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Dir En Grey

Japanese metal band
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Summary

Dir En Grey is a musical group[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of musical group entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (6,421 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Notable work: The Marrow of a Bone[3], Withering to Death.[4], Gauze[5]
  • Genre: progressive metal[6], alternative metal[7], extreme metal[8]
  • Record label: Free-Will[9]
  • Discography: Dir En Grey discography[10]
  • Commons category: Dir En Grey[11]
  • Country of origin: Japan[12]
  • Has part(s): Toshiya[13]
  • Inception: 1997[14]
  • Location of formation: Osaka[15]
  • Official website: http://www.direngrey.co.jp[16]
  • Topic's main category: Category:Dir En Grey[17]
  • Commons gallery: Dir en grey[18]
  • Described at URL: https://www.ascap.com/repertory#ace/performer/DIR%20EN%20GREY[19]
  • Topic has template: Template:Dir En Grey[20]
  • Start of work period: 1997[21]
  • Social media followers: 138,000[22], 155,000[23], 171,000[24], 186,000[25]

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Type: Group[26]

  • Country: JP[27]

  • Began / founded: 1997-02[28]

  • Genre(s): alternative metal, alternative rock, avant-garde metal, loud kei, metal, nu metal, rock, visual kei[29]

  • Community tags: alternative metal, alternative rock, avant-garde metal, japanese, japanese band, kote kei, loud kei, major, metal, nu metal, rock, visual kei[30]

  • MusicBrainz ID: ab309b83-904f-4e2c-8d11-a0223bba51f9[31]

Why It Matters

Dir En Grey has Wikipedia articles in 22 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32] It is known by 17 alternative names across languages and contexts.[33]

Related Entities

Japan

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [7] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  6. [11] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  7. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [14] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [15] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  11. [3] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  12. [4] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [5] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] ↑ . YouTube API. Retrieved . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [26] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [27] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [28] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [29] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  5. [30] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  6. [31] ↑ . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] ↑ . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [33] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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