Better not skip the encores.
TOMORROW NEVER DIES after UGLY is a bold statement tho
Don’t kill yourself (except traitors)
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Why can’t I delete my comment…
I still have no goddamn idea what happened to this band, as someone who used to be a fan from the days of BEST FRIENDS (not trying to boast…lol)
I remember loving NIL and played it like nuts. And maybe the album after that.
They released so many good songs back then, then something happened (??) and they were just gone, somehow.
When I checked the discography some time ago on Spotify I saw they released “MASS” in 2021 and it was like 99% filler songs, I think I only half liked Blinding Hope. But yeah a terrible album, soulless… generic, no gazette feeling…
So from Nil to Mass, thats a gap of 15 years.
What happened to Gazette, can anyone shortly sum it up for me?
Thanks!
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They evolved into a direction you don‘t like?
That goes for some people. Others started liking them. And some still do love them from back then until now.
And while MASS definitely is some kinda continuation of NINTH (that shows in so many points) and wasn‘t their strongest work, believe it or not there are people who also like that album.
Apparently you don‘t like that band anymore. Why not moving on, cherishing the old songs and let the band do as they like?
I really don‘t understand what it is with people clinging to the past and complaining about how crappy everything got (which‘s subjective anyway) instead of moving on from bands whose recent sound isn‘t appealing to them anymore and listen to stuff they actually do like. There‘s so much music around. (Writng that last part in plural because that goes for more bands than Gazette, I‘ve seen these complaints so often throughout all these years in so many different threads.)
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Can most songs on MASS even be called a direction? Its as generic as it can be in that genre, probably AI could have come up with better sounding stuff.
But Im not a hater, they are one of my OG bands, I just wondered if something happened to the band making them for example take so many years off etc.
Cheers!
they signed a major deal with sony music after ending the DIM album era (technically, the switch happened after dropping before I decay single.)
I largely sleep on everything they’ve released since, but that’s a byproduct of having a contract requiring them to release a certain number of albums (I think it’s typically ten?) before they can change their label again, and I don’t know if that will even happen in their lifetime - however, they’ve already released six albums + one self cover album + there’s a new release for 2024; they’re releasing on a 3 years per album schedule for their past 4 albums.
I don’t really know if there’s really anything better than sony for their style as far as major labels go in Japan, but I kinda can see them branching off on their own privately owned label after that kinda like glay do now, but idk if it will mean a huge change in sound either. they’ve already pretty established as far as a metal band goes, and Ruki seems to prefer comfort-zone compositions over experimentation these days.
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100% this.
I like all their albums (minus a few songs here and there maybe) and actually prefer the later heavier sound so yeah, I dont think this opinion that after Nil theyre now a terrible band is definitive. Haha.
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They posted this last July and I am still waiting for the teased release 
I miss them.
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Nope.
Except for a pandemic and their decision to not do any live stuff for a long time due to it also no stream lives or whatever. When they thought it were safe enough they started slowly lives and testing the waters with still partly restrictions (like no shouting, singing along with the songs and so on). Last year they finally made it through the tour for the album. Delayed of course but that was due to the pandemic.
They didn’t take years off. They just didn’t walk the same paths other bands did.
I really don’t understand why people over and over again come up with them taking off.
Nope. They might not release a new album every or every second year like some other bands do (just some, far away from all) but they do. After NIL? 2007, 2009, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2015, 2018, 2021. Plus the mentioned self-cover album. And technically the remastered album by the end of 2022, if you wanna count this one. No new music for these two though.
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Ok thanks buddy but no need to have a lowkey offensive attitude.
yes - thanks!! it does count, I just completely forgot about that one, and their wiki doesn’t mention it.
I’ve heard that way too often while it’s never been true. So yeah, I’m annoyed why people always come to that conclusion. It’s alright to not know everything every single band is doing. But why not just asking what’s been happening throughout months/years/whatever instead of saying they’ve been doing this or that which they didn’t?
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Mass was pretty much written entirely by Ruki. That’s the problem.
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Anybody remembers when they said one time the band almost broke up and they did not talk to Kai at all?
Did we ever learn why was this? Also, I can’t seem to find any mention of this whole situation anymore.
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On that Ruki wrote the whole album situation and because I’ve seen a lot of words written here about this in the past.
They said in interviews that he had something certain in mind and they agreed leaving the writing to him alone would result in this vision the best that’s why it’s only been him. It was a decision by them. Of course they could just tell this but why should they? If they didn’t agree on this they could not have explained this at all. So I tend to simply believe this.
I also think the album would have been more varied and profited from this, if it hadn’t just been him. But they chose a different approach and that’s what I respect.
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I certainly agree that MASS is not their strongest work, but if you look at the album previous (NINTH) that was an incredibly solid album. DOGMA was also a really good album. I think most bands will have one of two albums every now and then that will miss the mark, but I don’t think the Gazette have lost their touch imo, MASS was just weak in comparison to their other works!
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the whiplash of the dense and sharp dogma, to both ninth and mass hurts so much
I still have faith in them, but the last two releases were disappointing
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