sorry for the typos in advance.enjoy(^-^)
-Are there any lyrics that represents the albums?
K: It's not just one song. I wrote this time trying to make something be left in you after listening to the entire albums. So if someone analyzes saying "these lyrics were like this so it means this which means its this kind of song" it really upsets me. I didn't write the outcome or answers on these on purpose. My goal was to have something really heavy left over after listening. I've done the same in the past but I've emphasized on this one more than the older ones.
-You've mentioned that you don't like positive thinkers, but doesn't hope desperation come from hope?
K: Yea. I just don't like really obvious positive thinkers. Like something will happen if we all work together kind of thing. Depends on how one person thinks when that one faces a despair. I like the positive thinking during those kinds of scenarios.
-Yea. I've felt a strong message similar to that.
K: That my goal.(laughs) I hate people who don't face their problems and just try to live a easy life. I like people who don't care if it's a little bit at a time, don't care if no matter how much they get hurt and just keep going. ....I think that's expressed in my lyrics. If you put as the concept for the band it's like internal pain....I want to express things what people normally don't see. That's where our meaning lies.
-As for sounds there's a lot of clean tones used. I think those ideas were naturally born but how did you want it to sound?
D: Something that we think we've never heard of. Something you can feel is too simple and boring for us. So even if it's a clean guitar sound on guitar, that's not the only thing we want you guys to focus on. It's something more deep. It took a really long time to get the exact sound we wanted.
-So you've put something in that you can't produce with machines?Emotion?
D: hmmm...back then we used to think mentally like, play this part softly but now we don't really think like that. We just let the part flow on it's own. We just really see how the song flow. We don't really concentrate on how we play the instruments.
-Is there a reason your voice range is widely used?
K: I don't know. It's really naturally happened from my perspective. Basically, the song called out to me(laughs). But, sometimes theres parts that I just need to get out on but I've tried not to do that too much with a high voice. 90% was produced by the song calling out to. The other 10% came from me thinking it won't be special if I don't do something that nobody else can do. I only consider my voice as a sound. So just as a guitar's sound changes, my sound changes so that it fits.
-The singles' lyrics in the album(GS and DG) have changed to english.
K: I really didn't want the songs to sound weird when I changed them to english but when I actually did it, it sounded new and it was really interesting. It was a new challenge. GS's lyrics have actually changed. The theme itself is the same but from a different perspective so it's more easier to understand it. DG is just a translated version but it's really hard to get the full meaning of a japanese song and express it into english. Becuase of that, DG is also easier to understand. I think you will enjoy both of these songs if you look at the lyrics.
-Enjoy it and at the same time understand the true meaning better. For this release, I've heard that you guys had "a strong feeling for more people to listen to it".
K: Yea. I don't really care if we sell a lot of records but we don't really want it to be too underground. But then again, we really don't want to get mainstream famous. It's complicated. I can't explain with words.
-For people who will listen to DEG for the first time do you think "UROBOROS" will be the perfect album?(laughs)
K: I'm not sure. If someone bought the album because they really liked GS my reaction to that would be "huh!?"(laughs). I think it creates a huge wall for someone to get into the song. But if you get over that, it's really easy to understand and it's really catchy. So I think you won't understand this album by only listening to it once(laughs).
Die: People have probably never heard of an album like this(thanks for the tease die....we're all very excited.....). But it's not like we've wanted it to be an album that was difficult to understand....just if you put it from our perspective it's really easy to listen to(laughs).
-It seems like there would be a discovery each time you listen to it. So, there will be a North American Tour in November and a show titled "UROBOROS-breathing-" on 12/29 at Osaka Jou Hall. These events sound really exciting when a set of songs like these are waiting to be released.
K: It's the first time "UROBOROS" can be 100% out there, so we're very excited too. I think "UROBOROS" has a very deep perspective when it's played live so people who really wanted to be drowned in this I will be more than happy if you guys come to the upcoming shows.