1996

This is the year of a few changes for Buck-Tick. In February, they ended their relationship with their management company Shaking Hands and formed their own company, Banker, with Toll as president. The fan club also changed from Buck-Tick Club to Fish Tank. The change happened on March 31 (end of Buck-Tick Club) and April 1 (start of Fish Tank). Why the changes? Well to have more control over their affairs and to "refresh", plus they never liked the name Buck-Tick Club (they didn't name the fan club). Hisashi picked the names for both Banker and Fish Tank. Banker as obviously management deals with money. Fish Tank because of the sense of community that fish in a fish tank has. I believe this is also the year that Buck-Tick finally put out their own official web site or started to make good use of it.

cosmos group

On May 22, a single from the upcoming album was released entitled "Candy". On June 21, the album Cosmos was released. It was the first album since 1989's Taboo that had all the song titles in English.

On July 4, Buck-Tick began their "Chaos Tour" which lasted for a mere 23 dates, about half of what fans had usually come to expect for a tour of a new album. This may be partially due to the band extensively touring the country the previous year for Six/Nine.

1997 group

The tour ended in September and was going to be extended upon in December for an additional 9 dates under the banner "Chaos After Dark Tour". These had to be cancelled as Atsushi became gravely ill. He went to Nepal for a photoshoot and suddenly became ill and had to be hospitalized. He was so sick that he thought he was going to die. The cancelled shows were held a few months later under the banner "Red Room 2097". (More details on the rescheduled shows are in the history for 1997.)

In 1996 Pig's Sinsation album was released in the USA. (Pig's manager is Japanese and Pig's material tends to get released in Japan first, quite a bit of time later in the UK and USA.) Hisashi plays guitar on the track "Analgesia". As you may recall, Pig is Raymond Watts and he heavily contributed to Hisashi's side project Schaft's 1994 releases and live gigs.

candy group
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