DIR EN GREY originally started as a ヴィジュアル系 (Visual Kei) band active in the コテ系 (Kote Kei) and ラウド系 (Loud Kei) subgenres, but nowadays they have made the switch to a Metal band which also makes use of an experimental and rock sound. They’re still based in Kansai, and started their initial activities in 1997.
Sounds like: 🎵 ヴィジュアル系 (Visual Kei), 🎵 Metal, 🎵 コテ系 (Kote Kei), 🎵 ラウド系 (Loud Kei), 🎶 experimental, 🎶 rock
Last year DIR EN GREY delighted the fans with new material in the form of the “人間を被る” (Ningen wo Kaburu) single and the full album “The Insulated World”, of which the latter was a great example of DIR EN GREY’s “shock value”, even after so many years of them
Last January DIR EN GREY dropped their absolutely MASSIVE greatest hits album which contained a total of 44 songs from their entire career so far, all of them being voted onto the album by the fans. The reason for this absolute beast of a project was the 20th anniversary of the band, and as an extra gift they