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At the time I listened to this band it quickly became clear that they put a lot of energy and heavyness into the music but at the same moment it's fine to hear that it's never overloaded. The riffs always stay sharp and clear in the sound. Power is always present but never ruins the sound with being brutal all the time.
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| Saiseiga create hard music that's very melodic at the same time. |
So who is this Japanese band and why do they release so many live DVDs ? The whole band gave answers to the questions I've send over. That's something that doesn't happen everyday so I'm very happy for this detailed insight into the band's way to work on new music.
Heavy Metal Underdogs: How did the band come together in the beginnings?
Saiseiga: The band I was playing was finished its activity and there was no plan at that time. However, all gigs we planned before our final one were all cancelled due to that Covid, and we have this band to an end not seeing members and our fans, which made me have something on my mind since I could not fulfill what I wanted to do. After a while, I had been off from playing drums and music related activities, listening to myself and finally made up my mind that I shall do what I could not do when our last band broke up. This made me form a new band.
I asked Katsuki whom I played with before to do a jam session in the studio and we were creating a new band's musical direction together. At the same time, I asked Regan to join this new band since I really wanted her to be a vocalist in this band so badly.
Wakkun was introduced by Regan's friend and he was also delighted to join this band when he heard our sounds and we hit it off. So, here we came as a SAISEIGA.
(Tohko)
What are the lyrics of your songs all about?
At SAISEIGA, I could check out demo songs with almost completed version. Most of the times, I can get some inspiration from those sounds.
Sometimes, this song title was almost ready and I can work on lyrics from those titles.
Human beings, Strongness, Gentleness, Feelings, Justice and those answers are really varied. I have been very much interested in daily and large-scale questions.
Those current thought of my findings are derived from demo songs and reflected to my lyrics.
(Regan)
I've seen on your website that you've released some more live DVDs as well. Do your fans favor to see you perform instead of "just" listening to your music?
Needless to mention, we would like to have many people to listen to our studio albums but the essence of SAISEIGA is our live performance. By expressing our emotions and energy at those gigs, our audience can feel the unitedness, which no other occasion can offer.
SAISEIGA's wide variation of songs can be experienced at our live performance. We are delighted if our fans can have some fun to check out our music visually. This is why we are releasing our live DVD often.
(Tohko)
Are you working out the songs together or has everyone his role in the band?
Our roles are divided naturally.
We are four people, who have totally different personalities. So, there is no reason to try to take others' roles.
Main composers are myself (Katsuki) and Tohko. Regan writes most of the lyrics.
Wakkun does not compose songs but I asked him to compose a couple of songs since I wanted to have some idea from the guitarist's point of view.
Once again we each have our own different personalities.
I am in charge of all arrangements. Before I share demo songs with other members I normally make arrangements as if they are almost completed.
However, I do have one contradiction. For one thing, I believe composing songs is one of the most important things in this band. On the other hand, I do not want to spend much time composing.
This is because I want to compose songs with some driven emotions.
I often see more values created by incidents.
In order to proceed, we often play only with drum and bass to do jamming rather than composing.
On the contrary I composed songs just by myself focusing and spending much time to make it complete, which I felt was very fresh. The bottom line I do not want to keep the same process to compose songs. I always want to feel very fresh feelings.
This thought is a musical concept of SAISEIGA. (Katsuki)
Do you feel inspired by mangas or anime movies?
Yes. This is my personal point of view. And I do have lots of inspiration from those.
In addition to anime and manga, I have much inspiration and influences from game music.. For exmaple, I got some inspiration from fantasy type of music which has a kind of nostalgic melody lines.
On my guitar solo, I do have some kind of phrases sometimes. (Wakkun)
More details about Saiseiga can be found on the official website of the band. Make sure to listen to one song below so you won't miss out on this fine and unique melodic groove metal band.
