Envy (Band)

Envy is a screamo / post-rock band from Japan whose plates are distributed in Europe via the English Mogwai Rock Action label.

Style

Their sound is hard, but is increasingly determined since their 2001 release, All the footprints you've left and the fear expecting ahead of a more epic sounding song structures in which alternating hard and brutal cry passages with melodic instrumental parts. Consistently, the pieces on this album by subtle but soulful catchiness composed traversed (Guitar ) melodies from their melancholic mood carried forth on bands like the Godspeed You! Black Emperor refer. In its early stages rather to punk reminiscent of the music of the Japanese can be alone on the complexity and length of the later songs fro increasingly in the field of art rock or post-rock to settle, after which, not least, the guest appearance of the singer Tetsuya Fukagawa on the 2006 published Mogwai album Mr. Beast suggesting. The texts are usually in Japanese.

The published in September 2006 album Insomniac Doze has a preponderance of quiet and traversed at most of spoken texts instrumental passages, but always looming up to full power and eventually lead to the screamoartigen outbreaks of the singer inside.

Discography

EPs

  • Angel's Curse Whispered In The Edge Of Despair (1999, HG Fact )
  • Eyes Of Final Proof ( 7 ", H. G. Fact )
  • The Eyes Of A Single Eared Prophet (2000, HG Fact )
  • Burning Out ​​Memories (10 ", Molaire Industries)
  • Last Wish (7 ", H. G. Fact )
  • Abyssal (2007, SONZAI )

Albums

  • Breathing And Dying In This Place (1996, HG Fact )
  • From Here To Eternity (1998, H. G. Fact )
  • All The Footprints You've Ever Left And The Fear Expecting Ahead (2001, HG Fact / Molaire Industries / Dim Mak / Rock Action )
  • Compiled Fragments 1997-2003 (2005, SONZAI )
  • Insomniac Doze (2006, SONZAI )
  • Recitation (2010, SONZAI / Temporary Residence Limited / Rock Action )

Singles

  • Transfovista (2007, SONZAI )

Splits

  • Envy / Sixpence ( H. G. Fact )
  • Envy / Endeavor ( H. G. Fact )
  • Envy / This Machine Kills ( H. G. Fact )
  • Envy / Yaphet Kotto / This Machine Kills ( SONZAI )
  • Envy / Thursday Split ( 2008)
  • Envy / Jesus Split ( 2008)

Samplers

  • Far East Hardcore ( 's Got Pop / Slam Records)
  • Platform (Never Shown Face)
  • No Fate III ( H. G. Fact )
  • For Ugly For Beautiful Vol 3 ( Lunch Service Records)
  • Lucky Thirteen ( Nova Recordings)
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