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 Japanese Progressive Rock presented by DamoX wrote:

More progressive, more hardcore ...  we imagine they might shout so? 

ZENI GEVA in 2010 (left to right; Mitsuru TABATA, Kazuyuki KISHINO, Tatsuya YOSHIDA)

ZENI GEVA
(this means "a guy who can do everything dirty for getting money") were
formed as a three-piece rock project by a guitarist / vocalist Kazuyuki KISHINO (aka KK Null, ex-YBO2) and a drummer Ikuo TAKETANI
(ex-Hanatarash) in 1987. Around their homeground Tokyo, Japan, they'd
gigged energetically and in the same year their debut live album "How
To Kill" was released via a Japanese independent label Nux Organization
founded by Kazuyuki.

Their style and sound could get heavier and deeper, with participation of another guitarist Mitsuru TABATA (ex-Boredoms)
in the following year. The three stars possessed such a strong
intention for running progressive hardcore rock scene through, that
they released the first studio album "Maximum Love & F**k" (1988),
that was re-released in 1989 with three tracks recorded with Tatsuya YOSHIDA (ex-Ruins), who replaced Ikuo as a formal drummer of ZENI GEVA from 1989 to 1991.

Steve
ALBINI, a renowned US guitarist / engineer / producer, could be so
attracted to their progressive / aggressive music style that he's
produced some of their albums in Chicago or together gone on tours in
US, Oceania, or Europe - especially in UK, they attended BBC's John
Peel Session in 1994 and 1995. On the other hand, they supported
Neurosis tour in Japan or joined Kraftwerk Tribute Album.

Tatsuya has come back to ZENI GEVA in 2009 and these three talents released "Alive And Rising" in 2010.

Alive And Rising (2010) - ZENI GEVA

Are ZENI GEVA a mixture with Speed Grindcore (like Napalm Death) and Avantgarde Progressive? What can they be denominated as?

ZENI
GEVA, getting started as a progressive / hardcore project by a founder
/ guitarist Kazuyuki KISHINO (aka KK Null) in 1987, can be very active
and naughty as previously I’ve felt. This album “Alive And Rising” was
my first ZENI GEVA experience (shame :P) and lots of their videos I’ve
checked, and come to this conclusion. This deep, impulsive sound
pressure tied up with heavy twin guitar chains has never been changed,
despite of changes of drummers. Furthermore, the current drummer is
Tatsuya YOSHIDA, a powerful drum guru, who has had massive experience
under a bunch of his progressive rock projects. Let me say they cannot
avoid piling up heaviness and progressiveness.

Throughout the
whole album, we can be drenched in the twin guitar sounds launched by
Kazuyuki and Mitsuru TABATA (he did recommend this album to me, thanks
man), dread voices, and Tatsuya’s drumming that can throw us into
complex, magmatic rhythm Renaissance. Sometimes they remind me Speed
Grindcore like Napalm Death, A. C. (The second track “Disorganization”
is just the example), and sometimes Noise RIO like Musica Transonic
(one of Tatsuya’s projects). Their instrumental technique is beyond the
words (always been frozen with astonishment), and their power can let
me remain opening my mouth, with chilling knife-edged sharpness.

Anyway,
back to the paragraph first I’ve mentioned. Guess each member should go
ahead toward his own cornerstone, different from another one. Mitsuru’s
mentioned that they’d played progressive rock, but I wonder how
Kazuyuki consider. Suppose he consider they’d played progressive
hardcore (namely, hardcore tinged with progressive, not progressive
seasoned with hardcore)? Their mysterious music goal can confuse me and
stuff me into tough inner world. Maybe pleasant if I had nothing to
think or were innocent, but various heavy chains run around my brain.

Oh,
can this confusion with listening to this album be their intensive
purpose against us? Then, they should be very clever, I wanna say
indeed.

Thank you for reading this blog. ٩(̾●̮̮̃̾•̃̾)۶

Edited by DamoXt7942 - July 19 2011 at 11:59