I’d love to hear Rinkaku live
Ahh I love filth! I was a big fan for a few years around 2006/7 ish but then kinda lost interest though I’ve gotten back into them the last couple of months! Seems a lot of people have fallen out of love with them and have the same sentiment as you! I’m curious as to why it is?
I’m not sure what the general fanbase opinion on them is at the moment… I find their recent music really forgettable, which is my biggest problem.
some of it is still good, most of it is not (insulated world is a horrible album), and I don’t care for the live aspect because Kyo saves the better looks and live ideas for sukekiyo now, which makes Deg appear quite lifeless in comparison.
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Same here. I can recall every song from every DEG album and EP, but I haven’t even listened to Insulated World yet because… yeah. Haven’t even listened to the singles that came out after it either. Something about the mixing was a huge turnoff to me.
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Has anyone bought the Galacaa interview ebook? https://twitter.com/DIRENGREY_JP/status/1440255044700426243?s=19
Yep. Together with those Ranunculus tabs.
Probably the most basic stuff they have released in a few years.
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For me, Dum Spiro Spero was their last great album. Not my fav, but I think they still did some interesting things on it and it had a strong identity. Arche was pretty good, they lost me at The Insulated World.
I think in general they’ve grown comfortable with their last huge sonic evolution (Uroboros and onwards). “The World of Mercy” is proof of that as it’s basically a worse rehash of diabolos. They’ve gone back 2 albums even after pushing their sound to what The Insulated World is (which I find to be unique even within their large discography).
Even listening to Oboro, I think the main issue for me that highlights this is the drumming. Listen to Inconvenient Ideal and then Oboro and tell me it’s not a similar, if not same, cadence. The man’s been using the same bag of tricks for 13 years now.
I’d say it’s about time they evolve their sound again.
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I’m not surprised they didn’t save the tabs for a TIW band score. Ranunculus is probably it’s only song worth learning to play.
Are they printed in Japanese only? If so, does the text support browser translation?
Well, they also didn’t release any tabs for Arche, except for Un Deux?
It is in Japanese. And no. Basically, whole book is a bunch of .img files, so you can’t translate the text.
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Thanks for the info! You’re correct, the last two albums haven’t had complete band scores. They’re likely to release them both sometime, possibly through Galacaa and hopefully with all the previous album scores.
I remember when DSS came out, several people here claimed Diabolos was a “rehash” of Vinushka when those songs are very very different.
With Diabolos and World of Mercy, there’s a better case to be made there, I’m just not sure I’d go as far as to call it a “rehash” without digging into the form of each song and seeing how they’re mapped out. For example: the main “heavy” riff in Diabolos and World of Mercy harmonically are doing the same thing and the phrases are the same length (8 beats). How they get to those parts and what happens after is rather different between the 2 I believe.
Oboro and Inconvenient Ideal don’t really share any similarities other than rhythm. This is something I’ve highlighted in the past, Dir en grey love using triplet rhythms to near exhaustion and they frequently pop up in their slower songs. Hell, it’s even featured prominently throughout Vinushka.
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It’s definitely not a 1 to 1 comparison. I think Diabolos is much more intricate and layered. I was speaking very broadly though. You bring up a good point and maybe rehash wasn’t the right word. Watered down perhaps?
Yeah, they’re very different songs. I was speaking to just the drums and the rhythm here. Like you pointed out, Shinya likes using that same cadence a lot.
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I thought that Zetsuentai was a worse contender for rehash. At least, TWOM didn’t had second heavy section.
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Zetsuentai definitely sounds like they were chasing Vinushka again. Diabolos at least takes a few more interesting turns, the problem is that Shinya doesn’t come up with anything interesting for fast heavy parts, so it all ends up sounding the same.
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Diabolos stands on its own merits IMO, but I kind of prefer the five-minute long demo version; the album version does a good enough job justifying its length I guess, but on some level it does feel like they were artificially trying to force the song into being an “epic.”
Zetsuentai, on the other hand, is a much worse offender and I almost always skip it when I’m in the rare mood for TIW. To me, it feels very much like they’re trying to say “hey guys we still make layered, winding songs!” but it doesn’t go anywhere interesting. I would agree that I’d like to hear them change up their sound again at this point in their career and inject some real life into their material. I’m not holding out hope that they’ll do anything too radical, though - mostly I’m just hoping for a fun album with decent production (which, lol probably not, but the bonus tracks on TIW sounded miles better than the album proper so they could if they really felt like it.)
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I hear complaints about how The Insulated World sounds and I don’t hear it, literally. I was passed an altered copy of the album by someone on Monochrome Heaven a while back that cut the high frequencies by 1-2khz and boosted the low frequencies by the same amount, and that really did a lot to change my impression of the album. Who knows, maybe it will change yours as well?
I am very curious to hear this copy.
But dunno. TIW’s mastering (well, also NWK and VoS’) felt refreshing after Tue Madsen’s dull&dry guitars and those annoying cymbals/hi-hats.
Insulated world would propably be my favourite album if it didnt sound so terrible, its unbearable for me to listen to despite loving them live. I do like the recording of the world of mercy and oboru though
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I’d love to hear how this sounds. I thought there wasn’t ENOUGH high end, at least in the guitars, and that the low end sounded very murky, so cutting the highs and boosting the lows seems to be maybe not the best thing? But I’m curious.
Also, do you mean by 1-2 dB? Since kHz would be the actual frequency itself, rather than being an amount of boost/cut. Or do you mean they made a cut in the 1-2 kHz range?
I was looking for the notes the person sent me but I couldn’t find it. 1-2 db sounds right