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Mikal

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I never thought X Japan would get back together and they did.

Besides, Yu~ki can't live of the royalties from merveilles forever ::meev::
 

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this album has grown on me so much. before there were only a few i would listen to but now i like pretty much the whole thing if i can ignore seth on a few (I think he does a good job on a couple, just not all)
 

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Garnet in the Eden wrote:
Mikal wrote:
Garnet in the Eden wrote:
voixdinferno wrote:
a next Album? ::hora::
Is that supposed to be a bad thing? :P

Malice Mizer > Moi dix Mois

I think MdM will go on a hiatus in 2012, much like Malice did in 2002.

So maybe there'll be a new album eventually, but I'd say it's going to be a while.

Assuming the world doesn't end ;)

Sure, but Malice Mizer has nothing to do with Moi dix Mois except for the fact it has Mana, and Mana is already releasing solo music, which the final years of Malice Mizer were really all about. Look at the gothness of it all. That is pure Mana, not Malice Mizer. If I remember correctly a lot of the compositions with Malice Mizer were credited solely to Mana (not Malice Mizer) and the lyrics by the vocalist at the time. And Bara no Seidou was 90% Mana, including the lyrics. So I think the natural progression would be somewhere along the lines of what Moi dix Mois are currently doing anyway, considering how heavy Beast of Blood, Gensou Rakuen and such were..


That's not correct neither fair. If you read the bel air interview, they say how the song ended totally different from the demo Mana presented the members, the final version is totally different, yet the credits there for the songwriter is Mana only, but reading that interview you can clearly see that Mana did not do it all alone. He came up with the initial idea, though, and i am guessing that's why the credits go to him, but you can't ignore the rest of the band.

Judging by the way the sound of Malice Mizer was less varied in Bara no Seidou, maybe it was really the case that Mana composed most stuff, but i don't believe that's what happened in the other albums, and the final singles: Garnet, Gardenia, BoB. Specially Gardenia.
 

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"Chikasuimyaku no Meiro" and "Kagami no Buto Genwaku no Yoru" were both written by Közi.
 

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Garnet in the Eden wrote:
did anyone notice with each cover Mana gets closer and closer to the front?

soon there will just be the All Seeing Eye!

sauron2.jpg


OK listened to the CD on the commute (watched another Takeshi yakuza everyone dies flick that evening). hmmm.... not a fan of the chiory stuff. dixanadu (the first 1/2 of the songs anyway) more coherent. this is a bit of a Belgium waffle for me after the first listen. seth is a good singer for these songs except ange - he's not the power singer required.

getting all meta, seth is like a beat takeshi film. underplayed. that's the culture.
 

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I think it gets better and better with each listen!!

And I can't play it loud enough!! ::k::
 

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Same here. It sucks that I don't have a proper cd-player atm. My computer-speakers mess up the sound for some reason (I have one of the infamous Acers that have wrecked speakers by default), so I'm stuck wandering around with my iPod all the time. :P

Also, am I the only one that actually likes Ange? ::shifty::
 

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TsukikoPipari wrote:
Same here. It sucks that I don't have a proper cd-player atm. My computer-speakers mess up the sound for some reason (I have one of the infamous Acers that have wrecked speakers by default), so I'm stuck wandering around with my iPod all the time. :P

Also, am I the only one that actually likes Ange? ::shifty::

No. I loved it. It has a much different energy than the original that suits the new Moi dix Mois well.
I love the agression the "go mad, go to hell" chants add to the song! ::squee::
 

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I know the initial reaction is to compare the remakes to the original but I'm certain that wasn't at all Mana's intent in remaking the song in the first place. Clearly the song has a place in the concept of the new album, so I think from an artistic perspective it is more practical to accept the new version as just that - a new work entirely, IMO...
 

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I think in most ways Ange ~D side holy wings~ fits very well with the rest of the album with its slightly reworked guitars and extra edgy edgyness. the only problems I have are that Seth messes it up (not at all parts... i would even say that there are moments where he outshines Juka. but overall he does kind of ruin it) and that there is so much harpsichord (which is not a bad thing for the song, but ((i think)) it makes the listener wonder why Mana did not make the other tracks so harpsi-heavy as Ange).

all in all I am glad that Ange ~D side holy wings~ was included in this album. ::k::

edit: can anyone scan and post here the packaging/postcards of D+Sect?
 

Mikal

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I like the new Ange.

Actually I like pretty much all of this album now :)
 

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Some of you are talking about a Malice Mizer Reunion...(the real deal)
brrrr... am I the only one who's a bit frightened of that?

Who will be their vocalist? Drummer?
What if the new stuff will suck? Malice Mizer has reached cult-status, it symbolize the good old days, an era of glory!
Somewhat it has past too many years for a proper come-back... It's better that they start a new band completely...
Anything on the letter "M".. Mmmmmmm :roll:


BTW... D+sect is getting better and better by each play, Yay!
Now I can't wait to see these songs performed LIVE!!!!!
 
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