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Tokyo, Japan (2001 – present)

MERRY is a Japanese rock band and former angura kei band, with influences from jazz, blues and punk rock.

The band’s music and lyrical imagery are likely influenced by the liberal Taisho and early Showa era, a period of significant artistic and musical movement when Japan shifted further towards Western concepts, and industrialization brought jazz and blues to Japanese culture. Similarly, MERRY fuse the these genres with rock music to create a “modern avant-garde” sound, or “modern-garde” as their second album is named. Along with cali≠gari, MERRY are also noted for their early “eroguro” (erotic, grotesque) themes.

MERRY was formed in Tokyo, Japan by Gara (ガラ, vocals), Yuu (結生, guitar), Kenichi (健一, guitar), Tetsu (テツ, bass) and Nero (ネロ, drums) in October 2001. Their aggressive performance and melancholic sounds got on the topics. They established an independent record label “GEKIYAKU RECORD” in 2002, and released two studio-albums, a couple of singles, and played numerous shows around Japan.

They signed to Victor Entertainment Inc. in September 2005, and the following year, they started their longest tour, performing nationwide, and played an impressive tour-final show at YOKOHAMA CULTURAL GYMNASIUM on 3rd May 2008. In 2006, they have performed outside of Japan for the first time in their history, and played successfully in München/Germany, Paris/France and Los Angeles/USA.

The band has released four studio-albums, nine singles and three DVD’s from Victor Entertainment Inc.
In Europe, they’ve got signed on Gan-shin Records in 2005, which has released all four studio-albums.
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  • irumaN

    Gunjou and [collector] are boring... Merankorii is OK. Carnival is GREAT, the best MERRY (reminds me of Oriental BL Circus). Fucking limited stupid things, I want in my hands Carnival and I want to hear it in a better quality.

    Monday evening
  • Pretsy

    Definitely going to miss "Under-world"-ish material :(

    Thursday evening
  • BlackfuckinFlag

    Indeed, but it's stuff that I watch once, or twice if it's something really special. But that's not often.

    last week
  • Wonrei

    Merry PVs generally are cool, I like them.

    9 days ago
  • Brontozai

    9 days ago
  • BlackfuckinFlag

    Who the fuck cares about the fucking PVs. Jeez.

    11 days ago
  • CaptainTurtels

    how odd, singles without pvs.

    19 days ago
  • Dolcify

    Peep Show album is so good. Their other stuff just doesn't catch me. :(

    20 days ago
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