Artist: Dir En Grey

Last week Vince posted the above totally epic picture of Trivium playing foosball against Ghost, and while we all had a good chuckle at the time, what we didn't realize was that the stakes of the game were actually incredibly high. See, the winners got to go open for Mastodon and Opeth, while the losers [...]

Dir En Grey live House of Blues Chicago, IL December 18, 2011 [...]

A short but diverse schedule as we approach the holiday: ► Japan's magnificent metallurgists Dir En Grey return to SoCal behind their new release "Dum Spiro Spero." They bring their unique, pummeling rock the to the House of Blues. ► Lo-fi indie rockers the Growlers play the Observatory (fka the Galaxy Theatre) in Santa Ana, with Tomorrow's Tulips supporting. ► Old Californio and the Whiskey Saints team for a night of roots rock at the Satellite. Also: [...]

Live music picks for WEDNESDAY December 14 through MONDAY December 19, 2011. WEDNESDAY DECEMBER 14 / ANDY KIM & FRIENDS / THE PHOENIX / 410 SHERBOURNE / $26 / ALL AGES If you're a fan of Christmas-themed variety shows (and really, who isn't?), you don't want to miss this one. This will be the seventh annual Christmas show put on by Canadian pop legend Andy Kim, and all of the proceeds go directly to Juliette's Place . The lineup includes Kim, members of Broken Social Scene [...]

One could be forgiven for not immediately recognizing that a dark, avant-guard metal band from Japan would hold tremendous appeal for the fairer sex. After all, Dir En Grey's precise, downtuned... Continue reading "Last Night: Dir En Grey at House of Blues" >

Dir En Grey is gearing up for a trek to South America before finishing off the year with a North American run. The headlining tour - with support from The Birthday Massacre - will come on the heels of the new full-length album "Dum Spiro Spero," out now on The End Records. Dates are as follows: 11/23 Santiago, Chile Tetro Caupolican 11/25 Lima,... Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

Hey Metalheads! Today I think you should check out Dir En Grey! Dir En Grey is an experimental metal band from Osaka, Japan. They started in 2007 and since have had 8 releases. The latest being their 2011 release 'Dum Spiro Spero'. They also just announced that they will soon be embarking on a South American, then followed by a North American tour. For us Canadian fans, you can check them out in Montreal on December 15th or in Toronto on December 16th! Check them out! [...]

Even with all possible praise worded out and heaped onto this new Dir En Grey masterpiece, there is still one thing left that I cannot stress upon enough... the only obstacle Dir En Grey have to best are themselves, and they are only going to get better and better from here on. Experimental metallers Dir En Grey are Japan's very own Into Eternity -- their music is eclectic and hard to classify into any one sub-genre -- except that they have the added fangirl-ish oomph of flashy appearances, thanks to their visual-kei roots. Being the eighth full-length studio album [...]

Dir En Grey has posted a video clip online from the band's Berlin signing session in support of the new album "Dum Spiro Spero." You can check out the clip below. A teaser trailer for the new album is available here, and the track listing is as follows: Read More/Discuss on Metal Underground.com

It's been interesting to watch chart patterns change over the past few years; there is so much emphasis on first-week numbers now that it's considered totally normal for a record to drop between 60% and 70% from week one to week two. I don't have hard data to back this up, but I'm pretty sure [...]

Last week's Caption Contest saw the promise of "an assortment of random metal goodies from around the Mansion," and I can promise our winner, Ronald Raygun, that I will not disappoint! Here's his winning entry to the photo at right: "Dadzig." This week we're giving away a Dir En Grey prize pack featuring a copy [...]

Malicious and enchanting, this one batters the senses.

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News "Dum Spiro Spero", the eighth studio album from the unique, artful Japanese rock band DIR EN GREY, is available for streaming in its entirety on the group's MySpace page.

News Japan's Dir En Grey is one metal's most fearless, unpredictable acts , but they don't make it easy for would-be fans to know that. Listeners must grapple with cryptic Japanese language lyrics, routeless song structures, and hairpin turns in tone from beauty to brutal audio gore. Their visual grotesquerie in concert and in videos hardly make them more digestible, [...]

The Dir En Grey concert experience is awesome, but also kinda annoying to petty olds like me who struggle to ignore the nerd-ass anime nerds who follow Japanese bands. Their Juggalo-style wardrobe/flair is no biggie and their interest in foreign stuff is a welcome post-internet phenomenon, true dat. But I guess they seem lame once [...]

News The Dir En Grey concert experience is awesome, but also kinda annoying to petty olds like me who struggle to ignore the nerd-ass anime nerds who follow Japanese bands. Their Juggalo-style wardrobe/flair is no biggie and their interest in foreign stuff is a welcome post-internet phenomenon, true dat. But I guess they seem lame once [...]

News On July 14, Aniruddh "Andrew" Bansal of Metal Assault conducted an interview with Japanese rockers DIR EN GREY at a hotel room in Century City, California.

I'm no Dir En Grey expert, but I did really dig their 2007 album Marrow of a Bone, the first album of theirs I listened to in full. 20082s Uroboros was solid too, a bit more adventurous than its predecessor. From what I understand about Dir En Grey they're one of those bands that are [...]

News I'm no Dir En Grey expert, but I did really dig their 2007 album Marrow of a Bone, the first album of theirs I listened to in full. 20082s Uroboros was solid too, a bit more adventurous than its predecessor. From what I understand about Dir En Grey they're one of those bands that are [...]