Disclose were a Japanese D-beat

D-beat

D-beat is a style of hardcore punk developed in the early 1980s by imitators of Discharge, for whom the genre is named. Discharge may have themselves inherited the beat from Motörhead. The first such group was The Varukers.The vocal content of D-beat tends towards shouted slogans...

 band from Kōchi City

Kochi, Kochi

is the capital city of Kōchi Prefecture on Shikoku island of Japan.Kōchi is the main city of the prefecture with over 40% of its population. As of May 31, 2008, the city had an estimated population of 340,515 and a density of...

, heavily influenced by Discharge

Discharge (band)

Discharge is a British hardcore punk band formed in 1977 by Terry "Tezz" Roberts and Roy "Rainy" Wainwright. They are often considered among one of the very first bands to play hardcore punk, and to mix punk with metal...

. Their sound heavily replicates Discharge's style, with an increased use of fuzz and distortion guitar effects. The subject matter is also similar to Discharge, in that the songs' themes are primarily about nuclear war

Nuclear warfare

Nuclear warfare, or atomic warfare, is a military conflict or political strategy in which nuclear weaponry is detonated on an opponent. Compared to conventional warfare, nuclear warfare can be vastly more destructive in range and extent of damage...

, and its horrific consequences. On June 5, 2007, Disclose frontman Kawakami died from an overdose of alcohol

Alcohol

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 and sedative

Sedative

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.

Members and Former Members

• Tsukasa (vocals)
• Kawakami (vocals, lead guitar)
• Fukugawa (bass guitar)
• Yasuoka (bass guitar)
• Yuusei (bass guitar)
• Hiro (drums)
• Fujiwara (drums)
• Uo-Katou (drums)
• Aki (drums)
• Naoto (?)

CDs

• Raw Brutal Assault Vol. 1 (2003, has tracks from 1992–1994)
• Raw Brutal Assault Vol. 2 (2003, has tracks from 1994–1998)

LPs

• Tragedy (1994)
• Yesterday’s fairytale, tomorrow’s nightmare (1/6/03)
• The Demos Album (1995)
• No More Pain

10"es

• Great Swedish Feast (1995)
• The Aspects of War (1997)
• Nuclear Hell (with G.A.T.E.S., 2005)

7"es

• Once the War Started (1993)
• Visions of War (1996)
• 4 track EP (1997)
• The Nuclear Victims (1998)
• A Mass of Raw Sound Assault (2001)
• Apocalypse of Death (March 2002)
• Neverending War (2003)
• The Sound of Disaster (2003)
• Apocalypse Continues (2004) Overthrow Records

Split 7"es

• Kochi-City Hardcore (with Insane Youth, 1993)
• Why must we die? (with Hellkrusher. 1994)
• No More Pain! (with Selfish, 1994)
• War of aggression (with Cluster Bomb Unit, 1995)
• Attack The Enemy (with Homomillita, 1995)
• Endless War (with Squandered, 1998)
• Chainsaw Tour '04 (with Framtid, 2004)
• Noise Not Music (with No Fucker, 2004)
• Split 7" with Hakuchi (2004)
• Dis-Nightmare still continues (with World Burns to Death, 2004)
• Split 7" with Besthöven (2005)
• In Chaos We Trust (with FlyBlown, 2005)
• Controlled By Fear (with Cruelty, 2005)
• Split 7" with Scarred For Life, (2007)

Demos

• Crime (1992)
• Conquest (1993)
• Fear of the War (1993)
• Total Dis-Lickers (1998)

Tapes

• The aspect of war (1997)
• Sound of disaster (?)
• The best of Disclose 1993-2001 (2006)

External links

• Disclose releases available at 7 inch punk