DirEnGrey

Summer is beginning to give up her fight, to borrow a lyrical phrase from the decidedly un-metal Indigo Girls, but that doesn't stop her from pushing out a slate of worthwhile metal releases. The first week of the year marks the return of Bury Your Dead with their former singer Mat Bruso for 'Mosh N' Roll...

While the massively popular X Japan and their leader Yoshiki have garnered the lion's share of attention as the Japanese rock band du jour over the past year or so, the always-busy Japanese metallers Dir En Grey are emerging from the shadows with a new album that's laced with a message of hope...

Japanese rockers Dir En Grey -- considered one of the biggest rock bands ever to emerge from their home country, and blessed with the uncanny knack of transcending the language barrier by speaking the universal language that is music -- will cross oceans and tour with prog symphony rockers Apocalyptica beginning Aug...

Last weekend, this scribe jetted off to Japan to catch the final two dates on Dir En Grey's 'Uroboros' tour, which nearly razed Tokyo's infamous Budokan arena over two nights. But when the shows weren't going down, I had a nice opportunity to see the city...

The list of metal bands who'll tell you they're big in Japan is extensive, but no band could ever claim to be bigger in Japan than Dir En Grey. Just walking through the city's frenzied Shibuya business district, among the meticulously-manicured and flamboyantly-dressed Harajuku girls, it seems as though every other person is wearing one of the band's shirts...

"I think this DVD captures human emotions, what we're made of, and it channels it through our videos," Dir En Grey guitarist Kaoru told Noisecreep about his band's latest DVD, 'Average Blasphemy,' which will be released via The End Records on Oct...