Welcome To My Freaky Circus: Shin Suzuki birthday

Today is March 22nd, the birthday of Shin Suzuki (鈴木新).

In order to get to know about Shin better, I decided to write a brief history of Shin and Kuroyume.

Brief History of Kuroyume (1991-1994 era)

Shin is well-known as the former guitarist of Kuroyume (1991-1995). Shin joined Kuroyume in 1991, after he was replacing Masaru who later joins Oblivion Dust. After Shin joined the band, Kuroyume had been participated in several multi-band indies event and released two demo tapes in 1991. After that, they released a maxi-single "chuuzetsu" on Haunted House records, which then followed by releasing their mini album entitled "ikiteita chuuzetsuji" which was a remastered of an old demo tape. Then, Kuroyume also participated in a large indies event entitled "Shock Age" that took place on August 23rd in Shibuya Kokaido. They played alongside bands like Eins:Vier, L'Arc~en~Ciel and Silver Rose. They also appeared on the accompanying omnibus album that was sold at the event. Later on, Kiyoharu collaborated with L'Arc~en~Ciel vocalist, Hyde, and the duo performed a cover of the Gastunk song "Husk".

Kuroyume Perform Chuuzetsu

A year later, second album "Nakigara o" was released and clearly showed the group progressing in a more melodic direction by leaning further toward the goth side of things and doing away completely with any resemblance of metal music. The song "Shinainaru DEATH MASK" from their first album had been rerecorded and the band's first PV was filmed for the song.

shinainaru DEATH MASK PV

Later on, 1994 Kuroyume signed with EMI Toshiba records and release their first major single "For Dear" to promote their new album "Mayoeru Yuritachi ~Romance of Scarlet". Two PV is recorded for the album, which is "For Dear" and "Autism~jiheishou". However, because there's an objection from an autism care foundation due to the misuse term of autism in the song, the song "Autism~jiheishou" was later removed on the re-issue of the "Mayoeru Yuritachi" album.

For Dear PV

Autism~jiheishou PV

Shortly after that signed, Kuroyume music began to change from gothic style to become more less goth than before. They were performing with the short-hair Kiyoharu and on the late 1994, they released mini-album Cruel which also introduced "Ice My Life" as their single. The band now dressed more conservatively, the new look was reminiscent of 1980's New Romantic fashion and seemed to give off a more palatable image to mainstream buyers. The music on Cruel was again pop, but still loud and abrasive, which helped give the new songs universal appeal.

About Shin Suzuki

Shin is also well-known as Kuroyume's composer that time. Mostly of their singles was composed by Shin. For example, the music in "For Dear" and "Ice My Life" both composed by Shin. "Shinainaru DEATH MASK" is also one of the songs that composed by him.

Besides being the music composer for Kuroyume, Shin was also known for his fanservice with Kiyoharu on stage (^^)

jyujika tono tawamure and MISSING GLORY perform 1994

Yes, they are often doing the fanservice on stage that time. In my opinion, Shin is kind of cheerful person and his part in Kuroyume makes him get a lot of fangirls that time (^^).
But in 1995, Shin decided to leave Kuroyume due to the musical differences and began to create his own music with his new band Vinyl.
Vinyl is a duo which consists of Shin and Fukui Yoshifumi as their vocalist, ex- D'ERLANGER and now in STRAWBERRY FIELDS band.

Vinyl was once contributed in an omnibus album titled "LEMONed collected by hide" in May 1996 in the song BE. Vinyl make their debut single in November 1997 with the release of the song とまらない鼓動 (tomaranai kodo) under the label New Taurus records.

VINYL - とまらない鼓動
The song is also used as an ending song for a TV program in Nippon Television entitled 『進め!電波少年』
Soon after the released of tomaranai kodo, in December 20th, 1997, Vinyl released their first album [Go to VINYL] which consists of 13 tracks.
In the next year, Vinyl released their single 20世紀のマスタード on March and continued with another single ずっとそばにいて on May. However, zutto soba ni ite is their last single before they decided to disband on 1999.
After the disbandment of Vinyl, Shin joined another band titled SUPER DROP BABIES. In this band, he was again collaborated with Hitoki who create the band after the indefinite hiatus of Kuroyume. SUPER DROP BABIES itself consist of 4 members which are Masatoshi on vocal, Shin on guitar, Hitoki on bass and Amiya on drums.
SUPER DROP BABIES (SDB) is still an indies band and to get their album, you must order it via their official web. However, they already released their first album titled Welcome to The Destruction on September 2004 followed by their maxi-single "自由への階段 ".
On 2005, they also released another maxi-single official bootleg titled 'Special' on February then joined the omnibus CD 'kokorowa itsumo Lamuneiro 10th anniversary' with the song 'welcome to the destruction' on March. They also released another maxi-single on September entitled 'A Dearest Strawberry'.
The latest released from SDB is the maxi-single + extra DVD entitled 'SDB Launcher' which include the PV of 'jiyuu e no kaidan' plus the making off and also their live.

SUPER DROP BABIES - 自由への階段 PV

RANDOM FACTS

Shin changed the kanji name from 臣 into 鈴木新 after he left Kuroyume.
Shin was born on March 22, 1968 and he is from Seto-shi, Aichi.
Shin makes his last live with Kuroyume in NHK Hall on December 1994 and then left Kuroyume on February 1995.
Shin has his own twitter account in @SHiN_0322 and official Facebook account plus the Youtube account HERE where he upload several Kuroyume videos, along with Vinyl and SUPER DROP BABIES videos.
Shin is now joined the Tears Music since March 22nd, 2011 and from that has began his solo career.
You can also check his biography HERE
He once perform along with Kamijo from Versailles.