first time listening to this band.

I'm really impressed actually. Kyo seems like he can pretty much do it all vocally, and very well to boot.

Album Rating: 5.0 | Sound Off

Just getting into Dir en grey. Kyo's the only singer I can safely put up there with Mike Patton in terms of diversity and range. Maybe even above Patton

Album Rating: 4.5 | Sound Off

This would be the most impressive album that I've heard in many years, and probably many years to come. Congratulations are in place for Dir En Grey when it comes to this album. I saw them on the Metaltown festival 2009 in gothenburg, best band on the hole festival you ask me.



Slipknot played too, but i couldn't really get the feel from their show after seeing Dir En Grey.



Epic...

Album Rating: 3.5

Listening to this was odd, but I really liked it.

Dir en Grey became a band and not a cross dressing party.

They stopped playing dress up and doing all this gimmick bull shit, and look at what they have done. I hated this band until Monday of this week, and I was reluctant to even give them a try. They were always a band of "Vizual-kei zomg" boys who had "im s0 tuff" guys and "ZOMG SO KAWAII" girls falling head over heels for them. Dir en Grey couldn't make music worth crap.

Glass Skin changed my mind. I didn't like it as much at first, but when I tried sleeping to the music, it felt soooooo right. Kyo's vocals have so much damn emotion, and it is pure sex. It seems that Dir en Grey always had the making of a very good band, their early work shows them being tolerable, and maybe it is good (I haven't given it an honest try.) I hate Visual-kei with a passion, Dir en Grey was probably the worst offender.

If you hate this band because of their old cross-dressing days, give Uroboros a try, and if you don't like it... Your taste in music just plain damn sucks and your opinion just doesn't matter anymore. I can't really rate it yet since I've only listened to it for a few days, but it's going to be high.

Come on guys, seriously? 4.5? You telling me you dig Kyo rapping like Donald Duck and doing ridiculous noises? Other than by pretending to understand the artistic nature of these evident flaws, I can't see how you can defend this never-ending repetitive record.

Album Rating: 1.0

Meh, this album get's a 5 for potential, but a 3 in execution. Might try & post a review up sometime this week; getting tired of people pretending this album is perfect.

Album Rating: 5.0

This is Dir en greys masterpiece. The mood after listening SA BIR and then switching to VINUSHKA, my good. It's like 11 mins of best sex ever. Kyo has really improved as a vocalist too. His growls are amazing, no more of that outh-of-breath screaming he used to do in 2005-2007 lives. He can actually perform the vocals live now.

I sort of fell out with Dir en Grey's music for a while. In part because sweet cannibal Christ do I ever despise their fans. I can't ever mention the band without some short-bus-riding retard butting in typing in chat-speak and pidgin Japanese. And if I run into one in real life, it's even worse. It's not pronounced, "dee-soo nay," you god damn apes!

(sigh) Got that out of my system. I also got the feeling at times that Kyo was using the prog label to excuse being incomprehensible in his lyrics and a total prick to everybody he meets in real life.

But I suppose I could give this album a look, give the band another chance to impress me.

Album Rating: 5.0

Not their best work (that would be Withering to death.), but it's very much up there.

Album Rating: 4.5

Im listening to this again, and i love it even more.



It's all over the place. somber, and melodic one second; then tragic, chaotic, and pissed as hell the next.

w/e!

Album Rating: 4.5

Glass Skin >>>>>> Everything else they've ever done.

Album Rating: 4.5

Personally, I like Vulgar the most, but many will more than likely say that this, or Withering to Death is their best.



listen to them all and figure it out. XS



(mainly Kisou, Vulgar, Six Ugly, WTD, and MOAB. the rest are just singles, and stupid promo things)

Album Rating: 4.5

i edited my last post to narrow those down.



i dig some of their earlier, rockier stuff, too.

Album Rating: 4.5

they put out a promo, sinlge, or ep with slightly extended, remixed, regurgitated junk on it every other week. the industry over there is goofy like that.

Album Rating: 4.5

yeah, me too.



They came out with a live album with some good versions of some Uroboros n Marrow songs on it not too long ago. Its worth a few spins, and the fangirl screaming is a near minimum, which is good.



the title of it is stupid long though, i cant even enter it fully on the database..

Album Rating: 4.5

no because i didnt feel like putting it on there bc it didnt fit.







Uroboros - with the proof in the name of living . . . - In Nippon Budokan

Album Rating: 4.5

i forgot they play OBSCURE on that live cd.



i love that song so much. it's so nu-metal sounding, but totally badass.

Album Rating: 4.5

Vulgar is srsly their best album, and OBSCURE is up there for best song on that album.