"Dozing Green" (stylized ''DOZING GREEN'') is a single by Dir En Grey, released on October 24, 2007 in Japan and across Europe as well as in the iTunes Store until the end of October. The Japanese edition includes two b-sides, "Hydra -666-" and "Agitated Screams of Maggots ive. The European release features only "Dozing Green" and "Agitated Screams of Maggots", while the iTunes release is sold as the title track only. The music video for "Dozing Green" shows cells from '' The Drifting Classroom'' by horror

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Kazuo Umezu is a Japanese manga artist, musician and actor. He is among the most famous authors of horror manga and has been vital for its development since the 1960s. Life Umezu was born in Kōya, Wakayama Prefecture, but raised in the mountainous Go ...

. The music video of "Hydra -666-" can be found on ''In Weal or Woe''. "Dozing Green" is one of the two singles featured on '' Uroboros'', along with "

Glass Skin "Glass Skin" (stylized ''GLASS SKIN'') is a single by Dir En Grey, released on September 10, 2008 in Japan in a regular and limited edition, the limited copy featuring a bonus live track as well as a sticker of the band and a poster. The single wa ...

". Like its counterpart, the song is re-recorded in English for the album. The music video for "Dozing Green" was voted the #1 video of the year 2008 on the

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For "Dozing Green", guitarist Kaoru performed on a PRS Custom 24, while Die recorded on a Fender Stratocaster in the studio. The music video however, shows Kaoru performing on the usual ESP Viper and Die on an ESP

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. The first b-side, "Hydra -666-", is a rearrangement of the song "Hydra" originally recorded for '' Macabre'' (2000). The " Agitated Screams of Maggots" live recording was performed at a concert limited to registered purchasers of the band's previous album, '' The Marrow of a Bone'' (2007).

Track listing

European version

Personnel

* Dir En Grey –

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** Kyo – vocals ** Kaoru – guitar **

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– guitar ** Toshiya – bass guitar ** Shinya –

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* Yasushi "Koni-Young" Konishi – recording, mixing * Miles Showell – mastering *

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* Takato Yamamoto –

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* Kazuya Nakajima, Taka Hashinoto – live recording * Yoshinori Abe & Kaoru - Programming

References

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