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(1999 – present)

D’espairsRay is a rock band hailing from Japan. Their music has industrial, metal, electronic, gothic rock and pop influences. The group was formed on September 9th, 1999 by HIZUMI (vocals, ex-Le’veil), Karyu (guitar, ex-Dieur Mind), ZERO (bass) and TSUKASA (drums, ex-Le’veil). They held their first live performance on the 24th at Takadanobaba AREA. On December 26th of the same year they distributed a free demo tape, “蒼”, limited to 60 copies

Their first single, entitled “蜘蛛” was released in October of 2000, and a second, “眩惑”, in 2001. Fans began to increase. In July of 2001, the band released a mini-album, “TERRORS”, and started to play at larger venues (despite vastly under estimating their boost in popularity, and continuously releasing limited copies of their music). However, notability was truly acclaimed after the release of their single “Garnet”, which reached the top of the Oricon indies charts.

The success of “Garnet” gave D’espairsRay the opportunity to play events such as Stylish Wave 03 Mega Force Gig and the infamous Beauti-Fools Festival ‘03, organised by the magazine FOOLS MATE. They weren’t just generating interest on their own soil. In 2004, they embarked upon their first European tour, “Wollust Ward dem Wurd gegeben”, that traversed France and Germany.

Finally, the long awaited debut album “Coll:set” was released on June 29th, 2005, and the band toured North America, performing a sold out show in NYC on Halloween.

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_Abendstern wrote:
5 hours ago

Awesome! Babysteps is the way to go!

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maniatheater wrote:
5 hours ago

It's because of the auto correction system, none of the names have been merged yet. We're one step closer, though!

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_Abendstern wrote:
6 hours ago

But I've got only one spot with D'espa now o_o

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murder-freak wrote:
yesterday evening

No they haven't O____o

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_Abendstern wrote:
yesterday evening

WoW. Maybe I'm slow but hooray! They have finally merged DéspairsRay and +D'espairsRay+ (plus many other different spellings) into D'espairsRay! It annoyed the living shit out of me to have two spots in the top with the same band. Nice!

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HALTHESHOEGAZER wrote:
yesterday evening

I haven't got my copy either, I might get it on monday...

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murder-freak wrote:
yesterday afternoon

I want my limited RIGHT AWAY! ;___; But I have to still wait a long time.... Damn custom.

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maniatheater wrote:
Friday afternoon

Even though I still prefer LIQUIDIZE, the limited edition DVD was well worth the money, which is more than can be said for the best of album. The live was sensational, and I loved the new songs live. I'm also happy to see they're keeping the Hizumi pretending to slap Karyu around skit. 8D

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shoucake wrote:
Friday morning

i just watched closer to ideal and IT WAS INCREDIBLE

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murder-freak wrote:
Thursday evening

I didn't order Immortal - at least yet. My Limited dvd got stuck into the custom. u____u

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murder-freak wrote:
Thursday evening

HALTHESHOGAZER, I don't know, I can't remember. :W

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shoucake wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

It's criminal that PIG is so low in the charts.[7]

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HALTHESHOEGAZER wrote:
Wednesday afternoon

so does anyone have immortal yet?

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HALTHESHOEGAZER wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

HIZUMI’s personal interview? Didn't he talk about PIG in that one, the comment about MaVERiCK was more that if he'd been in the same state as he was in then(2003) while writing PIG(2006) it wouldn't be the same. That he's changed and sees things differently then what he did back in 2003. The comment about showing himself was directed at PIG only I think. But I might have interpreted that wrong ^^'

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murder-freak wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

Or then the person who translated it couldn't understand that part in Japanese or so... I don't know. I'll check.

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murder-freak wrote:
Tuesday afternoon

Maybe that wasn't then MaVERiCK's lyrics o----o It was SHOXX 06 if I remember correct. I can check the thing when I go to home. Where is that information from?

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Novikov_MA wrote:
Monday morning

industrial, WTF?

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maniatheater wrote:
7 days ago

I'm going to hunt around for it, it's an old piece on Karyu!

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maniatheater wrote:
7 days ago

They both definitely said they were about / inspired by Karyu and his "situation". The song writing process (lyrics on top of Karyu or Tsukasa's composition, mostly Karyu) generally involves two or more of them working together. I know Karyu's said he composed the song in order to, yes, "fix and improve himself", but Hizumi says the lyrics were influenced by Karyu and the disenchantment he'd had with the band, how inferior he felt in comparison to Tsukasa and how he strived to best him. Something like that. I wish I could find the magazine the interview was in now. D:

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murder-freak wrote:
7 days ago

Ahhhhhh yes! It is probably like that XD The lyrics tells Hizumi himself and the song's music is about Karyu : D

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