CORRECT TAG IS YBO².

A trio featuring the unwavering presence of bassist/vocalist Masashi Kitamura, YBO2 was also the one-time home of Zeni Geva, frontman KK Null, and Ruins' drummer, Tatsuya Yoshida. The trio's music combined King Crimson-style freeform flights, the compositional precision of Magma, austerity, and classic industrial noise terror.

Fool's Mate, the magazine, announced that Kitamura Masashi, the first publisher of Fool's Mate, the founder of the independent label Trans Record, and the bassist leading YBO2, passed away on June 17, 2006 at the age of 49, from heart disease. Read more on Last.fm. User-contributed text is available under the Creative Commons By-SA License; additional terms may apply.