From Seoul to Russia

привет - Hello to Russia!

Lets introduce another band who played at 
"Slam Day Out", Club FF, South Korea three weeks ago - R4-19 (R4NINETEEN).

R4-19´s meaning is "Revolution 19 April" - a very important day for Koreas democracy.

Founded in 2014 from

Vocale: Myoungshick Kim,
Bass: Kiseok Lee  
Guitar: Bongkyun Choi, Ansu Kim
Drum: Jae Hak Choi, Dong Hee Yim
Keyboard & programming: Tae Min Kang

The Hardcore/ Nu Metal band from Seoul has a huge US 90s influence with an active stage performance. R4-19 has released already 2 EPs - Hero (2015) and Prelude (2019).

They have played a bunch of concerts the last years and entered stages like Gangwon Rock Festival and already played some shows in Japan!

Back to the concert - I can say R4NINETEEN involves the audience with the headbanging energy of melodic guitar riffs 

and there stage expierence -
who are also not afraid to just go in the crowd of people and rock with them!😁🤘

This week - friday- they will perform an exclusive live concert in Vladivostok, Vodoley Club - with the russian concert Entertainment Yoonmidilab. >> Info <<
You have the chance to visit this band outside from South Korea. 
So lets rock the hall and go to R4-19's concert if you are living around this area!! :)

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"IT'S TIME TO MAKE YOUR "PLAN Z" - 티어드랍

Welcome back to this music blog about asian and western Indie music!

Last weekend at my second travel journey in Seoul there was the opportunity to discover the korean Metal band „Teardrop“ at the „Slam Day Out“ Event at Club FF in Hongdae/Seoul, South Korea.

Teardrop was formed in 2004 as an 5-piece „K-Metal“ Nu Metal band under  

Hyuk Joo Go (Vocale), 

Jose Kim (Guitar), 

Jung Heon Kim (Guitar), 

Sung Young Kim (Bass) and 

Hyoil Kim (Drums).

In 2006 the first EP „Teardrop“ was released. At the same year the band won the first place at the Rocket Festival competition and played there first big concert at the Melon AX Hall in Seoul. The next years Teardrop played an amount of over 200 concerts and events and used all the experience and energy to produce and release 2011 there first Album „Wish“. In the same year Teardrop won another 1^st place at the „Asia Beat Seoul Area“.

2012 TD joined the Greenfriends contest – making the 1^st place again -  and had the opportunity to play 2012 and 2013 at the Greenplugged Festival and 2013 and 2015 at the Zandari Festival in Seoul.

In November 2016 the new Album with much Nu-Metal elements „Plan Z“ was released. The powerfull and melodic „K-Metal“ songs were used for new energic concerts and events like in 2017 – as part of the lineup at the Incheon Indie Music Festival or August 2019 at Pentaport Rock Festival – one of South Koreas biggest Rock Festivals with over 80,000 visitors!

Teardrop describes there music as „POWER – ENERGY – MELODIC – EMOTION“. 

With an amount of over 15 years experience and a powerfull live performance they changed the korean music industry dramatically around Seoul with a new view of Nu Metal and Alternative Metal. „ At the stage we can breath and share the energy with the audience.“

So – let us breath and listen to the Songs of Plan Z! :)

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Amongst Thieves - Post-Hardcore from the UK

'We are Amongst Thieves' 

Under the crone of the british UK flag lets introduce the Post-Hardcore band

Amongst Thieves.

Established in 2013 under

Josh Narsh (Vocal), 
Alex Morgan (Guitar),
Ricky Kwong (Guitar) and 
Andy Ackroyd (Drums)

as a newcomer of the Genre in there hometown York/England - AV played numerous local gigs and got a huge live experience and EPs:

 

 







                                                                                         
Discography:


Reason to forget (2019)
Forest for the trees (2019)
Better Than Before (2019)
Find a way (2019)
Amongst Thieves (2017)

March for the Sun (2015) 

Revise. Reform. (2014)

Formative years rest behind them -  like the chance to perform as part of the  
Slam Dunk Festival and other events in the UK Indie subculture. AV were also featured by the british music magazine 'Rock Sound'.

With melodic Punk and Hardcore elements AV already released a bunch of EPs and Music videos.

2019 the band made there new debut this year after hiatus with the current EP 'Better than before'.

So lets check out there music vids, upcoming gigs and Merch Shop! 😁

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►All you've left... ...is a Void

Lets introduce Void - one of South Koreas rare Visual Kei bands. 

Visual Kei is a clothing style who is based in Japans 80s and a famous seen subculture of Japanese Rock Music since today. 

Founded from Toa (Vocal, ex. RoaR) with Robyn (Guitar, ex. RoaR), 

Bi Su Hyun (Bass) and Shin (Drums),

 the four-member band started 2018 in Seoul, South Korea under this formation. 

As a newcomer they released there first EP 'Neo Decadence' under Punch Record who was also featured in the japanese Heavy Metal magazine "Burrn!". 2018 the band also played an Asia Tour in Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. 

Under a well-grown fanbase - the band played in March 2019 there Major Debut in Tokyo and released the first Single 'The last romancer on 12th July 2019. Void also is active in other Media like korean Drama endings (The good witch - Original Soundtrack Composing) and the Alternative band 'Junky Grey' ( Since 2017, Toa Vocal + Bi Su Hyun, Bass) 

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►G'day from Perth

G'day - thats how to say 'Hi' in Australia. 

Lets heading to Perth to discover Tamala Park Book Club - an australian Visual Kei band on the other side of the world.

Grown up together in Highschool TPBC's name stands for Tamala Park - an rubbish dump near the hometown place and a book club, because they liked how the words are flowing. 


With the love and interest of japanese Rock music bass and guitar players Retsuki (Vocal) and Sora based the group in the beginning of 2018. When the members Akarui (Drums) and Hayamo (Guitar) joined the band TPBC started playing rehearsals. 

Influenced by the Gazette, vistlip, One Ok Rock, Short Stack, The Killers and K-Pop, TPBC recorded the first EP 'Colour your World' which was released last November. 

In the land of desert and kanguroos the individual music scene of West Australia is very rough and hard. So the band has to worked hard til today. There is actually not a chance to play live on stage yet. 

Lets support the Visual Kei scene and make is happen! 

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►Lustrouble / 러스트러블 - Music from Seoul

Welcome! 

After a long hiatus lets introduce a new korean band from Seoul. In 2018 the band Lustrouble - 
who sings about human's Lust and Love - was founded of leader  

Dae-ho (Vocal) with the members

Min-Kyoung (Vocal & Keyboard), 

Jeff (Rhythm & Lead guitar), 

Hae-in (Lead & Rhythm guitar), 

Jay (Bass & Backing Vocal) and 

Do-Hyun (Drum & Percussion).

Yes, you have seen right. 
This band has two Vocals. 

Min-Kyoung gives there songs 

an female melodic Rock feeling while Dae-ho take the Scream and support parts. 

Lustrouble describes there Genres as Post-Rock/Metal, Nu-Metal, Alternative.

First impressions from fans got the band with the Leage of Legends cover 

'K/DA - POP/STARS in Dec. 2018.  

  

As a very young group Lustrouble produced already in January 2019 the Single 

' We Love Hate ' with 4 Songs, including an english version. With a full schedule of concerts including South Korea's famous 'No Mercy Fest' the band manifested in short time a solid fanbase in Seoul. Stay tuned to the upcoming new songs. You can find the current Single on Apple Music. 

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