GISM

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G.I.S.M.
Years active	1981 - 2002
Genres	Hardcore
Members	Sakevi Yokoyama Randy Uchida Kanno "Cloudy" Hiroshima

GISM (aka G.I.S.M.) were a Japanese hardcore punk band (with heavy metal influence) formed in Tokyo, Japan in 1981. The acronym G.I.S.M. stood for many different things. Variations include God In The Schizoid Mind, Guerilla Incendiary Sabotage Mutineer, General Imperialism Social Murder, & Gnostic Idiosyncrasy Sonic Militant. They were composed of vocalist Sakevi Yokoyama, guitarist Randy Uchida, bassist Kannon, & drummer Hiroshima. Randy Uchida often used heavy metal style guitar solos & riffs, nonetheless G.I.S.M. were one of the first japanese hardcore bands [1].

G.I.S.M. were widely known for the violence present in their lyrics & live shows. Sakevi even attacked the singer of another band on national television [2]. Onstage, Sakevi would often be dressed on stage wearing a balaclava & bullet belt, waving lit flares in audience members faces, using microphone stands as clubs, & attacking concert goers as Vietnam War footage was projected behind him. In the past he has attacked photographers for taking pictures of him & has chased audiences with a flamethrower. In 1983, G.I.S.M. released their first album entittled Detestation [3]. Randy Uchida & Hiroshima also played with Ronny Wakamats & Michel Hammer in a side project R.U.G. (Randy Uchida Group), which released an EP entitled Deathly Fighter in 1984 [4]. Cloudy also played bass for female fronted band Front Guerilla which released an EP entitled Fight Back in 1986.

Fourteen years after their M.A.N. album, G.I.S.M. released their last album on cd entitled SoniCRIME TheRapy. The band featured Kiichi Takahashi from Sabbrabells on bass & Ironfist Tatsushima from Crow & Die You Bastard! on drums. This would be their last album, shortley after on February 10th, 2001 guitarist Randy Uchida would die of cancer [5]. G.I.S.M. would break up after that, however Sakevi continued to make collage art in his own clothing brand stlTH® making his own line of t-shirts. Ironfist Tatushima went on to play in the bands Die You Bastard! & Crow which he had been playing with prior to G.I.S.M.. Kiichi was formerly the vocalist of metal band Sabbrabells [6]. In 2004, Sakevi released a solo album entittled The War under the name S.K.V. The single expresses his opinions on the war on terror of New World Order [7].