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Don't hold your breath, they're still holding TWOM hostage! 

that PV is just sad tbh.
 
I lowkey hope they have more unused band footage and will somewhat expand on it for the 『average mediocrity』 re-issue but realistically that probably won't happen.

Thirteenteen?

The full version of the single is really amazing! The ending felt like it was a straight punch to my face lol loving it so far. For the remake of Clever the only thing that bugs me a little is the change of the intro riff but i love what they did with the rest of the song, gained a lot of power. Also, I like this mixing a lot more than in TWOM and TIW.

also WIDAWIDAWIDAWIDAWIDAWIDA

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 

I really like the sound of the demos that they put on YouTube when they first started out. Wish they would go back to that.

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 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 

Was this supposed to make me nostalgic of my middle school cell phone and its built in ring tones🤣🤣

Those that were used for outro.
Embryo, Vanitas...

Hi,
I haven't visited here in awhile, but I remember there being a download section for music, PVs, concerts etc.  I can't seem to find it now.  Was it removed, or am I just not seeing/finding it for some reason?  Thanks!

Hi everyone,
 
I am Baptiste (but call me Tsukiyo), 25 years old. I was born in Vietnam but I grew up in France. I'm living in Belgium currently.
 
When I was 12 years old, one of my friend who made me discover a lot a musics (rock musics) sent me two videos. It was Gianism Shichi by Nightmare and Garnet by D'espairsRay. At first, I didn't really like those musics, I guess there were too different from what I usually listened and watched. But there was something that was pushing me to listen to them again and again. Some sort of curiosity. After some days, I ended up loving visual kei. It was one of the most important event of my life beacause visual kei influenced me a lot after that. During several years, I was listenning to visual kei musics and I discovered many bands. But sadly, around 2014, most of the bands that I loved disbanded or started to realese more commercial musics. On top of that, I didn't like the new bands at that time. Finally, I stoped being interested in visual kei scene.
 
But recently, one of my friend (another this time) encouraged me to post my photos on Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/tsukiyo_yazawa/ if you are interrested) and I got in touch with some other visual kei fans. This led me to try visual kei musics again and... here I am. So, I hope I will like some new musics because I am a bit tired to listen to the same musics for 10 years.
 
Don't hesitate to contact me if you have any suggestions or just to say hi. See you
 
My favorites bands are : 
ALSDEAD
D'espairsRay
DIAURA
Lin-the end of corruption world-
Megaromania
NIGHTMARE
-OZ-
Phantasmagoria
Sadie
SCREW
the Gazette
 
Musics I love the most :
Jukai Ni Saku Ai - SCREW
Eternal Wish ~Todokame Kimi E~ - Raphael
AURORA -destinies of world- - Megaromania

This single is going to be loud as shit, huh?

New band photos are amazing, the song sounds pretty good too - looking forward to see it w the video!
 
 

It's on the website
http://direngrey.co.jp/discography/4119/

The full PV isn't out yet. The preview is on tumblr: https://va.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_qdyxoaWulq1qbs73c_720.mp4
Not sure if you can watch it?

*cough*
According to the potentially erroneous tags in my music library, the following come up when searched for VisualKei/NuMetal:
DEATHGAZE - BLISS OUT
DEATHGAZE - CREATURE
D'espairsRay - MIRROR
D'espairsRay - REDEEMER (this one even I'm doubting already)
DEZERT - 精神科医(拒食症)のスナッフフィルム集
DEZERT - 「暫定的オカルト週刊誌①」
DEZERT - 「最高の食卓」
DEZERT - 完売音源集-暫定的オカルト週刊誌②-
DEZERT - TODAY
Dir en grey - VULGAR
EAT YOU ALIVE - REVIVE
Girugamesh - 【獄-初犯型円盤-】初回限定盤
Girugamesh - 【理性壊乱】-乱調型円盤-
Girugamesh - 13's Reborn
Girugamesh - volcano
Girugamesh - Reason of Crying
Mucc - 朽木の灯
OZ - Versus
OZ - Rouge

Grains of salt, of course.

Definitely peep this thread:
big fave of mine is カリメロ
 

If you're going rare hunting, please let me know should you find anything from indies Dir en grey (1997-1999) like VHS tapes, cassettes, as well as the band member's former bands. I can give you a list if you don't know them.
Also, please be on the lookout for the magazine "Vi:lletté". Thank you!

Sounds awesome imo, but will have to hear the whole thing..

They need to include this in their single release.
Remember when they include GDS back in the day?

Same. But at this point I'm starting to suspect that every live performance they did back in 97-03 actually sucked so much that they fear their ~legendary~ beginnings as an iconic band would lost all of that status whenever that stuff sees the light any day lol
 
That, or I find no reasons why they would ram us with footage from everything 07-onwards and then when the time comes to record an anniversary commentary on their '98 Budokan gig they would fucking show you NOTHING while at the same time you see the members actually watching the footage on a notebook turned upon you...

I really like this too, but the whole splitting up into almost 40 short samples is really, really dumb.

Because it's idiotic.
They could sell so much material if they wanted to, like, I would pay mad cash for some old live shows or so. Instead they do the bare minimum to get some more cash in.
I know these are dire times for bands, but it's not like DEG has nothing more to offer than one song split into 30+ parts. It's like "here, have some random track, now give us streaming income pls". It's insulting to those who actually wish to support the band and would be willing to.