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How do you feel about a band that has managed to make you cry with its music, played a show near you but didn't go and then found out that they are doing a last tour in Japan and then calling it quits?

Posting a tribute on this blog is the least i can do, i should probably be on a plane to Japan right now or being busy building a time machine to go back a few months (or years).

All the lyrics are in Japanese.
I never looked them up, i liked considering the vocalist of this band an extra instrument either he is screaming his feelings out or slowly whispering verses.





They started out in the early 90s, blending american and euro screamo, adding their own touch at the same time [From Here To Eternity, 1998]



After that came All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead in 2001 in which the band started introducing more post rock elements, slowly generating a large fanbase outside of their country and starting a league of their own.






In 2003 they released A Dead Sinking Story, an album that many consider their best. This record follows the same path as their previous one set, but with less songs hence lengthier ones, along with a more complex approach in song-structuring. I believe this album could be classified as the even more mature version of All the Footprints You've Ever Left





Insomniac Doze is the band's most experimental album to date. Their sound has changed to a dreamy mix of screamo/post rock (with the latter appearing more than ever), even less tracks (7) building an epic wall of sound for almost an hour. Probably their best one.





After 2006, they released an EP and two split albums with Thursday and Justin Broadrick'sJesu, with all their material floating in the same vein as Insomniac Doze.

Thousand Scars taken from Abyssal


An Umbrella Fallen Into Fiction taken from the split with Thursday


Life Caught In the Rain taken from the split with Jesu

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They just released their funeral album, Recitation. It is my favorite final album of a band that never had highs or lows, good albums or bad albums, positive or negative reviews. Envy just means so much to me in a different music language for all the soundtracks that accompanied moments of my life with and the chills and feelings i still get when i go back to some of their stuff.





Thank You,
You will be missed.