What do you see (in your head) when you listen to M10M?

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when i hear priere i see Juke singing in a dark forest that surrounds Mana's gothic castle and Mana plays giuitar at the top of one of the towers.

when i hear nocturnal romance, i see ,Mana, Juka, and Kazuno, in some evil labratory. they're in big tubes and have wires running through them.
 

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Depends on the song really......

Dialogue Symphonie = moonlit graveyard...
Solitude = Mana in a lolita dress hopping up and down.....
Pessimiste = Moi dix Mois doing scary things in a huge empty evil cave...... ::firedevil::
Shadows Temple = a dark mysterious stage......
Night breed = demons.......................
Vizard = scrambled images of blood and crosses.... crazy, manic gothic things... ::transform::
Perish = same cave as in Pessimiste, only emptier, darker and more..... depressed lol.......
vestige = Mana playing violin *sigh*........ ::kiss::

Those are the ones that are most prominent for me, anyway........ ~_~
 

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How am I to ever describe the beauty that drives me insane at an instant? How am I ever to depict with words the boundless emotions of Dix? Never. Words for describing it are beyond existence. Explanation of this joy of razor tears is just impossible. I may try, some other time... But definitely not now. It's too hard to compile in a few sentences...
 

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I've got more....... I'll just have to add more M10M imagery as it comes to me...

the Prophet: fire.... angels and demons flying around in an apocalyptic sky....... destruction..... people confessing their sins as they burn alive in despair....... cathedrals crashing to the ground.... I think I've been listening to this song too much........ ::dix::
 

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Various things: graveyards, Mana dancing, vampires, and lots of Castlevania like stuff.
 

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WAY too many things to name. But I do like Cheatsy's answer. ^__^
 

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And like...uh...cathedrals and stuff and capes and the color black yeah...
 

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Gier: LMFAO! XDDD Not quite what I imagine, but funny all the same^_^;;

I always think about the sheer awesomeness of Mana, and just how beautiful and perfect he is :D Every now and then I get confused and think he's singing the songs too... but that's probably just more of Mana's evil plot to take over every position in the band^_^;;
 

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I have a bad habit of setting all music I listen to to my inner worlds. M10M has hit me so close to the heart that I'm now painting a trilogy of illustrations that started from a vision I got from Shadows Temple and extended into a fuller story once I hear Nocturnal Opera as a whole. I'll post them here once they're done. (Won't be for several months, but whatever.)

To randomly list a few that have given me fully developed images rather than feelings...

Dialogue Symphonie: Three people in a catherdral -- one wounded and dying, one ascending the stairs as if to heaven, only to watch the last -- an angel -- at the top jump to its death at the end.

Pessimiste: strange supernatural demon-like creatures with wings of steel in a dead land, climbing on the ruins of a tower

Shadows Temple: A ball at sunset, with hundreds of people in old fashioned clothes spinning and dancing. Then there is also a strange courtyard made of marble with dark columns, and a single couple dancing there. The man is in love, possessive and passionate. The woman is dead inside. Near the end of the song it progresses to night, and I see them being wed in a forest.

The Prophet: A war between beautiful, inhuman creatures. I get the sense that whatever they are fighting for is wrong, and ultimately destroys them all.

Vestige: The same man from Shadows Temple, serenading his lover. She can't hear him.

Mephisto Waltz: Again, the man is singing. but now he's not singing to her, he singing for her sorrow. He's finally realized he can't be loved by her.

The entire Nocturnal Opera album plays out like a story for me between the two lovers... their entire relationship was encompassed in Shadows Temple, and built upon with the album as whole. (Invite to Immorality is a warning, Nocturnal Romance is how they met, etc...) I didn't know how the story ended until I reached the end of the CD: the man dies, corrupted by his own broken heart. And the last image I get is of the woman on a hill at dawn, leaning against his tombstone. But she's not crying. I don't think she ever felt anything.


Mana does fun things to my head. :]
 

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Nocturnal Romance: the sun is setting and Mana's Nocturnal Opera House is getting ready for the show! Juka is outside singing about the show to draw in the crowds, and you can hear the orchestra warming up inside...

Monophobia: Our hero (played by Mana) is in his castle's study sitting at his desk, try to write some music... and on the wall are all the masks from "Bel Air" now broken in two. There are papers and broken quills and stuff scattered all over and he's having trouble, and then the clouds outside part and sunlight comes in from the skylight!

Vestige: He goes out to the balcony overlooking the Aegean Sea, and... well, the lyrics speak for themself. He's lost the one he loves.

Vizard: Night falls and our hero walks down to the graveyard. The memories of everyone who's left him behind drive him into desperation and despair...

Mephisto Waltz: Our hero stops short; in his despairing wanderings he has come up to the mausoleum of his lost love. It's the only structure in that dark graveyard that is still pure white. All his anger drains away and he is filled with quiet sorrow as he reflects on losing her.

MAD INGRAIN/the Prophet: He lifts his eyes to the heavens and curses his fate. Now he burns with passion, but he knows that the end is drawing near for him and he must die.

Perish: The moon is continually covered and uncovered by the turbulent clouds as a storm gathers. Under its eerie light, our hero expires among the tombs, thinking only of one person...

Shadows Temple-x: Now the opera is over and the spell is broken. The actors take a bow and the curtain falls. And then as a special encore, Mana, Juka, Kazuno, and Tohru take the stage to play one last musical number!
 

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OMG......... flowers.......... wow...... I (for once) am without words...... :o
 

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In midnight ruins...
Shadows Temple: X___________X (<------- censored :P )
 

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Wow... flowers... don't you want to make a film or a PV for MDM ?! Might be better than MM's film ;)
You have such great ideas... :o
 

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When I listen to Monophobia I get this image in my head:

Mana in a white dress, with beautiful, flowing wings, on a cloud in heaven dancing with the carebears while singing the chorus to the song.

(I'm on the wrong board huh? lol).
 

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Only thing I will say is, when I listen to Dialogue Symphonie I think of lots and lots of blood...
 

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Vestige: Juka standing on a black marble surface as far as the eye can see. An eclipse behind him creates a black sunset in a darkblue sky. Mana plays violin (dressed in a black version of his gardenia costume) and slowly twirls gracefully around Juka. in the end, the eclipse sets and everything is consumed by darkness.
 

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Night Breed: Mana and Juka stand atop a giant grave in an endless graveyard enshrouded in fog. Mana's violent Guitar rifts summon countless demons. Juka's voice commands them. they ascend to the sky and begin the rip eachother apart. their dark blood showers the graveyard. Mana unsheathes a silver sword and kills all the demons. it ends with Mana descending from the dark sky and plunging his sword into the ground.
 

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Detresse: Mana, Juka, Kazuno, and Tohru, play with all their equipment giving a live performance to an empty theater, a hooded dix slave plays organ and harpsicord. the performance is in the firery depths of hell. the camera slowly zooms out until all y can see is fire.

Front et Baiser: Mana stumbles in an illusionary haze through a dark corridor in his castle. Juka stands at the end of the corridor singing as if to guide Mana to him. Tohru and Kazuno, can be seen outside the castle at the front gate.

Glorie dans le silence: Mana, Juka, Kazuno, and Tohru are playing this song in a padded room with very bright lights, they all wear untied strait jackets. they are looked upon through a glass window in the steel door.

Monophobia: Mana, Juka, Kazuno, and Tohru perform this song in an endless graveyard. the sky is filled with millions of stars. the camera spins around them giving us shots from all angles. at the end Mana reaches toward the sky and dies.
 

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Front et Baiser - I picture like bats in the air and then like mana walking on water and falling inside and its like another world...

tentation - i picture like a crazy house, but its really medieval looking and their all crazy... :lol: hehe
 

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Pessimiste: Juka sings as if he's screaming to the heavens, pleading for something he will never have.

Shadows temple: Mana plays his guitar in an empty ballroom. Juka sings on the balcony with Shadow X. Kazuno plays the violin, but you can't see him. Mana is later surrounded by ghostly shadowy figures dancing a waltz.

Tentation: Juka sings in a pitchblack room surrounded by red candles.
 
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