Kyokotsu no Nari 1:38 The Blossoming Beelzebub 4:38 Different Sense 16:18 Amon 25:19 'Yokuso ni Dreambox’ Aruiwa Seijuku no Rinen to Tsumetai Ame 33:02 Juyoku 41:28 Shitataru Moro 47:44 Lotus 55:06 Diabolos 1:00:05 Akatsuki 1:14:45 Decayed Crow 1:20:21 Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami 1:25:42 Vanitas 1:32:45 Ruten no To 1:40:53 Commentary 1 3:31 Commentary 2 8:27 Commentary 3 13:25 Commentary 4 18:52 Commentary 5 22:51 Commentary 6 27:24 Commentary 7 30:41 Commentary 8 35:46 Commentary 9 38:55 Commentary 10 43:16 Commentary 11 45:52 Commentary 12 50:01 Commentary 13 52:22 Commentary 14 57:01 Commentary 15 59:24 Commentary 16 1:05:08 Commentary 17 1:13:13 Commentary 18 1:18:22 Commentary 19 1:23:57 Commentary 20 1:28:25 Commentary 21 1:31:14 Commentary 22 1:35:54 Commentary 23 1:39:31 Commentary 24 1:43:33 Commentary 25 1:47:21

just one vocalist lol Your reactions bring me back many years ago to when I first felt that alien feeling of a new Dir en Grey song

Diru seem to be getting so much more attention from reviewers lately. I couldn't be happier to see them start to gather more attention after becoming a fan during their uroboros days 10 years ago when I was 17. Saw them live first on the kerrang tour and spent the last of my merch money on a T-shirt and a copy of their album. They've been my favourite band ever since.

There's no woman in the album xD aaaaall by himself. (From the comment of yokusou ni dreambox...)

As many other people have stated, there is only one vocalist in this band. Kyo has one of the most versatile voices in the industry, and it's certainly comparable to Mike Patton's abilities. He has done Death growls, punk, rap, screams... and after all that, he could sing a baby to sleep. Kyo is by far one of the most intense singers in Japan, if not the world.

Amazing band 🌟💖 and great album👌 💖, thanks for react 👍 wait for more Dir en grey 😎

I really really, recomend you the last studio album of Dir En Grey, Arche. It's truly a masterpiece

Your channel needs more subscribers! Very knowledgeable and articulate commentary!

Good reaction. You sir understand and know how to define metal subgenres.

Wow, covering a complete album! That seems so much fun to do. Really like your reaction, great album. I prefer their later work, from Uroboros on, their best for me is Arche. So special their style!

Dir en grey wasn't on The End in the early 2000s, they didnt have any American distribution until around 2007 and they haven't had any since 2012. This band is truely one that has evolved their sound over the years and disregarded the concept of a comfort zone, they have done everything from pop rock to Nu metal to a lot of progrock/metal to this avant-garde experimental album and all kinds of stuff inbetween. Each album is a departure and something different and if you were to explore their early stuff (songs like Sajou No Uta, KR cube, Yurameki) you wouldn't recognize them based on just this album because they were not avant-garde metal and a lot of their music then wouldn't be classifed as metal. Also, as others have mentioned there is only one vocalist, Kyo, and all five members are male. I don't think they have ever had a female guest vocalist on a song, but I could be wrong about that, Kyo just has a great unexpected range. Kyo didn't start doing harsh vocals like this until sort of around 2007, he did a lot more cleans and shouty harsh yells in the first half of their career. Enjoying your review so far, about half of the way through the video. The album Uroboros (listen to the remixed and expanded one) and parts of the EP The Unraveling (which they took old songs and remade them as influenced by their new sound) are good places to go if you want something similarish to this (as I said each album is a departure), also Kyo's chaotic vocal style is on full display on the 2016 single Utafumi.

This is my favorite album of Dir en grey but you should check out some others too, they are definitely my favorite musicians! Great reaction btw!!

Dir en grey can be progressive rock, metalcore, death metal, pop, etc. Depends on the album! The first one is very rock/pop with some heavier tracks, then it gets proggy on the second album, experimental on the next, then nu metal, metalcore, death metal and so on... Glad you liked one of my favorite bands!

Keep it up dude, fantastic reaction

Welcome to DIR EN GREY's greatness!

You should really reacts to Galneryus - Under the force of courage! They're japanese power metal band. Nice reaction btw!!

Great review and great reactions. I appreciate you being more than a lot of metal youtubers who react to music and say like two words, then are silent the rest of the time. That said, your review really got under my skin in some spots. -I really can't stand how much ragging you gave softer songs like "Lotus" because they were noticeably more poppy and not face-melters like "Different Sense". Even going so far as to say you thought the album was "going down the shitter" at some points. Like, I get it. Personal taste can be a fickle thing, but I don't think those songs deserved that much criticism. They were still very avante-garde, with a lot of changes in instrumentation and tempo. That being said, they weren't written to be as crazy as the other songs on the album. Those songs were written softer and straightforward because there's much more to Kyo as a vocalist than a crazy range. He's a very emotional vocalist that really sings his heart out, and I feel like you just disregarded all of that because it wasn't in the flavor you liked. -I feel like you tried to put the album in a box as you continued listening to it. I agree the album is very avante-garde at first, then gets more straightforward as the album goes on, but it's still avante-garde in the fact that there really wasn't a lot of consistency in anything throughout the album. A great many things kept on changing, even in the poppy and more straightforward songs. By the end of your listen, you tried to say this album is a death metal album, and that's really not accurate at all. This album is avante-garde to the tee. -I feel like your approach to the album was off. You kept mentioning the vocalist and band were creating higher and higher peaks of craziness and intensity, then you kept using prior songs as references to gauge how good the current song was. I feel this is unfair because I think you should treat each song as its own entity and enjoy it as such. Gauging one song based on prior songs on the album isn't right because not every song was written with the same approach. No ill will is meant, just think you were a little unfair and inconsistent in spots. Regardless, great commentary and great review. You earned a subscriber.

Vanitas is so out of place because it was written for the death of another musician that was very close to Kyo. So you’ve got this sad farewell ballad amongst a sea of tracks that were written and/or recorded during the whole earthquake/tsunami disaster in 2011. By the way, the moment you start reacting to Dir en grey or Gazette, you’re going to notice the j-rock fans slowly start to trickle in asking for more.

Great react to this album. ❤ please watch more of their lives! i recommend Diabolos or Macabre live at Tabula Rasa 2013 i had the same thought when i first heard this band, i really thought there was a woman vocalist. hahaha! Didnt know it was just Kyo and his inhuman talent.

i really think dir en grey is becoming a cold classic. btw if you like avant garde and japanese, maybe you could do a review on sigh, thanks for the incredible react

I will also say with the song 'vanitas' that I've never physically seen that song live but videos of it show it as such a moving performance. Kyo openly cries often during the performance of this song. It's a song rife with emotion and Kyo often lays that bare live. It's tremendous. I recommend trying to find live versions of this song. It's heartbreaking.

Very very nice reaction!

This is so great. I'm just getting into Dir en grey at the moment and I'm really loving this album. Since you mentioned Anaal Nathrakh, are you going to react to their new album coming out in September?

God damn... Dir en grey, Alkaloid, Woods of Ypres. I love this channel. If i can recommend an album or band i'd take something from Haken. The Mountain or Visions would be nice. One of the best "new" Prog-Metal bands out there.

Kyo's actually better live now than he has ever been. I believe he's gotten vocal training and is better able to pull this stuff off live without hurting himself now.

I would LOVE to see you react to their UROBOROS album

I really like your reaction!!!!!! Please react to more songs from them!!! Watch some lives too!!!!

Thanks for reacting to this :) Like many said, there's no female vocalist, would be interested to know which parts you thought were sung by a woman? I was really wondering ^^''. Had me laugh, though. Thanks for that! They are really a live band, you should definitely check them out live (Maybe go for "Cause of Fickleness" "Revelation of Mankind"or "Uroko" for vocal madness. All three come from their latest Album "Arche". ) They constantly reinvent themselves. Dum Spiro Spero was the first album they experimented with 7 string guitars and the recording was interrupted by the Fukushima incident which lead to a completely different approach to the album. If you do, 2013 was the year his voice was really bad. (he DID nail the Decayed Crow Symphonic Version though, if you want to give that a try!^^) They played close to 180 shows a year during that time, it's no wonder his voice broke as bad as it did. They don't tour THAT much anymore (but Kyo founded a second band....) I noticed you didn't like their ballads very much, so be warned that they are a huge part of the band as well, they are not as you put it to 'show of his vocal abilities". Most of Kyo's lyrics are very metaphorical, their PVs or video installments during lives add different layers to what the lyrics MIGHT mean. You can pretty much approach them as any (modern) poem and if you do it's incredible what you can find. I would go as far as to say that none of their songs were written just to sound good. They are all little pieces of art, triggering different senses ;). Some are highly political. The persona is always fictitious, though. (Multiple songs are told from a female perspective, some through children, teens, even unborn Babys etc.) Someone already mentioned them, but I would really like to see you react to Sigh "In Somniphobia". (Not much of a live band, but AMAZING on CD)

Love this band and love this album.

Yeah, what everybody just said, just ONE vocalist, Kyo, and a godlike one.

Awesome man Loved it from start to finish Hope you check out DirEnGrey Uroboros(the remastered version)

If you were impressed by the vocal range thinking there were two vocalist I'd like to see the reaction when you realized it was only one haha I imagine many people talking to their screen says: no! it's only Kyo!! lol

Dude, i hope u can do the same for Uroboros and The Insulated World albums. both from Dir en Grey. btw, all the vocals are made by the same singer, Kyo.

Good stuff. One of my favorite bands, and one of my favorite albums. If you want to get more subscribers, reacting to Dir en Grey stuff (especially their live performances) is a good way to do it. Just look at Baldman Reacts channel if you want proof of that. Lol

Kyo one time was in a concert with Apocaliptica and he did the vocals while the band played im one song.

Oh you should see kyo live he doesnt disapoint

how familiar are you with opeth discography? they have a few masterpieces under their belt

Well it wouldn’t be a dir en grey album without a couple ballads

Please react to their album Uroboros, it's one of my favorite albums in general.

I really love Amon!!!!

if you like the vocalist Kyo plz try to listen his another band called sukekiyo, I want to see your reactions.

Their lives performance are better than the album, especially those high pitch scream, of course kyo sets the bar really way up there

If you think this album is fantastic, then you better listen Vinushka or ARCHE. In my opinion, better albums than this one. Or at least good in different ways. Both albums are very solid in contrast to DSS, and specially ARCHE is very avantgarde.

Together with "Imaginary Sonicscape" from Sigh, this is the best Japanese metal album I heard. Dir en Grey have an amazing discography, but this is alternative, experimental, progressive, and Heavy as fuck

Its not a woman singing, its the same singer Kyo throughout the whole album. Please react to their song Macabre live, here is the link: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bs6ZqsSA3eDYpok.html

At a certain point I'm just watching to see when he realizes it's all one guy.

Bro are you still alive? Cause you haven't posted for years.

You need to react to their newest album the insulated world

Sonaatti Arctia : you Havel a right. Sentenced : no one there. Finnish metal bändi

Oh those female vocals you here are kyo

only kyo doing both harsh and clean vocal.

Kyo is the only vocal jajaja.react to ARCHE its more melodic and pure.or UROBOROS (the version remasterizada

There is no woman all the vocals are made by kyo

I have hard time getting into this band. Their songs lack a lot of things. And they sound the same in every album. I can't tell the difference between many of their songs just the same thing over and over

Tbh their songs bore me out after few listens. I just watched the video for your review.

Who in the right mind would make a 2 hr long video reaction...

This is not one of their best album, for me is oruborus. You can post the original video as long as you post state that is for pure critic and evaluation or whatever