Explodes, the latest album by Dir en Grey, in waves of destructive energy. Destructive, yes, but capable of energizing like little other music can. Let's just say it "rocks": it possesses the rare ability to express even sensitivity and sweetness through harsh words, which intertwine with each other, never making you doubt, not even for a moment, that this is a heavy album.

It opens with one of the few lighter tracks in terms of sound, "Conceived Sorrow", and from there it already starts to capture the attention, to create the atmosphere, to introduce an entire world. Dir en Grey have nothing (no longer) to do with all the glitz and glam that the label "visual kei" would like to attach to them; although this definition is not defamatory, the band has managed to shed it by using music. Their style, personal and inspired, is filled with rage when the desperate lyrics of the first track pass the baton to "Lie Buried With A Vengeance". Remarkable are "Grief" (in which Kyo's penetrating and irresistible voice accompanies repeated curses to suggestive images like "blood tastes like vanilla"), "Disabled Complexes", "Rotting Root", "Clever Sleazoid", and the magnificent "Repetition Of Hatred". Fascinating is "Namamekashiki Ansoku, Tamerai Ni Hohoemi"; delirious, on the other hand, is "Agitated Screams Of Maggots" (which frequently repeats: "Violent your daughter on your grave"). In short, "Agitated Screams Of Maggots", from the melancholy beginning to the frequent episodes of rancor, up to the pleas of "The Fatal Believer" ("Please, grant me my little desire: love me to the marrow of my bones"), is an album that leaves you breathless, for ideas, cohesiveness, inspiration.

And it's just music: none of what you might read about visual kei in a glossy magazine.

Tracklist and Lyrics

01   CONCEIVED SORROW (04:49)

Bara ni karamu taiyou
Tameiki to mazatte torokeru koukai

Miaki ta yume ni tsuba o haki warau
Kodoku ni kuwareta hitotachi no kokoro wa
Zankoku ni sodatsu

Kasaneta shiro ni tokekomu
Nozomarezu kowareta shinjitsu wa urahara
Hohoemi ni ai o

Sudeni kageri asa wa shinda
Aa todokanai hanarete shimau
Kegare no nai yasashisa ni namida to nemuritai

Haranda uso wa uraraka
Kamisori no buuru de oboreta namida wa
Aimai ni amaku -

Sudeni kageri ashita wa shinda
Namida mo uso mo ai mo yuruse nai ore ga
Daikirai de ... demo modorenai kara ...

Aa todokanai hanarete shimau
Kegare no nai yasashisa ni namida to nemuritai

Seotta akane no sora ni tada hakanaku
Nakisakebu koe ha mou - kikoe nai

02   LIE BURIED WITH A VENGEANCE (02:43)

03   THE FATAL BELIEVER (03:10)

04   AGITATED SCREAMS OF MAGGOTS (02:56)

I'm killing the haughtily fly
I'm gonna slash your wound just like mine.
I can't hear the voices of society anymore.
I don't understand. You're all fine hypocrites.

Shout The Joy
Your song's drenched in blood and it's full of shit.
You can't shoot the silver bullet into me.

Shout The Joy
It's the Black Flag, motherfucker!!
I wanna shout out to all the trash celebrity stars.
I'll rape your daughter on your grave,
I'll rape your daughter on your grave,
I'll rape your daughter on your grave,

I'm gonna slash your wound just like mine.
I can't hear the voices of society anymore.

I Shout Die!
It's the Black Flag, motherfucker!!
I wanna shout out to all the trash celebrity stars.
I'll rape your daughter on your grave,
I'll rape your daughter on your grave,
I'll rape your daughter on your grave,

Cold Blooded

05   GRIEF (03:37)

06   凌辱の雨 (04:02)

07   DISABLED COMPLEXES (03:56)

08   ROTTING ROOT (04:45)

09   艶かしき安息、躊躇いに微笑み (04:37)

10   THE PLEDGE (03:55)

Mitsumeteta awai negai o egaki Naze furueteiru? kodoku o kakae shounen wa seiten no sora ni nanimonai koto no imi o Naze ni rinen wa haru haruka tooi yakusoku no koe mou kikoe yashinaisa Nagare katachi o kaete yuki kieru ima mo kokoro ubaware Yaketsuku kusari no ato urabureta koe koko ni hitori Naze ni rinen wa haru haruka tooi yakusoku no koe mou kikoe yashinaisa This is my pledge to you Mada umaku ikirarenai no sa kaerareru no wa tada ... Ashita ni ikasarete mo nanimo kawaru hazu no nai hibi mada owaren Komiageru kokoro ga mada saku no nara kotae te miro yo Dare mo iyase yashinai

11   REPETITION OF HATRED (04:32)

12   THE DEEPER VILENESS (03:46)

13   CLEVER SLEAZOID (03:12)

Wake up you?re dead

Doing meaningless shit over and over
I?m just a third-rated star covered in blood
See the prince on the rocking horse, his polishied face looks cool
I?m just gonna spill my guts on you

Under the name of Justice
You can?t break my soul
Under the name of Justice
Kill yourself
Think, you moran
Fall out of line you cockroach

Right, left, front, and back, it overflows with despair and pain
They say this anger, this emotion, and this passion is all a lie
Wither,Wither,Wither,Wither,Wither,Wither,Wither,Wither,Wither,Wither
I?m not even trying to justify myself

Under the name of Justice
You can?t break my soul
Under the name of Justice
Kill yourself
Think, you moran
Fall out of line you cockroach


The dark dark Sunday, the blood stains
You can?t save yourself
The dark dark Sunday, the blood stains
One day I will fuck your parents

This is the last time
Welcome to the garden of destruction
This is the last time
Welcome to the garden of destruction

Koe mo denai kurai ni...
Sonna ima ni hitori to kitsu

The night is cold and long
The night sky is deep and wide

The dark dark Sunday, the blood stains
You can?t save yourself
The dark dark Sunday, the blood stains
One day I will fuck your parents

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