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The Orreries Sun
Usually Dead:
My website has a new feature!
A friend of mine, Mima, needed some place to put his new article series, which reviews various pieces of Touhou-related media. Since I had the web space, we decided a match made in heaven deserves a new section on usuallydead.com.
As thus was added The Orreries Sun. In this column, Mima and any co-authors that he and I sanction will give their thoughts on what's in the Western Touhou scene. Their first article features our mutual friend AhKi, and together they talk about the new doujin album from O-Life. Though there's only one article up now, Mima expects to have a new one posted every two weeks.
The column can be found at:
www.usuallydead.com -> The Orreries Sun
Since my website has no commenting features, please use this thread to respond and discuss to what's being said in TOS. I'll also update this thread every time a new article is posted.
Please, have a read, discuss, and enjoy!
Mima:
I'm Mima and I approve this message.
Drake:
--- Quote from: Usually Dead on September 30, 2009, 09:52:15 PM ---O-Life
--- End quote ---
FUCK YEAR
SOLD
Very nice read and I agree with a lot of Marisa's notes, and definitely that the PC98 were the best in the album. However O-Life said that they wanted to try something different and they were going back to what they usually do afterwards. Mima just sounded like she was ranting at how an album that was supposed to be mainly metal, was metal :V (most of the songs have "metal" in their names even)
I'm biased because I just fucking love them and if they threw out a pile of garbage I would roll in it, so my opinion wouldn't be the most accurate, but still. Ever since the bobblehead PV I expected an album of O-Life metal and what I got was O-Life metal + a bit of ew grunge + HOLY YES. I don't necessarily disagree with anything you said either, but I could tell that you were both getting tired of the album halfway through.
Have you listened to the trials for the next album?
Mima:
The main problem I had with the whole metal aspect was that the start of the tracks always sounded better than after the track had turned into rock. They had some really nice/awesome sounding stuff that just turned to generic trash. Had they not done the whole metal aspect this track would have been amazing.
That said, the trial you posted does show a huge deal of promise and we shall hopefully be reviewing it when it is eventually released.
Also, during the 24 hours this article was previously posted, the point regarding the album being exclusively about metal was brought to my attention only at that point in time. (I can't read Japanese. ?\(?_o)/? )
Point above still stands though about it, no love for it since it trashed otherwise lovely songs.
Usually Dead:
A new article is up! This one reviews 東方ミッドナイト MAXIMUMTUNE EXTRA STAGE 零. Take a look! Same location as always, on usuallydead.com -> The Orreries Sun