(Thank you to Yuji on mixi for writing this awesome report and letting me translate!)

Λucifer 10th Anniversary LIVE Tour Rinne 8/31 in Akasaka BLITZ

Lights out.

The stage hidden by curtains.

“We’ll be back!”
Those parting words MAKOTO left us with at the Kokusai Forum, coupled with the SE “LEGEND.”

The members’ pictures are projected onto the curtain as they enter the stage.
And so they start playing the first song of the evening, “Silent Melody.”
The moment they enter the chorus, the curtains drop — and before one’s eyes is Λucifer.

This group of five, standing on stage again after seven and a half years.

Starting from the second song of “CARNATION CRIME”, it’s an explosion of up-tempo numbers.

The vocalist displaying his style that is both rough while also of good taste.
The guitarists making their presence known, striking their instruments but paying mind to detail.
The rhythm section playing together extraordinarily tight, yet aggressively.

MAKOTO
YUKI
ATSURO
TOWA
SANTA

The live was a showcase of these five people truly enjoying themselves.

 

The performance they did in the middle of the set, “C no Binetsu”
The song I was looking forward to the most.
The me who was watching KAIKAN Phrase around 11 years earlier was resurrected.
I was shivering from nostalgia.

It was a normal standing live without too much pushing, but as we got to the second half and “Poker Face”, the moment YUKI jumped off the stage into the arena was when it turned into a real, intense live within the crowd, too.

During “Midnight Crow”, the last song of the main set, was when I thought the most sense of unity was felt.

The last encore was “Datenshi BLUE.”
Finishing off with the song that started it all felt appropriate.

The MC’s were really “talk as much as you’d like.”
They were like at a class reunion.

 

「Λucifer will keep on living in everyones’ memories」

Thanks to being blessed with such a good number as 90 when lining up, I got to see the show from a really nice spot!
This day, being able to take part in Λucifer’s live, will make for one fantastic memory!
If they come back, I’ll definitely want to see them again!
Λucifer’s the best!!

Setlist

1 Silent Melody
2 CARNATION CRIME
3 Furueru Maguma

4 PLASMAGIC
5 Jealousy
6 DUMMY

MC

Guitar battle

7 TSUBASA
8 TOKYO Illusion
9 LOVE&PAIN
10 Kono Te no Naka ni

MC

11 Orange
12 C no Binetsu

MC

13 LUCY
14 Egovision
15 Poker Face
16 LABYRINTH

MC

17 Midnight Crow

ENCORE1

18 Hypersonic Soul
19 CASTAWAYS

ENCORE2

20 See You
21 Datenshi BLUE

Lastly some off-shots.