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LOVEBITES Concludes World Tour with Sold-Out Performance in San Francisco
LOVEBITES, one of Japan’s leading heavy metal bands, concluded their world tour “THE THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE” with a performance in San Francisco, California on September 12th.
This tour marked the band’s first world tour, starting with a performance in the UK on June 14th, and visiting 10 countries, 16 cities, and 17 performances in total in Belgium, Germany, Italy, Spain, France, Denmark, South Korea, Japan, and the US. Tickets for the solo performances in the UK, Belgium, Italy, and France were sold out. On June 28th, they appeared on the main stage of the world’s largest metal festival “Hellfest” held in Clisson, France, and performed a passionate performance in front of a large audience of tens of thousands of people. In addition, they performed in Korea for the first time on August 10th and 11th. On September 1st, they held their only full-set show in Japan this year at the Tokyo Garden Theater, their largest venue to date. Then, for their first tour in the US, which began on September 6th, Dallas and Los Angeles were sold out shortly after the announcement, so they changed to a larger venue, and the audience filled the venue in Los Angeles after the change. The final performance in San Francisco was also completely sold out, bringing the tour to a beautiful end.
Just before the end of this tour, they also announced that they will be appearing at the “Titans of Metal Fest” to be held in Mexico on March 1, 2025. They will be performing with world-famous bands such as WASP, Cavalera, a band made up of brothers Max and Igor, and Fear Factory. Although the world tour is over, LOVEBITES’ journey to excite metal fans around the world continues.
LOVEBITES Latest Release Product Details
LOVEBITES EP II
Release date: Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Format:
・Limited Edition A (2CD / VIZL-2338 / ¥4,800 including tax)
・Limited Edition B (CD+Blu-ray / VIZL-2339 / ¥4,500 including tax)
・Limited Edition C (CD+DVD / VIZL-2340 / ¥4,500 including tax)
・Regular Edition (CD / VICL-65981 / ¥2,500 including tax)
『LOVEBITES EP II』
1. Unchained (Digital distribution: https://jvcmusic.lnk.to/lovebites_unchained)
2. Soul Defender
3. Where’s Identity
4. The Bell In The Jail
5. Someone’s Dream
“RE-LOVEBITES EP” (Included in Limited Edition A)
1. Don’t Bite The Dust (Rerecorded 2024)
2. The Apocalypse (Rerecorded 2024)
3. Scream For Me (Rerecorded 2024)
4. Bravehearted (Rerecorded 2024)
Blu-ray/DVD (included with Limited Edition B and C)
– Unchained Music Video
– The Making Of…
MEMORIAL FOR THE WARRIOR SOULS
Release date: Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Format:
・Blu-ray (VIXL-458 / 7,700 yen including tax) *First pressing only includes a replica of the tour AAA laminated pass
・2DVD (VIBL-1147～1148 / 7,700 yen including tax) ※First pressing only includes a replica of the tour AAA laminated pass
・2CD (VICL-65982～65983 / 4,000 yen including tax) *Special sticker included only in the first pressing
Contents:
＜Blu-ray/2DVD＞
1. Call for Justice
2. We are the Resurrection
3. Judgement Day
4. When Destinies Align
5. My Orion
6. Signs of Deliverance
7. Rising
8. Dissonance
9. Above the Black Sea
10. Piano Solo
11. Lost in the Garden
12. Drum Solo
13. Stand and Deliver (Shoot ’em Down)
14. Don’t Bite the Dust
15. M.D.O. / M.D.O.
16. Edge of the World
17. Soldier Stands Solitarily
18. The Hammer of Wrath
19. We the United
20. Under the Red Sky
21. Call for Justice (Reprise)
22. End Credits
*The 2CD contains a total of 21 songs from the above list, excluding “End Credits.”
Bonus footage
●THE JUDGEMENTARY
(Over an hour of tour documentary footage. DVD is included on Disc 2)
LOVEBITES Band Profile
Formed in 2016 by vocalist Asami, guitarists Midori and Miyako, bassist Miho, and drummer Haruna. They made their debut in May 2017 with the EP “THE LOVEBITES EP”, which was packed with songs that were polished by Mikko Karmila, a talented Finnish engineer team famous for their work with Nightwish, Children of Bodom, and Amorphis, and mastered by Mika Jussila. On October 25th, they released their long-awaited first full album ”Awakening from Abyss”, which ranked 18th overall on the Oricon charts. With the album, they performed live in Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and the UK in November and December.
They made their first festival appearance at “Vans Warped Tour Japan 2018 Presented by XFLAG” in April, and held a solo concert in June with their second mini-album “Battle Against Damnation” released on June 6th. In July, they participated in “HEADSTRONG FES.18″ hosted by ANTHEM. In August, they expanded their activities to the world, appearing at ”Wacken Open Air”, one of the world’s largest metal festivals in Germany, and “Bloodstock Open Air” in the UK. After returning to Japan, they participated in “Metal Mania”, an event hosted by RED BULL, where LOUDNESS also performed, and released their completed second album “Clockwork Immortality” in December 2018. Just before that, in November, they held a European tour organized by X-ray Touring, Europe’s largest booking agency, and after the release, they held their largest ever domestic tour in Japan, covering six cities in January and February 2019. All tickets for this Japan tour, including the additional shows, were sold out. In March, they supported Arch Enemy on their China tour.
In July, they released their first live album, Daughters of the Dawn – Live in Tokyo 2019, which was recorded at the Tokyo BLITZ Akasaka concert during the tour supporting Clockwork Immortality. In June, they also toured the UK’s DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL, Belgium’s GRASPOP METAL MEETING, and Spain’s DOWNLOAD FESTIVAL MADRID. At the UK’s DOWNLOAD, Asami appeared on Halestorm’s stage and sang the song that gave the band its name, Love Bites (So Do I). After returning to Japan, they toured Tokyo, Nagoya, and Osaka in July and August, and also made their first appearance at SUMMER SONIC 2019. From November, they accompanied Dragonforce on their UK tour as special guests.
In January 2020, they released their third album, Electric Pentagram. It reached 9th place, their first time in the Oricon overall top 10. With this masterpiece, they kicked off a tour of Japan in February. In July, they released the live album Five of a Kind – Live in Tokyo 2020, which recorded the tour’s Zepp DiverCity performance, and won first place in the Oricon weekly Music Blu-ray ranking. In March 2021, they released the mini-album Glory, Glory, to the World, which ranked 10th on the Billboard overall album chart. Immediately after, they kicked off the domestic tour RIDE FOR VENGEANCE TOUR 2021, which will visit four locations across the country. The live album Heavy Metal Never Dies – Live in Tokyo 2021, which contains the Tokyo performance, is scheduled to be released in September. Meanwhile, in August 2021, Miho left the band. As a result, the band went on hiatus for a while. In the meantime, they released their best album, “In the Beginning ~The Best of 2017-2021,” in December of the same year.
In April 2022, auditions were held to find a new bassist. After a long selection process, fami joined in October of the same year. The band, which is now a five-member band again, released their fourth studio album, “Judgment Day,” in February 2023, which ranked fifth in the Oricon weekly rankings. In March, they held a two-day comeback concert, “WE ARE THE RESURRECTION.” All performances of the tour with the new album, which started in August, were sold out. The live album “Knockin’ at Heaven’s Gate ~Live in Tokyo 2023,” released in August, debuted at number one on the Oricon weekly music DVD rankings and Blu-ray rankings. In June 2024, they embarked on their first world tour, “THE THIN LINE BETWEEN LOVE AND HATE.” They visited countries and regions including the UK, Europe, Japan, and the US.