Manji 卍

Don't really care about the bands name or visuals.im just glad that they are back sooner than expected with the same formation and apparently the same Gossip sound. Saku-Ai-Kyouki ,my Holy Trinity is fuckin back

I was just scrolling down Nihon ongaku page and saw the two albums and gave it a spin.It took me by surprise cuz I didn't know it was a re recorded album,not even with their "classics", I must I admit that it was a very emotional experience,I used to be obsessed with their music back in 2010-2011, brought me so much memories,sung a long every single track of that.I guess that was one of the purposes of such an amazing record. Thinking about getting into their discography and the albums I've missed almost the entire 10's...

Expected great things from this band since their debut. Don't know about the others, but the vocalist definitely deserves to be in a good band, his vocals are very distinct

Actually the chorus is catchy af The only bad thing about this video is that they made Japanese subtitles since he's speaking in Japanese already.It would be cool subtitles in English

Italian doom Abysmal Grief is already 22 years old,so you guys probably heard them before. Just played this randomly,with zero expectations,and god...it blown me away.The intro track certainly sets the mood for all the giallo movies/horror/doom/gothic stuff that is coming upon you.The keyboards and sound effects were used and abused on this record,and i think it's quite difficult to do it without sounding like some cheap halloween movie soundtrack,but that's definiitely not the case here,all the effects provides a very "cinematic" feeling to it and fits perfectly.The viollin on the first track is simply the most brilliant and well executed thing that i ever heard in a doom metal album before,the more i kept listening to it more it started spreading out like a fog,making a very oppressing atmosphere.Impossible not to imagine yourself running from a living dead corpse,or lost in a old vampire castle, it just sucks you in and it's almost impossible to scape.The whole instrumentation is just perfect,prominient bass and a nice combination of black sabbath-y and doom riffs crawling throughout the entire record plus acoustic passages and samples in between,and the vocals certainly portraits all the drama in it. This album is a 10/10,no doubt!

as you may know,HATE FOREST was the side project/band of the genius Roman Saenko (drudkh,dark ages,etc). This album kinda gave me a Transylvanian Hunger feeling,mainly bcuz of the lowfi production,unstopable blast beats,with all the tracks mostly based on riffs,although diferent from Transylvanian,where the riffs are catchy as fuck,what stands out on The Most Ancient Ones is the agressivity of the vocals,and of course, the..."ancient feeling" of it. any thoughts on HATE FOREST?

that's very eroguro,indeed lol even his name (hotaru-chan) made me think of midori-chan from the suehiro stories (could be a refecence?)

Gulu Gulu debuted in Abril,2019 OFFICIAL SITE , TWITTER MEMBERS: Vocal. 哀 -i- Guitar: 凛人 -rito- Guitar: kazari Bass: 藍珠 -lanju- Drums: 螢ちゃん -hotaru chan-

Well,i don't like the current R-shitei and never vibed with Kizu before, that's why it didn't click. But i think im getting worried in advance,this band looks like will go BEYOND kuroyuri to kage.

replayed that many times already and the MV is really cool,however that sounds like a R-shitei track with Mei on vocals not exactly what i expected. I wanted something more in the vein of MEJIBRAY/DIMLIM/BLACKSWAN

Awesome track Horrible look

Amazing look as always. Won't even complain about the fact that they've been releasing singles for basically half decade.

Things I hated: -That kind of blast beats.already seen them a lot in vk and it doesn't fit at all. -The bad growls that reminds me Mamireta's mediocrity -That effect for the chorus was unnecessary -Too colorful,too poppy,too menhera-kei ,I expected something darker. Things I liked: -MV was very well produced -The track sounds polished -Eargasm with Ai's voice Not gonna lie,was kinda disappointing,but that's only the tip of the iceberg, need to check the single as a whole.

Reading this post and the comment section,i recognize how toxic I am for this forum from time to time.

Now they went from Deathtopia to Disneytopia...

I like the bands name and what it apparently represents,and nice to see Mei back with the Ai name as well, it almost feels like seeing memento mori being resurrected right before my eyes, never thought it would ever happen. Yokusou had a huge impact on me the first time I listened,because it was different from what memento used to deliver.With so many good musicians involved,I wonder what they gonna bring to the table this time,if it's going to sound like something off KTK discography,MM,or something completely new.

that was just a complete meal. clean production,cool intro,awesome growls,bombastic chorus,great solo,an emotional video but i gotta agree with @yomii . i feel like MIO is going too far with his clean singing but the rest...god they are already miles away from some metal bands that have been on the road for more than a decade.

ok,nice.but they are a japanese metal band in first place,not kpop idols ok