During spring of 2009, the band began to fully promote Uroboros with a series of nationwide tours under the title Tour 09 Feast of V Senses. The tour was interrupted briefly while in Sapporo and Sendai , with an announcement on the band’s official website, explaining that Kyo had been…
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After several shows of their late-summer tour, All Visible Things, Dir En Grey announced their next single for December, ” Hageshisa to, Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami “, as well as a North American and South American tour also under the title All Visible Things. Their…
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At the beginning of 2008, Dir En Grey announced plans to begin recording a new studio album. Their first touring of the year in May was another Japan tour with a conclusion of three shows at Shinkiba Studio Coast , titled Death over Blindness. Between touring, Dir En Grey performed…
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On August 1, Dir En Grey announced the release of their seventh studio album, Uroboros , which was released on November 11, 2008, in the United States. The band also toured the United States and Canada in support of the album, with dates scheduled for November and December (overlapping the…
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In early 2006 touring expanded to the United States. The band performed in Austin, Texas , at the South by Southwest festival, New York City at the Avalon Club and Los Angeles, California , at the Wiltern Theatre , followed by the North American release of Withering to Death. Again,…
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2005 saw the group’s first official European releases as well, beginning with Withering to Death . The band’s music had previously been available through means of import and Internet file-sharing only for European fans. The album achieved Dir En Grey’s first non-Asian chart position, reaching No. 31 in the Finnish…
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In 2005, Dir En Grey performed in Europe for the first time. Their concerts in Berlin and Paris (as part of the It Withers and Withers tour) sold out without promotion save for newsletters by import record stores and internet-based word of mouth.
In the following year, along with the release of a third full-length album, KisÅ , Dir En Grey gave their first performances abroad, touring China, Taiwan, and South Korea. Back in Japan, the last dates of the lengthy Rettou Gekishin Angya tour were already in support for the band’s second…
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In 2000, vocalist Kyo was hospitalized with hearing trouble and several dates of the tour in support of Dir En Grey’s then-upcoming album, Macabre , had to be postponed. Tour 00 >> 01 Macabre eventually took off later the same year and was concluded at Nippon Budokan shortly after the…
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They released their first EP , Missa , a few months later and attracted mainstream attention in 1998, by entering the top ten on the Oricon music charts with the still independently produced songs “Jealous” and “-I’ll-“. Five subsequent singles, arranged and produced by X Japan co-founder Yoshiki , were…
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