Dir en grey

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Osaka, Japan (1997 – present)

Dir en grey is a Japanese rock band formed in 1997 from the disbanded visual kei band La:Sadie’s, and have maintained a consistent lineup consisting of 京 (Kyo) on vocals, 薫 (Kaoru) and Die on guitar, Toshiya on bass and Shinya on drums.

Dir en grey, in its earliest form, began in Osaka as the band of vocalist 京 and drummer Shinya - 廃人黒薔薇族 (haijin kuro bara zoku “Invalid Black Rose Family”). Members and associates of this band formed La:Sadie’s, which eventually included four of Dir en grey’s five current members. La:Sadie’s disbanded in 1996. All but the bassist, Kisaki, and former lead guitarist, Shio (replaced by Kaoru), came back together to form Dir en grey. They recruited Toshiya, a bassist from Nagano and previously in the band D†L, and officially formed “Dir en grey” in February 1997.

In 1998, the band gained major attention by becoming the first indies band to have a single place in the top ten on Japan’s Oricon music charts. They played a sold-out performance at Osakajo Hall on December 18, 1999. This remains one of the band’s most memorable solo performances to date.

The band encountered setbacks in 2000 when the promotional tour for their upcoming album MACABRE was canceled. 京 was hospitalized from a tympanic membrane perforation in his left ear, which remains partially deaf to this day. His lyrics in their 2001 single ‘ain’t afraid to die’ respond to this brush with his own mortal vulnerability.

Withering to Death
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Vulgar
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GAUZE
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THE MARROW OF A BONE
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Top Tracks

1	THE FINAL full track	1,181
2	OBSCURE	984
3	GLASS SKIN	946
4	Merciless Cult full track	800
5	Cage	763
6	Kodou full track	743
7	undecided	723
7	Machiavellism full track	723
9	CHILD PREY	701
10	dead tree full track	689
11	CLEVER SLEAZOID	647
12	CONCEIVED SORROW	633
13	Agitated Screams of Maggots	628
14	DRAIN AWAY	621
15	GRIEF	568

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jeff2007 wrote:
59 minutes ago

FLAMEFLAMEFLAME

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tony7 wrote:
1 hour ago

cos jkun pretty much attacks anybody in this shoutbox who says anything slighly bad about them and comes up with shitty comebacks. OMG I HATE DIRU U R FAG FLAME ME NOW

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ntoon wrote:
4 hours ago

I'm wondering why this shoutbox has always such a hateful conversations.

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jkun wrote:
6 hours ago

Ultimos : you're cool. can you teach me how to produce such enormous amounts of cool?

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manapsal wrote:
Saturday morning

Spark_and_Spark-I would think that Deg would care about those fans since they tend to be ridiculously obsessive and pay large amounts for merch and shit

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Ultimos wrote:
Saturday morning

i don't think that anyone with that many visual kei bands in their top 8 has any business calling anybody a faggot

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jkun wrote:
Saturday morning

"commercial poop" ? I wouldn't be saying that if I were you. Nice taste, faggot.

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Mach1avellism wrote:
yesterday evening

My personal favourite is absolutely the Marrow of a Bone. I like 'new' Diru (Vulgar, WtD. and MoaB) the most. And I'm really looking forward to UROBOROS. I hope they keep playing with their new, heavyer style.

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Robert_P_Yorke wrote:
yesterday evening

Да, несмотря ни на что, они молодцы

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QuietMethod wrote:
yesterday afternoon

i love dir en grey end of:P every thing theyve done x

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Victo_prog wrote:
yesterday afternoon

I think it started going downhill with Vulgar, and reached the bottom of the pit with the over-produced Withering To Death, and is slowly climbing back up with The Marrow and the next album...

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sieni_indu wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Dir en grey is commercial poop nowadays, especially after The Marrow of a Bone, which really wasn't too good. Well, thank god I have Gauze to listen.

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psycaffeine wrote:
yesterday afternoon

Grief and Dozing Green rocks

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britflik wrote:
yesterday afternoon

what is this substandard j-pop

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Hexagent wrote:
yesterday afternoon

i giggle and vomit at the same time while reading comments like Mach1avellisms one.

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Spark_and_Spark wrote:
yesterday morning

Don't worry, Dir en grey don't care about those kinds of fans anyway.

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Mach1avellism wrote:
yesterday morning

I go nuts when people tag Diru j-rock or visual-kei! -.- J-rock is not a genre. And who calls, for example, the Marrow of a Bone a rockalbum? Those stupid "KAWAII AN CAFE NYAPPY FOREVER" fangirls tag EVERY FUCKING japanese band jrock because they don't know any genres. I would say the Marrow of a bone could be described as metalcore, alternative metal and melodic deathmetal. I'd call old Diru alternative rock, but it's also kind of progressive. And yes, Diru USED TO dress like ' visual-kei ' but not anymore, and I think they would appreciate people NOT to call them visual-kei.

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Ultimos wrote:
yesterday morning

itt: reactionary white people are scared of music from their own country

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vordul wrote:
yesterday morning

KMFCM is hilarious. His comparison to Smashing Pumpkins was completely accurate, and not nonsensical at all. He's totally wrong though, since a more accurate comparison can be drawn between Dir en grey and Mariah Carey. Same vocals, same arrangements, hell, even THE FINAL sounds like Mariah Carey's Heartbreaker.

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QuietMethod wrote:
Thursday evening

lol. at quietmethod.

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