Dir En Grey discography

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Dir En Grey discography
Dir En Grey @ Maquinaria Festival 11.jpg
Dir En Grey vocalist Kyo and drummer Shinya
Studio albums11
EPs3
Compilation albums6
Singles34
Music videos7
Live videos33

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.

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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

TitleAlbum detailsPeak chart positions
JPN
[1]
FIN
[2]
US US
Heat.
US
Ind.
Gauze 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] 3142 [8]
The Marrow of a Bone
  • Label: Firewall/SMEJ, Gan-Shin, Warcon/Fontana
  • Released: February 7, 2007
  • Formats: CD, 2-CD, digital download
7 [1] 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 [1] 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 [1] 40 [2] 135 [14] 2 [14] 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 [1]
The Insulated World
  • Label: Firewall/SMEJ
  • Released: September 26, 2018
  • Formats: CD, 2CD, 2BluSpec CD+DVD or Blu-ray, digital download
6 [1]
Phalaris
  • Label: Firewall/SMEJ
  • Released: June 15, 2022
  • Formats: CD, 2CD, 2CD+DVD or Blu-ray, digital download
5 [1]
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Extended plays

TitleEP detailsPeak chart positions
JPN
[1]
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

TitleYearPeak chart positionsAlbum
JPN
[15] [16]
FIN
[2]
"Jealous"199838Non-album singles
"-I'll-"7
"Akuro no Oka"19997 Gauze
"Yurameki"5
"-Zan-"6
"Cage"8
"Yokan"6
"Myaku"20008 Macabre
"[KR] Cube"6
"Taiyō no Ao"7
"Ain't Afraid to Die"20017Non-album single
"Filth"6 Kisō
"Jessica"9
"Embryo"9
"Child Prey"20028 Vulgar
"Drain Away"20038
"Kasumi"7
"The Final"20049 Withering to Death
"-Saku-"6
"Clever Sleazoid"20051015 The Marrow of a Bone
"Ryōjoku no Ame"20068
"Agitated Screams of Maggots"5
"Dozing Green"20073 Uroboros
"Glass Skin"20086
"Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami"20092 Dum Spiro Spero
"Lotus"20116
"Different Sense"5
"Rinkaku"20124 Arche
"Sustain the Untruth"20146
"Utafumi"201612 The Insulated World
"Ningen o Kaburu"20185
"The World of Mercy"20198Non-album single
"Ochita Koto no Aru Sora"2020 Phalaris
"Oboro"20215
"19990120"20242Non-album single
"The Devil in Me"6TBA
"—" denotes a recording that did not chart or was not released in that territory.

Compilations

Music videos

Live videos

Album scores

Photo books

References

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  3. 1999年08月第2週の邦楽アルバムランキング情報. Oricon (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-07-10.
  4. 2000年10月第1週の邦楽アルバムランキング情報. Oricon (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-07-10.
  5. 2002年02月第2週の邦楽アルバムランキング情報. Oricon (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-07-10.
  6. 2003年09月第3週の邦楽アルバムランキング情報. Oricon (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-07-10.
  7. 2005年03月第3週の邦楽アルバムランキング情. Oricon (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-07-10.
  8. "Top Heatseekers". Billboard . June 3, 2006.
  9. "Top Heatseekers - The Marrow of a Bone". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
  10. "Top Independent Albums". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2009-02-09. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
  11. "The Billboard 200: Uroboros". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2009-06-30. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
  12. "Top Heatseekers: Uroboros". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
  13. "Top Independent Albums: Uroboros". Billboard. Archived from the original on 2009-06-29. Retrieved 2011-08-13.
  14. 1 2 3 "Dum Spiro Spero US charting". Billboard . Retrieved 2011-08-13.
  15. "Dir En Grey Oricon Single data". Oricon (in Japanese). Retrieved 2008-11-20.
  16. "Dir En Greyの作品" (in Japanese). Oricon . Retrieved May 1, 2024.
  17. "Dir En Grey Players Book<シンコー・ミュージック・ムック>".