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Zilch is the title of two different artistic groups.
The first is a project founded by Hideto “hide” Matsumoto in 1995 during a stay in Los Angeles.
Zilch was intended to launch an English-speaking market for hide. At its core, hide was joined by two English musicians; guitarist Ray McVeigh who had previously played with members of the Sex Pistols in a band called The Professionals, and bassist Paul Raven of Killing Joke. To complete the line-up American drummer Joey Castillo (now of the “Queens of the stonage” fame) and I.N.A, a good friend of hide and member of his solo band “hide with Spread Beaver” in Japan joined the group.
The band was first mentioned in hide’s personal online blog in January 1998 when the video for “Electric Cucumber” was released on Japanese music television. Hide said that the band had recorded the particular song and video in 1996 but its release was delayed due to the adult nature of the themes it dealt with. Hide said that the he planned to release an album with the band which had already been completed the previous year as well as concentrate on live work with the group. It has now transpired that the band were set to tour with American alternative act Marilyn Manson, the lead singer of which hide was friends with and gave a special “thanks” to in the album notes for his “Psyence” CD.
It was not to be; hide died on May 2, 1998.
The album was released on schedual and is regarded as being close to how it was originally intended with only post production work been contributed after hide’s passing.
The first is a project founded by Hideto “hide” Matsumoto in 1995 during a stay in Los Angeles.
Zilch was intended to launch an English-speaking market for hide. At its core, hide was joined by two English musicians; guitarist Ray McVeigh who had previously played with members of the Sex Pistols in a band called The Professionals, and bassist Paul Raven of Killing Joke. To complete the line-up American drummer Joey Castillo (now of the “Queens of the stonage” fame) and I.N.A, a good friend of hide and member of his solo band “hide with Spread Beaver” in Japan joined the group.
The band was first mentioned in hide’s personal online blog in January 1998 when the video for “Electric Cucumber” was released on Japanese music television. Hide said that the band had recorded the particular song and video in 1996 but its release was delayed due to the adult nature of the themes it dealt with. Hide said that the he planned to release an album with the band which had already been completed the previous year as well as concentrate on live work with the group. It has now transpired that the band were set to tour with American alternative act Marilyn Manson, the lead singer of which hide was friends with and gave a special “thanks” to in the album notes for his “Psyence” CD.
It was not to be; hide died on May 2, 1998.
The album was released on schedual and is regarded as being close to how it was originally intended with only post production work been contributed after hide’s passing.
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mucc4ever wrote:
わたしは愛しています♥
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JunkJam wrote:
where can I get Zilch music? :o
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MasamiK wrote:
Fuctrack#6 *--------------------* This is the best one...huh huh huh
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-Goodman- wrote:
http://www.last.fm/group/hide
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[deleted-user]
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i like Zilch^^!
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Hiden_Seek wrote:
who cares what genre they are?! They're still awesome!
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XbaranoseidouX wrote:
Zilch were not vk. They were more like american metal
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isshi69nikkei wrote:
you know? It hurts me when I see zilch tagged as visual kei. But.... maybe I'm just totally mistaken and they WERE vk, so please, show me some photos where they're in dresses, make-up and things like that, i would be REALLY grateful xDDDDDDDDDDDDDDd
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athaiya wrote:
Great band and amazing hide! >.<
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Estrely16lv wrote:
<3
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-Goodman- wrote:
http://www.last.fm/group/hide
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ScreamLab wrote:
Agree with below. If there's a Japanese artist doing a colab. with American or any other Country then it's automatically Japanese/J-rock and seeing as hide has pink hair and funky outfits its automatically VK :P
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kikucisko wrote:
well, anything that is connected with japan in some way is tagged as japanese XD just like hide in some american group = japanese XD
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Babli-01 wrote:
STOP tagging Zilch as j-rock, Visual Kei and japanese! omg
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-Goodman- wrote:
http://www.last.fm/group/hide
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Kikyana wrote:
looool @ people tagging Zilch as VK.
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chuuzetsu wrote:
I would like to point fans of the Christian rock band to this location: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-4EzKLpJT0
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Hiden_Seek wrote:
Is there anybody know what movies the voice quotes are taken from in the song "Hello Hello Hello Goodbye" on the Bastard Eyes album? :)
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imaluigi wrote:
I find it hilarious how hide's zilch could possibly be confused with a Christian pop group of the same name. lol *imagining the shocked faces*
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chuuzetsu wrote:
I'm not sure if they would have been "big". I think it is possible that Zilch would have had a strong following amongst its fans (similar to KMFDM). But not "big" by any means. Actually, I'm sorry...it probably depends on what you mean by big. I just realized that we could possibly be thinking of two different things, haha.
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