Lovebites (band)

Its lineup currently consists of Haruna on drums, Midori and Miyako on guitar, Asami on vocals, and Fami on bass.

With another EP and album released in 2018, Battle Against Damnation and Clockwork Immortality, Lovebites quickly garnered international attention and won that year's Metal Hammer Golden Gods Award for Best New Band.

After a year-long hiatus, Lovebites recruited Fami on bass and released Judgement Day, their fourth album, in February 2023.

[5] Midori was in the band Gekijo Metalicche, Miyako was a member of A Drop of Joker and 21g, while Asami was a backup singer for Vamps and Uverworld.

Feeling that the song fit well with Asami's voice, it left an impression on all of the members and they chose Lovebites as the name for their new band.

[10] It was mixed by Mikko Karmila and mastered by Mika Jussila, who have worked with acts like Nightwish, Children of Bodom, and Stratovarius, at Finnvox Studios in Helsinki, Finland.

[19] They performed at Wacken Open Air on August 4, becoming the first Japanese all-female metal band to appear at the German festival.

Limited editions of the album include a DVD or Blu-ray of the concert video Battle in the East, which was recorded on June 28, 2018, at Tsutaya O-East.

[27] In June, they performed at the Download Festival in both Donington, UK and Madrid, Spain and at the Graspop Metal Meeting in Dessel, Belgium.

[35] It was set to be supported by a seven-date Japanese tour from February 14 to April 12,[35] but the last three concerts were postponed until June due to the COVID-19 pandemic in Japan.

[37] To celebrate the third anniversary of Awakening from Abyss, the band streamed a live studio performance titled Awake Again, where they played the album in its entirety on October 25.

They are like a heretic of heavy metal, wearing bright white outfits while playing intense music, they are the perfect choice to take charge of a theme song to an anime not bound by convention or common sense.

[52] Their first concerts with the new lineup were held at Ex Theater Roppongi on March 11 and 12, while the tour for the album ran from August 26 to September 24 and ended with a finale titled The Last Judgement on October 5.

[60] Miho noted that their decision to wear all-white clothing, as opposed to the genre's stereotypical black, was made to contrast with their old school sound and have them stand out.

[5][62] All of their releases have been mixed and mastered by Finnish audio engineers Mikko Karmila and Mika Jussila,[33] and all of their album cover illustrations since Awakening from Abyss have been created by Spanish artists David López Gómez and Carlos Vincente León.

[6][59] She referred to her playing as more showmanship than technical, and cited Steve Harris as a strong influence alongside the style of Nikki Sixx.

[6][67] She is a graduate of Musicians Institute Japan in Osaka, and listed Kiko Loureiro, Nuno Bettencourt and Yngwie Malmsteen as her biggest guitar influences.

[59] Having grown up listening to classic rock bands like Deep Purple and Rainbow with her mother, Miyako ended up being very influenced by Ritchie Blackmore.

[59] Starting at the age of two, she performed classical ballet for about 16 years before moving to America after high school to study jazz and hip-hop dance.

[70][71] Fami played the piano and violin before picking up bass guitar in junior high school at the request of a friend.

Lovebites played their first concert at Tsutaya O-West in November 2016.
Vocalist Asami performing in Germany at Wacken Open Air 2018
Bassist and co-founder Miho left the band in August 2021.