Universal Music and Delicious Deli Records are proud to announce a new international partnership with Japanese supergroup VAMPS.
Universal Music and Delicious Deli Records are proud to announce
a new international partnership with Japanese supergroup VAMPS.
Having already released two best-selling albums in Japan and
established a rapidly growing live following in Asia, Europe, North
America and South America, 2013 promises to be the year that VAMPS
become the biggest Japanese band in history and break out into the
global market. VAMPS have also announced a new deal with Live
Nation to further build their live profile around the
world.
VAMPS are superstar singer-songwriter guitarists HYDE and K.A.Z.
Their first two albums, ‘VAMPS’ and ‘BEAST’, though both were huge
hits, were far from being either artists’ first successes -
HYDE as the lead singer and lyricist of multi-million selling
Japanese rock band L’Arc-en-Ciel, has released a staggering twenty
top 10 selling albums in Japan, including eight number ones, and
sold over 30 million albums and singles to date. While K.A.Z has
released several critically acclaimed albums as a member of
Oblivion Dust. HYDE has also released four hugely successful solo
albums, including the number ones ‘666’ in 2003 and ‘Faith’ in
2006.
HYDE and K.A.Z formed VAMPS after working together on HYDE’s ‘666’
and ‘FAITH’ albums. Now together as VAMPS, the duo has created a
rock sound like no other that has delighted Japanese fans and is
poised to take the rest of the world by storm. After their
electrifying live shows in South America in 2010, their second
album ‘BEAST’, reached number four in Chile’s sales charts in the
same year. That’s the highest position EVER achieved by a Japanese
act there.
Universal Group International’s Global Marketing President Andrew
Kronfeld said, “We are honored to welcome VAMPS to Universal Music.
With their fantastic music and incredible live shows we’re really
excited about building on their growing international audience and
introducing them to new fans around the world.”
Showing his excitement, Frank Takeshita, managing director of Live
Nation Japan, stated “We are very honored and excited to work with
VAMPS as the first artist for Live Nation Japan to work on a
worldwide tour. We are eager to show the world what an
incredible live act VAMPS is.”
VAMPS’ first release through Universal Music will be a live
DVD/Blu-ray featuring the stunning final show of last year’s 49
date tour at ZEPP Namba in Osaka, Japan. ” VAMPS LIVE 2012″ will be
released [Japan] on April 24 while dates for the band’s upcoming
world tour, including shows in Europe and North America, will be
announced soon.