Dir En Grey/YMMV

• Crowning Music of Awesome: Even fans who otherwise think They Changed It, Now It Sucks love The Final.
• Hell Is That Noise: Some of Kyo's singing and the music that accompanies it can drift into this territory surprisingly fast.
• It's Popular, Now It Sucks: Happened pre-emptively among some long time J-Rock fans who were actually hoping the band would flop in the United States because they couldn't stand the thought of "Hot Topic kiddies" liking their band.
• Magnum Opus: Arguably, Uroboros.
  • Macabre for the older fans.
• Narm:
  • "I'll rape your daughter on your grave" from "Agitated Screams of Maggots"
  • The Cluster F-Bomb at the end of "Lie Buried with a Vengeance" which is occasionally interrupted by Kyo making unintelligible noises that sound an awful lot like "Ooga-booga-booga."
• Tear Jerker: "Ain't Afraid to Die" is a Surprisingly Gentle Song about a man remembering his former lover on the anniversary of her death. One interpretation of the title is that he welcomes death as a chance to be reunited with her. Kyo leaves all but the first line of the last verse unsung, implying that he died before he could finish.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks: This started with Vulgar, with Marrow of a Bone, or not at all.
  • Fans (or former fans) who complain about Dir en grey's new sound are mostly people who miss the band's Visual Kei period.