Buck-Tick

 It is hard to believe that this month marks the one year anniversary of the untimely death of Atsushi Sakurai 😢. Sakurai was the lead singer of one of my favorite bands from Japan, a goth rock band called Buck-Tick.

The first time I had ever heard of this band was because of me and my twin watching an anime called Trinity Blood which aired back in 2005. The opening of the anime was one of their songs and the song was called Dress. It such an amazing song, I was hooked ever since.

What is crazy though was I didn't realize how long this band had been around. In fact the band made their debut back in 1983, I wasn't even born yet.

As of 2023, the band has released a total of 23 albums with nearly all reaching the top ten and twenty positions on the Oricon charts in Japan.

So since the Trinity Blood album, I have been searching songs from this amazing band and found plenty of them. Of course I still really enjoy listening to the Dress, but also really like their song called Romance among others. Although I must admit, I do not enough Japanese at all, but somehow I really enjoy listening to Buck-Tick along with many others from the land of the rising sun.

Fun fact, their album Dark Than Darkness: Style 93 was named one of the top albums from 1989-1998 in a 2004 issue of the music magazine Band Yarouze.

It broke my heart when I discovered that Sakurai had past away last year. He was performing with Buck-Tick before falling ill and was rushed to the hospital. It was later revealed that he had died from a brainstem hemorrhage. 

Sakurai's voice was incredible and listening to their songs it still resonates with me to this very day. My thoughts and prayers are to Sakurai as well as the band and to many fans who loved this band.

REST IN PEACE Sakurai! We all miss you 🙏🙏🙏

God Bless and Be Safe everybody! 🙏🙏🙏

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