Showing posts with label Nagoya Kei. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Nagoya Kei. Show all posts
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
[NEWS] Lynch Tour 2009 "The Shadow Impulse"
Lynch's Tour on 2009 ^^ with their new album "SHADOWS".. it's been started since July 2009 and ended this month on 6th.. and about their new video, I like their SHADOWS PV, but Yusuke's hair is weird xD sorry..
Sunday, September 6, 2009
Saturday, August 1, 2009
[DISCOGRAPHY] Deathgaze
Deathgaze Discography
1st ALBUM
Genocide and mass murder
1. venom
2. Genocide and mass murder
the world that has rain rot 3. darkness.
4. grave
5. proof
6. Diez toilets
7. S × S × D × D
8. the Fist.
9. Gethsemane
10. Miscarriage
11. disease
12. Killing Floor
13. "294 036 224 052"
14. Mr. FREAKS ZONE-006 \ 3,150 (Tax in) all 14 songs
2nd ALBUM
AWAKE -Evoke the Urge-
AWAKE -Evoke the Urge-
[CD]
1.Japanese Meliorism
2.-1
3.Evoke the World
4.Unchain Wing
5.Goodbye my Earth
6.Quench
7.Forsaken
8.Paranoid parade
9.Domestic pig # 1013
10.Fuck me
11.Amends [DVD] appendage to AWAKE -evoke the urge-
EBCA-2005 \ 3,150 (tax included)
CD + DVD (abyss PV + 2008 Tour vol. / abyss Making & Offshot)
2.-1
3.Evoke the World
4.Unchain Wing
5.Goodbye my Earth
6.Quench
7.Forsaken
8.Paranoid parade
9.Domestic pig # 1013
10.Fuck me
11.Amends [DVD] appendage to AWAKE -evoke the urge-
EBCA-2005 \ 3,150 (tax included)
CD + DVD (abyss PV + 2008 Tour vol. / abyss Making & Offshot)
Venue limited SINGLE
Corruption and saprophytic 
1. Shisakura
2. stench of death
1. Shisakura 2. stench of death
2006.04.01
ZONE-005 \ 1,000 (Tax in)
all 2 songs
ZONE-005 \ 1,000 (Tax in)
all 2 songs
3rd MAXI SINGLE
Downer
1. DOWNER3. SINNER 2005.11.11 ZONE-004 \ 1,500 (Tax in) Limited 1,000 all three songs
2nd MAXI SINGLE 2nd Press
CHAOS Vol.1 & amp; 2
1. CHAOS 2. Rihitozoire
3. Memento Mori
4. love song 2005.06.15 ZONE-003 \ 1,500 (Tax in) all four songs
1st MAXI SINGLE
"294 036 224 052"
"294 036 224 052"
1. world that has rain rot in darkness. 2. Diez toilets
3. the Fist.
4. "294 036 224 052" 2004.02.22 ZONE-001 \ 1,500 (Tax in) Limited 1,000 all four songs
SALES LIMITED SINGLE
SINGLE
abyss
1. abyss 2. the menace
2008.07.24
EBCS-2004 \ 1,000 (Tax in) SALES LIMITED SINGLE
all 2 songs
EBCS-2004 \ 1,000 (Tax in) SALES LIMITED SINGLE
all 2 songs
2008 revival third installment MAXI SINGLE
I'm broken baby
1. I'm broken baby 2. Shisakura
3. SINNER
EBCS-2003 \ 1,260 (Tax in) Limited 2,000
all three songs
2008 revival second edition MAXI SINGLE
dearest
dearest
1. dearest 2. venom
3. Downer 2008.02.20 EBCS-2002 \ 1,260 (Tax in) Limited 2,000 all three songs
2008 revival first series MAXI SINGLE
Insult kiss me
Insult kiss me
1. Insult kiss me 2. disease
3. CHAOS
2008.01.23
EBCS-2001 \ 1,260 (Tax in) Limited 2,000
all three songs
EBCS-2001 \ 1,260 (Tax in) Limited 2,000
all three songs
3rd ALBUM
THE CONTINUATION
THE CONTINUATION
1. rain rot in darkness world
2. Genocide and mass murder
3. abyss
4. Shisakura
5. Memento Mori
6. Diez toilets
7. stench of death
8. love song
9. "294 036 224 052"
10. Rihitozoire
11. Insult kiss me
12 . dearest
13. Amends (Piano Ver.) 2009.09.09 EBCA-2006 \ 3,150 (Tax in) all 13 songs
2. Genocide and mass murder
3. abyss
4. Shisakura
5. Memento Mori
6. Diez toilets
7. stench of death
8. love song
9. "294 036 224 052"
10. Rihitozoire
11. Insult kiss me
12 . dearest
13. Amends (Piano Ver.) 2009.09.09 EBCA-2006 \ 3,150 (Tax in) all 13 songs
[BAND PROFILE] NEW DEATHGAZE Profile
NEW DEATHGAZE Profile & GT; ________ & lt;
(version 2009, taken from DEATHGAZE Official Website)
(version 2009, taken from DEATHGAZE Official Website)
Members Ai (Vo.), Kosuke (Ba.), Naoki (Dr.).
2003 founded, to the current members through the twists and turns.
It formed the unchanging heavy sound and melody sense of angry waves than originally higher evaluation of officials, 9 singles, including the venue Limited Edition to date, released two albums.
Vocal: Aibirth: 8.19
blood: B
Bass: Kosukebirth: 12.15
blood: O
Drums: Naokibirth: 11.23
blood: B
There's no Naoto anymore T_T
Tuesday, June 9, 2009
[NEWS] DEATHGAZE Live Report - Emotional Night for DEATHGAZE
Emotional Night for DEATHGAZE
(From Virtual Japan)
A few hours after DEATHGAZE had their last interview with their bandmate Naoto, the band was set to take the stage. While the audience was waiting there were a few of the band’s influences playing on the speaker system, including Metallica. The audience started to reach a fevered pitch before the band was anywhere in site and were chanting “oi! oi! oi! oi!”. There was a lot of built up anticipation for tonight’s concert. It had been a long time since DEATHGAZE had last stepped foot in Tokyo and it was the last concert with the guitarist Naoto. Naoto announced on the band’s homepage that this would be his last show which resulted in an instant sell out of the tickets.
The band walked out one by one; fist the drummer Naoki, second the guitarist Naoto, third the bassist Kosuke, and finally the vocalist Ai, who would swirl his tongue around like an escapee from a mental institution. With little ado the band went straight into -l off their newest album, Awake -evoke the urge.
DEATHGAZE
This was filled with furious screams and growls that replicated the intensity of the CD perfectly.
Ai
His screaming technique was perfect and had added surprised like licking his lips with his tongue in between screaming like the Joker did in the recent Batman film.
Ai
Ai
For most of the song Ai was out front crouching on a stand while screaming.
Ai
Meanwhile the rest of the band members stood in the back ground only to come out a bit during the instrumental portion of the song.
Naoto
Naoto
Their next song, Evoke the world from AWAKE -evoke the urge wasn’t a straight forward scream fest and had multiple transitions. However the vocalist nailed each transition with grace. Ai could go from intense screaming to beautiful singing evocative of visual kei singing all while doing a crazy moshing dance on stage.
Ai
Fog came bursting out and made everything extremely dark. In fact the entire show was extremely dark. This was complemented by the band wearing all black with black make up.
Naoto
The audience was eating up every last second. There was furious head banging from the mostly female audience. Towards the end of the song, Naoto had a guitar solo which he seemed really happy and emotional while soloing. He looked as if he was fully taking in his last show, smiling at times (which was a little out of place for DEATHGAZE) and really getting into the music at others.
Naoto
Naoto
“Show me your energy” proclaimed the vocalist to a flurry of “OI!” from the audience. Before the audience could even finish, DEATHGAZE had alread started unchain wing from AWAKE -evoke the urge. The audience heeded to Ai’s commands and went into a forray of headbanging creating an image out of a Van Gogh painting.
Ai
Kosuke started screaming into the mic as well and amazingly, everything sounded exactly as it did on the CD. Kosuke played impeccably and would occasionally smash his fists into his chest in between verses.
Kosuke
The bassist and guitar would even headbang while playing complicated verses and would never miss a note. The fifth song could only be described as chaos because that was exactly what it was. The stage went completely red.
DEATHGAZE
As the music was building up, Ai went around greeting friends and fans in the audience. The atmosphere seemed very friendly until he started to scream “CHAOS!” furiously. The audience was all jumping up and down for minutes with pure energy. With lots of abstract guitar work coupled with that machinegun sound, the audience was going nuts. When they slowed it down a few knotches, the audience started to rock back and forth and then the song finished. During the sixth song, Ai would lick his lips again in the most freakiest of ways. The seventh song, quench from AWAKE evoke the urge went right into fast guitar work by Naoto. However it was the next song, domestic pig #1013 from AWAKE -evoke the urge where the audience came alive. The vocalist would rile up the crowd with chants while Kosuke and Naoto would brood around stage like hunchbacks.
Throughout the past 7 uninterupted songs of unrelenting screaming, Ai’s voice was still perfect. Unbelievable. This wasn’t to last as he demanded a break with pure agony after the eighth song. The intermission was brief. Ai said, “We’re DEATHGAZE,” followed by the audience saying “It’s nice to meet you” and him replying, “It’s nice to meet you too. This is Naoto’s last live.” Then immediately afterwords they went into Shizakura with little ado. This song was more melodic and gave the band the opportunity to rest a bit, but the song was mostly hard.
Ai
For DOWNER from DEAREST, the stage went red again and that machinegun sound came back as Kosuke held up his bass vertically while playing the ascending portion of the song. Song 11, Memento Mori was a soft song that went quite well and displayed the band’s full range. After this song, the band took a one minute break without saying or doing anything. They merely stood on the stage while fans screamed “Yada!” and “Doushite?” to Naoto.
After the break, the band played forsaken from AWAKE -evoke the urge. This song was softer and more emotional and as a result Ai would clench his hands in pain as he looked down, visibly in pain. At the end of the song he screamed into the mic in agony. The next song SINNER from I’m broken baby, was also soft but played into the emotions of this sad day. Naoto was singing out loud (not into a mic) and the whole song was really in the moment. The next song, Shishuu was also another soft song. In this song the entire band was looking down and didn’t show their face, some members looked like they were crying. Ai looked like he was going to break down. As the song ended the entire place was dead quiet. You could hear a needle drop.
DEATHGAZE finally took down the veil and started to talk. “Welcome. This is a very difficult live to do. Today is our tour final at AREA. Thanks for coming to see us. It’s been a long time since we had a ‘one man show’. The last time we were in Tokyo was in May of last year.” A roadie came out who also had the same look as the band (all black clothing and black makeup) to fix Naoto’s cords. Ai commented on how they always get tied up. Naoto dryly replied by saying, “You’re cool.” The crowd started to scream “Yada” in complete disgust that their favorite guitarist was leaving. Ai screamed at them, “SHUT UP! I’m sorry! Everyone looks so happy that it’s making me sick.”
After a nice break, the band went into their harder material again with ‘paranoid parade’. The crowd started to jump up and down with everyone head banging. Naoto was hopping around and doing a funny dance. Meanwhile, Ai and Kosuke were screaming into the mic creating an earthquake. For the next song, fuck me from AWAKE -evoke the urge, Ai looked down at the audience while screaming, “FUCK ME!” The females in the audience most surely would have. The band was really laying down an impressive performance. For music that is this aggressive and heavy on distortion, everything sounded so clear, from the heavy parts to the solos (Kosuke had a nice bass solo on this song). However during abyss the vocalist seemed to be slightly out breath but still held on to that raw intensity. For the second to last song, the band played I’m broken baby. The crowd was riled up by the vocalist screaming “Iku Ze!” The ferociousness of DEATHGAZE was back! There was double bass drum insanity, relentless screaming and an audience shoutfest of “oi!” The song ended with just the bass and drum while Naoto screamed into the mic while holding his fist in the air with his middle finger flanked out. The last song, genocide and mass murder was relentless. The music was incredibly fast and seemed to be the song the band enjoyed playing the most. The audience also seemed to love it as well. The band departed the stage while thanking everyone.
The band came out for an encore but something strange was happening. The members all took up different instruments. The vocalist picked up a guitar, the guitarist picked up a bass and the bassist became the vocalist. While Kosuke certainly had charisma he didn’t have as powerful of a voice as Ai, but looked like a mad scientist with his crazy hair and zombie-like movements while singing venom. However Ai and Naoto were superb at their new instruments. Just as everyone was getting used to this new paradigm the band switched everything up again. This time, Ai played bass, Kosuke played guitar, and Naoto was the vocalist. The audience went nuts. Naoto had very high pitched screaming and barely moved. He definitely wasn’t suited to be a vocalist. In fact, Ai had to do support vocals to carry the weight. The band was having lots of fun playing their new roles. The next portion of the encore brought on a drum solo. The audience tried to clap along, but with all of the slow downs, speedups and frantic pace, the audience quickly realized it was futile. The drum solo only lasted a minute or two. Ai came out on stage and said that his solo was too short and they expected to get a good rest, but Naoki said he had no more energy.
Naoki Exhaustion
Regardless, Ai said the drums sounded cool. The reason why Ai was complaining was because he had his own solo performance next and wanted a little more down time. He brought out an acoustic guitar and sat on the sole chair that occupied the stage. He looked out and said, “oh shit, everyone’s watching me. Ahhh, I’m nervous.” “Wasn’t that interesting before? The bass is quite a difficult instrument.” He looked puzzled and said, “give me a few more minutes. I mean come on! Who would have expected that drum solo to be that short! Being out here alone is scary.” The audience screamed out, “ganbatte!”. Ai replied sarcastically, “You’re so nice. Wouldn’t you rather go home and sleep?” “NO!” belted the audience. “Alright then, we’ll play 120 more songs,” joked Ai. “I make lots of mistakes. I wasn’t originally a vocalist you know. Please forgive the mistakes I’m about to make. OH! This is too nerve racking!” Ai seemed to have caught his bearings and started to finger pick the intro but immediately screwed up. He tried to cover it by claiming he did that on purpose. He then started again to play a beautiful acoustic solo version of ‘amends’.
Ai
He closed his eyes as he picked each note and sung quietly yet passionately. During the picking he kept it going but the timing was off at the more complicated parts. Once the song went to strumming, he started to become more confident and passionately sung with some added vibrato. The venue was completely quiet during his performance but after it finished, you could here “Kakkouii” shouted from the audience. “Thank you very much. As we announced earlier, Naoto will be leaving the band. Since we formed, we’ve had a lot of different experiences. There is a lot of hardship and difficult things, but all of us have lots of baggage. Naoto chose his own path and we chose ours. Everyone has their own path. At some point another person will stand where he stood. We will make the best music that we can. Oh, don’t cry” Ai said as he saw that many in the audience were crying and sniffles could easily be heard. “Let’s finish by having a good time. Let’s send him off while we laugh and …” he couldn’t get the words out of his mouth during this emotional moment. Naoto chimed in, “Today was awesome!” Then the topic of conversation went random, Ai said, “what’s your favorite Street Fighter II character?” Naoto, “Why Bison is.” Kosuke tried to butt in, but Ai commented on his gotti, “Nice gotti. Does everyone love Kosuke? I just wanna touch him all the time. Hey, what did you eat?” “I ate natto,” said Kosuke. Ai replied, “Why always natto? (He then faces the audience). We were able to stay in a single hotel room last night. That’s right, our band’s status has been upgraded. Everyone gathered in my room to play Street Fighter 0 for PS2 for 3 hours. The entire time, he ate natto. I couldn’t sleep because my room reaked of natto.” Kosuke tried to change the subject, “I like Vega.”
Kosuke
The audience then screamed for Naoto who was standing there idly. “This is great! This is my final show.”
Naoto
Ai asked, “Why are you quitting idiot?” Naoto replied, “I’m leaving, I can’t say much. Thank you very much. I’d like to thank the enter brain staff, and especialy you the fans. Thanks to all of you, I will always have a great memory of this…” He starts to choke up. As he’s trying to collect his thoughts the fans bring a present for him. It was a towel with a message written from all of the fans. He didn’t know where to put the towel so he wrapped it around him.
Naoto
He took it off though and said, “I can’t play guitar in this.” The band then played three more heavy songs. Throughout the entire 27 gut wrenching songs, Ai held his voice and the band had perfect timing. DEATHGAZE is definitely a live band. As the band departed the audience screamed out, “YADA!!!!!” Maybe the band felt bad so they came out for a second encore and played one more song, scatologist.
DEATHGAZE
As the band left the stage, Naoto profusely thanked the crowed by saying “domo arigatou” dozens of times.
The band walked out one by one; fist the drummer Naoki, second the guitarist Naoto, third the bassist Kosuke, and finally the vocalist Ai, who would swirl his tongue around like an escapee from a mental institution. With little ado the band went straight into -l off their newest album, Awake -evoke the urge.
DEATHGAZE
This was filled with furious screams and growls that replicated the intensity of the CD perfectly.
Ai
His screaming technique was perfect and had added surprised like licking his lips with his tongue in between screaming like the Joker did in the recent Batman film.
Ai
Ai
For most of the song Ai was out front crouching on a stand while screaming.
Ai
Meanwhile the rest of the band members stood in the back ground only to come out a bit during the instrumental portion of the song.
Naoto
Naoto
Their next song, Evoke the world from AWAKE -evoke the urge wasn’t a straight forward scream fest and had multiple transitions. However the vocalist nailed each transition with grace. Ai could go from intense screaming to beautiful singing evocative of visual kei singing all while doing a crazy moshing dance on stage.
Ai
Fog came bursting out and made everything extremely dark. In fact the entire show was extremely dark. This was complemented by the band wearing all black with black make up.
Naoto
The audience was eating up every last second. There was furious head banging from the mostly female audience. Towards the end of the song, Naoto had a guitar solo which he seemed really happy and emotional while soloing. He looked as if he was fully taking in his last show, smiling at times (which was a little out of place for DEATHGAZE) and really getting into the music at others.
Naoto
Naoto
“Show me your energy” proclaimed the vocalist to a flurry of “OI!” from the audience. Before the audience could even finish, DEATHGAZE had alread started unchain wing from AWAKE -evoke the urge. The audience heeded to Ai’s commands and went into a forray of headbanging creating an image out of a Van Gogh painting.
Ai
Kosuke started screaming into the mic as well and amazingly, everything sounded exactly as it did on the CD. Kosuke played impeccably and would occasionally smash his fists into his chest in between verses.
Kosuke
The bassist and guitar would even headbang while playing complicated verses and would never miss a note. The fifth song could only be described as chaos because that was exactly what it was. The stage went completely red.
DEATHGAZE
As the music was building up, Ai went around greeting friends and fans in the audience. The atmosphere seemed very friendly until he started to scream “CHAOS!” furiously. The audience was all jumping up and down for minutes with pure energy. With lots of abstract guitar work coupled with that machinegun sound, the audience was going nuts. When they slowed it down a few knotches, the audience started to rock back and forth and then the song finished. During the sixth song, Ai would lick his lips again in the most freakiest of ways. The seventh song, quench from AWAKE evoke the urge went right into fast guitar work by Naoto. However it was the next song, domestic pig #1013 from AWAKE -evoke the urge where the audience came alive. The vocalist would rile up the crowd with chants while Kosuke and Naoto would brood around stage like hunchbacks.
Throughout the past 7 uninterupted songs of unrelenting screaming, Ai’s voice was still perfect. Unbelievable. This wasn’t to last as he demanded a break with pure agony after the eighth song. The intermission was brief. Ai said, “We’re DEATHGAZE,” followed by the audience saying “It’s nice to meet you” and him replying, “It’s nice to meet you too. This is Naoto’s last live.” Then immediately afterwords they went into Shizakura with little ado. This song was more melodic and gave the band the opportunity to rest a bit, but the song was mostly hard.
Ai
For DOWNER from DEAREST, the stage went red again and that machinegun sound came back as Kosuke held up his bass vertically while playing the ascending portion of the song. Song 11, Memento Mori was a soft song that went quite well and displayed the band’s full range. After this song, the band took a one minute break without saying or doing anything. They merely stood on the stage while fans screamed “Yada!” and “Doushite?” to Naoto.
After the break, the band played forsaken from AWAKE -evoke the urge. This song was softer and more emotional and as a result Ai would clench his hands in pain as he looked down, visibly in pain. At the end of the song he screamed into the mic in agony. The next song SINNER from I’m broken baby, was also soft but played into the emotions of this sad day. Naoto was singing out loud (not into a mic) and the whole song was really in the moment. The next song, Shishuu was also another soft song. In this song the entire band was looking down and didn’t show their face, some members looked like they were crying. Ai looked like he was going to break down. As the song ended the entire place was dead quiet. You could hear a needle drop.
DEATHGAZE finally took down the veil and started to talk. “Welcome. This is a very difficult live to do. Today is our tour final at AREA. Thanks for coming to see us. It’s been a long time since we had a ‘one man show’. The last time we were in Tokyo was in May of last year.” A roadie came out who also had the same look as the band (all black clothing and black makeup) to fix Naoto’s cords. Ai commented on how they always get tied up. Naoto dryly replied by saying, “You’re cool.” The crowd started to scream “Yada” in complete disgust that their favorite guitarist was leaving. Ai screamed at them, “SHUT UP! I’m sorry! Everyone looks so happy that it’s making me sick.”
After a nice break, the band went into their harder material again with ‘paranoid parade’. The crowd started to jump up and down with everyone head banging. Naoto was hopping around and doing a funny dance. Meanwhile, Ai and Kosuke were screaming into the mic creating an earthquake. For the next song, fuck me from AWAKE -evoke the urge, Ai looked down at the audience while screaming, “FUCK ME!” The females in the audience most surely would have. The band was really laying down an impressive performance. For music that is this aggressive and heavy on distortion, everything sounded so clear, from the heavy parts to the solos (Kosuke had a nice bass solo on this song). However during abyss the vocalist seemed to be slightly out breath but still held on to that raw intensity. For the second to last song, the band played I’m broken baby. The crowd was riled up by the vocalist screaming “Iku Ze!” The ferociousness of DEATHGAZE was back! There was double bass drum insanity, relentless screaming and an audience shoutfest of “oi!” The song ended with just the bass and drum while Naoto screamed into the mic while holding his fist in the air with his middle finger flanked out. The last song, genocide and mass murder was relentless. The music was incredibly fast and seemed to be the song the band enjoyed playing the most. The audience also seemed to love it as well. The band departed the stage while thanking everyone.
The band came out for an encore but something strange was happening. The members all took up different instruments. The vocalist picked up a guitar, the guitarist picked up a bass and the bassist became the vocalist. While Kosuke certainly had charisma he didn’t have as powerful of a voice as Ai, but looked like a mad scientist with his crazy hair and zombie-like movements while singing venom. However Ai and Naoto were superb at their new instruments. Just as everyone was getting used to this new paradigm the band switched everything up again. This time, Ai played bass, Kosuke played guitar, and Naoto was the vocalist. The audience went nuts. Naoto had very high pitched screaming and barely moved. He definitely wasn’t suited to be a vocalist. In fact, Ai had to do support vocals to carry the weight. The band was having lots of fun playing their new roles. The next portion of the encore brought on a drum solo. The audience tried to clap along, but with all of the slow downs, speedups and frantic pace, the audience quickly realized it was futile. The drum solo only lasted a minute or two. Ai came out on stage and said that his solo was too short and they expected to get a good rest, but Naoki said he had no more energy.
Naoki Exhaustion
Regardless, Ai said the drums sounded cool. The reason why Ai was complaining was because he had his own solo performance next and wanted a little more down time. He brought out an acoustic guitar and sat on the sole chair that occupied the stage. He looked out and said, “oh shit, everyone’s watching me. Ahhh, I’m nervous.” “Wasn’t that interesting before? The bass is quite a difficult instrument.” He looked puzzled and said, “give me a few more minutes. I mean come on! Who would have expected that drum solo to be that short! Being out here alone is scary.” The audience screamed out, “ganbatte!”. Ai replied sarcastically, “You’re so nice. Wouldn’t you rather go home and sleep?” “NO!” belted the audience. “Alright then, we’ll play 120 more songs,” joked Ai. “I make lots of mistakes. I wasn’t originally a vocalist you know. Please forgive the mistakes I’m about to make. OH! This is too nerve racking!” Ai seemed to have caught his bearings and started to finger pick the intro but immediately screwed up. He tried to cover it by claiming he did that on purpose. He then started again to play a beautiful acoustic solo version of ‘amends’.
Ai
He closed his eyes as he picked each note and sung quietly yet passionately. During the picking he kept it going but the timing was off at the more complicated parts. Once the song went to strumming, he started to become more confident and passionately sung with some added vibrato. The venue was completely quiet during his performance but after it finished, you could here “Kakkouii” shouted from the audience. “Thank you very much. As we announced earlier, Naoto will be leaving the band. Since we formed, we’ve had a lot of different experiences. There is a lot of hardship and difficult things, but all of us have lots of baggage. Naoto chose his own path and we chose ours. Everyone has their own path. At some point another person will stand where he stood. We will make the best music that we can. Oh, don’t cry” Ai said as he saw that many in the audience were crying and sniffles could easily be heard. “Let’s finish by having a good time. Let’s send him off while we laugh and …” he couldn’t get the words out of his mouth during this emotional moment. Naoto chimed in, “Today was awesome!” Then the topic of conversation went random, Ai said, “what’s your favorite Street Fighter II character?” Naoto, “Why Bison is.” Kosuke tried to butt in, but Ai commented on his gotti, “Nice gotti. Does everyone love Kosuke? I just wanna touch him all the time. Hey, what did you eat?” “I ate natto,” said Kosuke. Ai replied, “Why always natto? (He then faces the audience). We were able to stay in a single hotel room last night. That’s right, our band’s status has been upgraded. Everyone gathered in my room to play Street Fighter 0 for PS2 for 3 hours. The entire time, he ate natto. I couldn’t sleep because my room reaked of natto.” Kosuke tried to change the subject, “I like Vega.”
Kosuke
The audience then screamed for Naoto who was standing there idly. “This is great! This is my final show.”
Naoto
Ai asked, “Why are you quitting idiot?” Naoto replied, “I’m leaving, I can’t say much. Thank you very much. I’d like to thank the enter brain staff, and especialy you the fans. Thanks to all of you, I will always have a great memory of this…” He starts to choke up. As he’s trying to collect his thoughts the fans bring a present for him. It was a towel with a message written from all of the fans. He didn’t know where to put the towel so he wrapped it around him.
Naoto
He took it off though and said, “I can’t play guitar in this.” The band then played three more heavy songs. Throughout the entire 27 gut wrenching songs, Ai held his voice and the band had perfect timing. DEATHGAZE is definitely a live band. As the band departed the audience screamed out, “YADA!!!!!” Maybe the band felt bad so they came out for a second encore and played one more song, scatologist.
DEATHGAZE
As the band left the stage, Naoto profusely thanked the crowed by saying “domo arigatou” dozens of times.
Setlist
SE(Japanese Melliorism)
1.-1
2.Evoke the world
3.unchain wing
4.goodbye my earth
5.CHAOS
6.the menace
7.quench
8.domestic pig #1013
9.Shizakura
10.DOWNER
11.Memento Mori
12.forsaken
13.SINNER
14.Shishuu
15.paranoid parade
16.fuck me
17.abyss
18.DEAREST
19.I’m broken baby
20.genocide and mass murder
Encore
21.venom
22.294036224052
23.Drum Solo
24.amends
25.insult kiss me
26.Rihitozoire
27.Yami ni Ame Fuhai Shita Sekai
28.Scatologist
Tsukachi's note :
I was cried when I read this article -_-; especially in this part :The audience then screamed for Naoto who was standing there idly. “This is great! This is my final show.”
Ai asked, “Why are you quitting idiot?” Naoto replied, “I’m leaving, I can’t say much. Thank you very much. I’d like to thank the enter brain staff, and especialy you the fans. Thanks to all of you, I will always have a great memory of this…” He starts to choke up. As he’s trying to collect his thoughts the fans bring a present for him. It was a towel with a message written from all of the fans. He didn’t know where to put the towel so he wrapped it around him.
My tears fall down when I read those lines >w< it's Naoto's last live with DEATHGAZE xO
my heart was broken, Deathgaze always give me unexpected NEWS! when Sou (vocalist) left, i was so sad also and now Naoto.. :( But, I hope the best for the band and Naoto xD
[NEWS] DEATHGAZE Last Interview with Naoto
DEATHGAZE Last Interview with Naoto(From Virtual Japan)
Nathan from HearJapan had the opportunity to sit down with DEATHGAZE for an interview on the night of a very historic performance, the band’s last show with their guitarist Naoto. This is the last interview the band had with Naoto in it. The band started the interview with a brief introduction.
Ai: I’m the vocalist Ai.
Naoki: I’m the drummer, Naoki.
Kosuke: I’m the bassist, Kosuke.
Naoto: I’m the guitarist, Naoto.
Nathan: Could you tell us more about the concept behind the band DEATHGAZE for readers who are reading about DEATHGAZE for the first time?
Ai: Hmmm, concept. That’s a difficult question. When we first started as a band, at that point there weren’t any really heavy bands (mimiced a signature heavy guitar riff to illustrate they type of heavy band he was referring to) in Japan, especially not in the Visual Kei scene. We tried to form likeminded members who had an appreciation for heavy music being played in the west. Since we liked that heavy style of music, we decided that is what we would focus on. I suppose that was the original motive for starting a band. As we gradually started playing together that became the foundation of our band. As we wrote more and more songs and played more and more shows, we tried to write as many good songs regardless of style and play as many good shows as we could. I hope that answered your question.
Naoki: Well the basis of our band revolves around being heavy. On top of the heavy sound, if you listen at any of the member’s music individually it is very melodious.
Nathan: You said that when you formed the band you sought out members who had an appreciation for western bands. Which are your favorite bands?
Naoki: I like bands like Slipknot and Korn ever since we started playing.
Ai: Also Pantera, we listened to that stuff growing up.
Nathan: Your music is incredibly aggressive and must require a tremendous amount of energy. Is there something special that you do before the show to boost your stamina?
Ai: I’m sure there are things that individual members do, but…
Kosuke: Nothing at all for me at least.
Naoki: Just the usual.
Ai: I think the most important thing is to get a good amount of sleep.
Ai: Hmmm, concept. That’s a difficult question. When we first started as a band, at that point there weren’t any really heavy bands (mimiced a signature heavy guitar riff to illustrate they type of heavy band he was referring to) in Japan, especially not in the Visual Kei scene. We tried to form likeminded members who had an appreciation for heavy music being played in the west. Since we liked that heavy style of music, we decided that is what we would focus on. I suppose that was the original motive for starting a band. As we gradually started playing together that became the foundation of our band. As we wrote more and more songs and played more and more shows, we tried to write as many good songs regardless of style and play as many good shows as we could. I hope that answered your question.
Naoki: Well the basis of our band revolves around being heavy. On top of the heavy sound, if you listen at any of the member’s music individually it is very melodious.
Nathan: You said that when you formed the band you sought out members who had an appreciation for western bands. Which are your favorite bands?
Naoki: I like bands like Slipknot and Korn ever since we started playing.
Ai: Also Pantera, we listened to that stuff growing up.
Nathan: Your music is incredibly aggressive and must require a tremendous amount of energy. Is there something special that you do before the show to boost your stamina?
Ai: I’m sure there are things that individual members do, but…
Kosuke: Nothing at all for me at least.
Naoki: Just the usual.
Ai: I think the most important thing is to get a good amount of sleep.
Kosuke: That’s right.
Ai: I’m sure the are things that we individually do to boost endurance and get in shape. We are always playing our hearts out even in our rehearsal sessions, in the studio and of course at live shows. The frequent amount of playing we do builds up our endurance naturally but there isn’t a way we could go beyond what we already project.
Nathan: Today is your last show on your tour which is culminated by a ‘one man live’. How do you think the tour has progressed so far?
Ai: Our tour went very well. We think our performance has become much cooler as the tour has progressed.
Nathan: Were there any funny episodes? (some members chuckle to themselves) It looks like something happened. Come on guys spill your guts.
Ai: Someone got a nasty cavity.
Kosuke: During the tour I had some tooth problems.
Nathan: How many cavities did you end up getting?
Kosuke: Just one, but the cavity had gone pretty deep and became a serious problem.
Ai: What about you Naoto?
Naoto: No, not really.
Ai: Didn’t you drink too much one night?
Naoto: huh?(at this point the rest of the band jumped in to affirm that there was a night where Naoto drank a little too much.) Really? I don’t remember anything happening at all.(everyone laughs). Well it seems that I got too drunk. When was this?
Ai: In Osaka at the hotel.
Naoto: Ohhhh yea. In Osaka! It’s all coming back now sort of. I had a nasty fall that still hurts sometimes.
Nathan: So tonight’s show will be Naoto’s last concert. In three hours you will play your last show with DEATHGAZE. How are you feeling now?
Naoto: Hmmmmmmmmmmm. The same as always. I’m just having fun.
Nathan: If you don’t object to letting your fans abroad know, could you tell us the reason you decided to quit the band? (The room goes completely silent)
Naoto: That’s just hearsay. (Everyone looks stunned). I’m just kidding! (Everyone starts to laugh). (He then pauses for a long time). How is the best way to put it….
Ai: It’s complicated.
Naoto: Yea, it’s very complicated. The best way to put it is, I just wanted to take a break from life.
Nathan: Let’s clean up the air a bit and ask the band a question. Your next show on your homepage is for June 22nd. Since you already have a show on the books, does that mean you have already found a new support member?
DEATHGAZE:NO!!!!
Ai: Before we got back together, the previous vocalist quit and we stopped playing as we searched for a replacement. Unfortunately we couldn’t find anyone without having an active band. At a certain point we decided to restart the band by me becoming the vocalist and Kosuke fell into our laps. You could say that we have faith that things will work out. To put it in other words, as long as we continue playing everything will fall into place. We haven’t found a replacement yet, but even in the worst case scenario, something good will happen.
Nathan: What would happn in the worst case scenario without a guitarist?
Ai: Well I’m hoping we will find someone (the rest of the band laughs). Even without a guitar we are prepared to carry on the fight and continue playing. Emotionally speaking that is.
Nathan: So currently you are actively searching for a new member?
Ai: There are a few potential candidates.
Nathan: So you are down a member. How do you find a new member in Japan under normal circumstances?
Kosuke: You ask around to friends and things. Since that is not going so well, We will probably start recruitment on our homepage soon for the new member.
Nathan: There are many internets swirling around on the internet about DEATHGAZE breaking up. Is there any truth behind these rumors?
Ai: We have absolutely no intentions to disband, so there is no truth behind those rumors.
Nathan: I have heard that you will be releasing a new release in the fall. Have you already started to write the songs and material for this?
Ai: No, not yet. We’re not sure that we will release in the fall, but that is what we are aiming for.
Nathan: So what direction are you thinking about taking the band’s music? In a more aggressive direction or more melodious, or..?
Ai: It’s not something we think about to be honest.
Nathan: I noticed in your past three single releases; DEAREST, I’m broken baby, and insult kiss me all use English in one or more songs. Do you have a particular affinity towards English?
Ai: Not particularly. I think English matches the heavier songs better than Japanese. Especially the pronounciation and power works better with English. I also think it’s important to have songs which can be enjoyed worldwide. That inevitiably leads to English lyrics. But to be honest, I could care less which language the songs are in. Japanese is fine, Chinese is fine, English is fine as long as the message is conveyed.
Nathan: So are you an avid studier of English?
Ai: No, not at all.
Nathan: So tonight is your last show with Naoto. Is there a special way you decide to make the set list?
Naoki: During a ‘one man live’ we essentially play all of our songs. For this concert we just released an album recently so there are songs that we won’t be performing and that makes it a little easier to be able to be selective.
*Tsukachi's Note : I felt so sad that Naoto had left Deathgaze >w<, but I'll always support the band!
Ai: I’m sure the are things that we individually do to boost endurance and get in shape. We are always playing our hearts out even in our rehearsal sessions, in the studio and of course at live shows. The frequent amount of playing we do builds up our endurance naturally but there isn’t a way we could go beyond what we already project.
Nathan: Today is your last show on your tour which is culminated by a ‘one man live’. How do you think the tour has progressed so far?
Ai: Our tour went very well. We think our performance has become much cooler as the tour has progressed.
Nathan: Were there any funny episodes? (some members chuckle to themselves) It looks like something happened. Come on guys spill your guts.
Ai: Someone got a nasty cavity.
Kosuke: During the tour I had some tooth problems.
Nathan: How many cavities did you end up getting?
Kosuke: Just one, but the cavity had gone pretty deep and became a serious problem.
Ai: What about you Naoto?
Naoto: No, not really.
Ai: Didn’t you drink too much one night?
Naoto: huh?(at this point the rest of the band jumped in to affirm that there was a night where Naoto drank a little too much.) Really? I don’t remember anything happening at all.(everyone laughs). Well it seems that I got too drunk. When was this?
Ai: In Osaka at the hotel.
Naoto: Ohhhh yea. In Osaka! It’s all coming back now sort of. I had a nasty fall that still hurts sometimes.
Nathan: So tonight’s show will be Naoto’s last concert. In three hours you will play your last show with DEATHGAZE. How are you feeling now?
Naoto: Hmmmmmmmmmmm. The same as always. I’m just having fun.
Nathan: If you don’t object to letting your fans abroad know, could you tell us the reason you decided to quit the band? (The room goes completely silent)
Naoto: That’s just hearsay. (Everyone looks stunned). I’m just kidding! (Everyone starts to laugh). (He then pauses for a long time). How is the best way to put it….
Ai: It’s complicated.
Naoto: Yea, it’s very complicated. The best way to put it is, I just wanted to take a break from life.
Nathan: Let’s clean up the air a bit and ask the band a question. Your next show on your homepage is for June 22nd. Since you already have a show on the books, does that mean you have already found a new support member?
DEATHGAZE:NO!!!!
Ai: Before we got back together, the previous vocalist quit and we stopped playing as we searched for a replacement. Unfortunately we couldn’t find anyone without having an active band. At a certain point we decided to restart the band by me becoming the vocalist and Kosuke fell into our laps. You could say that we have faith that things will work out. To put it in other words, as long as we continue playing everything will fall into place. We haven’t found a replacement yet, but even in the worst case scenario, something good will happen.
Nathan: What would happn in the worst case scenario without a guitarist?
Ai: Well I’m hoping we will find someone (the rest of the band laughs). Even without a guitar we are prepared to carry on the fight and continue playing. Emotionally speaking that is.
Nathan: So currently you are actively searching for a new member?
Ai: There are a few potential candidates.
Nathan: So you are down a member. How do you find a new member in Japan under normal circumstances?
Kosuke: You ask around to friends and things. Since that is not going so well, We will probably start recruitment on our homepage soon for the new member.
Nathan: There are many internets swirling around on the internet about DEATHGAZE breaking up. Is there any truth behind these rumors?
Ai: We have absolutely no intentions to disband, so there is no truth behind those rumors.
Nathan: I have heard that you will be releasing a new release in the fall. Have you already started to write the songs and material for this?
Ai: No, not yet. We’re not sure that we will release in the fall, but that is what we are aiming for.
Nathan: So what direction are you thinking about taking the band’s music? In a more aggressive direction or more melodious, or..?
Ai: It’s not something we think about to be honest.
Nathan: I noticed in your past three single releases; DEAREST, I’m broken baby, and insult kiss me all use English in one or more songs. Do you have a particular affinity towards English?
Ai: Not particularly. I think English matches the heavier songs better than Japanese. Especially the pronounciation and power works better with English. I also think it’s important to have songs which can be enjoyed worldwide. That inevitiably leads to English lyrics. But to be honest, I could care less which language the songs are in. Japanese is fine, Chinese is fine, English is fine as long as the message is conveyed.
Nathan: So are you an avid studier of English?
Ai: No, not at all.
Nathan: So tonight is your last show with Naoto. Is there a special way you decide to make the set list?
Naoki: During a ‘one man live’ we essentially play all of our songs. For this concert we just released an album recently so there are songs that we won’t be performing and that makes it a little easier to be able to be selective.
*Tsukachi's Note : I felt so sad that Naoto had left Deathgaze >w<, but I'll always support the band!
Thursday, June 4, 2009
[BAND PROFILE] Deathgaze (デスゲイズ)
Deathgaze (デスゲイズ)
(From Virtual Japan)
Deathgaze (デスゲイズ) is a Japanese Visual Kei band that plays music with a heavy rock sound and metal inspired tunes. Their sense of melody and their heavy sound appeal to not only the usual VK fans, but also to some western rock music fans and male rock fans.
The band was originally formed in 2003 by Hazuki, Naoto, Ai and Naoki. The vocalist Hazuki left the band in 2004 to form his own band named Lynch and was replaced by Sou. Sou also left the band in 2006. Deathgaze are finally back to the scene after a hiatus in 2008. Their main composer and bassist, Ai has taken over as vocalist now. Kosuke joined the band as the new bassist. As a first step, new singles were released for three consecutive months. They also released a new limited single called "abyss" which was followed by a tour of Japan.
The band was originally formed in 2003 by Hazuki, Naoto, Ai and Naoki. The vocalist Hazuki left the band in 2004 to form his own band named Lynch and was replaced by Sou. Sou also left the band in 2006. Deathgaze are finally back to the scene after a hiatus in 2008. Their main composer and bassist, Ai has taken over as vocalist now. Kosuke joined the band as the new bassist. As a first step, new singles were released for three consecutive months. They also released a new limited single called "abyss" which was followed by a tour of Japan.
LINE UP :Vocal: Ai （藍）
Guitar: Naoto （直人）
Bass: Kosuke （孝介）
Drums: Naoki （直樹）
DISCOGRAPHY :Singles
294036224052 (2/22/2004)
CHAOS ケイオス (2/5/2005)
CHAOS ケイオス-Vol. 2- (6/15/2005)
DOWNER (11/11/2005)
腐敗と腐生 (Fuhai to Fusei) (4/1/2006)
insult kiss me (1/23/2008)
DEAREST (2/20/2008)
I'm broken baby (3/19/2008)
Albums
genocide and mass murder (7/12/2006)
Saturday, May 9, 2009
Lynch Profile
Lynch.
Genre :
Nagoya Kei
Formed :
2004
Line UP :
Hazuki (Vo) Birthdate : 12/10blood type : B
birthplace : Aichi Prefecture
height and weight : 174.3cm · 53~56kg (fluctuates daily)
Reo (Gt)Birthdate : 7/12
blood type : A
birthplace : Aichi Prefecture
height and weight : 178cm · 58kg or so
Yusuke (Gt) Birthdate : 5/10/1981
blood type : Unknown
birthplace : Aichi Prefecture
height and weight : 170 or so · 48kg
Asanao (Dr)birthdate : 7/12
blood type : A
birthplace : Aichi Prefecture
height and weight : 176cm · 58kg
Bass :
Hikaru [support member]
Junji [support member]
DISCOGRAPHY
a grateful shit [ Single ]
1. a grateful shit
Enemy [ Maxi-Single ]
1. enemy
2. STARZ
3. Bonus
Forgiven [ Maxi-Single ]
1. forgiven
2. Dizzy
greedy dead souls [ Album ]
1. vernie
2. quarter life
3. 矛盾と空
4. 59.
5. らせん
6. rew
7. sleepy flow
8. unknown lost a beauty
9. discord number
10. ラティンメリア
Roaring in the Dark [ Maxi-Single ]
1. roaring in the dark
2. stuck pain
THE AVOIDED SUN [ Album ]
1. liberation chord
2. I'm sick,b'cuz luv u.
3. roaring in the dark
4. ecdysis
5. forgiven
6. anemone
7. the universe
8. dazzle
9. enemy
10. prominence
11. from the end
underneath the skin [ Maxi-Single ]
1. The Whirl
2. Alien Tune
3. Melt
4. Lizard
5. Above The Skin
THE BURIED [ Album]
ADORE [Single]
1. ADORE
2. An Illusion
AMBIVALENT IDEAL [SINGLE]
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