ASTERISM - Fiction

[@pagontori1376]

発売と同時アルバムを買って聴くもハルカのボ－カルに何となく納得出来ずに殆ど聴かないでいました。ある海外のリアクション動画での彼の発言でハッとしたのは、曲の良し悪して聴かなった訳では無く、Astrismがトリオのインストバンドでボ－カルを必要としない位に楽器を謳わせてくれる稀有なバンドとの勝手な思い込みで彼らの才能を否定していたのではと改めてMVを見ながら反省していました。 彼等は信じられない若さでデビュ－し、作曲から演奏まで私の全ての価値観を吹き飛ばす勢いで成長をし続けていた事を忘れていました。彼女のボ－カルも演奏も相変わらずのクレイジ－な演奏でベ－ス、ドラムも本当に驚きを隠せません。その位に良いアルバムです。80年代の日本のヘビメタの終焉は酷い物で才能をレコ－ド会社が摘んでしまったとすら思っています。売れるもの作るために才能の目を潰したとすら言えます。 彼等がマスメタルを目指すと前作のアニメ・カバ－のアルバムと聞いた時は愕然として過去を思い出すも素晴らしい編曲と演奏で安心しました。しかしながら、今回は本当にマズイと思い先入観だけで聴いてはいませんでした。でも彼らの才能は想像の遥か上の様で、改めてこの曲を聴いているとライブハウスより大きなホ－ルで聴く楽しみと一部のマニアだけで喜ぶ音楽から大きく翼を広げるための一歩なのかもと思いました。 とにかく出す楽曲、アルバムの全てが素晴らしく、多くの人を訴求する音楽であると確信しています。今、Astrismの演奏は毎日聴かずいられない程に毎日、聴いています。年内にどこでも良いので一回ライブに行こうと決めています♬

[@sfw99]

Wow!! HAL-CA has taken her vocals to the next level. 🤘🤘

[@confused_BKK]

All i love the song but if they put some scream that's perfect (just thought 😂)

[@goodchildmusic0]

HELLZ Yes. Totally agree ❤❤

[@allensaunders449]

Not much vocals before this ever. But she does sound good

[@sfw99]

@@allensaunders449 Good point. I'm really comparing this to her singing on Metal, which is the first song I heard her sing on. This is a big step up from that. They put out a new song a couple of days ago with vocals that also sounds good (and has a great music video).

[@makochiro]

口をパクパクしながらギター弾いていた可愛い女の子が！素敵なヴォーカリストになりましたね！【ASIDE】も購入しましたが全曲素晴らしかったです。今後の活躍も期待してます。年１回でもいいので福岡帰ってきてライブお願いします😊

[@KennethFinuf]

Hal-Ca has such a cute voice for a powerful guitarist like her!! 😊❤

[@takepon.h]

ASIDE　Fictionカッコよすぎます🎵さすがASTERISMさんですね👍ハイトーンボーカルHAL-CAちゃん素敵すぎます🎵MIYU君MIO君も素敵すぎます🎵MVおめでとう🎉

[@waterwalker9600]

Vocals are fantastic on this. Well done ASTERISM ✨️

[@aaronleesgbclieutenant]

Yessir🤘

[@waterwalker9600]

@aaronleesgbclieutenant Yo !! SGBC in the house 🤘

[@martynaspetraitis6558]

No, it's not fantastic. It's on a wery wery low level. It's a definately weakest part in this track. Better they never start to sing, or hire a real singer instead...

[@aaronleesgbclieutenant]

@@martynaspetraitis6558 how bout you not be such a Debbie Downer eh?

[@TheCyberMantis]

Short song. I'm kinda on the fence with this one. It's good, but maybe something is missing. 🤔

[@kwwktube]

Some artists are said to consider their instruments as extensions of their bodies. I truly feel this way about each member of Asterism, not just technically but also soulfully and musically. And now, with the addition of vocals, I simply can't take my eyes off these incredibly talented musicians.

[@茶の間乗り鉄]

魅力的なハイトーンボイス！！　ライブで聴きたいです！！

[@jjrusy7438]

Super. Vocals by the whole band is what will open the door to the next level.

[@nokogiriskyhigh9953]

一回目は魅力的なボーカルに驚き　２回目はポートノイみたいなドラムだけ聞いて、３回目は、ベースのメロディラインの気持ちよさに圧倒され。４回目で安定のギターに納得。３人の驚異的な進化はどこまで行くのか。

[@tkmetal3788]

進化は止まらないね～😄 歌詞も歌声も演奏も全てがマスターピースだよ 👍❤

[@metalfriend6110]

⭐🌟⭐ I absolutely love this song!!! (HAL-CA's voice 🖤)

[@alvicayunan547]

I just saw these guys at the Obsevatory in OC Ca. I initially stumbled upon them at Santa Monica pier promoting their show at the Observatory. They sound as awesome live. They connect with the crowd at a different level. Truly an amazing musical group. 🔥🔥🔥

[@kicorse]

You were one of the lucky ones to catch that show on the pier - I'd pay a lot of money to see Asterism live! Glad to see it's won them some new fans.

[@russ_henry]

ASTERISMはそんな素敵なバンドです！新しいCDも最高だし、これからも彼らの活躍を願っています！ ASTERISM is such a wonderful band! The new CD is awesome and I wish all the best to them for their continued success!

[@goblinoono2]

歌ってみれば驚異のハイトーン！ボーカル入れればいいのにと常々思ってたけど要らんかった 弾き語りは大変だとは思うけど、インストだけだとどうしても市場が限られるから、頑張って欲しいなぁ

[@いっけーチャンネル]

この曲に色々な要素入ってて飽きないです。

[@noname-by3qz]

I just saw them perform this on nhk world. The lyrics are important! They put the words in English on tv. I wish they were here!

[@jasonfisher8529]

Wow! Loving the addition of vocals. Great tones, HAL-CA, and I love seeing all 3 of you singing together. Fantastic!!

[@kenzomx]

I'm thoroughly impressed with everything I've heard from ASIDE. The band really took a big step forward and is making their best music. Obviously i have to commend HAL-CA for her vocals because they are fantastic

[@scottmeyers1903]

Loving Hal-Ca's voice ❤️😉👍💯

[@realdocloco]

and perfectly supported by the brothers' voices 👍

[@scottmeyers1903]

​@@realdocloco truth

[@Gabor...hachi.juu_ichi]

My favourite of this album 🤘....I was surprised when I heard of the potential release of this EP, somewhat worrying that adding vocals (despite what everyone was suggesting) would take away the unique formula that made ASTERISM so phenomenal, the space for intuitive connection of instrumental expression between the members as vocal will inevitably restrict or rather frame song structures in particular ways. But I must say it works... Haruka's talent is simply endless. Great vocals and still retain the ASTERISM signature sound. It made me realise that what's truly great about this band is not only their phenomenal musicianship but their drive to innovate and constantly challenge themselves. Cannot wait to hear what the next project will be. Looks like ASTERISM wil forever be one of my all-time favourite bands🤘🤘🤘

[@kicorse]

This is brilliantly done, adding vocals without losing anything instrumentally.We shouldn't be surprised, because the songwriting has always been up there with the musicianship.

[@Muzicman2112]

The vocals are fantastic! ASTERISM is stepping it up!

[@JoeSzilagy]

Glad Hal-Ca is singing now! I used to pester their manager a couple of years ago to get her to sing. They are certainly great instrumentally, but it's so hard to get a break these days, and so vocals will help get them more recognition. It's tough for a totally instrumental band to make a living, no matter how good they are, unfortunately.

[@Hethern]

Hal-Ca my dear your vocals add a whole new dimension to the Asterism sound, fantastic!!

[@blucehee40]

応援してますよ、 海外も頑張ってください 😄🤘🤘

[@JWPanimation]

Whaa, Hal Ca can sing too... This band never ceases to amaze.

[@steven_baconbits]

Whoa!!! Never thought I'd want vocals on their songs just from the levels of musicianship I enjoy, but now I want more! Her vocals are so good, fits right into their music.

[@boyfromsi]

Just awesome video! Excellent job by band and videographers.

[@phildeval]

Amazing... Again LOVED It ... In 🇪🇸 Spain we wait for your visit hoping Will be soon

[@Soular-Man]

About she started signing. She soars with the passion & spirit as with her guitar.

[@Len-cd1ou]

私はそれを見てうれしいです。 良い音楽。とても良い 。🎶🎶🎸🖤

[@christopherjohnferrer3771]

So beautiful Haruka, nice to see a MV of your singing🎸🎌🌸❤️

[@davidtollefson8411]

As if they needed to impress even more. Haruka’s vocals are really strong, what a dynamo.❤

[@gt1man931]

What? What!? I already loved them, but did not know she could sing like an angel. Wow, holy shit.

[@johnnyr8603]

I have an antenna for my TV at home and I was watching NHK world Japan when this band were performing on the TV. It’s my first time seeing them and I am super amazed at how good they are. They are giving me a lot of Paramore vibes with their band. Keep up the good work 👏🤗

[@maritzaaguirre8280]

Just yesterday I saw these kids on J Melo (NHK), great performance. I just want to make two observations... Haruka's voice is excellent.👍 And it was about time a brand like ESP sponsored Hal-Ca, the Yamaha Pacifica was nice, but a girl with this talent deserved a custom instrument.😉

[@ArtWave879]

Cool video. Love the industrial area at night. Gives me a little Final Fantasy VII vibe......As for the song, it's really growing on me. I love Hal-Ca's voice and the band is tight as always. If the next full album can find a healthy balance between the vocal and pure instrumental tracks I think they'll have found their sweet spot. Much love, Asterism!

[@RiderOftheNorth1968]

She is growing as a vocalist and still rules the world with her guitar. Awesome!!!

[@tobsmonster2]

The group is incredibly talented. Skilled in voice and instruments, alike. Fantastic ❤

[@krauser3885]

Great vocals and the ending of the song has a nostalgic feel to it. Great work as always.

[@TheJerm]

LOVE this! Great job and congratulations ASTERISM! You all sound FANTASTIC! 🕊

[@tamanegi114]

ギターのうまさも凄いが歌声が物凄く良い

[@cius2112]

She has such a great voice.

[@NicsMetalArt]

Wow!! This just took things to a whole new level.I was hoping they would do a video for this song with her singing!. Tremendous Asterism!! ❤❤❤

[@lordcarnivorous4751]

Just saw/discovered you on J-Melo on NHK here in the US, and all I can say is..... WOW!!!!! 🤘🏻🤘🏻

[@Kozouakomachan9079]

Shes so amazing vocalist vocks really great band and song. parfect scampering!!🎶⚡☝🏻🤘🏼👍🎉✨🌟

[@xovaqiin4844]

YES! Awesome song. Cool video. This needs to go viral.

[@koncote]

Haruka has a very sweet voice

[@MetaTaro]

This is such an amazing album. 'METAL' is still my favourite from this album, but all song are good 👍

[@ajdenzer3039]

Asterism has taken another great leap and it's subarashii, everything is perfect.

[@socrateos]

まさかまさかの超うれしい展開になりましたね。

[@Intensive-Care]

That's great! You guys are great! Haruka is adorable. Beautiful vocals!) It's obvious that Hal-Ca gravitates toward more aggressive metal. And I'd like to see some thrash or death songs in their repertoire in the future.

[@sanjibdutta]

I just found this band on Twitter. This song is 🔥 🔥. Your new fan from 🇨🇦.

[@logicbender858]

Finally, a proper music video for this great band, something that they deserve years ago. Love this album so much, they are so creative, all songs are diverse, I never get boring repeating this album, I think I can see ASTERISM future shinning bright. PS: I wish they make lyric videos too, so I can sing along.

[@TehPhysics]

This was a nice surprise. I loved it. I look forward to listening to it again.

[@dimashyusein4224]

2:34 great outro 🎉🎉🎉

[@queenmilenia7620]

Congratulation ASTERISM. You are great music composers, with or without vocal, the only thing left is : WORLD TOUR !!

[@CrYou575]

There's only one thing wrong with this post. KZbin doesn't have a button for 10 likes. This track is brilliant.

[@TheRealJanKafka]

Where did this (and the entire EP) come from? I'm at a loss...completely flabbergasted. If they're at this level now, what is to come? They might end up being the greatest band of ther time.

[@russellpotter7294]

Love the EP Aside and this is one of the really catchy rock songs that deserve to be enjoyed.

[@yeonis9463]

Guitar+vocAl mOst difficult to plAy hAl cA🙏🏻🤘🏻You guyS Are Awesome ❣️🤘🏻

[@BakaBroadcast]

Wow, really glad you chose this song to put out! Great to see!!!

[@musiq_jp]

HAL-CA最高

[@Sergof]

Cool! ASIDE is a very good release 🤘

[@paulbustin1053]

"Fiction", is a Fantastic song and that's a "FACT"! I would love to see ASTERISM perform it live in London and make that a fact too.

[@たらこたらこの助]

これで155のボーカルあり版とか出せば最高！！

[@CaffeineNightOwl]

HAL-CAs outstanding beautiful voice and the background vocals give them so much more opportunities and lifting them on another level. I love their music so much.

[@nailingjellotoawall]

Love this so much!!

[@gigaganon]

Nice to hear a new original song, it's really good! I prefere their style without vocal but it's still nice

[@user-TAMAYURA]

端的に言って 大好きだわ

[@joelogger88]

When I first heard her singing a year ago I was thinking that maybe she should stick to guitar playing but her vocals have gotten a lot better.

[@JuanSan66]

Amazing!. Great MV and vocals on point!

[@x8jason8x]

Glad to see another one blow up!

[@gillespourtalet5891]

This band just sweep 99.9999 % bands of thé World

[@mars71mustang]

Hal-ca. Congratulations love the song

[@yu-ki4793]

夏フェスとか出てください！それかこの曲TVCMに採用されてほしい！ みんなASTERISMのこと知らないだけで一度聴いたらファンになる人たくさんいると思うな～

[@2abug]

ASTERISM featuring vocHAL-CA 🎤🎸🎸🥁🔥

[@lackoflove2803]

great mv. i like asterism as an instrumental band but its not bad to experiment other styles. ganbatte asterism!

[@killiansred1000]

This was unexpected and really well done. Has Hal-Ca been taking lessons? Your voice sounds better, control and range, than in prior songs.

[@funbeanniebunny963]

wow, vocals

[@johnl2653]

This is so awesome!🤘🔥

[@saldiven2009]

Haruka has some pipes....

[@cius2112]

Awesome song!

[@Timber1508]

This is perfect.

[@yd210]

ミュージックビデオ凄いな。

[@RandumbNoize]

Nice! Was not expecting the vocal.

[@unimaginatve]

Great Job you guys!

[@christiancouvidou4777]

🤘🔥✨🤩Fiction💯Perfection !😍✨🔥🤘

[@martinx0882]

Awesome!

[@guybrushthreepwood1519]

I guess it's a minority opinion, but I really don't feel like vocals were missing. Now don't get me wrong, it's a good song, but instrumental music and music with vocals just fundamentally have a different dynamic to them. I am impressed at how quickly HAL-CA managed to reach this level of vocalist chops, but I do sincerely hope that they still will continue to release instrumental tracks. They *are* just very different compositions. However, as long as they do make the music *they* want to make, it's all good.

[@maidsandmuses]

I've been following my favourite bands for longer than I care to remember. Trust me, with the talent these three young musicians display you don't need to worry, provided they stick together. The best bands don't get stuck on a fixed sound or formula; they will experiment, learn, and evolve. They will occasionally take a detour in a direction that not all fans appreciate (at first anyway), but more often than not will circle back to something that is even better than they ever produced before. As you say, as long as they get to make the music *they* want to make themselves, it will be fine.

[@MaartenT]

These vocals are very produced, they don't really sound like their actual voices. I watched a liveset yesterday (the VOD is still up on twtcstng) and while I do think she did a great job (all 3 of them did), they are not as clean as this sounds, especially on the first vocal track they did (it wasn't pretty at first). I actually think the vocal tracks work better mixed in with instrumental tracks in a live set than on an album. But to be fair, I am not a huge fan of overly produced vocals in general and this production sound like Su's vocals in a studio Babymetal album to me, so that might be why I prefer most vocal tracks live. Their live set was really good though. So yes, I completely agree with you. I actually think it detracts from the technicality of their music, but if it's their own decision I guess I am ok with it even though it's less for me than their instrumental music. I also think they are rapidly improving their vocals, it is impressive. And as a last thing, I actually do enjoy their song "Metal" (but I'm also already used to it for a while). They finished the set with it and I couldn't help rocking out to it.

[@guybrushthreepwood1519]

@@MaartenT Pretty much as i see it. I really don't mind them broadening their repertoire, and I'm always wary people might (intentionally) misunderstand... There's just so few (awesome) instrumental bands around, if you exclude fusion/jazz, which i find rather sad, since it just adds a different flavor of music, I do enjoy. There just doesn't seem to be much demand for it. (Now I feel the need to listen to some D_Drive :P ) In my mind, though, if they end up somewhere close to what you might expect of Rush, that'd be awesome. And honestly, Geddy's voice isn't for everyone either :)

[@MaartenT]

@@guybrushthreepwood1519 That's basically how I see it too. I will always respect an artist making their own decisions on how to further their career, I think that's super important, but there are not enough great instrumental bands and there are too many bands with vocalists. That said, a lot of people apparently can't feel attached to instrumental music, so I understand why they tried it out especially since so many people were shouting about it online. It's just a field that's overpopulated and way more difficult to dominate in and I personally just prefer the unique instrumental sound they have. I also wish they would release this (and Animetic if that's allowed) as a CD, but that's just because digital only doesn't really work for how I like acquire my music and support bands. And as far as D_Drive goes, I like them but they don't do it for me as much as Asterism does with their instrumentals. I am not really sure why, they are also really talented though.

[@guybrushthreepwood1519]

@@MaartenT At any rate they still are *really* young, lots of time to find their own sound, i guess. And while I do enjoy instrumental music a lot, a big part of that is the compositional freedom, the departure from your usual song structure. Thankfully there are bands more on the progressive side of things that do have vocals but also don't really give a crap about traditional song structures. I'm thinking the likes of Sokoninaru, Maximum The Hormone or tricot. But then again, I was partly socialised with bands from Pink Floyd to Emerson, Lake And Palmer, The Nice and whatnot, so it's no wonder a song like Asterism's Dawn *does it* for me more. Who knows, maybe our trio here will become a japanese version of Dirty Loops, that'd be something :) As for D_Drive, they are a mixed bag, I do like a lot of their stuff, but some songs sound almost like they were written with lyrics in mind. There's sometimes odd gaps, but all in all they are something i come back to regularly.

[@virtuosodm3327]

The Japanese have definitely developed their own unique sound of "modern" metal,Altough it is not my " cup of tea",I tremendously respect that they are "real" musicians who have actually sacrificed many hours to develop skills on instruments, unlike the mainstream garbage of rap,hip hop we have in the USA here.And Japanese females are Kawaii ,lol🙂

[@MaartenT]

It's not bad, they all do a good job (the vocals are somewhat overproduced though), but I personally prefer instrumental Asterism over the vocal tracks by a lot. I really hope this was a decission made by the band and not by the label/management. Because even if I as a fan don't care for it, what the artists want should always be a priority. I did really enjoy the live set they did on April 12th on "Made In Heaven Vol 10" though, I do think it works to mix up the vocal tracks with instrumental tracks.

[@Kevin6059]

That kicked ass!

[@Sam-ko2kz]

Hard🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽🤘🏽

[@Makaveliunited2214]

This bangs.

[@APOLOWV]

aguante ASTERISM 🤘

[@robertandre778]

let's go🤘🤘

[@brucebennett5338]

come play san francisco, pretty please?

[@moreblack]

🤘🤘🤘🤘