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  6. Posted · Edited by TheTrendkiller

    I played as a guitarist in different bands since I was about 13 years old. When I was around 20 I used to be in a western J-Rock band for a couple of years.  We played a few dozen shows, wrote around 20 songs and released an EP during that time. After we broke up, I formed an electro-metalcore band which was around for 5 years, playing shows and releasing a few CD's before eventually breaking up. Now I am basically a little burned out and fed up from the whole "band" lifestyle, the constant rehearsals and playing in front of little to no people. Playing and writing music was always a good outlet for me to balance my mind. Instead, these days I mostly focus on working out and increasing my obsession with Dir en grey. 

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  7. Posted

    On 12/3/2020 at 11:51 AM, Seelentau said:

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    Hopefully it arrives soon, I'm curious to find out what's on it.

    Although their vocalist told me it's fake... if it has Toshiya, that would be alright lol


    Nice find. Let us know what's on there once you get it! 

  9. Posted

    On 9/18/2020 at 3:21 PM, Seelentau said:

    I really, really wonder why they put emphasis on the new artist name, tbh. Almost seems like they want to avoid paying the actual band, DIR EN GREY, so they use a different artist name for the Ambient Collection... but I don't know their contracts of course, so it's just an uninformed assumption lol

    I actually think they just want to separate this experimental project from the official releases of the band. Maybe they don't want to risk their Spotify account by this farming. Maybe they want sperated analysis of their revenue stream. Not sure how good the Spotify revenue analytics system is. 

  11. Posted

    2 hours ago, saiko said:

    Fuckyeahbangya had proofs about Tooru Nishimura not being Kyo's actual name, same for Die being Daisuke. But I don't remember very well; I think I remember reading that Die's true name is Manabu and Kyo's Hironori? Or something like that. Maybe someone might correct me.

    I did a quick google search and this came up

     

    Kyô -> Nishimura Hironori (in Japanese 西村 宏則)

    Toshiya -> Hara Toshimasa (in Japanese 原 敏政)

    Kaoru -> Niikura Kaoru (in Japanese 新倉 薫)

    Die -> Andô Masaru (in Japanese 安東 大)

    Shinya -> Terachi Shinya (in Japanese 寺地 晋也)

     

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  12. Posted · Edited by TheTrendkiller

    I guess they really like slow melodramatic ballads, huh? I mean, it's a good song but it's basically Obscurial Pt.2

     

    I was hoping for something a little different than what we already heard from them.  We know they can do slow and they can do fast songs.... why not try a slightly shorter and medium tempo track next. Anyway, maybe it's just me 🤪

     

    The song is still very good for what it is. I really like his voice and the overall atmosphere. Also the guitar solo is very flashy and a nice contrast to the slow pace. Looking forward to more. Thumbs up 👍

  13. Posted · Edited by TheTrendkiller

    On 8/10/2020 at 6:20 AM, Saishu said:

    It’s amazing that pretty much all of music has been compressed to shit for the last 20 years or so and some of us still can’t deal with it.  Like Arche is just the worse. Loud and sterile like the band is playing in a giant room with aluminum walls. 

    Imo Arche is probably the worst recording in their catalogue. I can't handle all the reverb that make it sound like they're playing in a church. Shinya's snare is ear wrecking. They even managed to top DSS in terms of bad recording/mixing/production/whatever.

     

    Compared to Arche I feel like TIW is very well done, especially for the metalcore-ish sound that they were going for. It's not great but it definitely can hold up against other bands in the same range of music

  16. Posted · Edited by TheTrendkiller

    I really like the "Ochita Koto no Aru Sora" title track. It's probably my favourite single since "Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami". Although the slow parts could have been longer, it's just a baller track and exactly what I was looking for after TWOM.  If I want to show a friend a "Dir en grey 2020" song, this will be the one.  

     

    Don't really care too much for the Clever Sleazoid remake, it's solid but kind of bland. Basically it's in line with most of their remakes, not bad but not a real improvement over the originals either. The changed lyrics are a little weird, too. Just means I can't sing along under the shower anymore. 

     

    The live track, well... it's a live track. Not much to say. 

     

     

    (P.S.: Don't buy the amazon music version, it's in 256kb/s lol. Not DEG's fault but still a wtf moment) 

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  17. Posted · Edited by TheTrendkiller

    1 hour ago, nekkichi said:

    they weren't exactly responding 2 u either kittygurl they just ran with tha opportunity

    know what tropes are better kept avoided in the dir en grey cloaca on here and you'll be good ❤️

     

    I'm just guessing here so if I'm right or wrong, it's not important to me:) Maybe the others know something which I don't, so I'll just wait for the official bandscore to show up. Until then I'll play it the way I think it's correct😁

  18. Posted · Edited by TheTrendkiller

    8 hours ago, Kelrya said:

     

    They’ve already made songs in the key of C# in ADADGBE tuning, like Downfall for example. They just use the 4th fret of the low A string (C#) as the root note that they chug on. Utafumi and Ningen wo Kaburu were also like this but they used the 5th fret as the root note so the key was in D. In Different Sense they used the second fret so the key was B. They do this a lot.

    I wasn't talking about songs being in a specific key,  just about the Drop C# guitar tuning from WTD era ( C# / A# / C# / F# / A# / D# ).  So we're talking about different things here :)

  19. Posted · Edited by TheTrendkiller

    I just noticed why the song sounds so familiar. It's because the intro guitar riff is in the same guitar tuning as WTD, TMOAB and UROBOROS. If you compare the intro riff to songs like Dozing Green then you will hear the similarity. It's because the lowest note is C#. So how do they play the even lower chorus riff?  I actually think that they completely changed their guitar tuning for this song. IMO they now use 7 string guitars where the lowest string is tuned to G# and then they have their "old" Drop C# 6 string guitar tuning on top. So either this is completely new or I wasn't aware of it yet but doing it totally makes sense to me. Now they can basically play any song of that era without having to switch guitars back and forth. Not sure why didn't do that earlier tbh 

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  20. Posted

    2 hours ago, sebbivism said:

    2. LOL when I saw they mentioned full single is out on iTunes Store, Amazon and Google Play, while all streaming services only get the 1-track "Promotion Edit Ver." How lame isn't that? Now that Spotify opened in 13 new territories I think they need to understand streaming services is the new way to listen to music.

     

    At least release the god damn single on a service that provide lossless format. But yes I will smile and buy at iTunes, you'll get my money haha

     

    Where did you get that info from? Tbh I'm pretty fine with them not giving everything out for free (aka streaming). There should at least be a small reason to actually go and spend your money on it 

  22. Posted

    At first I had conflicting feelings about this blatant cashgrab. On the one hand I felt like they were diluting the Dir en grey name by putting out something of low quality. On the other hand I like the idea because I was already streaming their Spotify discography on repeat anyways. Now I can support them even more efficiently than before. So I guess I'm kind of indifferent ...

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