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Interview with L~Lotus~

L~Lotus~ is a five-piece band comprising of three ex. as milk members – 蓮華 (Renka) on vocals, saki and Takayuki on guitars, masato on bass, and YUJI on drums. They officially began their activities on March 6th and have released three digital singles to date: 「worry」 on May 19th, 「snow」 on May 26th, and 「tree」 on June 2nd. The members of L~Lotus~ sat down with us to answer a couple of questions, so give it a read to get to know them better! We’d like to thank JapanFiles... Read→

Interview with -LEON-

-LEON- is a five-piece band from Gunma comprising of Yuji on vocals, Shin and Koya on guitars, Yamato on bass, and Masashi on drums. Mixing Asian cultural influences with visual rock, -LEON- has a heavy, modern sound with a distinct, ethereal flavor. On December 13th, the band released their first three track mini-album, 「REGULUS」 along with a PV for their song, 「Kokou ni Tou Tsuioku no Kagen no Tsuki」. The members of -LEON- took time to answer a few of our questions, so take a read through... Read→

Interview with GLACIER

GLACIER is a five-member group from Okinawa, comprising of Makoto on vocals, Nao on lead guitar, Koujirou on rhythm guitar, Aki on bass, and Yuuki on drums. The band formed in July 2007 and made their major debut a year later on July 23rd. They have released a full album and six singles to date with their seventh single, 「愛の降る街」 (Ai no Furu Machi) which is the third installment of a 7-month digital release project, coming out on June 30th through JapanFiles and on iTunes. The members... Read→

Interview with O-PARTS

O-PARTS is a two-man unit that started in June of 2009, formed by vocalist sho-ka (ex. Vogus Image) and bassist Jun (GaGaaalinG, ex. WAIVE). On August 20th, they released their first maxi-single entitled 「向日葵」 (Himawari) which included four tracks, all of which made it into the top ten of the Oricon Indies ranking. On May 26th, their second maxi-single, 「煌[kou]」 was released and will be available through JapanFiles from June 6th. Both sho-ka and Jun took time out of their busy schedules... Read→

Interview with Kaya

In 2002, Kaya made his vocal debut in the Mana produced two-man unit, Schwarz Stein. In 2004, Schwarz Stein disbanded, and departing from the label the band was signed to, Kaya became a free singer. Using “aesthetics” as his main theme, Kaya conducts his activities with the goals of “the revolution of the aesthetic senses” and the “liberation of sexuality” in mind, and manages his own lyrics, CD jacket designs, make-up and costume designs as well as the organization... Read→

Interview with born

born is a five member band that began together under RENNY AMY, which was active from August 2005, until December 31st, 2006. Shortly after, the same five members created D&L, and eventually changed their name to ‘born’ on April 9th, 2008 with the sponsored event at Takadanobaba AREA called “born presents 「bug scremo vol.01」”. About a week later, they released their first demonstration single, entitled 「Dust pain」, which was followed by the tour, 「Abnormal skin’s」. Since... Read→

Interview with Satsuki

砂月-Satsuki- began his solo career on February 14th, 2009, after spending seven years as the vocalist for RENTRER EN SOI. His first solo release, 「AWAKE」 came out via his online shop on May 9th, and that month he also started his 「AWAKENING TO MOONLIGHT」 tour, which even made a stop in Los Angeles, California. His next release, 「CRYSTAL」 was out on August 21st, which was followed by his 「PEER INTO YOUR CRYSTAL HEART」 tour, where he preformed in both Tokyo and Las Vegas, Nevada. ... Read→

Some more details on Shade’s first release

Posted on September 4, 2009 in Release, Sampling

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Remember Shade ? If not go check their intro here !

As I’ve told you in their introduction, Shade will soon be releasing a first album ! But they still don’t give much details about it, but after I went through their blog, I found out a post in which they say that it will go on sale for a free event they will have in October at HOLIDAY Osaka !

And not only that, the band has also updated their OHP with a sample of one of their songs, called 「Scars」 (and there will be more soon). And it sounds exactly as I thought it would ! And I have to say I love it, as short as it may be !

Sources : Official Blog, OHP

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Thursday’s new bands

Posted on July 2, 2009 in Introduction, New band, Release

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Half way now ! Do you like having new bands introduced on ST ? Don’t forget, opinions are always welcome !
Today’s bands are :

Marrow Haze

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Vo. Haizi
Gu. Daiki
Gu. Reki
Ba. Nao
Dr. You

Marrow Haze is another young band hailing from Osaka. Even if it’s written on their OHP that it’s opened for more than a year, I think they just made a mistake between the 2008 and 2009 because they seems to have formed only back in January ! Since then, they’ve been performing in the Kansai area (Osaka-Kyoto-Kobe), and lately, they’ve been taking part in some interesting events, like they will on July 15th for example at Kyoto ARC DEUX along with bands such as : WHITEBLACK, n’Dool, R指定 (R-Shitei), GRiST, or LiCKER…

The band also have a Myspace on which you listen to their first song entitled 「Blooming Out of Season」! The recording quality isn’t the best, but they sound rather good to me, so you should keep an eye on them ! And actually, this song is just one song out of the three tracks there are on their first distributed single, that they’ve been giving out since April (100 copies).

OHP : http://marrow-haze.com/

Shade

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Vo. Ryuu
Gu. Shingo
Ba. Jou
Dr. Takuto

Once again, this is a fairly young band from Osaka ! The band officially formed in November 2008, and they’ve started live activities in the beginning of 2009.

An interesting point is that the band itself has written that they formed to create a music that could not be defined by words or that we could not affiliate with any kind of music we already know. As for their live, they want to show what the word “darness” means to them. All this may seem pretty common, but it’s always nice to see and understand what’s the band’s goal is !

Other than that, Shade will also have its first release this summer ! And it’s quite a big surprise for a such a young and small band but… they will start with an album ! The details are still unknown but it seems they’re working hard on it, the even took a month off of live activities in that purpose ! I’m really excited about this first release !

OHP : http://www.shade-web.com/

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