Dir en Grey are a band in their own genre at this point, and Dum Spiro Spero is the farthest-reaching testament to establish that as fact more than opinion. ~Thom Jurek Read More Read Less # Track Artist Length.
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Notes These rips are sourced from the limited edition 2BD/1CD set. Download Folder This folder contains the main live rips 1, live audio rips 2, and the CD rips 3. This folder contains the bonus features from the second disc and torrent files for the 1080p and 720p rips. I am no longer seeding either torrent, so you most likely will have to actually download through MEGA unless someone else happens to still be seeding. If you’re looking for the Blu-ray ISO, please see the comments for a torrent. If you absolutely need a direct download, I can upload my ISOs, but it might take some time. Screenshot Comparison Specifications Video Codec: h.264 Bit Depth: 10 bits Bit Rate Mode: CRF19, CRF18, CRF17 Resolution: 1920×1080, 1280×720, 854×480 Frame Rate: 23.976 (24/1.001) Audio Codec: AAC-LC Channels: 2.0 Bit Rate Mode: Q 0.50 Sampling Rate: 48.0 KHz External Audio Codec: FLAC Channels: 2.0 Bit Depth: 24 bits Sampling Rate: 48.0 KHz 1 I accidentally put 2014.03.08 as the date in the file header title field for the 1080p version of the second day.
The other versions correctly have 2014.03.09. 2 I forgot to add the additional credits for “THE BLOSSOMING BEELZEBUB (Symphonic Ver.)”.
3 I changed the way I Romanized a couple of the titles slightly, and I forgot to include the Kanji titles in the comments fields. I don’t plan on fixing it right away, but I will update the files that I have so that, if I ever re-upload them, the changes will be uploaded as well.
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Dum Spiro Spero Label: The End US Release Date: 2011-08-02 UK Release Date: 2011-08-01 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 that they have the added fangirl-ish oomph of flashy appearances, thanks to their visual-kei roots. Being the eighth full-length studio album in the band’s illustrious career thus far, Dum Spiro Spero (which is Latin for “While I breathe, I hope”) is yet another scintillating record to add to the quintet’s already impressive and extremely collectible portfolio.
If there’s one thing you gotta love about modern Japanese musicians - whether they play pop, rock or metal - it has got to be their iconic brand of clean singing. The ever eccentric Kyo in particular, is one helluva gifted singer; he has always had a knack for soaring and heart-wrenching vocal hooks, which he shows off with great ease and artistic pride as usual on this new record, and they are such that a melody-loving metalhead cannot help but wonder why there can’t be more Western metal vocalists taking a leaf out of his book. Standout tracks featuring such surreal and beautiful clean singing would include tracks like “Different Sense”, “'Yokusou Ni Dreambox' Aruiwa Seijuku No Rinen To Tsumetai Ame”, “Lotus”, “Diabolos”, and “Hageshisa To, Kono Mune No Naka De Karamitsuita Shakunetsu No Yami” (a track which also appears on Saw 3D’s OST). Apart from the emotional clean singing of unearthly range, Kyo once again balances this crooning side of him well enough with the right dose of guttural death growls (most clearly heard at the start of the second single of the album, “Different Sense”), cacophonous shrieks, bloodcurdling screams and even creepy whispers; all of which only serve to remind any old or even recent Dir En Grey fans why they got into the band in the first place. Perhaps such natural ease at and inclination towards striking such a stark contrast between the two opposite ends of the human vocal spectrum can be obtained as only a kind of pre-birth winning lottery ticket - you know, that much coveted prize we call “talent”.
Bassist Toshiya really deserves applause for actually being significant in the overall sound-scape of Dir En Grey’s music as well. In a genre as overpowering and loud as metal, the bass line often gets relegated to the back burner and merely takes on a monotonous supporting role while the melody line gets all the limelight. However, the Japanese are well known for coming up with good harmonies, and Toshiya sure lives up to this expectation, as his throbbing bass lines complement the technical guitar riffs well by adding a groovy kind of bad-ass attitude to the overall feel of the music. Without him, the guitar melodies of Kaoru and Die would most certainly sound naked and hollow. Having abandoned their shocking image of the past in favor of a more toned down appearance now (read: they don’t look like freaky girls or Marilyn Manson anymore), it seems ironic though that Dir En Grey’s music has gotten more bizarre instead. While they started out as a Japanese visual-kei hard rock band with progressive influences, they hardly sound anything close to that now.
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