[Album] The Metal Thread! (The Zombie Edition)

Hmm, I take it discussing Soilwork and their new album [which I should get, I forgot] is considered heresy among the metalhead purists here?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

You metalheads might say blasphemy, but whatever. Dir en grey's new album 'Uroboros' came out just today, and its by far their most metal album, in terms of a more western sound. It has progressive metal elements with an almost melodic metal touch. they're still hard to pin down on what genre they do, since they cross genre so much. However, this album is by far their most mature and experimental but also very kin to the metal you people I think would like.

I hope some of you will give it a chance, it's well worth it.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Yea but, this band is not...that anymore. They were the first two albums, but this band progresses and evolves each album. This album is their most mature and has nothing...japanese gimmicky about it, if that makes sense. I agree alot of jrock bands do that numetal thing, but this band is one that never does what everyone else does.

I dont see them anymore as a JAPANESE band, but rather just a band now. They have no costumes, no japanese flaunting shit...it's just them as a band now. I rather like that.

How ya doing, buddy?

Well try out this song then. It's going to be a music video off of the new album they're promoting. It's progressive, hard, yet melodic as well.

Vinushka

02-Vinushka.mp3



They're not J-Pop dude, why dont you just listen and see for yourself.

How ya doing, buddy?

Originally Posted by KrelEN

Nah, they're just southern, bitter and intimidating.

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Pretty sure listening to that dirge just caused my scrotum to leap up into my chest cavity.

Tell me. Are you a fan of HIM?

No I don't listen to HIM. And if I did, what does that mean? Are you trying to compare HIM to Dir en grey?

You know, I gotta be honest...you're coming off as a pretentious metalhead, who refuses to listen to anything not metal cuz its 'gay' to him.

I was speaking idiomatically.

You got a point, touche. But I guess i'm just an idealist who believes there are some open-minded metalheads out there, and I was wanting to see if there were any.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

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Well, yeah, they seem to be targeting the same weepy-anime-fan-with-a-livejournal demographic.

Both bands attract fangirls which I despise, but that's not Dir en grey's goal. To attract anime fans, that just comes with the territory because we all know westerners just LOVE anything japanese. So I don't think that's any excuse to compare the two.

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I listen to plenty of extremely campy/effeminate/I-don't-know-what-the-fuck music.

Ok, so why are you being so difficult with this one band? The examples you've given so far as to why you dont like them are very outdated. If you say you're open-minded but you still don't like them in general without giving some insulting criticism to it, then ok...but you are doing that, and therefore coming off rather stubborn.

FELIPE NO

Ok, calm down.

How ya doing, buddy?