Sorry guys for the swearing but I just cannot take this sht anymore. It's ridiculous that fans think the album should be put above Yoshiki's physical health. I don't care about the album. I don't want this band to lose its core, its main songwriter and heart. I want him to get better, to be able to continue with making music and tour around the world. I don't care about release dates!
No offense, but I can see you've been a fan for two months and dont know how it feels being told for almost ten years that album is "99% done". Some of us have been fans since way before the reunion, we remember how crazy it was to see them reuniting and how it all sounded so promising. Going now on hiatus because of a surgery wouldn't be a problem if at least meanwhile we had some album to listen to, some new live shows on DVD to watch and so on. It's been fucking 10 years, same time that went from Vanishing Vision release to the Last Song release.
As for the surgery, I hope he'll get better and kick off again, I believe they could play till their 60s so they still have 10 years to make up for these lost years.