Originally posted by: Terracosmo

Well I'll start by recommending Dir en grey's new album Withering to Death.
It contains 14 tracks but is unfortunately rather short, clocking in at 51 minutes.
For any fan of jrock with distorted sounds and unique elements, I'd recommend it.
For the fans, it's a must... a step up from 2003's Vulgar, which was a pretty dull CD overall.

Album highlights: Merciless Cult, C, Saku, The Final
You got there first dammit. Great album, though for me Vulgar was my favourite overall (mainly cos of Audence Killer Loop and Amber, and the videos for Child Prey and Obscure which were ace). The middle part of Vulgar was bland but it started and ended well. Only song I don't really like from Withering is that Jesus Christ RnR - that 'wah wah wah-wah-wah' bits well irritating...

Since thats gone, I'd recommend The Mad Capsule Markets - Osc-Dis. Another Japanese band but they actually do pretty well in Europe which is fairly rare (they made a slight impact on America as well but not too much) - Osc-Dis is my favourite album of all time, loads of digital loops and stuff like that, kind of mixes punk, pop, rap, types of dance music and metal...really hard to explain them, but I think the album is well worth a try, each song varies really well as well. They've got like 12 albums out by now, the old stuff is all old fashioned punk and very different from the new stuff...