any meaning. They seethe with unresolved potential, resting somewhere between the will-they-won’t-they of ending abruptly and continuing forever into infinity. Schrödinger’s box in audio form.
Why the heck they chose to do this rather than play 4-5 songs more is anyone’s guess. I wonder how many of the audience members were disappointed at the band trolling them in this way.
Only gripe with the video portion of this release is that it doesn’t include the actual music videos. Neither the originals nor the 2024 versions. I’m sure the new ones will be on an upcoming AVERAGE ASSHOLE release. Still, an odd exclusion. Would’ve been nice to see the originals in HD if only for completion’s sake.
The Making Of… footage isn’t too long. What it does show is raw footage of Shinya actually playing the drums, and it sounds pretty decent. We don’t hear the triggered samples as this footage is recorded live in the studio room. Still not sure why they did that.
If it wasn’t clear from my flowery language, to say I’m pleased with this blu-ray is a huge understatement. Really great stuff.
And that’s not even half the time of the longest performance of -ZAN- ever^^
Which show(s) did they play that at? Do we have a decent recording?
I dont think i could be arsed to watch it even if it was posted here. 40mins of one riff? Why? Haha. Totally agree with your review of the video on every point basically, mystifys me why they drag these couple of songs out so long when they could be actually playing a handful more tunes. But the fact this is probably one of the most mental live recordings ive seen kinda makes up for that. Hell, even GG Allin and those guys who bust through the wall in a Bulldozer dont have quite this same energy!
I don’t think so. The longest they played it was 42 minutes, but even the longest version that I have - aside from the newest release - is only 19:48 long.
I would be so pissed if i went to see a band and the whole set was a 42 minute version of one song. Sheesh.
I hope one day they remake STU with an length of 42 minutes and make it the whole set
That’d probably destroy a large portion of their fanbase. 
Personally i dont mind the song, not a favourite either but dont hate it like a lot of people seem to so can you imagine the emotions when the 42min extended version comes out? Isnt even anything new just one portion of the song repeated for about 38 minites… haha. Class.
I just want to see everything burn
more like 40 minutes of suffocated breathing noises going into kyopera back to back set to distorted industrial noise backdrop and a 2 minutes long song remake wrapping it up
15 minutes is just the synth and guitar intro hits. A further 20 is Kyo struggling to hit the notes on ‘ikitsuita’ and the falsetto ‘oooooooo’ over and over and over again. At least 3 minutes is just Toshiya playing his verse-2 slap part while everybody else takes a quick break backstage
I’m fine with 42 minutes hageshisa too
even better, hour long mash-up with both songs
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