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Dir En Grey
Also Playing: Digital Mindy
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Mon Nov 16
7 pm,
http://www.etix.com/ticket/servlet/onlineSearch?action=venueSearch&venue_id=4875&cobrand=metrochicago Dir En Grey and Digital Mindy at Metro
Japanese rockers Dir En Grey clearly have no genre boundaries: Thrash metal over melodic death-rock? Sure. Glam-punk into experimental noise? Totally makes sense. Vocal comparisons to Mike Patton are understandable—frontman/centerpiece Kyo has a similarly wide range that goes from croon to growl to deafening shriek—and the likewise avant-garde musical aspirations (think Fantômas) don’t sound too far off from the Patton empire, either. Last year’s Uroboros moved the band away from its earlier, more flamboyant tendencies, and finds it as a noticeably forthright, though still pretty weird, progressive metal act. The album’s artwork is a nod to King Crimson’s Lizard, which certainly says something about where Dir En Grey is getting its inspirations from these days.
Metro 3730 N Clark St, Chicago, IL
Japanese rockers Dir En Grey clearly have no genre boundaries: Thrash metal over melodic death-rock? Sure. Glam-punk into experimental noise? Totally makes sense. Vocal comparisons to Mike Patton are understandable—frontman/centerpiece Kyo has a similarly wide range that goes from croon to growl to deafening shriek—and the likewise avant-garde musical aspirations (think Fantômas) don’t sound too far off from the Patton empire, either. Last year’s Uroboros moved the band away from its earlier, more flamboyant tendencies, and finds it as a noticeably forthright, though still pretty weird, progressive metal act. The album’s artwork is a nod to King Crimson’s Lizard, which certainly says something about where Dir En Grey is getting its inspirations from these days.
Updated 11/06/2009
