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日本最大的动漫盛事Comiket 88在上礼拜结束，不知道大家有没有...

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为什么从男更衣室走出来的几乎都是女生！？这是你所不知道的男coser更衣室w

[aria-the-avvenire]

Poster and bag which were sold at Comiket 88

[heartfeltsounds08]

gaze it is the best song i’ve heard from shibayan fucking ever and it’s on a signum/ii album and they’re relatively obscure which means it’ll take forEVER for that shit to be uploaded and i can’t find anywhere to easily purchase it online where i can just download it as opposed to having a physical copy because my two years of japanese are worth nothing because i can’t read kanji because i would fall asleep before i studied and

I JUST WANT TO LISTEN TO SHIBAYAN NU-DISCO-NOISE GREENWICH IN THE SKY FOR THE REST OF MY LIFE

[touhoupop]

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Oh shit, we can totally check another one off the list! There is now a fairly decent Touhou facsimile of Italo disco.

Okay, it’s not perfect. It’s got too much of that retro nu-disco thing going on, and the synth line isn’t as bouncy as the stuff people associate with Italo disco. FN2 may not have even been aiming to do it. People say that eurobeat is just really fast Italo with modern instruments, and while this ignores a lot of the subtleties of both genres, it’s sufficiently true to explain how this happened.

If you look at what FN2 had been doing, it was almost inevitable, because he’s been doing retro stuff for a while. A lot of them almost claimed this title first, but this is by far the closest. Is its position indisputable? No. But it’s close enough to check the box.

Alright, enough about that. How’s the rest of the album?

It’s pretty okay.

There are some really weird spots on it. The start of the very first track sounds like it’s gonna turn into jungle instead of eurobeat, and the track after that has pseudo-screaming. You know, like a nu metal track would have.

All these oddities, and it still doesn’t quite add up to an exiting release. There are standout tracks, but not because they’re especially good and you’ll want to listen to them a lot. You’ll notice them, but you won’t notice much else. It’s hard to know what to make of an album like this.

This is the point where I cop-out and say “good thing this blog has always been about commentary and not reviews!” Ha. Ha. Ha.

[touhoupop]

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Bet you thought these guys were dead.

Well, they’re not. The Teramae Brothers are just mind bogglingly busy people who juggle playing live events, doing session recordings, making these albums, and posting lots of food and amp pics on their twitters. Remarkably, they still have it in them to ensure all their work is as good as it can be. That’s great, because their work happens to be really fucking badass.

We almost got this album last winter at Comiket 87, but they didn’t quite make the deadline. Instead we got it this summer. How good is it for all that time it spent sitting on ice? It’s probably my favorite Demetori album since Nada Upasana Pundarika. That’s how good.

In those five years, Demetori albums have - it seems - been getting increasingly homogenous. This one does not reverse half a decade of change, but it does point in the right direction. There are longer tracks, and melodic tracks; tracks in the vein of View of the River Styx and Ascending into Naught. And while there aren’t any super technical percussion focused songs like Oriental Dark Flight, or djent tracks like Crazy Xenomorph, Demetori does finally undertake the sacred ritual all Touhou metal acts must someday perform.

That’s right. This is the album when Demetori finally references the opening to Future Breed Machine by Meshuggah.

(No, seriously, almost all the Touhou metal circles I follow have done it by now. Does Japan like Meshuggah that much? I mean, I like them too, but…)

There’s still lots of straight double pedal attacks and power metal riffs on this album. That’s what modern Demetori subsists on, and they’re good at it. It’s just that the other tracks are what make the album great, and are why I like the Teramae Brothers for more than just their technical skill.

The quality extends to their mastering too, but it’s difficult to tell exactly how well mastered this particular album is. That’s because whoever provided the only rip that’s out there right now decided that AAC-LC was juuuust fine, and didn’t bother to mess with the quality settings. It sounds only slightly better than a Crow’s Claw album.

At some point I’ll own the actual CD and the point will become moot for me, but be wary. You may want to wait a bit before putting this in your music library, even if you’re not the sort who’s fussy about encoding.

As for the album itself: it’s Demetori, it’s great. If you’re a Touhou metal fan and you haven’t already leap at the chance to listen to it, what are you doing? Go, friend, and metal be with thee.