Virgin Snow Color [Limited Release]

My first Ayabie album, this one. Shine is a good track, quite rocky and catchy. Lapis Lazuli even more. The 4th track Kotonohanoru is a heavy track, even if Aoi doesn't really grunt and seemingly use effects to make it sound better. Still, an enjoyable song. Hinata is pretty good. I love guitar solos in J-Rock music. It reminds me of progressive rock, which are my roots. It rather shows it's not all about riffing. 0010 is a song with a wicked bassline (I'm a bassist, so I love it), and it's quite a tense heavy song also. AZ is good too, and after that it's time for a ballad called Ancient Tree. The album ends with Hoshihuru Ohanashi, a rocky ballad. Whew. Ayabie! ^^

Since the tracklisting is posted, and I couldn't even find it on there official website, I'll post here for people that are interested in what songs they put here: Virgin Snow Color Shine rapisurazuri (Lapis Luxury???) kotonohanoru (it's in katakana) Hinata Mayfish(meefisshu) no uta,rene(kanji is koi for love and e for handle) no suihou 0010 A z ancient-tree hoshifuru no hanashi I hope my kanji is correct. I am not a native speaker(that may be obvious) No time this week to watch the DVD included. Sorry, I might post again about it, if I can. I don't know if the new member Yumehito(ex soroban)played as a substitute for Ryouhei here, because I'm not familiar with Yumehito and don't recognize his playing. It might just be the 4 of them, since it says that this is their first as a 4-man band. I thought they were gonna stick with 4 ppl, but they just added Yumehito... Oh well, back to the music...It's quite different but really good! I like track2, but I love how track4 is such a...$ocial Riot!! It's not really like $OCIAL RIOT MACHINE$(why am I even talking about Gazette??), but it's harder than older Ayabie stuff so I like it. There are also some really beautiful ones along with the heavier ones