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I'd love to see some footage of CROW-SIS, DEJAV, MIRAGE and Lavender.

Yeah, this has to be the other Levia. According to Kisaki's site his Levia never played in CLUB GIO. They were just a local Wakayama band who had nearly all their shows in this live house: http://www.first-take.co.jp/oldtime/main.cgi But their live schedule only goes back to 2006...

The gigs seem to be copied from his official site: http://kisaki-official.syncl.jp/?p=custom&id=18393444 Well, I don't want to claim Levia (or LAYBIAL) never existed, but that thing with the songtitles is really beyond me... Here are the pictures of the two tapes I mentioned, btw. Nude of J VICE RISK

Sorry, but how are some obscure teen bands who were probably as "big" as Kisaki's band "heroes" for them...? As for the fact that it was common to copy certain phrases and titles: Yeah that's true, when you look at a number of vk bands you may see some similar titles here and there. But THIS is just too conspicuous.. I mean.. They just took a whole tracklist and simply copy-pasted it. Maybe added 1-2 songs. I don't know but it's just extremely weird that something like this was done on purpose, concerning at least 3 different bands. I haven't seen anything like this in any other vk band. This would also mean that they all had to be from the same region. How else could have such tiny bands heard about each other and even know their song titles (and the order in which they recorded them on their demo tape...)? According to Kisaki's official site (which I just found), Levia were from Wakayama (Kisaki's birth town). Nude of J (formed 1 year before Levia) were from Gunma prefecture, which is nearly half across Japan from the Wakayama area. Or maybe the 15-17 year old Kisaki traveled around Japan and went to numerous lives of bands who were together for a month and thought "FUCK YEAH! KELOID, PRAY, VIRGINING PLESURES! Guys I have no idea what it means but your song titles rock my socks! Hell, I'll make a band when I'm home and use all of them (including spelling mistakes)" No seriously... it seems a little bit too far-fetched. :/ Wow, which tape is it? Can you tell us about the songs on it?

Exactly.. I haven't seen any real evidence for these bands either. On this fansite here are even pictures of SHEY≠DE and GARDEN (probably from the history book?), but none of Levia and LAYBIAL. http://www.yurameki.it/kisaki/kisaki-bands.html Oh and in case someone doesn't know.. That pic when you click on LAYBIAL's profile is a Matina band from the late 90s. They also fucked up their lineup by adding Kisaki as the 1st bassist, lol. And more stuff I noticed.. When you compare the title of another Kisaki-Levia tape to the one of the other 90s Levia band (which definitely exists), there's some similarity as well. Kisaki: 滅 序章 not Kisaki: 滅びの序章 The sound and look of this band also fits perfectly into the time Kisaki's band supposedly was around (1992-1994).

I noticed some very strange things about Kisaki's bands Levia and LAYBIAL, which were around in 1993 and 1994. For example, this is the tracklisting of the MISS tape by LAYBIAL. 01. Dejavu 02. MISS 03. virginig Plesures 04. Refuse 05. MOTHER 06. One More Love Official source: http://under-ground-music.com/kisakihppart/english/DiscShosai.php?shohinNo=000009 Also in the mid-90s there was a band called VICE∞RISK. They released the tape Mother and this is the tracklist: 01. Virgining Plesures 02. Refuse 03. Mother 04. One More Love I saw the lyrics sheet with my own eyes, so I can confirm that it's real. Now let's look at Levia's KELOID tape: 01. KELOID 02. PRAY Official source: http://under-ground-music.com/kisakihppart/english/DiscShosai.php?shohinNo=000007 Around the same time there was a band called Nude of J. Their 傷痕 demo looks like this: 01. KELOID 02. 恋に焦がれ愛に埋もれ 03. PRAY I also saw a sheet of this tape, the tracklist is legit. I can upload pics of the VICE∞RISK and Nude of J tracklists, if you guys want to see a proof. So.. Can anyone explain this? For me, it doesn't make sense at all. VICE∞RISK and Nude of J seem to be COMPLETELY unrelated to Kisaki or his bands. I even compared the member names, because sometimes members went into different bands and rerecorded songs they've written for another band, but there's not a single similar name anywhere. Was Kisaki making things up when he decided to release information about this old bands and just took random songtitles of obscure bands from that time? O: Or did the bands just covered each other, which is highly unlikely... I know there's a KISAKI history book out there. Maybe someone here owns it, so we could compare the titles? But I'm 99% sure that it will contain the same information as on that UCP site.

Wait what..oxbxjxe?! And Ange∞Graie, ZEDEKIAH, TAI:LEN..? What the hell, this is too awesome to believe! Did they really write MONO TONE and not Tinker Bell as an ex-band for Toshihiro? That's pretty weird. And lol at digging out the oxbxjxe bassist. I thought he retired in 94/95.

MITSURU and HIZMI!

Yowmay, vocalist (ex. Silver-Rose, SLIDE RARE, Naked Armor) KöHey, vocalist (ex. Sleep My Dear, Medical Trance Peach, Cryella) Die, vocalist (ex. 【zɔ́:diæ̀k】, BP.Moscute, The Spirit'z Knot JellyFish, SAMURAI.55)

Thanks for the explanation! I didn't know that using katakana is an antique way of writing kana stems. So if it's either all hiragana or all katakana.. does it mean that for example the title 開放サレタ君ヘ (it's a Shiver song) is an example of "ancient writing" where the ヘ is supposed to be katakana because サレタ is katakana? Or is this a different story since there's no particle in the title? I don't even understand what サレタ is supposed to mean... Btw, here's a scan of the Madeth title for reference. You may be onto something there! O: This made me instantly think of the horror movie "Noroi". Usually you would write Noroi (curse) as 呪い, but the movie title is written ノロイ.

Holy....

You need a cdbaby account, but I just registered one within a minute. That shouldn't be a problem.

I got some question.. Not history related, but since you are talking about their song titles here, I think it fits. Can anyone tell me whether it's a hiragana or katakana べ in 黒装束の調べ? I can't figure it out by looking in the booklets or lyric sheets because べ looks nearly the same in both writing systems (べ and ベ). Usually you use hiragana in combination with kanji, but they have other song titles like 廃人狂イ人形 or 呪ワレシ華ノ生命 where they seem to use katakana instead, even if it's not correct. Probably just for stylistic reasons. But there's also some random hiragana in few of their songs... It's confusing.