Phantasmagoria (band)

Phantasmagoria
Origin Osaka, Japan
Genres Alternative rock, gothic rock, progressive rock, symphonic rock
Years active 2004–2007, 2008, 2010
Labels Under Code Production
Associated acts Spiv States, Chariots, Lin -The End of Corruption World-
Website Official website
Members Riku
Jun
Iori
Kisaki
Matoi
Past members Mao
Shion

Phantasmagoria was a visual kei rock band formed in November 2004 in Osaka, Japan by Kisaki, the executive of Under Code Production, a popular independent label.

History

Phantasmagoria was formed in November 2004 and their first single "Material Pain" was released in the music magazine Shoxx on December 21 of the same year.[1] The following day the group released its first Maxi-single, "Moonlight Revival".

Phantasmagoria was featured on the cover of well-known visual kei magazine Cure, one month after their formation, becoming one of the fastest-rising indie bands to appear on the cover of a magazine.[2]

Cosplayer of Matoi and two of Kisaki

During the 2010 Under Code Production's New Year's live, Phantasmagoria was once again revived to perform. Along with their revival, the band released a mini-album and a single which contained songs the band had written while they were active but never released. The EP, entitled Seeds of Brain, contained four new songs, whereas the new single, "Diamond Dust", contained the title track and an instrumental version. In an interview with Shoxx magazine, Kisaki stated "Although we created the songs a while back, we never released them. We included those for hardcore fans who want to listen to all our songs. This is our last release; although I'm not sure if that sounds convincing [grins]. But this time around it's really the end." [3] On April 5, the band had their last official live and Kisaki announced his newest band, "凛 -the end of corruption world-," the day after.[4] As of now, Phantasmagoria's last release is another collection of unreleased songs entitled Actuality, which was released in two versions on June 16, 2010.[4]

Members

Former Members

Discography

Singles

Albums

DVDs

References

  1. Shoxx - Issue February 2005
  2. Cure Magazine, February 2005 Issue - released December 18, 2004
  3. "[SHOXX vol.206 INTERVIEW] When we play, we're not reliving the past. It's only natural for us to perform. / SHOXX : page 1 - MUSIC JAPAN+ - articles". Musicjapanplus.jp. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
  4. 4.0 4.1 "UNDER CODE PRODUCTION [under-code.jp] :アンダーコードプロダクション@V系(ビジュアル系)インディーズバンド". Under-code.jp. Retrieved 2011-07-15.
  5. 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 www.oricon.co.jp Phantasmagoriaのシングル売り上げランキング (Japanese) Retrieved February 19, 2011

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