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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 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 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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Pyratheon wrote:
I'm looking to buy a Zilch poster, by the way. Give me a PM if you've got one for sale - they're fairly hard to come by.
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Pyratheon wrote:
The Jrock tag is indeed cringeworthy.
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jettoninjin wrote:
cringing at the Jrock tag [2] god, seriously.
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RagingHazelnut wrote:
cringing at the Jrock tag
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GrimmaBlakheart wrote:
I LOVE ZILCH SO MUCH!!!! I have Fucktrack AND Electric cucumber as Ringtones! heheh and the Electric Cucumber Video is so great
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tobbAddol wrote:
I don't care that much for Hides other stuff, but this I like.. :)
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shinitaan wrote:
I'm a fan of hide since a long time but discovered Zilck only recently....Serious, what a nice surprise. I'm becoming fond of this band more and more while listening to it.
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baskinart wrote:
Not sure how to tag the 321 album. I've seen it as "321" on the Japanese OHP; "3.2.1" on MusicBrainz; "3・2・1" on Wikipedia JP...
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specctro wrote:
@junk-story maybe because that picture is from post-hide era, which sucks.
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kikucisko wrote:
"Nothing better than Fuctrack#6 to creep the shit out of your friends in the car!" omg rotfl XD
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junk-story wrote:
New picture of Zilch added - I wonder why anyone hasn't put it here before. :o
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Itochan60 wrote:
Nothing better than Fuctrack#6 to creep the shit out of your friends in the car!
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vanychan wrote:
<333
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XbaranoseidouX wrote:
@ShoTown_ Not only youre a rasist fag youre an idiot as well.This is NOT jrock NOR metal!I can;t believe how people like you with such a "high" level of intelligence managed to survive till today!
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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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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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daichiku, xDarkAnarchistx, Funeran and 5 other people added Zilch to their libraries. yesterday afternoon
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shironekoorz tagged Zilch with ‘visual kei’. last month
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shironekoorz, BloodyS, Stardust_x and 19 other people added Zilch to their libraries. last month
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sebastiaan_j added Zilch to the lineup of U-Jazz Jazzfestival at Muziekhuis Utrecht. December 2011
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FoshiMetal, yzrh and 9 other people added Zilch to their libraries. December 2011
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Dark_Cure tagged Zilch with visual kei and industrial. November 2011
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Dark_Cure added Zilch to their libraries. November 2011
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IchigoDoll tagged Zilch with ‘j-rock’. November 2011
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Julian_Yad, uwabami49, stomponfrogs and 1 other person added Zilch to their libraries. October 2011
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