NEXX have announced that they will be losing their vocalist, Reia, after their sponsored event on May 15th.

They have updated the member’s blogs with the following announcement:

An Important Announcement From NEXX

Although this is unexpected, today NEXX has an important announcement.

After our sponsored event on May 14th at Shinjuku RUDIO K4, our vocalist Reia will be leaving the band.

The five members had many discussions about the future of the band and talked about the concerns that we had, and as a result came ot this conclusion.

We sincerely apologize to all of our fans, as this type of decision affects our tour and our sponsored events.

Although we regret it, we ask for your understanding and hope that you will continue to support all five of us; Reia , Hide, Shou, CHISA and Shikito.

We will continue on with our scheduled lives as plans, so once again, we hope that you will support us.

Following the announcement, Reia also updated his blog talking about his decision to leave the band.

I’m sure that there are a lot of people who were surprised by our unexpected announcement, however, on May 14th, after our sponsored event, Trip Ring “K” tour final, I will be leaving NEXX.

I am sincerely sorry to all of the fans for doing this so soon after NEXX got started.

However, after talking with all of the members, we arrived at the decision for me to leave.

Honestly, I found the members of NEXX from going to many different livehouses and put together the band, so it’s not that I’ve fallen out of love with the NEXX that we made together. However, after much thought and in respect to our opinions on the future of the band’s activities, the answer we arrived at was me leaving [the band].

It’s not like we’re no longer friends.

Even though I won’t be in the band anymore, I still love each of the members, and I really want NEXX to keep going after I’m gone.

I’ve been worried about my own future, but in reality I haven’t really thought much about it, and I’m not sure if I’ll start up another band or not.

Of course I’ll continue if I can.

Nevertheless, until May 14th I’m NEXX’s leader, and as a vocalist I’ll put even more energy into doing my best.

I’m sorry if I’ve made you sad.

I love you, and all of your smiling faces.

I really do love you.

I’m sorry that this has been awkward, that I can’t really write much about it and can’t express myself well, but please continue to support NEXX.

NEXX Reia

Source: Reia’s Blog

Losing the vocalist is always one of the toughest things on a band, so let’s hope that NEXX can recover and find a good replacement!

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