ROCK & READ 078 Ruki’s Interview (Part 1)
Born February 1. Blood type B. Vocalist of the GazettE formed in 2002. Other members: URUHA (g), AOI (g), REITA (b), KAI (ds). On March 13th, after 3 years, they released their ninth album “NINTH“. On July 19th (Thursday) and 20th (Friday), they are starting the first part of their new tour called “the GazettE Live Tour18 THE NINTH / PHASE #01 -PHENOMENON- at Misato City Cultural Hall.
During the 15th anniversary, basically the whole last year, the GazettE were hiding in the underground, working hard trying to produce their new album. But now the album is complete and it’s time to rage again with the people in the underground! Their ninth album is called “NINTH”. Compared to the previous work “DOGMA”, that was completely dark, I think that this album turned out to be very easy to understand. This time the title of the album came from the keyword of number 9, connected with this album. This is the GazettE of “PAST” and “PRESENT”!
Q: The title of this album that’s been released after 3 years is “NINTH”, this time you decided to use a number 9 as a keyword. But first, I’d like to talk about “DOGMA”. This previous album was released about 3 years ago, in August 2015. If we roughly summarized the interview that you gave to this magazine at that time, we could say that the GazettE is an absolute and true virtue, bringing the complete worldview with a dark sound. Could we say that this concept more or less fits “DOGMA”?
Q: Looking back to this whole time of more than a year - from when the album was released until the final at Makuhari Messe, do you think you completed everything that you wanted?
R: Ahh, I think I did. Up until now there were a lot of albums that ended up with that feeling like it didn’t have enough time to properly digest. For example, the number of lives we did wasn’t enough. So, we were doing things like “REDEFINITION”. In comparison, with “DOGMA” we passed this problem and we felt like we were continuing with it forever.
Q: Yes, it took a long time.
R: During that time, we also released a few singles. Our “DOGMA lifestyle” was continuing for quite a while. (lol)
Q: “DOGMA lifestyle”? (lol)
R: Because of that, we got pretty familiar with it, and we were able to finish it with a “this is already enough” feeling.
Q: Could we say that the album reached a phase where it could already rest in peace?
R: Yeah, that’s right. There was quite enough of everything.
Q: Among all the things, what is something that stuck in your memory the most?
R: Something that stuck in my memory the most? Umm, I thought about something bad, I broke my ribs. I broke them before the recording of “UGLY”.
R: I’ve caught a cold and I couldn’t stop coughing for more than a month. So, that’s how one of my ribs broke and during the tour, I broke another one. It was quite difficult during that time, I was doing everything while drinking analgesics and wearing a corset.
Q: No way, is it possible to break your rib while coughing?
R: When you cough the lungs don’t go *whoosh* filling with air, so there’s an empty space left (so the ribs have nothing to support them and bend too much causing a break) if the force of a cough is too strong the rib goes *snap*
Q: So, in other words, it seems that it was such a strong cough……
R: Because of that I went to the hospital, but after all, it seems like they couldn’t do much, they just said eventually it will heal and take some time to rest, so that’s how it was. During that time, I decided to not talk about it, so I didn’t really say anything publicly, but yeah, I had this serious thing going on.
Q: I heard that it’s more difficult physically than mentally.
R: No, it was difficult mentally too. We had a pretty tight schedule. During that time, I couldn’t sleep well, we also had lives in the evening. Well, there weren’t many good things at that time, now that I think back on it. (lol)
Q: Hahaha! Between all of this, were there any good things going on?
R: Good things? I wonder if there was any…… No, there wasn’t.
Q: To that extent that you could let for “DOGMA” to rest in peace?
R: Yeah, that’s right. The lives themselves, were good, I think.
Q: By the way, it was September 27, when you did the last free live at the Makuhari Messe. Did you have a bit of a break after that?
R: No, I don’t really remember having any time to rest back then. After that it was Halloween, I think. Maybe my memories of having a break got lost because of it.
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