One of the first japanese bands i got into was bis, I think they were active around 2004-2008 then disbanded. In 2010 their bassist committed suicide.
After that I haven’t seen the other members anywhere. I especially wonder what Maru the vocal is doing today. Anyone who knows? Anyone who even knows about them lol?
They are extremely nostalgic to me, makes me remember the good old times
And the reply I got about the vocalist was: He wanting to leave the scene was the sole reason of their disbandment, so yeah… he did some acting gigs with satsuki and one pv for fun with a band he was friends with, but that’s basically it.
Yeah, going with what everyone else already said about Maru, last I remember, he left the scene, became a salaryman or was working at a bank or smth, he got married and became a father.
I’m thinking the set of friends he worked with for that PV was a lil’ session/project band named TOGA, I believe they were called. He was vox on a cover of SADS’s “忘却の空”/“Boukyaku no sora” with them. Since I last saw it many years ago tho, it’s been deleted from YT and dang-near scrubbed from the internet. Was copyright-claimed, IIRC from the error message. Oh well. Gone but never forgotten.
I always love to sneek back to them.
My favorite song was S.S.I, which is hard to find online, especially when you live in Germany. Type in bis in google and your hits won’t stop cause it’s such a random word. It means till, haha… Which reminds me of how excited bis were, when they had their gig in Cologne. They saw their name everywhere. XD
It’s not indexed on yt due to possible copyright issues, but uploaded on my own private yt channel, so feel free to save it, download it, rip it, whatever you want
I am 99% positive Maru is just acting on this PV, the actual vocalist on the recording is トヲル, ex HOMOSAPIENS and GOA. TOGA was their project after GOA and Maru wasn’t really a member, the pv was just for funsies
I remember this being mentioned on the description back in the days when the band uploaded it on dailymotion