DIR EN GREY TO RELEASE LIVE DELUXE DIGIPAK CD/DVD ON MAY 25TH, ENTITLED

UROBOROS -with the proof in the name of living...- AT NIPPON BUDOKAN

On January 9th and 10th of this year, Dir En Grey took flight into the Nippon Budokan and played to thousands of fans from all over the world. Capturing  every angle from this sold out, two day event, UROBOROS, which will be released as a deluxe digipak in the US on May 25^th, lets us into the kaleidoscopic world of Dir En Grey. Highly-charged visuals packed back to back brought Dir En Grey shows to a new height, making this experience the band's most legendary performance to date.

Fans are in for a special treat as they are able to  witness these legendary performances, which went  on to receive a rare, full star "5K" rating from  Kerrang! Magazine. Marking the end of the UROBOROS album cycle, which saw the band playing ninety-nine shows worldwide, this DVD will allow you to immerse yourself in the world of Dir En Grey.

Additionally, the video for "Hageshisa To, Kono Mune No Naka De Karamitsuita Shakunetsu No Yami" debuted at #1 on iTunes in Japan and is currently available for purchase on iTunes here. The live track entitled "Dozing Green" is also available for free on The End Records Amazon sampler which can be downloaded here. 

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CD Track Listing:

1.     Sa Bir

2.     Gaika, Chinmoku Ga Nemuru Koro

3.     Toguro

4.     Inward Scream

5.     Hydra -666-

6.     Inconvenient Ideal

7.     Conceived Sorrow

8.     Rasetsukoku

9.     Ware, Yami Tote...

10.  Obscure Doukoku

11.  To Sarinu

12.  Dozing Green

13.  Zan

14.  Hageshisa To, Kono Mune No Naka De Karamitsuita Shakunetsu No Yami

15.  Vinushka

DVD Track Listing:

1.     Ware, Yami Tote...

2.     Deity

3.     Obscure

4.     Red Soil

5.     Stuck Man

6.     Doukoku To Sarinu

7.     Shokubeni

8.     Toguro

9.     Glass Skin

10.  The Pledge

11.  Dozing Green

12.  Dead Tree

13.  Bugaboo

14.  Reiketsu Nariseba

15.  Gaika, Chinmoku Ga Nemuru Koro

16.  Hydra -666-

17.  Agitated Screams Of Maggots

18.  Saku

19.  Zan

20.  Hageshisa To, Kono Mune No Naka De Karamitsuita Shakunetsu No Yami

21.  The Final

22.  Inconvenient Ideal

23.  Vinushka

24.  Sa Bir

The charismatic and complex singer/songwriter Glenn Danzig is set to unleash his first new Danzig studio album in six years.  Deth Red Sabaoth, produced by Glenn and recorded in Los Angeles over the course of 2009, will be released on June 22, 2010 (Evilive/The End Records).

The 11-track collection, penned by Danzig, is laced with Glenn's lycanthropic growls and blues-infected wailing.  Tracks including "Black Candy," "The Revengeful," and the first single, "On A Wicked Night," emit a spectral glow to rival the highest points in Danzig's colossal discography. Part 1 of the exquisite two-part "Pyre of Souls" opens with acoustic guitar, haunting piano, Glenn's plainsong vocal, and an almost dirge-like feel; Part II explodes with electric guitars and a driving, mesmerizing cadence.

"I think that fans will really dig this new album," said Glenn.  "I've been told several times that the album has a cool vitality to it, it sounds energized, and I got that feeling when I was recording it.  I wanted it to have an organic sound, bigger and thicker, so I went out and bought some 1970's Kustom tuck 'n roll bass amps to play some of the guitar parts through.  You'll hear real reverb, real tremolo on this album, which sounds completely different than the stuff that's done with computer chips."

Joining Glenn in the studio for the recording of Deth Red Sabaoth were guitarist Tommy Victor (Prong, Ministry), a Danzig cohort on and off since 1997, and drummer Johnny Kelly (Type O Negative, Seventh Void).  While Kelly has toured with Glenn intermittently since 2002, this is the first time he has recorded with the band.  Glenn handled the bass chores for most of the album, and played drums on "Black Candy."

As is with all of Danzig's releases, the CD cover artwork for Deth Red Sabaoth is provocative and ominous.  The cover is an original piece created specifically for the CD by the award-winning artist Joe Chiodo whose work has graced not only Danzig's Verotik publishing line, but the covers of numerous graphic novels and comic books, including "X-Men Unlimited."  Deth Red Sabaoth isn't the first time one of Chiodo's paintings has been part of a Danzig package - one of his erotic "good girl" pinups was part of 2007's The Lost Tracks of Danzig.

Deth Red Sabaoth marks Danzig's ninth studio venture that began back in 1988 with the Rick Rubin-produced, Platinum-certified, Danzig.  A live version of his oedipal projectile "Mother," was a major hit, and added to his iconic status that began a decade earlier when he founded the near-mythic punk band Misfits and then Samhain.  Sales of ten-million albums later and having been dubbed "goth-punk's godfather" by SPIN, Glenn Danzig is arguably the most versatile talent to emerge from hardcore's first wave, and truly is a renaissance man - a graphic designer, photographer, comic book publisher and composer.  His venture into composing and recording classical music yielded Black Aria, that debuted at #1 on Billboard's Classical charts, and Black Aria II, that had Glenn sharing the Billboard/Classical's Top Ten with Itzhak Perlman and Andrea Bocelli.  His indelible stamp is on artists like Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails, and he has written songs that have been sung by a diverse array of artists, from Metallica to Johnny Cash.

Over his decades-long career, Glenn Danzig's intense musical and lyrical statements have left a permanent mark on rock music, and continue to do so going into the 21st century.  Glenn's song "13," originally written for Johnny Cash and then recorded for Glenn's own Satan's Child album, was the opening song in last year's box office smash and Golden Globe winner, "The Hangover."

Danzig - Glenn, guitarist Tommy Victor, drummer Johnny Kelly and bassist Steve Zing - also a founding member of Samhain with Glenn - plan to tour extensively to support Deth Red Sabaoth; dates will be announced shortly.

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