Another
work from 2016 Rock Song Vocaloid Arrange festival. Originally performed by
GO!GO!7188. This one has faaaaar way more life and jauntiness in it, busting
those Visual-key posers as easily as you please. Oh, and Kokone is marvelous!
Enjoy!
This is the
cover of the song once performed by a visual-key band Janne Da Arc. It’s made
by ukaku-san to participate in 2016 Rock Song Vocaloid Arrange festival held on
Nicovideo. All in all, pretty decent old-school heavy metal with Dream Theater
influences.
The cover from the fresh Psycho Assemble Laboratory album. The original piece was composed by Shinji Orito and featured as an ending theme for “Little Busters!” TV anime (as well as in visual novel). Needless to say, the original isn’t worth your precious attention except for you’re a fan of mediocre j-rock, and I hope you aren’t. PAL’s cover is very different story though. 88IO-san has made a total rearranging. The song was converted into post-hardcore, heavily packed with synths. When Orito’s version sounded like some trash thing from 1980-s, the rhythmic nature of the remake brings it on the edge of the modern scene. Fancy breakdown and unusually low-pitched, tempting IA’s vocals make the impression even more solid.
ROUKEN DOGS project makes covers of old dusty metal songs with a help of Gumi. The last one is Ozzy Osbourne’s piece from his 2010 album “Scream”. What should I say, my friends? First, I was shocked to find out Ozzy is still making albums. Twenty-first fucking century, holy crap! Second, I was even more shocked to find out that someone still buys these albums. Man, I’ve disappointed in humanity! Third, Gumi has outsung Ozzy (in my expert, totally unbiased and never-ever-erroneous opinion). Just think of it: vocal-synthesizing software, no, Japanese vocal-synthesizing software has overcome a man. A fucking story for sci-fi action movie, if the reasons weren’t in a man himself. So yeah, Gumi, there isn’t much to be proud of. Keep practicing.
Matsuyo has been releasing Vocaloid covers recently, this time it’s a work for L'Arc-en-Ciel Cover Festival. You may ask me: who the fuck are L'Arc-en-Ciel? Well, if you don’t know them (as I hope), you’d better stay un-aware. And if you do, the cover may make you shit bricks frustrate you.
Because Matsuyo has wrapped everything in thick, full-blown layers of cruel metalcore. Fuck, it grinds! Miku’s singing matches perfectly with the slightly changed atmosphere. While in the original Hyde tries desperately to show us how passionate his feelings are but succeed only in making me hit stop button in an utter disgust after 30 seconds (and I’m not that touchy when it comes to music), Miku is just flat depressive. I haven’t heard such a depressive tone from Vocaloid for a long time. Depression and despair. You know, guys, somehow this makes Miku’s variant much more natural.
Lesxpaulx’ attempt on crossbreeding modern classical with metalcore. The outcome is a nifty symphonic metal (hoocoodanode? :) ) This is the cover again. The original theme is from the soundtrack of Persona 3 video game. Given the incoming material, I should say lesxpaulx’ alchemy works rather impressive. Well, I’ve expected nothing less from the guy, he is gross! As for IA, there is not much work for her there, but she manages it well.
“Naraku no hana” (“Hell Flower”) is a music piece originally produced by Nakazawa Tomoyuki as a theme for “Higurashi When They Cry” TV anime series. Back then “Naraku no hana” was sung by Shima Miyaeiko (who was also the author of the lyrics). Back then “Naraku no hana” lacked distorted lead and rhythm guitars, bass, and proper drums arrangement. And, of course, it lacked Miku. All of which means the song basically… sucked. Might explain 1.8 million views on this Youtube posting along. You know, good stuff never reaches such popularity.
Matsuyo added all the missing parts to the song – and, surprise, surprise! – it became decent enough! The overhaul was made for Nico’s Anime Song Cover Festival. The intro is kinda the tribute to the original work, but then neat (if a little casual) post-hardcore starts. Miku sounds pretty natural, but rather feeble. Like all that blood in the video (and video features nothing but BLOOD, BLOOD, BLOOD!!!) was taken from the vocalist (hmm, do Vocaloids have blood?). At least, the video is truly mesmerizing.
