#s: EUROPE TOUR24 FROM DEPRESSION TO[mode of Withering to death]

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Amazing video by @ginaxhk on IG!

DIR EN GREY - EUROPE TOUR24 FROM DEPRESSION TO [mode of Withering to death] - WARSAW 19/03/24

↳ Toshiya being Toshiya during C

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DIR EN GREY - EUROPE TOUR24 FROM DEPRESSION TO [mode of Withering to death] - PARIS 22/03/24

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DIR EN GREY - EUROPE TOUR24 FROM DEPRESSION TO [mode of Withering to death] - PARIS 22/03/24

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DIR EN GREY - EUROPE TOUR24 FROM DEPRESSION TO [mode of Withering to death] - PARIS 22/03/24

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@jeremy_vinerbi on IG

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DIR EN GREY - EUROPE TOUR24 FROM DEPRESSION TO [mode of Withering to death] - PARIS 22/03/24

↳ Toshiya being playful during C

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DIR EN GREY - EUROPE TOUR24 FROM DEPRESSION TO [mode of Withering to death] - Warsaw 19/03/24

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@tell.me.kafka on IG

DIR EN GREY - EUROPE TOUR24 FROM DEPRESSION TO [mode of Withering to death & UROBOROS] - BERLIN 30-31/03/24

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Source: @emilyxygraphy on IG

DIR EN GREY - EUROPE TOUR24 FROM DEPRESSION TO [mode of Withering to death] - WARSAW 19/03/24

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Source: @lanafe.geurts on IG

DIR EN GREY - EUROPE TOUR24 FROM DEPRESSION TO [mode of Withering to death] - OBERHAUSEN 28/03/24

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Great source video by @nooshpresents!

DIR EN GREY - EUROPE TOUR24 FROM DEPRESSION TO [mode of Withering to death] - OBERHAUSEN 28/03/24

↳ Toshiya during アクロの丘

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DIR EN GREY - EUROPE TOUR24 FROM DEPRESSION TO [mode of Withering to death] - PARIS 22/03/24

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© Stephan Birlouez for amongtheliving.fr

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Random gear stuff from EUROPE TOUR24 FROM DEPRESSION TO [mode of Withering to death & UROBOROS]

No ESP Throbber for Kaoru during Toguro, as they had a limited number of guitars allowed for this tour abroad (he used the blue JZH instead if I remember correctly)

Speaking of Kaoru, he brought his custom ESP D-KV (the brown/yellow-ish one), I wasn't expecting that one!

I saw Toshiya use Finger Ease-like string spray multiple times during interludes, this helps reducing the friction on the strings and playing smoother guitar/bass-lines :)

Die brought the black Morris acoustic guitar instead of the red one, they're the same model so it didn't matter but it was nice to see a non-red guitar in his arsenal :)

The sunburst ESP D-TR [RU-DRIVE Arch] bass (aka the best bass in my totally unbiased opinion <3) was damaged at the beginning of the tour, we could see the scratch at the Paris shows :( (he mainly used this bass for almost all of Mode of WTD, as well as for Akuro no oka at the end of all shows, as a substitute for the white ESP D-TR he usually uses for this song)

Shinya used a partial brown-ish Pearl drumkit (pictures/tag to come) with Remo & Signia toms, Sabian cymbals and at least one Evans drumhead (that he threw in the crowd at the end of Paris day 2). This is a different drumkit than his usual all-white/see-through one; as they're touring in Japan in April-June, he perhaps didn't want to risk damaging his regular kit.

Something I somehow never noticed before: all their guitars/basses are now cable-less! I don't really know how that works sound-wise but it does wonders in terms of stage management & interactions :)