Dir En Grey also appeared at the Japanese leg of that year's Taste of Chaos tour.Ģ005 saw the group's first official European releases as well, beginning with Withering to Death. Becoming more involved with the international music scene, French band Eths opened for them at the Paris concert and Dir en Grey invited American musician Wednesday 13 and his band to play at a show in Japan. The band also performed at two major festivals, Rock am Ring and Rock im Park.
Kyo performing live at Rock im Park in 2006 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 2005, Dir En Grey performed in Europe for the first time. Vulgar was released in September 2003 and tours in support for the record would last well into 2004.Ģ005–2006: Early non-Asian touring A DVD set, titled Blitz 5 Days, was later released exclusively for members of the band's official fan club, titled "A Knot". In summer 2003, Dir En Grey performed at Akasaka Blitz for five evenings in a single week, with each show (except the first) themed after a certain album, the last featuring songs from the then yet to be released Vulgar. In the same year, they released the single "Child Prey", which was featured as the second opening theme of the Baki the Grappler anime series, and also the beginning of their fourth album called Vulgar. Back in Japan, the last dates of the lengthy Rettou Gekishin Angya tour were already in support for the band's second EP, Six Ugly. In the following year, along with the release of a third full-length album, Kisou, Dir En Grey gave their first performances abroad, touring China, Taiwan, and South Korea. Tour 00 > 01 Macabre eventually took off later the same year and was concluded at Nippon Budokan shortly after the release of the single " Ain't Afraid to Die" in April 2001. 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. One of the shows in support for the album (filmed at the Osaka-jo Hall) would later become the first of several live concerts to be released on VHS and DVD.Ģ000–2004: From Macabre to Vulgar The band's first full-length record, Gauze, followed.
Five subsequent singles, arranged and produced by X Japan co-founder Yoshiki Hayashi, were published during the first half of 1999. 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-". We chose the band name because it sounded right, and it also reflects an image that probably doesn't exist elsewhere." In a later interview, Kaoru explained that "at the time we chose the band name, it had some meaning but right now it doesn't express the band anymore, so it has come to not mean anything specific. The song starts with the line 灰色のあなたに dir en gray, with the Latin part being a correct translation of the Japanese part. This band was Lareine, who had released a song called "Dir en gray" in 1995. During the WOWOW Special in 2020, Kaoru elaborates that they took the name from another band that was famous around that time. In an early interview, vocalist Kyo explained that he knew the name before the band was formed. They wanted to convey a musical image that was neither black nor white, so they picked grey. The band name is a combination of German "dir", French "en" and English "grey" and was thought to mean "Grey Silver Coin" ( 灰色の銀貨, Haiiro no Ginka) the Japanese translation was used as the name of their fanclub's magazine. After playing one show as a Kuroyume cover-band called DEATHMASK at the live house Nagano J on January 24, they officially formed "Dir en grey" on February 2, 1997. After parting ways with Kisaki, members Kaoru, Kyo, Die and Shinya recruited bassist Toshiya and regrouped as a new band. They disbanded due to leader and bassist Kisaki not wanting to debut as he felt that it was too soon, but guitarist Kaoru believed that they were ready for it. History 1997–1999: Early career ĭir En Grey was preceded by the independent rock band La:Sadie's, which included four of Dir En Grey's members before disbanding. 1.6 2014–2021: Arche and The Insulated World.1.5 2010–2013: Dum Spiro Spero and The Unraveling.1.4 2007–2009: The Marrow of a Bone and Uroboros.
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