Song Saturday: Nightmare's The World

How's it going lurkers? If you have been subscribed to yours truly for at least the last 2 last years and happen to be a fellow Anime fan, you may recall that I published at least 2 blogs regarding the Shonen Supernatural Anime featuring Shinigami.

Death Note is 1 of the 2 examples of Shonen Supernatural Anime, which features Shinigami.

If you have ever watched the Anime for Death Note within the last decade via online streams in Japanese and/or possibly on Adult Swim in English, its theme songs should be familiar to you. At least the opening and ending theme songs from Season 1, anyway. 

Because of VAP Inc, you must click on the following buttons of each video, which reads "Watch on YouTube."

"The World" Featured As Death Note's Season 1 Opening Theme Song (2006)

"Alumina" Featured As Death Note's Season 1 Ending Theme Song (2006)

Both songs were performed by the Japanese Rock (J-Rock) band, Nightmare. The videos above are the creditless versions of the opening and ending theme songs from the Death Note Anime. 

"The World" and "Alumina" can both be found on the original Death Note Soundtrack and on Nightmare's 4th album, The World Ruler.

Nightmare has somewhat of an eclectic musical sound. This J-Rock band experiments with genres and sub-genres such as Alternative Rock, Progressive Rock, Hard Rock, Gothic Rock, Pop Rock, Heavy Metal, Jazz, and Electronica. Judging by the music sub-genres I listed, they are mostly a Rock band.

"Alumina" is still my favorite song by Nightmare, 10 years later. If I could, I would make this song my cell phone's ringtone. 

If memory serves me right, the character Misa Amane had "Alumina" as her ringtone in the Death Note Anime.

Nightmare originally formed in 2000 and over the last 13 years, the J-Rock band has released 10 albums and 30 singles. That's a LOT  of singles for a band that has not existed for 20-30 years.

Then again, I must remember that Japanese entertainers must always be involved in every little social event, in order to remain in the public eye.

There is so much more to learn about the band, Nightmare and J-Rock in general.

Since we are now in the month of October, I wanted to share more about Nightmare. Some of you have already been exposed to Nightmare and are vaguely familiar with the band because of Death Note.

Also, most people know very little, if anything about J-Rock, especially since K-Pop groups are currently "trending." If you want to learn more about J-Rock, you have to be open-minded and interested in listening to it.

Would you like to see more J-Rock and/or J-Pop featured for Song Saturday? If so, let me know.

However, I will warn you in advance that Babymetal will NOT  be on the list of J-Rock bands I will feature. With that being said, here is Nightmare's "The World" for today's Song Saturday.

Nightmare "The World" Death Note Original Soundtrack (2006); The World Ruler (2007)