Year : 2020 (Japan Edition)
Style : Melodic Power Metal , Female vocals
Country : Japan
Audio : 320 kbps + all scans
Size : 198 mb
Bio:
Meet one the most promising rising stars of Japan’s female metal scene, Lovebites. The band consist of, Asami (lead singer), Miho (the band leader and the bassist), Haruna (drummer), Midori (guitarist) and Mi-Ya (guitar and keyboards). The Lovebites sound owes a debt to the many great overseas heavy metal bands that have directly influenced their writing. Coupled with their own unique take on music, with each members eclectic background and experiences, everything has culminated into forging a truly formidable group.It all started with a break-up of a girl’s metal band. Miho, who played as a live member in several bands after the break up, decided to form a new band. She called up her old band mate and the ex-drummer of Destrose, Haruna, to put together a new metal band in 2015. Miho and Haruna already had a huge following within the girls’ metal scene do this news spread quickly and created great excitement among many fans.Miho and Haruna started their search for band members and fate led them to meet Asami, the lead singer of Lovebites. She was already an experienced singer, having been on the road with Japan’s top stars such as Vamps and Uverworld as their back-up vocalist. Also her wide vocal range and tremendous control, helped to determine the specific Lovebites sound – a deep heavy metal sonic structure with dynamic crystal clear vocals.In 2016, Midori, the former guitarist of Gekijo★METALicche, joined the band as a full member, as well as Mi-Ya, (ex-a Drop Of Joker and the guitarist of 21g) as a supporting member. Having the powerful twin guitars of these two distinguished and outstanding guitarists was the cherry on top, and so Lovebites was born.On November 18, 2016, Lovebites made their official live debut at “Women’s Power presents Girls Band Next Generation” at Tsutaya O-West in Shibuya, Tokyo, sharing the stage with Disqualia and Mai Yashima.Lovebites started working on their first EP at the end of 2016, joined by amazing an engineering team of Mikko Karmila and Mika Jussila from Finland who are known for their work with Nightwish, Children Of Bodom and Amorphis to name a few. The Lovebite EP was the culmination of those sessions, released in mid-2017. In August, Mi-ya became a full member of Lovebites and, as a full 5 member group, they released their first full album, Awakening From Abyss, in October 2017.
Album:
Tokyo’s LOVEBITES must be heavy metal’s hardest working band. Since their inception in 2016 they’ve released three albums, two EP’s and a four-track single and, with no signs of slowing down, they’ve just unleashed their second double live album Five Of A Kind.The sound of a thunderous cloudburst and some sublime synths create a palpable tension, an air of expectation that hangs heavy that is finally broken when the band arrive and launch into Thunder Vengeance. It immediately finds the band in fine fettle and firing on all cylinders with Asami’s vocals sounding both deeper and warmer in the live environment. More thunderclaps and lightning strikes herald the coming of Holy War which arrives like a division of Sherman tanks rolling from speaker to speaker. Despite the band’s virtuosity, the songs on Five Of A Kind aren’t mere facsimiles with the mid-song breakdown on Holy War being markedly different from that which appears on Electric Pentagram and it’s such deviations which make live albums so special.You can almost feel the waves of affection that radiate between band and crowd as LOVEBITES return to their genesis with a spirited rendition of Don’t Bite The Dust. Barely pausing for breath Rising follows and a capacity audience requires little goading to sing along and Rising injects a nice change of pace which ensures Five Of A Kind ebbs and flows perfectly. LOVEBITES have a pair of guitarists in Midori and Miyako who can rival Iron Maiden’s Dave Murray and Adrian Smith and they trade some blistering solos on the aptly titled Raise Some Hell. Providing a moment of calm Miyako sits at the piano to deliver Chopin’s Etude Op.10, No.12 which segues into the heavy and ethereal Swan Song as Miyako returns to the piano to bookend the song in tinkling keys.The sublime Dancing With The Devil opens Disc 2 and finds the band opting for a slower tempo with bassist Miho and drummer Haruna locking in tightly to deliver a heavy, groove-laden number. Its pedal back to the metal for the lively pairing of Signs Of Deliverance and M.D.O. before Golden Destination appears like stampeding horses with its triple time gallop. The Awakening riles up the crowd and sets the stage nicely for the all-out thrasher that is The Hammer Of Wrath. Asami and a piano introduce Edge Of The World and hold the crowd spellbound, so much so that you can almost hear a pin drop which makes the coming storm even more volatile. We The United, interlaced with classical guitar lines, is the suitably epic closer and brings down the curtain to rapturous applause.Recorded at Zepp DiverCity on 21st February, Five Of A Kind – Live In Tokyo 2020 finds LOVEBITES in their natural environment and it’s an album that should become a cornerstone of the genre alongside Kiss’ Alive, Maiden’s Live After Death and UFO’s Strangers In The Night.
Line-Up:
Asami - Vocals (2016-present) - See also: ex-Uverworld (live), ex-Vamps (live)
Midori - Guitars (2016-present) - See also: ex-激情★めたりっちぇ
Miyako - Guitars (2017-present), Keyboards (2017-present) - See also: Sonic Lover Reckless, ex-21g, ex-A Drop of Joker
Miho - Bass
Haruna - Drums (2016-present) - See also: ex-Destrose
Tracklist:
CD1:
01. Thunder Vengeance 06:48
02. Holy War 05:54
03. Don't Bite the Dust 04:12
04. Rising 06:47
05. Raise Some Hell 05:24
06. Break the Wall 05:40
07. Shadowmaker 06:16
08. Piano Solo (Etude Op.10, No.12) 01:29 instrumental
09. Swan Song 06:35
10. Addicted 05:29
CD2:
01. Dancing with the Devil 05:20
02. Signs of Deliverance 06:10
03. M.D.O. 04:19
04. Golden Destination 06:31
05. When Destinies Align 07:13
06. The Awakening 02:08 instrumental
07. The Hammer of Wrath 05:03
08. Edge of the World 07:24
09. We the United 07:20
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