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It's not in English. I don't play Japanese music for my friends often, but when I do it's instrumental or with good English vocals because the minute they hear Japanese, I know 95% of them will stop listening. People want to understand what the song is about and you can't do that with Japanese music if it's all in Japanese. The vocals that are in English still have a distinctly Japanese quality to them, and that turns off a lot of native speakers. That leaves a very small group of people to make a big impression for everyone. Not a great way to start.
  Rock music is not mainstream in America right now. It's hip hop, pop, and r&b that runs the air waves. It's not a bad thing, but I find i digest these genres of music differently than I do rock and metal, and people that have not grown up with rock and metal may never have developed a taste for it. I've always heard that rock and metal is the closest thing to classical music in the modern era, and on the same note I don't find many people appreciate Bach and Mozart for what it is. It just doesn't "move them".
  Anime was considered taboo and nerdy up until recently, when now all of a sudden it became cool to watch Dragon ball Super and My Hero Academia and other big-name shounen. Anime and Japan are always seen as synonymous to the barely acquainted, so anime and rock music are also tied together by virtue of this rock music being from Japan. Stupid associations, but that's how it is. Considering just how bad a lot of anime themes are, I can see people associating the worst of J-pop themes with all Japanese music.
  Consider this 3.5, but the people that were first promoting the music were deep into the scene, like "appropriating parts of Japanese language and unironically dressing like a visual kei rocker" deep. They...did not make the best ambassadors for visual kei music. On the other side of the coin, the Japanese indie scene has always been a smaller group covering a wider range of music, cloistered and secluded on private servers and trackers. They wanted to preserve their culture the way it was, so they weren't exactly interested in proselytizing their music to a wider audience. Y'all gotta realize peeps like @CAT5are the exception to the rule.
  Japanese record companies in general do a pretty shit job of marketing themselves and their music to a wider audience, which is perplexing to me because the anime industry is absolutely KILLING IT right now. They jumped onto the digital distribution wave too late and by that time, the fad had already started diminishing. We have no equivalent to Crunchyroll to have a legal bridge between record companies and interested Western audiences. HearJapan was close, but in some ways I think it was too ahead of its time and never got the support it needed once everyone involved realized it wouldn't be a 1-2-3 smash hit.  
I always maintained that I would be a sensation or "the next Jimi Hendrix" if I took a bunch of my favorite J-Rock and visual kei songs and sung them in English...

Thanks to @EvilHippy, I was finally able to correct the lyrics for Ningen o kaburu and Ash. Regarding the romanisation, it's by ear, so there might still be mistakes, but without a band score for the songs, I can't do much more. Anyway, here are the lyrics:
 
http://direngrey.wikia.com/wiki/人間を被る
 
Japanese:
 
Romanisation:
 
Official translation:
 
 
 
http://direngrey.wikia.com/wiki/Ash_(2018)
 
Japanese:
 
Romanisation:
 
Official translation:
 

We all know that the only good release is the Karma / Aoitsuki demo, everything else is sellout.

We all know that the only good release is the Karma / Aoitsuki demo, everything else is sellout.

worked for Conchita Wurst though.

Watch it before it gets taken dooooown~
 
HQ:
 

http://direngrey.wikia.com/wiki/人間を被る
http://direngrey.wikia.com/wiki/Ash_(2018)
 
Lyrics in Japanese, Romaji and official translation. It's really hard to make out what Kyo says, so take these with a grain of salt. I'll revise them when I have a picture of the lyrics.

You can find the lyrics and English translations of both songs here:
 
Ningen wo Kaburu: https://rocklyric.jp/lyric.php?sid=174990
Ash: https://rocklyric.jp/lyric.php?sid=174991

As someone who has listened to Ash daily for the past decade or so I can honestly say that the Ash solo is the best piece of music they've made since pre-Arche at least. I'm not sure what Kyo is doing vocally in some parts though (changing the lyrics completely kind of sucks), but the music is spot on.
 
Oh yeah and there was a new song somewhere on the single too, I rather enjoy it. The chorus is neat.

https://itunes.apple.com/de/album/ningen-wo-kaburu-single/1374884960
 
Correction: It's just a preview ._.

So apparently, these songs do exist, or at least 04 and 05 do. Don't know about 静寂, but it's also said to be the SE for Gesshoku's live VHS, so huh...
There are also some more, that would probably be visnu songs then: neo-nazis, 風の無い処へ, sabbat, slave, mania, end and an unnamed ballad.
Along with the 真紅 tape I earlier posted. Of course all these songs are 100% off the internet
 
And three VHS tapes that won't ever see the light of the day:
 

Yup, the person I got these from told me that they would have to ask all other members first before they could share them with me. And they obviously won't do that.
And even if they did, I'm preeeetty sure they'd ask me not to share them further anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

...sooo yeah... didn't think it would happen so fast, but I snatched these two magazines:
 

It sounds good, but yet another short song... Here's the duration for the full single:
 
1. 人間を被る (3:44)
2. Ash (4:36)
3. 詩踏み [LIVE] (Live Take at Zepp Tokyo on October 12,2017) (4:20)

http://kurumeki.tumblr.com/post/173129408786/vnshkk-dir-en-grey-20180420-dir-en-grey
 
"I feel Ningen wo kaburu really is the best at expressing us as we are now."
 

Yup, the person I got these from told me that they would have to ask all other members first before they could share them with me. And they obviously won't do that.
And even if they did, I'm preeeetty sure they'd ask me not to share them further anyway. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

That has to be from a former bandmember, since it looks like the venue footage and those are never sold or given out, sadly. Its a shame, good history that gets lost this way all the time.

So apparently, these songs do exist, or at least 04 and 05 do. Don't know about 静寂, but it's also said to be the SE for Gesshoku's live VHS, so huh...
There are also some more, that would probably be visnu songs then: neo-nazis, 風の無い処へ, sabbat, slave, mania, end and an unnamed ballad.
Along with the 真紅 tape I earlier posted. Of course all these songs are 100% off the internet
 
And three VHS tapes that won't ever see the light of the day:
 

It's not that hard to remember lyrics, especially considering they played the song last year already^^

Ranunculus sounds like a Harry Potter spell. Google search shows that it's a plant, so maybe the spell could make anything smell like flowers.

"Ranunculus: A spell used to enhance one's aroma. Useful right before a date or when you're about to meet your husband's parents for the first time and you're just nervous.
 
Tips: For a more powerful effect, roll the "r" in Ranunculus."

It makes sense, though:

There are only two albums left, but four spines. So they make one for TOUR14, and the other... hmm...
I wonder if they have thought this through...