Vulgar (album)

Occupation

  • Vocals: Kyo
  • Electric Guitar: Kaoru
  • Electric Guitar: The
  • E -Bass: Toshiya
  • Drums: Shinya

Studios

  • Studio Green Bird
  • Studio Fine
  • Cats Studio
  • Studio inning
  • On Air Azabu
  • Sound City
  • Studio Z'd

Vulgar (German vulgar ) is the fourth studio album by the Japanese J- rock band Dir en gray. It was released on 10 September 2003 in Japan. After the subsequent album Withering to death. was published as the first album of the band in Europe, Vulgar could be purchased in Europe from 21 February 2006.

  • 5.1 Child prey
  • 5.2 Drain Away
  • 5.3 Kasumi

Formation

After the release of the album Kisou Dir en gray came on for the first time outside of Japan and released in China, Taiwan and South Korea concerts. This is followed by closed equal to the next promo tour, the Rettou Gekishin Angya tour. The Extended Play Six Ugly was produced and published on 31 July 2002 together with the Single Child Prey. The title song of the single was used in the anime series Grappler Baki as biasing titles. The final concert at Yokohama Arena was released on DVD and VHS under the title Rettou Gekishin Angya Final 2003 5 Ugly Kingdom on 21 May 2003. It was also their first DVD release in 16:9 and DTS.

On January 22 or April 23, 2003 the singles drain away and Kasumi were published. Kasumi is also the last release of Dir en gray, individual band members are given as a composer at the. From June 30 to July 5 began a five-day appearance of the band at Akasaka BLITZ in Tokyo. Each of the concert days (except the first one) was paid to an album of the band. The fifth and final day was therefore the yet to be release album Vulgar. The DVD set Blitz 5 Days of the show could be acquired from 3 March 2004, only the official fan club A Knot.

The album was from the 10th September 2003 in Japanese record shops. The regular version is only equipped with the CD, while the limited edition contains even the censored version of the music video of Obscure. The following on June 29, 2005 Music Video Compilation Average Fury also contained only censored versions, the uncensored version of the video was only later, on 27 July 2005 published on the Average Psycho DVD, along with the videos of Saku, Kodou and Mazohyst of Decadence.

Tour

The following concert tour lasted until 2004. According to the Over the Vulgar Shudder the The Code Of Vulgar [ ism ] tour followed. On 6 November 2004, the live DVD Tour was released 04 The Code of Vulgar [ ism ]. Then the last two shows of the tour can be seen, both were held at Zepp Tokyo.

Style

The album represents a sort of break in style is: The music had become harder and contained influences of Nu Metal, which in the EP Six Ugly have already indicated. The hardest songs The IIIrd Empire, Asunaki Kōfuku, koenaki asu, Marmalade Chainsaw, Я to the Core, New Age Culture and Obscure are more likely to be assigned to the punk / hardcore and sometimes very quickly ( Я to the Core ) or with psychedelic shouting ( Obscure ) "seasoned", sometimes also comes distortion Effects ( Increase Blue ) or guttural vocals are used. The songs RED ... [em ], Kasumi, Drain Away and Fukai are rock songs, with melodic arches and heavy guitar riffs. In addition to the somewhat jazzy ballad geratenen Sajou no uta are another three ballads found on the disc: audience Killer Loop, Shokubeni and amber.

The song Shokubeni consisting of蚀( shoku, Blackout / erode ) and红( Beni, red), contains a pun. The girl the song is called Kagome, written with the kanji笼( kago, cage) and女(me, girl). Kagome is also a Japanese children's game. Here, a child is determined to " demon ", which stands in the middle and closes his eyes while the other holding hands and singing, dancing in a circle around the " demon ". When the song ends, you have the " demon " name the child, who is standing behind him. If the name is guessed correctly, this change places. The speaking name emphasizes the role change in the lyrics:

The song was re-recorded for the B -side of the single Hageshisa to, kono mune no naka de karamitsuita shakunetsu no yami, the video recordings of which are at the same time the music video. The song was interpreted there clearly emotional, is bass-heavy and contains deep growls and high Screaming.

Reception

According to Jame - World Vulgar imagine the hardest so far and western album of Dir en gray dar. Despite the Nu -Metal, the five would there still be unmistakable. The band had for the second time reinvented itself and would deliver surprisingly the most melodic album to date. The omnipresent hardness serve mostly only as a basis for it. The sound would be pleasantly different from the conventional nu-metal guitar thunder and accurately capture the Zeitgeist. This album constitutes an important guide for the development of Japanese rock music, in particular the visual kei, represents and is incidentally become one of the best metal discs of recent years.

Nihonreview thinks that the album would scare off many fans, as it marked the change from the previous, complex rock songs to a hardcore metal sound. There were many brutal shouts and chants, and fierce guitar tones, resulting in an appreciable differences from the previous three albums, and what would some fans of the first three albums may not like. But the cries and the loud guitars could not the usual complexity of the songs hide, which show up in every song. Although with a new sound would be some weaker songs by experimenting, which would make this album for Dir en gray below average, Vulgar is still a very good hard rock album.

Title list

The lyrics are all written by Kyo. Since the album Vulgar, it is common that the composers of the individual songs are not mentioned.

Tracklist CD:

Tracklist DVD ( Limited Version):

Singles

Child prey

Child prey was published on 31 July 2002. It is the first single by Dir en gray, which contains live songs. These were taken at the Rettou Gekishin Angya tour. The theme song was heard in the opening credits of Grappler Baki.

Tracklist CD:

Drain Away

The single drain Away appeared on 22 January 2003 in Japan. Except for the title song, the single contains only remixes.

Tracklist CD:

Kasumi

Kasumi (かすみ) was published on 23 April 2003. The live performance by umbrella was also recorded during the Rettou Gekishin Angya Tour and is also found on the 5 Ugly Kingdom DVD. It is the last single by Dir en gray, in which the composer of the songs are called.

Tracklist CD:

Contributors

  • Dir en gray - Producer, Composer Kyo - vocals, lyricist
  • Kaoru - Guitar
  • The - Electric Guitar
  • Toshiya - Bass
  • Shinya - drums
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