Blam Honey was an industrial rock band, formed in 1995 with two members: Tatsuya and Ryonai.''Blam Honey Profile and Biography'' at JAME
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as influences.Riser, Matt and Kemmotsu, Nobuko "Interview with Blam Honey" ''Newgrave'' Issue 5 (English)

History

Blam Honey released two albums: ''Grandiose Delusion'' (1998) and ''Typical Ingeniousness: Suggest'' (1999). They then disbanded due to both having health problems. Ryonai started a side project,

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, and has been creating

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fashion accessories that have gained popularity by several prominent

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artists. Tatsuya died of

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in 2004, though Ryōnai did not release this information until four years later. As of 2008, Ryonai has confirmed that Blam Honey has resumed activities. A revival performance and memorial CD release took place July 12, 2009. A new vocalist was chosen and debuted at Darkest Fest 2010. The new vocalist was Hyuga; however he left two months later with Ryonai filling in on vocals. With the shutdown of the official website and no new material since 2010, activity has seemingly ceased. In 2019, Ryonai launched

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, a brand of interior decor and gothic fashion accessories and a successor brand to the earlier

Members

;Ex-Members * Ryōnai ( programming,

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) * (

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, bass, percussion) * Hyuga (lead vocals, guitar, bass)

Discography

Demos

* ''The Horse Breaker of Electronic Brain'' - (1995) imited to 100 copies* ''The Horse Breaker of Electronic Angel'' - (1995) imited to 200 copies

Singles

* ''The Other Side of Electronic Brain'' - (1998) imited to 1000 copies* ''Artificial Delusion'' - (June 22, 1998)

Album

* ''Grandiose Delusion'' - (February 9, 1998) * ''Typical Ingeniousness: Suggest'' - (August 25, 1999) * ''Providence of Decadence'' (August 26, 2009)

Video

* ''Industrial Gender Unit Blam Honey'' imited to 500 copies

Trivia

* Ryōnai has suffered from

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. The band made a song entitled "Myasthenia" on their ''Typical Ingeniousness: Suggest'' album.Blam Honey Official Discography

References

External links

Official websiteSuppurate System website
Japanese rock music groups Visual kei musical groups Japanese industrial music groups {{Japan-band-stub