it’s already in my iTunes like this; now i’m just waiting patiently…
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I hope cdjapan sends mine soon, but it will be stuck forever in customs so whatever
My 19990121 took two months to arrive
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I think the bucket hat might have cursed you.
Despite rejecting the bucket hat, they only sent it back to the US last week.
This saga will never end
The band could easily just make their A-sides a digital only release. Put it up on youtube or spotify and call it a day. But I know that’s not how they make money. Gotta sell them physicals and the LE with the DVD.
For me their remakes lost steam after their Dum Spiro Spero era. Hyrda 666, Undecided and Zan remake are probably my favorites for being a good balance of original and new. Dum Spiro Spero remakes were less impressive but the band at least stayed true to the sound they were exploring at the time and it kept things interesting. Now, It feels like these remakes aren’t indicative of what they’re doing musically on their upcoming albums. They’re just revisiting an older era of music and using their current production with some minor tweaks in execution. They feel like one off tracks to sell their singles.
I’m probably in the minority, but I think the 19990120 release could’ve just been an EP of Gauze singles. I know they’re calling back to the original release dates of those 3 singles, but it makes no sense to save the other 2 singles for the Devil in Me single as they’re sonically so different. Yeah, there isn’t a rule for how someone should release a b-side. But it feels like the band is just counting on fan nostalgia for their older material to sell their singles.
I’d rather they spend time working on new material and making it interesting instead of messing with their legacy content. The band has clearly moved on from these sounds since their current work is vastly different (I mean, the whiplash between just Devil in Me and Cage/Yokan is huge). If they’re truly interested in dipping into their old catalog, I’d prefer they use Mucc’s approach of completely re-recording an entire album or two. Or doing a best-of compilation like lynch’s The Buried. Whether the remakes are faithful or new re-imaginings I’m down either way. But these B-side remakes are so sporadic and random and I think overall just dilute their already massive catalog.
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Feel you on that one, I almost never get stuff on the day its released. Haha. Other distributors within Europe I have noticed seem to make a special effort to get your stuff out early so you get it close to, if not on the actual release date. Hell, ordered stuff in the past that has arrived BEFORE the release date. Haha. But guess Japan is much further and within Europe stuff doesnt seem to get held up at customs half as often.
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I agree that it seems a bit like “we need to add some B sides so let’s just do this” while I’d actually preferred new songs for this. To me a re-recorded version of an older song or a live version is a great thing once in a while but not most of the times.
But with the other projects especially Kyo is involved and considering the industry and also fan’s expectations of new releases pretty regularly and by this often I guess they settled on one new song and the rest for a regular single being stuff that might need recording on their own end of the whole production process but that’s it.
It’s just a guess though.
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I hope you are all here for the premiere watch party 
Of what? The PV isn’t even ready yet x)
You keep saying this. Has anyone in the DEG camp stated it’s not done? Doesn’t the single release in three days?
Maybe the song isn’t even finished yet 
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It was mentioned during the latest The Freedom of Expression. Found this snippet online.
Kaoru also explained a bit about the music video for The Devil in Me. The members were filmed in front of a green screen, and the background is a mixture of AI and CG, with director Kondo still hard at work on the full video. Kaoru said he was thinking about showcasing the full video had it been ready, but alas, it isn’t ready yet.
EDIT:
Here’s the link to that snippet
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Agitated Screams of Maggots unplugged and Undecided remake from Glass Skin single have far more whiplash than this does. That kind of drastic differences in sounds on a release has always been a part of all of Kyo’s projects.
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Impossible, since it needs at least a few weeks to be printed to disc and distributed to stores nationally.
Kyo and Shinya posted their copies on Twitter already x)
first ever single with a day 1 patch
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Those are blank CDs. x)
True. What’s jarring for me though isn’t the style of song but the overall direction. ASOM unplugged is still sonically representative of what they were exploring during that time. It’s similar to the way they handled the piano versions of the 3 TMOAB unplugged tracks. They even collaborated with the same painist. And it’s so wildly different that it at least stands as its own thing.
With the recent re-recordings they’re so close to the originals that, for me anyways, I’d rather listen to the originals. It’s not like they’re gonna start writing new tracks that sound like their Gauze or Kisou era compositionally. They’re one offs. And the A-sides are proof that they aren’t changing their sound.
So they’re uninteresting to me because they don’t say a lot about what the band is actually thinking in terms of evolving their sound. It’s more like those examples of people who try to recreate a photo from their chilhood. Usually the retake looks like the original shot but it doesn’t feel like it for various reasons.
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Personally I just don’t see it. Lots of the remakes in the past were similar to originals (The Final, Kasumi, Fukai, etc.) or didn’t fit into the sound of album cycles they’re between (Undecided) and that’s not a bad thing. It’s good that they don’t try to make everything different for the sake of it nor do they just play the same thing with modern recording.
You can probably guess, but I didn’t like The
Unraveling very much. Remakes are just not for me I think.