D are stopping because of their singer's health

I am seriously upset about this tbh, they're easily one of my top 3 bands, and I was always hoping I'd get to see them live some day. I stupidly missed the chance to see Versailles live, now they're no more, never got to see Deluhi when they were around, and now this? I really, seriously hope this isn't permanent and Asagi recovers.

Reiketsu wrote: »

Same thing happened with me and D'espairsRay. I kept skipping UK shows thinking I would catch them next time instead. Then they called it a day due to Hizumi's health/throat not getting any better. However they did reunite for a one off gig at the end of July. I have two picks belonging to Karyu that were given to me by Acey Slade of all people. Karyu gave them to him when his then band supported D'espairsRay in NYC. I have stopped skipping gigs though because who knows what will happen.

Yup, part of the reason I was so glad to see Girugamesh, not just an incredible show, but like you say, who knows... Still hoping to see Dir En Grey and The Gazette, and I have it on good authority The Gazette might be coming to London next European tour.

Never really got into D'espairsRay though, got a song you could recommend to check out?

Well, I might've heard from the guys who put on the Girugamesh gig that they're trying for a Gazette show, so fingers crossed

And giving some D'EspairsRay a listen now

devildriver wrote: »

lacking any kind of form or structure.

I can get not liking them, but lacking any kind of form or structure? I don't get that. Their music follows a fairly ordinary structure I'd think in a lot of cases, a lot of emphasis on melody, for example:



How is this lacking in form or structure? Just wondering, and not asking you to like it or anything, that just had me kinda puzzled

devildriver wrote: »

You know what. I probably chose the wrong words. On first listen of the 2 previous videos you posted I couldn't hear any sort of traditional verse - chorus -verse structure. But it's probably just that I wasn't listening.

And in fairness a lot of the music I listen to and enjoy doesn't follow "traditional" patterns either so that's not it.

And it's not an aversion to Japanese culture as I used to like The Mad Capsule Markets a lot.

And the language isn't a problem - as there are plenty of bands that I listen to that don't have English lyrics - and plenty that do but are unintelligible!

So I don't know why I don't like this band! Each to his or her own and all that.

No, it's totally cool! I definitely know they're not gonna be to everyone's tastes, they're very kinda gothic metal and there's a lot of folk influences in there, and they jump between genres quite a bit, often within the same song. I just didn't understand what you meant at all.

I think I do get you now, there's often a lot going on in their music, and it can sound a bit hectic. The first two videos I linked to especially, the first song Huang di has this very Chinese inspired melody that leads into it, it sorta jumps into the chorus right away, then suddenly shifts again into this slap-bass bit, all in about 30 seconds of each other so I guess it can be a bit jarring. The second song there's a build-up, then a pretty heavy rhythm part, but immediately following the heavy part there's a vocal melody that is almost completely unexpected because it's so different from the heavy rhythm that preceded it, and then directly after that it changes again to a completely different rythym entirely.

I absolutely love that! But I can get not liking it