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| 4.5 superb | Jared Floryan | November 30th 14 |
(9/11/18): Discounting the band's MISSA EP, GAUZE was officially the start of Dir En Grey's boundary-pushing career, released far back in the year 1999. For a debut album, the freshman record made a captivating impression. Aside from that, not many releases by other peers that came out around the same time period sounded quite like this. With 10 largely memorable cuts bookended by intro/outro snippets, Diru's first LP charmingly paired up polished, professional pop rock elements with unrefined - if not animalistic - metal traces and even a somewhat electronic bent (best found in "Raison d'etre"). To this day, GAUZE stands as not only a robust beginning, it also stands as one of the outfit's zeniths; just shy behind Dum Spiro Spero, Arche and the Remastered & Expanded Edition of Uroboros. Decent 4.5.
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| 4.0 excellent | davezillaMP3 | October 12th 20 |
Is this album overrated? slightly, the first half can be slightly unmemorable, however the album really picks up with "Tsumi to Batsu" and oh man is the rest of the album from that point really damn good, like really really back good. The Polished production from X-japans Yokashi really helps this album in a big way and helps makes songs like "mazohyst of decadence" even more unsettling. It is hard to say you will hear something like it at the time it came out and i can see why many VK bands tried to use the sound from this album at one point or another in their career.
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| 0.0 | zetsumeisama | April 13th 19 |
Favorite Tracks: Akuro no Oka, raison detre, Tsumi to Batsu, Yurameki, Schwein no Isu.
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| 4.0 excellent | Titan50 | May 26th 11 |
Gauze, Dir En Grey's debut, is easily the most "poppy", glam-influenced album the band have made, and still manages to be inaccessible. While there's no doubt every album they have made is diverse in the music, Gauze is extremely unpredictable, ranging from extreme metal freakouts (Zan), to Visual Kei perfection (Yuramakei), to epic hard rock (Akura No Oka). Yet one thing is consistent, as with all of their albums; their sheer power of the music on offer. Even the cheesiest of songs on here (Yokan) still has a lot to offer in terms of emotional weight, skill and, of course, the beauty that is Kyo's voice. As a band, Dir En Grey are almost flawless
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| 0.0 | Damus | April 21st 11 |
I think my friend was on my account and did this. I don't listen to this band.
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| 4.0 excellent | rentford | October 31st 07 |
Ahh, good old Dir en grey. This is when they actually were able to create some decent music. Sure, while during this period of time in their careers they did have the whole Visual Kei thing going; you can actually listen to GAUZE without feeling like tearing your ears out.
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| 4.0 excellent | mlwry | December 15th 25 |
| 3.8 excellent | Ryan P STAFF | September 3rd 25 |
| 4.5 superb | Kahrbo | April 8th 24 |
| 5.0 classic | moku | November 3rd 23 |
| 3.5 great | Tori | May 17th 23 |
| 3.5 great | Timmy | January 12th 23 |
| 4.0 excellent | xHaunted | November 29th 22 |
| 5.0 classic | Belal | July 3rd 22 |
| 5.0 classic | baruga | June 21st 22 |
| 4.0 excellent | Rick64 | March 25th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Oobaloo | January 17th 21 |
| 4.0 excellent | Dylan | January 16th 21 |
| 3.0 good | brvb | August 22nd 20 |
| 4.5 superb | Zaleb | July 19th 20 |
| 5.0 classic | Brabiz | January 12th 20 |
| 3.0 good | nbats | July 26th 19 |
| 3.5 great | josh | July 9th 19 |
| 4.5 superb | Kaze | February 3rd 19 |
| 3.0 good | Elynna | January 19th 19 |
| 4.0 excellent | Blurbs | December 19th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Uzumaki | November 13th 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | Aranox | October 25th 18 |
| 3.5 great | AriDoe | September 27th 18 |
| 3.5 great | elch21 | August 20th 18 |
| 3.5 great | k4lisk4 | February 23rd 18 |
| 4.0 excellent | ElSomni | June 16th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | wub | April 28th 17 |
| 3.5 great | SadLad | April 27th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | emmny | April 3rd 17 |
| 3.5 great | Nacen | January 16th 17 |
| 4.0 excellent | El Olam | December 25th 16 |
| 3.5 great | Swarm | November 14th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Greidy | May 28th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Henry | April 20th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | ICDD | March 28th 16 |
| 4.0 excellent | Shinya | January 3rd 16 |
| 3.5 great | nemmm | November 8th 15 |
| 5.0 classic | Madana | November 1st 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | heck | October 11th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | "Tab" | September 20th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Groke | June 26th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | Inferis | March 24th 15 |
| 3.5 great | Naeveo | January 26th 15 |
| 4.0 excellent | fuzzbutt | December 29th 14 |
| 5.0 classic | msm008 | August 13th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Tonzx | April 3rd 14 |
| 3.5 great | Kralle | February 27th 14 |
| 2.5 average | acbpn | February 6th 14 |
| 3.5 great | Ddv94 | January 24th 14 |
| 4.0 excellent | Eremita | December 3rd 13 |
| 3.5 great | Warpt | September 21st 13 |
| 3.5 great | Zantera | September 15th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | Meruem | April 15th 13 |
| 4.5 superb | infest | March 29th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Weedon | March 4th 13 |
| 4.0 excellent | Trebor. EMERITUS | December 31st 12 |
| 3.5 great | nemuru | November 15th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Simon K. STAFF | October 7th 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | Setzi | May 31st 12 |
| 4.0 excellent | joyless | February 6th 12 |
| 3.5 great | Kaozz16 | December 25th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | HenzaT | December 23rd 11 |
| 4.5 superb | sidjmt | December 15th 11 |
| 2.5 average | WTSMG | October 10th 11 |
| 3.0 good | cb123 | October 5th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | WeedKrop | September 11th 11 |
| 2.0 poor | stfrnz | August 17th 11 |
| 3.5 great | Pyreal | August 11th 11 |
| 5.0 classic | deadoku | August 10th 11 |
| 3.0 good | itchy | June 30th 11 |
| 2.5 average | Daedus | June 25th 11 |
| 2.5 average | Vesper | April 28th 11 |
| 4.0 excellent | Furik | July 19th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | Guiltor | June 12th 10 |
| 3.0 good | Avid | June 6th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | cunae | May 14th 10 |
| 3.0 good | lakku | April 26th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | FadedSun | February 25th 10 |
| 4.0 excellent | SaBir | November 23rd 08 |
| 2.0 poor | Umb | November 16th 08 |
| 4.0 excellent | Tom2704 | November 12th 08 |
| 4.5 superb | Zen1th | June 6th 08 |
| 5.0 classic | Vesey | May 7th 08 |
| 3.5 great | Sessho | February 16th 08 |
| 5.0 classic | Spooony | January 31st 08 |
| 3.5 great | RJayZ | January 21st 08 |
| 4.5 superb | mana20 | January 19th 08 |
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