Shinin Sanka

[Machine Translation] Fifteen years after their last album "Endoscope World" (BTH1 / 2005), the long-awaited third album is finally completed. The keyboard sound, which plays delicate phrases while at the same time sometimes beating violently like a percussion instrument, the guitar, with its varied riff work and incisive solos, the bass, which supports the backbone with a sense of spatiality, and the drums, which are sharp and precise with many hands, all backed by solid technique. The band's dynamic sound is still alive and well, and their ability to develop complex and bizarre compositions with an air of mystery radiates a strong originality that only they can achieve. The female vocalist, who skillfully uses both a crazed death voice and a bewitching clean voice, has gained in maturity, and the lyrics, with their unique worldview, bring forth a fantastical world with a unique ancient Japanese climate and strange shapes stirring in it, weaving a story rich in scenery.

前作『内視鏡世界』 (BTH1 / 2005年)から実に15年、待望の3rdアルバムが遂に完成。繊細なフレーズを奏でる一方で時に打楽器のように激しく打ち鳴らすキーボード・サウンド、変幻自在なリフワークと切り込みの鋭いソロを聴かせるギター、空間の広がりを感じさせながら屋台骨を支えるベース、手数が多くキレのある精確なドラム・・・確かなテクニックに裏打ちされた緩急自在なダイナミック・サウンドは健在で、複雑怪奇な構成の楽曲を怪しい空気を纏い展開させる手腕は、彼らにしかなしえない強烈なオリジナリティを放つ。また狂気を感じさせるデス・ヴォイスと妖艶さを漂わせるクリーン・ヴォイスを巧みに使い分ける女性ヴォーカルは円熟味を増し、特異な世界観を持つ歌詞は日本古来の独特な風土と異形のものが蠢く幻想的な世界を現出させ、物語を情景豊かに紡いでいく様は圧巻。