|
Released last Tuesday, November 11th, DIR EN GREY's seventh studio album, UROBOROS, debuted at #1 on Billboard's Top Heatseekers chart, selling more than 6,000 units in the first week.
"[Uroboros features] muscular funk licks, soaring power-ballad melodies, and creepy atmospherics; moments that have the slow intensity of a dirge, and others that rush with the hell-bent-for-leather abandon of classic metal," said REVOLVER's JD Considine in a four-star review of the album. "Most amazing of all, [Dir en grey] manages to do all this while maintaining such a strong sense of structure that the album almost feels like one continuous song."
In an effort to satiate fans' unique preferences and desires, UROBOROS was released through eclectic Brooklyn-based label THE END RECORDS who have created four distinctive formats and variables: deluxe limited-edition CD digipak with bonus tracks and a DVD; CD jewel case; digitally; and as double vinyl LP with a digital download card included. The album hit shelves on 11/12 in Japan through Firewall; and 11/14 in Europe through Gan-Shin. 
The album's release comes in the midst of a 22-date North American headlining tour with The Human Abstract. "You can detect elements of Korn, Slipknot, Deftones, even Nine Inch Nails in the quintet's masterfully dynamic 20-song set," said Kerrang! Magazine last week, "but the jarring Japanese melodies and frontman Kyo's intensely physical, mesmerizing performance serve to unsettle throughout."
Somehow amidst constant touring, the band produces many artful music videos as evidenced recently on Headbangers Blog. MTV's premier metal show debuted the band's new video for "DOZING GREEN," the twelfth track on UROBOROS. The video was directed by the band’s longtime collaborator Hiroyuki Kondo and took two and a half months to create from filming to post-production. Check out the video at Headbangers Blog via the link below, or on MTV2 at 2am on Saturday, November 22nd.
http://headbangersblog.mtv.com/2008/11/07/video-premiere-dir-en-greys-dozing-green/
The song can also be streamed at the band's MySpace page:
myspace.com/direngrey
DIR EN GREY is currently touring North America with The Human Abstract.
Tour Schedule in North America - 2008
Hot Topic and REVOLVER present
TOUR08 THE ROSE TRIMS AGAIN with THE HUMAN ABSTRACT
11/20/08 Thu @ First Avenue - Minneapolis, MN
11/22/08 Sat @ The Eagles Club - Milwaukee, WI
11/23/08 Sun @ Pop's - Sauget, IL
11/25/08 Tue @ House of Blues - Houston, TX
11/26/08 Wed @ Palladium Ballroom - Dallas, TX
11/28/08 Fri @ Marquee Theatre - Tempe, AZ
11/29/08 Sat @ The Wiltern LG - Los Angeles, CA
11/30/08 Sun @ Warfield Theatre - San Francisco, CA
12/02/08 Tue @ Hawthorne Theatre - Portland, OR
12/03/08 Wed @ The Showbox - Seattle, WA
12/04/08 Fri @ Gothic Theatre - Englewood, CO
 |
