[BAND PROFILE] Balzac

Members :
Vocals: Hirosuke
Guitar: Atsushi
Bass: Akio
Drums: Takayuki


Started: 1992
Status: Active


Balzac is a Japanese hardcore-punk band which was formed in 1992. The band consist of Hirosuke on vocals, Tetsuya on guitars, Anti on bass and Naoki on drums. Balzac released their first demo tape titled Scapegoat 666 in 1993. The demo tape included a cover song of The Misfit’s titled, Where Eagles Dare. Tetsuya and Naoki left the band and was replaced with Atsushi and Kohji when they recorded and released the second demo tape in the same year titled Descent Of The Diabolos.

By 1997, the line-up consisted of Hirosuke remained on vocals, Atsushi on guitars and Akio as the new bassist. Without a replacement drummer, the band released an album titled Deep - Teenagers from Outer Space and quickly found Kill to replace Naoki on drums soon after the album was released. They released recorded and released 13 Stairway - The Children Of The Night in 1998, Zennou-Naru Musuu-No Me Ha Shi Wo Yubi Sasu in 2000 and Terrifying - Art Of Dying/The Last Men On Earth II in 2002 before Kill left Balzac and in the same year, they released a split single with The Misfits. Takayuki replaced Kill as Balzac’s new drummer in late 2002.

Balzac went on to release a few more albums such as Beyond The Darkness in 2003, Came Out Of The Grave in 2004, Dark-Ism and Out Of The Grave And Into The Dark in 2005, and Deep Blue: Chaos from Darkism II in 2006. They will be releasing Paranoid Dream of the Zodiac this year.


Discography :
Albums
The Last Men on Earth
Deep - Teenagers from Outer Space
13 Stairway - The Children of the Night
Zennou-Naru Musuu-No Me Ha Shi Wo Yubi Sasu
Terrifying - Art of Dying/The Last Men on Earth II
Beyond The Darkness
Came Out Of The Grave
Dark-Ism
Out Of The Grave And Into The Dark
Deep Blue: Chaos from Darkism II
Paranoid Dream of the Zodiac

Singles
Lord of the Light and DarknessAtom Age Vampire in 308
Isolation from No. 13
When the Fiendish Ghouls Night
Who Will Survive - Off the Wall
The 4 Brothers Meet Misery Skull
Oldevils Legend of Blood
Isolation from No. 13
Into the Light of the 13 Dark Night
Neat Neat Neat/The End of Century
Hands of 9 Evils
Nowhere Number 13/Tomorrow
Unvarnished Facts
Thirteen Ghost/Psycho in 308
The Silence of Crows/Vanishes in Oblivion
Don’t Open ’Til It’s Doomsday/Day the Earth Caught Fire
Out of the Blue
Beware of Darkness
Out of the Blue
Out of the Light of the 13 Dark Night
Screwbiter
Gimme Some Truth
Inside My Eyes
D.A.R.K.

Demo Tapes
Scapegoat 666
Descent Of The Diabolos
Megabattle ’93
Veritas Tempore Patet Oculta
One Night In Hell
Weird And Occult
Psycho In 308