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, Suppurate System, and has been creating

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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.

Members

;Ex-Members * Ryōnai (

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, 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