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Dir en grey

Family Values tour

Korn, Deftones, Flyleaf, and best of all, Diru! This is what Korn's lead singer said about Diru: "this crazy Japanese band that are just out of their minds."

Rest of the article is here: Korn Resurrect Family Values Tour With Deftones, Stone Sour

My heart rate actually went up when i saw they were coming to nashvile...i actually get to see Diru! Pretty frikkin cheap too, only $9.99 for lawn tickets, but i wonder how much it is by the stage...i hope i get to meet Shinya

So who else is going to this wondrous tour?
 
I'm going to the Toronto and Phoenix shows, but anyways, you can talk about it in the Diru Topic if you'd like
 
Ok listened to ask much as I can due to this stupid dial-up. But Anyways love the Riffs and the beats. The keyboard gives a dark atomosphere but here comes my big "......." I can't understand Japanese but the song I listened to Merciless Cult was a little weird for me. Started out sounded something like Zakk wylde then it went into some(just making comparisons not meaning thats what I think it is) Emo screams then it went into Anime singing it sorta confused me. But I would like to get onto a computer with cable then listen to them more to get a better felling. But the instramental and the RIFFS! where great.
 
im a 56ker too......
u can try these options to sample song songs if u would like....
open dir en grey pv's off of youtube in their each window and let them load overnight and u can watch them when u wake up...
or ask someone to send u songs
or dl some urself....
but most importantly remember to support to band so dont dl everything T_T

oh and reguardless if u understand japanese or not its about the music not the language

do u guys think deg is only touring with these other bands just to get their name out and get some exposure to the people that dont know them? i really wish deg set up their own tour as the featuring band :\
 
but there is no other deg news other then the tour and the cd coming out unless it already came out...i dont even remember..... T_T

and im going to a few also...
 
I found this out on myspace yesterday, but, uhh.
'This crazy Japanese band who are just out of their minds'
Crazy. Japanese. out of their minds.

Once again another not-so-nice statement. Might be nice in some peoples eyes, but they could have gone into more detail about Diru, PLUS - All the other bands have links on that page, why not Dir en grey? They could have at the least put www.direngrey.co.jp !

But anyway, 30 cities, Go Diru!
 
Hey Jason, glad that you're interested in what you're hearing of Dir en grey so far! If there's one thing they definitely are, that's diverse, and they're really hard to pin down to a 'genre'; as you have obviously heard for yourself they even change a lot within one song.

Keep listening! :music: Dir en grey have such different songs.

And it's cool when people want to know more.

Thirteen: I like your chibi Kyo! I envy anyone who can draw chibis, because I totally can't.
 
Does all this withering to death stuff being released to the USA mean diru could become more mainstream and perhaps conquer the UK? i haff no idea what is going on tbh, my friend just told me they were rereleasing withering to death or something xD hellar confused :?
and Kinsao, i agree with you about not being about to pin dir en grey down to a genre, its really quite hard xD
Nice chibi, Thirteen, whenever i try to draw chibis they always start off pretty good but then they turn into non-chibis... stupid things >.>
 

Hey, incidentally I only just noticed you are from the UK! Yay for j-rock fans in the UK!

About your question... I'm not very knowledgeable about this myself, but I just know that Dir en grey released Withering to Death as a European release, and then they are due to release it also as an American release. The date of the American release kept getting pushed back, but afaik it is now to be tomorrow (unless it got changed again -_-).

I didn't really keep up with all the hype around that, because (a) I'm not American and (b) I've already got the Japanese version of Withering to Death. Although I guess one plus is that the American version will have lyrics translations. But you can get those off the net anyway. ^^

There has also been various talk among fans about whether Dir en grey might 'conquer' the US, possibly (as they are playing concerts there, releasing WTD there, and generally seeming to concentrate more attention there lately), but I have never heard anything in relation to their potential conquest of the UK and/or Europe! ^^ I think the general consensus is that j-rock will likely develop into a significant subculture (more so than it is at the moment), but never become really and truly 'mainstream'. Although people have various different opinions/arguments on that point.
 
The Japanese version of WTD already has English translations, lol.

The plus for buying the US release for me is to show them that they have an "American fanbase". They don't have much to go off of, besides record sales and concert attendance, so I'm doing my best to let them know that they have American fans. I did the same thing for L'Arc~en~Ciel's Awake album, I bought it when it was released in Japan and also when the American release came out.

I agree with you about the 'mainstream' thing. I don't think Japanese rock music will ever become 'mainstream', but I do think that it will and is developing into a significant subculture of music in the Western world and I think Dir en grey being on Korn's tour will aid in this.
 
well, dir en grey has no fixed genre you can fit them in. they change their sound in each album, although the last two albums (WTD and vulgar, and probably six ugly too) do have a nu metal sound, but they sound alot better than what you think (i'm not saything diru is nu, i just can't find anothre word to describe). and refering to what you said, i think they got great headbanging riffs after they changed into a heavier style.

who knows, maybe diru will do smth different again in their next release.
 
YES another family values tour went to the first one! Can't wait Korn, Stone Sour, Diru,and Deftones YES! Flyleaf has a hot lead singer but they lost my intrest once I listened to one of there songs and it started out like metalcore. I was like "Yes time to get amped up!" boy was I wrong..... And I can see Diru wonder how fans will react to Visual Kei? Also Yokan I don't find that they said there out of there minds bad imho.
 
I agree with Jason that in the context, the saying of 'crazy' and 'out of their minds' was probably meant to be a good thing...

However, I also feel that although craziness is cool, hyping a band on that aspect is setting them up for a fall (I don't mean Diru necessarily but any band). It's a compliment when it gets said a couple of times, but if it starts to overshadow the music itself, then it just becomes another marketing gimmick.
 
Jason Pitzer said:
And I can see Diru wonder how fans will react to Visual Kei?
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Dir en grey isn't visual kei anymore. They haven't been for years.
 
Oh my bad sorry. =( that a good thing I won't confuse them for women like I did An Cafe ~_~. Aloh the dude with the red hair and the leather suit looked cool as heck. I like this picture the look like they could rock the fin house down.
 
They'll rock the f'in house down dressed in regular gear ... don't worry ^_~

and Die (the "red haired guy") still looks cool as heck *reminisces about the NY show*
 
I got the limited edition of it withers and withers in the mail today and I just want to say i'm kind of dissapointed with it, to be honest i'm used to the dvd's being so much different. The bonus footage on the aknot version is alot better then on the limited edition one. Meh can't always make the fans happy 24/7.
 
*nibbles on that pic also*

Shinya looks oh so lovely there ^_^ I want his coat... *steals* And die always has and always will look cool!

Oh yeah, stone sour's gonna be there too, i forgot about that. Heh...and also, on the main page for the family values tour, at the bottom they have sections describing each band, however, Diru is nowhere to be found! As for them being described as "crazy"...eh, i have to agree. However that craziness is definitely a good thing.

And if diru isnt visual kei, what should we call them, just Jrock? They still look pretty "visual" compared to alot of american bands anyway.
 
Yea, Deg isn't VK in the traditional sense, but compared to U.S bands they are pretty visual and have a great sense of fashion. But no they aren't VK.
 
They just wear normal clothes, they're not visual. I mean they wear clothes that look GOOD, but they're not exceptionally different from your average well-styled rockstar. I mean, Die was wearing a rolling stones t-shirt for a bit, nothing visual about that, just plain rock. It's just that a lot of American bands have a tendency to look like they just stepped out of a goodwill store and haven't taken a shower in years </gripe>, whereas Dir en grey actually looks like some well-dressed men, but definitely not visual kei.
 
I agree with you sunsweet that every one wears regular clothes, but Kyo is still pretty visual to me (not in a VK way) I mean really some of the clothes he wears are not normal. Although in the New DVD and at the U.S shows he was pretty normal looking. And like I said early they just have a really good fashion sense.

Also new news, Dir en grey won't be joining the FVT until August 4th. So every date after the 4th they will be on.
 
Hehe, nothing about Kyo is normal though, he doesn't count! Most recently, though, he has been dressing pretty normal ... and quite sexy if I do say so myself.

tight pants + shirtless =

I think we should move this convo back to the Diru thread, I have no clue why it's going on here...
 
Me neither can Dutch Baka or Kinsao move this thread or merge it?


And yea truely nothing is normal about Kyo. Haha Kyo is love
 
did anyone catch the date for the toronto concert while it was up on the family values website for that little while? i missed it, and would luv anyone who knew!! lol
and on the whole deg going mainstream, i wouldn't mind at all. i think itd be awsome, much easier to get a hold of their stuff! i wouldn't have to take a 3hour bus ride!! lol, but i know some of my friends would be pissed off, one or two to the point of not listning to them anymore. i think that if deg were to go mainstream in NA, theyd lose some of their original fanbase, but gain more from a diff. source. plus, itd be so HARD for them to go mainstream. so many people dont like it cause its not in eng., they wont give it a chance. i dont think that they will go mainstream ... no one has *that i know of*
 
The Toronto show is Sept 12, 2006. The location and time are still TBA.
 
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