September 1, 2010

THE CREATOR OF

by Riento • Profile • Tags: erimin5, experimental, Japan, kuroi mori, post-hardcore, post-rock, Profile, psychedelic rock, tokyo

Members are:
Shigeyuki Suzuki – vocal, guitar
SAKAMOTO – bass (ex-member)
Shibuya – drums (ex-member)
Daisuke Takeda – bass, guitar (support member)
Hiroki Furutani (Kuroi Mori) – pro-tools (support member)
Actually now THE CREATOR OF is Shigeyuki Suzuki‘s solo project.

THE CREATOR OF is Japanese band using in their music mixing of different genres such as hardcore, alternative rock, post-rock, psychedelic rock, punk and others. Each melody is inimitable and different from previous, and each is filled by emotions. And their sound is dark and charming.

THE CREATOR OF was formed in 1994 in Tokyo with line up: Shigeyuki Suzuki – vocal, guitar; Sakamoto – bass and Umino – drums. They all were friends in a junior high school.
But in 1996, Umino left and Shibuya joined.
In July 1998, they debuted with their first mini album, called “Grateful Days”. Their debut was noticed and magazine ‘ROCKIN’ ON JAPAN’ mentioned about them as ‘new comer’.
Soon after, they released two mini albums, “Standing on the Sky” in September and “Break Through the Sun” in November.
In April 1999 was released their first single “HEALTH”.
And very soon, in June, band released their first full album named “Lost Summer Daze” included tracks from single “Health”, and album version of “偽神” (gishin).
In February 2000 THE CREATOR OF had one gig with Slipknot in Shibuya Club Quattro Tokyo, who was on their first tour in Japan.
In March 2000 they recorded split EP with another Japanese band EDGE OF SPIRIT. EP included two songs – “RESET” and “寿命” (jumyou).
In the beginning of 2001 they released second single “AGAIN”, included three song: “2”, “AGAIN” and “d”.
In the beginning of 2002 leader of the band Shigeyuki Suzuki and drummer Shibuya organized side techno project named Resonance and in April they released album “Therefore”. Last song “Therefore (four S Version)” on this album was recording by original THE CREATOR OF members Shige, Sakamoto, Shibuya and also their manager Sano.
And in October 2002 band released their second full album “IN RESERVOIR”.
After that, they played some gigs mainly in Tokyo. But disagreements was started between band’s member and soon they stopped working for a while. THE CREATOR OF have taken a long break.
After that Shige was beginning his techno project Tco. As TCO, they performed at NAGISA, the open-air event held in October 2007. TCO performed at Tokyo and Osaka, promoting their different perspectives on music.
In the same time, in 2005, drummer Shibuya with vocalist Kyono (ex-The Mad Capsule Market) have formed hardcore band named THE CHUNK LEGEND, where Shibuya is playing in recent time.
In 2007 THE CREATOR OF released their third full album “Dust to Dust”, but it was already a solo project of the vocalist and guitarist Shige. And in the same time, he started another solo project named Erimin5, that’s playing ambient and experimental.
In 2009, they announced that they would play a gig and it was the first gig during 7 years.
Also they had some gigs in during 2010 in Tokyo and not only. Nearest performance will take place at Earthdom, Shin-Okubo, Tokyo on September 12.
Now THE CREATOR OF is unchallenged leader of the band vocalist and guitarist Shigeyuki Suzuki, support member Daisuke Takeda – guitar/bass, and also Hiroki Furutani (known as Kuroi Mori) – pro-tools, remixes.