Not to mention almost every time DEG re-records the singles, and not for the better. To this day I still don’t know why they did what they did to the album versions of Clever Sleazoid and Hageshisa
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DSS Version of Hageshisato is an atrocity. It has that horrible bathtub sound where someone removed all mids from the recording
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I am very excited to hear the entire album, but I’m perhaps most excited to hear what choice they will make that results in an objectively worse TDIM. The boys are really gonna have to put their thinking caps on.
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They just need to bring Tue Madsen again and let him repeat STU downgrade
Linkin Park’s last album was a dud for me because half the songs were released as singles beforehand. I’m fine with Dir En Grey releasing one single and letting us speculate on the rest of the album’s sound…excluding any nonsensical and unhelpful speculation about new songs based on live reports.
Also, there’s a good chance one of the new songs premieres on radio. I know PHALARIS dropped during COVID so i cant recall if that happened then. But that’s been a standard for most of DEG’s rollouts no?
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Perfume of Sins debuted on radio and then it got an MV
I’d completely forgotten what TDIM sounded like (I also forgot the music video came out almost 2 years ago) so I went to listen to it again last week… I’ve now forgotten it again. So clearly it didn’t make too much of an impact on me 
I hope the album has a few earworms!
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I think that TDIM is just ok while my girlfriend says that it is one of the better diru songs she has heard so far. She loves the chorus as it (in her own words) is super catchy and melodic. She says the same about sustain the untruth btw 
Clever Sleazoid album version sounds better than single
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the only album version that completely bums me out is ryoujyoku no ame. they really bungled that one
There’s no way that the vocals on the album version are better than the single’s ones 
Clever Sleazoid album version was u can try listen it again, sounds better and vocal is better too
I don’t agree.
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Damn can you guys its out in like 1 week. Feels unreal. I don’t feel the hype train yet but it will be amazing for sure.
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Sorry for another one but a sudden PV drop now of an awesome song would really get the hype train going. Do you guys think they would do such a thing?
Tbf, I don’t feel that hype for their albums until I either hear teasers or some good promo song.
With Arche I got hyped by the trailer that included Soshaku chorus.
With TIW - Values of Madness radio version
With Phalaris - Perfume of Sins & Eddie 30 sec teaser on Qobuz.
So, with them not dropping any teasers yet (and I don’t see them uploading teasers on Insta like they did for Phalaris since it’s less than 14 days till release) - I dunno what should I be hyped about. TDIM was TMID, and that’s it.
Speaking about PV tho… well, last time Perfume of Sins premiered on radio 12 days before the release. PVs teaser was released 5 days before the release and the PV itself dropped a day before Phalaris. So yeah, there’s still a chance.
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Am I alone in not wanting any previews? Their Promotional Version videos are just awkwardly shortened versions of the full song that are not satisfying to listen to. Even the Oboro PV was truncated. I want to listen to the whole song the first time through.
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With how little time has left till release - yeah, it’s very doable just to wait till MD drops. Teasers wouldn’t do much now
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It’s the same for me.
It’s rare for me to even check out teasers, if available. And usually just those that aren’t really short.
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