#dir en grey kaishun

[haveyoulistenedtothisalbum-poll]

Tracklist:

Un deux • 咀嚼 (Soshaku) • 鱗 (Uroko) • Phenomenon • Cause of fickleness • 濤声 (Tousei) • 輪郭 (Rinkaku) • Chain repulsion • Midwife • 禍夜想 (Magayasou) • 懐春 (Kaishun) • Behind a vacant image • Sustain the untruth • 空谷の跫音 (Kukoku no kyouon) • The inferno • Revelation of mankind

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[yridenergyridenergy]

I'm not sure if you have posted about this already. If you want to introduce Direngrey to new listeners, what are the first 5 songs you'd recommend? What about the first album? How do you describe their history/members briefly? Are there memes/common stories with the fandom like how k-pop or vkei go? Thank you!

Sorry for the very late reply. I was waiting to get some proper free time.

I would definitely go with the more recent tracks! It depends who the person is, what I know about their music tastes and whether they would tolerate screams at all. I don't have Unraveling handy enough unfortunately, so maybe instead, I'd go with other songs that illustrate how diverse their compositions are. Something like:

- The Final (which made me discover them)

- Ranunculus

- 13

- The Blossoming Beelzebub

- Kaishun?

First go-to album is always the most recent! No use getting them interested first in work that may not represent the band anymore or which they might never play again.

Hm I have never really had to describe the members, other than Kyo and his three bands and his cross-dressing tendencies. Some people aren't sure that the voices they hear (on sukekiyo especially) come from a man. As for the history, people don't seem to be interested in that as much as how long I've been following them, for some reason. But I imagine that I would relate the fact that they are embarrassed by their early looks and sound, that they became darker and more elaborate since, that they were kind of pioneers in touring overseas as far as Japanese bands are concerned, yet that in Japan, they are not mainstream at all.

Eh I'm not sure about memes, other than how they almost always answer: "Sou desu ne."/"That's right." in interviews hah? Otherwise, those screenshots of Die clutching his head after drinking wine were a highlight as well. But memes... Or you meant stories really about the fandom? Oh that was more problematic, there was some elitism, but I hope we can all respect one another and keep in mind that we don't listen to Dir en grey because our lives are rosy!

[kyou-no-kyo]

今日の京は、

懐春 (Kaishun) - Dir en Grey

[rinkakku]

anyway, you all should listen to Kaishun by DIR EN GREY

[aleshaxruthless]

Blue Lights!!

京

[coffintownkids]

Kaishun might actually be one of my favorite Dir en grey songs of all time. It’s definitely one of my fave ballads by them. I have a personal and deep love for more traditional Japanese music and poetic conventions, which this song does really well. I tried my best to capture it in English, though I am admittedly not much of a poet myself. I did take a bit of liberty in formatting it a little different than what the line structure shows in Japanese. Where the Japanese has definitive spaces for pauses, I think line breaks make a bit more sense in English.

Even if any of my poor readers out there aren’t into jrock/metal at all, you may want to give this song a shot. It really is lovely!

懐春 (Longing for Spring) - Dir en grey

観てはいけない　貴方の園は　誰かの季節へ ただ怖い　この先へ　畦道　帰りを待つ

I must not look

Your garden is

For another’s season

I am still afraid

Of this path ahead

Through the rice fields

I await your return

流れた星に目もくれず手を合わせ 蛍が刻を照らす

Join hands with eyes no longer graced by shooting stars

Fireflies illuminate the season

眠る貴方だけの色に染まれれば 人知れず抱え込む苦しみから逃げ出しそうな私の夜

If I were to be dyed only in the color of your sleeping self

On my nights where I feel like running from the untold suffering I carry

冬、雨に抱かれ　憂いを浴びて　春に変われる日、誰を待ってるの? 冬、雨に抱かれ　そんな日々を過ごす私はね　息をし…

Winter, I am embraced by your rain

Sorrow pouring down

Day that can change to spring, who are you waiting for?

Winter, I am embraced by your rain

As for how I’ll spend such days

I’ll breathe…

冬、雨に抱かれ　憂いを浴びて　春に変われる日、誰を待ってるの? 冬、雨に抱かれ　そんな日々を過ごす私がね　愛した…

Winter, I am embraced by your rain

Sorrow pouring down

Day that can change to spring, who are you waiting for?

Winter, I am embraced by your rain

I’ll spend the days like this

I loved you…

-

This! Song!

The way the Japanese use the seasons to evoke so many feelings and images is something I don’t think I can adequately convey. 春 usually never just means Spring. It also means Youth and all the good things that come with that. As there are so many seasonal references, I wanted to capture that in the title and kept it as Spring. The rice fields are a sign of life/growing things. Fireflies are often referenced in Japanese poetry as a sign of Autumn approaching. Winter comes in the end.

This song makes me stupidly emotional ;_;

[suicide-lilith]

[ka-i-shun]

“ Winter, embraced by the rain, bathing in sorrow,

the days changing into spring, whom are you waiting for? ”

[citybops]

Top 5 all time favorite vkei songs 😈

aka by mucc

killing cult by lynch

kaishun by dir en grey

tougenkyou by kagrra,

blame by l'arc en ciel

[rattorandagio]

thank you for the tag @closetchild !!!  (and happy birthday :3)

top 5 songs from my top 3 artists; (currently) (not in a particular order) (i have lots of favs this will be hard THIS IS NOT FAIR)

Dir en grey

- Bugaboo

- Toguro

- karasu

- kaishun

- macabre sanagi no yume wa ageha no hane

King crimson

-matte kudasai

-three of a perfect pair

-model man

-Thela hun ginjeet

-waiting man

Puzzle

-you won’t like it

-forgive it all

-years (remix)

- what she might say to me

- Demon with a violin playing big hits for little kids

tagging...... @rebibuqwq @treeslounging ....@ no pressure

[gisatako]

dir en grey setlist DAY1 Kaoru: deity, macabre, amon (symphonic ver.), ningen wo kaburu, namamekashiki ansoku tamerai ni hohoemi (unplugged), glass skin, ryoujoku no ame, downfall, different sense, the world of mercy, ranunculus, rasetsukoku, utafumi, ware yami tote, followers, child prey, kodou

dir en grey setlist DAY2 Toshiya: ruten no tou, c, devote my life, drain away, macabre - sanagi no yume wa ageha no hane, dozing green, kasumi, vinushka, 24kocylinder, dead tree, gyakujou tannou keloid milk, garbage, umbrella, child prey, inconvenient ideal, the final, zan, zakuro

dir en grey setlist DAY3 Die: 24ko cylinder, audience killer loop, mr. newsman, machiavellism, the domestic fucker family, midwife, dozing green, kaishun, hotarubi, sanjou no uta, dead tree, tefu tefu, cause of fickleness, agitated screams of maggots, juuyoku, tsumi to batsu, ranculus, vanitas

dir en grey setlist DAY4 Shinya: myaku, obscure, uroko, red...[em], aka, 304-goushitsu hakushi no sakura, ash, ruten no tou, namamekashiki ansoku tamerai ni hohoemi, kaishun, cage, berry, umbrella, mask, zakuro, gyakujou tannou keloid milk, behind a vacant image, marmelate chainsaw, kodou, inconvenient ideal

dir en grey setlist DAY5 Kyo: conceived sorrow, agitated screams of maggots, karasu, hydra 666 live, keigaku no yoku, kodoku ni shinsu yueni kodoku live, dead tree live, shokubeni (shot in one take), vinushuka and vinushuka live, the pledge, saku, keibetsu no hajimari, reiketsu nariseba live, the deeper vileness, rasetsukoku live, followers, (I'll), zan and zan live, the world of mercy, the final dvd live

[yridenergyridenergy]

[coldbloodedwomen]

I was tagged by: @theseductivenessovdecay and @satansoffcialblog 

Thank you for choosing me!

Rules: Answer 21 questions and then tag 21 people you want to get to know better.

Nickname: Rose

Zodiac: Aries

Height: 1,68 cm

Last movie I saw: Dead Waters (1993)

Last thing I Googled: Info about the next Formula 1 race

Favourite musician: Tobias Forge, Erik Danielsson, Chelsea Wolfe, Chris Corner ....I like a lot of them, don’t ask me!

Song stuck in my head: Interpol - Stay in Touch

Other blogs: Nope

Do I get asks: Sometimes

Blogs following: Way too many, I’ve been on this website for way too long lol

Amount of sleep: currently 6-7, sometimes 4 or 10. All the options possible. 

Lucky number: 8

What I’m wearing: T-shirt and skirt

Dream job: something related to music or movies

Dream trip: USA, Japan, South Korea

Favorite food: Asian dishes or pasta in general

Play any instruments: I can play a bit of piano and tried with guitar, but I’m too lazy to do anything

Languages: Polish and English

Favorite songs: There are so many because I listen to a lot of different genres. For example: Ghost -Cirice, Watain - They Rode On, IAMX - Quiet The Mind, Lacuna Coil - Swamped, Dir En Grey - Kaishun     

Random fact: I hate summer. 

Describe yourself as aesthetic things: Drinking red wine in my big Satanic mansion with witchy decorations and wolves around. 

I think nobody cares soo I will tag:

my dear and wonderful human @darkenintentions, @theashenone (you probably already tagged me in this 20 times before), @fabius-bile , @mazsolacska, @torrents-of-alabia, @marenmjeldebestcaptain

[mayakashi-an]

Thank you @bouquet-of-dead-flowers for tagging me! I love this type of tag.

So, 10 songs I’ve been listening to:

1.  Jonida Maliqi - Ktheju Tokës (Eurovision was a while ago and this was one of my favorite songs)

2.  Phosgore - 20 Ways To Kill Someone 

3.  Dir en Grey - 懐春 (Kaishun) [Yearning of Youth] (the entire album is great)

4.  Shatter Me - Lindsey Stirling (Lzzy Hale)

5.  MEG AND DIA - Monster (I love this song)

6.  Grendel - The Judged Ones

7. BUCK-TICK - Dress (Sakurai looks so beautiful in this) 

8. X-Japan - Kurenai

9. The GazettE - 千鶴 [Chizuru]

10.  Garmarna - Herr Mannelig (folk Swedish song) 

[ongaku-to-hito]

Dir en Grey - 懐春 (Kaishun)