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  • Kyo should make an album with solely singing. It would be cool for the fan who enjoy his singing voice :D

  • @no1aviator - I think the best thing about their albums is that there's usually "something for everyone," you have the song w/ catchy chorus, the somber ballad, the screamy / growlie song that gets show crowds pumped. Even on an album like Marrow (which I felt the least impressed by) it still had some diamonds like The Pledge and Namamekashiki, so you can't say "all he ever does is do growls and screams," he can still sing, and I hope he'll still be able to after the surgery.

  • @WiiClassic2usb I agree both with the balance and the fact that TMOAB isn't my fav. I think its not DEGs fault that it sounds bad/grainy but the mixing and mastering could have played a bigger difference. An album can still sound good with some grainy sounds in it but the over sound of TMOAB is just hard to listen to. I def needs an american mixer, engineer and mastering do make it sounds right.

  • @Thisshouldbeblank - MoaB, to me just seemed too sludgy overall, but DSS is like if MoaB & Uro had a baby. It doesn't quite have that ''universal'' appeal, but even the experimental stuff is intriguing and you catch new things in each listen, the singles of course are lovely earworms. Vanitas had me tear up almost as bad as Mushi, Ruten no Tou just lifts you up and carries you. And the contrasts are great, something MoaB coulda had more of imo to make it not feel as stagnant.

  • music video... with... Tentacle porn :D

  • I can't stop listening...replay...replay...­replay!

  • I apparently hadn't seen enough hentai to know where this video was going.

  • Fucking awesome!

  • Wtf is this video portraying its fucking disgusting

  • @frogger439 The video fits perfectly with the song.Now stfu and pay some respect to the band.

  • Killer intro. 

  • This song is great, but its not old dir en grey. They are so different then they used to be. I honestly do really love this song, but in a sense it broke my heart listening to just how much they changed. Obscure and Saku shall forever be my favorite songs by them.

  • @FuckMeCrispy1 I respect your opinion,but they are way better now than they were before.At least they didn't change like Linkin Park :S

  • @MikyWrita - Hearing/seeing something like this... then going back to something like "Jealous" or "I'll," it may as well not even be the same band. Not saying that's bad, they just grew up. Any good artist is constantly evolving. If they'd just kept trying to make the next Missa, or Gauze or Macabre over and over again, they'd have gotten stagnant, right?

  • @WiiClassic2usb I dont understand what you're trying to say?You mean you like this sound more,or what?Cause,i find this album superior to their older stuff.Mostly cause they put more emotion in these songs,than the older ones.

  • @MikyWrita - I'm agreeing with you, I'm saying their super early stuff was like... not necessarily "boring" but, like water running through a babbling brook. The kinda stuff I'd put on if I wanted to fall asleep. Y'know, kinda like how I am with Malice Mizer or any of those other watery, wispy VK bands that are practically interchangeable with each other. When Dir progressed, people bitched that they were "americanizing," I still have yet to see them do entire albums of english songs.

  • @WiiClassic2usb - I'm as nostalgic as the next guy, I got into them in '03 through a friend (who was obsessed with MM, Gackt, Hyde etc) and he linked me to a site called Project-J, where I ended up seeing Dir en grey, downloaded Cage and thought "this is interesting." Sought out more by them and enjoyed it. I really liked the more rockier stuff at the time like Shokubeni, Red [em], Drain Away, Kasumi, but I also liked the more somber stuff like AATD, Mushi, Undecided as well.

  • @WiiClassic2usb - I remember back in those days, going on Boo's old website, Centegrade-J, back before he was doing Purple Sky Magazine and reading the translations of the songs there. I couldn't afford to amass huge collections of imports like ever other fan did, but I did get pretty excited when I'd heard the news that Withering to Death would get domestic release. I love the music, love going to see them play when I can, but some of the fandom can be pretty... well, harsh.

  • @WiiClassic2usb I understand you,i personally don't like their older stuff.I like maybe Yokan,Schwein No Isu and stuff like that.But Dum Spiro Spero and Uroboros are something thats going to be stuck in my heart forever.Thank you Kyo,and the rest of the band,for doing something to my life.

  • @MikyWrita - And the way it is a "something for everyone" or as that ass, Kieth Bergman wrote in his review of WtD for Blabbermouth, called it a "mixed bag." Every fan has different tastes and there's something there that may or may not appeal to them, but there will always be -someone- to whom it will appeal. Some stuff is easily palatable, like Yokan, Taiyo no Ao, Jessica etc, but then other stuff requires more patience, emotional fortitude and open-mindedness from a listener.

  • @WiiClassic2usb - I loved the hell outta Uroboros, that album, to me seemed like it could easily cross the divide between the "metal" and "classic" sects of the fandom. You had a perfect symmetry of heavy / soft, experimental and shifting and then just plain catchy as hell rock. Toguro, Gaika, Ware, Dokoku, Inconvenient - great tracks with crazy tempo then out of nowhere hook, then "catchies" like Dozing Green and Glass Skin that just made you wanna sing along.

  • well I have bad news for ya all, we'll have to wait untill kyo's voice gets better, cause he has polyps. He'll probably get surgery, and he'll have to let his voice rest for a moment (I have absolutely no idea how that's possible with this man). But please support him in this situation. Don't worry, he'll be fine, I mean, we all know him, nothing can beat him!! You can look up the original post at jpopasia.

  • really loved 0:00-5:02 of the video and song

  • hey dude,what the cartoon called that appeared in this pv?

  • @hk19950329 it's called mahou shoujo ai.

  • @kristiankaulitz13 ha,it seems gd

  • Great

  • Ahh, why does such a beautiful, mesmerizing song need such a disgusting video?

  • YAY Hakua Ugestu xD kyo's voice is so beautiful * - *

  • demoniaque man  ame senssible bne suiver pas !

  • damn sweet screams, and i can feel there is something special about these guy

  • It is only me thinking that it is Asian Slipknot?)

  • @oleksandrda Nothing like the talentless irrelevant Slipknot!

  • @oleksandrda Are u fucking serious?? get your ears tested.

  • Dir en grey's vocalist Kyo has been diagnosed with vocal cord nodule and voice disorder. Hope he recovers soon :(

  • Kyo's vocals:

    Screams - Like a banshee killing another banshee mercilessly

    Growls - Satan gargling with salt and sulfer

    Singing - An angel straight out of heaven

    Diru:

    The greatest band ever hands down

  • the guitar solo sounds so like trivium (in a way) but dir en grey version-if you know what i mean.

  • Do they still play the old stuff at concerts? I'm not digging the new music, but I'm not hating on it either. It may be his cup of tea, but not mine, and that's my opinion.

  • @kaorutheimpaler Yes, they played 'Ain't afraid to die' in london last year....AND I WASN'T THERE TO HEAR IT LIVE!!! T^T

  • @kaorutheimpaler I was at their concert in Toronto in December and they mainly played their new stuff, they did play Kodou though, in the encore :3 made me happy, and a few of their older songs but don't expect too many old songs.

  • @MrKanojo

    I think he's talking about the old VK Diru. Kodou may be old but it was from Withering to Death which was the first album of the current, more "macho" Diru, likely an attempt to appeal to effemiphobic Americans. I'm hoping that western androgynous neo-glam bands like Black Veil Brides make headway in the next few years in order to help make traditional VK (fanservice and all) more acceptable here therefor breathing new life into it. Alot of newer VK SUCKS SUCKS SUCKS.

  • @HazelHusky Yeh I can see what you mean, I doubt they will play much of their old old music and if they do it will be a complete surprise. People were even surprised that they played Kodou so I guess we just have to wait and see. They play a lot of their older music over in Japan but I don't think we will see much of that on this side of the world :/ sadly, but I do LOVE their new music so I am not complaining haha.

  • can't wait to see them live at the Still Reckless Tour :D

  • @coheedgirl013 too bad they're not performing

  • How about be more open minded? ALL music IS music, thus following that ALL art is therefore art. And, as follows this is therefore MUSIC and/or ART.

  • The Hentai in here is Mahou Shoujo Ai San,For all the fucks who care.

  • @sonicizkool It should be disposed of... INTO A HALL OF FAME!

  • I never said there older albumsb werent art. I'm just saying its very selfish to think that a band that's 15 years old would never change. I can listen to their whole discography and not dislike one note, much less one song.

  • Kyo's singing/screaming is not my issue in this song. My issue lies with how low the damn guitars are tuned. This would be fine if they were playing Djent, but they are just playing like 3 chords that because they are so low, they sound indistinguishable, leading to an extremely monotonous and boring verse. Dir en grey needs to step up its songwriting because DSS was an album with great ideas and virtuosity but terrible continuity and structure.

  • @redriverhautbois You should tell that to Dino Cazares because he uses an 8 string Ibanez. I think the problem is that their bass is mixed on the low end and is pretty loud so it kinda gets mashed together with the guitars. If they upped the treble a little on the bass, it wouldn't sound so bad. I don't have the same problem as you but then again my tweeters are pretty good, so the highs register well, even in this muddy mix.

  • @redriverhautbois those were the exact words I was looking for. I was kinda disappointed listening to it, ecspecially when comparing it to their other albums

  • Kyo's voice can do no wrong.

  • just when i thought DRG couldn't top their own awesomeness......they did it!!

    I'll worship those guys for life!!

  • Kyo is officially the best vocalist in the world. He can sound like no other human on this planet.

  • @drumgroovy He will always be the best vocalist that ever lived <3

  • Kyo reminds me of tsumabuki satoshi

  • Everyone bitchin about how kyo should sing more should listen to other types of music. Not only is it phenomenal that he can reach those grows/shrieks but can change his vocals to a beautiful melody at will.

    That's what makes kyo and dir en grey unique.

    Also the screaming is therapeutic for him. He's stated that he's though of killing himself out of grief and I'm sure screaming is releasing all those emotions

  • @Thisshouldbeblank I don't want to "listen to other types of music." I want what used to be my favorite band to start making music with actual notes again.

    Are there really people out there who thought Macabre, Kisou, and Vulgar were too pretty?

  • @UmbraFracta then continue to listen to those albums and stay in the past. shows how open minded you are

  • @UmbraFracta

    "actual notes"

    You do realize no matter what anytime you hit an instrument you're playing a fucking note right?

    Also your taste in music is awful

  • @UmbraFracta pretty? you think pretty is kyo's vocab? i don't think so. he's always been dark and every song after MACABRE was written with that tone; before that he used to look at poems and other artist's writing styles but it wasn't really him. As to art, i don't think they were artisticlly sound; granted they were great compositions; each album, even now, has their downfalls and they worked at the time and their current views as a band

  • @Thisshouldbeblank wow... I didn't know he was suicidal...

  • @kristiankaulitz13 yea, he replied to one of the mobile questions from the knot site and someone asked if he was was so sad that he would kill him self and he replied with 'yes, many times'

  • @kristiankaulitz13 thats what worries me if can't get his voice back from this throat injury... I'm afraid that he would do something drastic like so into a deep depression and kill himself

  • @Thisshouldbeblank that's.... really bad... I hope he won't. it would be a great loss to the world if someone like him would die...

  • @kristiankaulitz13 lets hope not :)

  • @kristiankaulitz13 If he dies,i don't really have the reason to live either.The music of Dir en grey is what fulfills me.I probably wouldn't kill myself,but my life would be miserable...

  • @MikyWrita I'm with you there. i would probably go into a really deep depression but at the same time kyo always pushed forwards and he said the meaning of life is "finding you are and making yourself better" so in tribute to him i would continue his message and most likely get all his tattoos on me. lmao.

  • @Thisshouldbeblank I know Kyo hates to be worshipped,but i just can't resist and not worship this "man".There are no words to describe him.He is full of anger,sadness,it just connects to you through songs.I love Dum Spiro Spero the most,but listening to stuff like "Embryo" still makes me cry.Yesterday i was laying in my bed,and i listened to "Embryo" i literally started crying when he sang the "bye bye Mother" part.Hope he lives 40 more years,he's the only thing that gives me hope for humanity.

  • @MikyWrita - The Blitz 6 Days performance of Mushi is like that for me... if they played that stateside, the whole venue would be flooded in saline. But it seems things like that are rarely brought back, and if they are, it's usually just for the shows in Japan. *sigh* When I heard they played AATD in Europe I couldn't help feeling a bit envious, I hope when Kyo recovers he'll still be able to do songs like that at lives.

  • @WiiClassic2usb - Meant to say 5 days, jeeze. God damn egronomic keyboard.

  • @MikyWrita word. i'm right with you there :)

  • @Thisshouldbeblank - What I think you mean to say is "they should just go back to their Malice Mizers and their L'arc en Ciels and just leave Kyo to rock the fuck out." (not saying those are bad perse, but Dir just isn't a 'pop' act).

  • @WiiClassic2usb In a way yes; those bands are successful cause they appeal to everyone and its all happy bs. kyo will NEVER do a happy song and he stated that if DEG decided to do pop or happy songs then that will be the day he quits in that very spot

  • Rule 34

    No exceptions

  • People who say Kyo should sing more, fail to realize that the singing parts are made more beautiful due to how brutal the rest of the song is. From 3:42 on wards there is no words to describe that. This is art. Contrasts and dynamics learn to appreciate the song as a whole.

  • @jquezada12 No. Gauze was art; Macabre was art; most of Kisou, and Vulgar were art; The Final was art. This barely even qualifies as music.

  • @UmbraFracta That was simple music.This is more complex,and they put way more emotion into music than before.The same goes for Uroboros.

  • @UmbraFracta Here's a little fact about art: It's highly subjective. You either like it or you don't, but it's arrogant to disqualify an art form just because you don't like it.

  • @jquezada12 well said...im glad there are people like me that understand something so simple in all reality...ahhh the guitar solo <3

  • @katsuyaMakoto I was thinking the same thing, The IIIrd Empire always reminds me of Slipknot as well

  • what does PV mean ?

  • @Dpiiiius promotional video

  • This sounds like Helen Keller giving an abortion. It's fucking brutal.

  • i love Dir En Grey. but i also love understanding that hes actually saying words, not just growling incoherently o.o it makes me uncomfortable

  • masaka...

    

  • I liked this before I saw the video. I just don't like the flashes of porn on it. Other than that; this album is phenomenal. I think my favorite album is still Marrow Of the Bone.

  • @SmexiiNinja I agree. I felt it was the best song on the album -- I have no idea why they choose to undermine good music with unnecessary shock value.

  • I've seen enough hentai...

  • at 2:45 is....MAN!!dir en grey please,have mercy for my ears,don't stop this amazing,real music!

  • Hmmm such a beautiful trance...especially kyo.I like everyone from dir en grey but my fav are kyo an kaoru

  • not sure how to react to this

    

  • @TheCatastrophus - I agree with that. I was like "All I hear is growling."

  • this song makes me want to fuck!!!!!

  • reminds me of a japanese slipknot ^^

  • dat band.

  • I'm not really sure how Kyo screams like that. So manic.

  • Dir en Grey=Awesomeness and the haters go back to some brainwashing Lady Gaga nuff said :).

    

  • i'm so obsessed with the riffs in this song. not to mention kyo's voice is just crazy. i'm always in awe how he can scream and shriek like that and still be able to sing.

  • Hey... who feels like sex and sushi now, not in that order necessarily.

  • I love Dir En Grey as much as the next person, but, I wish Kyo would actually sing sometimes.

  • Fuck I juz dropped my phone n accidentially hit the dislike button lol

  • Holy shit that vocal range.

  • I've seen enough hentai to know where this is going....

    sorry someone had to say it lol.

  • Great!!

  • Odd they have a hentai in there.

  • Its hard to believe this is the same band who made songs like cage, heh. The video is... Creepy, as per usual.

  • Damn... O_O Is it just me or has Kyo's screaming become nearly inhuman sounding? I mean it's awesome, but damn, man... It's slightly frightening that he can even make those high pitched screeches.

  • @DasherFlame9 lol i can do some of those its just practice doing its thing

  • @KingOfKhaos1991 Sure you can.

  • @StudioHizu glad i don't have to prove anything to you... believe what you will

  • @KingOfKhaos1991 I already do.

  • @StudioHizu eh whatever

  • @DasherFlame9 Hes really good at screaming and growling, but listen to him live. He sounds much more human haha.

  • @demonic87 Oh, I know. XD It's just the screech is just so... I can't even find a word to describe except "DAYYYYYYYUUUMM!"

  • kull deadt metal

  • This was on the on demand part of my tv and I played it then my mom walked in... >.> You don't want to know what happened next... XD

  • @1337masternazi Troll

  • @guugugh troll of truth.

  • this seems alot more heavy than most of their songs, they should stick with it

  • The guitarist has swag.

  • came here to say that 

  • Man shall not lay in bed with another octoman. It says so in the bible.

  • holy fuck

  • Its some of that fucking tentacle shit wdf...

  • Going to see them today :D

  • Love Hentai)) and Dir En Grey)) ^^

  • Question1: are the live action scenes from a movie?

    Question2: if yes, which movie is it from?

  • THANKS FOR THE SHOW ON FRIDAY IN TORONTO!

  • I've waiting for this forever!!!!!!!!!! I'm too poor to buy it still, but I'll definitely buy the CD when I can! this I swear>:D

  • I love them. I keep repeating that since years! I love music with meaning, I love his way of thinking and his way to express it! Awesome lyrics!

  • 3:08 looks like hes sucking a dick

  • can anyone tell me the name of the album? DIR EN GREY FOR LIFE

  • @DeadKold Dum Spiro Spero, also you should also use Wikipedia to check about this band and know more about them

  • America: land of censorship

    Japan: land where tentacle hentai is appropriate for all ages

  • YAY! For tentacle rape!! ( ^.^)/

  • I see.

    WTFFFFFFFFF ?! XD

  • Dir en grey is a totally different genre than Dimmu, but i mostly agree, old dimmu is sweet.

  • Dimmu Borgir looks like a pussy compared to Diru.

  • lol tenticals for the win.

  • So I'm pretty new when it comes to Dir En Grey but what would be a good suggestion album wise for one of their albums that has more of this metal sound to it.

  • @thedeomon The most recent album Dum Spiro Spero has a lot of this. Check it out.

  • Omg wow crazy video. I had know idea there was octopus porn.lol

  • ..... i have the weirdest boner right now

  • The world we live in today is very sad. So much corruption and lies. Dir en grey have opened my eyes and I thank them so much for it.

  • i was so scared during this mv o.O , good job guys o.O

  • Dir en grey are amazing at capturing emotions at their rawest and finest, even if I can't understand what they're saying I don't need to because of how excellent they express it

  • Amazing transitions.

  • Oh kyo one night with me and you know what ist pain XD

  • This video is perfect and Kyo's voice is so hot

  • Japan: Land of the tentacle!

  • DEAR GOD THEY ARE MAKING CTHULHU!

  • I think this video is a great double meaning. Scream for Truth is all about questioning things that people try to tell you are acceptable. It's common to see a clip about a girl getting raped by some monster because for some reason, some people find it "sexy". The way rape is portrayed in media you'd think it was something to be taken lightly. I also always loved how the girl somehow ends up enjoying it. And yet the men getting raped in this video don't seem to enjoy it much, did they?

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  • Just a hunch, but do you think this song could be a reaction to the Fukushima situation? They released this video around the time that they released their open letter to the world regarding the nuclear disaster. The images and words in this song and video strongly hint towards my suspicions. Stop me if I'm wrong...

  • @xxfailure It is EXACTLY about it. They are under the impression that the Japanese government is lying about the health effects of the Fukushima nuclear disaster. This video is full of symbolism beneath the hentai-tentacles and zombified faces.

  • Zombie Shinya?

    I would not be able to shoot that.

  • @porcelainmorge if dir en grey become zombies i would let them eat me and not even put up a fight "its an honor to be devoured by you all OUCH MY SPLEEN!

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  • never mind the whole vid, but when i stop and look at kyo, all i can think of is:

    "how can a 30+ year old man look like a kid playing with make-up for halloween?! life's unfair..." T-T

  • great song but when it comes to cleans vocals they sound better in studio

  • This video is stupid as hell, i can tell i would like the song more without the vid.

  • @ItsAboutWhatUDo It's about the earthquake and the nuclear waste. I'm sure you've heard of their project, "Scream For The Truth"? This song is really supposed to point it out, and the whole octo-rape is supposed to show how Japan has been forcefully voilated. It's one of the comments for the vid somewhere ^^;

  • @EdoFuzzy21 Oh wow I didnt know that thanks for telling me

  • The more i listen to this the more i love it! Holy shit! <3

  • i wonder where i can see the uncensored version.

  • does anybody know the name of the tentacle hentai? xD

  • @DestenyOfNero Mahou Shoujo Ai