After exactly 2 years, the GazettE is back with a new album. I have been a fan for years but STACKED RUBBISH left a bad aftertaste. I have to admit, I was very sceptic towards this new album. It turns out DIM doesn’t only have amazing cover art but its content mixes old and new Gazette into a perfect – but very sinister – whole.
01 「剥離」 — 「Hakuri」
02 THE INVISIBLE WALL
03 A MOTH UNDER THE SKIN
04 LEECH
05 泣ヶ原 — Nakigahara
06 「エリカ」 — 「Erika」
07 HEADACHE MAN
08 紅蓮 – Guren
09 「子宮」 — 「Shikyuu」
10 13STAIRS[-]1
11 DISTRESS AND COMA
12 「感触」 — 「Kanshoku」
13 白き優鬱 — Shiroki Yuutsu
14 IN THE MIDDLE OF CHAOS
15 「朦朧」– 「Morou」
16 OGRE
17 DIM SCENE
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RENTRER EN SOI held their last live on christmas 2008. Since then everyone went their own way. Satsuki (砂月, ex-vocals), Takumi (匠, ex-main-guitar) and Mika (未架, ex-drums) have already opened their own websites with music samples.
Ryu Murakami can’t be stopped. He might as well live up to Stephen King because after the adaptation of several novels (Audition, 69, Love & Pop and many more), In the Miso Soup is next. The adaptation of the 1997 thriller novel, known for it’s original perspective on Japanese culture, can count on star Willem Dafoe.
Ryu Murakami is a remarkable but twisted man. The novelist and filmmaker, sometimes called the ‘Maradona in Japanese literature’ in his home country, makes some bizarre works with an often macabre undertone. The novel I just read Coin Locker Babies is no different.
