Disclose was a Japanese d-beat band from Kōchi City, heavily influenced by Discharge. 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, and its horrific consequences. Members & former members include: Kawakami (vocals & lead guitar), Tsukasa (vocals), Fukugawa (bass guitar), Yasuoka (bass guitar), Yousei (bass guitar), Hiro (drums), Fujiwara (drums), Uo-Katou (drums), Aki (drums) & Naoto. On June 5 2007, Disclose frontman Kawakami died from an overdose of alcohol and sleep tablets. D-beat is a drum beat, specifically a fast rock beat unique to hardcore punk, especially in its UK and European variants. ... Obiyamachi in downtown Kochi Kōchi (高知市 Kōchi-shi) is the capital city of Kochi Prefecture on the Shikoku island of Japan. ... Discharge is an influential Hardcore punk band formed in the UK in 1977, whose music is characterized by a heavy, distorted, and grinding guitar-driven sound and anti-melodic shouted or screamed vocals, with lyrics on anarchist and pacifist themes. ... Nuclear War is a card game designed by Douglas Malewicki, and originally published in 1966. ... Apocalyptic science fiction is a sub-genre of science fiction that is concerned with the end of the world or civilization, through nuclear war, plague, or some other general disaster. ...

Discography

CDs

• Raw Brutal Assault Vol. 1 (2003, has tracks from 1992-1994)
• Raw Brutal Assault Vol. 2 (2003. has tracks from 1994-1998)
• No More Pain

LPs

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

12"es

• Nightmare or Reality (May/June 1999)
• Apocalypse of Death (March 2002)

Split 12"es

• Split 12" (with Totalitär, 2000)

10"es

• Great Swedish Feast (1995)
• The Aspects of War (1997)

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)
• 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, )
• Dis-Nightmare still continues (with World Burns to Death, 2004)
• Split 7" (with Besthöven, 2005)
• In Chaos We Trust (with FlyBlown, 2005)
• Nuclear Hell (with G.A.T.E.S., 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