Merry

J-rock bands tend to be too stiff with regards to stylistic experimentation, but that sure doesn’t connect with Merry. The group mixes rock and roll & move, punk, blues and jazz, phoning it “retrock” (retro-rock), comes with an desire for avant-garde from the interwar period, enables itself to visit politics in the lyrics (unlike many Japanese rings), but still does everything in a manner that instructions commercial achievement. Their skill doesn’t result from nowhere: founders Gara (vocals) and Yuu (guitars) both experienced previous band encounter, and Gara utilized to be always a roadie for Dir en Gray aswell. Merry started in 2001, when their earlier rings folded, and both men established a fresh project using the bassist Tetsu, drummer Nero and another guitarist Kenichi up to speed. The group debuted within an oddball method, throwing a couple of “key gigs” in Tokyo and Nagoya, although they reverted to even more conditional live shows by 2002, which also noticed the discharge of three maxi-singles, two of these illustrated from the scandalous erotic designer Suehiro Maruo, a preferred of John Zorn’s. Merry 1st full recording Gendai Stoic was out in 2003. The disk premiered through Fullface Information, the label of Kiyoharu, the first choice of SADS, and sold-out through the pre-orders. In following trips of 2003 the music group experienced an opportunity to talk about the stage with MUCC, Miyavi and SADS. In 2004 Merry documented their second LP, the politically mindful Contemporary Garde (portmanteau for “contemporary avant-garde”), which produced the Victor Entertainment label thinking about the band, putting your signature on them in 2005. Merry’s last indie discharge Sakashima end move ~the phantom from the gallery~ (2005) was something of the technological curiosity at that time — a maxi-single/Dvd movie dual disk, — but that didn’t prevent it from credit scoring number two in the indie graphs, paving just how for their initial major record Nu Chemical substance Rhetoric (2005), which inserted the Oricon daily graphs at number 1 a day ahead of its discharge. The CD premiered in continental European countries and Scandinavia in 2006, just like the band’s second main album Peep Display, arrived the same season. The record was supported with a countrywide tour and an abroad debut, with Merry playing in Berlin and Paris. Even more touring implemented in 2007, including some displays with japan horror-punks Balzac, and a stint on the J-Rock Revolution fest in LA. Merry’s third main record M.E.R.R.Con. was away in 2007, as well (and charted at amount 15 in the Oricon weekly graphs).