Meet the European Visual Kei band "DNR" from Italy, whose member was Yu and with whom Luminor toured as a special guest! ^_^

Howdy!

I hope everyone is having a great start of May!

Today i want to write a little bit of a different blog entry, as it is not entirely about Cinema Bizarre, but rather about another, this time a real Visual Kei band from Europe - about an "EuroVisual" (how they call their genre) band called DNR (Dreams now Reality) from Italy! But don't be disappointed, as both of the bands have some history together!

also, to any die-hard DNR fans, sorry i get some things wrong, as i became a fan of them not very long ago!

first, a little bit history about their early years: (taken from their official MySpace page archive)

"In 2005 the bass-player “Kira”, strongly influenced by the Visual Kei scene and by Japanese Jrock, draw up a project which has the fusion of Oriental melody and Occidental Groove as target, the band’s purpose is to find the right dimension between these two worlds, and will be called “DNR”. Immediately Ash and Sieg (ex members of other Hard Rock made in USA bands) enter the project: the base of DNR’ sound was ready, but it will take 2 years of exhausting casting session to recruit a singer to expectations of the trio. In summer 2007, they will find in Mantis the right romantic and aggressive tone that represents the band. Now, instead of hiring another guitarist, as standard rock bands usually do, DNR opt for a 5th element with knowledge of Jazz Piano, with the intention to bring style and niceness to the sound and support to Sieg’s guitar Riffs; with the arrival of DeLord on november 2007 the formation was completed. DNR are: Kira, Ash, Sieg, Mantis and DeLord, the first italian Visual Band"

During 2009, the original trio and the singer, due to artistic differences decide to split up to proceed with their music careers in two different directions. The same year the trio decided to change their name into a more optimistic name than their previous one: before they were "Dreams Not Reality", but became "Dreams Now Reality" and then also added vocalist Axia as their main vocalist, with whom the band gained more of a hard rock sound.

In 2009 the band toured all over Europe, with a surprise guest joining them in all of their shows - Luminor!!!! Yep, everyone, after Lumi left Cinema Bizarre in 2008, in 2009 he came back to tour again, but now with DNR! There's also some videos, where it shows Lumi performing "Get Off" in some of DNR's concerts! :D (how cool is that??). He even collaborated with DNR on one song - "Follow Me", but as much as i know it was like a separate version of the song, because it is not featured on the official DNR's EP of "Visual Evolution Reloaded". 

In 2011, after recording their new single "Beyond This World", DNR decided to become a 5 piece band again, after inviting Italian singer and keyboarder Sebastiano Serafini aka: SEBA on keys and vocals.

Also in 2011 they opened for the legendary Jrock/Visual Kei band "VERSAILLES", when they were on a European tour and were in Italy.

In 2013, guitarist SIEG and keyboardist and vocalist SEBA leave the band, and at some point in the year, Yu joins DNR as their guitarist, and he is also featured in the music videos of the "ANOTHER WORLD FALLS DOWN" and "NO ROMANCE" (acoustic version) songs!!!!!! YAYAYAYAYAY YUUUUU!!!!

I don't know much about the other years of the band's history, but at some point Yu leaves (i think he was still part of DNR in 2017), and in 2020 vocalist Flow and guitarist paZ join, thus completing DNR's current lineup (remember, i dont know anything about what happened during 2014 to 2020, only that 2 years ago they released the music video for their song "SHIN" (SHIN SHIN SHIN SHIN I LOVE SHIN, BOTH THE SONG AND OUR BELOVED DRUMMER FROM CINEMA BIZARRE )

A few days ago (2026/05/03) DNR posted some teasers on their instagram profile of something new coming out, so we better get ready for some new things!

So, thanks for reading this new blog entry of mine, i hope you enjoyed it!

please listen to their 2009 ep "Visual Revolution Reloaded" and their new music "DREAMFINITY" album and single "SHIN"!

let me know if you want any similar blog entries to this one! <3