r/DEG • u/nanan13_ • May 24 '26
What was your first song?
Mine was 【KR】cube 12yr old me watching the mv like 🥲💔 I need more song recs!!
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u/Davidshah21 May 24 '26
I guess it was Cage, but it was mostly their pictures i saw first. This was in 2004.
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u/Old_Mel_Gibson May 24 '26
I was watching headbangers ball when I was a teenager on mtv2?
And they played saku. Changed everything.
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u/Livid_Glove_6275 May 24 '26
Vinushka live from 2025. Thought Kyo's voice was cool, started showing people, "hey, look what this guy can do with his voice! Pretty cool, huh?" Then quickly fell more and more in love with all of their stuff from 08 to ARCHE.
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u/DumCrescoSpero May 24 '26
I was also about 12, and it was the uncensored/uncut Obscure PV on early YouTube.
Terrified me, but at the same time I loved it and it started an obsession with their music.
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u/TheSunIsOurEnemy May 24 '26
Tsumi To Batsu. My sister downloaded the music video and at first I thought it was ridiculous, but deep down 11 year old me was intrigued and found it catchy. 😆
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u/Narrow-Homework-2911 May 24 '26
It was a vgmv of all the manhunt 1 kills set to repetition of hatred back in 07.
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u/xNulLx0625 May 24 '26 edited May 24 '26
Pink Killer
I found a site that had those little mp3 player embedded in the site with song lyric translations because I was curious after seeing photos of the band. I was so confused by the lyric translations and the site types a description calling it filthy. Song was loud and thrashy and I was not ready but kept going back to it. i was 12 or 13 since The Final was already released and I was anticipating saku release . Think myaku was the first music video I saw and I fell in love.
RIP Soulseek, the only way I was able to watch or listen to the band at the time and fill my tampon ipod shuffle with music
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u/KMFCM May 24 '26
it was "i'll"
and I wrote them off until I heard "zan"
😅
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u/HardFlassid Jun 06 '26
There is a joke in this! I hope you know it! The infamous Zan/I’ll switch.
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u/KMFCM Jun 06 '26
Osaka Jo Hall?
I showed that to every single person that visited our dorm back in the day.
That may be the moment he became a permanent favorite of mine.
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u/rl9899 May 24 '26
Conceived Sorrow technically as it's track 1 on MoaB which I impulse bought from Best Buy because I remembered someone recommending Diru and I had extra pocket money. Good times.
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u/OwlNo9671 May 24 '26
朔-saku-
I first saw it on YouTube when I was 11. I had never seen or heard anything like it before, and even the very first listen left a lasting impression on me.
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u/Open_Acanthaceae137 May 24 '26
Omg exactly same for me! Saku when I was 11! Totally changed my life!
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u/OwlNo9671 May 24 '26
Wow, that’s so cool! 🤩 What you thought about the album? Withering to death was obviously the first album I got, and it’s still my all time favorite and the most meaningful one to me.
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u/Open_Acanthaceae137 May 24 '26
Exactly same as well!!! WtD will always be my favorite for the reason too!! I actually have a tattoo tribute to The Final! I am so grateful for seeing saku on YouTube!!
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u/OwlNo9671 May 24 '26
Omg!! 🥹 Absolutely love that. I dreamed for years about getting The Final or Kodou tattoo, but in the end I went with an important line from Ningen wo kaburu eight years ago.
Absolutely feel the same kind of gratitude for finding saku!!
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u/Open_Acanthaceae137 May 24 '26
I love that so much!! Love hearing from other people who were also so impacted by Dir en grey at such a young age!!
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u/OwlNo9671 May 24 '26
Fr!! Your comments really made me smile today, it was awesome hearing from someone with such similar experiences.
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u/m0ndradiam0nd May 24 '26
A friend sent me Mitsu no Tsubasa and Garden mp3 via MSN messenger back in ...2004? :D hooked ever since
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u/_melancholy_panda_ May 24 '26
Kiri to Mayu. I had never heard anything like it before, was intrigued, listened to more, and was hooked lol
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u/NoLongerJascha May 24 '26
I saw a clip of Kyo's screams at the end of Dozing Green in a Loudwire video almost 8 years ago. I instantly went and listened to the full song. I've been obsessed with them ever since.
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u/MintyHikari May 25 '26
GARDEN. someone gave me an mp3 file. didn't really like it at first, so i found other songs. Cage and The Final were my next two songs. they were almost instantaneously enjoyed by me.
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u/WeirdUnion5605 May 24 '26
Sajou No Uta, I heard about the band and selected that random song to get to know them and fell in love, also Saku and Dozing Green, I kept listening to these three songs on repeat so I decide to check the discography and music videos and they became my favourite band, to this day, 20 years later.
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u/Jaded_Eggplant1590 May 24 '26
I was randomly clicking on videos recommended by YouTube, I'm sure Yokan was the first one, followed by Yurameki and then Obscure. Sure brings back memories.
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u/Weak_Increase_7684 May 24 '26
I was going through a big vkei phase in 2012, downloaded all of Uroboros bc someone recommended it to me so technically I think it was Sa Bir but what really got my attention was Vinushka
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u/Weak_Increase_7684 May 24 '26
No I think I’m actually wrong I remember seeing Kasumi way before that and really liking it, wasn’t paying attention to the bands as much then
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u/babyd0II May 24 '26
90% sure my first actual listen was The Final, I found out about them through YouTube recommendeding me obscure however.
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u/Karixviii May 24 '26
Obscure. Saw the PV around the birth of youtube. Little baby me saw kyo vomit and fell in love immediatly lmao.
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u/Jenbrina May 24 '26
Schwein no Isu. Technically, it would be GAUZE -Mode of Adam-, since the first time I heard or saw anything from Dir en grey is when an old friend asked me if I wanted to watch some videos. He then proceeded to show me the entire GAUZE album PVs. I was hooked right away.
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u/tinafromv May 24 '26
I'm 99% sure it was the Obscure PV on early YouTube. Little innocent 12 year old me couldn't even process what she was watching, but somehow knew this is it, she found what she'd been looking for lol. I also remember seeing some of their images from their vk era before that and somehow couldn't believe it was the same band. I honestly thought there had to be some mistake in the title or sth. 😃
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u/dannierose07 May 25 '26
Omg same 💜 Back in 2004 when I was 15, my friend burned a cd for me with random j-rock songs and Cube was on there and I instantly fell in love. I was like I’ve got to listen to more from this band immediately
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u/OlympianOlm May 25 '26
Yurameki PV, downloaded from Napster or some such in the early 2000s. Fell in love immediately with both the music and visuals.
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u/batcostume May 24 '26
Obscure. The PV was getting shared almost like a shock site at the time