The Final [Single, Import]

Dir En Grey | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (March 29, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Single, Import
• Label: Sony
• ASIN: B000197L9I
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #705,954 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. The Final

2. Increase Blue (Live)

3. Red (em) (Live)

4. The Third Empire (Live)

Editorial Reviews

Japan exclusive single for the flamboyant Japanese rock act features four tracks, 'The Final', 'Increase Blue' (Live), 'Red...(em)' (Live), & 'The Third Empire' (Live). Sony. 2004.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars The Final Ahem!, December 9, 2004

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Karasu (Hell) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Final (Audio CD)

How badly did you want a Song about Suicide to really kick some ass. Well this is it right here. The Final is your best bet for a song about suicide. Written by all the band members, Die, Kaoru, Toshiya, and Shinya. Kyo's beautiful vocals, the behemoth sound of Shinya's drumming, Kaoru's, Totchi's, and Die's just powerful roar of thier fine ESP guitars.

This is actually the first Dir En Grey song I sung before my High School. This is an excellent song to play and it is alot of fun.

Now for the lyrics..

The intention is clear, I stare.... with this left hand, unable to be worded
Everytime I bleed, there lies a reason to live.... And I discover words being so vivid and bright

Even loved ones scatter like petals from flowers in my hand
So even if I engraved the meaning that I lived in my hand, it will only be known as flowers of vanity

The Final

One by one it multiplies... why be a sad bait?

Deep within the hell of my heart... I can't go back
A self-torture loser, not being able to see tomorrow
Suicide is the proof of life

Even loved ones scatter like petals from flowers in my hand
So if I engraved the meaning that I lived in my hand, the petals will just scatter as flowers of vanity

So I can't live
What's lost can't be born again

A song that's not even seeking the proof of living
Let's put an end... The Final

Lets bloom flowers of attempted suicide

See how power this song is. They should put it on the Vulgar cd to juice that up a bit. But nope Kaoru just decided it as a single version.

And with three (live) songs to boot, you won't be disappointed with the Final.

~ Karasu. Dir En Grey obsessed since the age of 9.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars an awesome single, February 16, 2005

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darkcliff (Quincy, MA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Final (Audio CD)

this is easily one of my favorite dir en grey songs. a very powerful single, with a nice sound to it. nice lyrics about suicide. the final (like the name) is a nice ending song I think...

well, its not on any other cd. what are you waiting for? get this if you love dir en grey.

5.0 out of 5 stars Wow!, February 3, 2005

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Klisk (Wayne, NJ; United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Final (Audio CD)

The Final is just a single. There's some live tracks, but overall the 1 song is what I want to review:

Honestly, The Final is perhaps the best Dir en grey song composed since.. Well.. Since the Macabre era!

Diru has indeed modernized their sound to an american-ish 'nu-metal' sound, rather than the amazing VK, and Japanese organic sounds that we came accustomed to on Missa, Gauze, and Macabre.

The Final is a reminder of just how damned AMAZING Dir en grey is, and can be.

It's just a shame that with Vulgar, and the upcoming Withering to death.. Well, it seems DEG is losing the VK charm that made me fall in love with the music to begin with.

The Final will be treasured among the newer songs being released by DEG, it's the diamond in the rough, and is right up there with Jessica, Taiyou no Ao, and Yokan! Classic.