The Marrow of a Bone [Regular Edition]

In my opinion, this is thus far the weakest album by Dir en grey. Deg used to be one of the most creative and experiencing groups of Japanese music scene, doing songs with some truly unique, mesmerizing traits, but it couldn't be believed when hearing the dull metallic tones on this CD, with only a few highlights (e.g. "Namamekashiki Ansoku, Tamerai ni Hohoemi"). The tracklisting consist almost completely of songs that have very little or almost not at all of the melody part. Besides the album itself, one thing I wasn't happy with neither was the booklet: the lyrics are printed in such a tiny font and dark silvery colour that they're impossible to read without a magnifying glass and a light coming from just the right direction, and I can't believe that I'd be the only one having problems with the printout. However, even though this album wasn't exactly a treat for me personally, I'm living in a hope of better tomorrow for Dir en grey. If they're following their concept of chancing with each album, I hope that this was only a misstep to the worse and that the next album would be gorgeous one, maybe merging together the new more metallic tune and beautiful melodies.

this is a great disc, dir en grey's style is percieved in every song although is is different from their last album

Love the songs in the cd. My personal favourites would be Conceived Sorrow, Grief, The Deeper Vileness, Agitated Screams of Maggots, Clever Sleazoid and Repetition of Hatred. Songs in this cd is so good when you heard them on live shows! It's so much more different than the previous albums!