nightmare to be or not to be download Nightmare To Be or Not to Be. All bands have that phase right? They try to do too much all at once and they end up putting out mediocre material. Hell, all of the greats have had it happen, they release that just aren't up to par with their other stuff. Nightmare have been going through that phase. for a while now. Ever since they changed labels to Avex, they've just not had that same spark they had when they broke through. Even before the label change they were losing their flare, Majestical Parade had some great songs, but it was by no means a solid album. But then to follow it they released their self titled album, their first effort for Avex. Self titled albums in the middle of a career usually mean some sort of come-back or a change of direction and after Majestical Parade, a change was most certainly needed. But it was a bad album, in fact I'd almost say it was a terrible album. Their next effort SCUMS was just as bad, in some places worse and interest and belief in Nightmare's musical capabilities plummeted almost unanimously throughout their loyal fanbase. Following the release of singles "Dizzy" and "Rewrite" and the announcement of a new album titled To Be Or Not To Be, interest in Nightmare as well as their relevance had reached somewhat of a nadir. After the awfully predictable affair that was "Dizzy" and the plain and uninspiring "Rewrite," scepticism was very high. The only promising aspects being the two singles b-sides, notably those off of "Rewrite," which of course, predictably, were not going to be included on the new album. Avex then released album teasers for the songs "Gallows" and "Drastica." These songs just further installed worry amongst the waning fanbase, "Gallows" being very bland and having a pathetically weak chorus and "Drastica," at least in my veiw, was the weakest song Nightmare had ever written. Sakito couldn't be bothered writing a good riff or guitar solo, Ruka's drums might as well have been absent all together over the throbbing synths and programming, Yomi sounded tired and Hitsugi and Ni. ya were basically non-existant. When the album finally dropped a little over two months ago, the fanbase braced itself for the worst. those that bothered to stick around we're rewarded. . With another Goddamned Majestical Parade. A roster of incredible songs buried amongst a swill of half-baked ideas and Sakito and Ruka's new found ambitions to be DJs (or so it would seem). "Gallows," "Dizzy," and "Rewrite" appear right at the beginning of the album, meaning that anyone who had already heard the songs had a pretty good idea of how the album was going to kick off; poorly. The songs buried in-between them doing nothing to make the album any stronger. The title track curiously has lyrics credited to the entire band, a big first but a short and forgettable track by all sense of the word. Most of the "lyrics" consist of "To be, not to be!" repeated over and over which for the life of me, I can't see needing the entire quintet to write. The song writing has taken a bit of a hit in areas, especially during the first five tracks, becoming lazy. "Terminal" sounds almost identical to the classic Nightmare song Believe and several of the albums tracks are incredibly forgettable and of course the new bloating electronic effects smother the album in a sickly sweet layer of programmed rubbish. These weak songs are so uninspired that a couple of songs are easy to play on guitar by ear during the initial listen of the song, mostly due to the fact that on these weaker songs, the guitar has taken a back seat to the electronic slime. But as with all of Nightmare's albums, To Be Or Not To Be contains a handful of amazing, inspiring and at times, incredible songs. The obvious stand outs being the ballads "Melt into blue sky" and "Lulla[by�*bye]" both songs being a much needed return to form. From the triumphant chord sequences and Yomi's stellar vocal delivery in "Melt into blue sky" and the ambient verses and graceful piano during "Lulla[by�*bye]," those handful of songs alone make the album well worth a listen. "Truth" being a hard rocking piece well worth its salt and the instrumental track, another big first for the band, "Kenka Drive" driving home another insanely good tune that isn't ruined by Yomi delivering an average vocal part (which might be why the song is an instrumental in the first place). That being said, Yomi actually does a superb job with the vocals on this album with the exception of a couple of already poorly written tracks like "Gallows," "Tokyo to Rasetsu-ku" and the title track. Even "Dizzy" and "Drastica" do have poisonously catchy choruses. One last little aspect of the album that has seen a disappearance is the artwork and costumes. For a visual-kei act, both of these things, while not especially the album art, are important. I mean come on, it's in the damn name if you look carefully enough: VISUAL-kei. Did you see it? Nightmare missed it this time round, most prominently in their album art which is just the band backed by a white void with a tonne of thin black lines. The costumes fit this albums theme of boring accordingly. but in all fairness, this has nothing to do with the music and isn't a problem as such. To Be Or Not To Be isn't a bad album, it's even a little bit above average in parts. But it is still way below Nightmare's capabilities. Some of these songs are amazingly well written while others are barely even ideas. It's a bit of a rocky listen, but there are parts to it that make it worth it. After a couple of listens, even the bad songs are nice to listen to albeit nothing you haven't already heard or anything you'd want to hear again in the future. To Be Or Not To Be has seen Nightmare pick up the slack a little, slowly but steadily. An important step Nightmare need to take now is slow down and have a rest. Look at the positives and negatives and regain their ability to make a consistently amazing albums like they have in the past. Maybe the juvenile ambition that used to be present is gone, maybe there's conflicting musical ideas going on between Sakito and Ruka. Whatever the problem is, the band needs to find the answer and fast, because even though To Be Or Not To Be didn't entirely disappoint, people have all but lost interest in the band. To Be or Not To Be. After a bit of a misstep on 2013's rushed-sounding Scums, this ninth album from the visual kei veterans is a real return to form. They've significantly toned down their hardcore-funk-metal madness and thankfully ditched the dubstep elements from the last album, and this time out seem to have deliberately striven to meld the best of their pop-savvy songwriting with a more gutsy, crunchy sound, as the production has a pleasingly raw, gritty feel throughout. Much of the album has a slightly gothic, melancholy bent, such as opener "Gallows" with its minor-key riffing and ornate keyboard flourishes, and the dark rocker "Tokyoto Rasetsuku" ("Tokyo Prefecture, Demon Ward"). Even the catchy and propulsive singles "Dizzy" and "Relight" have a touch of darkness to them. Nightmare have always written great choruses, but have sometimes stumbled when it came to the verses. Here are not just great choruses but whole songs, some of the most melodic they have recorded in years -- "Melt into Blue Sky" is a pure pop/rock nugget from start to finish and the hushed, jazzy, minor-key "Lullaby-bye" is simply beautiful. The soaring, hopeful anthem "Terminal" is another of the most tuneful songs here, and is certainly the most upbeat. Main promo track "Drastica" is powered by astringent, almost industrial riffing strongly reminiscent of early Angelo, and closing instrumental rocker "Kenka Drive" ends the disc with a bang. This isn't to say that the album does not occasionally slip into filler territory, especially toward the end. The title track is a strange beast that seems rather bolted together, and the cheesy brass and gang whoops on "Truth" are wholly unnecessary. And Yomi's voice is perhaps suffering a bit from overwork, as at times he sounds disappointingly flat and nasal. Overall, though, this is the best album Naito have recorded in a long time, certainly their best since signing to Avex, and arguably contains some of their best-ever songs. It's both tuneful and mature, and is both comfortingly familiar and sufficiently different to grab and hold the listener's attention throughout. Nightmare (4) Nightmare is a so-called "visual kei" rock band from Japan. Their biggest hits are probably the opening and ending theme of the animation series "Death Note", "The World" and "アルミナ" All members belong to their opposite band called Sendai Kamotsu, although they do not accept it. They belonged to the indie XXX Records, then made their debut with the major record label Crown Records, then with VAP, they finally stayed at Avex. The band consists of the following members: Yomi: vocals Sakito: guitar Hitsugi: guitar Ni. Nightmare.

Nightmare (ナイトメア, Naitomea) is a Visual Kei band that started on January 1st, 2000. The band was first formed by guitarists Sakito and Hitsugi while most of the members were still in high school. Bassist Ni. ya was invited to join by Sakito, and vocalist Yomi was invited by Hitsugi. Zannin joined as the drummer after he heard his classmates were forming a band. Nightmare first made their debut as a cover band, covering songs by X Japan or Luna Sea before starting to compose their own music. However, as the band was gaining more recognition in the Sendai region (where the band originated), Zannin left the band for unknown reasons. After, Ruka (formerly Luinspear) joined the band as a support member, but then shortly became the official drummer of Nightmare. Contents. Members.

黄泉→YOMI: Vocal.

→ Re:birth → ナイトメア(黄泉→YOMI)→NIGHTMARE、TAKE NO BREAK!

柩: Guitar.

咲人: Guitar.

→ ナイトメア→NIGHTMARE → JAKIGAN MEISTER(ソロ)

Ni～ya: Bass.

瑠華→瑠樺→RUKA: Drums.

→ 羅紗 → Luinspear → nightmare → ナイトメア(瑠華→瑠樺→RUKA)→NIGHTMARE、The LEGENDARY SIX NINE. History. Their first single was "Believe", released in 2003. 3 months later, they released Akane/Hate/Over, a three-A side single, the first three-A side single to be released by a band. Soon in December 2003, they had their first tour and released their first album, Ultimate Circus. In 2004, they released 3 singles, "Varuna", "Cyan", and "Tokyo Shounen" and a second album, titled Livid. Nightmare also toured around Japan under "TOUR CPU 2004". In 2005-2006, after releasing more singles, they made their third album, "Anima" along with their support tour Anima[lism], which sold out completely. In 2006 they performed live at NHK Hall calling it "Gianism Tsu". Nightmare started 2007 by releasing "greatest hits" albums and "The World/Alumina", their ninth single which was used as the opening and ending theme for the anime Death Note (for the first 19 episodes). On February 27, 2007, they released "The WORLD RULER", their fourth album. They also scheduled a 3 month tour through Japan. On June 6, 2007, they released a single called "Raison d'etre" which was the opening theme to the anime Claymore. In June 2007, they had a three-day concert "the WORLD RULER ENCORE". On September 23, 2007, they performed at Nippon Budokan for the first time, titling their concert "Far East Symphony. the FIVE STARS NIGHT.

". TIckets sold out within 2 weeks. On October 3, 2007, they released a single「このは」(Leaf), and on November 7, 2007, they released another single titled "DIRTY". Nightmare had a tour called "DIRTY Influence" in December to end 2007. Starting 2008, they had a Zepp tour titled "2008 ZEPP TOUR six point killer show" in March 2008. They also released 2 more albums, "Nightmare 2003-2005 single collection" and "Kyokuto Symphony. The Five Stars Night. @ Budokan". Their 2008 single "White Room", was released as a limited download on the internet. On May 21, 2008, they released "KILLER SHOW", their eighth album. Beginning on June, they toured all around Japan under their new album. In the summer of 2008, there was an earthquake that hit near their hometown, Iwate-Miyagi Nairiku. Nightmare held a charity concert on September 26, 2008 at ZEPP Sendai, raising up to 304,048 yen to donate to helping the victims of the earthquake. On September 17, 2008, they released the single "Lost in Blue", and on December 3, 2008 they released another single "Naked Love". Both singles were the opening/ending to the anime 魍魎の匣 (Mouryou no Hako). In 2009 they had a 2-day tour titled "the 9th new departure", and released the album "Majestical Parade" on May 13, 2009. One of the songs [from the album], "Melody", was available for download on April 29, 2009 through "DWANGO". During May 2009, they had a nine-stop live house tour ending on May 31, 2009 titled "NIGHTMARE LIVE HOUSE TOUR 2009 THE PARADE OF NINE". They had another tour in June titled "NIGHTMARE TOUR 2009 PARADE. Start of [X]pest eve. ". On May 17, 2009 Nightmare and the internet video company Nico Nico streamed a Nightmare live concert. The summer 2009 tour "PARADE TOUR FINAL -MAJESTIC-" had their second appearance at Nippon Budokan on August 29, 2009. On September 22, 2009, they released "Rem_", their 20th single with a side track B, "Love Addict". In December 2009, they had a six-show Fanclub-only Live House tour. Nightmare's 10th Anniversary. On January 1, 2010, their 10th anniversary album "GIANIZM" was released, featuring re-recordings of 8 Gianizm songs in the past and 2 new Gianizm tracks. The concept of Gianizm was from Gian, a character from Doraemon. Gian's motto is "What's yours is mine, what's mine is mine". On December 31, 2009, Nightmare held a New Years' Eve Countdown show at ZEPP Sendai, along with their first performance at the Saitama Super Arena on January 9, 2010. The performance was titled "Nightmare 10th anniversary special act. Vol. 1 [GIANIZM]". On April 2010, they began their new tour, "Request of GIANIZM the Tour". On June 23, 2010, they released "a:Fantasia", their 21st single. They had a 2nd long tour, "Nightmare 10th anniversary special act. Vol. 2: re:START fo TELL(ALL)ISM" in July 2010. It started at Saitama and ended in Sendai. The final show of the the tour was their 3rd appearance at Nippon Budokan. Before their Vol. 3 tour, the release "Historical. The Highest Nightmare" on October 20, 2010 with re-recorded tracks and one new song. Towards the end of October 2010, they had their last tour of the year, "Nightmare 10th anniversary special act. Vol. 3 Historical. The highest NIGHTMARE. ." On December 25th 2010, they performed at Makuhari Messe for the first time. Nightmare (2011) After a countdown clock had appeared on their website, Nightmare announced an unexpected live called "publish!" at Shinkiba Studio Coast. However, because of the Sendai earthquake and tsunami that occurred on March 11, 2011, the show was postponed until March 30 and renamed to "publish & recover!". Along with that, their website had announced a new single release on May 18, 2011 titled "Vermilion" under Avex Entertainment. They started their "Time Rewind to Zero" tour on April 15, 2011. Their last show of the tour was on June 27th at Tokyo Kokusai Forum Hall A. In mid-June, the band had also announced that they would be performing with Kishidan on August 1 as guests in celebrating Kishidan's 10th anniversary with a Battle of the Bands show. Around early July 2011, the band announced the release of a new single on September 7, 2011, titled "Sleeper". This song was a tie-up collaboration with luxury jewellery brand GemCerey. Following the release of the single was a new tour called "Zeppelin", where the band toured through Zepp live houses nationwide in Japan. Their new self-titled album, "Nightmare" was released on November 23. Following the release, the band began a three-month tour titled "Nightmare Tour 2011-2012 Nightmarish Reality", which started on December 2, 2011 and ended in March 2, 2012. Musical style. Nightmare's band concept is Gianizm and this word occurs in many of their song titles. Gianizm is derived from Doraemon's character Gian. Gian's motto is "Omae no mono wa ore no mono. Ore no mono wa ore no mono." ("What's yours is mine, what's mine is mine.") Incidentally, this is also the name of the two 'best of' albums they had re-released their indies' songs on. However, the band has often ventured into new genres or styles, such as in "Naked Love" where they experiment with electronica, or "Masquerade and Konoha" where they experiment with ska and reggae. It also uses a careful crafting of ghotic/hard rock infused with a healthy dose of pop/jazz. Radio, Nico Nico Webisodes and Personal Columns. Radio Aside from appearing on TV shows, magazine covers, and concerts, Nightmare have a radio program with Nack 5 called Jack in the Box! . Yomi and Hitsugi usually host the show, but Sakito, Ni. ya, and Ruka make occasionally appearances alongside them. Until December 2009, they also hosted a show on CBC Radio called Hyper Nightmare , where they featured tongue twisters sent in by listeners, adult stories and phone-in sessions with listeners who can mimic interesting sound effects, TV personalities, anime characters, etc. Webisodes Nightmare hosted a 6-episode show monthly web show on Nico Nico, called Nightmare in Nightwear , in which the members wore pajamas, chatted, shared photos and anecdotes, and interacted with web viewers. The show ended on January 21, 2010. A new show titled Bakuretsu! Nightmare (爆烈！ナイトメア) began in March and featured a different punishment game every episode. On April 8, 2010, a radio- drama Ganbare Sentai Mea Rangers (ガンバル戦隊メアレンジャー) began to air. It featured special guests and the opportunity for fans to write in messages to communicate with the band. The first series ended on October 14, 2010 and was already billed for a second season. The theme for season 2 was "to come in contact with the users/viewers," by which the members are able to call viewers via telephone in Japan. It is currently ongoing. All the members have done monthly columns in different music magazines.

Yomi's article can be found in Pati Pati titled 必殺!! 遊び人]-> お便り募集 , where the articles focus on Yomi trying new things by fan suggestions, like kickboxing and sound production mixing. It debuted on September 9, 2008. A collection of his past articles will be complied into a book and will go on sale March 25, 2011. Its last article was printed in the March 2011 issue. Hitsugi had his in Shoxx titled Stepped on a Cat (猫ふんじゃった). Previous to that, the members all took turns writing in a monthly column called "Zozzy". 猫ふんじゃった ended in December 2008. Sakito's was in B-Pass titled Where Will the Local Train Take Me? Journey in the Japanese Syllabry ( 鈍行いくの？ Left to right: Ruka, TWIGY, Hakuei. The LEGENDARY SIX NINE. On December 31, 2009, drummer Ruka started his solo project titled "The LEGENDARY SIX NINE". The members included vocalist HAKUEI from the band Penicillin, hip-hop artist/vocalist TWIGY, bassist Ni. ya from Nightmare, guitarist Shinobu from Creature Creature and guitarist Takayama, and the drumer Ruka from Nightmare. Their first single, CRUEL, was released March 24, 2010. Alter Ego: Sendai Kamotsu. Nightmare also had a side project, Sendai Kamotsu, that started in 2001. It has the same members, but the mood established in Sendai Kamotsu is so different from Nightmare one could think of them as a different group of musicians. Sendai Kamotsu took part in the first Cannonball omnibus and toured with Doremidan and Shulla. Their rallying cry is that "'they love Gay People'. The members of Sendai Kamotsu were first featured in Nightmare's PV for "Jishou. (not including the vocalist). In April 2002, their single "Kimchi" was released, and "Saipan" ws released on July 2002. Their first album came out on April 2004, titled "Okuru Kotoba". They had yearly singles and an album release, starting in Febuary 2006 with "N.M.N-NO MORE NAYAMIMUYO-", "Kamisama Mou Sukoshi Dake", and their album "Jinsei Game" in July 2006, "Gei School Otokogumi" in October 2007 and "Umanamide" in October 2008. On September 5, 2009, the band went on a break due to the company going bankrupy from the recession of the economy. THey had their final shows, including one on November 5th 2009 titled "Fukyou no Kaze. " at Nippon Budokan. "Deko", their 3rd album was released October 28th 2009. The Nightmare of Being. Swedish pioneers AT THE GATES have completed recording their new studio album, "The Nightmare Of Being", for a July 2 release via . While main parts for "The Nightmare Of Being" were recorded in several different Swedish studios — drums at Studio Gröndal with Jens Bogren, guitars and bass with Andy La Rocque at Sonic Train Studio and vocals at Welfare Sounds with Per Stålberg — the LP was mixed and mastered at Fascination Street Studios (AMON AMARTH, OPETH, KREATOR) by Jens Bogren, who has previously worked with AT THE GATES on the "At War With Reality" comeback album in 2014. The album's visual concept was developed by artist Eva Nahon. AT THE GATES vocalist checked in with the following comment about the album's concept: "The overall theme deals with the topic of pessimism, and I have been diving deep down in pessimistic philosophers. Trying to understand this way of looking at the world. It is not a negative album, more a gateway into new ideas for me personally, trying out different perspectives. You could call the album an introduction to pessimism as a concept, I guess. It is a very dark album, but not negative…" And musically, while "The Nightmare Of Being" unveils a newly liberated and adventurous AT THE GATES via some of the bravest and most mesmerizing material they have ever written, Lindberg adds: "It still sounds like AT THE GATES, 100 percent. It is just more of everything…" Speaking to MessedUp Magazine, Lindberg stated about the upcoming effort: "We were very excited about [2014's] 'At War With Reality' already before it was released, because it represented our comeback. No one was as excited about it as us, but some time later, I thought it was too slick, too well-produced. 'To Drink From the Night Itself' was a response to that and we wanted it to be dirty and gritty and have loads of classic death metal sounds on it, like a lot of reverb on the vocals and that stuff. It was a record for old-school fans. The upcoming album is somewhere in between, something that continues on the concept we started on the two previous albums where we incorporated much more of our proggy, krauty and avant-gardist influences. Just to give you the picture of how it sounds; one song goes by the nickname 'the Goblin song,' another we call 'the Neu song.' But I promise you we don't take it too far — people wouldn't listen to it if we did. [Laughs] When we were in the studio, we told Jens Bogren [producer] to keep the gritty sound and the attack from the last record and put the overall sound in between the comeback records. And it sounds awesome. "When we did the Roadburn festival two years ago we did a special set with guest vocalists and string instruments and that stuff on stage and played songs we never played live before. All that was very inspiring because we realized we can do it today, the things we thought we could do as teenagers when we wanted to be the KING CRIMSON of death metal [laughs], but we weren't good enough. After the Roadburn gig, we talked about incorporating more of those elements on record. "Let's say we're super excited about how people will receive the record because there's stuff on the album never heard on an AT THE GATES record before — a lot of weird things. [Laughs] For old fans, there's at least five or six classic AT THE GATES songs on it, but it's a quite diverse album. "AT THE GATES have been around for such a long time by now that we don't need to release records to please someone else — we want to do things we like ourselves. It's still death metal, but it has evolved. We just want it to sell enough to get money to record the next album. [Laughs] " AT THE GATES guitarist Jonas Stålhammar recently told Italy's Poisoned Rock about the music he and his bandmates have written for the upcoming effort: "It's kind of progressing even more from the last album. It's gonna be different than that one too, but still you know it's AT THE GATES. It's evolving even more. All of us are kind of on the same page with why should we do the same record over and over again." "To Drink From The Night Itself" was produced with Russ Russell (NAPALM DEATH, THE HAUNTED, DIMMU BORGIR) at Parlour Studios in the U.K. The follow-up 2014's "At War With Reality" featured conceptual artwork created by Costin Chioreanu of Twilight13Media, who also worked with AT THE GATES on the band's previous disc. "To Drink From The Night Itself" was the first AT THE GATES album written and recorded without lead guitarist/primary songwriter Anders Björler, who departed in 2017. He has since been replaced by Stålhammar. Further details about "The Nightmare Of Being" and its various formats will be revealed on April 30, with the start of the album’s pre-order campaign.