Yama-B later elaborated in 2013, recalling that while he and Syu had different musical tastes from the beginning, with every release the band slowly chased after a new sound “instead of doing music we loved”. While Yama-B “likes to stick to a certain set of rules, concepts”, particularly Syu would…
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Their fourth studio album, Me No Do Karate. , was released on June 26. They also expanded their activities outside Asia during this period, playing a show at The Pipeline in London before appearing at The Great Escape Festival in 2013.
In January 2013, Kamijo announced he would start a solo career.
In the spring of 2013, Nakamoto graduated from junior high school and therefore had to “graduate” from Sakura Gakuin (a group of elementary and junior high school girls).
On January 30, 2013, the band released a new album titled Scums . The album contained the singles “Mimic” and “Deus ex Machina” alongside 12 other songs. Following the release, they began a 19-show nationwide tour from February 10 titled Beautiful Scums. The tour ended on April 20, 2013 at…
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On June 2, the group released the video for the song “A-L-I-E-N”, but as a prank, they placed it on a randomly relocating URL, so page visitors would only have one chance of seeing the video. The video for the album’s title track, “Yoshū Fukushū”, was released on July 26,…
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The album Yoshū Fukushū was released on July 31, 2013, their first full album in six years. It was their first album to reach number one on Oricon’s charts. The CD features unique packaging, as it is approximately the height and width of a standard DVD case, and bound like…
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Additionally, in a sequel to the previous year’s charity performance at Saitama Super Arena, the band performed another at Sendai Sun Plaza on December 24.
before giving their last performance in Tokyo at NHK Hall on December 20
and ended in Tokyo on December 16