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Dir En Grey, Withering to Death

Audio CD

Disk ID: 423408

Disk length: 60m 24s (15 Tracks)

Original Release Date: 2005

Label: Unknown

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Tracks & Durations

1. Merciless Cult 2:55
2. C 3:30
3. SAKU 2:57
4. KODOKU NI SHISU, YUENI KODOKU. 3:25
5. ITOSHISA HA FUHAI NITSUKI 4:15
6. Jesus Christ R'n R 4:00
7. GARBAGE 2:49
8. Machiavellism 3:16
9. Dead tree 4:50
10. THE FINAL 4:13
11. Beautiful Dirt 2:33
12. Spilled Milk 3:44
13. HIGEKI HA MABUTA WO OROSHITA YASASHIKI UTSU 5:08
14. KODOU 6:11
15. SAKU Videoclip 6:29

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Review

Dir en Grey are very much like their Japanese horror movie counterparts for English speaking audiences. They may not be the goriest, but there is something creepy and sinister in the underlying disjointed quality of everything involved. Take this statement from their website: "Formed in 1997, with the sole purpose to spread the feeling of hurt and sorrow caused by weakness, shallowness and egoism of humanity." Are they combating these characteristics of humanity, or furthering them because they are in the middle of it? Withering to Death fits this contradiction perfectly. Straddling the line between Marilyn Manson, Coal Chamber, and something similar to Katatonia, everything about this band points toward something coming apart at the seams. The music moves from poppy guitar rock to more furious metal. The vocals go from beautiful drones to high pitched cackle to outright wail. The Japanese singing is much more dramatic than the English translation of the lyrics inside the booklet. Songs like "Saku," "Dead Tree," and "Kodou" don't really need translation, and in fact may work better without. So ignore the booklet lyrics and just enjoy the disorienting quality of the music itself. --Robert Arambel

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