I'm quite late to finding the channel. DEG has a knack for being undefineable and blending genres. If you want a peak at their more VK stuff you'd want to check out the likes of Garden, Yokan, Raison d'etre, or Yurameki. Heavy and crazy with impactful imagery? Go check out Uroko, Ningen wo Kaburo, The Devil in Me, or The Perfume of Sins music videos. Heavy stuff, the reworked live of Obscure. Great imagery and Heavy with unexpected vocals? Rinkaku music video. Unexpected prog? Karasu live. Iconic tracks include Saku and The Final.. They've got over 25 years of material to dig through with all sorts of surprises. Definitely worth coming back to over and over and over. Kyi, the vocalist. Has 2 other bands worth checking out. Sukekiyo which is the most artistic experimental metal band you may watch/listen to, and Petit Brabancon which calls back to 00s nu-metal in the best of ways. All 3 bands are active and actively touring at the same time. Man is a creative savant
This song is actually 15 years old (released in 2008 - they've been around since 1997), but yes they're still active and actually better than ever! This song is also much better live (the live from Androgynous in 2017 is a good example). I almost never listen to the album version because of how much better the live versions are. They've always done different things with every song so songs on the same album will sound like they were from different bands let alone songs from different albums. Kyo (vocalist) has an extremely wide range (much wider than even what is seen here). He also has a very unique high scream that he can fluctuate the pitch on rapidly. So far he's the only vocalist I've seen pull it off to the extent that he can. He uses a lot of other unique vocalizations as well but that one is the most inhuman/unique/vicious sounding in my opinion (he uses it a lot on the album Dum Spiro Spero).
@@Inscription880 You should do a reaction to their most recent album Phalaris :) Or Dum Spiro Spero if you're into more heavy stuff or The Insulated World (my personal favorite) for a mix of heavy and groovy/catchy. Or any live performance from Androgynos, TOUR19 The Insulated World, Tour18 Shinsekai, Mode of Vulgar, Code of Vulgar[ism], any live song that's subbed on Kaya's channel - all those are good places to start. Another thing about them is where most bands tend to start heavier and get softer over time they started softer (still had screaming but a different style than what's used in any genres I've heard from western bands) and tended to get heavier over time. But they've always been all over the place so every album has soft and heavy songs. Kyo (the vocalist) has two other bands also (Petit Brabancon and Sukekiyo) that are also worth checking out and are similarly diverse so no genre applies in their cases either.
I'm super late with this but thank you for the reaction :) Actually, back in the 80s, X Japan and COLOR where the centre of that 'movement' which journalists invented to describe this new trend of ferocious music and image coming form Japanese musicians. It was divided into two movements, west and east. There were a lot of [smaller] bands at the time that did the same and then picked up on it on purpose within the following years. One was more punk oriented, the other was more thrash/metal oriented. Both bands played a HUGE role in the rise of Dir en grey. X Japan's Yoshiki produced the singles for their first full length album Gauze while COLOR's Dynamite Tommy is the head behind Free Will the lable Dir en grey are under. So you can see Dir en grey as a direct descendant from that first wave of VK :) BUCK-TICK while coming from the Kanto region started out with that Punk Rock sound and can therefore be seen as a band that somehow swam between those two streams. They actually did everything different back then [the history of their first years is so interesting :)] - they quickly became their own thing entirely and were on a different lane before COLOR even started. But I think from today's standpoint they are rightfully credited as one of the founder bands for VK within a third genre that was neither punk nor metal. BUCK-TICK's singer died a few weeks back at the age of 53. He was a true icon and it feels so weird that most of the world doesn't know about this loss. I was wondering if you could do a double reaction for one of BUCK-TICK's songs called National Media Boys and Dir en grey's cover of the same song as a kind of tribute and to become more acquainted with the absurd creativity of this band. There is no live version of the cover on UA-cam but you can find the audio track easily enough, for BUCK-TICK I would go with a live version. Thank you again and have a wonderful day!
I haven't listened to COLOR before. But I'm a big fan of X, BT, and DeG so I will definitely check them out too. Rest in peace, Atsushi Sakurai and Heath🕊
@@wrasse1155 yeah, their fame did not transport as much into the 21st century. When we think about Japanese punk the first band that comes to mind is THE STALIN, right? [and rightly so, they were truly outstanding!]. COLOR's first album Gekitotsu still get's a lot of recognition within the Japanese music industry, though. But I would recommend looking up their second album FOOLS! GET LUCKY!! from 1989. I especially like the bass on that album :) There were so many great bands already active in the late 70s and early 80s in Japan. All worth looking into. I could give some pointers if you aren't yet too familiar with bands from that time :) Just leave me a message with what genre you're interested in.
Not late at all bro, right on time! Thanks for watching, you guys are musicologists on this stuff. Feels like I haven't even scratched the surface which is good for the future of this channel lol
@@passio-735 Definitely! It would be awesome to know what some of your top bands/albums from that period are :) My favorite bands: Dir en Grey, Versailles, and Buck Tick are like points on a triangle they each have something different I like 💞
Visual Kei started in the 1980s through two bands: Buck-Tick and X Japan. Dir En Grey arrived a decade later at the end of the 1990s and took on more of a darker societal tone. This particular song, Vinushka, has more to do with the bombing of Nagasaki & Hiroshima. Please reach out for more music history.
I love when every instrument and the singer all sound like they're doing their own thing but still going in the same direction. Gives me something different to pay attention to every time I listen. I especially like when bassists will play their own thing that stands out and not just follow the guitars (this band does that a lot - the bass stands out I mean).
l love kyo niimura's voice he be a tenor and his vocal range goes from e1-f7 he also be partially deaf in his left ear and has been since 2000 l love how he can go from a sensual husky purr to inhumal gutteral growl to a high pitched wail and dir en grey be awesome live l got to see them in 2008 in orlando florida l can see a perfect circle more than tool and at times they also has a nine inch nails kinda vibe if'n ya get a chance to see them if'n they come near ur area ya should go see them live their lead guitarist kaoru niikura also be their band leader then it be diesuke(die) andou on rhythm guitar toshiya hara on bass and shinya terachi on drums
Please don't let this be a one time thing! This band has a huge discography to discover and they go so many directions that you need at least 8 songs to grasp their whole substance. Also, this song has an open meaning in the lyrics but the images are from the atomic bombing from America towards Japan (Nagasaki & Hiroshima).
The little square is because this is a censored version of the video. Original has graphic images of the aftermath of the bomb drops. It's a hard watch. The pictures at the end were drawn by children about it. To clarify, Dir en grey are the foundation of the heavier and wilder vk bands, but X Japan were the founders of the style. I don't want to get yelled at. People are going to tell you it was the wrong video, but there's no wrong video. Each has its own soul. This was a good start for you, can tell by your reaction and round up. Dir en grey are wildly diverse, so you'll never really know what you're getting Extreme heavy, down to Heartfelt ballads. This is another deep rabbit hole.
@@Inscription880 once you start on the Dir en grey live stuff you're always wrong. There's always about three or more versions from different years and the band pretty much never play the songs the same way twice. And of course every fan has their favourite. That aside, doing studio VS live is worth it with this band as there are elements in the studio that don't make it to the live, and Kyo's incredibly theatrical live performances are just wild. So you actually do get a very different experience.
First of all: DIR EN GREY is 200% every time when you see them live, even in their digital performances. Therefore you should maybe go for just live performances in the future. Also, every singer from today's V-Kei Scene was influenced by Kyô, the singer. Listen to more by Diru and newer bands and you'll notice.
@@Inscription880 I know im also late to the party. FIrst of all thanks for the reaction...BUT! Do it again live...the version...thats like comparing a pool and an Ocean...its dozillian times sicker!
wow. Now I excluded everything form my comment that yt could take offense with and while my comment finally stays on the side it still seems to be hidden and you can only see it when you change the sorting to "newest"? I know why I don't comment much. But your reaction was worth the hassle. Thanks again. I hope you can see/find it.
I'm quite late to finding the channel. DEG has a knack for being undefineable and blending genres. If you want a peak at their more VK stuff you'd want to check out the likes of Garden, Yokan, Raison d'etre, or Yurameki. Heavy and crazy with impactful imagery? Go check out Uroko, Ningen wo Kaburo, The Devil in Me, or The Perfume of Sins music videos. Heavy stuff, the reworked live of Obscure. Great imagery and Heavy with unexpected vocals? Rinkaku music video. Unexpected prog? Karasu live. Iconic tracks include Saku and The Final.. They've got over 25 years of material to dig through with all sorts of surprises. Definitely worth coming back to over and over and over.
Kyi, the vocalist. Has 2 other bands worth checking out. Sukekiyo which is the most artistic experimental metal band you may watch/listen to, and Petit Brabancon which calls back to 00s nu-metal in the best of ways. All 3 bands are active and actively touring at the same time. Man is a creative savant
This song is actually 15 years old (released in 2008 - they've been around since 1997), but yes they're still active and actually better than ever! This song is also much better live (the live from Androgynous in 2017 is a good example). I almost never listen to the album version because of how much better the live versions are. They've always done different things with every song so songs on the same album will sound like they were from different bands let alone songs from different albums. Kyo (vocalist) has an extremely wide range (much wider than even what is seen here). He also has a very unique high scream that he can fluctuate the pitch on rapidly. So far he's the only vocalist I've seen pull it off to the extent that he can. He uses a lot of other unique vocalizations as well but that one is the most inhuman/unique/vicious sounding in my opinion (he uses it a lot on the album Dum Spiro Spero).
Oh damn...that's awesome! I'll definitely check more out
@@Inscription880 You should do a reaction to their most recent album Phalaris :) Or Dum Spiro Spero if you're into more heavy stuff or The Insulated World (my personal favorite) for a mix of heavy and groovy/catchy. Or any live performance from Androgynos, TOUR19 The Insulated World, Tour18 Shinsekai, Mode of Vulgar, Code of Vulgar[ism], any live song that's subbed on Kaya's channel - all those are good places to start.
Another thing about them is where most bands tend to start heavier and get softer over time they started softer (still had screaming but a different style than what's used in any genres I've heard from western bands) and tended to get heavier over time. But they've always been all over the place so every album has soft and heavy songs. Kyo (the vocalist) has two other bands also (Petit Brabancon and Sukekiyo) that are also worth checking out and are similarly diverse so no genre applies in their cases either.
I'm super late with this but thank you for the reaction :)
Actually, back in the 80s, X Japan and COLOR where the centre of that 'movement' which journalists invented to describe this new trend of ferocious music and image coming form Japanese musicians. It was divided into two movements, west and east. There were a lot of [smaller] bands at the time that did the same and then picked up on it on purpose within the following years. One was more punk oriented, the other was more thrash/metal oriented. Both bands played a HUGE role in the rise of Dir en grey. X Japan's Yoshiki produced the singles for their first full length album Gauze while COLOR's Dynamite Tommy is the head behind Free Will the lable Dir en grey are under.
So you can see Dir en grey as a direct descendant from that first wave of VK :)
BUCK-TICK while coming from the Kanto region started out with that Punk Rock sound and can therefore be seen as a band that somehow swam between those two streams. They actually did everything different back then [the history of their first years is so interesting :)] - they quickly became their own thing entirely and were on a different lane before COLOR even started. But I think from today's standpoint they are rightfully credited as one of the founder bands for VK within a third genre that was neither punk nor metal.
BUCK-TICK's singer died a few weeks back at the age of 53. He was a true icon and it feels so weird that most of the world doesn't know about this loss. I was wondering if you could do a double reaction for one of BUCK-TICK's songs called National Media Boys and Dir en grey's cover of the same song as a kind of tribute and to become more acquainted with the absurd creativity of this band. There is no live version of the cover on UA-cam but you can find the audio track easily enough, for BUCK-TICK I would go with a live version.
Thank you again and have a wonderful day!
I haven't listened to COLOR before. But I'm a big fan of X, BT, and DeG so I will definitely check them out too. Rest in peace, Atsushi Sakurai and Heath🕊
@@wrasse1155 yeah, their fame did not transport as much into the 21st century. When we think about Japanese punk the first band that comes to mind is THE STALIN, right? [and rightly so, they were truly outstanding!]. COLOR's first album Gekitotsu still get's a lot of recognition within the Japanese music industry, though. But I would recommend looking up their second album FOOLS! GET LUCKY!! from 1989. I especially like the bass on that album :)
There were so many great bands already active in the late 70s and early 80s in Japan. All worth looking into. I could give some pointers if you aren't yet too familiar with bands from that time :) Just leave me a message with what genre you're interested in.
Not late at all bro, right on time! Thanks for watching, you guys are musicologists on this stuff. Feels like I haven't even scratched the surface which is good for the future of this channel lol
@@passio-735 Definitely! It would be awesome to know what some of your top bands/albums from that period are :)
My favorite bands: Dir en Grey, Versailles, and Buck Tick are like points on a triangle they each have something different I like 💞
Man I love the VK Community! Rest in piece Atsushi Sakurai💜
Visual Kei started in the 1980s through two bands: Buck-Tick and X Japan.
Dir En Grey arrived a decade later at the end of the 1990s and took on more of a darker societal tone. This particular song, Vinushka, has more to do with the bombing of Nagasaki & Hiroshima.
Please reach out for more music history.
Cool! didn't know it went back that far, I will admit I am definitely ignorant on the subject.
I love when every instrument and the singer all sound like they're doing their own thing but still going in the same direction. Gives me something different to pay attention to every time I listen. I especially like when bassists will play their own thing that stands out and not just follow the guitars (this band does that a lot - the bass stands out I mean).
Yes exactly, it has layers.
MÁS QUE EXCELENTE ESTE TEMA DE DIR EN GREY, MUCHAS GRACIAS POR SU REACCIÓN AMIGO, SALUDOS DESDE MI HERMOSO MÉXICO.
I been to concert 16 times and Kyo is another band Sukekiyo I went to see them to. I have Dir en Grey tattooed on my arm.
I rewatched this video and this is even better the second time when I can anticipate what's next. really cool band, can't wait to check out more!
l love kyo niimura's voice he be a tenor and his vocal range goes from e1-f7 he also be partially deaf in his left ear and has been since 2000 l love how he can go from a sensual husky purr to inhumal gutteral growl to a high pitched wail and dir en grey be awesome live l got to see them in 2008 in orlando florida l can see a perfect circle more than tool and at times they also has a nine inch nails kinda vibe if'n ya get a chance to see them if'n they come near ur area ya should go see them live their lead guitarist kaoru niikura also be their band leader then it be diesuke(die) andou on rhythm guitar toshiya hara on bass and shinya terachi on drums
I can't wait to hear more, feels like I barely scratched the surface of this band! And I would totally go to a show if they came around.
Please don't let this be a one time thing! This band has a huge discography to discover and they go so many directions that you need at least 8 songs to grasp their whole substance.
Also, this song has an open meaning in the lyrics but the images are from the atomic bombing from America towards Japan (Nagasaki & Hiroshima).
I'll definitely do more, including live stuff!
The little square is because this is a censored version of the video. Original has graphic images of the aftermath of the bomb drops. It's a hard watch.
The pictures at the end were drawn by children about it.
To clarify, Dir en grey are the foundation of the heavier and wilder vk bands, but X Japan were the founders of the style. I don't want to get yelled at.
People are going to tell you it was the wrong video, but there's no wrong video.
Each has its own soul.
This was a good start for you, can tell by your reaction and round up.
Dir en grey are wildly diverse, so you'll never really know what you're getting
Extreme heavy, down to Heartfelt ballads.
This is another deep rabbit hole.
Dude I always get the wrong video I'm used to it by now 😄
@@Inscription880 once you start on the Dir en grey live stuff you're always wrong. There's always about three or more versions from different years and the band pretty much never play the songs the same way twice. And of course every fan has their favourite.
That aside, doing studio VS live is worth it with this band as there are elements in the studio that don't make it to the live, and Kyo's incredibly theatrical live performances are just wild. So you actually do get a very different experience.
First of all: DIR EN GREY is 200% every time when you see them live, even in their digital performances. Therefore you should maybe go for just live performances in the future.
Also, every singer from today's V-Kei Scene was influenced by Kyô, the singer.
Listen to more by Diru and newer bands and you'll notice.
The live version is 10000000 times better.
Yeah im doing live from now on :)
@@Inscription880 I know im also late to the party. FIrst of all thanks for the reaction...BUT! Do it again live...the version...thats like comparing a pool and an Ocean...its dozillian times sicker!
wow. Now I excluded everything form my comment that yt could take offense with and while my comment finally stays on the side it still seems to be hidden and you can only see it when you change the sorting to "newest"? I know why I don't comment much. But your reaction was worth the hassle. Thanks again. I hope you can see/find it.
I appreciate the effort I really do, thanks so much for commenting! it helps!
Ok so…not a fan of your content or this…weird shit at the beginning…but welcome to the best band ever….”visual k” it’s k
That's cool man. I just have a wierd sense of humor and subject the world to it.