GESSHIRUI – “We wanted to change the foundation of the group” (August 2024)
To be honest, I couldn’t fully comprehend what had happened. On January 2, 2021, at the Shibuya Quattro club, Yukueshirezutsurezure disbanded. Yukueshirezutsurezure was the second group founded by codomomental, and they began their activities in December 2015. It was an experimental project based on the concept of “exhaustion and fury.” A unique feature of the group was that all the members used scream vocal techniques. From the start, the group experienced many ups and downs. I would like to delve deeper into this topic, but then the text would become too heavy for reading, so today I’d like to focus on what’s current.
Today, I want to talk about the first single of Not Secured, Loose Ends, called “GENESIS.”
Since the producer and other members of the production team grew up on Western music, punk, emo, and hardcore, from the moment codomomental INC was founded, you could feel the influence of these genres in our works. Japanese artists singing in English often perform music in the punk/emo/hardcore genre, and naturally, this did not pass by our production team either. Therefore, it wasn’t surprising that the group Not Secured, Loose Ends, performing Yukueshirezutsurezure’s songs in English, came into being. Rather, the question arises, why didn’t we do this from the very beginning… Thinking about it, it seems there was a significant influence from envy. This band, which is described as lyrical hardcore, started as a typical hardcore band under the name BLIND JUSTICE, but after rebranding as envy, they gradually evolved into their current style. Perhaps that’s why, when the producer talked about Not Secured, Loose Ends (NSLE), I easily accepted the idea of creating a group in such a format.
Currently, NSLE includes four members: Mei Yui Mei (leader), Higaminari Yuchiomi, Yuzuriha Ouhi, and Kisaragi Megumi. Higaminari Yuchiomi is a newcomer (a very funny, charming, understandable, and show-offy personality, while also so wonderful that a third work featuring her is already on the way). All the other members are leaders of their own groups. However, even this lineup seemed quite logical to me. By the way, as was already mentioned in one of the streams, it was initially planned to be Mei Yui Mei’s solo project, and therefore the songs for “OUROARBOROS” were chosen so that she could perform them alone.
And the fact that, due to various circumstances, it was decided that the group would operate with its current lineup… Would it be more appropriate to say “this was natural” or “this was inevitable”? No, it was inevitable. It seems that the demo created by syva changed the group’s fate.
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