BlackRain

BlackRain is a band of dudes that play together since they were in high school. First they started by covering their idols like Metallica, Iron Maiden, Pantera, etc. But the real beginning of BlackRain is the day they’ve signed their first contract with a crappy label, the 6th June 2006. We don’t tell you lies, the 06/06/06 is the date at the end of the first contract they’ve signed. As in “Phantom of the Paradize” they felt like signing with the devil. Maybe it’s the reason why Swan, their leader, decided to take the name of the character of this movie.

Their first touring experience was in Japan, in August 2006. They knew nothing about the stage, about the way of behaving in front of a crowd. Like in “The Karate Kid”, they’ve been taught how to rock by the local agent that took care of them. Uchida, it was the name of this guy, was totally pissed off by the band he first saw on stage. He taught them how to move, how to do a set list, how to talk to people, how to correctly play the song that he loved on the album.

Every night, they were ending in a bar called The Current, in Shinjuku. There, they discovered a lot of new bands like Hardcore Superstar or the first Crashdïet album. Even if they were a pure heavy metal band, they discovered new bands that were playing a kind of music with catchy chorus, inspired a bit from the 80’s spirit, but with a modern view. They precisely knew at this moment  this was the way they had to take.