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Pay Money to My Pain (stylized as Pay money To my Pain and abbreviated as P.T.P.) was a Japanese alternative rock/metal band. All of the band's lyrics are in English.〔(Interview @ JAME ) Retrieved Sep 13 2007〕 ==History== Early in life, Kei started writing lyrics as a way to cope with his depression and dark feelings. In 2005, after the disbandment of vocalist K's previous band, (Gun Dog ), he recruited four members and formed (Pay money To my Pain ). Kei said that the lyrics he wrote expressed his deepest pain and when fans bought the CDs, they were literally buying into his pain. Hence, Pay money To my Pain was born. They began to produce songs by themselves before getting noticed quickly by the record label VAP. From there, they released their first major single "Drop of Ink" on December 6, 2006.〔(Jame Profile ) Retrieved Sep 13 2007〕 Several months later, they ventured to California where they recorded their first album, ''Another Day Comes'', which was released on September 12, 2007. The album included "Home", the ''Buzzer Beater'' ending song, and "Another Day Comes", the ending song for ''Ultraseven X''.〔(VAP info ) Retrieved Sep 13 2007〕 Guitarist Jin left Pay Money to My Pain in April 2008. The EP, ''Writing in the Diary'', was released on July 30, 2008.〔(MySpace Profile )〕 The band's song "Bury", from the album ''After You Wake Up'', was featured as the opening theme to the anime ''One Outs''. Another of their songs, "The Answer is Not in the TV", was featured in the Konami video game ''Pro Evolution Soccer 2010''. On June 9, 2010, Pay Money to My Pain released the single ''Pictures'', which is an EP and a DVD sold separately. On January 26, 2011, Pay Money to My Pain released the 3rd album, Remember the Name. They performed, along with Lynch., at a charity event on August 10, 2011 called "Shikiyakou -Shikui-", which was hosted by Dead End. All proceeds were donated to the victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami on March 11.〔 (【引用サイトリンク】 work = tokyohive.com )〕 In June 2012, vocalist K was hospitalized. In that summer, Pay Money to My Pain performed their live show "House of Chaos". They covered Buck-Tick's song "Love Letter" for ''Parade II -Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick-'', released on July 4, 2012.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 work = musicjapanplus.jp )〕 In October, K was again hospitalized and went through rehabilitation; the band declared an activity stop. On December 30, 2012, K died of acute heart failure in his Yokohama home. On 20 September 2013, announced a new album called ''Gene'',〔(Pay money To my Pain's 4th Album Release "gene" ); Jpop Asia, 20 September 2013〕 with songs that K recorded before his death as well as songs recorded with guest vocalists. The album, released on November 13, 2013, included "Rain", the theme song of the movie ''Sekisekirenren'', "Innocent in a Silent Room" and a new version of "Sweetest Vengeance".〔(Pay money To my Pain ); Pay money To my Pain, 26 October 2013〕 On December 2013, Pay money To my Pain played their last concert, entitled "From Here to Somewhere" before disbanding. On January 2014, ''Weight of my Pride'' was featured in episode 12 of the anime series ''Hajime no Ippo: Rising''. Their song ''Respect for the Dead Man'' was also used as the theme song for the ''Nobunagun'' anime which began airing on January 5, 2014. In December 29, 2014, a previously unreleased song named "Room #103", which has K on vocals, was uploaded to Pay money To my Pain's official YouTube channel.〔(Pay money To my Pain 【Room #103】 ); Pay money To my Pain, 29 December 2014〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Pay Money to My Pain」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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