Envy (band)

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Envy
General information
Genre (s) Alternative rock , screamo , post rock
founding 1992
Website http://www.envybandofficial.com/
Current occupation
Nobukata Kawai
Masahiro Tobita
Manabu Nakagawa
Dairoku Seki
Tetsuya Fukagawa

Envy are a screamo / post-rock band from Japan , whose records are distributed in Europe by the Scottish Mogwai Indian label Rock Action Records .

Band history

The band was founded in Tokyo in 1992. On April 1, 2016, the band published a statement on their homepage that singer Tetsuya Fukagawa left the band for private reasons. On April 1, 2018, the band confirmed Tetsuya Fukagawa's return to the current line-up.

style

Tetsuya Fukagawa of Envy performing in Hong Kong (2011)

In its early phase it was more reminiscent of punk , but the complexity and length of the later songs alone made the music of these Japanese increasingly relate to art rock or post-rock . The texts are usually in Japanese. Their sound is hard, but since the album All the Footprints You've Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead , which was released in 2001, it has also been determined by rather epic song structures in which hard and brutal screaming passages alternate with melodic instrumental parts. Since this album, the pieces have consistently been pervaded by (guitar) melodies, which, due to their melancholy mood, are reminiscent of bands like Godspeed You! Reference Black Emperor . Singer Tetsuya Fukagawa made a guest appearance on the 2006 Mogwai album Mr. Beast .

The album Insomniac Doze , released in September 2006, shows a preponderance of calm instrumental passages with at most spoken texts pervading them, which, however, pile up again and again to full violence and finally lead to screamo-like outbursts by the singer.

Discography

EPs

  • Angel's Curse Whispered in the Edge of Despair (1999, HG Fact)
  • Eyes of Final Proof ( 7 " , HG Fact)
  • The Eyes of a Single-Eared Prophet (2000, HG Fact)
  • Burning Out Memories ( 10 " , Molaire Industries)
  • Last Wish ( 7 " , HG Fact)
  • Abyssal (2007, Sonzai)

Albums

  • Breathing and Dying in This Place (1996, HG Fact)
  • From Here to Eternity (1998, HG Fact)
  • All the Footprints You've Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead (2001, HG Fact / Molaire Industries / Dim Mak / Rock Action)
  • A Dead Sinking Story (2003, Sonzai / Level Plane / Nova Recordings / Rock Action)
  • Compiled Fragments 1997-2003 (2005, Sonzai)
  • Insomniac Doze (2006, Sonzai)
  • Recitation (2010, Sonzai / Temporary Residence Limited / Rock Action)
  • Atheist's Cornea (2015, Rock Action)
  • The Fallen Crimson (2020, Pelagic / Cargo)

Singles

  • As Serenity Calls Your Name (2011, Sonzai)

Video albums

  • Transfovista (2007, Sonzai)

Splits

  • Envy / Sixpence (HG Fact)
  • Envy / Endeavor (HG Fact)
  • Envy / This Machine Kills (HG Fact)
  • Envy / Iscariote (Sonzai / Level Plane / Pure Pain Sugar / Code of Ethics)
  • Envy / Yaphet Kotto / This Machine Kills (Sonzai)
  • Envy / Thursday Split (2008)
  • Envy / Jesu Split (2008)

Sampler contributions

  • Far East Hardcore (Got's Pop / Slam Records)
  • Platform (Never Shown Face)
  • No Fate III (HG Fact)
  • For Ugly for Beautiful Vol. 3 (Lunch Service Records)
  • Lucky Thirteen (Nova Recordings)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Envy homepage . sonzairecords.com. Retrieved June 16, 2016.
  2. ↑ envy Official. Retrieved May 20, 2019 .