Who Made Dir en Grey - Sea of Rs? - Tales From the Internet

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    In my video about fake Napster tracks, I spoke about a hoax track misattributed to Dir en Grey. Recently, I was contacted by someone claiming to have made it. This is his story.
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  • @JustinWhangYt
    @JustinWhangYt  3 роки тому +707

    Do you believe his story, or is he making it up?

    • @jackorion7157
      @jackorion7157 3 роки тому +2

      Yo

    • @syzl___
      @syzl___ 3 роки тому +5

      Pobby

    • @5_qm610
      @5_qm610 3 роки тому +1

      You should stream A Night in Berlin

    • @ergifem
      @ergifem 3 роки тому +2

      I don't remember this at all. I do remember looking up the band dir en grey was before. La...something. love "the final" song you picked for the intro.

    • @maeam
      @maeam 3 роки тому +11

      Sea of Seatards

  • @Cuestar
    @Cuestar 3 роки тому +1315

    i've never heard of dir en grey before but dam this story was sooooo much better than I expected. If the dude made it up, screw it, he's the greatest storyteller of all time

    • @plantemor
      @plantemor 3 роки тому +52

      You should check them out. They have some insane music videos. Theres one where babies grow on trees and a geisha picks one and start a eating it. I think that one is called Obscure. When I was 16 that was the edgiest shit I had ever seen lol. The song is great btw

    • @oopirates96
      @oopirates96 3 роки тому +6

      @@plantemor Akuro no oka is a classic song Different sense has an edgy hentai tentacle rape music video they have a lot of bangers.

    • @jinjunmei
      @jinjunmei 3 роки тому +5

      Sup cue

    • @plantemor
      @plantemor 3 роки тому +4

      @@oopirates96 yeah I just went and reached it for the first time in a billion years and I had honestly blocked out the orgy scene from my memory, but watching it again it all came back haha. The stop motion geisha and the baby tree has always stuck with me though. It's just so fascinating and beautifully made. I heard something about the video being about the inhumane treatment of prostitutes in Japan at the time. Dunno if it's true but I think it's a cool message to have in a music video if it is.

    • @DerangedManiac12
      @DerangedManiac12 3 роки тому +7

      @@plantemor honestly wouldn't surprise me. A good deal of their songs/videos deal with Japanese culture/identity. The aforementioned tentacle rape video for Different Sense is supposedly a metaphor for the 2011 earthquake/tsunami and the following nuclear meltdown, and displays different examples of the tentacle rape motif, from medieval wood carvings to modern hentai anime and J-horror movies. Almost as if to say that Japan has always fantasized of rape by the sea to being metaphorically raped by the sea.

  • @BlueOysterStan
    @BlueOysterStan 3 роки тому +530

    “Alot of bands start off edgy and abrasive, and over time they become a lot more accessible and poppy.”
    I have never been so offended by something I completely agree with.

    • @ohitsstar1241
      @ohitsstar1241 3 роки тому +36

      Gorillaz

    • @BlueOysterStan
      @BlueOysterStan 3 роки тому +29

      Yes, sadly Gorillaz

    • @brookhaven86
      @brookhaven86 3 роки тому +26

      In the case of Dir En Grey I feel like their last few records have had a higher quality of musicianship. Their move into prog metal is a win over their old nu/noisy output.

    • @SlyHikari03
      @SlyHikari03 3 роки тому +8

      Nine inch nails did the opposite.

    • @berkerrang4149
      @berkerrang4149 3 роки тому +5

      @@brookhaven86 Idk man, Vulgar will always be my favorite album of theirs

  • @MoonMoonTM
    @MoonMoonTM 3 роки тому +724

    My brain registered your shirt as tattoos for a hot second there

    • @jerryhogate3640
      @jerryhogate3640 3 роки тому +20

      You have to admit that would be absolutely awesome tho.

    • @Ith4qua
      @Ith4qua 3 роки тому +7

      I thought that, glanced down, and saw this comment.

    • @sa1936
      @sa1936 3 роки тому

      Lol same.

    • @smgxx
      @smgxx 3 роки тому +2

      Dude same what the fuck

    • @zacharythomas4164
      @zacharythomas4164 3 роки тому +2

      Wow, that's a great angle, just enough not to see hisbneck

  • @ThymeCypher
    @ThymeCypher 3 роки тому +484

    "Reverse it a little bit"
    Yeah, just turn the audio 20 degrees to the left.

    • @gloop3621
      @gloop3621 3 роки тому +9

      Audio*[cos -20, -sin -20, sin -20, cos-20]

    • @fizzyfaygo
      @fizzyfaygo 3 роки тому +1

      @@busimagen big brain moves

    • @--..__
      @--..__ 3 роки тому +1

      @@busimagen except he literally said "slow it down" first. and "temporally compress" is literally just a pretentious way of saying "speed it up"

    • @fizzyfaygo
      @fizzyfaygo 3 роки тому +2

      @@busimagen thats pretty intense stuff, try not too think too hard i don't want you to fry a circuit

  • @CoolBird420
    @CoolBird420 3 роки тому +579

    when Dir En Grey said
    "UGHHHHHWUHHHUHHHHEUGHHHH"
    I felt that 😔

    • @kerokerokeroppi6399
      @kerokerokeroppi6399 3 роки тому +9

      listening to red soil for the first time be like:

    • @soulexchangemusic
      @soulexchangemusic 3 роки тому +5

      Red soil is just the japanese version of BOOM DA DA UMM NA MA NI MA only it sounds completly deranged and unhinged (for real though that's like my fave part before that drop slaps down on you!)

  • @kaydwessie296
    @kaydwessie296 3 роки тому +417

    "We were smoking and being stupid"
    God I miss being stupid at random people's houses. You're never too old and it's the ultimate pastime

    • @Pulang_Diwa
      @Pulang_Diwa 3 роки тому +24

      I remember back in college i was at my bestfriend's house and we ate a plate of space brownies. For the first few minutes we didn't feel anything and just laughed it off and thought the brownies were shite. Cut to a few minutes later, he was in front of the tv laughing his ass off watching peppa pig and i was on the floor puking my guts out while flaming cockroaches crawled all over my body while singing the macarena.
      Good times.

    • @lordbawnchie
      @lordbawnchie 3 роки тому +2

      So true

    • @TheNickSweat
      @TheNickSweat 3 роки тому +6

      this is how most of my music projects came into existence lol hanging around the home studio with the boys and the ladies, smoking joints, hitting the gravity bong (we were broke musicians most of the time back then, don't judge haha), being stupid and doing ridiculous shit. some of my favorite memories start off like that. we kinda went against the grain of "stoners" though. we weren't sinking into the couch. we were sinking into the sounds. 48 hours later and i'd have a rough mix of a record waiting to be shipped off to the mastering plant. those were the days! still steadfast when it comes to my music though, just not as many "friends" around the studio as there used to be.

    • @evie5375
      @evie5375 3 роки тому +1

      god, yeah. honestly this year has actually fucked me up because after spending years getting over my extreme social anxiety, i've sunken back into it. hopefully when this is all over i'll be able to get over my anxiety again and just do dumb shit at my friends houses like we used to.

  • @jeremy8189
    @jeremy8189 3 роки тому +117

    Kyo is an absolutely insane vocalist. The sounds he makes come outta his face are astonishing.

  • @Sorrelhas
    @Sorrelhas 3 роки тому +642

    "and I imagine I'm not alone in that regard"
    **Nods head even though I was exposed to the existence of this band only 30 seconds ago**

    • @MyNameAkhim
      @MyNameAkhim 3 роки тому +19

      They have a highly diverse discography, I recommend listening to them. I’m sure you’ll find something you’ll like. They have Cure-esque rock ballads all the way to straight death metal songs

    • @dongletron69
      @dongletron69 3 роки тому +6

      I can't agree more with this comment because I did the same exact thing.

  • @El__Wiwi
    @El__Wiwi 3 роки тому +267

    inb4 this is a lost mindless self indulgence song

    • @bananastand-2241
      @bananastand-2241 3 роки тому +29

      All of their songs are this song

    • @RisingRevengeance
      @RisingRevengeance 3 роки тому +5

      Now that's a band I hadnt thought of in a while. I was super into them as a kid.

    • @gfmhd1280
      @gfmhd1280 3 роки тому +2

      @@RisingRevengeance yeah they still make music under the name YATAVEX

    • @jacobbelyea7945
      @jacobbelyea7945 3 роки тому

      @@gfmhd1280 Lol you got me with this one

    • @n.h.2337
      @n.h.2337 3 роки тому

      I'd believe you

  • @xejogear1136
    @xejogear1136 3 роки тому +94

    This story is reminds me about album of swedish group Tribal Ink, wich was distributed in early torrent days as "Linkin Park - Erection"

    • @skyetan86
      @skyetan86 3 роки тому +7

      Ngl, I would've listened to that Linkin Park track too

    • @xejogear1136
      @xejogear1136 3 роки тому +3

      @@skyetan86 I actually liked that album )

  • @richycline
    @richycline 3 роки тому +90

    I had a Japanese friend in highschool who gave me a minidisc player and a bunch of discs were Dir En Grey. L'arc En Ciel, Siam Shade etc. Lots of good tracks.

    • @ghengisdingus8644
      @ghengisdingus8644 3 роки тому +7

      Ah, Siam Shade. I Love 1/3 no Junjou no Kanou!!

    • @SlyHikari03
      @SlyHikari03 3 роки тому +1

      @@ghengisdingus8644
      Ah yes.

    • @steenie
      @steenie 3 роки тому +3

      l'arc en ceil though T_T

    • @tuahsakato17
      @tuahsakato17 3 роки тому +1

      Man you guys must be 90's kids

    • @msrottingroot46
      @msrottingroot46 3 роки тому

      @@ghengisdingus8644 That’s the only Siam Shade song people know thanks to Rurouni Kenshin >.>

  • @MarcoCaifan87
    @MarcoCaifan87 3 роки тому +66

    Withering to death was my favorite album back in my junior year of high school. The fact that Dir en grey has made it this long without a lineup change, and can pack venues with little promotion and marketing shows how great of musicians they are.

  • @superstarthomas
    @superstarthomas 3 роки тому +174

    Next up should be who made the Hitler version of Sonne from Rammstein.

  • @DerangedManiac12
    @DerangedManiac12 3 роки тому +58

    10:09 Seelentau (the guy in the forum image) is basically the biggest Dir En Grey archiver on the web. If you want to find more DEG rarities and possibly even hoaxes, it may be worth shooting him a message. Pretty sure he uses the same name on reddit and youtube. Alternatively he also runs the DEG wikia so you might find him there.

    • @msrottingroot46
      @msrottingroot46 3 роки тому

      What forum is this?

    • @seelentau
      @seelentau 3 роки тому +6

      @calypsis Thank you for the kind words! :)

    • @mirai2806
      @mirai2806 3 роки тому

      2 months too late but looks like “monochrome heaven” for me? Nit sure tho and I hate that thing so too lazy to check lmao

  • @CFjimmy
    @CFjimmy 3 роки тому +371

    I'm a huge Dir en Grey fan and I never heard about this lol. Probably because I only started listening to them at 2014

    • @kiyavi
      @kiyavi 3 роки тому +39

      Don't worry, I've been a fan since 2003 and I never heard about this until Whang mentioned it in his Napster video. Having finally listened to the track though, it's so obvious it isn't real. XD

    • @Ikiya69
      @Ikiya69 3 роки тому +15

      Been a fan more than 10 years, this is the first time I heard about this

    • @TheTrendkillerx
      @TheTrendkillerx 3 роки тому +11

      @@kiyavi Same. Fan since 2004 and never heard about this. But then again there were a lot of mislabelled tracks being shared on p2p. Mostly bootlegged live versions of songs. So meh....

    • @tesserakuent6876
      @tesserakuent6876 3 роки тому +8

      I remember it! I downloaded it on Audiogalaxy sometime back in the early 2000's and I think I still have it saved on a disk somewhere. The general consensus was that it wasn't a Dir song, but we weren't 100% sure...

    • @CFjimmy
      @CFjimmy 3 роки тому +7

      @@tesserakuent6876 I would say that I would never fall for this but then I remember in that me and my brothers had a cd full of l'Arc~en~Ciel songs, but half of it was mislabeled, to the point that it was years until we learn the correct names, and there were even songs from other bands labeled as L'Arc~en~Ciel. So yeah, early internet days were wild lmao.

  • @watermaiden15
    @watermaiden15 3 роки тому +181

    This video has a bath scene in it so I have to like it

    • @bunkteriamonster7830
      @bunkteriamonster7830 3 роки тому +3

      Ty

    • @Ekraelum
      @Ekraelum 3 роки тому +1

      Hi water maiden

    • @0neDoomedSpaceMarine
      @0neDoomedSpaceMarine 3 роки тому +6

      You've probably been asked, but I assume that you don't have anything like the rumored to exist 'Saki Sanobashi' catalogued on your wiki?

    • @MazrimTaim
      @MazrimTaim 3 роки тому +3

      Did you become a Whang fan from his video about you or did you get surprised to see him cover it?

    • @foxtailedcritter
      @foxtailedcritter 3 роки тому +1

      Legand.

  • @lordofthepoopypants8259
    @lordofthepoopypants8259 3 роки тому +126

    There was a song hidden at the end of Mr bungles album "disco volante" that's often referred to as either spy or secret song, maybe that's where you recognise the name from?

    • @mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299
      @mr.mammuthusafricanavus8299 3 роки тому +2

      LOL Mr. Bungle :P

    • @Eebers
      @Eebers 3 роки тому +12

      It plays after "carry stress in the jaw" which is hilarious because it's not even a secret at all if you're just listening through the album

    • @SlyHikari03
      @SlyHikari03 3 роки тому

      Pretty sure incubus and many other bands did this too.

    • @forgettablelisa
      @forgettablelisa 3 роки тому +19

      @@SlyHikari03 Tons of bands used to do this, it was almost a let down when bands didn't include a "secret" track for a while lol.

    • @michaelzachar7166
      @michaelzachar7166 3 роки тому +1

      Anthrax’s Worship Music has a secret track 14 mins in on the last track. It completely caught me off guard and it’s pretty poppy too. It was a fun discovery.

  • @HarryToeface
    @HarryToeface 3 роки тому +84

    Man...I was obsessed with Dir En Grey for 20 years now? Fk time is flying out the window

    • @chromesthesia
      @chromesthesia 3 роки тому +1

      Me too. Well 20 years next year. Wow.

    • @berkerrang4149
      @berkerrang4149 3 роки тому

      I'm coming up on 10 and it feels like a week

  • @jjenk911
    @jjenk911 3 роки тому +39

    Dir en Grey is criminally underrated. Great band.

    • @belial7625
      @belial7625 3 роки тому +7

      I wouldn't say they are underrated. They have been extremely popular for many years now.

    • @meilan671
      @meilan671 Рік тому

      So true

  • @WriteSound
    @WriteSound 3 роки тому +69

    "Jiren the Gray" is 1000% a reference to "Dir en Grey"

    • @julianadams3710
      @julianadams3710 3 роки тому +6

      Shit dawg you might be right

    • @Eblis840
      @Eblis840 3 роки тому +3

      🤯😂

    • @WriteSound
      @WriteSound 3 роки тому +4

      @@julianadams3710 you know Dragonball tends to do that lol

    • @demo3456
      @demo3456 3 роки тому +3

      its all connected guys that is the secret to life

    • @zaneyates5704
      @zaneyates5704 3 роки тому +1

      But is “The Gray” actually a part of his Japanese name at all?
      I’ve never actually seen any official Japanese (nor American sources for that matter?) sources referring to him as such.

  • @th3p1nkn1ghtmar3
    @th3p1nkn1ghtmar3 3 роки тому +101

    Jesus Christ, Dir en Grey. I can remember using an avatar of Kaoru on CheetahChat. Thanks for that blast from the past.

    • @xenosuki
      @xenosuki 3 роки тому +3

      They are still going strong :)

    • @kiyavi
      @kiyavi 3 роки тому +19

      Woah, you just reminded me of the time that 12-year-old me made a fake account on Neopets to see what it was like to be a boy on the site (rather than a girl, to clarify haha). I went in the forums and said I was a 16-year-old boy from Tokyo and attached a pic of 25-year-old Kaoru from the Gauze days (with the purple hair); girls believed it and started sending me messages asking me to be their boyfriend. It was surreal and I never replied. Nevertheless, Neopets sent me a warning because "this is not a dating site, so please stop" and I never touched the account again. .......That was the most 2002 blob of text I've ever written. Thanks for the memories!

    • @cosmicwaves420
      @cosmicwaves420 3 роки тому +3

      @@kiyavi what an amazing story

    • @Casketkrusher_
      @Casketkrusher_ 3 роки тому +4

      Ah those times when every emo idiot was into visual kei.

    • @yaboilink2359
      @yaboilink2359 3 роки тому

      More like "Jesus Christ R n R".

  • @Icemaire
    @Icemaire 3 роки тому +53

    Holy shit I used to be a big fan of Dir En Grey back at the beginning of the 2010's. It was actually the first concert I had ever been too. I loved their old Visual Kai albums, but after I while I started to appreciate their death metal records more. Uroboros is till an amazing album. Very surprised and happy you're making a video about them!
    I still use Toshiya as my gamer username and online account.

    • @SeymoreSparda
      @SeymoreSparda 3 роки тому +1

      Are they really playing death metal, tho? To me, okay, to me...what they are playing, in current years, is Opeth-heavily-influenced prog/avantgarde alt metal. Just more experimental and thicker version of their old sound, albeit less melodic. Not trying to gatekeep or anything. I'm just calling it for what it is. Heck, I'm still listening to current Opeth even after they ended playing prog death.

    • @MyNameAkhim
      @MyNameAkhim 3 роки тому +5

      @@SeymoreSparda Some songs like Hageshisha... could definitely be considered death metal. But yeah they don’t really fit in a singular genre

    • @AftarTheHumble
      @AftarTheHumble 3 роки тому

      @@SeymoreSparda "Opeth-heavily-influenced prog/avantgarde alt metal"
      sounds like a fancy way to skirt around calling it prog death metal

    • @SeymoreSparda
      @SeymoreSparda 3 роки тому +2

      @@AftarTheHumble ​ @Angus Lyons-Reid Oh, by no means am I trying to rip on DEG whilst I said that. While said statement may appear like a backhanded compliment to their current fans, but it also poses a rhetorical question of: "are they really THAT different sonically, compared to their past sound", towards their ex-fans who have stopped listening to and moved on from them, since their change of sound years prior.
      Like, I recognize that one of the reasons why people like the musical concoction named v-kei so much in the past cause it was accessible af, being melodic and catchy and all, while having a bit of "edge", in their themes and showmanship. That sweet-sweet glam/hard/punk/gothic rock + trad heavy metal goodness. And when they first came to the scene, what they played, can still be considered as an extension to that sound, albeit a bit more metallic and experimental, as time went on.
      All I'm sayin' is that, did their (deliberate, mind you) introduction of death and groove metal (and some ehem "deathcore" ehem) influences into their music totally erased their alt (nu/gothic/industrial) metal foundation to a total zero? Hell no, if you ask me. Nu metal wouldn't even sounded as it did if it were not for groove metal. Heck, they always have experimental tendencies. I'm implicitly calling out their ex-fans and telling them to come back into their embrace once again, by saying said statement.
      You know what, I changed my mind. For the time being, I'm calling DEG a prog/avantgarde alt/death/groove metal band, fuck those who are against genre-slashing. Also, they should also collab with Jinjer and Katatonia, considering that that musical tendencies align with one another's , when you think about it.

    • @SeymoreSparda
      @SeymoreSparda 3 роки тому

      @@AftarTheHumble Also, with Loathe and Vein. I like their brand of prog nu-metalcore very much. Their sound wouldn't clash at all with DEG's sound, trust me. At least not in the instrumentals side of things. Let's not act like contemporary Japanese music are not sprinkled with English words in their lyrics, here and there,lol. Also, with Tool and Deftones, cause why not.

  • @do3807
    @do3807 3 роки тому +118

    No idea what this is. But it's Whang so I'm here and liking it

    • @soarrefly
      @soarrefly 3 роки тому +13

      It's an incredible band.

    • @joeylamp_holder2013
      @joeylamp_holder2013 3 роки тому +8

      It's an update on an earlier video he did about fake song from the internet specifically about a song not from the band der en Grey

    • @borderelite
      @borderelite 3 роки тому

      You should watch the obscure music video

    • @leaf6356
      @leaf6356 3 роки тому

      @@soarrefly is it tho?

    • @noahsonenstein5226
      @noahsonenstein5226 3 роки тому +1

      A dear a female dear

  • @SlipknotSnake23
    @SlipknotSnake23 3 роки тому +34

    Seeing a channel with almost 1 million subs discussing Dir En Grey is absolutely mind blowing to me - one of the best bands on the planet, bar none

    • @mitsubaby8485
      @mitsubaby8485 2 роки тому +2

      i was just about to say this; just scrolling through his videos and i see dir en grey?!?

  • @soarrefly
    @soarrefly 3 роки тому +42

    I can't believe someone other than me still thinks about this band. Thanks for shedding light on the group, love those guys. ❤️

    • @day4nogrindmetal823
      @day4nogrindmetal823 3 роки тому +4

      they still have an active fan base on twitter, tho most of them are teen girls..

    • @MattorsomethingMattoraomething
      @MattorsomethingMattoraomething 3 роки тому +2

      @@day4nogrindmetal823 really? i’ve never come across another teen dir en grey fan, i feel like i’m the only one.

    • @day4nogrindmetal823
      @day4nogrindmetal823 3 роки тому

      @@MattorsomethingMattoraomething well you should come to Twitter, there’s a whole community of us lol

    • @HimeLowii
      @HimeLowii 2 роки тому

      @@day4nogrindmetal823 or +25 fans in Tumblr. We're still alive 😉

    • @ReddFoxx1562
      @ReddFoxx1562 6 місяців тому

      I listen to them regularly still, but I am not current on their stuff. I think Withering to Death was the last album I got.

  • @ramihrduswi1646
    @ramihrduswi1646 3 роки тому +38

    Bro, Withering to Death is fucking unreal. Literally one of their best works.

    • @marinagimenezleal
      @marinagimenezleal 3 роки тому

      Amen

    • @camh4656
      @camh4656 3 роки тому +9

      People sleep so hard on that album along with Dum Spiro Spero, marrow of the bone is also a belter.

    • @ToasterDsG
      @ToasterDsG 3 роки тому +10

      They have no bad albums. Fucking amazing band.

    • @day4nogrindmetal823
      @day4nogrindmetal823 3 роки тому +1

      I know that’s right 🙏

    • @AftarTheHumble
      @AftarTheHumble 3 роки тому +2

      I heard Dum Spiro Spero for the first time like a day before Whang released his vid on fake Napster tracks, Got to get around to listening to the rest of their albums because DSS blew me away.

  • @Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves
    @Alberich_Prince_of_Dwarves 3 роки тому +32

    Sounds very believable. I shall choose to believe this story, because it gives me fluffy nostalgic feelings inside.

    • @willbe3043
      @willbe3043 3 роки тому +1

      same

    • @HappyBeezerStudios
      @HappyBeezerStudios 3 роки тому +1

      We all did that stuff. Still have to have my old fruity loops shit somewhere.

  • @Bunny-rl1rg
    @Bunny-rl1rg 3 роки тому +15

    seeing you talk about dir en grey adds 10 years to my lifespan

  • @eirhjien
    @eirhjien 3 роки тому +20

    secret song was a thing, can't date it, but it would have been floating around when the child prey video was big on napster

  • @socratesghost1924
    @socratesghost1924 3 роки тому +35

    lmao my copy of withering to death says it expires in 2009

  • @troublebreathing8648
    @troublebreathing8648 3 роки тому +78

    plot twist it was Neil Cicierega

    • @masicbemester
      @masicbemester 3 роки тому +3

      He is everyone

    • @Qlipphoth
      @Qlipphoth 3 роки тому

      That would be fitting and awesome.

    • @flyingshadow69
      @flyingshadow69 3 роки тому +4

      He gets super butt hurt over the word "retard" so I highly doubt it lol

    • @NobodyImportant001
      @NobodyImportant001 3 роки тому +1

      @@flyingshadow69 the song is why he's offended

    • @troublebreathing8648
      @troublebreathing8648 3 роки тому +1

      @@Qlipphoth it blew me away when i found out he sang the ultimate showdown

  • @dasenase
    @dasenase 3 роки тому +5

    My first introducing to Dir En Grey was when Kyo was singing and bleeding from his head at the Korn Family Values tour in south Florida. Been a fan ever since.

  • @Diversagon
    @Diversagon 3 роки тому +115

    I’m here for this BANGER Mr.Whang.

    • @Laws2
      @Laws2 3 роки тому +3

      A Whanger if you will

  • @Bum_Numba_One
    @Bum_Numba_One 3 роки тому +27

    I also got to hear a fake song because of a pirated discography. Legend of Zelda form System of a Down.

    • @augustgreig9420
      @augustgreig9420 3 роки тому +4

      Yeah, this one got my friends and I for years. The singer really did sound like Serj. Not sure if it was on purpose though.

    • @user-ie1so5rn5k
      @user-ie1so5rn5k 3 роки тому +4

      He covered that one earlier on this channel

    • @Lost-Lilim
      @Lost-Lilim 3 роки тому +1

      Actually by the Rabbit Joint.

  • @cooltraineralex9711
    @cooltraineralex9711 3 роки тому +40

    Was that a clip of “Ghost Writer” snuck in there? Word.

    • @zakazany1945
      @zakazany1945 3 роки тому +3

      I loved this show when I was a kid!

    • @cooltraineralex9711
      @cooltraineralex9711 3 роки тому +1

      Yes! I remember that I took it SO seriously back then, like a drama lol. Such simpler times...

  • @JUN199X
    @JUN199X 3 роки тому +9

    damn, the nostalgia kicks in instantly trigger the PV from Dir en Grey - garden in my head

  • @SoundsOfSushi
    @SoundsOfSushi 3 роки тому +10

    Wow they’ve outlasted most visual kei bands. Props to them.

  • @RLOrbiter
    @RLOrbiter 3 роки тому +15

    "Still never seen Cage live" - I feel for you. I haven't even seen YOKAN live

    • @RLOrbiter
      @RLOrbiter 3 роки тому

      @@barfyman-wn3idLikely :'( I remember seeing them 10 years ago hoping it was in the setlist and 10 years later I'm still too stubborn to let that hope die
      Still my fave show ever though since they played my other favourites, good times 🤘

    • @genderfluids6448
      @genderfluids6448 3 роки тому +5

      I'm a metalhead but Yokan is unironically my favorite Dir en Grey song. The drums are so catchy.

  • @nehbruh6822
    @nehbruh6822 3 роки тому +61

    "this video is spons-"
    SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED!!!!!!!!!!

    • @WestOfLee100
      @WestOfLee100 3 роки тому +4

      AND I’M A SPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEED KING!

    • @Gatorade69
      @Gatorade69 3 роки тому +3

      Well we just call it meth in California.

    • @LiakkDoesStuff
      @LiakkDoesStuff 3 роки тому +4

      I listen to the whole ass ad because it’s more whang content

    • @LeviathanRX
      @LeviathanRX 3 роки тому +1

      @@LiakkDoesStuff Longer Whang is always better

    • @0neDoomedSpaceMarine
      @0neDoomedSpaceMarine 3 роки тому

      @@LiakkDoesStuff I enjoy his voice.

  • @CyphersBasement
    @CyphersBasement 3 роки тому +12

    For those of you who like Dir en grey, or find them interesting, Kyo, the band's vocalist, is in another group as well, called Sukekiyo. Justin had no idea about Sukekiyo until I told him about them, and I hope my time and effort was worth his. Love you, Justin, my boy.

  • @NeroBaelside13
    @NeroBaelside13 3 роки тому +30

    Never knew about this story. Pretty funny shit.
    Obligatory for me to also say Dir En Grey may very well be the most talented band on the planet.

  • @chadschmaltz9790
    @chadschmaltz9790 3 роки тому +5

    Dir en Grey was a band I listened to all the time in high school. My favorite song was called Umbrella.

  • @MrRayhonda
    @MrRayhonda 3 роки тому +5

    Dir En Grey and Gorillaz are my all time favorite bands. So stoked to see this video lol Dope retro style "The Final" in this vid too!

  • @maou8253
    @maou8253 3 роки тому +14

    As a fan of Dir en Grey for almost two decades your first statement about them rings completely true, every time they release a new album I'm at first either indifferent to it or think it's ok but on a second listen it somehow becomes some of the most fantastic music I've ever heard.
    Gauze is still the best album, though.

    • @ReddFoxx1562
      @ReddFoxx1562 6 місяців тому

      That's pretty accurate. I really didn't care for the Filth album (kisou?) until years later, and I even originally thought Macabre was underwhelming. I listened to stuff from all three just today and do often.
      Gauze is great but I lost love for a few of the songs that I might have only liked because of the awesomeness that was them making an entire album music video.

  • @raydarable
    @raydarable 3 роки тому +10

    8:30 "If you slow it down and reverse it a little bit" How do you reverse something a little?

    • @SlyHikari03
      @SlyHikari03 3 роки тому +1

      Half speed and then reverse.
      That’s my guess

  • @AstroTibs
    @AstroTibs 3 роки тому +56

    "r-slur"
    I see it was _this guy_ who started off edgy and become more accessible

  • @nicks4802
    @nicks4802 3 роки тому +86

    This is just the audio equivalent of saki sanobashi

    • @cacomeat7385
      @cacomeat7385 3 роки тому +5

      Not even close

    • @nicks4802
      @nicks4802 3 роки тому +2

      @@cacomeat7385 weird weeby hoax from the internet?
      *check*
      Also featured in a whang video?
      *check*
      And ive managed to get 58 thumbs up using a loose comparison?
      *MEGA CHECK*
      I beg to differ

    • @EpicB
      @EpicB 3 роки тому +2

      If Sea of well, you know, is the audio equivalent to Saki Sanobashi, then what is the animation equivalent of The Most Mysterious Song?

    • @nicks4802
      @nicks4802 3 роки тому +1

      @@EpicB that sinbad movie that was wiped from existence,
      Its ever so familiar, yet its origins are both mysterious and dubious

  • @xstarsystemsx
    @xstarsystemsx 3 роки тому +15

    Well, this is a surprise, to randomly see diru in my recommended.

  • @DoomerNavajo7
    @DoomerNavajo7 Рік тому +3

    Dir en grey is without a doubt one of my favorite bands that I found when I was 11

  • @gaugehoughton2403
    @gaugehoughton2403 3 роки тому +6

    i’ve been on a huge dir en grey kick over the past few weeks, and now i find out that my favorite youtube loves them?! crazy

  • @xennyx6020
    @xennyx6020 3 роки тому +8

    Man, I love this band. Dum Spiro Spero is an absolute masterpiece!!!

  • @pokefanover900000000
    @pokefanover900000000 3 роки тому +38

    Holy shit! Dir en grey?! Man that's an instant like from me....

  • @neoasura
    @neoasura 3 роки тому +6

    Wow Dir en Gray, I haven't heard that band name since 2001 during my Visual Kei fashion phase as a high schooler.

  • @PosthumanHeresy
    @PosthumanHeresy 3 роки тому +2

    Shout out to the discogs that are so comprehensive they have the fake songs included and correctly labeled as fake songs because it's important for fandom lore.

  • @MutilatedMetalhead
    @MutilatedMetalhead 3 роки тому +5

    DEG was the last band I saw before the pandemic. Caught them twice on the last US tour.

  • @LazarheaD
    @LazarheaD 3 роки тому +18

    I've heard the name of the band before, but I thought it was Durian Gray like the fruit.

    • @kanna-san.
      @kanna-san. 3 роки тому

      The novel, Dorian Gray.

    • @kuro_o_o
      @kuro_o_o 2 роки тому

      BRUHHHAHAHAJJ

  • @subhub174
    @subhub174 3 роки тому +43

    It was me, I made it

  • @OxBigly2010
    @OxBigly2010 3 роки тому +90

    Raycon is still smegging expensive, no matter what coupon they slap on it

    • @sahaf346
      @sahaf346 3 роки тому +24

      And still not worth it.

    • @randomuploads8471
      @randomuploads8471 3 роки тому +9

      You can get $50 wireless earbuds that are better👀

    • @IanNewYashaTheFinalAct
      @IanNewYashaTheFinalAct 3 роки тому +8

      DankPods be like:
      "Ray's con"
      "Ran cans"
      "Ron Dons"

    • @MannyJazzcats
      @MannyJazzcats 3 роки тому +2

      And they are shite

    • @Vlad2319
      @Vlad2319 3 роки тому +1

      @@IanNewYashaTheFinalAct a man of culture I see

  • @ZahZah253
    @ZahZah253 3 роки тому +1

    The 8 bit version of the final was so dope sick transition tune :0

  • @codybaier
    @codybaier 3 роки тому +6

    The wording of this email REEKS of a Goon-type with Troll's Remorse.

  • @jic-mack1491
    @jic-mack1491 3 роки тому +7

    The main thing that surprised me this episode was the GhostWriter clip.

  • @suuhoho
    @suuhoho 3 роки тому +2

    i used to work with Dir en grey and other japanese metal & visual kei bands, back in 2006, good old times...

  • @korin1131
    @korin1131 3 роки тому +3

    Withering to death will always be one of my fav albums from them. Also that 8bit final is amazing xD I want direly.(I'm that kind of deg fan that has Glass Skin lyrics tattooed on me haha)

  • @MrLFJ7
    @MrLFJ7 3 роки тому +9

    Now that's a name I haven't heard in a long time.

  • @mikelmorrow4681
    @mikelmorrow4681 3 роки тому +6

    I learn so much shit I would never have searched out on my own on this channel. Thanks man!

    • @mikelmorrow4681
      @mikelmorrow4681 3 роки тому

      @The Joker dude, what an excellent suggestion. Just finished his silk road video

  • @pizzaengrey
    @pizzaengrey 3 роки тому +1

    been on a diru binge lately and i am READY for this

  • @heavymetalmusichead4969
    @heavymetalmusichead4969 3 роки тому

    I listen to these videos at work, and they're just set on autoplay, so I don't get the chance to like or comment on any of them. But I just wanna say a huge thanks to you for making a plethora of entertaining well researched content that either brings back find memories of the early days of the internet, laying bare many of the back story to alot of these tales, or in many cases, telling stories that are brand new to me, that I was either too young to be aware of, or just missed out on. This is a wonderful channel, and it makes every work day highly entertaining. Thanks.

  • @blaineishere3851
    @blaineishere3851 3 роки тому +29

    The thought of being 13 and knowing that a screamer I had created ended up being downloaded by random people over the world is perhaps the greatest thing I could ever think of.
    I’d literally have died of happiness. 😂

    • @SlyHikari03
      @SlyHikari03 3 роки тому +2

      Ah, yes
      I’d love that.
      Random dumb thing made for fun found by someone.

  • @julianadams3710
    @julianadams3710 3 роки тому +5

    All I know about these guys is they wrote an opening to Baki, makes them badass to me

  • @christin7066
    @christin7066 3 роки тому +1

    Damn I'm loving these deep dives into the old corners of the internet that I used to hang out in. Never thought I'd start seeing UA-cam vids about the early 2000s J-rock online scene.

  • @mmstudio4664
    @mmstudio4664 Рік тому +2

    6:53 The siren on the image is a Jailbar Thunderbolt! These things are actually rare!

  • @tacoenvy
    @tacoenvy 3 роки тому +5

    It's always a good day when we get more Whang Dir en Grey videos!

  • @worldcomicsreview354
    @worldcomicsreview354 3 роки тому +16

    Sea Of R's? Sounds like it was made by pirates.

  • @SwedePotato314
    @SwedePotato314 3 роки тому +2

    Your choice and use of stock photos and videos is a true artform.
    The talkboy and the video of the one guy in a flower petal bath just yeeting his laptop... is the apex of royalty free art.

  • @Amy4000
    @Amy4000 3 роки тому +1

    Just binged some Dir en Grey and it still slaps!

  • @Chatetris
    @Chatetris 3 роки тому +6

    Whang will use that Bret "The Hitman" Hart AOL photo every time he can! I appreciate this because I'm a Calgarian and also a fan of the Hitman!

    • @JadisAmalthea
      @JadisAmalthea 3 роки тому

      I was on the toilet watching this video and when I saw that photo I'm like "wut"? I didn't know he'd used it before!

  • @zacharywicklinemedia
    @zacharywicklinemedia 3 роки тому +6

    Your childhood sounds absolutely magical. No joke.

  • @largounholy
    @largounholy 3 роки тому +1

    I remember that Avalon concert in NYC, its one of the reasons that this band will always have a place in my heart.

  • @mrwaxwave
    @mrwaxwave 3 роки тому

    hi whang i have really been enjoying those 4 animated squares in the background over the past few videos.
    yes reader, now you will never be able to not notice them changing.

  • @TheHidestHide
    @TheHidestHide 3 роки тому +3

    And this is why Whang is one of my favorites, though your initial "WTD fell flat on me the first listen" made me cry a little inside.

  • @katrijndc5718
    @katrijndc5718 3 роки тому +5

    Damn, I just started listening to Dir en grey again like this week. And now this comes out lol

  • @jthompson1327
    @jthompson1327 3 роки тому +2

    Please do a video on the tub girl image. Always wanted to know the story behind that terrible image

  • @kakuzu3047
    @kakuzu3047 3 роки тому +2

    this is soooo great! i love dir en grey, and i cant believe u also love them :) i came from Philippines and i love jrock/visual kei. thanks for this content Whang

  • @CreepyUncleIdjit
    @CreepyUncleIdjit 3 роки тому +6

    Yeah, just got banned off Twitch for saying [redacted], so I don't blame you for not using the word in the video.

    • @Etherman7
      @Etherman7 3 роки тому +2

      The funniest part is that the vast majority of people who would have qualified for the term when it was medically relevant had to be taught to be offended by it, by the normies who were actually offended at being called frenchslow and needed an excuse to ban it. Almost nobody was going up to Down Syndrome sufferers and yelling it in their face.

    • @jetperson3billion439
      @jetperson3billion439 3 роки тому +1

      @@Etherman7 bro said “normie” unironically

    • @Etherman7
      @Etherman7 3 роки тому

      @@jetperson3billion439 that's because SJW is overused

    • @bluemagician9724
      @bluemagician9724 3 роки тому

      @@Etherman7 Use 'progressive', it's enough of an insult on its own.

  • @riqopowpow
    @riqopowpow 3 роки тому +57

    I have information that will lead to Steve Whang Aoki's arrest.

  • @MariusMMG2000
    @MariusMMG2000 3 роки тому

    You should just make a full video about dir en grey. Love both you and them

  • @mrvngaming
    @mrvngaming 3 роки тому

    I literally just checked your channel for updates after a while away, lucky me!

  • @klaatu9936
    @klaatu9936 3 роки тому +70

    I’m sorry I’m late master. I had to finish watching Royalty Free Christmas Songs 7 by our lord and savior JohnsMovies.

  • @memyopinionsche6610
    @memyopinionsche6610 3 роки тому +5

    And ICQ..
    that's some fond memories.

  • @ShinFahima
    @ShinFahima 3 роки тому +2

    I swear I've seen "Secret Song[CM]" on my old computer when I was in highschool. But I don't remember it.
    I also remember trying to deeply analyze Sea of Ret*rds when I thought it was a legitimate song by the band. XD

  • @xwing20
    @xwing20 3 роки тому

    This made my day. Keep it up.

  • @visualkeikatt6934
    @visualkeikatt6934 3 роки тому +10

    Smh you should've consulted me about this haha

  • @disposableincome
    @disposableincome 3 роки тому +4

    You can't just flip it and reverse it, you need to work it and put it down first.

  • @AbbieSTABBY
    @AbbieSTABBY 3 роки тому

    I always wondered when and if you'd make a video on this, great stuff! They were probably one of the first bands I reaaalllllyyyyy got into!

  • @orionstephens6339
    @orionstephens6339 3 роки тому +1

    Withering To Death is one of my favorite albums, too. One of my favorite bands for sure. Sick video too!!

  • @wohdinhel
    @wohdinhel 3 роки тому +64

    Broke: Rammstein - Barbie Girl cover
    Bespoke: dir en grey - Sea of Retards

  • @rlinders9972
    @rlinders9972 3 роки тому +43

    I became a fan of Sea of Rs because Melissa Etheridge is a fan of it.

  • @aural20
    @aural20 3 роки тому

    I love the Ghost Writer clips you inserted there

  • @maddog187killa
    @maddog187killa 3 роки тому

    Nice, I like them. I live in Tokyo and they are we playing here on Dec 21 at The Zepp. Will be the first concert I'll see this year. Thanks Whang!