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Posted on September 18, 2009 in New member

new-member-for-sirokuro

Sirokuro had an important announcement at their latest live to say that their support drummer 真-MAKOTO- was becoming an official member of the band.

Sources : vkdb, Ryou’s blog

Posted on April 30, 2009 in Departure, News

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This was sent in from ST reader, Nika. Thanks for the news~.

It seems Sirokuro (who we’ve introduced here) have lost their guitarist, Dou, earlier in this year.

Their other guitarist, Rui, made a post about it, saying that they were down a member, and apologized for not being about for formally announce it yet.

They are still having lives throughout the months of May and June, so all still seems to be going well for them.

source: Rui’s blog, OHP

Posted on December 27, 2008 in Blog

sirokuro-blogs

The members from Sirokuro have all decided to move to Ameba and get individual blogs!

Keep up wtih them at their new addresses:

Nyago – http://ameblo.jp/pinknokaze/
Rui – http://ameblo.jp/neko-no-bakashiaii/
Dou – http://ameblo.jp/systemerror044/
Mary – http://ameblo.jp/sinitaio/

Source: OHP

Posted on November 21, 2008 in Introduction, New band

sirokuro

Another that caught my attention lately is Sirokuro ! They formed in the same period as CELL HEAD and look interesting to me, especially for those who remember the band 鴉-Kalas-

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Vocals : Nyago (ex. 13階段)

Guitar : Rui (ex. 鴉-Kalas-)

Guitar : Dou

Bass : Mari

I, personally, think Dou has one of the most amazing look I’ve seen lately !

Anyway… the band already distributed their first demo for 10 days back in August, it was called “MIND FUCKER~demo version~” which leads me to think they could sound pretty heavy !

Make sure to check them out !

Source: OHP

  • Tay: They changed their OHP to this more than one month ago (which is no critizism to S-T at...
  • Hitsunyan: :’D Im so shallow but, their hair is fiiiit xD
  • marushia: yippie, I can’t wait to see it and hear it too
  • marushia: that’s one fatty cute cat. I have 9…seriously
  • marushia: I look foward to hear their music
  • marushia: I have to see the anime to see if is worth heidi’s song.
  • marushia: Yeah Asagi doe like roses he even appear the Gothic Lolita Bible the flower edition and...
  • nyuh: omg yay eek asdfghjkl (bored) That was really a pleasant vid/song! retardozm is love!
  • DKjapanesefreak: I like this one a bit more, cause i doesn’t think they look...
  • Bunneh: Is “ROSE OF SORROWm” a typo? I checked their official web page, and I...

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