Macabre (album) explained

Macabre
Type:	Album
Artist:	Dir En Grey
Cover:	Macabrecover.jpg
Released:	September 20, 2000
Recorded:	Warner Studio, Studio Greenbird, WestSide Studio
Length:	72:57
Label:	Firewall Div./SMEJ
Prev Title:	Gauze
Prev Year:	1999
Next Title:	Kisō
Next Year:	2002

Macabre (stylized as MACABRE) is the second studio album by Japanese heavy metal band Dir En Grey. It was released on September 20, 2000. It was the band's first record to be released in collaboration of Free-Will's Firewall sub-division and Sony Music Entertainment Japan. The original print of Macabre featured an etched, tinted jewel case with five wooden beads placed within the spine. The album proper, like Gauze, included two booklets: one with the lyrics, and the other featuring a related image and poem.

Notes

• "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 "Deity" appears to be derived from Johannes Brahms' Hungarian Dance No. 5.^[1]
• "理由" is normally romanized as "riyū", yet is romanized by the band as "wake"; both "wake" ("訳") and "riyū" ("理由") can be translated as "reason".
• "Taiyō no Ao" uses a kanji that is commonly read as "midori" and means for "green", whereas the band uses a reading that means "blue".
• A rearrangement of the track "Hydra" appears on their 2007 single "Dozing Green" as a B-side,^[2] retitled to "Hydra -666-".
• A re-recording of the track "Rasetsukoku" appears as a bonus track on their 2011 album Dum Spiro Spero.
• A re-recording of the track "Macabre -Sanagi no Yume wa Ageha no Hane-" (simply titled "MACABRE") appears on the second disc of the Limited Edition of their 2013 mini-album The Unraveling.
• A re-recording of the track "Wake" appears on the second disc of the Limited Editions of their 2018 album The Insulated World.^[3]

Charts

Chart (2000)! scope="col"

Peak position
Japanese Albums (Oricon)^[4]	4

Personnel

• Dir En Grey – producer
• Kyo – vocals, lyricist
• Kaoru – guitar
• Die – guitar
• Toshiya – bass guitar
• Shinya – drums

• Hoppy Kamiyama – producer
• Chieko Kinbara – violin (Hotarubi)
• Hiroshi "Dynamite Tommy" Tomioka – executive producer
• Koji Yoda – art director
• Hidemi Ogata – cover art

Notes and References

1. . October 2000. MACABRE track-by-track. ja . Arena 37°C. Japan.
2. Web site: "Dozing Green" release information . cdjapan.co.jp. September 3, 2007.
3. Web site: DIR EN GREYニューアルバム詳細公開、新たなビジュアルも解禁に . 音楽ナタリー . Natasha,Inc . October 19, 2018.
4. Web site: DIR EN GREYの作品. Oricon. ja. May 14, 2024.