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Kuroyume (Japanese: 黒夢, lit. ' Black Dream ' ) was a Japanese rock band formed in Nagoya in May 1991. They quickly achieved success with their 1994 major label debut album Mayoeru Yuritachi , which reached number three on the Oricon Albums Chart .
Fake Star ~I'm Just a Japanese Fake Rocker~ (stylized in all caps; commonly abbreviated to Fake Star) is the seventh studio album by the Japanese rock band Kuroyume, released on May 26, 1996, by EMI. [1] The song "Pistol" won an International Viewer's Choice Award at the 1996 MTV Video Music Awards. [2]
Kiyoharu Mori (Japanese: 森 清治, Hepburn: Mori Kiyoharu, born 30 October 1968), better known by his stage name Kiyoharu (清春), is a Japanese musician and singer-songwriter, known as frontman of the rock bands Kuroyume and Sads. In 2003, he began a solo career, performing as both singer and guitarist.
In early 2010, Kiyoharu announced that Sads and Kuroyume would be resuming activities again, though the other original members of Sads would not be returning; instead, the band now included K-A-Z, the guitarist of the band Detrox, Keisuke Kubota, support bassist for the band 30size, and Go, leader and drummer of the band Suns Owl.
Mao (マオ, born October 23) is a Japanese singer, known for being the lead singer of visual kei rock band SID and writer of all the lyrics. [1]SID became popular in Japan in mid-2010 with the album Hikari, which includes the anime songs "Monochrome no Kiss" and "Uso" with lyrics written by Mao. [2]
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Hazuki is a self-confessed fan of visual kei bands, and the first one he listened was Luna Sea. After listening to Kuroyume, he was inspired by their vocalist Kiyoharu and became a singer. [18] His compositions are heavily influenced by Western music, and the non-japanese bands he cites as an influence are Skid Row and Pantera. [1]
After playing one show as a Kuroyume cover-band called "Deathmask" at the live house Nagano J on January 24, they officially formed Dir En Grey on February 2, 1997. [ 13 ] The band name is a combination of German "dir", French "en" and English "grey" and was thought to mean "Grey Silver Coin" ( 灰色の銀貨 , Haiiro no Ginka ) ; [ 14 ] the ...