it’s actually one of my all time favourite songs in general tbh. it’s quite beautiful.
it doesn’t hit as hard as mushi, but AATD video is one of the things they did at their prime that made VK the genre it is today.
I can’t get this picture from around that era out of my head for several months now, and I have no idea why…
I have that poster hanging on my wall so that picture is always in my head
Today’s setlist, the song order of the main set got changed.
Behind a vavant image → Keibetsu
Itoshisa → embryo
Gyakujou → Bottom of the death valley
STUCK MAN → NEWS MAN
These set lists slap.
I hope we get these caliber sets when they (inevitably) come over next year.
Has there been a discussion around the re-recorded vocals featured on most of the live clips found on the Rinkaku DVD?
They’ve been overdubbing / post-editing their live video releases since the Osaka-jo Hall live in 1999.
I thought it was odd how Lotus was left sounding like Kyo’s vocal folds were about to crumble to dust while the other songs got such a facelift.
Definitely unexpected! Anyone know which version he’s singing nowadays?
Guys, someone can explain me what exactly people don’t like about TIW ? I read here and there complaining about mastering etc, but as a non expert or whatever iam not chocked when I listen to it. And imo it’s a good album, maybe not their best but idk, I loved Zetsuentai, Keigaku no Yoku, Ranunculus, Aka, Followers…
Ok it’s a matter of taste and I love the « ballad/soft/atmospheric » diru over the urduuuur one, but I don’t understand the recording criticism iam maybe dumb ^^
In short, they hate the other part of TIW.
All jokes aside: Less originality, worse mastering/mixing and it didn’t meet expectations, I guess.
My biggest complain is that the heavy breakdowns in songs like Keigaku or Zetsuentai sound very uninspired. Other than that I like or love the album depending on my mood. Many here have been following the band more time than I have been alive, and that creates a burn-out effect. Not saying that it is a perfect album, but it not as bad as some say.
Well thanks for the summary ^^ idk 5-6 pretty good song on an album doesn’t make it bad but I can understand the very high expectations when you are a fan for years and years (I follow them only since 2008). It doesn’t top Uroboros or Arche (prob my favorite for now) but I wasn’t that disappointed at my first listen.
These exactly and … can‘t recall right now. I love half of the album but don‘t care much about the other half. And it‘s about what you said, just taste. I don‘t get all that uninspired, mastering and whatnot stuff, too. I don‘t mind all of that when songs just sound good to me. And one thing I learnt is that this depends on listening equipment, settings but also a lot on everyone oneself. We all hear things differently (I know someone who barely can hear deep sounds) and also perceive differently (e. g. high notes irritate me a lot sooner than deeper ones because they start hurting my ears). That‘s why I‘m certain some mastering and other things some of the people here who care a lot for this will love won‘t be feeling good for some others.
And that‘s why I‘ll never understand all the fuss about this, because it‘s too many different factors coming into play to make everyone perfectly happy.
I dislike it because it sounds like a more grating, shorter, less original follow up to the marrow of the bone, with horrible muddy mixing, which still had good songs (ranunculus, yes); typically, I don’t listen to albums they recorded with western metalhead listeners in mind, which they do in turns for the past decade, because they sound generic and lack any spark that pre-MOO releases were typically packed with.
To me, TIW is their worst instance of self-plagiarism, returning to the well of DSS/Unraveling one too many times (w/o the unnecessarily winding song structures.) It was just not an exciting sonic palette for them at the time, and I think that lack of excitement comes through in the songwriting. There are a handful of tracks I like on there, but as a whole I wouldn’t choose to listen to it over any of their other albums. Phalaris included which, while also not reinventing the wheel, is more an Arche-kind of self-referential, rather than TIW.
In my case, TIW just sounds so bad and low-quality that I can’t even focus on getting into the songs themselves. I’m also not a music production expert, so I can’t accurately explain it in more technical terms, but in short it’s something about the sharp, overdriven but also quite lifeless sound quality the whole album has. It’s physically irritating and a bit painful to listen to if I want to crank it up to a higher volume (something that I rarely experience with most professional bands’ recordings).