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The GazettE announced on june 29th that they’re leaving PS Company and opening their new company “Heresy”

Purple Stone new single "飛んで火にいる恋する夏の虫 (tonde hi ni iru koisuru natsu no mushi)" (3 types) will be released on 2018.08.22 http://purplestone.jp/discography.html#7thsingle

so she stopped giving fucks about dire up and coming vk talent and focused on managing gazette alone? smart choice.

RIP PS COMPANY

ex-Merry Go Round members session band "XXX" will perfom at Imaike CLUB 3STAR at 2018/08/12. "X X X" members: Vo.破麗威 (ex.Merry Go Round, gibkiy gibkiy gibkiy) Gt.DEAD (ex.Merry Go Round) Ba.HAZI (DEMORITION) Dr.TOHRU (ex.Moi dix Mois, ex.Merry Go Round)

ゴシップ(Gossip) new live-limited single, "面会謝絶/少女A" will be released at their live at Takadanobaba AREA on July 1, and will also be available for mail order (500 copies, 1000 yen) starting on July 2. [tracklist] 1.面会謝絶 (menkai shazetsu) 2.少女A (shoujo A)

I hope the yakuza chops off their fingers after that in-store

Well The Gazette had their best live in ages on that limited edition, while deg is more likely to have more live renditions of sustain the untruth and utafumi if anything

My thoughts/shameless cross promotion TLDR: PSC will prob close to erase debts, Tomomi still retains rights to Gazette's stuff, business as usual for Gazette and everyone else: get fucked.

It's literally a badly drawn ballsack. This is awful.

god has spoken

TYPE A : 926 yen + taxes CD : M-1. 飛んで火にいる恋する夏の虫(tonde hi ni iru koisuru natsu no mushi) M-2. 飛んで火にいる恋する夏の虫 - Instrumental - TYPE B : 926 yen + taxes CD : M-1. 飛んで火にいる恋する夏の虫(tonde hi ni iru koisuru natsu no mushi) M-2. 紅 HANABI TYPE C : 926 yen + taxes CD : M-1. 飛んで火にいる恋する夏の虫(tonde hi ni iru koisuru natsu no mushi) M-2. LET US GO ON

Hey does anyone remember when Koichi and Tsuzuku were cool? They're making it oh so easy to forget

Actually japanese bangyas are hating them a lot lol They're famous for having their songs composed by ghost-songwriters and for not even being able to make an original look lol

It's good; but not great. One of the strange things about the GazettE is their inability -- or unwillingness -- to create a cohesive, solid, album experience that is consistent from start-to-finish. Throughout their career, the GazettE have only been consistent with one thing: mediocrity. Take any of their albums and you'll find a mix of great music with strange forays into all kinds of styles ranging from smooth Jazz and Muzak to pop-punk, and electronica. While a band cannot be faulted for seeking to explore new sounds and styles, criticism is due when it results in an overall product that is lacking in consistency and impact. Without fail, the GazettE is consistent in that trend. Even albums considered among their "best" (NIL and DIM) are packed with the musical equivalent of bumper-to-bumper traffic. Often the albums will start with a strong trio of songs (Nausea & Shudder, Bath Room, Maggots) and then immediately devolve into boring, meandering pop tunes such as Namaatatakai Ame to Zaratsuita Jōnetsu, D.L.N., and Shadow VI II I that grind everything to a halt. This is a trend that, without fail, you can apply to every GazettE album. Except one. DOGMA (2015) is an album best described as the GazettE's first real, and serious, attempt at consistent songwriting within the Metal style. In the past, we got structurally boring tracks like OGRE, HEADACHE MAN, Before I Decay, and DISCHARGE characterized by their simplistic progressions, structure, and rhythm. These are songs by a band, that you can tell, don't really understand metal because the style was largely unfamiliar to them. Years of refining their craft lead them to DOGMA, and as a result we got the most cohesive and impressive GazettE release to date. Each track fits into that "DOGMA style" and feels like they're part of one unified sound. Even the individual contributions by band members (Deracine, Wasteland, Grudge, Paralysis) fit into the overall sound of the album and don't deviate in anyway that could be perceived as jarring. DOGMA is, without a doubt, the GazettE's best album. So imagine my surprise when the GazettE released a couple singles, and began promoting NINTH. The aesthetic was similar, the band's sound was similar, so I thought we would get a perfect compliment to DOGMA. In some ways we did, in others we didn't. First let me say, I really enjoy the production on this album. DOGMA, despite great songwriting, was mixed in such a way where there's not much low end present in the mix. The bass and drums are largely drowned out by the over-prominence of the guitars. This is why some people here have said NINTH is mixed in a way that it sounds "muddy" -- because the mid-range instruments (guitars) are not has heavily prominent as they were in DOGMA or other releases. For once on a GazettE record, you can feel Kai's strikes on the drums and the low-end crunch of Reita's bass. The guitars are still there; but they're dialed back somewhat, leading to a more even mix that does not overshadow any of the other members. With that said, it appears lightning was unable to strike twice for the GazettE, causing them to fall into composition faux pas that see them pulling from the well of musical gimmicks they seemingly always return to. One of which is Kai's insistence of playing this stale, party rock, pop-esque drum beat that opens the track Uragiru Bero and is played consistently in several other tracks that feel like the GazettE are moving away from a serious Metal sound and towards a combination of DOGMA with a mainstream pop/party vibe. There is also the GazettE musical gimmick of including hand claps to count along to the beat. Hearing this in the intro to the verse of ABHOR GOD, I can picture all of the Japanese girls clapping along and dancing in unison -- which is a strange visual for a song that opens up the way that ABHOR GOD does. And that's part of the problem for me: on an album that has tracks like ABHOR GOD and NINTH ODD SMELL, we're then treated to the designated pop sections and the run-of-the-mill pop punk tunes like UNFINISHED. The GazettE tricked me. I thought when they released DOGMA, it would usher in an age of great songwriting because the band was challenging themselves in ways they hadn't done before. Not only were they trying to write metal tunes, they were trying to write good metal tunes. Serious metal tunes. That, apparently, was a one-time thing because the GazettE are back to business as usual. There's a lot that I enjoy about this album: FALLING, NINTH ODD SMELL, Uragiru Bero, and ABHOR GOD include some really stellar moments; but then you realize you're listening to an album by the GazettE, and I feel like the band suddenly realized it as well. 7/10

this sounds like a cupcakke cover

my reaction: the Gazettttte was still signed to PSC??? PSC still exists??

because its the best live venue! - at least from all Vk lives i went to i found shinjuku club science to be the best one when it comes to sound/location etc. ;D

Totally... Artists complained, but their strategy was undeniably solid. During the golden days of psc carnival, top 5 indie charts were all theirs. I remember bis complaining about their insane schedule (well, 5 minis in a year span is kinda insane), just to leave and, while their momentum was going, singles were top 1 oricon, songs in tv shows, collabs... as soon as their pace slowed a bit their popularity took quite a hit. And I think it was more or less what also happened to A9 and Kra, so I guess you can't have it all in vk biz... The beggining of the end was PSC indies, imo. When they were focused on, and had a tight grip on a few solid acts, only danger crue was somewhat near them in popularity.

YAY!! my the GazettE - NINTH album finally got shipped! (ordered it together with 2 other CDs...) so if everything goes well i should be able to listen to it next weekend and then i can finally watch/read all those reviews. ;D

I don’t know if I should be worried or excited that the limited edition has more shit than the limited edition of Ninth, but costs less.

That's unexpected, but I don't think it will reflect on their music much. D=OUT left as well, they're under speed-disk now

it's 2 singles "FLOWER OF ROMANCE" [tracklist] 01. FLOWER OF ROMANCE 02. FLOWER OF ROMANCE [Instrumental Ver.] DVD. FLOWER OF ROMANCE –MUSIC CLIP– "AN ETERNITY" [tracklist] 01. AN ETERNITY 02. AN ETERNITY [Instrumental Ver.] DVD. AN ETERNITY –MUSIC CLIP– a special edition "AN ETERNITY / FLOWER OF ROMANCE" will be released through their official webshop (5000yen) DISC 1：CD] 1: AN ETERNITY 2: FLOWER OF ROMANCE 3: AN ETERNITY [Acoustic Ver.] 4: FLOWER OF ROMANCE [Acoustic Ver.] 5: PLANETARY LIGHT [LIVE] 6: DREAMSCAPE [LIVE] 7: CELEBRATE [LIVE] 8: SKY WALKER [LIVE] 9: SWALLOW THE NIGHT [LIVE] 10: SILENT PICTURE [LIVE] 11: ORIGINAL LOVE [LIVE Acoustic Ver.] 12: MEMENTO [LIVE] *Live Take at ディファ有明on December 25, 2017 [DISC 2 : DVD] 1: AN ETERNITY –MUSIC CLIP- 2: FLOWER OF ROMANCE –MUSIC CLIP- 3: BONUS FOOTAGE

they have more dignity in being kicked the f. out of this scene compared to 75 % of durrk bands signing the major label deal and doing precisely the same and only flaunting an occassional gvth look when their sales nosedive tbh that IG preview is a bop too.

One of the songs from the album has leaked.

RIP PS COMPANY [2]

BOI PS COMPANY MUST BE SHOOKETH

Or continue to do whatever Ruki wants only without the Eye of Sauron looming over him?

It's been 4 years since ARCHE. Now I have something to live for.

Pretty much what everybody has been talking about BAAM and BBoom BBoom: EXID'S Up&Down/Ah Yeah 2.0, wich doesn't mean is bad, but compared to BBoom BBoom i think BAAM is kind of meh. Btw, this is pretty great

I can’t call Ninth muddy anymore after spending time with a CD copy of it, but I do notice that the mix varies across several songs. Utsusemi is way too fuzzy, and maybe that was intentional, but I’d like more oomph behind it. Some of the heavier tracks also sound really compressed to my ears.

Pretty ugly, "imo"

I'll tell you a joke... My man Yoshiki walks into a vk bar holding hands with his girl Hello Kitty... Wait for it. He then goes on to say... "new X japan album is dropping tomorrow " 🤣 😂

Thought the new Craft was a huge step up from Void, but still not nearly good enough IMO. I'll always end up going back to the two first albums and the demo and I'll never revisit the later stuff. I do however agree about the new Marduk. I think Werewolf is a really cool song and I was hoping they would go for a more punky and rockish sound this time around as they really nailed it on Werewolf, but the rest is just rehash of older Marduk tracks. It's not bad, but there's something like 10 Marduk albums I'll play through before bothering with this.

I'm still unsure whether I should buy a ticket or not. I'm not a huge dir en grey fan and the fact Kyo can barely keep up his performance with this band puts me off. But I also haven't been to a vk gig in forever and at this point I wanna take what I get. (not desperate enough to see kamijo tho)

He might have said "disorder", but who would understand his accent tbh?

it sounds ok to me.

Can't wait for them to be sued by gazette

HOW DID THEY RIP OFF NINTH JUST AFTER IT CAME OUT....LEGENDS ONLY

If I was 100.1% drunk at a club I would go apeshit when this song came on. (the name of the song bothers me because I can't figure out what it means)

And I made this flyer

Literally one of the best in vk history tbh

^ Not so bad imo It's hard to top this :

Drastic Will - Counterfeit The fact that the title was clearly made in WordArt is hilarious.