About Dir en grey
Dir en grey is a Japanese band formed in 1997 and currently signed to Firewall Div., a sub-division of Free-Will. As of 2008, they have recorded seven full-length records and ...
This is DORJE
One cold autumn day, four OC staff members sat brainstorming Great Ideas. Say, said one member, how about a feature on Dorje? We could do a travel diary on our ro...
Volume 45
Haiiro no Ginka Vol. 45December 2009 s Translation Credits: Gansonaki Kaoruya - Cammie The Making of 「激しさと、この胸の中で絡み付いた灼熱の闇」 w/ interview Aibiki no Mori - Risu Shinya Dr. nemunemu no daigyakusyu - Nao Overseas EU Die Meisyo de Meisyu - ...
GiGS No. 315 January 2010 - Special Cover Issue
For GiGS 20th Anniversary, they chose DIR EN GREY as their cover artist! Learn more about their upcoming single, "Hageshisa to Kono Mune no Naka de Karamitsuita Shakunetsu no Yami". ...
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After so much deliberation and planning, we are opening our website for community affiliations! Why? This is due to the following statements: - "I keep on forgetting to check the OC website, ...
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CMJ Interview with Die and Fans!Latest | Thursday, 28 January 2010 |
Details for the "ALL IN ONE (Tsunagi/Jumpsuit)" have been announced! -Latest | Monday, 25 January 2010 |
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Dir en grey's Apology!? No. 1 by Die New Dir en grey's Apology!? This time we will begin with a ... Dir en grey's Apology!? | Nao | Monday, 8 February 2010 Read more |
The Rose Trims Again Tour08 Official Tourbook Garuda Interview - Kyo SideKyo Place,Set list,Or difference of audience.Rather than stimulations on that level,Now, Wh... Official Books | Cammie | Monday, 8 February 2010 Read more |
The Rose Trims Again Tour08 Official Tourbook Garuda Interview - Kaoru SideKaoru Anyways,I was constantly chased after something.There were too many thingsI ha... Official Books | Cammie | Monday, 8 February 2010 Read more |
The Rose Trims Again Tour08 Official Tourbook Garuda Interview - Die SideDie In the end,I wanted a way toPressure myself.For once, I wa... Official Books | Cammie | Monday, 8 February 2010 Read more |
The Rose Trims Again Tour08 Official Tourbook Garuda Interview - Shinya SideShinya Whether it is a CD jacketOr music video,I think it’s go... Official Books | Cammie | Monday, 8 February 2010 Read more |
The Rose Trims Again Tour08 Official Tourbook Garuda Interview - Toshiya Side
Toshiya This is different from any period.But,I feel the five of us approveThe good relationshi
The Rose Trims Again Tour08 Official Tourbook Garuda Introduction
Introduction In 2007, Dir en grey has done a total of 121 live shows in 12 different countries. T
Member Diaries 2/6/2010
Coo~l!!![picture of Kaoru sitting on a chair holding a 12 string Ganesa] This isn't mine but the Ga
Juice.com - Nippon Budokan Performance Live Report
DIR EN GREYUROBOROS -with the proof in the name of living...-1/10 Sun @ Nippon Budokan Aesthetic
Shankara -breathing- Words after breathing – za.dan.kai
Words after breathing – za.dan.kai1 12/29th, night. After the show was over, at a place in Osaka,
Mobile QnA 1/27/2010
To Shinya-san For me, no matter what I cannot sleep without lying face down. For Shinya-san, is
GiGS No. 315 January 2010 - Toshiya x Shinya Interview
The unparalleled groove and bottom produced by the impregnable/solid rhythm squad’s innovation
Member Diaries 1/22/2010
Rhythm squad book photoshoot [picture of people arranging Shinya's drum set in front of a white bac
Vicious March 1999 - Dir en grey Interview
Our aim isn’t to express our world view with these three songs, but rather to confuse [people].
Barks.jp DIR EN GREY, the end of the endless "UROBOROS" and the fulfilled "tomorrow's condition"
DIR EN GREY, the end of the endless "UROBOROS" and the fulfilled "tomorrow's condition" I wonder
Member Diaries 1/12/2010
Wrapping up Budoukan... For some reason, exhaustion suddenly just hit me (laughs)I slept like a li
WeROCK vol. 014 January 2010 - Kaoru, Die & Toshiya Interview
Kaoru (g), Toshiya (b), and Die (g) talk about DIR EN GREY Photo: Masayuki Noda Interview: Jun
Barks.jp DIR EN GREY @ Nihon Budoukan・First Night, Blazed!
DIR EN GREY @ Nihon Budoukan・First Night, Blazed! DIR EN GREY's two night
Barks.jp 2009, DIR EN GREY executed 96 live shows, what movement can we expect for 2010?
During 2009, DIR EN GREY executed 96 live shows, what movement can we expect for 2010? At the
Kyo Message 1/7/2010
Subject: Kyo Nippon Budoukan, become united and give me your dirtiest voicesI will also return that
Member Diaries 1/5/2010 Part 2
Happy New Year! Happy New Year!! Best regards also for this year♪ So, we are doing rehearsals for B
Member Diaries 1/5/2010
Best regards for this year as well! I have been using this since the end of last year but,A new colo
Dir en grey's Apology!?
Before the Member Diaries, before the Vulgar Chat, before the Mobile QnAs and even before the HnGs (
GiGS No. 315 January 2010 - A Band's Progress Seen from One Year of Live Performances
The Band's Evolution Seen From this Past Year's Live Performances. DIR EN GREY, whose released th
AVERAGE BLASPHEMY DVD- "Enormous prayers and horridly real despairing screams of the oppressed”
“Enormous prayers and horridly real despairing screams of the oppressed” ~About the production for
Member Diaries 12/30/2009
December[picture of black on black DORJE picks spelling U-R-O-B-O-R-O-S] DORJE picks. [picture of n
Member Diaries 12/23/2009
DORJE RH (Rehearsal) [picture of equipment in a studio] So, the DORJE tour will start soon. let's a
Weekly Playboy 12.28 No. 52 - Kaoru Interview
The most famous Japanese band in the world 's leader unveils the behind the scenes of their quick
GiGS No. 315 January 2010 - Kyo Interview
The world-view that this vocalist, who is above the rest, tries to portray and its mode of expr
Member Diaries 12/12/2009
Rhythm Group RH (Rehearsal) [picture of Shinya's drums and Toshiya's bass] Mr. Shinya and I (the 2
Special Features
Mbear's Closet Vol. 7This month I've shifted locations, from the scummy, nightclub-infested environs of Roppongi to the slightly less nig... Read more |
Grateful: a collaboration with Semi-chan We are happy to announce that Semi-chan's first collaborative comic with OC is finally up in the gallery! You can che... Read more |
Send the members birthday greetings!Hey everyone! It's that time of the year again when birthday month (February to March) comes for the members of Dir en ... Read more |
Dir en grey's Apology!?Before the Member Diaries, before the Vulgar Chat, before the Mobile QnAs and even before the HnGs (Haiiro no Ginka)...t... Read more |
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CMJ Interview with Die and Fans!If you guys still haven't seen it, check out the CMJ's video of his interview with Die and fans during the Budokan lives! (From Dir en grey's MySpace Blog) Awesome CMJ Video Report From DEG In Tokyo! The Reverend Moose of CMJ traveled to Tokyo to visit Dir en grey and meet many of their amazing fans who were waiting for the show to begin - check it out at http://rev.ms/direngrey to get a sneak peak at what some of the show felt like, before it comes out on DVD in the future... Additionally, after you watch this, ... Latest | Risu | Thursday, 28 January 2010 Read more |
Details for the "ALL IN ONE (Tsunagi/Jumpsuit)" have been announced! -UPDATE- UPDATE: Added another picture showing the embroidered design. You can already purchase your jumpsuits from the aknot Deadly Claris Online Shop! (You need to login into the aknot site and access the online shop from the aknot page) Details for the ALL IN ONE (Tsunagi/Jumpsuit), the much awaited latest item from「a knot」on-line shop "Deadly Claris" are announced.■Item Name: ALL IN ONE (Tsunagi/Jumpsuit)■SIZE: S / FREE■COLOR: BLACK■PRICE: ￥25,000（tax inclusive) + shipping and handling fee ￥800■SPECIFICATIONS: The shape created under the member's supervision is the short inseam <<low rise jumpsuit>>. The design in the front and back is <<embroidered>>, and the <<original logo en... Latest | Risu | Monday, 25 January 2010 Read more |
Fuji TV Next Appearance Subtitled!Thanks to the great people over at Diru Tabloids who even made this project possible!OC x Diru Tabloids has been working on providing Diru fans with a subtitled video version of Dir en grey's Fuji TV Next appearance! Credits:Idea and crop work: LJ user kameikokisouTranslations done by Orchestrated-Chaos: Cammie, Risu, and NaoSubbing: LJ user bessydevlin (Did the subbing for the UROBOROS DVD)Original video uploaded: LJ user masm0214 Check out the videos on either of these ... Video | Risu | Thursday, 21 January 2010 Read more |
Upcoming plans for 激しさと、この胸の中で絡み付いた灼熱の闇!!!
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DEG / Blog 13 (Kaoru)Thanks to everyone who came
Manager Message 1/15/2010
Budoukan is finished, my brain is...It's a bit lat
MySpaceBlog #12
DEG / Blog 12 (Kaoru) It has been a while. How
UROBOROS album on sale on Bandcamp!
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HAPPY NEW YEAR FROM DIR EN GREY!!!
Happy New Year from Dir en grey!!! To New Heights
New "aknot" only item confirmed!
｢a knot｣ limited item "DIR EN GREY ALL IN ONE (tsu
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T-shirt A ￥4,000 T-shirt B ￥4,0
BAND SCORE "THE MARROW OF A BONE" "Withering to death." Simultaneous release！
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Outward Scream
- MarisaXNicol : haha! i'm actually rather excited about vday this year BECAUSE i'm celebrating chinese new year with some friends! how come chinese new year is more exciting than america's? america is so lame sometimes!!!
- TheBlindAssa : everyone over here is too excited about chinese new year to pay attention to VDay although i dont particularly hate it :D
- rottingroot : i dont really hate valentines day, but i only celebrate it when im in a relationship at the time. otherwise, its a bit pointless.
- ladyfaggot : -_- Valentine's Day, the way it's celebrated in the West, is the most made up bullshit ever. If you wanna do it right, do a mock martyrdom, like a real badass.
- waterdolphin : Well, where I'm at, no one really celebrates Vday. I actually didn't even realize it was Vday until I looked over here XD
- aru_sama : Since I dislike the concept of Vday (particularly how it's celebrated in the West) I usually avoid contact with people, if I can. I don't even go out, unless it falls on a weekday (when I have school). And if I'm forced to go out, I wear all black, as a sign of protest. I've been doing this since I was 16.
- Kameiko : I can't picture them giving each other presents for odd reasons! What is everyone doing for V-Day?! :D
- TheBlindAssa : i know this is unrelated but i wonder if the members give eachother presents for their anniversary :P
- CynToriko : I dunno. I'm all for the continuation of their music and all... but I wouldn't mind seeing them happy in the sense of family/love/whatever. Oh well. For now, I am content, waiting for their new sound. So, either choice for them is win. XD
- Yaya : @MrsNewsman; It freaks me out too, and I can really see your standpoint in this. It must be difficult for them sometimes too, balancing their love for the band and music with the possibility of a want to have another kind of family. As long as they promise to continue giving us music I'll be really happy. (But I am obsessive enough to contemplate studying a year in Japan so that I can se Dir and MUCC live just about whenever I want XD)
- Yaya : @the lot discussing this; Restraining orders ftw. But do they really help that much? Kaoru is definitely married to his guitar, band and laptop XD
- MrsNewsman : in store even, Kaoru expressed that Dir en grey was a full time job, and that they didn't really have time for anything else. It seemed very bitter sweet.
- MrsNewsman : @yaya I've had the discussion too. It just scares me shitless. It's hard to even think about. From a writing stand point, if Kyo ceases to write, I will cease to have a muse. And that in itself, to me, selfishly, is terrifying. But more than that, I would want the band to keep going until they just can't anymore. I can't even think about family. If they have someone that they love, good for them. But I just don't see how they would have any time. I feel like their wife is Dir. At the In store ev
- ampkiss : @TheBlindAssa lol personally I don't think so, because he doesn't seem the type to put anything before the band. ^^ but yeah don't ever ever pay attention to what people say- there's very rarely any truth to it.
- TheBlindAssa : @yaya I've def heard about that, that's really kinda scary those are the people they get restraining orders against haha. @rottingroot/ampkiss if anything I think Kaoru's prob married haha idk i still think Shinya is the baby of the band :P the other guys are little sluts hahaha. I heard somewhere that KYo has a girlfriend but you guys know how these rumors are!
- ampkiss : Kaoru's married to the band, his guitar and his laptop. XD
- rottingroot : @theblaindassa/yaya, if anyone of them is married, its either yamo chan or kao kun. Maybe totchi, but arent him and die little sluts ^_~, and kyo? someone broke his heart real bad, i just dont see a woman in his future :(
- Yaya : @TheBlindAssa; Wouldn't be very surprising, really. It's scary to read about truly crazy fans that burn the artist albums and send them hatemail, etc, only because the artist got married to someone other than Them x__x Just how mental are people? No wonder some artists don't talk about such things.
- TheBlindAssa : haha you guys are right but for some reason I have a feeling that atleast one of the members is secretly married... I mean I've heard about band members in other bands keeping quiet about marrige as to not affect their fanbase but idk
- Yaya : "while we're at it?" ... Please pardon the three-piece posting x__x (And I Hate smoking.)
- Yaya : @Rottingroot; Haha, hopefully it'll be all over soon. My hell ends on the 20:th of April and after that a trip to Japan is planned :D Surely they'll also be around even with wife and children. Without knowing anything about them, I still can't imagine that they'd be ok to majorly slow down the band "just because they got a new family", one life will affect not just that person but so many more people. But I must argue healthy with SMOKING members x_x I mean, why don't we just rip out a lung whil
- Yaya : @MrsNewsman; I've actually had a rather morbid conversation with a friend of mine about the far future of Dir. It's too long to retell, but it gives good therpy. However the emotional part is always there ._. But I thought all Dir-fans were mentally messed up and discussed that? Ultimately I want Dir happy and rocking when Kaorus hair is grey and Kyo have gone bald due to the bleaching.
- rottingroot : @Yaya, its just every aspect of school: my boring classes, not knowing spanish, and teachers who are never here! ugh, im just done with school. i think if one of them dies, they'll disband. But seeing as theyre all healthy, and in their prime years, we got nothing to worry about. or, at least until one of them gets married/ has baby. but hey, miyavi is still here even with that ^_^
- MrsNewsman : @yaya DONT EVEN JOKE! GAH! I agree, but even thinking about one of them dying makes my heart get all sad. And makes me wanna cry. Oh boo ;_;
- Yaya : @Rottingroot; Math sucks x__x Who cares about solving the equation of a straight line with algebra?! What is school pestering you with? About Dir doing 13 years; I always tell myself that they will be at it until one of them dies. Then we'll see what hapens.
- rottingroot : just throwing this out there: school is boring ????”?
- rottingroot : Wow, 13 years... thats a long time ^_^ lets make it another 13, eh? :)
- aru_sama : Happy 13th anniversary to the boys and happy DEG Day to everyone!
- rottingroot : @TeleportHero, i will be with you, but idk if we'd be able to see the boys behind Lady Gaga's new costume and the jonas brothers ego ^v^;) But srsly, winning a grammy in any musicians career is the epitomy of making it big in the music business, in north america, that is. I think diru has the potential to make it that far, if ido say so myself ^^
- TeleportHero : @Risu Buahaha, I cheated, I actually looked at the results before I voted. Sorry...>.
- TeleportHero : @rottingroot If that day comes, even if I'm already old with a brood of snot-nosed kids, I'm going to pressure the OC crew and everyone else to fill the bleachers outside the venue and give all the other stars and press a 'warm' Dir en grey-worthy kind of welcome.
- rottingroot : @Risu, ah well thats cool! i mean, not cool that diru hasn't won anything. maybe, just maybe, diru might make it to the Grammys one day for "best rock album"^_~
- Risu : @rottingroot they have a new year's eve show called Kohaku (Red/White) that NHK does. I think they also have the MTV Japan Awards and also a Japan Record Awards ^^. As for winning any awards...apart from the Headbanger's ball for Saku? I don't recall Dir en grey winning any ^^
- rottingroot : So, the Grammy's have just ended, and i was wondering "do they have music award shows in Japan?" and "Has dir en grey ever won an award?" for those who dont know, the Grammy's are an awards ceremony divided into sections like "best new artist" and "best album of the year" :)
- Risu : @TeleportHero Hahha choose the one you want to get featured first!
- TeleportHero : Favourite member? How to choose?!?! That is just too hard...
- Kameiko : @MarisaXNicol - It isn't finished according to live reports. Just an outline.
- MarisaXNicol : @wrackandruin, i read in a live report that it was of a buddha image on his back. they said it didn't look finished though, but i'm not sure.
- wrackandruin : Does anyone know what Kyo's new tattoo is of?
- waterdolphin : @rottingroot: Yeah, I think they're hands too.
- rottingroot : @Risu, ah okay haha. i guess i can see it. i knew it was something like that.
- Risu : @rottingroot those are dismembered hands???
- rottingroot : So, ive been meaning to ask this for a while: what is the cover of Vulgar supposed to depict? it looks like bird feet to me XD
- MarisaXNicol : @rottingroot, haha that is true! i guess "edits" can be good sometimes!
- rottingroot : on another note for average blasphemy, i really dont tend to call the edited version of Vinushka, the edited one, but i call the regualr one, the edited one ^0^! the "edited" one is so moving.
- rottingroot : @MarisaXNicol, youre welcome! yeah, its a bummer! watching ASOM with the bumbs over practically the whole video, makes my eyes hurt 0_o.
- MarisaXNicol : @rottingroot, thanks! that really sucks though! i'd hate to have to censor any part of my own self haha. guess i can always find the unedited one on youtube ^__^
- rottingroot : @MarisaXNicol, i think due to regions where the DVD was realsead, some places dont allow such vulgarities in that region, so in order for it to be released, they had to put the censored one on the DVD. ^_^
- MarisaXNicol : this is completely and utterly random and late, but does anyone know why agitated screams is edited on the average blasphemy dvd? i watched it for the 2nd time since i got it at the tour, but i had forgotten about the editing. why would they censor a video on their own dvd?
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