exist†trace Translations

I was lucky to get my hands on a first pressing copy of VIRGIN while I was in Japan.
I was lucky to get my hands on a first pressing copy of VIRGIN while I was living in Japan.

I became a fan of the all-women visual kei band exist†trace in mid-2012 thanks to a post on the blog Tofugu introducing female metal bands. As far as I’ve seen, there isn’t one single website with good English translations of all of exist†trace’s songs; there are smatterings here and there of random tracks. It is my hope that one day Warped Frost will fill that void, at least for their more recent songs, namely the ones from the EPs/albums listed below. So, I will continue posting lyric translations as blog posts, and compile links on this page as I go. Also, miko often writes entries on her blog about specific songs; I will sometimes post translations of such blog posts along with the lyrics.

As with all translations on Warped Frost, please do NOT copy-paste my work into your website or any other website! If you want to link to a translation that’s fine, but I do not appreciate others submitting my work to other websites as if it were theirs to submit.

Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.


Ambivalent Symphony

Cover of the album Ambivalent Symphony, feating a young girl with long blond hair and a cross earring holding a birdcage.

RESONANCE

Umi no Shizuku

Ambivalence

forward

Wrath

“Owari no Nai Sekai”


Vanguard -Of the Muses-

VANGUARD

ROUGE

Hana no Sakanai Machi

Requiem

Orurean no Shoujo

Lost in Helix


Twin Gate

Decide

Orurean no Shoujo

Knife

Neverland

RESONANCE

Vanguard

Blaze

Unforgive You

“Owari no Nai Sekai”

Cradle


TRUE

exist trace true ep

TRUE

Tokoyami no Yoake

Kiss in the Dark


VIRGIN

WONDERLAND

Daybreak ~Juu-san Gatsu no Shikisai~

HONEY

GINGER

Keiyaku

Ritoru Mearii to Utsukushiki Nikushimi no Donau

Signal

True

Futatsu no Koe

Anata

KISS IN THE DARK

I Feel You

Sora


WORLD MAKER

WorldMakerRegularEditionCover

Note: Archangel Diamond has apparently released a version of this album that comes with an English lyrics card. However, the translations presented here, most of them posted to this blog before AD made that announcement, are my own. I talk about this a little more in-depth in the post for “Feel.”

WORLD MAKER

Diamond

Spiral Daisakusen

Just One

Imagination

Feel

SHOOTING STAR

ANTIQUE DOLL

Kuchibiru

RAZE

Nagai Yume no Owari ni

Voice


THIS IS NOW

THIS IS NOW

DREAM RIDER

Shout Out

Neo-Japanese Heroine

TWIN WINGS

BLAST


ROYAL STRAIGHT MAGIC

RoyalStraightMagic

Psychedelic Black Night

Yoake no Hikari


The Only Garden

Print

EXISTENCE

I’m still not dead

Acacia

selection

POWER OF “ONE” (Vocal Retake Ver.)

Garden


NEO JAPANESE HEROINE

NeoJapaneseHeroine_Cover Small

DREAM RIDER

Psychedelic Black Night

EXISTENCE

Neo Japanese Heroine

POWER OF “ONE” (*This translation is of the “vocal retake ver.” from The Only Garden; but there’s no difference in the lyrics.)

selection

THIS IS NOW

Ray of Dawn (Japanese title: “Yoake no Hikari”)

Garden

BLAST


B-Sides

Yume ni Kisu wo


Notes / Partial Update History

April 16, 2022: I probably should’ve started doing this way back when I started compiling links on this page back in 2014 or 2015, huh? Oh well.

Anyway, I changed the link for Archangel Diamond from the defunct fan club website (https: // archangel-diamond.com/) to their Twitter page. Likewise, I removed the link to the Tofugu post that introduced me to the band as it now yields a 404 message, but for the record, the URL was https: // w w w .tofugu.com/2012/05/12/japanese-metal-bands-are-for-girls/.

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