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<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(Shunk Eat Enemy @ Sep 19 2006, 03:26 AM) [snapback]255963[/snapback]</div>

No waii!? There old stuff may be crap but there newest album (Doomsday machine) is very good IMO.

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I think Dir En Grey is the crappest band i've heard. I saw them at Family Values Tour yesterday, and there terriable. I enjoy bands that sing in different languages but Japanesse just isn't good for heavy metal.
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Hey!

Dir en grey are one of my favourite bands ever! There is so much variety to their music, so many different influences from punk rock, metalcore, electronic, there's even a few piano ballads. Their vocalist has one of the best voices ever, he can do so many different styles, from singing to screaming. And the interplay between the two guitarists is incredible, they are almost never playing the same thing, sometimes playing completely different things, but it always sounds beautiful. The lyrics are also very good, if you can find translations of them, they are very cryptic at times and sometimes have several different meanings for one song.

Anyways if you were expecting a metal band you probably would hate them, cos.. what can I say? They're not a metal band. Their recent stuff is somewhat metalcore influenced, but they still are very hard to pin down into one genre.



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As for metal bands that I don't really like.

Hmm.

Metallica for one. Although their older stuff is decent-ish.

I don't like new In Flames much, although their old stuff is ok.

Trivium are awful.

Exodus are pretty awful too from what I've heard.