Anyone excited about NEGA’s return? Earlier this year VKH
told our audience about their new 2nd full album, Vanitas, and now
it’s finally here along with a new PV!
You all know how NEGA is, they like their theatrical PVs. I
think this one could be their most epic and creative. This PV is a mix of Dir
en Grey’s Vinshuka and the GazettE’s Chizuru.
My reasons behind that are the fact that in part of the PV the band is in
a beach setting with the waves crashing around every once and a while, as well
as what they are all wearing. They are all in suits almost like how the GazettE
was dressed. Even Jin is wearing the hat Ruki was.
My reasons for picking Dir en Grey’s Vinshuka, however, was
because of the overall average speed of the song. Just like with Vinshuka, they
start of slow with a slow somber melody until they get to their fast paced,
heavy breakdowns.
NEGA seems to be following in the same footsteps as Dir en
Grey. Comparing both their PVs they are both very dramatic, showing a lot of
emotion within, band members feeling their music as well and yet to add to it;
when it comes to the breakdowns NEGA knows when to change their persona to
match the new tone. Dir en Grey does the same exact thing.
This PV for Vanitas has the eerie feeling of death. Once again I do not know the translation of the lyrics, but just by the tone of the song, you know it’s scary, you can feel all these changes in the song change your own emotion. The intro gives off the tone of suspense, seeing the band in a place where nothing is around, with a muted color tone. When the turn of events comes, the setting is now in a dark place, with a dark color scheme, giving the band a ghostly white skin tone. This is where the breakdown is and gives of that scary feeling. Throughout the PV there are the constant changes between these two settings and tones.
The PV starts with a very eerie slow intro. Odd ambient
noise is in the background, but you have the guitar strumming something soft,
and a piano and synth (or maybe organ) that has been processed with effects to
give it that dark tone they both have. At 1:17 the drums and bass and guitars
come in adding to the slow steady intro they have San, the lead guitar, start
with his own tremolo.
Jin doesn’t start to sing until about 2:00, changing the bands rhythm into a choppy like strumming, morphing into a slight groove with a really heavy bass line. When a slight rhythm change sets in after Jin’s voice used the telephone effect and the guitar had soft picking, the change is almost a slow head bang type until you hear Jin’s scream.
Jin doesn’t start to sing until about 2:00, changing the bands rhythm into a choppy like strumming, morphing into a slight groove with a really heavy bass line. When a slight rhythm change sets in after Jin’s voice used the telephone effect and the guitar had soft picking, the change is almost a slow head bang type until you hear Jin’s scream.
The breakdown sequence is epic. It’s a heavy, fast paced, and low tuned breakdown that lasts a minute. Throughout the breakdown you have Jin screaming and whispering the lyrics, adding more to the scary dark tone they created before slowing down again to a slight break.
After this break, the band comes back in with the bass
having its own solo that is very dark and slow, then changes to this very epic drum
and piano solo, almost as if they are fighting with each other. Those two
coming in back to back, make the song’s tone change into something frightening,
then having San come in with a very fast paced solo playing as the climax of
the song. During that time Jin speaks some of his lyrics.
After another small break, Jin transitions from a set of new lyrics back into the original melody there was close to the beginning. However we are still not close to the end of the song yet. NEGA still surprises me with their choice of different melodies within the song. Around 9:00, San puts down his electric and starts to strum his acoustic guitar until his moving electric guitar solo at 9:41. With the solo’s long sustained notes, the melody San chose gives off this feeling of helplessness. As said before this song is a death like song. That solo is what you could say is the cherry on top; the acceptance stage of the many stages of death. The song then ends with their fast and heavy breakdown from the beginning, and having that as the type of feeling of the end of their lives.
If you haven’t checked out NEGA’s
new song yet please do!
And also here is the review on NEGA’s new album
Vanitas.
Review: NEGA - Vanitas
Review: NEGA - Vanitas
-Sawako~
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