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BY-SEXUAL was a visual kei band from the early 90's. BY-SEXUAL formed during April 1987 in Osaka, Japan. By 1990, they were signed to Pony Canyon, a record label who is now known for the Japanese pop groups W-inds., FLAME, and LEAD. In February 1990, they released their first single, "So Bad Boy". From 1990 to 1995, they released eight full lengths albums, thirteen singles, and a greatest hits album. Finally in January 1995, Sho Yamanoi left BY-SEXUAL. But that didn't stop the band. In 1996, they renamed themself to BY-SEX with Ryoji "Ryo" Okamoto on vocals and guitar. In...

Prey For Nothing was forged in the flame of progressive metal gone dire. At the beginning, Amir (bass), Yaniv (guitars) & Iftah (drums) met under the musical roof of dissolved Prog Metal band DamnNation. In the early 2000s they played numerous shows, including legendary Iron Maiden singer Paul Dianno, and released a self-printed album called "Mentally Trapped" in 2004. Iftah left for one year of studying in the Musical Academy of Los Angeles, USA, and DamnNation was no more. But as he returned a year later, a new metal act came to be. Now known as Prey For Nothing, the...

What is the relevance of pop music today? How do bands reinvent the three-minute pop song without coughing up the ghosts of its long history or morphing it into an unrecognisable mess? Perth indie phantasms The Preytells have a way. When they hit the scene in 2005 they experienced a quick, intense wave of success. Since then, instead of pursuing their early favour like desperate careerists, they decided to hit and run. Over the following years The Preytells hunkered down for months at a time, coming up only when they had something to show for themselves. Debut EP Could I...

Following up the no-frills, lo-fidelity, down n’ dirty jet-propelled blues of their self-titled debut CD in 2010, Seattle rock duo Hobosexual have finished recording their ultimate bombastic love letter to the forces that nourish them: honesty, robots with rocket launchers for fingers, dirt, empty carbohydrates, fire and hair. Perhaps a nice single-malt scotch as well. Asked by writer Trent Moorman to describe Hobosexual’s sound, guitarist Ben Harwood summed it up as “Bearded glory… I also love the idea of the 1980s. Not necessarily the actual decade or reality of the 1980s, but more the one-liners, like when Schwarzenegger throws a...

The Homosexuals were an influential British punk band formed in 1977 as The Rejects by Bruno McQuillan (a.k.a. Bruno Wizard), Anton Hayman, and Jim Welton (who has also recorded under the names L. Voag, Amos, and Xentos). Their angular guitars, complex melodies, and experimental leanings distanced them somewhat from the punk rock being created by their contemporaries and made them a definite precursor to post-punk. They released very little during their lifetime, and most of what they did release was on small run vinyl on obscure record labels. The members also recorded in various combinations under several different pseudonyms. These...