Nightmare Releasing New Single "Deus ex machina"

Nightmare just announced that they will release a new single titled “Deus ex machina”. It will drop on November 21st and comes in three versions:

Type A (1890 Yen)
[CD]
01. Deus ex machina
02. UGLY DUCK’S WILL
[DVD]
Deus ex machina PV

Type B (1890 Yen)
[CD]
01. Deus ex machina
02. UGLY DUCK’S WILL
[DVD]
UGLY DUCK’S WILL PV

Type C (1260 Yen)
[CD]
01. Deus ex machina
02. UGLY DUCK’S WILL
03. rubbish

And there are more news! Drummer RUKA has been hospitalized in August due to bad health and had to undergo surgery. On the band’s official website he left a message telling his fans that the surgery went well but he has to rest. That’s the reason why he won’t be able to perform on September 29th and October 6th. But he plans to attend the Fanclub tour that starts in October.


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Nightmare Announces Coupling Tour with baroque!

At Nightmares most recent tour final at ZEPP Tokyo, Nightmare have announced quite an outstanding piece of information on their future plans.
It has been revealed that the band will be going on tour with baroque along Tokyo, Nagoya and Osaka for three performances. The coupling tour will start at the end of July and fans definitely need to make sure to get tickets!

While Nightmare are hardly ever on tour with other bands, it seemed that their perfect match could only be baroque, who fully took up activities again recently.

Please see the information below for details!

"Nightmare vs. baroque NATURAL BORN ERRORS"

07/31 (Tue) Nagoya CLUB DIAMOND Hall
08/01 (Wed) Osaka, Namba Hatch
08/04 (Sat) Tokyo, Hibiya Open Air Music Hall

[Advanced Ticket Sales]
05/18 (Fri) 21:00 to 05/27 23:00 (JST)

[General Tickets Sales]
START: 2012/06/30


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New Live Releases from NIGHTMARE

Visual kei band NIGHTMARE have announced the release of a new live album and DVD for June 6th.

Both releases will feature material from the final show of the band's NIGHTMARE TOUR 2011-12 Nightmarish reality tour, which was held at Nippon Budokan on March 2nd. The CD will be available in one version, while the DVD will be released in two types.

The regular edition of the DVD will consist of two discs, while the limited edition will come with a bonus disc as well as a photobook. The full tracklists and the content of the bonus DVD will be announced closer to the release date.


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Nightmare to Release Budokan Performance on DVD

Nightmare announced to release their new live DVD on June 6th. The DVD is titled “NIGHTMARE TOUR 2011-2012 Nightmarish reality TOUR FINAL Nippon Budokan” and includes their live at the famous live house on March 2nd. It will come in two types: The limited edition will contain 3 discs and costs 8300 Yen, the regular edition will contain 2 discs and costs 5775 Yen.

In addition they will release a live album featuring the same performance. It is set to be released on the same date, June 6th, and the price is 2625 Yen.


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NIGHTMARE's Sakito Charming 900 Fans at Book Signing Event!

On March 31st, NIGHTMARE's Sakito had been participating in a special signing event for the release of his personal book "NIGHTMARE SAKITO no Zoku Donko Ikuno? 50 On no Tabi". The event has of course been held at the Chiba based Visual-kei store "little hearts" new flag store in Shinjuku.

Despite heavy rain and nasty weather, 900 eager fans had gathered at the shop to receive a signature from the guitarist.

The book features the regular corner Sakito has been writing in music magazine B-PASS from 2007 to 2011 and also came with a special DVD.

"Doing this on my own, I am very happy about the people that came and read the book. In the future, when making songs, this will certainly be my strength.", Sakito said with regard to the many fans that had gathered just for him!

Sakito will continue his event series in Nagoya and Osaka, before NIGHTMARE will be going on tour from may third under the title: "NIGHTMARE Tour 2012 To Mimic The Past".


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Nightmare Announces First Single of 2012

Visual-kei band Nightmare has announced their first single of 2012.

The new single is titled "mimic" and will come in 3 different version, each with its own unique bonus content.

The CD Only version of the single will come with single's two main tracks, "mimic" and "PARANOID", as well as an exclusive bonus track, "Honesty".

2 different CD+DVD versions of the single will also be available. The DVD will come with a PV of either "mimic" or "PARANOID" depending on which version you purchase.

"mimic" will be released on February 29th.

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