The guitarwork in them is pretty damn pro. Ruki looks lovely :D Gazetto had also another collaborative tour that year, this time with Vidoll, who were signed at Undercode and before that at Matina, of course, like Gazetto. The bands were later featured on the cover of the November issue of Cure magazine together. Well, actually it was just the vocalists, as you can see below. I'm not sure if the bands even had an actual photoshoot together.
In any event, Vidoll went on to be a pretty popular and influential band in the v-kei scene, as I'm sure you knew although unfortunately they disbanded last January. I don't know who came up with the idea that these two bands should have a tour together - perhaps they were acquainted with each other since their Matina days?
I actually got curious as to how Vidoll sounded back in and went to search for footage and I have to say: I think I'm in love. Jui sang and sings well, and the bass was very prominent and had a wonderful warm tone, which I always appreciate. I'm going to gonna have to look into this band more, for sure. I have of course seen some of their more recent PVs before but have never been too impressed.
Maybe their old school stuff is more to my liking. Cure, November from Shattered Tranquility In December Gazetto had a show with Deadman , a band that was influential in making nagoya-kei, vkei's goth little brother, popular.
Which is a bit odd, since only the vocalist looked like what people might call a goth. The other members dressed in normal street clothes so they're not even visual kei.
Well, anyway, Deadman had this artsy, dark image and music, which makes me wonder if they and Gazetto had much overlap in their fanbases at all. I suppose it would have been better if they didn't, since then there'd have been more people at the live, though. Deadman and Gazetto both performed at the Beauti-fool's Fest event at the end of too, organized by the magazine Fool's Mate, of course.
Basically all vkei bands that FM considered possible big names of the future were on that show. The Gazemen were in good company. The vocalists of the bands performing. Kra is naturally a band that all Gazette fans know, so there's no need for introductions.
But did you know that in October they released an EP called Fiction under their alter ego band name, ? Other songs on the EP were from Miyavi, Kaggra and Kra, confusingly enough. About BIS, though. That band had only been put together a few months earlier, but the members weren't exactly newbies, since they'd been in vkei circles for a while. Also, that year their first mini-album released after the tour was kind of an indies hit.
Despite this early success, in subsequent years their popularity waned and waned, and they didn't release much, and then in they disbanded. It might have had something to do with them rather abruptly switching from visual kei to a more low-key look. And that's it. No more collaborations for the GazettE after The Summer Sonic doesn't really count. In March they'll have been together for ten years - a watershed age for bands. Many groups either split up or take a break and start having solo projects around this time.
But will the GazettE be affected by this phenomenon? I do think that they'll definitely be wanting to do something new and different now that they've already played at Dome and every other big venue in Japan. Breaking up is a ridiculous thought, of course - this is a band that genuinely still loves playing together and whose members like hanging out with each other in their free time, as well.
It's a band of brothers! What about solo projects, though? Ruki and Aoi I can see doing something on the side, mostly since they've done some non-GazettE things already on a small scale.
Aoi, who has a very distinct composing style, might want to do a solo album. Ruki, on the other hand, probably wouldn't go for an album why bother when he's already mostly in charge of the GazettE's musical direction? He has already incorporated female vocals into so many Gaze songs - why not go a step further? As to Kai, Uruha and Reita, I can't really see it I know Reita and Uruha used to be the main composers in their early bands when they hadn't still met Ruki, but I wonder if they would like to make music of their own now , so many years later.
Originally signed to Matina , they released their first single, " Wakaremichi ", and a video release on April 30, They re-released Wakaremichi and the video release in June of the same year. In October they played their first one-man live. In early , Yune decided to leave the band, and he was replaced by Kai. They started their first tour, with the band Hanamuke, and along with the tour, the bands collaborated on two songs.
A second tour followed with the band Vidoll, and the bands were featured together on the November issue of Cure, a magazine focusing on Visual Kei bands. In early December, they played a co-headlining show with Deadman. Madara was followed in May by a companion DVD, which included six music videos and an in-the-studio documentary. Their debut album, Disorder , was released in October and made it to the top 5 of the indies Oricon Daily Charts. The band spent the remainder of and touring extensively, releasing Gama , another mini-album, in August.
In , the band released their first major label single, Cassis , in December. Starting with a name change—from Japanese characters to a romanized script—they released Nil, their second full-length album, on February 8, , and embarked on another Japanese tour, ending at the venue Nippon Budokan. The concerts were arranged in conjunction with the AnimagiC anime and manga convention.
Three more singles were released followed by another studio album, Stacked Rubbish on July 4, It reached 2 on the Oricon charts within a day from the release. The album debut was followed by a promotional tour from July through September.
A single named " Guren " was released on February 13, , which landed a 1 spot on the Oricon Charts. It was announced that a new DVD would be released in August, and a new single Leech in Autumn , which also landed a 1 spot on the Oricon daily charts. The GazettE accomplished a one man tour through all of October called " From the Distorted City, " referencing to the song " Distorted Daytime " in their single " Leech ," which portrays Tokyo as a "distorted city," in terms of the society and political crisis sweeping over Japan.
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