Latest / HEAVY Music Interviews / Memories Left Behind With RYO KINOSHITA From KNOSIS
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- 0:00Speaker 1: I'm real from Nosis. I do vocals in a lake,
- 0:06Speaker 1: do everything for Nosis.
- 0:11Speaker 3: It's been beautiful. Thanks for joining us.
- 0:13Speaker 2: Today, Oh thank you, thank you for your time.
- 0:16Speaker 3: Pleasure. So Nursus will be in Australia very soon as
- 0:19Speaker 3: part of boy Division's what I'll leave behind Australian tour.
- 0:22Speaker 3: So how are you feeling?
- 0:25Speaker 1: Yeah, I'm so excited to go back to your beautiful country.
- 0:29Speaker 2: And then yeah, you know.
- 0:31Speaker 1: It's been it's been five years since I play last
- 0:37Speaker 1: time in Australia.
- 0:40Speaker 3: And was that with this band or was it with
- 0:43Speaker 3: another band.
- 0:45Speaker 2: With Crystalie, Like, yeah, this is.
- 0:48Speaker 3: Going to be the first time for Nosis in Australia. Yes, yeah,
- 0:52Speaker 3: So what what are you expecting from Australian crowds? Fan? Yeah?
- 0:57Speaker 2: I love the energy of Australian crowds.
- 1:01Speaker 1: And then you know, you guys are so passionate for music,
- 1:05Speaker 1: you know, like you know, yeah.
- 1:09Speaker 3: He courl And what about the other Sideline What can
- 1:12Speaker 3: we expect from you live on stage? Uh?
- 1:17Speaker 2: I don't know.
- 1:18Speaker 1: I just do what we always do, like you know, uh,
- 1:23Speaker 1: I try to be like you know, aggressive, and then
- 1:29Speaker 1: I didn't mean I try to be angrist.
- 1:32Speaker 2: It's just like you know, you know, it's hard to explain,
- 1:36Speaker 2: but yeah, you know, I just try to play as
- 1:41Speaker 2: hard as possible.
- 1:42Speaker 1: And then yeah, more than other bands, you know, and
- 1:46Speaker 1: I mean it just play, you know, messing around.
- 1:52Speaker 3: You know, this is Boy Division's final headline tour of Australia.
- 1:56Speaker 3: It's also going to be Giddy In and the Unity
- 1:58Speaker 3: t Extra the US Mate. So you the Void Division
- 2:02Speaker 3: have obviously had picked the lineup. So what's your relationship
- 2:05Speaker 3: with him? Like why why have they invited you to
- 2:07Speaker 3: be part of it?
- 2:09Speaker 2: Uh?
- 2:10Speaker 1: Yeah, we toured with Void Vision two years ago, uh
- 2:14Speaker 1: for Straight from the Path headline tour and then yeah,
- 2:18Speaker 1: it was one of the best tours I've ever had.
- 2:20Speaker 1: And then we had a good relationship with Vodavision and
- 2:24Speaker 1: you know we hanged down during the tour and then yeah,
- 2:30Speaker 1: and I can't wait to tour with them again.
- 2:35Speaker 3: M And I also spoke with shal And Chi from
- 2:38Speaker 3: Unity t X yesterday and he was very glowing in
- 2:42Speaker 3: his praise for niss Ma. Like have you told with
- 2:44Speaker 3: them before?
- 2:46Speaker 2: Uh?
- 2:46Speaker 1: Yeah, I I've never met him in person, but like
- 2:51Speaker 1: we contacted that like you know, for like I don't know,
- 2:57Speaker 1: five six years maybe and then Yeah, the Unities.
- 3:02Speaker 2: They're so good.
- 3:03Speaker 1: They're heavy, and they they're like they're doing like you know,
- 3:08Speaker 1: uh kind of like new metal core but more hardcore
- 3:12Speaker 1: and so hard.
- 3:13Speaker 2: They're so hard. Yeah, I love them so much.
- 3:17Speaker 3: And three other shoes are real light shots, which means
- 3:20Speaker 3: of paper on eight and or allowed you guys, So
- 3:22Speaker 3: it did. It's a great thing for time the kids
- 3:24Speaker 3: go to concerts. But did I do that much in Japan?
- 3:27Speaker 2: Oh? Yeah, we usually uh we like we do like
- 3:34Speaker 2: all ages show.
- 3:35Speaker 1: Uh, like you know, we don't have like uh, I
- 3:44Speaker 1: don't know, it's it's hard to explain.
- 3:46Speaker 2: It's just we don't have like the shows are usually
- 3:52Speaker 2: for all ages.
- 3:53Speaker 1: So yeah, yeah, uh, I mean, uh yeah, we sometimes
- 4:02Speaker 1: do shows like you know, uh, not all ages like
- 4:08Speaker 1: for nightclub shows.
- 4:11Speaker 2: US uh has done a bunch of nightclub shows, so like,
- 4:20Speaker 2: you know, uh, I don't I don't know. I don't
- 4:23Speaker 2: know how to explain, but yeah, yeah we usual zero
- 4:27Speaker 2: for all ages show.
- 4:29Speaker 3: Well, last year it was a big year for NUS
- 4:31Speaker 3: with you signing the US label shop Time Records. So
- 4:34Speaker 3: what what sorts of things does that open up for you?
- 4:37Speaker 3: Like they're a long way away in the US, you're
- 4:39Speaker 3: in Japan, So what sorts of things did that do
- 4:41Speaker 3: for the band? Oh?
- 4:44Speaker 2: Yeah, they work for us uh.
- 4:49Speaker 1: Very hard and like you know, uh, I don't know
- 4:57Speaker 1: how to explain. They opened the to tour worldwide, uh,
- 5:04Speaker 1: more than ever. And then yeah that was that's you know,
- 5:10Speaker 1: that's a good thing, you know for us.
- 5:13Speaker 3: Sure. And you also released a song not Through High,
- 5:17Speaker 3: right through High last September.
- 5:18Speaker 2: Yeah, how how was that was?
- 5:21Speaker 3: Saying?
- 5:22Speaker 2: Oh, yeah, the reaction was so good?
- 5:24Speaker 1: And then uh, you know, uh we featured uh you
- 5:29Speaker 1: know from Hanabie, uh, the Japanese band, and then uh
- 5:34Speaker 1: they are one of the rising bands uh and like
- 5:38Speaker 1: rising bands worldwide, and then uh they're now huge in
- 5:42Speaker 1: Japan and the US and I think Australia too, and
- 5:47Speaker 1: then yeah they're blowing up. So yeah it was one
- 5:51Speaker 1: of Yeah, and Ugina's voice is so uh like so unique,
- 5:56Speaker 1: so he put uh uh kawaii vibes or like more
- 6:03Speaker 1: like experimental vives to our song.
- 6:06Speaker 2: Yeah that was good.
- 6:07Speaker 3: And then was that song just a standalone single or
- 6:10Speaker 3: is it part of a beer album picture?
- 6:13Speaker 1: Uh, we're gonna be releasing an album, are I mean
- 6:18Speaker 1: our very first album this year?
- 6:21Speaker 2: And yeah, maybe in spring.
- 6:25Speaker 3: Yeah, I can. Can you tell us a bit about
- 6:26Speaker 3: that musically? Like what what sort of direction is it
- 6:29Speaker 3: gonna take? What can we expect?
- 6:32Speaker 2: Uh, it's more like it is uh just give me
- 6:38Speaker 2: a second.
- 6:38Speaker 1: Uh I need to translated in English because it's hard
- 6:44Speaker 1: to explain even even in Japanese. H and uh like uh,
- 7:04Speaker 1: our first album will be uh like like the final
- 7:09Speaker 1: installment of the of our trilogy. Like yeah, actually we
- 7:14Speaker 1: released two epis before the album, and then the album
- 7:19Speaker 1: will be the final.
- 7:20Speaker 2: Piece of trilogy. And then it's it's not you know,
- 7:29Speaker 2: it won't sound different uh from U two E piece.
- 7:35Speaker 2: It's just.
- 7:37Speaker 1: Uh we did like you know, uh so called experimental metalcore,
- 7:43Speaker 1: like you know, metalcore with a lot of a lot
- 7:48Speaker 1: of essence like you know, uh e d M, black metal,
- 7:53Speaker 1: death metal. Uh uh progressive like with queen like choruses.
- 8:02Speaker 2: All right, yeah nice?
- 8:04Speaker 3: And you had the guests from hannaby On on the
- 8:07Speaker 3: single film I So is there any more guest st
- 8:10Speaker 3: artists on the album?
- 8:12Speaker 2: No guests, like you know only I mean at all?
- 8:17Speaker 3: So just say, if someone's got along to one of
- 8:19Speaker 3: the Void Division shows and they haven't heard of Nisis before,
- 8:23Speaker 3: give us three songs of yours that they can listen
- 8:25Speaker 3: to you, so they sort of get an idea of
- 8:27Speaker 3: what to expect.
- 8:28Speaker 1: Okay, So Yaksai, Uh it's uh it has a music
- 8:37Speaker 1: video on YouTube, Yaksai and then and say, saia Sai
- 8:45Speaker 1: is our very first song. Like uh, without that song,
- 8:51Speaker 1: we like haven't we hadn't.
- 8:57Speaker 2: Been here like you know in uh. One more song
- 9:05Speaker 2: will be uh Commie Gray and it's our uh you
- 9:16Speaker 2: know it's it's a song like I love to play live.
- 9:23Speaker 2: It's you know, it's you know, it's fun playing that
- 9:27Speaker 2: song like super bouncy vibe. And then yeah and with
- 9:33Speaker 2: simple breakdowns.
- 9:35Speaker 3: All right, man, well thanks very much for you job.
- 9:38Speaker 3: Lady knows. This will be in Australia with Boy Division
- 9:41Speaker 3: and Gideon and the Unity t X starting February to
- 9:44Speaker 3: fourteenth and Brisbane and then gone through Newcastle, Sydney, Camborough, Melbourne,
- 9:48Speaker 3: Adelaide and Perth. So there's still tickets availables on the show.
- 9:52Speaker 3: So best of like made and we'll see when you
- 9:54Speaker 3: get out of here.