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Found what it reminded me of: +

psychedelic

I absolutely despise StU. It's the most overplayed, yet most boring song in their entire catalogue and for reasons beyond my understanding, they feel the need to include it on nearly every release. It's three times on ANDROGYNOS, once on ARCHE, three times on ARCHE AT NIPPON BUDOKAN, twice on DSS AT NIPPON BUDOKAN, once on the MTV live, once on the SUSTAIN THE UNTRUTH single, once on TOUR14, once on TOUR16-17 TMOAB, of course once on VESTIGE OF SCRATCHES and again on ARCHE as a remix. I have it 15 times in my discography and 200 scrobbles on last.fm .__. But apparently they've performed it only ~172 times, which is nothing compared to the ~535 times OBSCURE was performed.

DIR EN GREY new look: https://www.last.fm/music/DIR+EN+GREY/+images/ecfb046a73fb9c47d64c8ffc27996800 lynch. new look: https://www.last.fm/music/lynch./+images/ecb7d4d57bcb692c5dc48b22b4ab038e

Hmm, I can try. This is from their live at 川崎CLUB CITTA' in November 2016: It starts very quiet, with ambient sounds (Glockenspiel or something like that?). They sounds are coming in one by one until ~0:37, when the actual band starts to play. The song starts off rather hard until at ~01:07, it calms down and vocals begin at ~01:24. At 01:43, there's a shift in the music and at ~01:55 something like a high-point begins that goes on until ~02:20. Then another verse with mellow, slower music until ~02:45, where the same shift from 01:43 is repeated (same lyrics "sono toki..." - "watashi no kokoro o"). Unlike at 01:55, this time, the ambient sounds appear again in the form of a piano/keyboard(?), or at least that's what it sounds like. A piano key again and again, like "dun dundun dundun dundun". Then at ~03:10 "Ranunculus... Ranunculus...". Still ambient and piano thingy, very very mellow, reminds me of Kukoku no Kyoon. At ~03:29, the ~01:55 part is repeated again, with the last verse following and some more "Ranunculus". It clocks in at ~05:00 total. The version from April 2018 is a little different. Same ambient intro, but vocals start at ~00:35, the band joins him at ~01:00. "Watashi no kokoro o" at ~01:07, followed by the high-point. Second verse at ~01:35, "watashi no kokoro o" at 02:07. Ambient sounds again with "Ranunculus... Ranunculus...". The rest is the same as the other version, but they shortened the song by almost one minute, I think. But I can't pinpoint exactly what is missing or has changed, really. I think it can be described as a ballad, but it's actually more of ballad-rock-ballad-rock. Nothing over-the-top like DECAYED CROW, but as I said, it kinda reminds me of Kukoku no Kyoon. Or something like that.

I have a feeling that you'll like Ranunculus.

I wish they'd do MISSA... Maybe with B-sides so the live isn't only 30 minutes long though^^

No, it's a special sake created by someone else to commemorate the band's 20th anniversary. :]

The CDs arrived without any problems, thanks for the pleasant transaction.

Na, I don't do news stuff. The only person I know who translates news and info is kyotakumrau on tumblr.

I recognise some of those words.

Just ask me for all Dir en grey related stuff x Or compare their Discogs entries :] Also, yes, watch out for Miya Records.

As I said before, I don't really have ears for music, but you can't tell me that some of you consider the mode of performances to be on the same level as the NoK live disc. Even I can hear the differences, the NoK live songs are beyond bad. I've only listened to mode of Wtd., but that one was nice. Not super-super spectacular, but it had its moments (like dead tree and kodou). Imma watch those shows tomorrow and maybe drop my mp3 rips if anyone cares about those. By the way, is it true that VANITAS is about Daisuke? Allegedly, Kyo used similar lyrics to a Kagerou song or something like that...? From what I found, the band received the message of his passing during the break before their encoure on 2010/07/15, and the next song was -mushi-, but Kyo wasn't able to sing because he cried so much... hm

Reported by whom? There aren't even any samples available to base such a statement on. It's not Ranunculus because it's not Ranunculus. It's also not the mode of DSS song and not the TOUR18 song. It could be the new new song, I haven't heard that one yet. I assume that @WhirlingBlack has, and he didn't mention any similarity. kyotaku doesn't recognise it either and it's neither a knot, nor sukekiyo material. So it's an entirely new song... I guess. I don't recall who posted it here, but if that person knows more, or if any other information has been posted in the facebook group in the meantime, it might shed light on this.

Yes, I got it from here lol There's some discussion in the album news' thread. The gist of it is that nobody knows where it came from.

Yup, found it on here as well. But, comparing it to The Insulated World's tracklist, I dunno which one looks more ridiculous^^

There's definitely the last second of a previous song at the beginning of the leak. I asked kyotaku about it, she doesn't know anything either. It's definitely not a knot material and probably not sukekiyo, although they do have three unreleased tracks. But kyotaku didn't mention any similarity, so I guess it's not sukekiyo either.

Apparently, some of those names are from the family values tour website. I can't find that website, though Apparently, DISABLED COMPLEXES was called 三号機め at some point...? And, from a Western forum...: yeah sure, through email... So basically, some working titles leaked from the FVT website and were reused for fake UROBOROS and DSS tracklists... huh.

It's definitely not sukekiyo, they're only in the process of writing music.

-I'll- was: (the message clips have never been released before, btw)

That's not Ranunculus.

"This work will come in 3 disc format, and will feature 44 remastered songs selected by members among the ones requested by fans (from 1st Indie Mini Album “MISSA” (1997.7.25 RELEASE) to the latest single “詩踏み” (UTAFUMI) (2016.7.27 RELEASE))."

Am I the only one who thinks the Rinkaku DVD is their best live ever?

omg I love them *~*

Yeah, I still don't quite understand how to get into that scene myself. Imagine you have a tereko that nobody else has. You offer it to someone for trade, terekos are usually traded show for show. So you trade the tereko and receive a second one. The other person now has your tereko, the one nobody else but you has. He can trade it on for another tereko he's missing, but you can't trade your new tereko, since everybody else has it already. So basically while you now have a tereko you didn't have before, its trading value is 0, whereas the value of the tereko you gave the other person is still high. And thanks for the kind words, but those terekos were online long before I uploaded them. I just tried to correct the audio a little, no idea if it worked though. I can't upload terekos that aren't leaked, simply because I'd lose my contacts that way. Has already happened once, I don't want it to happen again. But other than mp3s, you can find all information on early Dir en grey on the wiki.