Dir en grey continued their Feast of V Senses tour in Europe, with a mixture of festival performances, headlining shows, and one co-headlining show with Killswitch Engage.
The festival performances included their third appearances at Rock am Ring and Rock im Park, as well as their initial concerts at Download Festival, Nova Rock and Metaltown. Among the headlining shows, Dir en grey were also making debut concerts in Italy and the Czech Republic. The highest position to date for band. They finally ended their long Uroboros centered tour by doing 2 back to back performances at the Nippon Budokan, entitled, 'UROBOROS —with the proof in the name of living…-' where tickets sold out in 15 minutes.
Dir en grey has been categorized in many genres such as alternative metal, alternative rock, experimental, hardcore, nu metal, metalcore, avant garde, progressive and various others. Some tracks of their debut album Gauze also demonstrated a distinct pop appeal, which was largely dropped in favor of a more progressive sound on the following albums, Macabre and Kisou. While up to that point some songs had already been more fast-paced, raw and aggressive than others, the band's music took a decisive turn with the release of the EP Six Ugly , from then on sporting more metal influences in general.
Dir en grey's style has since gravitated towards riffs and song structures more along the lines of contemporary North American fusion genres, such as nu metal and metalcore, though their latest album, Uroboros , sees them return to the more experimental and oriental sound of their earlier albums. Since its release many sources have begun classifying Dir en grey as progressive metal. In a review of their sixth full length album, The Marrow of a Bone , allmusic comments on their evolution and diversity, saying:.
Kyo's singing is considered a pivotal aspect of the band, and he has gained recognition for his distinctive vocal work and for his large range and versatility, being able to 'howl, croon, emote cleanly, scream, shriek, growl, bellow, and make nearly inhuman sounds', [ 4 ] and he has been compared favorably to singer and avant garde musician Mike Patton. The vocabulary varies from subtle to explicit and several songs rely heavily on double entendres and other wordplay, often involving the multiple meanings of a kanji character.
Kaede: If Trans Firewall Div. Granted, due to my lack of experience with previous Dir En Grey releases, I can only really recommend this single album until I lay ears on the rest. Apparently, the group hasn't always sounded like and came out of the Visual Kei scene. How what started out as a Glam band has been able to evolve to this point, I can only speculate.
But, there it is. The music contained in this release really is fantastic and really is worth your time. Sure, sometimes it can sound like something more familiar to you from the Japanese pop scene, but the next moment the experience will drag into new depths of dark experimentation.
You'll find pieces in here that will remind you of the best moments of Opeth right next to other elements that might make you think more about Mr. Bungle or even Henry Cow. Yet at the same time, this album sounds nothing like any of these individually.
It's a seamless melting pot of all those experimental ideas meets more traditional pop and metal. All the while being led full charge by Kyo and his amazing, ever-changing voice.
A true roller-coaster ride. As soon as I finished listening to Uroboros for the first time, I felt immediately compelled to listen to it all over again. It really is something I cannot fully describe and give justice to.
You just have to hear it for yourself. Please take note, however: not everybody is going to like this. A lot of factors are against it already because of how heavy it is, and how unlike traditional Prog Rock it sounds. But for the more adventurous listener, you should have no problem embracing the music for what it is on its own merits. The softer, melodic moments feel just as valid and frequent as the psychedelic moments or heavy, experimental moments.
Just because it's more Metal-oriented in general doesn't make it an album strictly for metal fans. Just try it out. I certainly consider it to be a shining gem hidden among a vast pool of dry, uninteresting rocks in the experimental Metal scene.
The music is pretty simple in structure with pretty fast rock almost punk beats and some really sharp guitar riffs. Actually I was reminded of The Smiths more than once. There is also a lighter heavy metal feel to the music but Missa is not a very heavy EP. The music is very melodic and I have no trouble singing along after very few listens.
The lyrics are in Japanese though so I have no clue whatsoever as to what they are about. Very emotional some might say pathetic and expressive vocals. Personally I think Tooru Nishimura is a great singer with a really personal approach. Note how the two guitars compliment each other. One distorted and one without distortion. Sounds great IMO. The musicianship is excellent. A bit surprising if you remember that this is their debut EP. The production is good.
Clean and enjoyable. Missa is a good release from Dir En Grey and it gives promises of greater things to come. When The Marrow of A Bone Came out in It had more spin time than any other CD that year for me, it was one of the heaviest brutal and insane albums with Kyo constantly either growling and screaming in high pitches and in crazy rythmatic gibberish. Now Uroboros is released, my highest anticipated album of the year.
I was worried when Kyo and Die said that the album would be a more like the post Withering To Death Material, I am not sure what they ment by that because this album is by far the biggest push forward they have ever taken. Kyo has finally perfected an extremely low brutal growl in the style of Opeth for example. The riffs are relentless and the production is perfect. The album is progressive in every term of the word, one minute the riffs are from the depths of hell with death metal vocals, and instantly changes into a soft mandolin lead with harmonic vocal layers by Kyo.
The album is a perfect blend of clean singing vocals and some of the most genuine aggression filled vocals I have ever heard. Dir En Grey has continued to impress me every album getting more mature and taking Metal into a new direction. The middle eastern style chant kyo lets off during Toguro gives me goosebumps. KAI is a peculiar album that takes the listener through many different musical styles, textures, and rhythms while still feeling coherent and related. The sound engineer deserves praise for his work here because even with all of these switches, the recording is beautiful crisp and dynamic throughout the entirety of the album.
The spot on production allows this album to explore all the sonic landscapes it does without leaving the listener confused or annoyed. The heavy passages find most of their grounding grounding in distinctive keyboards, with powerful and odd tempo bass lines and chunking guitar riffs in the foreground. Vocals are dark and add another unique, yet well placed texture to the music.
Much of the music on the heavier side is quite accessible and works to create a heightened emotion, yet it still displays a level of complexity that is foreign to most music. Time signatures change often yet seamlessly and naturally. Nothing feels horribly forced, instead much of it feels like a natural progression and creates an uncertainty, without leaving the listener confused or disrupting the flow. The softer passages are also quite unique as they often possess a hitch of sorts in them that maintains a more tranquil attitude, yet are diverse enough to keep them from being purely commonplace.
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