Masterpieces and popular songs by BRAHMAN

BOXBRAHMAN

Box

A Forlorn Hope, BRAHMAN’s second album, was released on June 27, 2001.

It was their first album on a major label.

On the Oricon album chart, it reached a peak position of No.

2 for the week and sold over 800,000 copies.

This track conveys ideas of the “golden mean” and “ascetic practice,” expressed in BRAHMAN’s own words and sung entirely in English.

SHADOW PLAYBRAHMAN

BRAHMAN SHADOW PLAY

This is a track included on their second album, “A Forlorn Hope.” The sharp, incisive Japanese lyrics seem to speak directly to our hearts.

It’s a unique depth that English lyrics can’t quite capture.

The moment in the B-melody where the flame flickers as if the candle is about to be blown out helps build up to the chorus.

(a piece of)BLUE MOONBRAHMAN

[Attack on Titan MAD] A Piece Of Blue Moon

This song offers a glimpse of a modest resolve: “Rather than be the blazing sun, I’ll live like the moon that gently illuminates the night.” It’s cool not to be swept toward the easy, favorable current or to seek simple answers, but to keep moving forward through the struggle.

Its limit ~sorekiri~BRAHMAN

BRAHMAN “Sorekiri (Itsukagiri)” Official Music Video

A song chosen as the theme for the nonfiction movie “BRAHMAN,” which traces the footsteps of BRAHMAN as they marked their 20th anniversary in 2015.

With its driving drum beat, catchy guitar riffs, melodies that convey both a sense of melancholy and an energetic pop appeal, and the interplay between lead and backing vocals, it’s a rock tune packed with everything that makes BRAHMAN compelling.

It feels like the culmination of the broad musicality they’ve built up over the years, making it a fitting number for the band’s nonfiction film.

expand_lessRaise the rankingexpand_morelower

Hoshino Takashi

Report a problem

thunderboltBRAHMAN

BRAHMAN “Thunderbolt”

Included on the sixth full album, “Chōkoku” (Transcendence), released two years after the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011.

On this album, which features lyrics entirely in Japanese, this song is mostly a ballad—the chorus turns intense—creating a mysterious piece where gentleness and sorrow, melancholy and hope sit side by side.

Evening of the full moonBRAHMAN

Mangetsunoyuube

A song co-written by Takashi Nakagawa of Soul Flower Union and Hiroshi Yamaguchi of HEATWAVE, covered by BRAHMAN and included on their 7th album “Bonbai.” The lyrics depict the devastation of the 1995 Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake and the people in the disaster area confronting the path to recovery.

Its somewhat oriental melody feels highly compatible with BRAHMAN’s style.

The emotional, powerful vocals convey the cruelty of nature’s force, human helplessness, and the strength to rise again.

It’s a track where BRAHMAN’s overwhelming expressiveness shakes the soul.

expand_lessRaise the rankingexpand_morelower

Hoshino Takashi

Report a problem

LOSE ALLBRAHMAN

[Attack on Titan MAD] Lose All

This is a song included on BRAHMAN’s third album, The Middle Way, released in 2004.

The torrential rain keeps pouring, and it ends with “the sadness continues…,” but with a more conventional way of thinking, wouldn’t the rain eventually stop and the sadness clear as well?