Macabre

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MACABRE is the second studio album released by Dir en grey on September 20, 2000. It is the band's first record to be released in collaboration of Free-Will's Firewall sub-division and Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The band released three singles before its release. The music videos for those tracks can be found below. 脈 (Myaku)KR cube太陽の碧 (Taiyō no Ao) ---Dir en grey - MACABRE--- 01. Deity 02. 脈 (Myaku / Pulse) 03. 理由 (Wake / Reason) 04. egnirys cimredopyh +) an injection 05. Hydra 06. 蛍火 (Hotarubi / Light of a firefly) 07. 【KR】cube 08. Berry 09. MACABRE -揚羽ノ羽ノ夢ハ蛹- (Macabre -Sanagi no Yume wa Ageha no Hane- / The Chrysalis' Dream is the Swallowtail's Wings) 10. audrey 11. 羅刹国 (Rasetsukoku / Man-eating Devil Country) 12. ザクロ (Zakuro / Pomegranate) 13. 太陽の碧 (Taiyō no Ao / Blue of the sun) Composed By – Die (tracks: 3, 10), Dir en grey (tracks: 1, 2, 7, 11), 薫 (Kaoru) (tracks: 5, 8, 9, 12, 13), Shinya (tracks: 6), Toshiya (tracks: 4) Voice, Lyrics – 京 (Kyo) Guitar – Die, 薫 (Kaoru) Bass – Toshiya Drums – Shinya The album features Russian imagery; the artwork contains Cyrillic; the lyrics for Deity is written in Russian; and the song 羅刹国 (Rasetsukoku) translates to "Man-eating devil country", which was the Chinese name for Russia during the Qing Dynasty. Deity is similar to the Russian word for children, "deti" ("дети"). The accompanying image in the lyric booklet is of a pregnant woman's stomach. A portion of the melody in the track appears to be derived from Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5. 理由 (Wake) officially romanizes as "riyū", yet is transliterated in this case by the band as "wake"; both "wake" ("訳") and "riyū" ("理由") can be translated as reason. egnirys cimredopyh +) an injection is hypodermic syringe spelled backwards; it was written in this manner due to the censorship board in Japan. 蛍火 (Hotarubi) romanizes as both "Hotarubi" and "Keika". Both translate as "light of the firefly". The lyrics of Berry is written from a abused child's point of view. When read left to right, "Macabre"'s subtitle "揚羽ノ羽ノ夢ハ蛹" transliterates as "Ageha no hane no yume wa sanagi", or "The Swallowtail's Wings' Dream is the Chrysalis". However, the title contains numbered furigana above it, which suggests that the title is to be read as "Sanagi no yume wa ageha no hane", or "The Chrysalis' Dream is the Swallowtail's Wings". 太陽の碧 (Taiyō no Ao) uses kanji meaning "midori" (green). However "ao", the word for blue, can also mean green. So the translation could be either Green, Blue, or Jade Sun. A rearrangement of the track Hydra appears on their 2007 single DOZING GREEN as a B-side. A re-recording of the track 羅刹国 (Rasetsukoku) appears as a bonus track on their 2011 album DUM SPIRO SPERO. A re-recording of the track MACABRE -揚羽ノ羽ノ夢ハ蛹- (Simply titled MACABRE) appears on the second disc of the Limited Edition of their 2013 mini-album THE UNRAVELING. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ DIR EN GREY (Amazon): https://www.amazon.com/Dir-En-Grey/e/B000AR800A DIR EN GREY (Bandcamp): https://direngrey.bandcamp.com DIR EN GREY (CDJapan): http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/searches?term.media_format=&q=Dir+en+grey DIR EN GREY (Discogs): https://www.discogs.com/Dir-en-grey-Macabre/master/490271 DIR EN GREY (Facebook): https://www.facebook.com/direngreyofficial DIR EN GREY (Instagram): https://www.instagram.com/direngrey_official DIR EN GREY (iTunes): https://itunes.apple.com/artist/dir-en-grey/id83870278 DIR EN GREY (Official Site): http://direngrey.co.jp DIR EN GREY (RateYourMusic): https://rateyourmusic.com/release/album/dir_en_grey/macabre DIR EN GREY (Spotify): https://play.spotify.com/artist/3kNqzLmW33fQIfmZ1OfqMA DIR EN GREY (Store): http://www.galaxybroadshop.com/artist/dir_en_grey/ DIR EN GREY (Twitter): https://twitter.com/direngrey_jp DIR EN GREY (YouTube): https://www.youtube.com/user/direngreyweb.

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