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DIR EN GREY - The Devil In Me lyrics

All lyrics, romaji and official translation of DIR EN GREY's new single The Devil In Me are up on DEGwiki: https://degwiki.com/wiki/The_Devil_In_Me_(2024)

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Hi! with the fact that 残 -ZAN- is getting a second remake. What others DIR songs have been remade more than once or have multiple studio versions?

As always thank you for all the things you bring to the community!

Hmm, certainly not many!

Sangeki no Yoru became Kiri to Mayu, which was then remade on the Rinkaku single.

Karma has a demo version with slightly different lyrics, the Kaede ~if trans...~ version and the remake on THE UNRAVELING.

Ash has four versions: On the Behind the Mask omnibus CD, on Kaede ~if trans...~ (as a re-recording), then as a remake on Myaku and again on Ningen o kaburu.

DOZING GREEN has the Japanese and English versions, but also a Before Construction Ver. with different lyrics.

And those are all with more than one studio version, I think.

Some songs were performed live in various versions, such as Byo""Shin, Cage, mazohyst of decadence (which was later recorded in the studio), Yokan, Fukai (probably the most famous live version), and others were performed as unplugged versions that were never recorded in the studio, such as 304-goshitsu, Hakushi no Sakura.

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perhaps this is actually an easy question and I am very poor at researching but I’ve been trying to find the definitive dates of the male only shows DEG held in 2009 and I can’t? I know that they were Tokyo and Osaka and that they were in April, I’ve even found footage of the live, but vk.gy says 3 shows in April 2009 were rescheduled due to Kyo having medical issues and those rescheduled shows were not in Osaka or Tokyo. I’m so sorry if I’m just misunderstanding something, thank you in advance!

What makes you think that they were in April? They took place on March 18 and 25, at IMP Hall and CLUB CITTA', respectively. This was before Kyo had health issues in April. :)

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All of them are good friends with many other musicians, but Shinya probably takes the cake. He seems to know/get along with seemingly each and every other bandman, active or inactive, except for Kisaki lol

Do you know if Dir en grey are close friends with other members of famous bands? Do they attend their concerts or post about them on their blogs?

Good question... I feel like Die and Kaoru would have the most ties to other bands. Kaoru seems to be friends with Hazuki rom lynch. I think the band in general kept decent relationships with the bands they toured with abroad, namely Apocalyptica and Deftones. I guess they're somewhat close to LunaSea too. Kyo appeared on Sugizo's channel once or twice, so they're probably not strangers to one another? Die seems to have the most pictures featuring others, such as Marty Friedman from Megadeth. Oh and Shinya is close to Gackt somehow! And I have no clue who the other drummers he plays boardgames with on YouTube are hah.

I don't know what kind of relationship they kept with Yoshiki since he helped them on their debut album...

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Funny that you post this today, because November 21, 2023, marks the 28th anniversary of Kyo and Shinya first performing together in a band (pic from that day below).

Shinya and Kyo also share the oldest friendship out of all the five DIR EN GREY members, as they met for the first time in August or September 1995.

The wholesome-ish friendship between Shinya and Kyo

Their latest playful Q&A in Haiiro no Ginka vol. 100 has prompted me to compile examples of this weird but overall wholesome relationship that Kyo and Shinya have and which is not obvious at first.

Situation #1

In October 2017, Kyo gifted Shinya with a custom white version of a MadaraNingen one-piece. As far as I remember, that article of clothing was not available for purchase in white at all, to the public. And of course, we all know that Shinya prefers to wear white.

Situation #2

I think that in response to Shinya sharing a video of him briefly playing with the minicars that were sold as tour goods in This Way to Self-Destruction, Kyo posted a story on Instagram of him revving up a bunch of mini-cars and persistently making them hit his phone propped up on a counter and displaying a picture of Shinya. At age 43. To which Shinya made an Instagram post vaguely hinting that: "Good children should not play with the mini-cars to hit someone's picture!"

Kyo's Instagram Story "The proper way to use mini-cars" video

Shinya's translated response

Situation #3

In late 2022-early 2023, Shinya publicly celebrated his bandmates' birthdays via emojis on Twitter, and Kyo was the only one to respond, in kind.

Situation #4

Kyo posted a cryptic picture of Shinya's video meeting with Mana in an Instagram Story and he has mentioned on Twitter at least once that he was watching Shinya Channel (the making of the FaFa onigiri).

In the same vein, Shinya took his failed attempt at needle-felting a pink bunny in March 2022 and turned it into a miniature hammer-wielding bunny in October 2022, in response to sukekiyo unveiling their Mosaic Shoujo PV which featured Kyo in the killer bunny suit.

Situation #5

This very old video of Kyo teasing Shinya by pinching the side of his dress, Shinya reacting by pushing Kyo a bit and Kyo falling into a robot dance in response.

Situation #6

The coffee maker. In one of the live talks held during the COVID-19 pandemic at concert venues, Shinya mentioned having a coffee maker which was of no use to him, and Kyo expressed interest in taking it from him. Later, in the Galacaa livestream talk between the two, it was revealed that Shinya had promised to give Kyo his coffee maker, but he never pulled through on that offer. Kyo, sporting a doodled face to hide his own, insistently questioned Shinya on this unreliability when the topic was brought up by fans in the comments. Shinya kind of struggled but ended up explaning that the coffee maker was really useless because of a defect, that it would not have been an appropriate gift anymore. But he forgot to update Kyo about it after he tried to contact the manufacturer. Kyo replied like: "Oh, alright then."

At some point, Kyo took the matter to Twitter, confronting Shinya about it with their respective member photos to illustrate the dialogue, and Shinya replied the same way.

Situation #7

In that same livestream, Shinya is so used to Kyo's bullshit by now that he completely ignores Kyo's doodle face sheet and casually leans forward to look past him and at the interviewer, sat on Kyo's right. After a while of this, the interviewer points out to Shinya that Kyo is insistently staring at him with this disturbing face, which is when Shinya becomes startled and nervously laughs upon realizing that, also making Kyo chuckle.

Situation #8

More often than others, Shinya and Kyo are documented chatting on the chairs backstage while they wait for everyone to be ready to start the show. Maybe there's something to be said of how they are the two members of the band to leave the stage the quickest, while Kaoru, Toshiya and Die stay for a while to throw picks.

Situation #9

Miscellaneous pictures of the two:

Situation #10

Apparently it was Shinya's earbuds that Kyo used to play with the cat (also Shinya's?) in this famous old video.

Situation #11

Other interactions on Twitter include commentary regarding the song battles that fans were voting on via that same website, during live broadcasts from their manager Fujieda on Galacaa. Kyo and Shinya were the only two members reacting to the songs that were pulled out of the box, Kyo sometimes replying to Shinya's own tweets wondering what he meant or outright questioning his preference.

Another interaction consisted in Kyo copying Shinya's tweets regarding the release of their Phalaris album and twisting Shinya's cute comments into hellish versions.

Situation #12

Probably a bunch of elusive comments throughout the years, but here's an example of something that Shinya said about Kyo in a magazine interview.

Situation #13

In Haiiro no Ginka vol. 100, the members were asked to send each other member five questions. Some chose to personalize them based on what they actually wanted to ask of the others, while a couple decided to send the same questions to all, but members were not told who the questions came from. Kyo picked up on that anonymous part of the game and when answering Shinya's set of questions, he ended each of his short answers with a second sentence that can either just be the Kansai dialect for: "Aren't you Shinya!", or in other dialects, translates more to: "Shinya, you bastard!" hahah. From what I saw, nobody else hinted at who they thought the questions came from in their answers. In reverse, Kyo took up two of his five alloted questions for Shinya with the simple statement: "You don't know you're dead yet!", a quote from Fist of the North Star which is highly intimidating as it hints that someone has defeated the character so easily and lightning-fast that they are a dead man standing, their body having trouble catching up with the reality that they were slaughtered. Shinya, in response to that repeated tease, stubbornly replies in his polite and formal Japanese that: "No, I'm not dead." Their Q&A with the other members were not nearly that quirky.

... Did I miss any? And there will undoubtedly be more to come!

Thank you very much to shinyaburashka for your help!

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None of the members are allowed to drive, actually.

Do you know what cars do Diru members drive? Was it ever mentioned in any of their blogs?

Sorry for the delay, I forgot to reply to this.

Kyo and Shinya drive very small cars of changing colours!

But more seriously, Fujieda confirmed that Shinya barely ever drives, which explains that he has an outstanding driver record. As for Kyo, I remember that he was once asked what his preferred method of transportation is between the train and biking, and he answered that he prefers to walk even if it takes a long time.

For the rest, I think there was an anecdote about Die almost causing an accident, or Toshiya? There's also the very old story about the band driving a (red?) car without snow tires up to rehearse with Toshiya in the early days of the band, but I'm not even sure that they mentioned who was driving.

But otherwise, I have no clue if they even own a car. Keep in mind that public transit is super convenient in Japan and in Shinkansen, people can choose the more "VIP" cars which are more private, like Kaoru failed to be able to get into once so he had to stand in a packed car with fans and other members of the public because it was the last train of the day.

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Correct me if I'm wrong, but this might just be the first ever officially released photo/picture of Toshiya playing a guitar, no? :O

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🥺 i'm sorry for bothering you with such a silly question but i will really appreciate it if you'd spend your precious time to answer this 🙇‍♀️ I really really love your blog, twitter, degwiki and youtube since i also love to discover and collect things like old photos, cds, flyers,... 🥹 But do you know anyone who posted live house ticket scans(?)? I've never seen one so far (since im really new here) but if there's any chances please let me know. Thank you so much!! 🙏🙇‍��️😭🫂 My English is not good so i hope there is no problems the way i said so you can understand what i mean... 🥺

(just in case you don't understand what did i mean, i do have some photos as example but i dont know how can i send you 🥹)

Tickets are very rarely scanned, but you can find lots of photos on twitter, I'd guess :)

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sukekiyo - EROSIO lyrics

Japanese lyrics, romaji and official English translations of the EROSIO songs are up on the DEGwiki: https://degwiki.com/wiki/EROSIO_(2023)

Enjoy :)

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sukekiyo - MOAN [lyrics + romaji]

https://degwiki.com/wiki/MOAN

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so precious ;__;

All of the band interactions in the 25th Anniversary Tour22 From Depression To____ DVDs

Over three shows, but still, what a treasure trove this release is for band interactions! It might just be my favourite Dir en grey DVD ever.

Bonus: When you try to photobomb a video but nobody's looking~

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Kyo is saying that if there’s one grudge he’s still holding onto, it’s that he was never on the cover of Rockin’f, only the guitarists were. (Rockin’f was renamed to “We ROCK” in 2007, so it’s not possible for him to be on the cover anymore)

And Shinya replies that while he doesn’t hold a grudge, he also doesn’t do interviews or comments for certain magazines.

Hello! Do you know the story behind Kyo's last tweet, about never being in the cover of Rockin' f? And also the follow-up tweet by Shinya on the same topic? I am not signed in on any of their blogs, so I don't know if it was mentioned before.

I'm not sure at all, to be honest. I saw a fan reply to Kyo with a photo of the cover that Dir en grey did have on the Rockin f magazine decades ago, so are they all being sarcastic? Is it their first ever magazine cover but Kyo is denying its existence because of their looks again?

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Welcome! This is a special invitation to take the whole Dir en grey community for an enthralling ride into the Schadenfreude universe! 

That song’s lyrics are highly poetic, and seeing as it is a long song, we have even more to feed our imagination. These lines suggest an imagery, but far from forcing a specific one onto us, they peel at the layers of our creativity. 

We would love to see your approach on what those lyrics evoke for you. Some of you are incredible talented and this contest is less of a competition than it is an opportunity to create a gallery of amazing art dedicated to Dir en grey’s Schadenfreude!

Prizes

Still, as an incentive, you can expect not just many kudos and my heartfelt appreciation, but a couple of prizes! 

Two guaranteed prizes are sets of VIP & exclusive goods from Tour23 Phalaris Vol.II, which contain: portrait set (photographed during Tour23 From Depression To____ 25th Anniversary), drawing book (Perfume of Sins artist photo outlines), colouring pencils, wristbands set, and a large pouch. 

What’s more random and undetermined is that, on top of that, honestly, there are probably things that I would be willing to do or to depart with from my own collection. Whether it’s something in Photoshop, or you’re a fan of x member who is missing something, we’ll work out an extra prize that I can include in your package!

(Voting method and presentation of the entries to be determined - probably dependent on how many entries there are, if artists prefer to be presented anonymously or something, etc. I definitely won’t be making the decision myself, but I also want it to be as fair as possible for all participants!)

Deadline

I don’t want to rush creativity at all, but please submit your entries no later than July 7th 2023 at 11:59PM EST. Let me know if you find this too restrictive!

Here is the Google form to register your artwork:

https://forms.gle/BeBSzvgTj9GDvUfF7

Entries

You can enter as many entries as you wish to share! There are so many inspiring lyrics in Schadenfreude that would be difficult to mix into a single piece of art. At the same time, there isn’t necessarily strength in number in this case, since there will be at least two winners anyway. This is meant to give you flexibility rather than to force you to make a difficult choice on just one segment of Schadenfreude to illustrate, but don’t spread your efforts thin on too many pieces!

What medium? As long as it’s a still image, go wild with digital, paper, paint, clay(?). 

Literally no other theme than just: “Bring to life a part of Schadenfreude’s poetry”. The lyrics mention scenery for the most, but you could include a person in your artwork too. 

Do keep in mind the tone and way those lyrics are sung, as well as the surrounding melody, of course!

Tips?

This may be more distracting than helpful as it could create bias, but below the break, I’ll include some descriptions of how Schadenfreude was portrayed live by the band. 

Before the hidden break though, good luck to all and thank you to anyone who participates! If you can, please spread the word about this contest!

Keep reading

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As it turns out, the lyrics to 無秩序は無口と謳う that were posted by Kyo on his instagram account are the complete lyrics to the song, except for repetitions. As such, you can find them on the DEGwiki as well:

無秩序は無口と謳う

Petit Brabancon lyrics

As some may know, PuchiBura’s ‘Fetish’ album didn’t include any lyrics. Instead, Kyo randomly published parts of them on his instagram last year, but has since stopped.

Luckily, some of the songs are available at Japanese Karaoke clubs and I managed to receive them. Although it should be noted that the romaji aren’t confirmed, and of course there’s no translation.

You can find them at the following links:

Don’t forget

OBEY

Koku

Kawaki

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Petit Brabancon lyrics

As some may know, PuchiBura’s ‘Fetish’ album didn’t include any lyrics. Instead, Kyo randomly published parts of them on his instagram last year, but has since stopped.

Luckily, some of the songs are available at Japanese Karaoke clubs and I managed to receive them. Although it should be noted that the romaji aren’t confirmed, and of course there’s no translation.

You can find them at the following links:

Don’t forget

OBEY

Koku

Kawaki

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This is part of a video that was aired in February 2000 at 76 different stores in Japan as part of a video concert, around the release of Myaku and the Osaka-jo Hall live DVD on February 16, 2000.

I have uploaded the full video here: https://youtu.be/8r09xVN0ZuU

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Posted without any identifiable sources, here's a clip of DIR EN GREY circa 1999.