Dir En Grey discography

Dir En Grey discography

Dir En Grey vocalist Kyo
Releases
↙Studio albums	8
↙Compilation albums	6
↙EPs	2
↙Singles	27
↙Music videos	7
↙Live videos	13

This is the discography of Dir En Grey, a Japanese rock band. They have recorded seven original studio albums, two EPs and twenty six singles in their eleven years together. Each of the band's releases has charted on Japan's Oricon charts.

Dir En Grey made their earliest releases as an independent band with Free-Will, eventually signing a temporary deal with Warner Music Japan. Dir En Grey's earliest releases were self-produced, however they worked with a producer, X Japan drummer Yoshiki Hayashi, for a series of five singles preceding Gauze.

With the release of Macabre, Dir En Grey began to release cooperatively between Firewall Division, a subsidiary of Free-Will, and Sony Music Entertainment Japan. In 2005, Dir En Grey signed to the European label, Gan-Shin. The following year, they would release in the United States under Warcon Enterprises and Fontana Distribution, while being managed by Free-Will's American branch. On both foreign labels, the band's initial release was Withering to Death., and followed by The Marrow of a Bone. Their seventh album Uroboros is planned for both a European (Gan-Shin) and American release (The End Records).

Dir En Grey have made only one release on their independent label, Free-Will, since the major label debut; they released their music video compilation, Average Psycho through the independent label due to graphic content, not allowed by Sony.

Albums

Year	Title	Peak chart positions					Notes
		FIN	JPN	USA	USA Heat.	USA Ind.
1999	Gauze Label: Free-Will Released: July 28, 1999	N/A	5 [1]	N/A	N/A	N/A	First full-length album Production by Yoshiki Hayashi
2000	Macabre Label: Firewall/SMEJ Released: September 20, 2000	N/A	4[2]	N/A	N/A	N/A	Major label debut album
2002	Kisou Label: Firewall/SMEJ Released: January 30, 2002	N/A	3[3]	N/A	N/A	N/A
2003	Vulgar Label: Firewall/SMEJ, Gan-Shin Released: September 10, 2003	N/A	6[4]	N/A	N/A	N/A	Released in Europe
2005	Withering to Death. Label: Firewall/SMEJ, Gan-Shin, Warcon/Fontana Released: March 9, 2005	31[5]	8[6]	–	42[7]	–	First release in Europe and United States
2007	The Marrow of a Bone Label: Firewall/SMEJ, Gan-Shin, Warcon/Fontana Released: February 7, 2007	–	7[8]	–	8[9]	21[10]	Released in Europe and United States Included unplugged arrangements
2008	Uroboros Label: Firewall/SMEJ, Gan-Shin, The End Released: November 12, 2008		4[11]	114[12]	1[13]	9[14]
2011	Dum Spiro Spero Label: Firewall/SMEJ, Gan-Shin, The End Released: August 2, 2011		4[15]	135[16]	2[16]	22[16]	Available in two editions, CD and CD+DVD+2-LP

"–" denotes releases that did not chart.

Extended plays

Year	Title	Peak chart positions				Notes
		FIN	JPN	USA Heat.	USA Ind.
1997	Missa Label: Free-Will Released: July 25	N/A	–	N/A	N/A	First release
2002	Six Ugly Label: Firewall/SMEJ Released: July 31	N/A	9[17]	N/A	N/A

Singles

Year	Title	Peak chart positions		Notes	Album
		JPN[18]
1998	"Jealous"	N/A	38		No featured album
	"-I'll-"	N/A	9
1999	"Akuro no Oka"	N/A	7	Simultaneous release	Gauze
	"Yurameki"	N/A	5
	"-Zan-"	N/A	6
	"Cage"	N/A	8
	"Yokan"	N/A	6
2000	"Myaku"	N/A	8		Macabre
	"[KR] Cube"	N/A	6
	"Taiyou no Ao"	N/A	7
2001	"Ain't Afraid to Die"	N/A	7		No featured album
	"Filth"	N/A	6		Kisou
	"Jessica"	N/A	12
	"Embryo"	N/A	9
2002	"Child Prey"	N/A	8	First live B-sides	Vulgar
2003	"Drain Away"	N/A	8
	"Kasumi"	N/A	7
2004	"The Final"	N/A	9		Withering to Death.
	"Saku"	N/A	6
2005	"Clever Sleazoid"	15[19]	10		The Marrow of a Bone
2006	"Ryoujoku no Ame"	–	7
	"Agitated Screams of Maggots"	–	4
2007	"Dozing Green"	–	3	First Re-recorded B-sides	Uroboros
2008	"Glass Skin"	–	6
2009	"Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami"	–	2		Dum Spiro Spero
2011	"Lotus"	–	5
	"Different Sense"	–	5

Compilations

• Behind the Mask, Volume 2 (November 25, 1997)
• Kai (改 -Kai-), (Remix Album) (August 22, 2001)
• The Best of Taste of Chaos (January 24, 2006)
• The Family Values Tour 2006 CD (December 26, 2006)
• Decade 1998-2002 (December 19, 2007)
• Decade 2003-2007 (December 19, 2007)
• Romantist - The Stalin, Michiro Endo Tribute Album (December 09, 2010)

Music videos

• Kaede ~If Trans...~ (「楓」～if trans･･･～, January 15, 1998)
• Mousou Toukakugeki (妄想統覚劇, October 7, 1998)
• Gauze -62045- (November 17, 1999)
• Kimon (鬼門, March 20, 2002)
• Average Fury (June 29, 2005)
• Average Psycho (July 27, 2005)
• Average Blasphemy (October 27, 2009)

Live videos

• Mousou Kakugaigeki (妄想格外劇, October 7, 1998)
• 1999.12.18 Osakajo Hall (February 16, 2000)
• Tour 00 >> 01 Macabre (July 25, 2001)
• Rettou Gekishin Angya Final 2003 5 Ugly Kingdom (May 21, 2003)
• Blitz 5 Days (March 3, 2004)
• Tour 04 The Code of Vulgar[ism] (November 6, 2004)
• Tour 05 It Withers and Withers (May 8, 2006)
• The Family Values Tour 2006 DVD (December 26, 2006)
• Despair in the Womb (February, 2007)
• In Weal or Woe (February 10, 2008)
• A Knot Of (February 2, 2009)
• Tour 08 The Rose Trims Again (April 28, 2009)
• Tour 09 Feast of V Senses (September, 2009)
• Uroboros -With the Proof in the Name of Living...- At Nippon Budokan (May 26, 2010)

Album scores

• Gauze (1999)
• Macabre (2001)
• Kisou [鬼葬] (2002)
• Six Ugly (2005)
• Vulgar (2005)
• Withering to Death (2010)
• The Marrow of a Bone (2010)
• Uroboros (2011)

Photo books

• Dir En Grey Yarouze (Dir en greyやろうぜ, 1999)
• Shikaku [A Dead Angle] (視覚 [A Dead Angle], 2000)
• Dragon Fly (2002)
• [xx] A Pilgrimage Capsizing the Islands 2002 Asia - The Japanese Fxxker Family (2002)
• Ware (我, 2002)
• UV Special: Dir En Grey The Manipulated Life (2005)
• Dir En Grey Yarouze Special (2006)
• Shankara (2008)
• Ouroboros (2010)
• Amon (2011)
• The Unwavering Fact of Tomorrow Tour2010-2011 (2011)

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