With more and more anime songs being released every day, newcomers to the anime song scene are also appearing on the scene one after another. Akiba Research Institute has started a series of in-depth interviews with "newcomers" of interest to Akiba Research Institute!
The four members have different musical roots!
───Please begin by introducing yourselves!
tatsuma I am tatsuma, a drummer. I'm tatsuma, the drummer, and member 1, the party guy.
All of you (laughs)
Mizki I'm Mizki, the vocalist. I'm into anime these days.
Yosuke I am Yosuke, a guitarist. I am the most meticulous of the members.
Niwaken I am Niwaken, the bass player. You can probably tell by my appearance, but I am the most austere member (laughs).
─ ─ "Cellchrome" has many unique members, but how was the band formed?
tatsuma Originally, the three of us except for Yosuke were in a band, but I met Yosuke during my musical activities, and we decided to form a band together, which led to the formation of "Cellchrome".
Mizki The band was formed in November 2015.
─ So it took you less than two years to make your debut! What kind of music did you originally listen to?
tatsuma When I was in elementary school, I liked J-POP and often listened to "EXILE" and "CHEMISTRY". From there, I started listening to "L'Arc~en~Ciel" and "Janne Da Arc," which are considered early Visual Kei, and from there I started listening to Japanese rock and Western music as well. SIAM SHADE" was probably the biggest influence on me.
Mizki I also had a friend in my hometown who liked Lark, and we used to listen to them together. From there, I started listening to a lot of 90's Visual Kei, and then X JAPAN, LUNA SEA, and Janne Da Arc... I followed that path. Later, I started playing the guitar and became interested in riffs and techniques, and that is when I started listening to technical anime songs. I could hear the studio musicians really playing in ani-songs.
─ How about you, guitarist Yosuke?
Yosuke: I started playing guitar when I was in junior high school under the influence of my father. I started listening to 70's rock music with "Led Zeppelin," and I was listening to "Deep Purple," "Eric Clapton," and other royalty. When I was playing the guitar, I gradually came to like more technical songs, and in high school I was really into "MR. So the songs are hard rock. So, I think the roots of my musicality lie in songs that are hard rock but have pop melodies.
Niwaken: My mother listened to rock bands, so my ears were naturally exposed to their music. For a while, I was into "Maximum the Hormone" with my mother, and the first live concert we went to was the stage of "Maximum the Hormone.
─ Your mother and Hormone!
Niwaken: My first live concert was with Hormone, so it was a shock for me in many ways (laughs). Ue-chan on bass was really cool, and that was the first time I recognized the bass guitar as an instrument. I started playing the bass guitar, and I realized how cool an instrument it is. After that, I was into music such as mixed music, loud music, and metal music, but recently I have been trying to incorporate various kinds of music, including jazz, because I want to create a more austere and colorful sound as a bass player.
From left: Mizki, tatsuma, Niwaken, and Yosuke