AVERAGE PSYCHO
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Average Psycho is a music video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...

 compilation released by Dir En Grey
Dir en grey
Dir En Grey is a Japanese metal band formed in 1997 and currently signed to Firewall Div., a sub-division of Free-Will. As of 2011, they have recorded eight full-length records...

 on July 27, 2005. It comprises uncensored
Censorship
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 versions of previously released clips. It is the first and only Dir En Grey release since the "Taiyou no Ao
TAIYOU NO AO
is a single released by Dir En Grey on July 26, 2000. The B-side "Children" would later be re-recorded for the EP Six Ugly.-Track listing:...

" single not to be published through Firewall Div. and Sony Music
Sony Music Entertainment Japan
is Sony's music arm in Japan. SMEJ is directly owned by Sony Corporation and independent from the United States-based Sony Music Entertainment due to its strength in the Japanese music industry....

 but Free-Will, which is likely due to the explicit nature of the videos and the (albeit headless) depiction of Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler
Adolf Hitler was an Austrian-born German politician and the leader of the National Socialist German Workers Party , commonly referred to as the Nazi Party). He was Chancellor of Germany from 1933 to 1945, and head of state from 1934 to 1945...

 on the cover.

The videos for "Saku" and "Kodou" are connected by a storyline about a homicidal
Homicide
Homicide refers to the act of a human killing another human. Murder, for example, is a type of homicide. It can also describe a person who has committed such an act, though this use is rare in modern English...

 teenager, while "Mazohyst of Decadence" portrays the lyrical contents of the song: a baby's thoughts on being aborted and left in a trash bag outside of a clinic. The video for "Obscure" features a different mix of the song, which has an extended opening and an additional interlude.

"Obscure" and "Kodou" were stylistically censored originally by utilizing wide-framed windowboxing
Windowbox (film)
Windowboxing in the display of film or video occurs when the aspect ratio of the media is such that the letterbox effect and pillarbox effect occur simultaneously...

to only show a small portion of the full shot; the Average Psycho versions feature the full shots, and in the case of "Kodou", reveal the full narative of the video.
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