Dir En Grey discography explained

Artist:	Dir En Grey
Studio:	11
Ep:	3
Singles:	34
Music Videos:	7
Option:	33
Option Name:	Live videos
Compilation:	6

This is the discography of Dir En Grey, a Japanese heavy metal band. They have recorded eleven original studio albums, three EPs and thirty one singles in their twenty four 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 Europe 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 and eighth albums, Uroboros and Dum Spiro Spero, were released in Europe (Gan-Shin) and North America (The End Records). Since then, the band's only releases outside of Japan have been in Europe via Gan-Shin.

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

Title	Album details	Peak chart positions
		JPN ^[1]	FIN ^[2]	US	US Heat.	US Ind.
Gauze	Label: East West Japan/Free-Will Released: July 28, 1999 Formats: CD, digital download	5^[3]	–	–	–	–
Macabre	Label: Firewall/SMEJ Released: September 20, 2000 Formats: CD, digital download	4^[4]	–	–	–	–
Kisō	Label: Firewall/SMEJ Released: January 30, 2002 Formats: CD, digital download	3^[5]	–	–	–	–
Vulgar	Label: Firewall/SMEJ, Gan-Shin Released: September 10, 2003 Formats: CD, CD+DVD, digital download	6^[6]	–	–	–	–
Withering to Death	Label: Firewall/SMEJ, Gan-Shin, Warcon/Fontana Released: March 9, 2005 Formats: CD, digital download	8^[7]	31	–	42^[8]	–
The Marrow of a Bone	Label: Firewall/SMEJ, Gan-Shin, Warcon/Fontana Released: February 7, 2007 Formats: CD, 2-CD, digital download	7	–	–	8^[9]	21^[10]
Uroboros	Label: Firewall/SMEJ, Gan-Shin, The End Released: November 12, 2008 Formats: CD, 2-CD, 2-CD+DVD+2-LP, digital download	4	–	114^[11]	1^[12]	9^[13]
Dum Spiro Spero	Label: Firewall/SMEJ, Okami, The End Released: August 2, 2011 Formats: CD, 2-CD+DVD+2-LP, digital download	4	40	135	2	22^[14]
Arche	Label: Firewall/SMEJ, Okami Released: December 10, 2014 Formats: CD, 2-CD, 2-BluSpec CD+DVD or Blu-ray, digital download	4	–	–	–	–
The Insulated World	Label: Firewall/SMEJ Released: September 26, 2018 Formats: CD, 2CD, 2BluSpec CD+DVD or Blu-ray, digital download	6	–	–	–	–
Phalaris	Label: Firewall/SMEJ Released: June 15, 2022 Formats: CD, 2CD, 2CD+DVD or Blu-ray, digital download	5	–	–	–	–
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Extended plays

Title	EP details	Peak chart positions
		JPN
Missa	Label: Free-Will Released: July 25 1997 Formats: CD, digital download	93
Six Ugly	Label: Firewall/SMEJ Released: July 3, 2002 Formats: CD, digital download	9
The Unraveling	Label: Firewall/SMEJ, Okami Released: April 3, 2013 Formats: CD, CD+DVD, 2-CD+DVD, digital download	3

Singles

Title	Year	Peak chart positions		Album
		JPN ^[15] ^[16]	FIN
"Jealous"	1998	38	–	rowspan="2"
"-I'll-"		7	–
"Akuro no Oka"	1999	7	–	Gauze
"Yurameki"		5	–
"-Zan-"		6	–
"Cage"		8	–
"Yokan"		6	–
"Myaku"	2000	8	–	Macabre
"[KR] Cube"		6	–
"Taiyō no Ao"		7	–
"Ain't Afraid to Die"	2001	7	–
"Filth"		6	–	Kisō
"Jessica"		9	–
"Embryo"		9	–
"Child Prey"	2002	8	–	Vulgar
"Drain Away"	2003	8	–
"Kasumi"		7	–
"The Final"	2004	9	–	Withering to Death
"-Saku-"		6	–
"Clever Sleazoid"	2005	10	15	The Marrow of a Bone
"Ryōjoku no Ame"	2006	8	–
"Agitated Screams of Maggots"		5	–
"Dozing Green"	2007	3	–	Uroboros
"Glass Skin"	2008	6	–
"Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami"	2009	2	–	Dum Spiro Spero
"Lotus"	2011	6	–
"Different Sense"		5	–
"Rinkaku"	2012	4	–	Arche
"Sustain the Untruth"	2014	6	–
"Utafumi"	2016	12	–	The Insulated World
"Ningen o Kaburu"	2018	5	–
"The World of Mercy"	2019	8	–
"Ochita Koto no Aru Sora"	2020	–	–	Phalaris
"Oboro"	2021	5	–
"19990120"	2024	2	–
"The Devil in Me"		6	–	TBA
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilations

• Behind the Mask, Volume 2 (November 25, 1997)
• Kai (Japanese: 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 9, 2010)
• Vestige of Scratches (January 2, 2018)

Music videos

• Kaede ~If Trans...~ (Japanese: 「楓」～if trans･･･～, January 15, 1998)
• Mōsō Tōkakugeki (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)
• Average Sorrow (April 1, 2015)
• Average Psycho 2 (September 2, 2015)
• Average Psycho 3 (March 30, 2022)

Live videos

• Mōsō Kakugaigeki (妄想格外劇, October 7, 1998)
• 1999.12.18 Ōsaka-jō Hall (February 16, 2000)
• Tour 00⏩01 Macabre (July 25, 2001)
• Rettō 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)
• Tour 2011 Age Quod Agis Vol.1 (Europe & Japan) (June 20, 2012)
• Tour 2011 Age Quod Agis Vol.2 (U.S. & Japan) (July 18, 2012)
• Tour 12-13 In Situ-Tabula Rasa (September 25, 2013)
• Tour13 Ghoul (April 23, 2014)
• Dum Spiro Spero At Nippon Budokan (July 16, 2014)
• Tour14 Psychonnect -Mode Of “Gauze?”- (September 2014)
• Arche At Nippon Budokan (June 2016)
• Tour16-17 From Depression To ________ [Mode Of Vulgar] (March 2017)
• Tour16-17 From Depression To ________ [Mode Of Dum Spiro Spero] (March 2017)
• Tour16-17 From Depression To ________ [Mode Of Kisō] (March 2017)
• Tour16-17 From Depression To ________ [Mode Of Uroboros] (September 2017)
• Tour16-17 From Depression To ________ [Mode Of The Marrow Of A Bone] (September 2017)
• Tour16-17 From Depression To ________ [Mode Of Macabre] (July 2018)
• Tour16-17 From Depression To ________ [Mode Of Withering To Death.] (July 2018)
• Documentary Of Tour16-17 From Depression To ________ (July 2018)
• From Depression To ________ [Mode Of 16-17] (August 7, 2019)
• The Final Days of Studio Coast (September 14, 2022)
• 25th Anniversary Tour22 From Depression To ________ (July 7, 2023)
• Tour22-23 Phalaris (August 21, 2024)

Album scores

• Gauze (October 24, 1999)
• Macabre (February 1, 2001)
• Kisou [鬼葬] (2002)
• Six Ugly (January 31, 2005)
• Vulgar (January 31, 2005)
• Withering to Death (January 15, 2010)
• The Marrow of a Bone (January 15, 2010)
• Uroboros (September 5, 2011)
• Dum Spiro Spero (February 25, 2013)

Photo books

• Dir En Grey Yarouze (Japanese: Dir en greyやろうぜ, 1999)
• Shikaku [A Dead Angle] (Japanese: 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 Tour 2010-2011 (2011)
• Overseas Documentary Greed (2012)
• Minerva -Rinkaku- (2012)
• Minerva -The Unraveling- (2013)
• Dir En Grey Players Book (2016)^[17]
• 2019120520220127 (2022)

Notes and References

1. Web site: Dir En Grey Oricon data. Oricon. ja. 2008-11-20.
2. Web site: Discography Dir en Grey . finnishcharts.com . September 8, 2021.
3. Web site: http://www.oricon.co.jp/search/result.php?kbn=ja&types=rnk&year=1999&month=8&week=2&submit5.x=29&submit5.y=13. ja:1999年08月第2週の邦楽アルバムランキング情報. ja. Oricon. 2008-07-10.
4. Web site: http://www.oricon.co.jp/search/result.php?kbn=ja&types=rnk&year=2000&month=9&week=5&submit5.x=14&submit5.y=6. ja:2000年10月第1週の邦楽アルバムランキング情報. ja. Oricon. 2008-07-10.
5. Web site: http://www.oricon.co.jp/search/result.php?kbn=ja&types=rnk&year=2002&month=2&week=2&submit5.x=11&submit5.y=13. ja:2002年02月第2週の邦楽アルバムランキング情報. ja . Oricon . 2008-07-10.
6. Web site: http://www.oricon.co.jp/search/result.php?kbn=ja&types=rnk&year=2003&month=9&week=3&submit5.x=18&submit5.y=13. ja:2003年09月第3週の邦楽アルバムランキング情報. ja. Oricon. 2008-07-10.
7. Web site: http://www.oricon.co.jp/search/result.php?kbn=ja&types=rnk&year=2005&month=3&week=3&submit5.x=21&submit5.y=11. ja:2005年03月第3週の邦楽アルバムランキング情. ja. Oricon. 2008-07-10.
8. Top Heatseekers. Billboard. June 3, 2006.
9. Top Heatseekers - The Marrow of a Bone. Billboard. 2011-08-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090629223428/http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/esearch/chart_display.jsp?cfi=324&cfgn=Albums&cfn=Top+Heatseekers&ci=3082790&cdi=9209863&cid=01%2F01%2F2008. 2009-06-29.
10. Top Independent Albums. Billboard. 2011-08-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090209072455/http://www.billboard.com/charts/2007-03-10/independent-albums . 2009-02-09.
11. The Billboard 200: Uroboros. Billboard. 2011-08-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090630004640/http://www.billboard.com/charts/2008-11-29/billboard-200 . 2009-06-30 .
12. Top Heatseekers: Uroboros. Billboard. 2011-08-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090629234250/http://www.billboard.com/charts/2008-11-29/heatseekers-albums . 2009-06-29.
13. Top Independent Albums: Uroboros. Billboard. 2011-08-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20090629230459/http://www.billboard.com/charts/2008-11-29/independent-albums . 2009-06-29.
14. Web site: Dum Spiro Spero US charting . . 2011-08-13.
15. Web site: Dir En Grey Oricon Single data. Oricon. ja. 2008-11-20.
16. Web site: Dir En Greyの作品. Oricon. ja. May 1, 2024.
17. Web site: Dir en Grey Players Book＜シンコー・ミュージック・ムック＞.