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Zilch is the title of two different artistic groups.
The first is a project founded by Hideto “hide” Matsumoto in 1995 during a stay in Los Angeles.
Zilch was intended to launch an English-speaking market for hide. At its core, hide was joined by two English musicians; guitarist Ray McVeigh who had previously played with members of the Sex Pistols in a band called The Professionals, and bassist Paul Raven of Killing Joke. To complete the line-up American drummer Joey Castillo (now of the “Queens of the Stone Age” fame) and I.N.A, a good friend of hide and member of his solo band “hide with Spread Beaver” in Japan joined the group.
The band was first mentioned in hide’s personal online blog in January 1998 when the video for “Electric Cucumber” was released on Japanese music television. hide said that the band had recorded the particular song and video in 1996 but its release was delayed due to the adult nature of the themes it dealt with. hide said that the he planned to release an album with the band which had already been completed the previous year as well as concentrate on live work with the group. It has now transpired that the band were set to tour with American alternative act Marilyn Manson, the lead singer of which hide was friends with and gave a special “thanks” to in the album notes for his “Psyence” CD.
It was not to be; hide died on May 2, 1998.
The album was released on schedual and is regarded as being close to how it was originally intended with only post production work been contributed after hide’s passing.
The first is a project founded by Hideto “hide” Matsumoto in 1995 during a stay in Los Angeles.
Zilch was intended to launch an English-speaking market for hide. At its core, hide was joined by two English musicians; guitarist Ray McVeigh who had previously played with members of the Sex Pistols in a band called The Professionals, and bassist Paul Raven of Killing Joke. To complete the line-up American drummer Joey Castillo (now of the “Queens of the Stone Age” fame) and I.N.A, a good friend of hide and member of his solo band “hide with Spread Beaver” in Japan joined the group.
The band was first mentioned in hide’s personal online blog in January 1998 when the video for “Electric Cucumber” was released on Japanese music television. hide said that the band had recorded the particular song and video in 1996 but its release was delayed due to the adult nature of the themes it dealt with. hide said that the he planned to release an album with the band which had already been completed the previous year as well as concentrate on live work with the group. It has now transpired that the band were set to tour with American alternative act Marilyn Manson, the lead singer of which hide was friends with and gave a special “thanks” to in the album notes for his “Psyence” CD.
It was not to be; hide died on May 2, 1998.
The album was released on schedual and is regarded as being close to how it was originally intended with only post production work been contributed after hide’s passing.
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Sirimono wrote:
I agree it's industrial. Just because one member is Japanese it doesn't mean the style of the band is J-Rock. I wouldn't say every Japanese rock band does J-Rock... I find such discussions hilarious though... as if there weren't more important matters than the tagging of a band on a website.
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ShoTown_ wrote:
Damn . . . a japanese rock/metal band that doesn't fuckin suck, doesn't have extremely camp breakdowns (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7MJJqY7cXk HAHAHA), aren't dressed like crack addled leather bound The Crow parodies (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-Gf15HWm9o) and doesn't do that irritating 'EYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO' voice on every damn line (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZiNFuOSX10) Come on Japan! If there's one band that can make decent music there must be at least one more!!! Any suggestions of other decent Japanese rock/metal?
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Eisenque wrote:
♥♥ hide ♥♥
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jkun wrote:
What the hell? what are people tagging this as j-rock and japanese? this is industrial rock.
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Rosie-kun wrote:
"Let's tag it as Space Monkish. End of this cretin conversation. " I agree
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kazeninja wrote:
Let's tag it as Space Monkish. End of this cretin conversation.
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XbaranoseidouX wrote:
"Zilch isn't japanese, so please don't tag it as that. "-Zilch are not full english either.
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Nenoka wrote:
@Reckless_Rebell - It depends on your weekly counts. Not your overall plays.
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Reckless_Rebell wrote:
How am I not a top listener? I have one of the most plays for Zilch! I don't see anyone past 300 and I have over 700. Soon to be 1,000+!
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areyouawake9 wrote:
are there any other bands that sound like zilch? not like X JAPAN, hide with Spread Beaver or Saver Tiger that last.fm reccomends. I find that marilyn manson may be something what hide would wanted to do (obviously there wouldnt be antichrist sort of lyrics but).
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SK-Futhark wrote:
On wikipedia, though, they've been tagged as American, which is not correct either, as they were formed with two English members. To be fair, it was Hide's project I think, so I suppose you could call it Japanese.
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LightRed wrote:
Zilch isn't japanese, so please don't tag it as that.
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Zersch wrote:
Loved the band from the moment I heard Inside the Pervert Mound on the Heavy Metal 2k soundtrack. Took me years to find an actual copy of the CD. Partly my fault, I'll admit. I'll give my nominations to Swampsnake and What's Up Mr. Jones? as my favorite tracks aside from the previously mentioned 'Pervert Mound. Not to blatantly echo the person below me, but it needs to be said again. It's such a shame things ended the way they did.
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doornappel wrote:
Such a shame Hideto Matsumoto died, it's good rock music :-)
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m464k1 wrote:
Inside the Pervert Mound (F.A.K.K.²) are fucking disco's number.
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Babli-01 wrote:
http://www.last.fm/group/We+hate+J-Tags
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athaiya wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0AcSLomwHU
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PannaOna wrote:
hide is the best...i love "inside the pervert mound"
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MsDiplodocus wrote:
Fucktrack #6 is definitely my favorite song by them
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Malizer wrote:
Fuctrack #6 <3
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