X Japan - BLUE BLOOD [Archive]

Kutsic

09-03-2007, 07:13 AM

everything they make is amazing

However, I don't think any album will ever top Art of Life, that one song is possibly the greatest piece of music ever composed.

Xenoburst

10-10-2007, 02:36 PM

I am going to have to agree with the Art of Life bit...As for their other albums I'm more of a Dahlia fan, but yeah they are pretty awesome.

Transbrak

11-10-2007, 05:36 PM

Rusty Nail as japaneese content would be awesome .....allthough hard to sing

Xenoburst

11-11-2007, 04:30 AM

Sadistic Desire > Rusty Nail.

Although, it is a great song :D

Transbrak

11-11-2007, 04:36 AM

i would say we have the start of a three song pack we could put doubt by hide as the third song, or dice :) my life would be complete

Xenoburst

11-11-2007, 04:47 AM

I likes.

Round those two off with some...Drain or Silent Jealousy and we are golden :)

Edit:

Dice from hide would be awesome!

Transbrak

11-11-2007, 04:49 AM

you know we cant be the only ones who like j-rock we need to have some DLC

Xenoburst

11-11-2007, 04:53 AM

I'm fairly certain when it comes out in Japan they'll have Japan-only DLC.

...and when they do..thats when I strike and make a Japanese PSN account :D

Transbrak

11-11-2007, 04:56 AM

yeah ive got a live jpn account but i dont know if i can buy points with an american credit card i might have to import some points cards

battle_axe_of_doom

11-11-2007, 09:04 AM

wtf is a x japan

Kutsic

11-11-2007, 09:42 AM

Japanese glam/prog/speed metal band. They made the whole visual kei movement popular. They're also one of the highest selling Japanese artists of all time.

battle_axe_of_doom

11-11-2007, 09:51 AM

by progressive do you mean "progressive" like symphony x and dream theater or progressive like opeth, anathema, akercocke, etc

Xenoburst

11-11-2007, 04:46 PM

More Dream Theater than Opeth. If you want to see their best work go watch all of Art of Life on youtube. I think they had to break it down into 4 parts, its a half hour song, with a couple great 4 minute guitar solos, and a mind-blowing 6 minute piano solo.

Dunno if you'll like em though. Sure they sing in english half the time, but their accent almost destroys it.

But honestly, they are my favourite japanese band and one of the only ones I can bring up when talking about great musicians (although I haven't been into the J-rock scene for a while so its possible there are other ones as good).

Matsuiichi

11-13-2007, 12:05 AM

Totally love the album.

As for putting a song in for RB DLC... what about "X", or "Rose of Pain"? Rose of Pain would work so well for Rock Band. It's an awesome song, though you can't really hear much of the bass. (It's a bit long too, at a hefty 11:30) But if the surviving members (Yoshiki, Toshi, Heath, Pata) got to it, they should re-record the song.

After all, X Japan has come back together and they've started to record music and perform again. Rose of Pain would be so worth the time invested---hell, almost any of their songs are worth a re-recording.

Xenoburst

11-13-2007, 12:37 AM

While I'm sure it would be, it just wouldn't be the same without our pink haired effeminent friend.

Kutsic

11-13-2007, 02:43 AM

by progressive do you mean "progressive" like symphony x and dream theater or progressive like opeth, anathema, akercocke, etc

Definitely more like the former.

But yea, basically the two songs I'd recommend are Art of Life(if you don't like that, you prolly won't like anything by them as that pretty much covers it all) and I'll Kill You.

Xenoburst

11-13-2007, 02:54 AM

But yea, basically the two songs I'd recommend are Art of Life(if you don't like that, you prolly won't like anything by them as that pretty much covers it all) and I'll Kill You.

I'd more say Kurenai than I'll Kill You. The solo in it is awesome. But I definitely agree with Art of Life.

Matsuiichi

11-13-2007, 05:18 AM

While I'm sure it would be, it just wouldn't be the same without our pink haired effeminent friend.

I'm not saying -if-. They actually have gotten back together, but they have about six or seven guitarists taking hide's place. They seriously need that many? Man, hide had some mad skills. XD

Xenoburst

11-13-2007, 05:20 AM

I'm not saying -if-. They actually have gotten back together, but they have about six or seven guitarists taking hide's place. They seriously need that many? Man, hide got skills. XD

Noice. And yeah he did :) I have a concert DVD of them on the Dahlia tour. After listening to the songs on CD and going "Whao, that solo sounds awesome" and seeing him looking BORED playing some of their hardest stuff, I can imagine.

Transbrak

11-13-2007, 09:17 AM

yeah I have the last live dvd the way he pulls it off without effort is really amazing, too bad he died before his american career took off ....maybe zilch would be easier to get over here

Se7enLawliet

11-19-2007, 01:04 AM

everything they make is amazing

However, I don't think any album will ever top Art of Life, that one song is possibly the greatest piece of music ever composed.

You know, this is what I thought for years until I finally heard Dragonforce's Through the fire and flames. That is the best Speed Metal Song EVER! Sure Art of Life is twice as longer and has a piano solo, but.... *shrug* too many uneasy pauses for my taste.

And to be completely honest Hide wasn't that amazing. Now that Yoshiki (drummer) is one talented. He actually holds to title "Greatest Drummer in Japan".

Oh, and yeah, they reunited and started recording. They got a new track in Saw IV. It was one hell of a song.

Maybe if they get some popularity they'll get a chance. They'd have to work something out with Exstasy (I think that's how you spell it) records though.

Xenoburst

11-19-2007, 03:14 AM

You know, this is what I thought for years until I finally heard Dragonforce's Through the fire and flames. That is the best Speed Metal Song EVER! Sure Art of Life is twice as longer and has a piano solo, but.... *shrug* too many uneasy pauses for my taste.

And to be completely honest Hide wasn't that amazing. Now that Yoshiki (drummer) is one talented. He actually holds to title "Greatest Drummer in Japan".

Oh, and yeah, they reunited and started recording. They got a new track in Saw IV. It was one hell of a song.

Maybe if they get some popularity they'll get a chance. They'd have to work something out with Exstasy (I think that's how you spell it) records though.

Great to know about that Saw IV song thanks a lot man.

However I'll have to disagree with you, I'd definitely have to say that Art of Life > TtFaF, but to each their own I guess.

Matsuiichi

11-19-2007, 05:43 AM

Maybe if they get some popularity they'll get a chance. They'd have to work something out with Exstasy (I think that's how you spell it) records though.

You know that Yoshiki, the drummer of X Japan, is the founder and owner of Extasy Records, right? He founded the label to give the group's future a bit of solidarity.

X Japan is releasing I.V. (the single from Saw IV) through Extasy Records.

In other words, working something out with Extasy won't be too hard. XD

Se7enLawliet

11-19-2007, 09:07 AM

You know that Yoshiki, the drummer of X Japan, is the founder and owner of Extasy Records, right? He founded the label to give the group's future a bit of solidarity.

X Japan is releasing I.V. (the single from Saw IV) through Extasy Records.

In other words, working something out with Extasy won't be too hard. XD

Yeah I know, started it after the band's indies career took off, got the money from his mother taking a loan or selling the family shop or something if I recall correctly.

He's also got some kind of relationship with Lion's Gate apparently. He's working on a musical (theatrical release) about organ repo men that's suppose to come out sometime next year I think (sorry my memory is very fuzzy right now).

Xenoburst

11-20-2007, 05:21 PM

Holy **** he is apart of Repo! The Genetic Opera!?

Thats awesome!

Edit: Just wiki'ed it. Yup, he is producing the sound track, composing a new track for it, and producing the movie itself. Yoshiki is my hero *tear*

fryedrycestyle

12-16-2007, 12:29 PM

Matsuiichi

12-16-2007, 02:25 PM

Damn, is there any album by X Japan that is bad?

Does anyone know where one can get the song "I.V" from Saw IV? It's not on itTunes, it's not listed on the back of the official soundtrack, and I just have no idea where else I would find this song, considering it is all new. A bit off topic but whatever. =)

X Japan is planning to eventually release it as a single, but for the time being haven't yet. It might come here, but we just have to wait for that time. Just letting you know that it is coming. :)

DeathShrike

12-21-2007, 07:07 AM

I would have to say that either this or Jealousy are their finest albums. Conceptually, I think Jealousy wins out, but for sheer metal fury, Blue Blood wins hands down.

DeathShrike

12-21-2007, 07:11 AM

And to be completely honest Hide wasn't that amazing.

Blasphemy! You listen to Stab Me In the Back or Sadistic Desire and tell me he wasn't amazing! :)

Valery Faye

12-24-2007, 06:15 PM

I still remember when BLUE BLOOD came out back in the late 80s, actually stood in line in Seta***a when that thing came out. Too bad it was the last real hair metalized Visual album that was actually good before that whole genre got killed by 黒夢.

Wouldn't mind seeing the title track or Rose of Pain as, at least, European DLC. I've been reading that some Asian acts are pursuing options into this game.