# New band "Azavana (アザバナ)" has formed **URL:** \ **Category:** News\ **Tags:** male-vocalist, visual-kei\ **Created:** [September 2, 2024, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841 "2024-09-02T13:27:43Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![delkmiroph](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/delkmiroph/32/70377_2.png) [@delkmiroph](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/delkmiroph)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 1:27pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/1 "2024-09-02T13:27:43Z")
It seems ryo joined to ashmaze members and formed the new band called “Azavana (アザバナ)”. ![IMG_1021](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/e/a/ea65ad51c3228eb1f10fd8db4d34d125f8892434.jpeg) ![IMG_1022](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/9/5/95e43fd2959f25b4c0871d4466e663692c0c501a.jpeg) A few fans are talking about this concert that just happened today and the announcement about “AZAVANA” band. Im looking forward to the official announcement on twitter! Edit ![IMG_1023](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/1/5/1555f6680a7846243a1741f4b6e6d96c50bd05bc.jpeg) The first oneman will be at 10/24 ---
**Author:** ![ritsu](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/ritsu/32/33305_2.png) [@ritsu](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/ritsu)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 1:34pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/2 "2024-09-02T13:34:40Z")
You all can now call me the prophet of visual Kei ---
**Author:** ![zeus](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/zeus/32/89310_2.png) [@zeus](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/zeus)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 2:14pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/3 "2024-09-02T14:14:10Z")
> [@Ashmaze. Vo.双真 (souma) will depart + guest vocalists will perform](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/ashmaze-vo%E5%8F%8C%E7%9C%9F-souma-will-depart-guest-vocalists-will-perform/10367/2): > > The merge between VIRGE and Ashmaze members are coming together! > [@Ashmaze. Vo.双真 (souma) will depart + guest vocalists will perform](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/ashmaze-vo%E5%8F%8C%E7%9C%9F-souma-will-depart-guest-vocalists-will-perform/10367/6): > > Not me being the Visual Kei prophet @ritsu 🤝 @zeus ---
**Author:** ![delkmiroph](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/delkmiroph/32/70377_2.png) [@delkmiroph](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/delkmiroph)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 2:28pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/4 "2024-09-02T14:28:41Z")
![IMG_1026](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/1/a/1a3ed45b21ba7b6eb6402c4cb66d2a90735b0b43.jpeg) The [official X/Twitter of ashmaze was merged to the new band.](https://x.com/ashmazeofficial) Edit: **The first look** ![IMG_1027](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/5/3/53ecbca8e459a72d12b0f95b291f9ab328602101.jpeg) Azavana(アザバナ) Vo.遼 Gt.諒平 Gt.詩結 Ba.Яyu Dr.S1TK ---
**Author:** ![ritsu](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/ritsu/32/33305_2.png) [@ritsu](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/ritsu)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 2:39pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/5 "2024-09-02T14:39:19Z")
[![](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/f/d/fdd399bdb1d31f7d3d5402bd85af42ff3b1df8ab.jpeg "Azavana - 痣花 (Official Music Video)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UaSq_saZQK4) I consider them my children ---
**Author:** ![colorfuljinsei](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/colorfuljinsei/32/84300_2.png) [@colorfuljinsei](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/colorfuljinsei)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/6 "2024-09-02T15:01:16Z")
👏 This is nice. I never really got into Ashmaze. w/ their old vocalist, so no better time to get into them, I suppose. ---
**Author:** ![Viktoria](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/viktoria/32/59080_2.png) [@Viktoria](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Viktoria)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 3:19pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/7 "2024-09-02T15:19:49Z")
Ditching an estabilished name will be their death. ---
**Author:** ![rukarukaruka](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/rukarukaruka/32/61854_2.png) [@rukarukaruka](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/rukarukaruka)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 3:26pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/8 "2024-09-02T15:26:35Z")
the snake fishnets on the 2nd member from the left are so cute! I’d love me a pair lol ---
**Author:** ![tetsu\_sama69](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/tetsu_sama69/32/88827_2.png) [@tetsu\_sama69](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/tetsu_sama69)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 3:45pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/9 "2024-09-02T15:45:49Z")
I guess I have a new favorite band rn ---
**Author:** ![Riku](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/riku/32/70255_2.png) [@Riku](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Riku)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 4:15pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/10 "2024-09-02T16:15:10Z")
Sounds great actually ---
**Author:** ![Hayabusa](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/hayabusa/32/82989_2.png) [@Hayabusa](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Hayabusa)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 4:48pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/11 "2024-09-02T16:48:44Z")
Virge, but more redundant.😏 ---
**Author:** ![delkmiroph](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/delkmiroph/32/70377_2.png) [@delkmiroph](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/delkmiroph)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/12 "2024-09-02T17:07:18Z")
excuse me… do u know that RYO did everything on VIRGE… so basically without RYO virge wasnt nothing! So Ryo has his own identity, regardless of which band he was in, even in this new band. ---
**Author:** ![zaa\_zaa](https://forum.jrockone.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/z/9fc348/32.png) [@zaa\_zaa](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/zaa_zaa)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 5:15pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/13 "2024-09-02T17:15:15Z")
Well, it’s Virge 2.0. I literally hear nothing from Ashmaze. Kinda disappointed here since it seems like Ryo just took full control of Ashmaze From that perspective I fully understand why Ashmaze ceased to exist, because this is not a continuation of Ashmaze with a new vocalist stepping in ---
**Author:** ![delkmiroph](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/delkmiroph/32/70377_2.png) [@delkmiroph](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/delkmiroph)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 6:02pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/14 "2024-09-02T18:02:08Z")
**~Individual pics** **Vo. Ryo (He hasn’t published his individual photo yet)** ![Gt. Shiyu (詩結)](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/c/9/c9e05b92dcd6fca6f5032f6b1ccaed6ea89ee1d8.jpeg) ![Gt. Shiyu (詩結) 2](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/f/f/ffa2fb37becd8c207359a55c111e447d161e45e2.jpeg) Gt. Shiyu (詩結) ![Gt. Ryohei (諒平)](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/4/0/40852ec9735a496c886824c9972624814027c8ec.jpeg) ![Gt. Ryohei (諒平) 2](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/4/6/46801574770fd6184b6dbd95352f9e380089480f.jpeg) Gt. Ryohei (諒平) **Ba. Яyu (He hasn’t published his individual photo yet)** ![Dr. S1TK](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/f/7/f7d521d561d08f5a8be3f7760e08e5febeb9ff32.jpeg) ![Dr. S1TK 2](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/a/b/abcc4bbfb2647926f7f5be77a44e17218ff54e5c.jpeg) Dr. S1TK ---
**Author:** ![rsm\_rain](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/rsm_rain/32/1835_2.png) [@rsm\_rain](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/rsm_rain)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/15 "2024-09-02T19:43:26Z")
I don’t dislike the song, and i’m certainly happy to see all these guys and their music returning, but i hope the songwriting changes significantlyyyy, the mixing too. Ashmaze was a tight-knit and closely paired set of harmonic and compositional choices imho that depend on their vocalist’s voice and how he uses it to be great. His voice was smooth, thin, restrained, and made smaller melodic movements. The rototoms were a fantastic foil for this more muted (by vkei standards…) voice bc they injected huge obvious melodies into the drums as the vocalist took a more rhythmic role. The guitars were a fresh mix i’ve not heard used much before of single-coil jangle + gallop delay with obvious digital effects in post. It’s a lot going on rhythmically and harmonically, but is helped by the restraint and simplicity of their vocalist’s choices in singing style & melody writing. By comparison, Ryo’s voice is saccharine, maybe one of the most so in the scene lately. He’s big, showy, dramatic - large cadences of wide movement. His voice is front and center almost always, and he takes over so much of the character of the song that people just above said “it just sounds like Virge”, and i totally get why. The rototoms, i love to hear them in Nirvana but here it’s just a bit much, or maybe not enough space was opened for them in the mix. Toms would have worked fine… And i don’t exactly get to hear as much of the guitars as i’d want, or not with the specificity that i’d want. To be super clear, i love Ashmaze and Virge both a lot - these two were near the top of “bands who represent modern vkei done well” for me! I don’t wanna criticize the concept of this mashup - but i think every new song with a new pairing of musicians can use a bit of experimentation to find their footing. And after having explained to friends so many times by now what it is about Ashmaze and Virge that stands out to me (and i want to imitate in my own projects…) i feel decently equipped to toss out my thoughts on how this sound is interacting w/ the member change Anyway Ashmaze vocalist, i forget your name but please find another band Whether or not it’s full of ex-Virge instrumentalists ---
**Author:** ![suji](https://forum.jrockone.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@suji](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/suji)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 8:26pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/16 "2024-09-02T20:26:14Z")
> [@delkmiroph](#): > > **Ba. Яyu (He hasn’t published his individual photo yet)** he published it on instagram ![458171680_1095647728674204_3005707074497696011_n](https://forum.jrockone.com/uploads/default/original/3X/d/0/d08ac31320612f747c441b1c9fb8dfd29f32e1fc.jpeg) ---
**Author:** ![Yukami](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/yukami/32/974_2.png) [@Yukami](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/Yukami)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 8:48pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/17 "2024-09-02T20:48:25Z")
The moment where Ryo joins the band in the MV is pure gold. 🥺 ---
**Author:** ![CervaCannibale](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/cervacannibale/32/56191_2.png) [@CervaCannibale](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/CervaCannibale)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/18 "2024-09-02T22:46:14Z")
> [@rsm\_rain](#): > > Anyway Ashmaze vocalist, i forget your name but please find another band > Whether or not it’s full of ex-Virge instrumentalists Souma forming another new band with the rest of Virge would be quite funny. At least we would have 2 disbandments and two 2 new band and wouldn’t loose anything. Anyway I feel bad for him. His band broke up with him because they fell in love with a new vocalist 😬 ---
**Author:** ![suji](https://forum.jrockone.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/9de0a6/32.png) [@suji](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/suji)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 10:50pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/19 "2024-09-02T22:50:17Z")
> [@CervaCannibale](#): > > Anyway I feel bad for him. His band broke up with him because they fell in love with a new vocalist 😬 pretty sure Souma left on his own due to musical differences? ---
**Author:** ![CervaCannibale](https://forum.jrockone.com/user_avatar/forum.jrockone.com/cervacannibale/32/56191_2.png) [@CervaCannibale](https://forum.jrockone.com/u/CervaCannibale)\ **Post date:** [September 2, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841/20 "2024-09-02T23:03:25Z")
Jep, that was the official statement. I just referred to some people here implying that his departue seemed very convinied after Virge’s disbandment. [Next page](https://forum.jrockone.com/t/new-band-azavana-%E3%82%A2%E3%82%B6%E3%83%90%E3%83%8A-has-formed/11841.md?page=2)