Review by Secret Xp

This is quite a soft single that features nice melodies. The title track is great and the re-recording of Sakura is very well done. I especially like the clean guitar chords in Brumes et Pluies. Well worth the money!

The songs on this were great and the remixes of older songs were very enjoyable. BLOOD really are talented and this CD is worth every cent. The DVD it comes with was great because you get to see what they are like behind the scenes and what they did on tour. There is also a little bit of show footage, which is good. I think the only negative about this CD (although it is not a big one) is that it only had 2 new songs - most of the other ones were on previous albums or singles, so it may be annoying if you already have them. But, other than that, it is awesome!

This CD is very very good! Mello have to be one of the most talented visual-kei bands I have heard for a long time. Their musicianship is spot on! I especially love the guitar work on all the songs. Their lead guitarist is quite skilled in what he does. The 3rd track on this CD would probably be my favourite. Watch out for this band!!

Shunsoku Liner is an awesome single. Get it while it is still available. This band is very talented, especially their lead guitarist. I am expecting great things from Mello. The title track is very energetic and fun, but prefer the second song, as it has better guitar work in my opinion.

This CD wasn't too bad, but I feel like something was missing. It didn't wow me to be honest and I think the previous CD was far superior. The PV it comes with was just ok. Overall it wasn't bad but it wasn't particularly good either.

Quite an entertaining DVD. Each song is made up of videos from different performances of the song, with a live dub over the top. This may not sound like it's going to be very good, but it is. Everything fits together well. There are 5 songs: Loki n' Roll Incoherents Honey Vanity (Retromantics Mix) Crimson Star Cruel Arcadia. Everything looks good and the sound is great. The only draw back is that kozi used a few too many effects on the video itself.

This is a great CD. Hizaki and Teru's guitar parts work well together. Juka's vocals are spot on. The classical elements mixed with the guitars are very good. My favourite song would have to be 'cradle'. The only negative part of the CD is that sometimes there can be too much going on at one time, what with all the guitars, bass, drums, singing and synth.

First off, the CD itself is great. All the songs are very well arranged and are great to listen to. The concert was excellent. The sound and picture quality couldn't have been better. I don't know what the other people below were saying about it being hard to navigate but they're wrong. The PV's were all very interesting, but I didn't really think some of them were that well put together. Some seemed a bit low budget. The thing I really liked was the 30 minute special of Malice Mizer's indie days on the bonus dvd. It showed a lot of their stage skits and performances. There were quite a few funny moments in there. Overall, it is a very good collection. Really the only bad thing was the cost. The shipping price bummed me out the most. When this collection goes out of print you can still buy all the items in it individually here on cdjapan, except for the 30 minute bonus dvd and the music playing box the stuff comes in.

The first two songs, 'from the end' and 'baby and butterfly' didn't really appeal to me that much. It didn't like the screaming in them. However, the final song 'departure' is the real highlight of the single. It is a well put together, creative and emotional song. I really liked the combination of clean and slightly distorted guitar throughout the song. The singing is excellent, too.

Overall this album was good. However, I don't feel it is quite as good as some of their previous work. I'm sure most BLOOD fans will enjoy this album.

The song Lamentful Miss was good but not that great. I am still undecided over whether I like the rearranged version of Perish or not. I did not like the rearranged version of forbidden at all. The original is much better. I probably wouldn't have bought this single if it wasn't first press. I wouldn't recommend buying this once the first press runs out.

The performance itself was excellent. There were a good amount of songs and they were all performed well. At times, the sound wasn't as clear as it could have been because the show was in a huge stadium. I especially liked how they finished everything off with the song 'Miseinen'. The bonus DVD of their backstage shows was interesting but a little long and drawn out. It went on for about 2 hours and I found myself getting bored after the first hour. I don't really think it is worth the extra 3500 Yen + extra shipping cost of the normal edition just for the backstage footage. Unless you are a huge fan of Gazette and/or desperately want to see backstage footage, go for the normal edition of this dvd.

It's nice to see how Blood have changed over time. This cd is quite different to their recent stuff but it is good nontheless. There are a lot more guitar solos on this album than there are on future albums, which I think is a good thing. There are times when I enjoy the vocals but sometimes I feel the vocal performances are slightly lacking. The CD comes with the PV for Maria and the PV for tsuioku~I remember you~ but they can't be viewed on a DVD player. You have to use a program like Quicktime to view them on your computer. The PV's aren't of very good quality, they are a little pixelated. They're better than nothing, though. Overall a good CD.

This album has good parts, bad parts, heavy parts, light parts and so on. The guitar parts a heavier on this album compared to other albums and a lot of electronica has been used. I'm not sure if I like the technoish feel of this album or not. Like the 1st period DX album, you have to use a program like Quicktime to view the extra video footage on the CD, you can't view it on a dvd player. I didn't think the live footage or the PV for Sweetest disease were that great.

This is an excellence dvd, it is a must buy. It consists of 9 bands with a total of 29 songs between them and is 3 hours long. The sound and picture quality is great. There is really nothing bad to say about this dvd.

This is an excellent album. It has a lot of great songs on it. If you missed out on Vengeance of BLOOD 1 & 3, you really should get this one. It is worth the money. The only thing wrong with it was that the DVD it came with didn't have very good sound quality, the picture was good, though.

This is a very good album. The only complaint I have is that Kozi has used too much voice distortion and it lets the album down slightly. This album is quite different from his other albums, it is fast and heavy, unlike catharsis which is slow and upbeat. A new direction for kozi. If only only liked soft songs like Honey Vanity or Crimson star, you may not enjoy this album.

This is a very good single. The first song SinAI-Migite no Cutter to Hidarite no Drug to Kusuriyubi no Fukai Ai to is a catchy upbeat song, whereas Gothicaroid is more heavy and pounding. The PV for Eliza was really good, too.

Not a bad effort from BLOOD. It could have done with a few more songs, though. There are english translations for the songs in the booklet, aswell as pictures.

BLOOD fans will love this dvd. It was good but just too short, only 38 minutes long. However, it is cheaper than most dvd's, so its worth the money. The backing track they used in the show was a little annoying, though.