Yeah at the time, before I realised it was yoshiki not talking to any of the other band members, I thought Sugizo being on tour with Luna Sea was causing the delay, I was simply pointing out that using the word "blame" is a bit strong a word to use because I wasn't pissed off at Sugizo or anything for it in the slightest.
Hopefully that's cleared it all up, and I agree, back to this "album". I've basically lost any excitement/interest in it, we still don't know if there's major production issues going on with the drums, not looking forward to Toshi's rerecorded vocals on songs that require a raspy metal voice like X and Kurenai, (because of his recent stupid comments about his voice, and what he intends to do singing from now on) and the new songs just sound like yoshiki's reusing the music style from Violet UK when you listen to the vocal lines and the background symphonic music together, instead of realising and treating X Japan as (DUH!) THE BAND, and an entirely separate genre of music, and keeping alive X-Japan's unique sound it always used to have. Without You as an X-Japan ballad is the only song that keeps part of the band's uniqueness and what we remember of them alive in their new stuff.
