Line #97 Music/DirEnGrey


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2	[[caption-width-right:350:The band's PHALARIS era. Left to right: Kaoru, Toshiya, Kyo, Shinya, Die.]]
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4	-> ''"Japanese Zombie Heroez"''
5	-->--The band's slogan
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7	Dir en grey (DIR EN GREY/Dir en grey) is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Japan}} Japanese]] five-piece AvantGardeMetal band. They formed in 1997 as a VisualKei band, but have gone in a more contemporary, post-Visual Kei direction as far as appearance. Musically, Dir en grey encompasses HardRock, HeavyMetal, NuMetal, GothicMetal, etc. They first gained attention in 1997 with two independently produced singles. Subsequently, they caught the eye of [[Music/YoshikiHayashi Yoshiki]] from X Japan, who helped [[MentorArchetype arrange and produce]] the singles of Dir en grey's first studio album, and subsequently signed them to Creator/ExtasyRecords. Later on, they would switch labels to Music/DynamiteTommy's Creator/FreeWillRecords, and then sign to both Gan-Shin for their European releases and The End Records for their [[UsefulNotes/TheUnitedStates American]] releases. Their material is released by Firewall Div, a sub-division of Free-Will Records, Since their inception, the quintet has released eleven full-length studio albums, three [=EP=]s, and loads of other material, including singles, live videos, and music video compilations.
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9	Considered by some metal fans as the SpiritualSuccessor to the legendary bands Music/FaithNoMore, Music/MrBungle, and Music/XJapan, and even dubbed as "the Japanese Music/MarilynManson", the band has gained international acclaim for their [[GenreBusting unique sound]], [[UncommonTime precise]], dynamic musicianship, [[NightmareFuel dark]], [[VulgarHumor explicit]] [[{{Gorn}} lyrical]] [[{{Wangst}} themes]], [[IndecipherableLyrics near-incomprehensible songwriting]] and convention-[[MindScrew challenging]] image, and enjoys continuous success as one of Japan's biggest Visual Kei groups. They were part of the Second wave of Visual Kei bands and were one of the bands responsible for re-establishing Visual Kei as a musical movement among Heavy Metal artists.
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12	!!Members:
13	* Music/{{Kyo}}: Lead vocals
14	* Music/{{Kaoru}}: Guitar
15	* Music/{{Die}} (pronounced [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Dye"]] as opposed to "dee-eh"): Guitar
16	* Music/{{Toshiya}}: Bass
17	* Music/{{Shinya}}: Drums
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19	!!Discography:
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21	!!!Studio Albums:
22	* ''GAUZE'' (1999)
23	* ''MACABRE'' (2000)
24	* ''Kisō/鬼葬'' (2002)
25	* ''VULGAR'' (2003)
26	* ''Withering to death.'' (2005)
27	* ''THE MARROW OF A BONE'' (2007)
28	* ''UROBOROS'' (2008)
29	* ''DUM SPIRO SPERO'' (2011)
30	* ''ARCHE'' (2014)
31	* ''The Insulated World'' (2018)
32	* ''PHALARIS'' (2022)
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34	!!![=EP=]s:
35	* ''MISSA'' (1997)
36	* ''six Ugly'' (2002)
37	* ''THE UNRAVELING'' (2013, classified as a mini-album but released as an EP)
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39	Website/{{Wikipedia}} has a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dir_En_Grey_discography complete and comprehensive list of all their material]].
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42	! Dir en grey Provides Examples of:
43	* AmbiguousGender: More in the early days when they were more blatant with their VisualKei stylings. This video is one of the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MtdiZBA-u8Q best examples]].
44	* AllLowercaseLetters: "raison detre", "mazohyst of decadence", "egnirys cimredopyh +) an injection", "ain't afraid to die", "embryo", "undecided", "audrey", "umbrella", "children", and "dead tree".
45	* AnimatedMusicVideo: The [=PVs=] for "[[DerangedAnimation AGITATED SCREAMS OF MAGGOTS]]" and "[[{{Hentai}} DIFFERENT]] [[AllAnimeIsNaughtyTentacles SENSE]]" [[note]]The PV uses clips from the {{Hentai}} series Mahou Shoujo Ai alongside some traditional cinematography. The results are [[NightmareFuel terrifying]].[[/note]].
46	* AteHisGun: Implied to be how the protagonist of "THE FINAL" committed suicide.
47	* AvantGardeMetal: The genre's current vanguards.
48	* AxCrazy: Kyo's stage persona.
49	* BadassLongcoat: Kyo in "Yurameki", complete with a fur collar.
50	* CapsLock: Many of their albums and song titles (the ones in English, at least) are stylised with upper case letters:
51	** All of their albums, apart from ''Withering to death.'' and ''The Insulated World'', and the [=EPs=] ''MISSA'' and ''THE UNRAVELLING''.
52	** "GARDEN" from ''MISSA''.
53	** The songs "MASK" and the title tracks from ''GAUZE''.
54	** The title track from ''MACABRE''.
55	** "HADES" from ''six Ugly''.
56	** "ZOMBOID", "FILTH", and "JESSICA" from ''Kisō''.
57	** Every song with an English title on ''VULGAR'' is fully upper case, except for "audience KILLER LOOP" and "RED...[em]".
58	** "GARBAGE" and "THE FINAL" from ''Withering to death.''
59	** From ''THE MARROW OF A BONE'' to ''DUM SPIRO SPERO'', all of their songs with English titles were upper case.
60	** The single "JEALOUS", and the best of compilation ''VESTIGE OF SCRATCHES''.
61	** After ''THE MARROW OF A BONE'', the official spelling of their name was changed to "DIR EN GREY".
62	* CaptainObvious: They have a song with a title that translates to "[[DepartmentOfRedundancyDepartment I Will Die in Loneliness,]] [[ShapedLikeItself Because I'm Lonely]]".
63	** They also have one named "No Happiness Coming Tomorrow; Tomorrow the Dead Call Laughing". The second half pretty much implies the first.
64	* CarefulWithThatAxe: Kyo, with his trademark screeching [[HarshVocals death voice]] suddenly popping up on seemingly light and clean songs.
65	* CharacterTics:
66	** Kyo has his spastic twitching, zombie walk, fish-hooking, and vomiting. Also, [[LyricalTic his trademark screeching]].
67	** Toshiya often plays the bass vertically between his thighs, with his body contorted in a slightly awkward, serpentine fashion. Also, during the song "OBSCURE", he has a habit of swinging his bass while spinning.
68	* ClusterFBomb: Some of the songs with English lyrics from ''THE MARROW OF A BONE'' have this.
69	** "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7e86jys22U LIE BURIED WITH A VENGEANCE]]" provides a particularly JustForFun/{{egregious}} example at the end of the song.
70	** Also, prevalent in "The Domestic Fucker Family" from ''Kisō''.
71	* CostumePorn: During their early days as a VK band. Downplayed to the point of aversion in recent years, though Toshiya and Shinya look noticeably more visual than the rest of the band in most photoshoots. The band brought back visuals since the ''UROBOROS'' era, however, they've put more emphasis on contemporary styles and darker colors/elements.
72	* [[DarkerAndEdgier Darker and Angrier]]: In comparison to their contemporaries, and pretty much every other Visual band.
73	** This also sums up the band's career trajectory. Their first album, while still having some roaring metal tunes, was mostly standard J-Rock. Every subsequent album would add more aggression and angst.
74	* {{Deathcore}}: One of the few respected examples of the genre, though they only fall into being a straight-up example on ''DUM SPIRO SPERO''.
75	* DontTryThisAtHome: For career singers, Kyo's vocal style -- unless you ''want'' a short career with repeated injuries to your vocal cords and eardrums. It's far better you find an actual vocal coach or teacher, and if you can't or don't want to go that route, to at least practice with singers that have done so and that know proper technique to ''not'' injure themselves repeatedly [[note]] A few VK/J-metal singers with said technique are Ryuichi of Music/LunaSea post TheNineties, Yama-B ex Music/{{Galneryus}} currently with Music/{{Gunbridge}}, and Demon Kogure of Music/SeikimaII, the first two being vocal teachers themselves [[/note]]. Also, trying to sing through pain like Kyo does is a ''very bad idea'' that can leave your voice permanently and irreparably damaged. It's much the singing equivalent of trying to teach oneself drums from pre-1995 [[Music/YoshikiHayashi Yoshiki]] or learning guitar by copying Music/{{Dragonforce}}.
76	* EitherOrTitle: One of their longer song titles translates as "'Nesting Within the Dreambox', or Cold Rain and the Philosophy of the Mature".
77	* ElegantGothicLolita: The band, especially Toshiya and Shinya pulled off the look really well during the band's early years. Shinya arguably did a better job at it than TropeMaker [[Music/MaliceMizer Mana]] ever did.
78	* EpicRocking: Many songs. Stand-out examples include "mazohyst of decadence" (9:22), "Akuro no Oka" (9:42; note, however, that this includes the hidden track "GAUZE -mode of eve-" and the song itself is actually 8:34, which still definitely qualifies), "MACABRE -Sanagi no Yume wa Ageha no Hane-" (10:50, and its remake simply titled "MACABRE" featured on ''THE UNRAVELING'' EP which is even longer at 16:18), "Zakuro" (8:37), "G.D.S." (7:47), "VINUSHKA" (9:37) and "DIABOLOS" (9:52; symphonic version is even longer at 10:10). Some of their remixes also climb into this; the Narasaki remix of "DECAYED CROW" is a particularly noteworthy example at 9:15.
79	* FaceOnTheCover: ''The Insulated World'' is graced by what looks like a [[http://i1.jpopasia.com/albums/4/62677_404.jpg computerized, psychedelic version]] of this.
80	* FunSize: Kyo. He's only around 5'2"/5'3".
81	* GenreBusting: The band challenges all the conventions of Japanese rock/metal by being a cut above the established tropes.
82	** In a ''Kerrang!'' interview, Kaoru once stated that, while they were still La:Sadies, they were more of an unlistenable noise band than anything else, justifying the aforementioned statement. Indeed, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=__jEoDDAAsE as La:Sadies]] they had such a weird sound that they can only be vaguely described as "experimental/alternative melodic noise rock".
83	** Some songs from ''ARCHE'' even throw in short segments of PowerMetal and NoiseRock.
84	* GenreRoulette: Overlaps with GenreBusting, and creates even more of a MindScrew for critics.
85	* {{Gorn}}: A fairly common lyrical theme in their works.
86	* GratuitousForeignLanguage: The band name itself, Dir en grey, and a WordSaladTitle at that: it is a combination of German "dir", French "en" and English "grey", and is supposed to mean "Grey Silver Coin" according to one interview[[https://vk.gy/artists/dir-en-grey/]]. In reality it's closer to something like "to you in grey".
87	** GratuitousGreek: The title of their ninth album, ''ARCHE'', translates to "the origin". ''PHALARIS'' counts, too.
88	** GratuitousLatin: ''DUM SPIRO SPERO'', which translates to "While I Breathe, I Hope" in Latin. Also, "VANITAS", [[note]]"Emptiness"[[/note]] a song from the album.
89	* GratuitousRape: The lyrics and video of "OBSCURE", "AGITATED SCREAMS OF MAGGOTS", and "DIFFERENT SENSE", the latter two of which featured tentacle rape. The lyrics of "Tsumi to Batsu", which is an entire song about rape. "DIFFERENT SENSE" ''could'' be parabolic (the TEPCO nuclear disaster being equated to a rape of the world) and RapeAsDrama, but it's still a very close call as to whether the footage from '''Mahou Shoujo Ai''' was necessary for the symbolism.
90	* HateSink: The narrator of "Tsumi to Batsu" is a heinous child molester and kidnapper who gleefully describes raping a 14-year old girl.
91	* IncrediblyLongNote: Kyo does this often, with one of the crowning examples being the LastNoteNightmare of "THE FINAL" at Tabula Rasa 12-13.
92	* IndecipherableLyrics: Early attempts at English lyrics came out completely garbled by Kyo's accent. Kyo also has a habit of belting out even his Japanese lyrics while under emotional duress, so any blubbering or raucous behaviour is gonna make him slur his words.
93	* KayfabeMusic: Par for the course in VisualKei, but {{zigzagged}} as the band members do have a more authentic, personal, and socially conscious side that would sometimes crop up in their music, live performances, and public appearances.
94	* LastNoteNightmare: Plenty of songs.
95	** "DOZING GREEN" is probably the worst offender; [[spoiler:what sounds like a song fading out is suddenly interrupted by Kyo [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl screaming like a horrified girl]]]].
96	** The title track from ''THE UNRAVELING'' ends with the final measures of the song throwing the instrumentations into utter chaos.
97	** "Pinku Kirā" from ''Kisō'' ends with what sounds like Kyo being brutally tortured.
98	* LeadBassist: Toshiya is a Type C, Type D, and Type A.
99	* LongRunnerLineUp: The last major change happened around 1997, after the La:Sadie's era, when Toshiya took Kisaki's place as bass guitarist after parting ways with the latter.
100	** Justified by the fact that every single member considers the band as highly important.
101	* LongHairedPrettyBoy: Everyone in the band has sported this look at one point. Shinya plays this straight all throughout the band's history.
102	* LoudnessWar: Pretty much all their discography has songs that are brickwalled to an extent, but the original version of ''UROBOROS'' and the 2013 EP ''THE UNRAVELING'' fell prey to atrocious mixing, especially the latter, where the drums sound excessively clipped and the bass drowned out the guitars.
103	** Their more recent live shows are brickwalled as well. It was reported that their 2013 show in Hollywood was a droning wall of noise, with instruments rendered indistinguishable from another. However, the opening band, while retaining the volume, was crystal clear in quality. Others have reported similar issues with their Irving Plaza 2013 live show.
104	** Standing at a DR of 5, there's also the band's tenth full-length ''The Insulated World'', which suffers from very wafer-thin mixing done to the instruments, copious amounts of brickwalling and being heavily clipped.
105	* LyricalDissonance: Kyo makes a point never to write happy lyrics. This has done nothing to prevent Kaoru and Die from giving him some pretty bouncy material to sing over. "JESSICA", "audrey", "Yokan", and Shinya's "umbrella" are particularly notable examples.
106	** LyricalShoehorn: "AGITATED SCREAMS OF MAGGOTS". The first line in the track mentions something about a fly, but that's all there is to it. [[note]]"Agitated Screams of Kyo" would have been a better title.[[/note]]
107	* ManInAKilt: Toshiya and his affinity with skirts; he even wore a full [[ElegantGothicLolita Gothic Lolita dress]] [[http://i.imgur.com/BlzYzv7.jpg back when they were overtly Visual]]. And while he downplayed, and eventually eschewed, that look as the band matured, [[http://i.imgur.com/cXR5yNa.jpg he has gone back]] to [[http://i.imgur.com/JOfkKIh.jpg wearing his signature bell-shaped skirt]] in recent years.
108	* ManOfAThousandVoices: Kyo. Fans draw comparisons to the legendary Music/MikePatton, due to their eerily similar vocal range, despite the two being on opposite sides of the world.
109	* TheMentor: Not only [[Music/YoshikiHayashi Yoshiki]], mentioned above, but Kyo was also [[AscendedFanboy a roadie]] for Kuroyume, whose influence is very obvious on Dir en Grey's first few releases.
110	* MetalScream: Kyo does these very often, and takes his vocal work to inhuman levels.
111	* MindScrew: From their overall concept, material, sound, and lyrical themes, the group is this trope incarnate. ''Even their name'' as a band is a MindScrew in itself -- it means absolutely nothing and was apparently chosen for no reason aside from sounding [[RuleOfCool "cool"]].
112	* MinimalisticCoverArt:
113	** ''VULGAR''[='=]s cover is a pair of opera gloves.
114	** Subverted with ''THE MARROW OF A BONE'': while mostly appearing matte black, it actually hides [[http://i.imgur.com/Ib277a1.jpg a photo by Russian photographer Creator/DmitriBaltermants called "Grief".]]
115	* MoodWhiplash: ''THE MARROW OF A BONE'' starts off with a soft power ballad, is followed by several ultra-aggressive metal songs, and while the album does soften ''slightly'' from "GRIEF" onward, it never has another ballad again. The transition can be very unsettling and startling to the unsuspecting listener.
116	** Kyo would suddenly throw [[CarefulWiththatAxe screaming fits]] on seemingly "normal" songs. Take for example, "OBSCURE", which starts off as an ambient tune but shifts rapidly into {{Deathcore}} once the screams kick in. Also, [[spoiler: the LastNoteNightmare in "DOZING GREEN".]]
117	** A very unsettling example is the 4th disc of the DVD box set "Blitz 5Days". The VERY depressing, mostly acoustic ballad "Mushi" (which ends with Kyo performing self-harm acts) is followed by the uncharacteristically upbeat (by Dir standards) "umbrella".
118	* NewSoundAlbum: They make it a point to become increasingly heavier and abstract with each album, though not at the cost of their experimental roots.
119	** ''MACABRE'' saw their transition from seemingly random AlternativeRock to full-on AlternativeMetal, a trend they continued up until ''Kisō''.
120	** ''six Ugly'' has the band ditching their Kuroyume influences in favor of a harsh, noisy, Americanized NuMetal sound.
121	** ''VULGAR'' continues with the {{Nu Metal}} sound, featuring some very dark and heavy tracks in addition to their more traditional rock songs.
122	** ''Withering to death.'' plays up the heaviness further, with more screaming and beefier riffs than ever before. Remnants of their past style are still audible though.
123	** ''THE MARROW OF A BONE'' takes heavy influence from {{Metalcore}}, featuring some of the band's most ferocious tracks up to that point. There is still plenty of variety, such as an acoustic flamenco ballad and a few hard-edged rock numbers.
124	** ''UROBOROS'' proves to be the band's most experimental album and is a good example of AvantGardeMetal and {{Progressive Metal}}. The album features several tracks that exceed seven minutes with a variety of instrumentation and many changes in mood.
125	** ''DUM SPIRO SPERO'' sees the band yet again become ever heavier, combining their prog and avant-garde elements with {{Technical Death Metal}}.
126	** ''ARCHE'' is an eclectic encapsulation of the band's older sounds while maintaining the heavier stylings of their more recent works. The album features reverb-heavy production that gives the album a very dreamy, post-metal vibe during the softer moments.
127	** ''The Insulated World'' is a modernized take on the sounds Dir explored during the likes of ''THE MARROW OF A BONE'' and ''Withering to death.'' Par for the course, they manage to cover unfamiliar territory, namely when it comes to the {{Black Metal}}[=-influenced=] tremolo picking heard on "Downfall". On top of that, the whole album boasts an organic air.
128	* OlderThanTheyLook: Everyone in the band is in their forties, but appear to be in their late teens or early twenties.
129	* OminousMusicBoxTune: The intro to "Cage".
130	* OneLetterTitle: "C", from ''Withering to death.''
131	* OneWomanSong: "JESSICA", "audrey", possibly "AMBER" though this may refer to the jewel, and even a one woman ''EP'' in ''MISSA''.
132	* {{Otaku}}: Everyone in the band, with all of them sharing a common love for anime, video games, and other Japanese rock bands. Two of the band's members are also illustrators and fashion designers.
133	* OurZombiesAreDifferent: Their band slogan appears to be "Japanese Zombie [[XtremeKoolLetterz Heroez]]", which is ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7IXmV6A6Bk as shown in this video]]. It also appears on some of Kaoru's guitars, picks, and straps, as well as some of the band's official merch.
134	* ProtestSong: Several examples, although the lyrics to these are rarely any more comprehensible than their apolitical tracks.
135	** ''GAUZE'' has "MASK", about general authoritarianism, and "mazohyst of decadence", which is about Japan's frequent use of abortion over comprehensive sex education and contraceptive.
136	** ''six Ugly'' has "Mr.Newsman", about MoralGuardian press coverage of the band for their [[RefugeInAudacity explicit lyrics and stage image.]]
137	** ''VULGAR'' has "OBSCURE", frequently interpreted to be about abortion in a similar vein to "mazohyst of decadence".
138	** ''UROBOROS'' has "VINUSHKA", which is about Japan's imperialistic past, the bombing of the country, and the general denial of wartime atrocities in the nation.
139	* RearrangeTheSong: While the band has been adept at remixing their own songs and re-arranging them for live performances, the single for "Hageshisa to..." was the moment they began releasing re-recordings of their older songs. ''THE UNRAVELING'' is almost entirely re-recorded songs.
140	* ScaryMusicianHarmlessMusic: Zigzagged. They change their musical style and visual image with each new release, and while they generally invert the trope with regards to their public image as good-looking Japanese rockstars playing objectively brutalizing metal, they have so far consistently trended towards scarier and more dramatic visuals while varying their musical intensity across different songs.
141	* ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Kyo. He is particularly infamous among cover vocalists because of how perfect his screeching-high screams are, as well as how often he uses the technique.
142	* SensoryAbuse[=/=]{{Postmodernism}}: In any form ''possible,'' and the one band concept that underpins ''all'' of their work, [[MindScrew if it can be considered one]].
143	* SerialEscalation: They started out as an experimental/alternative pop-rock band with slight metal and noise influences akin to early NuMetal bands. Since then, they've added considerably more metal sounds into their songs, [[NewSoundAlbum with each release being progressively heavier that the last one]].
144	** They've done so much to their sound that comparing ''GAUZE'' to ''UROBOROS'' or ''DUM SPIRO SPERO'' would be like comparing two or more entirely different bands.
145	** Kyo's singing has gotten [[VocalEvolution increasingly more extreme]] after each throat surgery he undergoes.
146	* SignatureStyle: Most of their songs, especially their newer material, are written in unusual key signatures. The band members themselves add their own elements that make their sound even more unique: the contrast between Kaoru's twangy melodies and Die's chromatic, palm-muted riffing, Toshiya's heavily downtuned basslines, Shinya's bizarre drum patterns and Kyo's [[ManOfAThousandVoices extreme vocal ability]] have become staple traits of their overall sound.
147	* SopranoAndGravel: Kyo is a one-man example, able to go from melodic singing to banshee-like wails to earth-shattering growls in the space of a single song.
148	* StartMyOwn: Kyo recently formed a side project called Sukekiyo. It's apparently a {{Retraux}} of ''MACABRE''-era Diru.
149	* TextlessAlbumCover: ''THE MARROW OF A BONE'' was this by a misprint in its initial U.S release. [[MinimalisticCoverArt The cover was completely black with nothing on it.]] It has since been fixed but you can occasionally find it with the solid black cover.
150	** Both ''The Insulated World'' and ''PHALARIS'' provide straighter examples.
151	* TheUnintelligible: Some of Kyo's more inhuman sounds and his [[JapaneseRanguage English]] tend to be this. Honestly, listen to "DOZING GREEN" from ''UROBOROS''. Would you believe every word of that song is in [[GratuitousEnglish English]]? There is also a Japanese version of "DOZING GREEN", but it's hard to tell the difference. [[FromBadToWorse Even worse]] than "DOZING GREEN" is "GLASS SKIN" from the same album. It's sung in completely unintelligible English.
152	** This overlaps with LoudnessWar when badly mixed live -- good luck trying to even tell ''what song'' the band is playing without a setlist or where one ends and another begins at some points. Or to hear individual instruments or Kyo's vocals.
153	* {{Troll}}: The fandom is ''infested'' with them. They troll the band, who trolls them back, which prompts more trolling, ad nauseum. This poses a problem when outsiders from other fandoms (who possess less tolerance of trolling) jump onto the band's forums, leading to all-out FlameWars due to taking trolling at face value. It gets stickier when some of the trolls actually ''mean'' their venomous hatred.
154	* TropeCodifier: for AvantGardeMetal, [[TechnicalDeathMetal Technical]] {{Deathcore}}, modern J-metal and post-Visual kei.
155	* UnlimitedWardrobe: The band completely changes their appearance with ''every new release''. That includes their singles.
156	* VisualKei: Played straight up until the mid-2000s, inverted at one point, and heavily {{zigzagged}} since then; though they might not look too Visual in recent years, they still have strong ties to the scene, still appeal to the same subculture (and at the same time reaching out to non-VK fans) and, more importantly, still put effort into achieving an awesome image and sound.
157	** They went for full Eroguro Kei during the Tabula Rasa and Ghoul tours, especially during the latter, with Kyo's new zombified image (complete with corpse paint and fangs), Die's return to a Visual Shock-inspired mullet and heavy makeup, Shinya going for a full {{Bifauxnen}} look and all of them (especially Toshiya, Kyo and Kaoru) wearing ominous robes during some songs.
158	* WholesomeCrossdresser: The band sported this look prior to ''Kisō''.
159	* WordSaladLyrics: Kyo's English.
160	** The translated lyrics to some songs end up as sounding awkward and incoherent at times.

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