Tracks:

1. INTRO

2. The Love from a Dead Orchestra

3. Shout & Bites

4. Beast of Desire

5. The Red Carpet Day

6. Sympathia

Versailles’ Lyrical Sympathy was released on October 31st, 2007. It’s their first mini-album.

INTRO is well… an intro. It’s got a lot of fanfare and whatnot and reminds me alot of the Legend of Zelda games. o.o

The Love from a Dead Orchestra is an amazing song. This song blew me away because of how many sounds it takes on. The beginning is electric guitar and a combination of piano and strings. The guitar rifts are great and Kamijo’s voice sounds perfect. This song is a whopping 8 minutes and 29 seconds and has different verses that sound different. The first one lasts almost half way through the song, but it cuts out and we’re greeted with fast strings and some aggressive guitar. Soon Kamijo starts talking, than a little piano and guitar solo comes in. After that, just a plain piano solo, that lasts about 30 seconds and cuts out and it returns with a more darker sounding piano which turns into an awesome guitar solo, that turns back into the normal song that we heard in the beginning.

The main promotional song for the album is oddly titled Shout & Bites. It even has a PV to go along with it! I really like how Kamijo’s sounds deep, it works really well with this song, as well as others. The guitar in this song sounds really cool, and I like the strings in the background to back it up.

Beast of Desire opens with some weird music that I can’t really describe, but that quickly turns into fast, aggressive song. I really like how fast this song is. The song lets up after the first chorus and isn’t as fast, but that quickly changes.

The next track opens with beautiful strings, and I think some harp. Forbidden Gate has more of an elegant feel to it and the first verse is the calmest so far. Once the chorus comes in, a lot more guitar is added but it leaves the string instrumental in it, which I thought was cool.

Getting back into the speedy, aggressive sound is The Red Carpet Day. Except this one has a new instrument we haven’t heard on the album, an organ (I think?) This is my least favourite song on the album because I just didn’t like the way Kamijo’s voice sounded with the song. I do, however, like the guitar solo.

The slowest on the album, and my favourite Versailles song EVER, is Sympathia. It opens with some piano, and it sounded really pretty. Soon the guitar comes in, and Kamijo sings the chorus, to start it off. I can’t really describe why I like this song, it just sounds really pretty and everything about it amazes me. When the song comes to end, it ends with a piano version of the chorus from The Revenant Choir, which I thought was neat.

Holy cow, this album is so amazing. o_o Each song on it is good, except The Red Carpet Day. I really admire these guys, their guitar skills and Kamijo’s vocals are the best. These guys are the best visual kei band that I’ve ever heard, and if you’re looking for fast rock, with a dash of elegance you should definately check them out!

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