Envy

Envy are a band legends from Tokyo, Japan that began their musical endeavours in 1992. In the early years of these titans' lifetime, they leaned towards a hardcore-oriented style of sound to wield their weapons of emotional destruction/instruments with, being upfront and straight-forward. As they progressed and developed, they gradually began to shift their sound towards what they are most associated with, which is mixing post-rock and screamo. They take the grandiose, gargantuan, lush, atmospheric aspect of post-rock, creating epic sound pieces in terms of both length and content, and mesh them with the emotional intensity of screamo. The guitars can play soft, gentle, meandering passages, or explode in cathartic climaxes. Vocalist Tetsuya Fukagawa can let out hoarse, guttural bellows of passion, or whisper spoken-word style parts that make the overall dynamics feel emotional and ever-changing. This creates the music of gods, flooring mere humans both physically and mentally. If one has not experienced the tremendous output of the deity known as Envy, then I advise you start with the gospel of All The Footprints You've Ever Left And The Fear Expecting Ahead, and thoroughly enjoy everything they have blessed us with. Amen.

Breathing And Dying In This Place (1996)

1. Remember

2. Ability

3. Under The Sky

4. You Have A Voice...

5. Passage Of Wind

6. Still Remain

7. End Of The Line

8. Just Alive

9. Reach Out

Envy/Sixpence (1997)

1. Envy - Guilt

2. Envy - Castle Of Life

3. Sixpence - Prophecy

Envy/Endeavor (1997)

1. Envy - Cape Of Despair

2. Envy - This Self-Crusaders

3. Endeavor - Mother Of God

4. Endeavor - Nothing More

From Here To Eternity (1998)

1. Limitation

2. Trembled

3. A Vicious Circle, Again

4. Compensation

5. Off

6. Crusaders

7. For You Who Died

8. Black Past

9. Grey Wind

10. Carved Numbers

11. 444 Words

Angel's Curse Whispered In The Edge Of Despair (1999)

1. Angel's Curse

2. Pendulum

3. Leaden Wings

4. Breeze And Destiny

5. Unrepairable Gentleness

The Eyes Of Final Proof (2000)

1. Testimony To The Existence

2. The End Of Memories 

3. Awaken Eyes

Burning Out The Memories (2000)

1. Testimony To The Existence

2. Angels Curse

3. Grey Wind

4. Echo Regenerates

5. Leaden Wing

6. Limitation

  

Envy/This Machine Kills (2000)

1.  Envy - A Red Wound Picture

2. This Machine Kills - Forty One Bullet

The Eyes Of Single Eared Prophet (2000)

1. Echo Regenerates

2. The End Of Memories

3. Awaken Eyes

4. Testimony To The Existence

5. An Encyclopedia Of The Unification

Last Wish (2001)

1. Left Hand

2. A Cage It Falls Into

 

All The Footprints You've Ever Left And The Fear Expecting Ahead (2001)

1. Zero

2. Farewell To Words

3. Lies And Release From Silence

4. Left Hand

5. A Cradle Of Arguments And Anxiousness

6. Mystery And Peace

7. Invisible Thread

8. The Spiral Manipulation

9. A Cage It Falls Into

10. The Light Of My Footprints

11. Your Shoes And The World To Come

Our Dreams Walking Their Way - Chapter One (2002)

1. Iscariote - Soleil Trahi

2. Iscariote - Moonbeam And The Dark

3. Iscariote - Auto Pilote

4. Envy - Invisible Understanding

5. Envy - Chacun de Tes Pas

Yaphet Kotto/This Machine Kills/Envy (2003)

1. Yaphet Kotto - The Fall

2. Yaphet Kotto - Tracing

3. Yaphet Kotto - Momentary Loss Of Breath

4. This Machine Kills - Define Silence

5. This Machine Kills - Carpet Of Gold/Carpet Of Bombs

6. This Machine Kills - Our Histories Have Burned Holes In Your Flag

7. Envy - A Far-Off Reason

8. Envy - Signal

9. Envy - An Adventure Of Silence And Purpose

10. Yaphet Kotto/This Machine Kills/Envy - Untitled

A Dead Sinking Story (2003)

1. Chain Wandering Deeply

2. Distress Of Ignorance

3. Evidence

4. Color Of Fetters

5. Unrepairable Gentleness

6. Go Mad And Mark

7. A Conviction That Speeds

8. Seasons And Oblivion

9. A Will Remains In The Ashes

Compiled Fragments 1997-2003 (2005)

1. A Far-Off Reason

2. An Adventure of Silence and Purpose

3. Invisible Understanding

4. Chacun de Tes Pas

5. A Red Wound Picture

6. Cape Of Despair

7. This Self-Crusaders

8. Trembled

9. Guilt

10. Castle Of Lies

11. Connected Voice

12. Awaken Eyes (Live)

13. Go Mad and Mark (Live)

Insomniac Doze (2006)

1. Further Ahead Of The Warp

2. Shield Of Selflessness

3. Scene

4. Crystallize

5. The Unknown Glow

6. Night In Winter

7. A Warm Room

Abyssal (2007)

1. A Road Of Winds The Water Builds

2. All That's Left Has Gone To Sleep

3. Thousand Scars

4. Fading Vision

Envy/Jesu (2007)

1. Envy - Conclusion Of Existence

2. Envy - A Winter Quest For Fantasy

3. Envy - Life Caught In The Rain

4. Jesu - Hard To Reach

5. Jesu - The Stars That Hang Above You

Transfovista (2008)

Part 1  Part 2

1. Chain Wandering Deeply

2. Lies, And Release From Silence

3. Grey Wind

4. Carved Numbers

5. Fading Vision

6. Awaken Eyes 

7. Left Hand

8. Leaden Wings

9. The Light Of My Footprints

10. Color Of Fetters

11. The Unknown Glow

12. Go Mad And Mark

13. A Warm Room

14. Farewell To Words

15. Scene

16. Limitation

17. Testimony To The Existence

Note: This was a DVD with live footage and some stuff in between. The download just contains the audio tracks for the live songs, and you can check out the entire movie here 

Envy (2008)

1. Farewell To Words

2. A Cradle Of Arguments And Anxiousness

3. A Far-Off Reason

4. Chacun De Tes Pas

5. Color Of Fetters

6. Go Mad And Mark

7. Fading Vision

 

Thursday/Envy (2008)

1. Thursday - As He Climbed The Dark Mountain

2. Thursday - In Silence

3. Thursday - An Absurd And Unrealistic Dream Of Peace

4. Thursday - Appeared And Was Gone

5. Envy - An Umbrella Fallen Into Fiction

6. Envy - Isolation Of A Light Source

7. Envy - Pure Birth And Loneliness

Recitation (2010)

1. Guidance

2. Last Hours Of Eternity

3. Rain Clouds Running In A Holy Night

4. Pieces Of The Moon I Weaved

5. Light And Solitude

6. Dreams Coming To An End

7. Incomplete

8. Worn Heels And The Hands We Hold

9. A Hint And The Incapacity

10. A Breath Clad In Happiness

11. 0 And 1

12. Your Hand

As Serenity Calls Your Name (2011)

1. As Serenity Calls Your Name

Atheist's Cornea (2015)

1. Blue Moonlight

2. Ignorant Rain And the End of The World

3. Shining Finger

4. Ticking Time And String

5. Footsteps In The Distance

6. An Insignificant Poem

7. Two Isolated Souls

8. Your Heart And My Hand

Alnair In August (2018)

1. Dawn and gaze

2. Marginalized thread

The Fallen Crimson (2020)

1. Statement of Freedom

2. Swaying leaves and scattering breath

3. A faint new world

4. Rhythm

5. Marginalized thread

6. HIKARI

7. Eternal memories and reincarnation

8. Fingerprint mark

9. Dawn and gaze

10. Memories and the limit

11. A step in the morning glow

Seimei (2022)

1. Seimei

2. Zanshin

3. Tamayura

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