

アジテイテッド・スクリームズ・オブ・マゴッツ
"Agitated Screams of Maggots" was directed by Keita Kurosaka and released in 2006 with the single, "Agitated Screams of Maggots", made by Japanese rock band, DIR EN GREY. ASOM has a traditional drawing design with erotic and grotesque aspects. The video had also received some attention from it's art style and was shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2007.
"Agitated Screams of Maggots" was directed by Keita Kurosaka and released in 2006 with the single, "Agitated Screams of Maggots", made by Japanese rock band, DIR EN GREY. ASOM has a traditional drawing design with erotic and grotesque aspects. The video had also received some attention from it's art style and was shown at the International Film Festival Rotterdam in 2007.
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TsukuyomiREKT
June 30, 2015
I don't know whether you would consider this an anime or not, but if so, then this is an abomination. Not only is the imagery appalling; the music is complete with incoherent lyrics, and obnoxious screaming. The video makes no sense I don't see how anyone can think otherwise. This isn't artistic or an imaginative piece of work. It is a deplorable music video that should not exist. But sadly, it does. And I wish I could un-see it completely. Unless you want to watch this out of curiosity or as just a challenge; avoid it like the plague.
mugies
May 13, 2013
Let me get this point clear. {In my opinion...} "Agitated Screams of Maggots" is NOT an anime. It is an animated music video. I don't believe that since it's "animated" it should be counted as an anime. There's a thick line between the two... Notice this: those who haven't been through the ever-changing DIR EN GREY timeline (especially during their earlier stages) will be highly disturbed by the art, message, and song. This video was released in 2006 and during that time DIR EN GREY was still in its "ero-guro" days where they mostly sang and portrayed sexually grotesque themes. Judging from the lyrics, thissong is most definitely about rape, violence, and revenge. i.e.: "I'll rape your daughter on your grave" and "I'm gonna slash your wound just like mine". (A majority of the lyrics are repeated throughout the song). The lyrics, music, and animation were all in sync. I couldn't expect less and I wasn't disappointed. When I first watched it in 2009 (and even now), I absolutely loved the feral themes DIR EN GREY portrayed in such a fragile country. Who would've been brave enough to spit acid through the mic and release a CD about it and be prepared for the harsh criticism from the rock and music scene. The animation was absolutely unique by it's intensity from the shape shifting man, maggots, gore, and creatures to the subtlety of the girl who later becomes intense with rage and revenge. (If you look closely all the members are also shown in the music video... Their heads float rapidly around the vegetables on the table).
eririri
March 4, 2014
Dir En Grey is something of a controversial band. Since its conception more than a decade ago, it had for a long time been at the forefront of the Visual Kei movement in challenging the norms of music, sexuality, and morality. Of course, the distinction between meaningful social critique and unsubstantial shock value is not always clear-cut, as is the case with the anime in question. Agitated Screams of Maggots is a single released by Dir En Grey in 2006. This anime, or music video to be more precise, was released alongside the single featuring a hand-drawn story to complement the song. As the banditself, this music video is undoubtedly and inherently a controversial work. Composed of heavy deathcore playing alongside crudely drawn animations with inspirations from the ero-guro and the surrealist movement, it certainly is not easily appreciated by everyone. This video sets out with the intentions of revolting its viewers with morbid imagery and macabre sound, and invariably succeeds in that regard. As hinted at by its name, Agitated Screams of Maggots is an incredibly grotesque work both visually and aurally. The viewers are introduced to a woman, who during cooking is startled by a giant maggot which she slices asunder in panic. The two pieces of remains, while apparently engaging in intercourse with each other, are subsequently discovered by the daughter who, in her naïve revulsion, proceeds to stomp them to death. Later on during dinner, the mother is infected by a maggot, turns into a monstrous being, and is ultimately tortured and killed by the daughter. The story of Agitated Screams of Maggots, already immensely repugnant, is further brutalized by its depiction. The animation is a slideshow of hand-drawn paintings characterized by a raw and sketchy appearance. In conjunction with the noticeably low frame rate, the animations emanate a glitched and discomforting vibe. The art style employs a mix of surreal absurdity with the exaggerated and uncensored display of sexuality and gore typical to the ero-guro movement. While being mostly monochrome, a portion of the gore is coloured blood red in contrast to its pale surroundings, which gives it an unnatural and disturbing vividness. Due to the roughness of the art and animation, it is easy to miss the amount of painstaking detail etched into them. The shading is outstanding, giving a three dimensional solidity where needed but without ever deviating from the sketch-art design. The style, however, is dynamic throughout the video: some scenes are drawn with greater spatial depth than others; the stroke smoothness and definition varies in different scenes; and some drawn backgrounds are replaced with complete blackness. The different techniques are utilized for a range of reasons, such as mood setting, foreground emphasis, and psychological significance. The plain and unpleasant art design often obscures the true aesthetic merit of this video from the neglecting eye. While the animation is merely a complement for the song by Dir En Grey, and not the other way around, the music is in actuality rather inconsequential to the holistic work of the video. The song Agitated Screams of Maggots is a typical composition of the deathcore subgenre; it combines aggressive guitar riffs, wild drumming, shrieks, and growls into a flurry of madness and anger. While the tone of the song reflects and enhances the overall atmosphere of the video, the different segments are not synchronized with the separate parts of the video. Dir En Grey’s musical style gone through constant change since its formation, with a gradual but tangible shift from its signature experimental and avant garde style into more conventional forms of metal. Agitated Screams of Maggots can be placed on the latter end of the spectrum; it conforms to the standards of death metal, and is relatively monotone compared to the band’s more disturbing earlier songs which would be more suitable of the atmosphere. The music simply does not strengthen the video as much as the animation style does. The gruesome albeit nonsensical story of Agitated Screams of Maggots is meaningless unless viewed in context with its lyrics, which details a person’s despair and resentment toward celebrities and the society which supports them. Sadly, the lyrics are yelled rather than spoken, making it impossible to discern any meaning whatsoever from hearing alone. This leads to the misconception that the animation’s only relevance to the music is the loose connection of the maggot. When contextualized, it becomes apparent that the song is sung from the maggot’s perspective. The person, compared to celebrities, is symbolically reduced to the rank of a maggot, and may only vent his frustration through agitated screams. Nevertheless, not all themes are matched completely, and substantial room is open for analysis and interpretation, such as the infection of the mother and the thematic role of the daughter. Interpretation is further complicated by Dir En Grey’s relationship with stardom, as they are veritable celebrities themselves. Agitated Screams of Maggots can in essence be seen as a revoltingly macabre music video; whether or not its song is to the viewer’s palate will dictate to a great degree the enjoyment that is derived from it. Though it is worth noting that Agitated Scream of Maggots was never meant to be viewed for pleasure to begin with; if you are not sickened and forced to the edge of your seat, you are not enjoying it the right way. Nevertheless, the story’s thematic and symbolic significance should not be entirely disregarded. Contrary to what it is often perceived as, Agitated Screams of Maggots is more than a mindless jumble of freaks and ghouls with shrieks and growls.
Psychocitybaby
August 8, 2014
I've been looking for a horror; something creepy or psychological, and was glad to see this and another disturbia-esque animation recommended on my homepage. I went to watch it and ,at first, thought I had clicked on a remake or something because the terrible music that accompanied the video was bothersome and didn't fit well with the animation. Unfortunately, all I could find was the same video, so I figured it was legit. I watched it--no suffered through it. It's engrossing. You can't move your eyes from the images because they are visually stimulating in a frown-while-you-watch-it kind of way. It's alsogross and a tad bit pedophilic. Some things should not be near the face or in the mouth of a child. No exceptions.
Total_Saikou
November 30, 2022
I'm a Visual Kei fan first and foremost and Dir en Grey is one of my favourite bands. I used to hate them back when I was younger, believe it or not! I hated them for the same reasons why other non-VK fans hate them; Diru plays loud, aggressive screechy music with lyrics that went too far. However, my opinion changed when exposed to their other works, and as I grew older. I have the utmost respect for their continuous boundary-pushing, ever since they went off the rails in their debut full-length album Gauze (Missa, while a satisfying Kote romp, is far from novel). Atevery turn, their music and PVs suffered censorship (why do you think egnirys cimredopyh is spelled like that? They literally had to reverse the title to AVOID JAIL TIME!) but they never lost heart and continue to push the envelope and experiment, even to this very day. Agitated Screams of Maggots continues along these lines, with horrific imagery of an Eroguro nature. It pairs with Kyo's lyrics, which are rather fittingly about critiques of shocking material and groups like Diru. It's more of a critique of mainstream celebs (and normies, to an extent) who try to co-opt lukewarm shock material (inverted crosses and black lipstick OMG!!!) for attention and money, yet bemoan those who genuinely make their art and very lives center around it. I relate to it, on that level... Anyway, I only recommend it to Diru and Deathcore fans, and maybe showing it to your little sibling as revenge as we all did with OBSCURE as kids (ahhh, the memories!)
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