Disqualia

The majority of Disqualia came from Destrose in 2015, and the group has a lot of similarities of approach. It is/was a tight, 5-piece band.
At one point in Destrose, with guitarist Narumi as Destrose’ longest-running member, vocalist Lisa left Destrose and support vocalist Ibuki got them through their last live concert. Narumi and Risa Risa liked her and soon after, formed Disqualia with her.
Disqualia follows the frequent metal custom of a dark or “negative” element in the naming, albeit somewhat awkwardly in this case. It is active as a support group still, but hasn’t been functioning as a complete and independent group since the loss of lead vocalist Ibuki and bassist Mai in 2017. I am uncertain where and when bassist Waka Oka (Or similar?) comes in, but Metal Archives lists her with Disqualia as:
大場 和香    [ Translates as Ōba Waka per Google Translate]       Bass (2017-present)

And that is a question because the principal activity of the remaining members of Disqualia - Risa Risa on drums, Narumi and Hazuki on guitars - appears to be supporting the solo projects of Rami, the original vocalist of Aldious, and she’s using the male bassist Fin at those times?
So they began with:
Risa Risa on drums
Narumi on guitar
Ibuki on vocals (left 2017)
Mai on bass (also left in 2017)


I see two full-length videos on YouTube. “Over the Destruction” has a lot of both video artsy-play and a shorter sequence of vocals processed to sound electronic. Otherwise the vocals are straightforward, if a bit heavy on vibrato amplitude at times. It has quite a range of sounds, from speed metal to a short mellow classic-rock sounding section. And Ibuki gets some swordplay in there, including licking it.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=M5zBKrTJRg

The “Right Now” video is set in a snowy scene, although I suspect it was done in studio and green-screened into the snow scene because they are not dressed for cold. This one shows Ibuki’s remarkable versatility with superb control, I think.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=qGvi4gelZd0

There is supposed to be a sample of “Blazing World” in there too, but I’m not sure the vid in question in exclusively that. Video vs. Audio are also painfully out of synch.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Qmm4gyf3nLM

Concert appears to be a cellphone recording and sound is not exactly HiFi. But it does give a glimpse of them playing live.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=CU6NWbTfbwo

Metal Archives helps pull together what is known of them.
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Disqualia/35404131

                                                                                                                                     
Releases
Singles:
Over the Destruction    -2015
Blazing World        -2016

And an EP:
Right Now -2016 with 7 cuts, two of which were instrumental versions of Lady Boy and Right Now.
1.  Lady Boy    04:16

2.  Shout It Out    03:32

3.  Right Now    04:39

4.  Mad Desire    04:12

5.  The Destiny of Love    05:21

6.  Lady Boy    04:16       instrumental

7.  Right Now    04:37     instrumental

30:53

Online -
https://www.disqualia.net/

https://www.facebook.com/disqualia.jp

https://twitter.com/Disqualia


Remaining Today
Narumi on guitar
Hazuki on guitar
Risa Risa on drums

Individual Connections:
Hazuki
    https://twitter.com/mochimochimuuch

Ibuki
Ibuki’s site, news page
https://www.vocal-ibuki.com/about

Ibuki’s Twitter
https://twitter.com/vocal_IBUKI

Mai’s Twitter
https://twitter.com/mai_tsukahara

Narumi
Narumi released a mini-album of seven songs via her personal website in February 2018, "The Seed." Unfortunately, like many artist websites in Japan, the "English" button gives you a few words in English and the rest is all Japanese Kanji. Which doesn't give a westerner much confidence to buy from the site when we have no idea what we're doing there.
https://narumiguitar.wixsite.comnarumiofficial/merch

Her link to https://ramimusic.net seems to be shy right now. "Server not found"
She has a couple of sample pieces from the album posted. They're instrumental, jazzy in flavor (especially "Red Rabbit") and unsurprisingly, have lotsa guitar acrobatics.
Alternative source: CDJapan
http://www.cdjapan.co.jp/product/NEODAI-36562?s_ssid=e336fb5c7877b1bfeb

 Narumi’s Twitter
    https://twitter.com/NARUMI_gt




Risa Risa
https://twitter.com/risa_drums

Waka Oka / Waka Ohba / Ōba Waka
https://twitter.com/wakowass

Bassist Waka appears to be playing with the group “CQ” now. Their Soundcloud page is the most readable on my machine. Mostly smooth ethereal shoegazing stuff. A couple of almost metal sounding pieces though.
https://soundcloud.com/cq_jp

https://twitter.com/CQ_band_jp

And since the remaining Disqualia has been playing support for Rami...
https://twitter.com/RAMI_Vocal

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Destrose, the Metal Development Team

   On indefinite hiatus since mid-2015, but worth hearing when and where you can find material by them. YouTube has a few. However, there is a reincarnation of sorts in that former members have formed other groups. I’ll be talking about those too, below and later.
  In 2005, the group Destroya was formed. The original name may have been related to a particular kaiju, a mega-monster in the 1995 film Godzilla vs. Destoroyah, which resurfaced on TV in 1997, and in games and manga off and on ever since. In fact there was an XBox game with the character released in 2004. It eventually grew bigger than Godzilla, so you can imagine the earth-shaking reference.
Then in 2007, "Destroyah" became “Destrose”. Not sure why - copyright/trademark issues? Searching the newer name you get lots of “dextrose” hits... watch for the links like "Search only for 'Destrose'?"
They have had a number of personnel changes. So if you’ve heard one Destrose recording, No you haven’t heard them all. They changed People like a revolving door; there were several versions of the group. In the ten active years between 2005 and 2015, 23 full members came and went, including 8 vocalists.
  In 2008, four of their members formed Mary’s Blood.
  In 2015, former Destrose guitarist Minako Nakamura got together with a vocalist, Nico Shizuka, and put together Fate Gear.

This article in JAME-World describes the connections between Destrose and the several very respectable bands formed or joined by their alumni. It’s quite a story involving no less than 11 spinoffs. Their list includes Aftermath, Albion, Animeta Girl, Disqualia, Fate Gear, Mardelas, Mary’s Blood, Octaviagrace, Re:Maker, Vampire Pledge and Velvet Cherry. And since the article, it appears one of their former folk joined Lovebites which makes it an even dozen besides Destrose itself.
It was a dizzying game of musical chairs, with a partly different lineup for practically every demo, every CD, every video.
See the Metal-Archives link below, and go to their discography tab and you can see which songs were on which releases, and who was in that group lineup.
http://jame-world.com/us/articles-119663-the-destrose-connection-the-prologue-.html

Guitarist Mina put the band together, joined by Eye on Vocals, second guitarist Eri, Kayo on Bass and Mari on drums. I don't find any recordings that Kayo was on. There probably were some unreleased ones.
In 2007, they released 3 demo recordings. "Deathless Memories" and "Skykiller" were on the first, and Skykiller was on all their releases during 2007-2009 - but it should be said, with different group lineups.
They had 3 DVD releases in 2009. Headless Goddess, Roses of Destruction, and Skykiller were on all three. And all had partly different group lineups. They kept having to redo a lot of the same tunes so people could compare what THIS version of the group sounded like. My impression was that it was effectively a very extended and very public audition.
Their first DVD album was "Live at the Red Zone" in 2010, and their first single was "Roses of Destruction" - earlier introduced in the videos of 2009.
In 2011, the single "Deathless Memories" (which had been on their first demo, redone) and in 2012, "Fenixx - To Revive" and “Nostphilia" were released.
2013 brought the album "Destrose" and single "Rin/Maze" and in 2014, an EP named "The Prologue."
They appeared in 2013 in the "Tokyo in Tulsa Pop Culture Convention"  (Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA) which I don't recall hearing about or might have gone. I was working in Tulsa that year. Sigh.

Final Members in 2015 included:

Narumi on guitar, later of Disqualia
Miho on bass, later Lovebites
Risa Risa, later of Disqualia   (there's a star between the two parts of the name but I'm not sure how to access that at the mo)

More on the groups formed by Destrose alumni such as Disqualia and Mary's Blood later. A couple of pages on Destrose:
https://www.metal-archives.com/bands/Destrose/104752

    http://www.metaladies.com/bands/destrose/

They still have a MySpace account...
    http://www.myspace.com/destrosedestrose
And I tried:
    http://destroya.nobody.jp/
 - which refers us to http://destrose.net/ which gives the cheery message "Destrose.net currently does not have any sponsors for you." Mmkay, whatever.
If anyone is interested in their lyrics, I ran the Kanji of some of the songs through the Google Translate system and can post those later. I didn't include them here because this is getting pretty long as it is.
What I see on YouTube for Destrose:
Headless Goddess
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJB_jVdkt-M

Maze Live at Shibuya O-West
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qvuJ_Cjy7o

Maze as an encore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=42Tyjkdxhq8

Skykiller
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CivFcS3co_Y&t=0s


Sword of Avenger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2Ns_l4QcZI


Destrose - album
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL0XEksCh3y_ZlPY4gPrUTMEQmLDTusq1y


Aftermath with Ami  (also of Vampire Pledge)
https://youtu.be/iRbMDXOJcQ0

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