A fan comment that made me laugh: “I’m an X Japan fan, I know how to wait.”
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Sleep Token got much worse with this after they signed to RCA. I love Sleep Token but it seems like they’re dropping new merch every week lmao
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At the Kizu / Waive 2man, LiME was asked to promote their album by Tazawa. He didn’t even know when was the release date and asked Yue 
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Well based on the delays and stuff its probably not too easy to keep track of, especially since its so far away too. Lol.
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Litterally someone was joking “oh, stand mixer will do a collab with them” and I’m like “no, that might happen.”
Live-limited single「鳳凰」(Houou) will be released during their oneman tour『鳳凰焔巡』starting 2026/01/10.
[CD]
- 鳳凰 (Houou)
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NEW KZ!!
Glad for a new material, but, uh, that means less new songs for the album?
Just means they’re saving Lugia for their first last album.
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Gotta catch’em all singles indeed…
And then we gonna have a complete Kizudex
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I’d take delays over delays rather than getting a half-assed album that would turn me off the band altogether.
My favourite band from my country released two albums in the early 00s, and afterwards they only released a single per year for the next 10 years. Every single was top-quality musically speaking and was heavily played within the local subculture so now I just associate almost every 201x year with a single song. Their approach of quality > quantity set them apart in a time when albums were still the default and cemented their legacy that didn’t end up being tainted by people screaming for more music at the cost of originality.
I need time for the songs to sink in and to end up associating them with certain seasons and events in my life. I can’t relate to people saying Kizu is lazy and don’t put out enough music, along with the releases from other bands I love I think my yearly playlist has enough to listen to.
Counterpoint to kpop 
I dipped into it only for 2 years while before I was overwhelmed and started feeling like due to the sheer volume of songs being put out it ended up all sounding the same - I couldn’t absorb a single because by the time I digested one, the next one was already out and nobody can put out FOMO-inducing levels of musical output and not cut corners in originality.
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I don’t think Kizu is lazy but I do think they milk the ever loving fuck outta their fan base. Expensive tickets, DVDs and Blu-Rays with every single, the trickle of singles coming out before the album, all put a bad taste in my mouth. This band charges premium prices for reasons I have yet to understand. I also think this new single is unnecessary. Save it for the album!
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I’ve read multiple interviews where I got the feeling Lime thinks of disbanding Kizu frequently because he feels like he won’t have anything left to say in the songs. He gives me control freak and perfectionist vibes (in a positive way!) along with the feeling that he comes from a well-off family - which coupled with massive talent makes him hard to control by the label (big “you can’t fire me, I quit!” vibes). Now, nobody knows the man personally to confirm or infirm all this so it’s all my wild guess but I feel like the milking is the label’s way of making money because forcing the band to make music is like herding cats. If he actually wanted more money I think he could have put out more singles of dubious quality since they ride a high wave of popularity anyway.
And this single that will be out soon feels like a bone thrown to keep hype up until April
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They didn’t cancel the album-support tour, so they promised to do another one later and play some of the new songs on the upcoming tour.
The live-limited single feels like a small compensation for the delayed album.
Yes, his father is an engineer, and Lime has both a musical background (he started learning piano at the age of three) and a university degree. Personally, I haven’t read anything directly about his university education, another fan told me about it. The only thing I know for sure is that he studied in England during middle school.
That said, his family seemingly didn’t really approve of his career choice, and he supported himself financially, working part-time jobs to pay for music recordings. I don’t remember if I’ve ever written here about the story behind Kizu’s first single… probably not.
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At that time, we were a band nobody expected anything from. Of course, there were people who supported us, but there weren’t many. And as you can imagine, our recording budget was extremely limited. So I went to an acquaintance who was a sound engineer and said: “I’m sorry, we don’t really have a budget, but could you let us record for this amount?” And he agreed. That’s how we recorded that single.
That kind of single… Kizu also had a period like that. It didn’t last long, but it did exist. And a lot of people think it didn’t. They think everything went smoothly for us from the very beginning — boom! instant success. But that wasn’t the case at all.
We finished recording, everything went well. And then there was another issue — what’s called the “initial.” That’s the number of copies CD shops across the country list as the amount they want to order, basically their expectation of how much a single will sell. Like, “We think Kizu will sell about this many copies.”
And that number… was 300. Just 300 copies. That’s insanely low. No, seriously — extremely low. I was shocked. I thought, “So nobody believes in us at all.” I was angry. I still remember that feeling very clearly.
But, of course, it doesn’t make business sense to stock CDs from a band that doesn’t sell. When we had just debuted, everything about us was uncertain. The CD stores didn’t expect anything from us either.
To be honest, I don’t really want to dwell on that time. It’s not that I’m angry at someone specific… I’m just angry, damn it.
But with every new live show, the single “Oshimai” started selling better and better. Eventually, production couldn’t keep up with demand. On Mercari, the single started being resold for 10,000 yen. That’s how valuable it became.
It feels a bit awkward to say this myself, but I think that single is genuinely valuable now. Among the people listening to this today, probably not many own the original CD. A lot of people have probably heard the song, but the actual disc… I think very few have it.
And all of that is thanks to you.
The cover art is really good too, right? It’s honestly one of my favorite covers.
When we released that single, we had our first solo show at Ikebukuro EDGE (capacity 250). And to be honest, everyone thought it wouldn’t sell out. Like, “Kizu? They won’t fill the venue.”
But then something unexpected happened — the number of applications was huge. How many was it? 1,500? It was our first solo show. Yeah, I think it was 1,500. We even toned the number down a bit because we didn’t want people to think we were exaggerating. I don’t remember the exact figure anymore.
After that, people at the office started saying things like, “Hey, aren’t Kizu starting to gain momentum?” That was when people finally began paying attention to us. That was the turning point — that number of applications for the EDGE show.
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Whoaaaa I just popped in this topic and this caught my eye 
(Lime if you’re reading this hiii)
I could be wrong but I wonder if this is increasingly the case in the industry in general with bands that reach this level.
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Nothing I read there makes me feel like Lime is at all humble… I like the band but if he thinks THAT was a tough start he needs to seriously wake the fuck up.
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He doesn’t consider it a tough start. The point is that there are people who say Kizu just got lucky and that a lot of money was invested in them from the very beginning, which isn’t true.
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Do you have the source for this interview? I love reading stuff like this, and also the one here: キズ (kizu) "1st last album" 「極楽より極上の雨」 release - #27 by JaneLK