audience KILLER LOOP
THE IIID EMPIRE
Spilled Milk
ROTTING ROOT
GRIEF
Agitated Screams of Maggots
New song
HYDRA -666-
DOZING GREEN
New song
Ryoujoku no Ame
AGITATED SCREAMS OF MAGGOTS -UNPLUGGED-
CONCEIVED SORROW
GLASS SKIN
OBSCURE
REPETITION OF HATRED
Higeki ha Mabuta wo Oroshita Yasashiki Utsu
undecided
Rasetsukoku
THE FATAL BELIEVER
Merciless Cult
-saku-
CLEVER SLEAZOID
9/24 Zepp Tokyo
OBSCURE
AGITATED SCREAMS OF MAGGOTS
朔-saku-
孤独に死す、故に孤独。(Kodoku ni shisu, yueni kodoku)
Spilled Milk
蜷局 (toguro)
凌辱の雨 (Ryoujoku no Ame)
CONCEIVED SORROW
GLASS SKIN
艶かしき安息、躊躇いに微笑み (Namamekashiki Ansoku, Tamerai ni Hohoemi )
AGITATED SCREAMS OF MAGGOTS-UNPLUGGED-
HYDRA-666-
DOZING GREEN
GRIEF
REPETITION OF HATRED
CLEVER SLEAZOID
-ENCORE1-
undecided
悲劇は目蓋を下ろした優しき鬱-UNPLUGGED- (Higeki wa Mabuta wo Oroshita Yasashiki Utsu )
-ENCORE2-
鼓動 (Kodou)
凱歌、沈黙が眠る頃 (Gaika, Chinmoku ga Nemuru Koro)
LIE BURIED WITH A VENGEANCE
THE IIID EMPIRE
羅刹国 (Rasetsukoku)
Löysin youtubesta videon jossa pohditaan tosissaan sitä kuinka Sadie (joku paska jiirokbändi) kuulostaa tai ei kuulosta Diruilta. Jos joku saatanan ernu rupee selittää et toi mölinä jota musiikiks kutsutaan kuulostaa Dirulta ni vittu sillä on päässä jotain pahasti vialla tai sit se on vaan kuuro, minkä johdosta sitten tekee kauniin johtopäätöksen että koska ton laulajan (jonka ääni kuulostaa samalta ku melkein kaikkien japanilaisten mieslaulajien äänet. mm. girugämesh, gazette, unsraw...) pukeutumistyyli saattaa muistuttaa hieman visual Kyoo ni se kans kuulostais Dirulta. No ton laulajan ääni ei ole lähelläkään Kyon ääntä eikä bändin taito ja sitä kuunnellessa saatava fiilis yllä lähellekään Dir en greytä. Sadieta kuunnellessa tulee lähinnä pää kipeeks.
They dress up like MARILYN MANSON rejects and sing in Japanese. Ya gotta hand it to anyone crazy enough to take a chance on this band, supposedly one of the biggest in the Land of the Rising Sun — I can't picture hordes of English-speaking kids flocking to this scattershot mixed bag of twisted, melodic metal, but stranger things have happened.
DIR EN GREY like to mix things up — take the third track, which sports a melodic chorus that would sound great on the radio, bookended by filthy distorted thrash parts and bellowed death metal vocals. Or track five — which comes up as a bunch of Japanese characters on my iPod — a syrupy AOR song with vocals smooth enough to bring FALCO back from the grave. There's jagged bits of punk, SLIPKNOT moments, silly chipmunk vocal parts, death metal bellows, and chunky riffs all thrown into a blender and set on "anime."
The whole thing just sounds a little too intentionally goofy and disjointed to these ears. The singer usually has a great, bombastic chorus to throw in, although he could well be using the same one for every song, but the rest of this is like some kind of neon snow globe. It's all flashy and distracting, but there's very little of substance behind it. It's their fifth album, and they've obviously got fans, no doubt attracted to the manic energy they admittedly exude. But after all the brash hoopla contained here, almost nothing sticks in your memory, and DIR EN GREY is consigned to novelty status.
Download "Dead Tree", and if you like it, imagine it doused in sugar and festooned with marshmallow bits. That's the rest of the songs. I freely admit that I may just not get it, but "Withering to Death" does absolutely nothing for me.