News // 2005

Other years : 2006

December, 29th 2005

The b-side of Season's Call will be Unexpected -rock version-!
Source: official site

December, 10th 2005

Hyde's new single will be "Season's Call" and will be out February, 22nd 2006!! It will be the opening theme of Blood+.
Source: official site

November, 22nd 2005

On November 23rd at Ginza Kyobunkan, Ooishi Megumi will partecipate at the reading of the first chapter of the book "Narnia: the lion and the witch" by C.S. Lewis
Sources: http://www.centforce.com/topics00-01.html
http://www.kyobunkwan.co.jp/Narunia/index.html

November, 17th 2005

Hyde's official site, Hydeist, will be offline because of upkeep between November 30th and December 8th.

November, 3rd 2005

The Monoral have taken part in the Halloween of the Living Dead together with Hyde and now they are produced by his label, the Haunted Records!
Sources: http://www.monoral.com
http://www.haunted-records.com

October, 2nd 2005

Yesterday, October 1st, Hyde performed Countdown (US version) at a secret live in Roppongi Hills Arena. 1000 people attended this event, which was linked to the release of the movie "Stealth".
Sources: http://www.sonymusic.co.jp/Music/Info/haunted-records/news.html
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/hochi/geinou/oct/o20051001_60.htm
http://www.sanspo.com/geino/top/gt200510/gt2005100204.html

September, 21st 2005

Hyde has announced in Hydeist Times that he will perform live at Club Citta in Kawasaki for HALLOWEEN OF THE LIVING DEAD on October 29, 30 and 31. There will be other artists: Monoral, Olivia and more.
Source: http://www.halloweenofthelivingdead.com/

September, 18th 2005

Here the cover of "Countdown"

And this will be the tracklist:
01. Countdown
02. Countdown (US)
03. Evergreen (DIST.)

August, 13th 2005

From Haunted Records: the new single "Countdown" will be out on 5 October 2005!
Code: KSCL 888
Price: 1,020 ¥ (tax incl.)

July

From Hydeist and Laruku official site: in October "COUNTDOWN", one of the new Hyde's solo songs, will be used in the Japanese version of "Stealth", an American movie.
Links: Official US site - Official Japanese site (in this site you can see a trailer with the song)

June

From official site and Laruku official site: Hyde wrote a song for Mika Nakashima, who is starring in the movie "NANA" released this autumn. The song will be the the theme of the movie. Also the original author, AI YAZAWA, wrote the lyrics of this song. The title is "Glamorous sky". This is the first time Hyde had ever written a song for another artist.
The song will be sung also by Hyde in his next album.

April

From official site: Hyde has started doing tunes for the new album, that will be produced with Kaz, as 666, and it seems it will be heavier than 666! He also talked about a secret project.

February

Dowango started a service called "Iro Mero Yobidasi-chuu no Oto". With this service you can hear the voice of an artist instead of the tone of the phone "ringing" when you call someone.
The first service features Aya Ueto and HYDE's voice!
Sources - http://www.16melody.com/imode/i_top/i_index.htm
http://www.dwango.co.jp/news/iromelo/iromelo_20050119.html

February

26 February: "Kagen no tsuki - Last Quarter" DVD will be released in Japan.