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2[[caption-width-right:200:[[MyEyesAreUpHere You're not gonna find it there]].]]
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4[floatboxright:Influences:
5+ Music/{{Bauhaus}}, Music/{{The Cure|Band}}, Music/DavidBowie]
6%%Some descriptions came from jpopasia.com%%
7Luci'fer Luscious Violenoue is one of the few earliest artists of the VisualKei movement in the late [[TheEighties 80s]] and early [[TheNineties 90s]] who led the Gothic VisualKei scene.
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9From 1986 to 1998 she led Visual Gothic rock band, GILLE'LOVES. Renamed to "[[AllLowercaseLetters fiction]]" in 1997. She has however started releasing her own solo works in 1994 before they disbanded. She has cited her musical influences as Music/DavidBowie, Music/{{The Cure|Band}}, and Music/{{Bauhaus}}. fiction contributed cover track "In The Flat Field" to the internationally released compilation album ''Satori: A Tribute to Bauhaus''.
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11She uses the first-person Japanese pronoun ''boku'' in her songs, which she discusses in the February 2001 issue of J-ROCK Magazine (in a joint interview alongside Mana (musician) of Music/MaliceMizer and Moi Dix Mois fame). In the same interview she mentioned she was nicknamed after Lady Oscar while in school.
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13In 2006, she disappeared from the music scene and closed her official fan club, though noting in the final issue that she may "be seen again". Since that time, she has worked in Tokyo as a fortune teller in group La Miste Yasuragi under the name Nana Tarot-sensei. It is rumored that "Nana" may be her real given name--though unconfirmed, it is a popular name for girls born on July 7, as one of the name's possible meanings is "seven". In any case, little of her personal life is known to the public, including her fans.
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15Then in 2011, she seems to have made a comeback: under her Website/YouTube account, she posted one song that is supposed to be one of the tracks in her upcoming album called ''Iyashi no Tsuki'', to be released in November. Unfortunately, to the disappointment of some fans, this was a hoax and the tracks were plagiarized from another obscure VK band, DIE RAUM KUNST.
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17There has been no further news about LUCI'FER since.
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19'''Selected Discography:'''
20!!!Albums
21[[AC: With GILLE'LOVES/fiction]]
22* [1993.10.30] ''Barairo no kyuuketsuki''
23* [1995.02.14] ''My Bloody Valentine -RARE:TRACKS-'' (compilation album)
24* [1997.03.24] ''Lucifer to iu na no oningyou'' (as fiction)
25* [2002.05.23] ''Moshuu wo Houmuri Saru Tame no Requiem Files - WORLD e'ND COMPILATION'' (compilation album)
26[[AC: Solo]]
27* [1994.12.20] ''Yameru bara, arui wa iyasani kizuguchi''
28* [1997.07.24] ''Kusari ni tsunagareta tenshi''
29* [2000.09.30] ''Do you Remember the Rosegarden of Haunted Realm? -Yuureikan no Bara Niwa wo Oboeteru?-''
30* [2002.05.23] ''Hana no tetsugaku, tsuki no bigaku''
31!!!VHS
32[[AC: With GILLE'LOVES/fiction]]
33* [1993.10.30] ''Shinku no Decadence -DECADENCE OF ROSE-''
34* [1996.10.XX] ''Kyuuketsuki Gekijou -THEATRE OF VAMPIRE-''
35* [1997.03.24] ''Akuma no Koi -DIZZINESS OF LUCIFER-''
36[[AC: Solo]]
37* [1997.07.24] ''LILLIE MARLENE''
38* [2000.03.09] ''Violenoue no Hanzai''
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40!!Provides examples of:
41* TheNineties: When LUCI'FER begins to gain traction from underground goth/Visual Kei circles.
42* AmbiguousGender: Part and parcel of LUCI'FER's image is her androgyny.
43* {{Bifauxnen}}: A woman who could easily pass for a very slender young man.
44* CapsLock: Upon the third iteration of her full name, her first two names are written as thus: LUCI'FER LUSCIOUS.
45* ConceptAlbum: "Kusari ni Tsunagareta Tenshi" is a mini-album that contains songs of [[EpicRocking experimental length]] and centered around the themes of UsefulNotes/WorldWarII, UsefulNotes/NaziGermany, and a {{deconstruction}} of "Lili Marleen", a famous love song at the time. It is about a girl in Germany in World War II. She had the dream of running away with her lover, but he was drafted, and she couldn’t go to war with him since she was a woman.
46* CoverVersion:
47** She has at least two Music/{{Bauhaus}} covers. One is "In the Flat Field" and the other, "Passion of Lovers" renamed "Jounetsu wa shi, to ano hito wa kataru".
48** Tuxedomoon's "In a manner of speaking" featured in her "Kusari ni tsunagareta tenshi" album.
49* EarlyInstallmentWeirdness: Her recordings with ''GILLE'LOVES''' are much more rough sounding compared to her later output.
50* EpicRocking: A lot of her songs count. The much longer ones that clock in at 10 minutes or more are usually SpokenWord backed by original music.
51* FracturedFairyTale: Her 2000 album has two of them in song. "Literature/SleepingBeauty" and "Usotsuki Literature/{{Cinderella}}" (Lying Cinderella).
52* {{Goth}}: Specializes in the Gothic Visual Kei.
53* GratuitousEnglish: When it comes to making the titles of her work but not so much when considering the lyrics in her songs.
54* InconsistentSpelling: Her name has been stylized in different ways: ''Lucifer Luscious Violenoue'', ''Luci'fer Luscious Violenoue'' and ''LUCI'FER LUSCIOUS Violenoue''. Those are the only most well-known ones. Discogs complicates things by featuring at least ''five'' variations of her name.
55* LadyLooksLikeADude: See {{Bifauxnen}}.
56* LighterAndSofter: The materials released particularly from 2000-2002, in contrast with the ethereal and echo laden songs she's made in the 1990s.
57* MysteriousPast: Not much is known who she actually is beyond her LUCI'FER persona.
58* NarrativePoem: One of her unique qualities. Some songs of hers, in fact.
59* PetitePride: She seems to flaunt her small-breasted state quite all the time by often wearing male garments.
60* PunctuationShaker: The latest iterations of her name have an apostrophe between "Luci" and "fer" (Luci'fer). Initially, that wasn't the case, but it still has the same pronunciation as the name "Lucifer". Some variations write her last name as either "Violenoué" or "Violenoúe", presumably to look more exotic.
61* SomethingAboutARose: Roses are a reoccurring motif for LUCI'FER.
62* SpokenWord: Related to NarrativePoem, where she would switch from singing to speaking.
63* TheUnpronounceable: "Violenoue" is either pronounced 'viola-new' or 'viola-nu'. Whichever you prefer.
64* VisualKei: Often cited as a very underground example of such.

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