Withering to death Customer Reviews

This is my favourite album by Dir en grey and i love it! Has some agresives songs like saku, Garbage or even Machiavellism; but it also has some really nice calm songs like dead tree, Higeki ha Mubata and my favourite of this album Itoshisa ha Fuhai ni Tsuki. If you are new to Dir en grey, this is a good album to start.

Amazing album, beautiful booklet, and stunning tracklist (Saku, The Final, Dead Tree) Complete album, great option

This was the first CD I was ever exposed to by this wonderful band. I ignored it at first, then something struck me to listen to it. I did and suddenly fell in love. I started to go backwards to their earlier albums (Vulgar, Kisou, sixUgly, etc.) to find how this sound developed. Sure the guitaring had lacked finesse, but it was solid. The vocals and the drumming became more complex. Shinya has always had amazing drumlines, but for instance -saku-, he blows my fricken mind with his talent. Kyo ranges so well from falsettos, to growls, to high pitched shrieks, to just his amazing Kyo vocals. Jesus Christ R'n'R proves his ability. The whole CD just pulses with their creativity and it is moving. From hard hitting songs like -saku- and Merciless Cult, to more meaningful Higeki wa and Kodou and dead tree. This is probably their best work yet. I believed some people said it was their downfall, and GAUZE was their best work (come on with Yoshiki? He is amazing and all but damn he has gone down. He worked with Paris Hilton FOR GODS SAKE) but Withering to death is Dir en grey's creative upbringing and there definition of their style. This is their most solid albums in their history. Period.

This would be a step towards the aggressive sound of The Marrow Of A Bone. Dir En Grey succeeds in combining beautiful melody with aggression, grunts and screams in their own unique way. Songs like Merciless Cult, Kodoku No Shisu Yueno Kodoku show this mingling quite well, whilst -saku- shows the raw destructive power of this band. I can't get enough of the album.

The best of the albums by Dir en Grey. This is a step towards their extremely metal side but it introduces the CD with a song as good as Mercilous Cult which ties greatly together with C. Saku is a great song for screamos or those that just like metal. Dead Tree is great with its conversion from country to metal in twelve seconds. Who doesn't love The Final. And the cd ends with really good heavy songs.

Out of all Dir en Grey albums, I don't regret buying this one in particular. All songs were heavy, yet enjoyable. One of my favorite Dir en Grey albums, I honestly give it a 5-star rating.

"Withering to Death" is a very rough and dark album. Kyo sings not much on this album, the most time he screams. This album is not bad but I can't listen to it day after day.

Dir en grey brought their sound to an epic level with 'VULGAR'. Now they're taking it even further with 'Withering to death'. The one thing 'VULGAR' was lacking was variation, which this album more than makes up for. They've kept all the best parts of 'VULGAR' and then added more new stuff as they're constantly moving and never settle with what they've achieved. The impossibility to choose favourite tracks on a Dir en grey CD is always difficult, but I pass this time by simply saying that every song here is part of a masterpiece. The total lenght is actually slightly shorter than 'VULGAR', but it adds to a great tempo and listening experience. Even though it's a complete album, once the final track is over, the yearning for their next album is near unbearable.

Good for the ones who love a very hard rock style, I'm not a big fan of the extreme rock, so I'm a little disappointed with this album, I prefer a hard rock a little softer like in ''Gauze'' or ''Kisou''.

I wasn't too fond of this album the very first time I heard it as I expected the some what more industrial touch of Dir En Grey that they had on 'Vulgar'. Despite this, I learnt to adore this album.

One of my favorite albums by Dir en grey, this is their first album that I ever picked-up and bought. Listening to it the first few times, most of the songs sounded the same, but the more I listened to it, the more I realized that each song is different: Some fast songs like Merciless Cult and C, some VERY fast songs liks -saku- and Beautiful Dirt, some slow songs like dead tree and HIGEKI WA MABUTA WO OROSHITA YASASHIKI UTSU, and just great rock songs like KODOU and Machiavellism. Definitely better than Dir en grey's last two albums (VULGAR and Kisou), Withering to death. shows a complete change in Deg's style of music, which isn't necesarilly a bad thing. The band has seemed to mature, hanging up their Visual Kei attire and trading it for black jeans and armless t-shirts: In other words, a more rock n'roll kind of Diru. In my opinion, if you ever pick up two Dir en grey albums in your life, pick up this one and GAUZE, not only because they're the best of the band's albums, but also so you can see how greatly they've changed in the years. RECOMMENDED SONGS: Machiaellism, dead tree, THE FINAL, -saku-, KODOU, and HIGEKI WA MABUTA WO OROSHITA YASASHIKI UTSU.

I would have given this a 4.5 star. The album was great from start to end. Except for the ballad at the end, this album packs a total knockout punch. Would be great to blast through your home speakers. One would either love or hate it(hence the minus 0.5) since its not very mainstream. However thats what me and many others love about them. So if you're game for some great heart-pumping music from one of the top band in Japan, get this album.

While it is true that the sound is smiliar to Vulgar, it still has a sound of its own. I really enjoy THE FINAL, saku, Beautiful Dirt, and KODOU. I highly recommend this album to Dir en grey fans. If new to Dir en grey, however, I recommend Vulgar first before purchasing this album.

ThIS cD rOx bEYoNd aLl bElIEf!!!! Kyo's voice iz soooo pretty! If u haven't tried singing C in Japanese, u r absolutely insane!!!! It is so qool. It's a great cd & it's lulling. This accompanying Vulgar iz literally the best cd ever made. Like Kyo sang (and don't forget it), "Jessai aishitai no me no mae no sekai o jessai demo mou" Try singing C in japanese though, i swear it's the best thing on earth. Go Japanese Death Metal!

Dir en grey is an excellent band and I fell in love with them through their album 'Vulgar' The new album 'Withering to death' is a lot like Vulgar in sound in fact they're a little too alike. Choosing between the two you would want to go with 'Vulgar' the album is more original and better written than 'Withering to death' However 'WTD' still has some amazing ballads that you will crave and it makes it worth buying. The best tracks include: Higeki wa Mabuta o Oroshita Yasashiki Utsu,Kodo,Jesus Christ R'nR, and The final.

I was very excited when I preordered this album in 2005. It wasn't as good as I expected it to be since the music style has changed alot fro what I've been used to. And most of the songs have a similar melody. But they have a more professional sound now. I listened to the album non-stop when I finally got it. I still listen to it but not that often. Still I'm happy I got it. This was my first j-rock related order and thus this album will always be somewhat special to me.

Definedly the best album from Dir en grey till today. Sounds are inventive, fresh and raw with pure feeling. I like the sound of the vocalist and how he can rev and pitch his voice to correspond the mood of the song only to end up singing softly until revving up again. I don't think there is even a one group in the western world which could make similar recording, with such high quality from the beginning till the last track.

Withering to Death is another must buy thing from Dir en grey. This CD is similar to Vulgar, but it is all it's own. Withering to Death is packed with songs that I find to be the best of the best, like THE FINAL, Kodou and Jesus Christ R n' R, just to name a few. On this CD, you get the hard riffs, the headbanging and the slow, but rough music. You get Kyo's amazing voice, either singing or screaming, you still get it and you get the amazing playing of Die, Kaoru, Toshiya and Shinya. This album is on the top of my list of must buy things and favorite albums. I would recommend it to anyone who is a Dir en grey fan.

An amazing album, sound's similar to Vulgar, but has a sound all its own. None the less an amazing album, every song unique and well performed (even better live) and some songs just catchy as all hell (Machiavellism, Jesus Christ RnR) ^^ great work.

This is one of their best albums. I love this cd, I constantly have it on repeat. This is deffinently an album a true Dir en grey fan should not leave out of their collection.