Nowhere Girl

The band will break up and they will each go their separate ways. Many of them already have secondary bands (DECAYS, Seraph, sukekiyo) and clothing lines. Kyo will release more overpriced poetry books and put on art shows that no one will attend. He'll continue making music in some form or another until he dies. I imagine that Kaoru will form another dark doomy br00tal band that takes itself far too seriously, possibly with Toshiya. He might do soundtrack work or possibly get in bed with Opeth or something. Die will make bouncy pop-punk. Shinya will turn into an eccentric new-age hermit and will somehow still be with us in 300 years looking exactly the same. Also, there will be schisms in the fanbase, gnashing of teeth, beatings of breasts. The curtain in front of the temple will tear asunder. The dead will rise from their graves. etc.

GIMME GIMME GIMME

sukekiyo is great but it's not Dir en grey. What's Re:birth? A venue? A song?

wtf is going on in this thread? fanbase has gone catatonic. Someone plz sned halp or a fucking single or SOMETHING. Throw us a bone so we have something to discuss. And no, those remakes don't count because they were almost straight re-recordings done on the cheap and the videos blew big hairy ones. I mean, come on, it's been almost a year and a half since Utafumi. Haven't seen them live in 3 years We don't all live in Japan gasping for air over here i like... waiting really i do

While ensuring all sources are 100% correct is admirable, this is not a library nor an academic institution. It's an online forum to hang out and enjoy. Kyo has been known to reference Asian mythology and frequently uses language in bizarre and creative ways. He doesn't need to be a "scholar" to do a ton of research of his own on subjects that interest him. Tbh, this may be as simple as using a word/concept that struck a chord with him and/or was in some way relevant to MACABRE. If Rasetsukoku is some kind of allusion to Russia, that song may be book-ending the album in some way (even though it's not the final track). Deity is sung (supposedly) in Russian, and the melody is taken from Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5. Seems straightforward enough to me. What this has to do with the rest of the album is anyone's guess.

Dogma too light. Moar chug required. I expect those strings to be so loose, they're barely attached.

inb4 next album is nothing but djenty chug

DEG does this often. The choruses and verses are completely bipolar in dead tree, OBSCURE, Hydra (original ver.), karasu (original ver.). The intro to Gaika... and the UNRAVELING remake of Unknown. Despair. Lost. are both a troll; they start like a ballad but then go full booga-booga. On ARCHE, Kyukoku no Kyouon and The inferno are back-to-back. It's the same on GAUZE with ZAN and Akuro no Oka. I'd argue that the band has been using 'cheap shock' since Kiri to Mayu on MISSA. The original lyrics are to do with murder, necrophilia, and suicide (and the video shows hanging). This hasn't really gone away, either. They've been doing this their whole career.

Well, you're right, but that's going to be the case with any song. VINUSHKA happens to showcase several different styles, which is what you asked for... Also, DEG has changed quite significantly over the years. There's nothing they're doing now that sounds like JESSICA, for example.

From this, it sounds like he was told very suddenly that he simply wasn't needed and got thrown out of the band. The quarrels happened after that meeting (which is understandable; anyone would be upset). The other way to interpret it is that the label attempted to break up the whole band. They were somehow able to reform under the same name, but Gackt had already gone his own way by that time, so they recruited Klaha in his stead. It really wouldn't take much to get Mana, Közi, and Yu~ki back together. They are the core of MALICE MIZER. Perhaps they just don't want to make music together anymore. Perhaps they're sick of each other as band mates. I hope they're still friends at least.

That's a good one. Although I personally love VINUSHKA, it is maybe a bit long for a new listener. OBSCURE would also be a good one, but the video might turn off some.

And yet, many still think that DEG's best work is in those first few albums. I would actually argue that they found their voice by MACABRE (the album). As for a song I'd share, that'd be VINUSHKA. It moves from fragile to epic to full hardc0r3 br0074l. Not a fan of Akatsuki, myself. The demo version is fantastic. Album version, not so much.

You mean like in egnirys cimredopyh +) an injection? Yeah, I miss that, too. It'd be cool to see them make some more fun songs. There used to be a ton of them, and now everything's mostly dour; all doom and gloom. When they play that old material, you can see they love it onstage because they're smiling and having a blast. I question whether the band even enjoys the newer songs sometimes, especially stuff from DSS where they look like they're bored to tears in the live shows. There have been some exceptions recently like Chain Repulsion and Cause of fickleness. Hopefully this will continue in the future.

I need this so badly. The title DOPING ZONE kinda sounds like DOZING GREEN. Edit: VULGAR demos? WTFFFFFFFFFFFFFFJWANHbFJKFJNfFDM<FMAALCNs⌂L5@54◘4ã8ÞF¼J«↔¨////

I came. Do we have any info about an album? Also, does anyone know where Kamikakushi can be purchased physically? Seems to be out of print wherever I look.

Seconded. Tbh, I like all three of the re-recordings. Those PVs are utter garbage, though. It's not like they're doing badly... I wonder why they opted for the cheap option. Maybe they just don't care.

For some reason, I don't own a physical copy of VULGAR, so this would please me. For some other reason, I own two copies of Withering to death. (cardboard 1st press and black English version). No, I don't know, either.

They're most likely embarrassed about it. It's very non-DEG.

Just listened to them back-to-back, and you're right. Actually, some (if not all) of the drums in the Red Soil remaster sound like they've been entirely re-recorded. As for PINK KILLER, well, I've always liked it. But I come from a background of Industrial, Noise, and other kinds of hard electronic music, so this sort of thing just appeals to me.

Something to do with phasing, perhaps? Check that your headphones are stereo.

I'm not angry, just disappointed. A one-take album would've been cheap for them to do and easy, as they've been playing and rehearsing these old songs constantly for the [mode of...] tours. It would literally take them between 5-10 minutes to record most songs if they're really one take only. Too late now, though; they went with the boring corporate model of tweaking the levels slightly on material we've been listening to for two decades. So much for my wet dream of new raw, lo-fi DEG after several densely produced LPs.

Tbh, I would have preferred 2 discs of 'shot in one take' songs rather than this bloated 3-disc package of remasters and virtually pointless remakes. All they'd have to do is get all their live crap in a room and just play the songs through (perhaps over a few days so they stay fresh). That would be the best celebration of their material, as it would represent the culmination of the band living and breathing the songs over 20 years. They could even have set up a few cameras in the room and filmed the entire performance for an easy Blu-Ray/DVD that we'd actually enjoy. Check out Chain Repulsion (Shot In One Take) and imagine if they did something similar with stuff from VULGAR, Kisou, MACABRE, etc. No idea what they were thinking with this album. Should've been called POS rather than VOS.

Wait, I just noticed that Malice Mizer's vocals are going to be handled by roadies. What the actual fuck. LUL

Looks like another CD that absolutely no one will own except those lucky enough to attend that tour. These live-exclusive discs make no sense whatsoever.

True, but those are on disc 2, which is safe. Before Construction ver. is only available on the super expensive limited deluxe edition version of the album which I don't own.