DIR EN GREY Trivia — 11 Entries
11 sourced facts about DIR EN GREY.
Trivia
Dir En Grey have not changed a member since they were formed in 1997. The line-up the band’s own biography page gives is Kyo on voice, Kaoru and Die on guitars, Toshiya on bass and Shinya on drums.
The band’s own biography page gives the five members’ home prefectures as Kyoto for Kyo, Hyogo for Kaoru, Mie for Die, Nagano for Toshiya and Osaka for Shinya — four of the five from the Kansai and Tokai regions.
The band’s biography page links to each member’s other project: Kyo has sukekiyo and Petit Brabancon, Die has Decays, Toshiya has Dirt and Shinya has Seraph, each with an official site of its own.
All three string players — Kaoru, Die and Toshiya — have a page of their own in ESP’s artist custom guitars gallery, and the band’s biography links to all three; for Shinya it links to his artist page at Pearl instead.
Kaoru runs a YouTube channel called The Freedom of Expression, and three of the five — Kaoru, Toshiya and Shinya — keep a personal site on co-yomi: TheThe Day, utakata and Shinya Channel. All of them are linked from the band’s own biography page.
The band’s own biography says that a great deal changed between their formation and their debut outside Japan, in the music and in the look alike, and that the one thing that did not change is the determination to pursue their own rock. It describes them as a band that needs no category, with a following established across Europe and America.
Between 12 November and 15 December 2026 the band tour Japan as DIR EN GREY 30th Anniversary Rettou Gekishin Angya 2026 Nothing XXX Ugly — nine cities and twelve nights — and the opening night at CLUB CITTA’ in Kanagawa is open to members of the fan club “a knot” alone.
The 2026 tour sets its times by the day of the week. The official announcement gives doors at 17:45 and stage at 18:30 for weekday shows, and 16:45 and 17:30 for shows at weekends and on public holidays.
The Marrow of a Bone, from 2007, reached eight on Billboard’s Top Heatseekers chart, twenty-one on Top Independent Albums and thirty on the Oricon album chart.
Uroboros, from 2008, sold more than thirty-seven thousand copies in Japan and reached four on the Oricon album chart.
Withering to death., from 2005, reached forty-two on Billboard’s Top Heatseekers chart in June 2006, and in September 2007 Rolling Stone Japan placed it thirty-fourth in its hundred greatest Japanese rock albums of all time.