As we are working on plenty of new songs in a rehearsal room and gigging locally in Yokohama, we are uploading those movies from The Extreme Tour last year. (Because, you know, touring in USA is a big thing for a Japanese band. Those movies are important history of us.)
Also we made some song videos for YouTube.
Here is one of them.
What we wanted to do was, to make a video using the photos from the tour.
Because we had so many nice photos taken during the tour.
So we wanted to use those photos in a song video.
So here is a song called "Precious".
I know couple of months ago we uploaded a quite good live version of this song, but here is an "album version".
Interesting thing is, we tried to use the photos from all the cities we visited, but when we actually made the video, those photos from just one city were enough to make a single video.
So those photos used in this video were from Coeur d'Alene ID.
It was a happy gig with awesome people.
I think you can feel the happy vibe of The Extreme Tour.
It's definitely the coolest Christian missionary tour in the world.
Again, thank you for all the people we met during the tour, and all the other bands we toured together.
(The Lacks, DaMac, Colton&Zara, and The Burn-Ins)
Also, we uploaded some movies from X-Fest, Stevenson WA.
X-Fest was awesome Christian music festival with great faith and spirit.
We were super stoked to play there, and it was one of our best performance during the tour.
(And there we finally figured out some sound problems we had had on the tour. So it was really a blessing for us to play that festival.)
Here is a song called "Karma Flower" (still one of our most popular songs, we guess)
and here is the whole show (if you have some 30 minutes to watch the whole show).
We are going to do this "The Extreme Tour" in Japan, in October this year.
3 bands from USA/Canada are coming to play with us in Japan.
If any church, or any of you, are willing to help us make it happen, like lodging, funding, transportation, or booking shows, please let us know.
We need all kinds of help.
We will visit any part of Japan, if those things are provided.
It was August-September 2012 we took part in The Extreme Tour 2012.
And we finally finished editing movies from that tour and started uploading them to YouTube.
Live performance movies, I'm not sure if people like them or not.
I wonder how other musicians and bands are doing about those videos.
However, we take these live performances seriously in our music career and history.
So we record them as much as possible and upload somewhere on the internet.
It's not really subscriber friendly. Because some people just prefer listening those free tracks on YouTube and don't care much about live performance movies.
We know that, too.
We want to upload and share many songs of ours on YouTube or SoundCloud, so that people can listen to them for free. (In a hope of people will like them and buy the album/song.)
So we made some "home made" music videos using those footage from the tour.
Here is the song called "Iron Hammer".
Iron Hammer is included in the album "Japanese Pop".
"Japanese Pop" is definitely our "most expensive" album, being produced by German heavy metal legend "Sascha Paeth" (Avantasia, Heavens Gate, producing bands like Kamelot, Edguy, Rhapsody).
It was before we became a Christian band, but "Japanese Pop" is still one of our most popular albums.
And "Iron Hammer" is one of our most popular songs in our live shows.
It's heavy, it rocks, and easy to play....well, not that easy.
But it's true it's one of the easier songs to sing.
We can play that song even when Tak's voice condition is not good.
That's why we play that song more often on the tour. Because when on the tour, Tak's voice condition often gets worse.
Anyway, "Iron Hammer" is still a special song for us.
And finally we made a video for that song.
Please enjoy the song and headbang!!
Also thank you for the show last week at El Puente, Nishi-Yokohama.
It was a blessed gig, even though Tak got a cold and voice was not the best.
We played many new songs. Those songs are heavy, heavy, and heavy! Super hard rocking tunes!
We are a band based in Japan, while our internet activities are for worldwide market. There is some information gap between our Japan life and oversea world, but we are gigging, practicing, and working hard on our music.
We are preparing our new sound for the moment we will "take on the world" (I hope my English is correct).