Dir En Grey Announce New Album

Dir En Grey will release their new album, 'Dum Spiro Spero' on August 2nd through The End Records.

Dir En Grey will be releasing this album as the standard CD, a double LP (both featuring the same 14 tracks) and a deluxe CD which will feature the two bonus tracks. Also available will be the Limited Edition Bundle, which features:
- The Deluxe version of the CD (with the 2 bonus tracks)
- The Double LP
- Digital download of album
- An Exclusive T-Shirt Design

1. Kyoukotsu No Nari
2. The Blossoming Beelzebub
3. Different Sense
4. Amon
5. “Yokusou Ni Dreambox” Aruiwa Seijuku No Rinen To Tsumetai Ame
6. Juuyoku
7. Shitataru Mourou
8. Lotus
9. Diabolos
10. Akatsuki
11. Decayed Crow
12. Hageshisa To, Kono Mune No Naka De Karamitsuita Shakunetsu No Yami
12. Vanitas
13. Ruten No Tou

DELUXE EDITION BONUS TRACKS
1. Rasetsukoku
2. Amon (Symphonic Version)

Dir En Grey/Apocalyptica North American Tour

Dir En Grey and Apocalyptica have announced a co-headlining North America tour.

08/23 – Toronto, ON @ Sound Academy
08/24 – New York, NY @ Nokia Theatre
08/26 – Boston, MA @ Royale
08/27 – Baltimore, MD @ Ram’s Head Live
08/28 – Philadelphia, PA @ Electric Factory
08/30 – Atlanta, GA @ Center Stage
08/31 – St. Louis, MO@ Pageant
09/01 – Chicago, IL @ House of Blues
09/02 – Minneapolis, MN @ First Ave.
09/04 – Denver, CO @ Ogden Theatre
09/05 – Albuquerque, NM @ Sunshine Theatre
09/07 – Las Vegas, NV @ House of Blues
09/08 – Los Angeles, CA @ Club Nokia Live
09/10 – San Francisco, CA @ Grand Ballroom at Regency
09/11 – Seattle, WA @ Showbox SoDo

New Live Dir En Grey CD/DVD Released

Dir En Grey have released a new CD/DVD called 'Uroboros - At Nippon Budokan' (digital release) today through The End Records, with a physical release set for June 22nd.

CD Track Listing:

1. Sa Bir
2. Gaika, Chinmoku Ga Nemuru Koro
3. Toguro
4. Inward Scream
5. Hydra -666-
6. Inconvenient Ideal
7. Conceived Sorrow
8. Rasetsukoku
9. Ware, Yami Tote…
10. Obscure Doukoku
11. To Sarinu
12. Dozing Green
13. Zan
14. Hageshisa To, Kono Mune No Naka De Karamitsuita Shakunetsu No Yami
15. Vinushka

DVD Track Listing:

1. Ware, Yami Tote…
2. Deity
3. Obscure
4. Red Soil
5. Stuck Man
6. Doukoku To Sarinu
7. Shokubeni
8. Toguro
9. Glass Skin
10. The Pledge
11. Dozing Green
12. Dead Tree
13. Bugaboo
14. Reiketsu Nariseba
15. Gaika, Chinmoku Ga Nemuru Koro
16. Hydra -666-
17. Agitated Screams Of Maggots
18. Saku
19. Zan
20. Hageshisa To, Kono Mune No Naka De Karamitsuita Shakunetsu No Yami
21. The Final
22. Inconvenient Ideal
23. Vinushka
24. Sa Bir

New Dir En Grey DVD

Dir En Grey have announced they will release a new DVD, 'Average Blasphemy' on The End Records.

1. Vinushka
2. Dozing Green
3. Glass Skin
4. Reiketsu Nariseba
5. Agitated Screams of Maggots (restricted ver.)
6. Grief
7. Ryoujoku No Ame
8. Clever Sleazoid
9. Red Soil
10. Vinushka (promotion edit ver.)
11. Clever Sleazoid (despair in the womb ver.)
12. Agitated Screams of Maggots (despair in the womb ver.)
13. Conceived Sorrow (in weal or woe ver.)

You Me At Six, Opeth, Dir En Grey and More Added to Download

Opeth, You Me At Six, Dir En Grey and Meshuggah are some of the latest additions to this years' Download Festival.

The other additions are Five Finger Death Punch, Steadlur, Duff McKagan's Loaded & Lawnmower Death.

Dir En Grey Announce New DVD

Japanese band Dir En Grey have announced they are set to release their first DVD called "A Knot Of " on Febuary 3rd.