Kisou

by Dir en Grey

Kisou cover art
  • Type: Album
  • Released: 30 January 2002
  • Label: Firewall Div.
  • Country: Japan
  • Length: 1:10:04
  • Community rating: 3.24/5 from 2 ratings

Artists on this release: Dynamite Tommy

Album Notes & Community Reviews

Signaling a definitive departure from their visual kei origins, 'Kisou' embraces a much darker, heavier, and more abrasive sound profile. The Japanese quintet incorporates volatile shifts between melodic alternative rock and aggressive, industrial-tinged metal, matched by intensely emotional vocal acrobatics.

Genres

Descriptors: vulgar, complex, progressive, noisy

Tracklist

  1. 鬼眼-kigan- (4:05)
  2. ZOMBOID (4:24)
  3. 24 CYLINDERS (6:08)
  4. FILTH (4:55)
  5. Bottom of the death valley (5:55)
  6. embryo (5:40)
  7. 「SHINSOU」 (2:06)
  8. Gyakujou Tannou Keloid Milk (4:43)
  9. The Domestic Fucker Family (3:08)
  10. undecided (4:53)
  11. 蟲-mushi- (6:28)
  12. 「SHINSOU」 (0:59)
  13. JESSICA (4:13)
  14. é´‰-karasu- (5:26)
  15. PINK KILLER (3:51)
  16. 「SHINSOU」 (3:03)

Credits

  • Dir en Grey - primary artist, composed by
  • Toshiya - band [dir en grey], bass, composed by
  • Shinya - band [dir en grey], drums
  • Die - band [dir en grey], guitar, composed by
  • Kaoru - band [dir en grey], guitar, composed by
  • Kyo - band [dir en grey], vocals, lyrics by, composed by
  • Yoshifumi Matsuyama - illustration

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