Dir En Grey have emerged in the 21st Century as one of Japan's top metal exports. The five-piece band issued their tenth studio album in 2018 and took some time out from touring to chat with ...

Japanese metallers Dir En Grey released their latest album 'Dum Spiro Spero' in 2011, but vocalist Kyo had throat problems that caused them to cancel a U.S. tour supporting that album earlier this ...

Dir En Grey will return to North America after a nearly two-year absence. The band will play 14 cities in November and they plan to come full force. The Japanese rock band was sidelined in 2012 by the ...

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, ...

Dir en grey - Withering To Death Subtle layers of hard rock make for a less exciting, but still compelling U.S. introduction to this Japanese band.

Interviewing Japanese rockstars Dir En Grey — whose excellent new album Uroboros is out now on The End Records — was one of the more challenging tasks I’ve been faced with as a journalist hack blogger ...

I've interviewed thousands of bands over my more than ten years as a music writer but I've never needed a translator to talk shop with a band. So when I headed over to Tokyo for some face time with ...

Tokyo's Dir En Grey has been through a number of musical incarnations over its decadelong history, but none of them resemble the kind of Japanese music that typically catches on in the States ...

Dir En Grey will release their new album ‘Dum Spiro Spero’ on August 9. The eighth studio album from the Japanese rockers follows 2008’s ‘Uroboros’, with guitarist Kaoru claiming to NME ...

Japanese rockers Dir En Grey have announced that they will be playing a one-off UK show at London ‘s Koko on August 12. The show will be the first chance for fans to hear material from the band ...

13 Feb – A vocal disorder inflicted on Japanese metal band DIR EN GREY's vocalist, Kyo, has forced the band to suspend all of its activities until he fully recovers. According to Tokyo Hive, Kyo was ...