Bio

Formed in 2015 and hailing from Kanda city, the hometown of the band leader Tomoki, KANDARIVAS is an experimental Grind outfit that utilizes traditional Japanese Taiko drums to express the sense of "duty and sentiment" which has defined the cultures of Kanda and Tokyo's downtown area.?Their album "Grind Surgical Shrine", which was released on Obliteration Records started a world tour in 2019.?however tour had stopped the activity by a pandemic of the Covid-19.?During 2021, while Covideo-19 was expanded, founder band member Tomoki, a real respiratory doctor (general thoracic surgeon) created music under the theme of a sense of crisis that he felt during his time working in the hospital.?"Blood Surgical Death".?This album was created on the frontlines of the medical systems collapse fighting COVID-19. Then new drummer KYOSUKE(Abort Mastication/No One Knows What the Dead Think/Retortion Terror)and new vocalist KNEEYA (ovEnola) joined KANDARIVAS, making the band a four-member formation for the first time in its history, and released a split album with SWARRRM, "Layered Chimera" (daymare records) in 2022.