| Tomohiro Nishimura | |
|---|---|
 Nishimura in 2000 | |
| Background information | |
| Birth Name | Tomohiro Nishimura |
| Occupation | Musician |
| Genres | Doom Metal, Stoner Metal, Psychedelic Rock, Neoclassical |
| Instrument(s) | Guitar |
| Years active | 1995 - Present |
| Labels | Bad Acid Records, Game Two Records, Man's Ruin Records, Southern Lord Records, Leaf Hound Records |
| Associated acts | Church of Misery, Sonic Flower |
| Website | Nishimura's Blog (Japanese) |
Tomohiro Nishimura is a guitarist based out of Japan. Beginning his career in the 1990s he is best known as a founding member of Church of Misery, performing on two of the band's six studio albums among several early recordings. Notably Nishimura had also written or co-written several songs such as "Green River", "Where Evil Dwells", "Road to Ruin" and "Taste The Pain".
Biography[]
Church of Misery[]
- For more details feel free to view the page on Church of Misery.
Tatsu Mikami would form Church of Misery in 1995, expressing a desire to form a doom metal band inspired by Saint Vitus and Black Sabbath. Nishimura would join on guitar alongside Hideki Shimizu (drums) and Kazuhiro Asaeda (vocals) and the band would perform live for the first time on 18 February 1996 at Meguro Live Station in Tokyo, Japan.[1] The same year the band would record an album's worth of material, which would be bootlegged and released via Doom Records without Mikami's consent (and later reissued in 2007 officially.). Despite the frustration over the first album being bootlegged it would get them noticed by doom and stoner circles the world over.
Church of Misery's first official releases came in 1998 with appearing on the Doomsday Recitation compilation, along with a split with Sheavy in Born Too Late and the EP Taste The Pain. Mikami's keen interest in the lives and actions of notorious serial killers would serve as a basis for the song themes and gain the band some notoriety. With shows in Japan, a few lineup changes and building a name for themselves Church of Misery would sign with American label Southern Lord Records to release their debut album Master of Brutality in 2001. Nishimura would leave the band not long after the album's release, for reasons largely unknown. He would be replaced by Takenori Hoshi.
Nishimura had also been involved with the instrumental heavy rock project Sonic Flower from 2001 - 2002. From 2005 onward he would begin a solo career, playing heavy metal and neoclassical shred. He would release an eponymous solo EP in 2007 via Full Picking Records.
Bands[]
- Church of Misery - Guitar (1995 - 2001)
- Sonic Flower - Guitar (2000 - 2001)
- Tomohiro Nishimura - Guitar (2005 - Present)
Discography[]
Church of Misery[]
- Taste The Pain (EP) (1998, Bad Acid Records)
- Born Too Late (Split with Sheavy) (1998, Game Two Records)
- Murder Company (EP) (1999, Man's Ruin Records)
- Master of Brutality (Studio Album) (2001, Southern Lord Records)
- Acrimony / Church of Misery (Split with Acrimony; Recorded 1996) (2003, Game Two Records)
- Early Works Compilation (Compilation; Recorded 1997 - 2000) (2004, Leaf Hound Records)
- Vol. 1 (Studio Album; Recorded 1996) (2007, Leaf Hound Records)
Other Releases[]
- Tomohiro Nishimura (EP) (2007, Full Picking Records)
External Links[]
References[]
- ↑ Leaf Hound Records' Trade Page via Wayback MachineAccessed 6 January 2017