PROFILE

ANTI FEMINISM is probably the oldest still active session band on Japanese visual kei scene and definately has legendary status. In their eight years of existence, not counting one year in the early nineties, the band has had more than eighty different members not counting several one-time supporters. And although these musicians derive from very different bands they manage to keep the style of AF: very hard punk with several metal influences.

The visual style of the band varies a lot. It differs from mysterious sect-costumes, overtly punk-style clothes with jackets full of badges/buttons up to some kind of stereotypical visualisations.

One reason for them being favourites of a lot of fans is their live-behaviour. Sometimes it’s the vocalist who sets his arm on fire but still keeps on singing. Another time it’s one of the musicians jumping on a partially burning desk and destroying it. All in all: Total anarchy!


BIOGRAPHY

The story of this band began in November of 1991. The first line-up was Kiyoshi (vo) (ex- Kamaitachi), Hiroshi (dr) (ex- AIDS), as well as JILL (gu), TAPPEI (gu) and KO・・ (ba), who all were in a band called Alligator before. The band started quite well at a sold out concert at Meguro Live Station but they didn’t stay together for long. Less than a year passed and the band played their last live at a promotional concert for the omnibus album Gimmick. TAPPEI and KO・・ have most probable left the music scene, JILL seems to have become a teammember of Anarchist Records , and Hiroshi joined CASCADE, where he stayed until 2002 or so.

Kiyoshi renamed himself to KENZI and founded Sister’s no Future together with the famous Tommy Dynamite before starting The Dead Pop Stars. In addition, he founded his own label, Anarchist Records, and, as if that wasn’t enough, KENZI revived ANTI FEMINISM with the help of Takayuki (The Piass), KISAKI (MIRAGE), and K-suke (Vasalla) in August of 1998.

They played some lives before starting their own event, comparable to Piass’ kantou shuukai, called bakuretsu toshi (english: Burst City), where several vk-indies played with them. At the third bakuretsu toshi event the band sold their first demotape Japanese NO. Since then, the band members started to change frequently. With these many changes it came to be that mostly unknown musicians like ARATA (ex- SKULL, k@mikaze) or HARUKI (ex- orivia) had the oportunity to play in this already then very popular project.

Many of the band's session members came either from Anarchist Records or Matina bands. ∀NTI FEMINISM, being more popular in north and west of Japan, profited from being friends with Kisaki. His label's omnibus CDs, like the Matina Prelude, promoted ∀NTI FEMINISM in the eastern part of Japan. And the project probably helped some northern indie bands like ArcAdiA to get signed with Matina.

Despite having a large number of fans, the band's releases, especially the videos, had only a small number of copies. In September of 2003 the band stopped their bakuretsu toshi events for an unknown reason. After five demotapes and several live only distributions, they released their first album in December of the same year. However, the band revived their events in the end of 2004, this time as bakuretsu zetsubou toshi (burst despair city) and as a one-man concert.

After being around more than 8 years, the band decided to explore new shores and decided on a two-man tour, together with Hagakure, in Europe. Seeing that Hagakure is almost the complete opposite to ∀NTI FEMINISM, it was the friendship between several members of both groups that led to the decision. Though it is hard to understandable for some fans, it seems to be quite normal for ∀NTI FEMINISM to play with pop-rock bands, especially when regarding some bakuretsu-events, where bands like Cuartet or even Milphinne were invited. How the fans in Europe will react to this remains to be seen when they will drop in on Europe in the spring of 2007 for five shows.



LINE UP

* Vocal : KENZI (ex- C.D.N. Ken chan)

* Drums : Yuji [support member]
* Guitar : TAKO [support member]
* Bass : Ruiji [support member]

* Guitar : TAPPEI [gone : 1992]
* Guitar : JILL [gone : 1992]
* Bass : KO・・ [gone : 1992]
* Drums : HIROSHI [gone : 1992]
ex-members :
* Guitar : Takayuki [gone : 2006] [support member]
* Bass : Kisaki [gone : 2007] [support member]
* Drums : K-suke [gone : 2007] [support member]
* Drums : You-ya [gone : 1999] [support member]
* Vocal : Kirala [gone : 2000] [support member]
* Bass : NoBu [gone : 2006] [support member]
* Guitar : SEANA [gone : 2000] [support member]
* Bass : Y・A・C [gone : 2003] [support member]
* Vocal : SEEK [gone : 2000] [support member]
* Drums : Shizuki (Miura-Kaigan) [gone : 2004] [support member]
* Guitar : Hiromi [gone : 2000] [support member]
* Bass : Maki [gone : 2000] [support member]
* Drums : N.O.Y [gone : 2004] [support member]
* Drums : Tarou [gone : 2000] [support member]
* Guitar : Sin [gone : 2001] [support member]
* Bass : Shion [gone : 2000] [support member]
* Bass : Shin [gone : 2002] [support member]
* Drums : Mashiro [gone : 2002] [support member]
* Bass : Hizumi [gone : 2002] [support member]
* Guitar : Tatsuya [gone : 2003] [support member]
* Guitar : ARATA [gone : 2000] [support member]
* Guitar : YURA [gone : 2001] [support member]
* Bass : Kai [gone : 2000] [support member]
* Drums : REO [gone : 2000] [support member]
* Guitar : Jun [gone : 2000] [support member]
* Bass : Yohei Togawa [gone : 2006] [support member]
* Drums : Shoki [gone : 2001] [support member]
* Guitar : HIZUMI [gone : 2001] [support member]
* Vocal : aika [gone : 2001] [support member]
* Drums : HIYOKA [gone : 2007] [support member]
* Guitar : Kazane [gone : 2001] [support member]
* Guitar : Haruki [gone : 2001] [support member]
* Drums : Ayame [gone : 2002] [support member]
* Guitar : kanata [gone : 2001] [support member]
* Drums : AKIRA [gone : 2001] [support member]
* Bass : Shio [gone : 2001] [support member]
* Guitar : Hideaki [gone : 2001] [support member]
* Drums : JUNYA [gone : 2001] [support member]
* Guitar : Tomozo [gone : 2007] [support member]
* Bass : Teala [gone : 2003] [support member]
* Drums : LUNA [gone : 2002] [support member]
* Guitar : Yuki [gone : 2003] [support member]
* Bass : Yuchi (ex. 8342) [gone : 2001] [support member]
* Drums : KEN2 [gone : 2003] [support member]
* Bass : mukku (ex. mukuro) [gone : 2007] [support member]
* Bass : makoto [gone : 2002] [support member]
* Drums : Katsura [gone : 2007] [support member]
* Bass : Akiyama Kyouji [gone : 2007] [support member]
* Drums : RYOHEI [gone : 2003] [support member]
* Bass : Leaya [gone : 2002] [support member]
* Guitar : Nachi [gone : 2007] [support member]
* Guitar : Shinya [gone : 2003] [support member]
* Bass : DE-HI [gone : 2004] [support member]
* Bass : SEIJI [gone : 2003] [support member]
* Guitar : masaki [gone : 2003] [support member]
* Guitar : Yamada Maya [gone : 2005] [support member]
* Drums : mohi [gone : 2003] [support member]
* Bass : Sei [gone : 2003] [support member]
* Guitar : erina [gone : 2004] [support member]
* Guitar : kagetsu [gone : 2006] [support member]
* Guitar : kazu [gone : 2003] [support member]
* Bass : HIDENO [gone : 2003] [support member]
* Bass : LINA [gone : 2007] [support member]
* Guitar : O-YOH [gone : 2004] [support member]
* Bass : Yu~u [gone : 2005] [support member]
* Drums : Rei [gone : 2004] [support member]
* Bass : Nanjou Kanata [gone : 2005] [support member]
* Bass : Tairan [gone : 2005] [support member]
* Bass : Takahiro [gone : 2006] [support member]
* Drums : mitsuru [gone : 2007] [support member]
* Bass : Aya [gone : 2006] [support member]
* Guitar : Akino [gone : 2007] [support member]
* Guitar : Kaion [gone : 2006] [support member]
* Bass : Wild Turkey [gone : 2006] [support member]
* Drums : Kaede [gone : 2007] [support member]
* Guitar : Yayoi [gone : 2007] [support member]

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