Dir en grey

i know that feeling! too excited to sleep?! You get to see jrock Gods today! yay, have fun!
I wonder what they're doing right now

Naw I don't think it's because of that^^ It's just that I have to sleep on a pretty damn uncomfortable matress on the floor, and my back hurts like hell. I need to sleep in my bed. I tried pulling off one of my friends from my bed, but he kicked me in my balls hard like hell^^ I don't really care though. I'm not that sleepy. If I really wanted to sleep I would probably slap him and kick him off my bed. But I'm just too nice right now!

Btw, I actually also wonder what they're doing now, hehe. Probably having gay sex?^^ Awww, now I also want to have gay sex...

i still havent got a clue how to put the concert in to words lmao except

Amazing, exiting, wonderful, happiness, Kyo, Kyo and umm Kyo Lmao

My fav deg Video has to be cube My fav deg song has to be conceived sorrow lol i think it is rather Bad that they are Compaired to mcr How insulting i got 2 deg albums :{ my friends think im annoying because i wont stop talking about the concert lmao

It's cool you had a good dtime HitsugiMad
Sw33t- gay sex? Ahahaha, you're funny
My fave is probably Kodou and Obscure. man I wish they had a PV for IIIDEmpire, bet it would be great.

Oh my god! Just a little over 24 hours until I'm going to my very first Diru concert! Waaah! I'm so excited that I actually feel a bit nauseous..?
Apparently the concert has been moved to a bigger hall because of the high demand for tickets (that's pretty cool for a small and narrow-minded place like Denmark xD )

Livia Drusilla - your gonna have lots of fun!

Sw33t - hahaha i think about them having gay sex too lol god diru courupts my mind so bad lol but i think i let them cuz i like it

Sw33t - haha diru having gay sex?! *tries to imagine*

HitsugiMad4eva - Glad you had fun! I annoyed people too! I couldn't stop talking about the concert for days when i went to see them lol.

Livia_Drusilla - Have fun!!!!

I wish they made a video for the IID Empire too! It would have been awesome!
My fav pv is probably....Kr cube, ain't afraid to die and child prey

uhm, hi!
im new to the dir en grey thread, uhh i've been in the the nightmare thred
and uhm...u r all saying your favorite pvs? or songs?
becuz well, my fave pv is Aint Afraid to Die,
my fave song would be Mushi
well, yeah! haha!

pink. lol Yep i still havent stopped talking about them even though it has been like a week and a day lmao

Anyway i have another interveiw to post ill start writing it soon lmao its from Guitar Sound *most of u probley read it but oh well* lol

this is From Rock Sound lol Again kaoru does nearly all the talking

Everything comes to those who wait, but for fans of Dir En Grey, that wait has been agonising. A full 10 years after the Japanese metallers originally formed, their uk fans have finally been given the opportunity to see them play live this august and judging by the reaction, it couldn't have come any sooner. A date at the 800-capacity Islington academy in London miraculously sold out six hours after going on sale despite not being officially announced or advertised and a second gig has been added. Small beans relatively speaking, but for a band with just one official uk album, the recent 'The marrow of a bone', its not too shabby at all. In their homeland, the osaka outfit have long been established in the mainstream and regularly find themselves positioned in the higher realms of the chart, rubbing shoulders with more lightweight j-pop acts which guitarist kaoru admits is a little incongruous for a band whose lyrics include "I'll rape your daughter on your grave" and "dear god your a mother ****er".
"We feel very uncomfortable in the japanese mainstream but i think the reason we are so popular is because there isn't really anyone else doing what we do," explains kaoru through an interpreter.
"I think there are a lot of people in japan who still have a hunger to hear music like ours and do not enjoy the mainstream pop that is always in the charts. But we are not popular with everyone; the people that like us like us very much, but the people that hate us REALLY hate us!"
THE HARD WAY
The Quintet originally began life as exponents of the 'Visual kei' scene which is characterised (Broadly speaking) by an emphasis on aestheic flamboyant Check out some of Dir en grey's earlier pictures and videos just to compare. Because more ofter than not, they looked and sounded like ridiculous glam-Goth pantomime actors back in the day. Over time, they've put the elaborate wardrobe and gigantic make-up budgets to one side and made gradual strides towards becoming a real band - all of which has culminated in 'the marrow of a bone' clearly being their hardest and most accomplished effort yet.
"These songs were written while we were on tour last year so we created them while we were operating as a proper band - that may be why the new album is more aggressive than all the others," kaoru goes on.
"I think some of our old fans may not enjoy the direction we've taken, but it was the mood we were in at the time. Plus, we don't want to be seen as the same old 'Visual Kei' band anymore. That was years ago."
Kaoru's wish is now becoming a reality because Dir En Grey are being recognised and revered across the world for their intense-yet-melodic sound and have held their own in bills next to korn, Stone sour, and deftones in recent times. They even had metallica's booking ageny offer to work for them
- a golden ticket to playing with some of the biggest bands in the world - but refused out of loyalty to their long-standing representatives.
Says kaoru: "We always seem to choose the tougher way to make music and operate the band - I think people respect that."
But as musically adept as they are - both live and in the studio - the band still have the ability to be provocative and shocking in visual terms. Especially indicative of this are Dir En Grey's videos which are frequently on tool levels of grotesqueness and feature Marilyn mason-style quotas of pervasion; look up the track 'obscure' on you tube and see if you can get through it without losing your last meal.
"They're no promotional tools like most videos are – they can't be because they don't get shown anyway," continues kaoru. "We make them as pieces of art and as another pert of our music. They expand the song through images; that is why we use them and that is also why I'm proud of them."

CHOOSE LIFE
With lyrics that seem obsessed with death, videos that look like surreal horror films, and a generally dark disposition within the band, it's terribly tempting to view Dir En Grey as a group of tortured souls. Such an evaluation is exacerbated by the persona of singer kyo who has been known to mutilate himself on stage and spends almost the entirety of the rock sound photoshoot staring at the floor as though he were mourning the passing of his dog. But kaoru (who is amiable at all times during the interview) denies that he, Kyo, Guitarist Die, bassist Toshiya, and drummer shinya are continually suspended in comas of intensity for the sake of artistic effects.
"We don't live dark lives or anything like that; in fact, I think we're quite down-to-earth, especially when we are away from the band," the guitarists details.
"It's not as though we have any big scares of bad memories from our childhood, but the five of us are deep-thinking people. We cannot be happy-go-lucky-type people. We doubt things more than we believe in things. People might think we're dark people by listening to our album once, but there's more to us than that. For example, one of our songs is called 'Saku,' and that's about the experience of being from a broken home and the emotional problems that creates. The guy in the song wants to die but tomorrow always comes and he carries on. We're not saying 'be happy' all the times, but that's the spirit behind a lot of our songs."
And it's that spirit which is propelling Dir En Grey on as they begin to preach their gospel outside of japan where metal is a much more common commodity than in their homeland. Do while Japanese punters may adore them, does the rest of the world need Dir En Grey as Much?
Reasons kaoru: "Maybe it's not a case of the world needing Dir En Grey, but the world choosing Dir En Grey…"
Whatever your needs, don't think for a minute that these guys Will be sheepishly scuttling back to Osaka any time soon.

i hope noone has put this up lmao

Thanks alot for posting. Don't like the way they dismiss 'Visual kei' though.
So glad they're so popular, will make it even easier to get hold of their stuff

thanks for the post! I always like reading articles on Dir en grey

They were in Rock Sound? Is the issue still on sale now? Was it just the interview or were there posters/whatever?

I think that the HMV in the mall near me has wiped Dir en grey from existence in their store. They had Marrow of a Bone and I kept looking at it and when I finally decided to buy it it had gone and the next time I looked, the 'Dir en grey' divider had gone. So I take it that they just ordered one copy of the CD and once it had sold forgot about it.

thanks for posting the interveiw i hate the fact that people seem to think that just because they have these song that in real life they are these scary demond people...that's the way my mom sees them and i try to explain the meaning behind the music but she just wont listen...oh well i enjoied reading the interview anyways

Rock sound issue 99 Yep on sale now its quite a big close up pictue of kyo on oneside lol You get a cd With Grief On it lol

Sorry for random interjection that has nothing to do with the conversation going on... but did any one else see them at Wacken? Damned goods gig... and I got signed!!! ^_^ ... literally... my hand was signed... aswell as my jacket... but shhh we were only meant to get one thing signed!

@CharismaticDeath: lucky....dude thats awesome.
it seems as though europe actually have magazines do articles on dir en grey. i dont think america does....

HitsugiMad4eva - thanks for posting!

semi~sweet - yeah, i don't like those people too! Some of my old classmates were like that. And i will never let my mother read or listen to the lyrics because then she'll force met to go to church or something lol

CharismaticDeath - Lucky! so you got to meet them?!!! i'm jealous!

HitsugiMad4eva said:

this is From Rock Sound lol Again kaoru does nearly all the talking
Everything comes to those who wait, but for fans of Dir En Grey, that wait has been agonising. A full 10 years after the Japanese metallers originally formed, their uk fans have finally been given the opportunity to see them play live this august and judging by the reaction, it couldn't have come any sooner. A date at the 800-capacity Islington academy in London miraculously sold out six hours after going on sale despite not being officially announced or advertised and a second gig has been added. Small beans relatively speaking, but for a band with just one official uk album, the recent 'The marrow of a bone', its not too shabby at all. In their homeland, the osaka outfit have long been established in the mainstream and regularly find themselves positioned in the higher realms of the chart, rubbing shoulders with more lightweight j-pop acts which guitarist kaoru admits is a little incongruous for a band whose lyrics include "I'll rape your daughter on your grave" and "dear god your a mother ****er".
"We feel very uncomfortable in the japanese mainstream but i think the reason we are so popular is because there isn't really anyone else doing what we do," explains kaoru through an interpreter.
"I think there are a lot of people in japan who still have a hunger to hear music like ours and do not enjoy the mainstream pop that is always in the charts. But we are not popular with everyone; the people that like us like us very much, but the people that hate us REALLY hate us!"
THE HARD WAY
The Quintet originally began life as exponents of the 'Visual kei' scene which is characterised (Broadly speaking) by an emphasis on aestheic flamboyant Check out some of Dir en grey's earlier pictures and videos just to compare. Because more ofter than not, they looked and sounded like ridiculous glam-Goth pantomime actors back in the day. Over time, they've put the elaborate wardrobe and gigantic make-up budgets to one side and made gradual strides towards becoming a real band - all of which has culminated in 'the marrow of a bone' clearly being their hardest and most accomplished effort yet.
"These songs were written while we were on tour last year so we created them while we were operating as a proper band - that may be why the new album is more aggressive than all the others," kaoru goes on.
"I think some of our old fans may not enjoy the direction we've taken, but it was the mood we were in at the time. Plus, we don't want to be seen as the same old 'Visual Kei' band anymore. That was years ago."
Kaoru's wish is now becoming a reality because Dir En Grey are being recognised and revered across the world for their intense-yet-melodic sound and have held their own in bills next to korn, Stone sour, and deftones in recent times. They even had metallica's booking ageny offer to work for them
- a golden ticket to playing with some of the biggest bands in the world - but refused out of loyalty to their long-standing representatives.
Says kaoru: ﾂ"We always seem to choose the tougher way to make music and operate the band - I think people respect that."
But as musically adept as they are - both live and in the studio - the band still have the ability to be provocative and shocking in visual terms. Especially indicative of this are Dir En Grey's videos which are frequently on tool levels of grotesqueness and feature Marilyn mason-style quotas of pervasion; look up the track ﾂ'obscure' on you tube and see if you can get through it without losing your last meal.
ﾂ"They're no promotional tools like most videos are – they can't be because they don't get shown anyway,ﾂ" continues kaoru. ﾂ"We make them as pieces of art and as another pert of our music. They expand the song through images; that is why we use them and that is also why I'm proud of them.ﾂ"
CHOOSE LIFE
With lyrics that seem obsessed with death, videos that look like surreal horror films, and a generally dark disposition within the band, it's terribly tempting to view Dir En Grey as a group of tortured souls. Such an evaluation is exacerbated by the persona of singer kyo who has been known to mutilate himself on stage and spends almost the entirety of the rock sound photoshoot staring at the floor as though he were mourning the passing of his dog. But kaoru (who is amiable at all times during the interview) denies that he, Kyo, Guitarist Die, bassist Toshiya, and drummer shinya are continually suspended in comas of intensity for the sake of artistic effects.
ﾂ"We don't live dark lives or anything like that; in fact, I think we're quite down-to-earth, especially when we are away from the band,ﾂ" the guitarists details.
ﾂ"It's not as though we have any big scares of bad memories from our childhood, but the five of us are deep-thinking people. We cannot be happy-go-lucky-type people. We doubt things more than we believe in things. People might think we're dark people by listening to our album once, but there's more to us than that. For example, one of our songs is called ﾂ'Saku,' and that's about the experience of being from a broken home and the emotional problems that creates. The guy in the song wants to die but tomorrow always comes and he carries on. We're not saying ﾂ'be happy' all the times, but that's the spirit behind a lot of our songs.ﾂ"
And it's that spirit which is propelling Dir En Grey on as they begin to preach their gospel outside of japan where metal is a much more common commodity than in their homeland. Do while Japanese punters may adore them, does the rest of the world need Dir En Grey as Much?
Reasons kaoru: ﾂ"Maybe it's not a case of the world needing Dir En Grey, but the world choosing Dir En Greyﾂ…ﾂ"
Whatever your needs, don't think for a minute that these guys Will be sheepishly scuttling back to Osaka any time soon.
i hope noone has put this up lmao

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i agree to that and i sooo love that line

InfernalKalamity America doesn't have magazine articles on Dir en grey? That's a supprise! We don't have much mention of J-rock here... Dir en grey are the main ones that get a mention. German magazines seem to do quite a few J-rock reviews... they actually seem quite into J-rock in general there.

SHINYA'S SIG!

CD_ OMG!!!!!!!!!! How cool! *high fives*
Yeah I agree America and Germany seem really JRockey.

pinkbuta304 said:

semi~sweet - yeah, i don't like those people too! Some of my old classmates were like that. And i will never let my mother read or listen to the lyrics because then she'll force met to go to church or something lol

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hahaha my mom is very religous but i'm not lol so she doesn't make me go to church anymore lol but when i was younger she put me in a religous privet school hahaha i think that messed me up more

CharismaticDeath - OMG shinya's sig awsome!!!

america sucks we don't get magazines with them but we do get tv interveiw hahaha yes steven's untitled rock show danm Kaoru and Tochi were hot!

yeah my parents put me in a catholic private school as well. and yeah, its a sure fire way to mess yah up more ;] lol.


here is that interview for anyone interested:

youtube.com/watch?v=eoLWmac6qMo

semi~sweet- same here! and i will always remember that tv interview! i would have missed it if it wasn't for my friend that called me right before!

CharismaticDeath- awesome!!!! you should get that tatooed so it stays on there forever! lol

I can't tis washed off now! But I have sigs on my jacket too, I didn't mean for him to sign my hand at all... we were only meant to get one thing signed and the guard looked angry when I asked for a sig on my jacket!... they're getting sewn on when I have enough time... I'll take a photo of that some time... Although you will have to excuse the complete state it's in... it's dirty after spending a fair few days in a field and my friends got bored and wrote all over it!!