KuRt

Members:
Guitar: Yuma (癒マ) (ex-Hanamuke)
Guitar: Ryoki (伶希) (ex-Cradle Marry, Visage)
Bass: Saburou (三狼) (ex-Shedde, mei, gift, Moran (as Zill) [passed away on July 23rd, 2010]
Drums: Kiaki (規明) (ex-Misora)

Former Members:
Vocals: Tenten (てんてん) (ex-Hanamuke, Chemical Pictures, now in kiss my way) [departed on December 24th, 2006]
Bass: Ranmaru (鳴兎) (ex-Misora) [departed on January 24th, 2006]

Biography:
KuRt was formed in November 2004, but the band officially started on December 31st, 2004.

They had some secret performances in December 2004 at the Takadanobaba AREA at some events. On their performance on December 31st, they finally announced the official start for KuRt.

In January 2005 they had several performances. One of them was organized by KuRt themselves and took place on January 15th at the Takadanobaba AREA again.
Their first release came quickly, and it showed the talent of these 5 experienced musicians.

The maxi-single “Oritamishiki Ojiichan“ was released on January 21st. It contained 3 tracks and was limited to 2000 copies. It sold out fairly quickly.
At the end of January they performed, once again, secretly at the Harajuku RUIDO.
Around this time, Ranmaru decided to change his name to Oto.

With the February issue of the Japanese Visual Kei and JRock magazine Shoxx came their single “Saraba BAMBI” , but it was a mail order-only release, so this single is quite a rare item that was only available in Japan.

On March, 27th KuRt had their first one-man, called “Kihibikiiyako 3 Hiki ~Sendai Hen~”, which took place at the Sendai MACANA. A few days later their second one-man followed. At this second one-man show they sold their first video, “Gozen 3Ji Hoshi Furu Yoru”, simply named like a track off their upcoming album. This video contained the PV to this song.

You could see that KuRt was working hard on their success, and that surely wasn’t in vain. Being obviously active, it wasn’t a very big surprise that their first album went on sale so soon, although it was a surprise, that it was a full album.
Anyhow, “Junketsu sengishiri metsuretsu” was released April 1st and contained 7 tracks. The first press contained a little extra item as a bonus. This album stayed for weeks in the top rankings of BRAND-X selling charts.

Around this time, the omnibus album “SHOCK WAVE CD Edition. 5” was released. On this CD was one track by KuRt called “suppuration”. Suppuration wasn’t released on any other CD of theirs, so it is an omnibus only track.

May began for KuRt with another self-organized event at the Takadanobaba AREA.
After that they participated at the SPEED DISC shinranbanshou Tour ’05 , a big tour organized by SPEED DISC, the label of KuRt, which ended at the end of this month.
Although they were busy with this tour, they had a two-man together with Fatima. If you take a look at the biography of Hanamuke, Tenten and Yuma’s former band, you can see that these two have already been acquainted with the members of Fatima for some years as they performed fairly often with them, back when they belonged to Hanamuke.
On May 21st, their first DVD was sold, in two different versions, both limited to 1000 copies. "Neo Tokyo Rinkai Chokutsu Ressha Eizo Hen” was KuRt’s first live DVD, a recording of their second one-man show.

In June, KuRt participated in another tour, the Cannonball vol. 2 tour 2005. This tour included several performances from great Indies band in Japan, which ended with a big gig on June 24th at the Shibuya O-EAST. In relation to this tour, an omnibus album with the same name was released on June 22nd, where KuRt also contributed one track. After this they performed at three events, arranged by one of the most famous Visual Kei and JRock shops in Japan: LIKE AN EDISON.
On the June 30th, KuRt were also guests of the 8th anniversary event of the Takadanobaba AREA.

On July 19th and 20th, the band had two one-man shows in a row, both at the Shibuya O-EAST. During these two concerts they did a presale of their two new maxi-singles Akamono and Igamukuro. These maxis went on sale on July 27th.]

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