Author: diebyforty

Today is the Coming of Age Day in Japan (Seijin shiki), marking the transition from childhood to adulthood. For foreigners, this is the best chance to catch a glimpse of countless nonchalant girls in traditional yet gorgeous kimono gathered in the same place. One day for them to forget past, present and future, swept up in a whirl [...]

Goodbye 2014, Hello 2015! Thanks to your support, DieByForty is entering its 9th year alive and genkier than ever, yeah! So first of all, we would like to thank you all for believing in us, listening to our songs, watching our videos and coming to our shows! There is nothing more rewarding than seeing someone you don't [...]

実は密閉型のヘッドホンでドラムの練習をしていると生音がはっきり聞こえないため、聞こえるようにと無駄な力が入ってしまう。 そこで、オープン型を買ってみたんやけど、音源が聴こえなくなるくらい生音がしっかり聞こえるやないか！ Yu...

What a busy year 2014… A new music video and a new single, our first TV appearance, dozens of lives in Tokyo and Osaka, and of course lots of great artists, venues and friends we shared our passion with! Time has come for our final live this year... and believe me, ladies and gents, it's [...]

Making a band is rather simple: gather a bunch of friends in a garage, grab your guitar, turn the amp up to eleven and rock the hardest you can. As many budding teenage rockers, I had those times. Around 17, I bought a cheap red guitar from a girl friend of mine (30 euros, my first electric guitar) [...]

I fell in love with a guitar for the first time in my life on a beautiful summer day in 1999, as a friend of mine brought his electro-acoustic guitar to high school, a Jasmine. "It's a Japanese brand", he told me. I was fascinated to see how my friend's fingers running on the guitar neck could produce [...]