The great and highly influential Japanese screamo band Envy released a solid album last year and were over in our shores for dates with La Dispute and Deafheaven, plus at least one secret headlining show. They were still as crushing as ever, so it’s a bummer to learn that vocalist Tetsuya Fukagawa is leaving the band. The band issued the following statement:
Tetsuya Fukagawa, our vocalist who has been with us since the beginning, has decided to leave the band. The remaining four members, Nobukata Kawai, Dairoku Seki, Masahiro Tobita and Manabu Nakagawa will continue on as envy. We are proud of what we’ve accomplished over the past twenty years with Tetsu. In consideration of these years and out of respect for all involved, we ask everyone to understand this is a private decision. We wish Tetsu the best of luck and hope for all of his future endeavours to be successful. We will still be playing at the Synchronicity ’16 – After Hours show on April 24th, featuring a few of our friends as guest vocalist. We’ll be taking some time to concentrate on writing some new music after April. Hope to see you there.
It’ll be interesting to hear what the band does without the vocalist they’ve had since starting out two decades ago, but we’re hoping for the best.
Stream the band’s classic All the Footprints You’ve Ever Left and the Fear Expecting Ahead below…
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