Wow, this thread has been dead for over a month.
eek Well, I recently saw scans from the October issue of FOOL'S MATE. And it looks like Diru actually did play 5 new songs at the August 1st show. However, there weren't any names to the songs, so I'm wondering how people who are posting links to audio clips have titles for them.
My Japanese is still as horrible as ever, but I saw mention of the Showcase Tour back in March and their European concerts back in July. Kaoru did tell the Japanese fans that the then new song they played at those concerts wasn't Ryoujoku no Ame, so that part was probably just talking about where they played that song originally.
And someone said that Kaoru stated there would be one more single before the new album came out. Gah, we'll already know what the whole album sounds like before it comes out. Unless most of those songs are just released as singles and not put on the next album.
Oh well, it just means that a new album is going to be coming out soon.
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NEW SINGLE. Whee~~~
"Agitated Screams of Maggots" is coming out on November 15. Heh heh, such a strange name for a song.
No cover art as of yet, but there is a setlist up.
Agitated Screams of Maggots
Kodoku ni Shisu, Yue ni Kodoku (live)
Spilled Milk (live)
OBSCURE (live)
Live tracks were taken from July 31/August 1 at the Nippon Budokan.
RANDOMNESS BELOW
There's a Japanese movie called 'Death Trance' which uses a couple songs by Dir en grey. Here's a list of the songs used in the movie:
Deity
The III D Empire
Increase Blue
Clever Sleazoid
And I'm sure that everyone knows by now that the anime 'Baki the Grappler' uses the song "CHILD PREY" as its opening theme. And there's also another movie (can't read the kanji) that uses "Audrey" as its ending theme.
Since I'm such a huge whore for Diru, I'll probably watch them just to see what kind of scenes they set the songs to.
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