DUM SPIRO SPERO

It makes sense that one of the planet’s most theatrical avant-metal bands would hail from Japan. After all, when it comes to the Western rock tradition, Dir En Grey is beholden to pretty much no one—even as the spirit of progressive rock is very much at play in the its virtuosic layering of metal, opera, melody, and…

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Experimental metallers Dir En Grey are Japan’s very own Into Eternity -- their music is eclectic and hard to classify into any one sub-genre -- except...