Malice Mizer - ALL SONGS REVIEWED
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- Опубликовано: 7 сен 2024
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A Malice Mizer video in 2021. That's right. Malice Mizer is a band that has been recommended on this channel for a number of years. I've been holding off on a video of them for awhile. I thought a Musician Spotlight wouldn't exactly work for this band since most of the information on them is speculative and their band leader, Mana, typically liked to keep to himself. Mana would often not even talk in interviews and he's never revealed his true identity to people. I didn't feel right making a video about who he is. Also their long song titles, use of French and other languages would mean a lot of their work is hard to pronounce. Join me on this long adventure while I listen and grade EVERY Malice Mizer song.
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The fact people are still talking about MM in 2021 fills my heart with inexplicable joy - thank you so much for giving us this project, it’s a big undertaking and you did an amazing job with it. Without a doubt my favourite band of all time bar none - totally subbing to this channel - kudos x
Thanks really means a lot. Malice Mizer were pioneers and it was cool to discover them. Even after making this video I still put them on.
Found this in 2023! I only found out about malice Mizer a couple months ago but it’s such a great band
This was amazing, thank you so much. It makes me so happy to see people still listening to and talking about MM. I even still see people discussing where Klaha went when he dissapeard. Rumor has it he's taken up multiple different jobs, such as car washer, convince store cashier, kindergarten teacher and banker. Others say he lies under an old church in his vampire coffin waiting for a young maiden to awake him from his eternal sleep with a kiss xD
I can honestly see him as a private voice instructor or something. Usually what happens when a musician quits the music scene.
Apparently I heard some more rumors that there is a money issue with the royalties(idk if true)...and when that comes into play, Klaha would probably make more money as a voice instructor and any studio would hire him with Malice Mizer as his resume.
Glad you enjoyed the video!
Awesome work on doing such an in-depth analysis for this band in 2021. If you want more Tetsu, they had a demo in 1992 named "Sans Logique". The song "Sadness" is an A+ song in my opinion, even if the sound quality is rough as hell.
Thanks! I'll have to check that out.
I’m not too sure if you’ve been told yet since this video did come out a year ago, but there are 3 other songs (from my knowledge) that Tetsu sang for Malice Mizer. The songs are, Lafflesia composed by Mana, SADNESS～I know the reason for her sadness～ composed by Közi, and SPEED OF DESPRATE which was also composed by Mana. They could’ve been mentioned in the video and I didn’t catch it though.
Yes, he's already been told. And there are more songs from the Tetsu era than just the ones you mentioned: Freeze Me, Portugal, Hakuchû no Waltz, Shôjo no Hitomi, 16 no Solitude, Zenshô, and of course Ma Chérie and Shi no Butô...
In total, there are 17 songs from the Tetsu era, and that's without including the instrumental songs like Shûmaku e no Tobira, Temptation of Widow, De Mémoire...
If you're interested, I've made a list of all the M+M songs that I know of. This list doesn't include the S.E like Croix or Romania, nor the song variations such as Au Revoir~bossa nova or Gekka no yasôkyoku~de l'image. Besides, the songs performed by different vocalists, such as Égée, Kioku to sora, or ma Chérie were only listed once.
*Demo tape - Sans logique*
1. Temptation of widow
2. Shûmaku e no tobira
*Tetsu era - Mémoire*
1. De mémoire
2. Kioku to sora
3. Égée
4. Gogo no sasayaki
5. Miwaku no RÔMA
6. Seraph
7. Baroque
8. Sadness
9. Speed of desperate
10. Freeze me
11. Portugal
12. Shôjo no hitomi
13. 16 no solitude
14. Hakuchû no waltz
15. Rafflesia
16. Ma chérie
17. Shi no butô
18. Zenchô
*Gackt era - Voyage sans retour + Merveilles*
1. Uruwashiki kamen no shotaijô
2. Après-midi/Après-midi~English style
3. Regret
4. Yami no kanata e
5. Transylvania
6. Tsuyoku no kakera
7. Premier amour
8. Itsuwari no musette
9. N.p.s N.g.s
10. Claire
11. Madrigal
12. De merveilles
13. Syunikiss
14. Bel air
15. Color me blood red
16. Illuminati
17. Brise
18. Je te veux
19. Au revoir
20. Gekka no yasôkyoku
21. S-conscious
22. Le ciel
23. Bois de merveilles
*Mourning period - Shinwa + Bara no seidô*
1. Saikai
2. Unmei no deai
3. Mori no naka no tenshi
4. Bara ni irodorareta akui to higeki no makuake
5. Seinaru toki, eien no inori
6. Kyomu no naka de no yûgi
7. Kagami no butô, genwaku no yoru
8. Mayonaka ni kawashita yakusoku
9. Chinurareta kajitsu
10. Chikasuimyaku no meiro
11. Hakai no hate
12. Shiroi hada ni kurû ai to kanashimi no Rondo
13. Saikai no chi to bara
*Klaha era - “Cardinal” (singles)*
1. Prologue
2. Gardenia
3. Hôkai jokyoku
4. Beast of blood
5. Baptism of blood
6. Bara no sôretsu
7. Garnet
8. Gensô rakuen
Found this video pretty late, but I'm super happy to have taken the time to watch through and hear your opinion. Mana's later project Moi Dix Mois is an excellent experiment of Gothic Rock (and some harder rock as well).
Kozi also went on to have a solo project with several albums and singles in the mid-2000's and also started singing. His vocal style has gone through tremendous character development and growth, and he continued with his occasionally wacky composition choices into present day with smaller projects like 'Eve of Destiny', playing guitar for other bands like DALLE and XA-VAT, and finally settling into his current band where he sings and plays guitar called ZIZ.
I actually discovered malice only a month ago and so this was great for finding more songs, thank you, also I agree on the bass thing, when I discovered malice that was what I thought. The original ma Chérie was a Tetsu song, I feel like you would prefer that version. Also people dislike Gackt for all manner of reasons (s*xual assault allegations, joking about malice being dead etc.) so it’s pretty justified.
Idk if true, but I heard he took a camera crew to film him crying over Kami's grave which apparently put some bad taste in people's mouth.
@@PhoenixSplash really? where did you read/hear that? I dont have respect for gackt since he quit MM, but that's off limit :(
Back in late 90s early 00s, I was a hardcore fan of Malice Mizer, so after everything that happened, I was so happy when they found Klaha and released Garnet and Beast of Blood. I thought their future as a band was brighter than ever. Then they suddenly disbanded ;u;
So I found solace in Deadman and... well shit happens ;u;
Funny thing, U2 being my favorite band ever, I was caught by Malice Mizer after I heard Le Ciel, because the guitar riff sounds so much as The Edge's to me. I never had heard anybody to noticed that, so I jumped when you mentioned it with Gone with the wind V.2
Great video!
Thanks! Yeah there's a some U2 I hear in the guitar work for sure.
I've never seen this kind of analysis before. Good work man.
Thanks man! I wish this series wasn't affected so much by copyright stuff.
"Color Me Blood Red" was the song that lead me to Malice Mizer in 2000! By 2001, i was devastated by their hiatus status... Kozi has produced some of my fav post-MM work to date, tho. Should give that a listen!
Please do Moi Dix Mois and Versailles!! These Videos are so cool and informartive!!
YESS oh my god Au Revoir is unironically one of the greatest songs ever made. Thank you for this video, it's so well made and was such a fun watch :)
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I loved this deep dive. There were actually quite a few songs / releases in here that I had never heard of before - especially the album Voyage. Guess I'm not as much of a fan as I always thought I was.
I've been in love with Malice Mizer ever since I first heard them around 2007 or so.
I'm also a musician - drummer and bassist - but I know very little music theory. So I very much appreciate how in depth you went on some of these songs.
I absolutely LOVE how entirely different this bands compositions are, compared to ANYTHING made outside Japan. Same is true for a great many other Visual Kei bands.
There's a sense of emotional gravitas in Japanese compositions that you just don't find in western music. At the very least I have not come across anything that has grabbed me as much as Japanese Visual Kei music.
Yeah, it's really unique! I'm actually working on another one of these with dir en grey. Even though this one didn't do well with viewcount, I think the people who found it really enjoyed it. So this series will definitely live.
@@PhoenixSplash looking forward to that video!!
ahh thank you so much for this video! its rare to have such a technical, thoughtful perspective on malice mizer.
Tsuioku no Kakera and Shi no Buto were actually songs from the Tetsu era that were only played live with him. So that might explain why there was no composer credit, just as there was no composer credit for Ma Cherie, another Tetsu era song. There was also a vocal version of Zenchou which was performed with guitars from that period.
I literally have Voyage before me and both songs were composed by Mana. Also, only Shi no Butou was an old Tetsu song, hence why its lyrics are credited as written by "Malice Mizer" as opposed to Gackt, who wrote all other lyrics. Using the band name for writing credits where the writing of ex band members is concerned, is pretty normal in VK (maybe Japanese music as a whole?)
Thank you for this emotional rollercoaster, didn't expect to cry on this video haha also your method of formatting is really nice!
Thank you for watching. I hope you find some time to check out the music on this RUclips Channel.
It was a really good video! I was expecting you to react to Sadness ( tetsu era) but I guess the song didn’t fall on your radar :) Do you ever plan on reviewing it?
I really appreciate people like you making videos on Malice Mizer, keeping the fandom alive!
i enjoyed this a lot!!! thank youuu, it was interesting. Mm I was waiting for 'Sadness' and 'Speed Of Desperate' from Tetsu era :( i think those are amazing songs! I'd love to know your review of these two.
For what you said, i think Tetsu really wrote Ma Cherie but i'm not sure. I listened to the live version of that song with him on vocals, so...
I like Gackt's voice a lot, i love Klaha so muuuuch but I definitely love and enjoy Tetsu's voice more 'cause I just LOVE that era. What i'm always sad is that i think we will never hear a studio version of 'Portugal' and '16 no solitude' u_u you can hear me crying somewhere. But yeah i love MM so much, forever in love with them. I miss Kami a lot
Speed of desperate is so good!
this video is so fun 😊 I'll forever love the Gackt era . I've been a Gackt fan since I was young, I didn't have the attention span to listen to anything other than the popular MM tracks. It was nice to revisit their music and get a fuller picture of what they were doing at that time. It gave me a strange sense of nostalgia.
My top 3 songs:
Au Revoir
Le Ciel
Illuminati
pretty basic choices, I guess
Thank you so much for this! Amazing work! This is my favorite band in years! And we agreed a lot in taste haha so I feel good. My favorites changes from time to time, but the development of the band is so interesting, you can ear the dark turns once the loss of Kami, its clear also that they didn’t want to give much spotlight to the vocalist ever again. Even, the whole creation is beautiful and very inspirational.
Glad you enjoyed it!
THANKS A LOT! I was trying to remember their song that I listened back in high school. I could not recall the title. Thanks that you have it in your video!!
"Baroque" is the one I am looking for!!
Glad I could help!
Great review, kudos!
I have all their albums and singles, and therefore can confirm some facts thanks to the information found in the booklets. Hôkai Jokyoku was composed by Mana. Bara no Sôretsu was indeed composed by Kami (sound programmed by Yu~ki, arranged by Malice Mizer). Shue plays the drums on Gardenia and Beast of Blood. Garnet was composed by Közi. Akui is the support drummer on Garnet and Gensô Rakuen. The lyrics of these singles were all written by Klaha.
Also, Ma Chérie and Shi no Butô~a romance of the Cendrillon were composed during the Tetsu era, and they permormed these songs on stage. In fact, the band wrote about 20 songs when Tetsu was their singer, although only 7 ended up on the album Mémoire. The other songs from that era include Freeze Me, Rafflesia, Shôjo no Hitomi, 16 no Solitude, Sadness, Speed of Desperate, Hakuchû no Waltz, etc. There's also the demo tape Sans Logique (a nod to France's most iconic pop singer Mylène Farmer, Mana is a big fan of hers) that features the instrumental songs Tempation of the Widow and Shûmaku e no Tobira...
If you have any question, feel free to ask ^_=
Thanks for watching and thanks for your input a well! Might have to revisit this group in someway shape or form.
You should check out one of their first songs with Tetsu “I Know The Reason For Her Sadness!”
You’ve heard “Gone With the Wind” before because it’s literally a remake of “Dedicated to the Aegean Sea” from Memoire. Malice Mizer rarely performed old songs whenever they got a new vocalist, and when they did they would rewrite them. They did this for “Memory and Sky” with Klaha too.
I noticed that when I was editing. Same guitar riff with some changes. Most bands would just change the key of the song, but its cool that they rewrite the whole song.
This video has made me realize that its been wayyy too long since I've listened to Malice Mizer. Band was nothing less than amazing.
Tetsu sang Ma Cherie only once live, but unfortunately there’s no studio version of that 😔
absolutely loved this deep dive, and finding some songs I didnt know about. Thanks!
Great job with this. I'm curious about your thoughts on their early demos.
Those hate comments about Gackt were freaking hilarious 😂😂😂 I miss the old internet forums
there was even that one single website dedicated for posting edited pics of gackt to mock him! oh, time flies :')
THANK YOU FOR THISSS
Glad you enjoyed this deep dive. I hope you'll check out some of the original music of this channel.
33:22 - No deal, I'll hate you for ranking it anything lower than A+++ Gold
I love how much effort you put into this video. Your explanations for the song ratings were really interesting. I didn't know that MM "stole" the Le Ciel guitar riff from Luna Sea---now my review of that track looks embarrassing😅. I haven't watched the whole video yet but I will come back to it for sure.
Don't fret it. Most musicians who want to make money will do things like that. I hope you come back.
I think their intro piano for memoire is special because of its vibe. Dedicated to the Aegean Sea is one of my favorites
The only other song I would have loved to hear your opinion on would be the Klaha Era rendition of kioku to sora, as it is considered a different song
Nice song review, this is my favorite band, and malice mizer influence the way I make my music
I agree with all your criticisms for the most part except for the bass. I think the basslines for a majority of the songs are very clear and audible. I’m just not sure where you’re getting that.
Maybe it's my speakers. Some songs I hear it better.
Regret was missing? And some other tetsu songs, anyway great video, my favorite band ever! Your opinion and rating are very valids, everyone's taste is different, so thanks for the reviews!!! 😊
please listen to La’cryma Christi!! they were also really popular along with Malice Mizer in the mid 90s, there first 2 official releases Dwellers of a Sandcastle and Sculpture of Time are genuinely like nothing i’ve ever heard before, there drummer is also amazing and the members were/are still good friends with MM
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i personally prefer Brise and Bel Airs live performances more than their studio releases
listen to the live version of Seinaru Koku, Eien no Inori (Sacred Time, Eternal Prayer) for the guitars, bass and drums, it's beautiful and adds yet another layer to the song. (i'm actually surprised you didn't give it an A but no hard feelings lol)
Bara no Seidou is my favorite album but they really disappointed with the mixing. the mixing for the live for Bara no Seidou is vastly superior, even Saikai no Chi to Bara gets a very nice cello at the beginning. i really reccomend it if you wish to listen to that album at its peak.
Ad weirdness of De Mémoire... I think there is a high probability that this was not played on piano but on guitar with MIDI interface since Mana at this time couldn't play the piano/keyboards as he stated somewhere.
Ad lyrics of Ma Cherie... They were trully written by Tetsu, you can find his live performances of this song on YT.
thank you very much gor this video
So nice of you
I agree with most of what you said and rated but Nidome no Aitou - Syunikiss is definitely an S tier song.
Nice review, loved your comments and i agree all that you said about Kami
i just missed sans logique, but i'm sure you'll check that out
Thanks, will do!
Nice video! Love it
I'm glad you like it
Midi was introduced in '83 BTW
also the reason gackt gets so much hate isn’t just because of how he left mm, he also has done alot of bad stuff publicly like evading taxes, sexual assault allegations and alot of disrespectful stuff towards the other mm members and kamis legacy
Gackt and MM really left on bad terms. Gackt will never join any of their anniversary concerts
@@seraby7151 why were gackt and mm on bad terms?
Aegean ~Gone with the Wind~ is an S-tier for me
Thank you for your reviews! I agree with you about Au Revoir and Kyoumu no Naka de no Yuugi being top notch songs. That and Gackt and Kami's solos. Just beautiful. Au Revoir is also really pretty on just piano as as well as Après-Midi. Such pretty music. You have great taste. 💚
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ayo ayo ayo where is sadness??
Do me a favour and listen to the blue hearts band, its one of my favourite bands ever
It’s an old Japanese band but you will love it ❤
Gackt also imitated the appearance of band guitar Masatoshi Mashima
Interesting, I will add it to my list.
This is awesome! So glad to see other channels doing this type of content. Liked and subbed for more of this. We do Malice Mizer covers and other Visual Kei related videos on ours, check it out!
Thanks for the sub!
i love how you went thru most songs but i totally disagree with le ciel and mayonaka ni kawashita yakusoku bc what the heck 🙁🙁
There will always be a few we disagree with. Especially with a review this big and a band that diverse. Lol
@@PhoenixSplash so real . anyway all the other ratings were so good i agreed on them ☺️ im so glad visual kei bands are getting more attention from westerners!! love from japan💜
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OH SO IM NOT INSANE FOR THINKING LE CIEL ISNT THE HOLY GRAIL SOME PEOPLE MAKE IT OUT TO BE THANK GOD 😭😭 i like the song lots and the outfits used for it are one of my fave vkei looks but cmon...why listen to it when you can listen to like gekka no yasoukyoku instead
It's all about taste and perspective really. I had heard songs similar to it before. I supposed if I heard Le ciel first, maybe I'd appreciate the sound more.
This is something Japanese composers would do...especially in the Visual Kei side of things. They would purposefully mimic each other's songs. Endless Rain by X has been mimicked so many times.