RATGUILE Members Profile and Facts:
RATGUILE (랫가일) is a South Korean band consisting of five members: Rock Kang, Eom Gyeongpil, Park Taeseong, Kim Yunsu, and Lee Sanghoon. They were formed on September 9, 2022 and debuted on June 4, 2023 with the digital single “WaterBoi.”
Group Name Explanation: The band’s name refers to the phrase “Look at that b*stard” and is a slight modification to the English phrase “Look at that guy!”
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RATGUILE Official SNS:
Instagram: @ratguile
Threads: @ratguile
TikTok: @ratguile
YouTube: RATGUILE 랫가일
RATGUILE Member Profiles:
Gyeongpil
Stage Name: Gyeongpil (경필)
Birth Name: Eom Gyeongpil (엄경필)
Position: Leader, Vocalist, Drummer
Birthday: June 30, 1994
Zodiac Sign: Cancer
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Dog
Height: N/A
Weight: N/A
Blood Type: N/A
MBTI Type: INTP
Nationality: Korean
Instagram: @smilingpig67
Threads: @smilingpig67
YouTube: Kyung Phil Eum엄경필
SoundCloud: GunKy
Facebook: GunKy (inactive)
Gyeongpil Facts:
– Education: Berklee Music College (Composition department, graduated in 2020).
– He’s also in charge of songwriting, composition, arrangement and mixing, as well as album art and music video production in the band.
– He also works on outsourcing music, such as movie music and OSTs whenever he has time.
– Apart from the drums, he can play 20 instruments, including the guitar, bass, piano, violin and saxophone.
– Before entering college, he attended an international school in Indonesia and attended an orchestra performance in Europe.
– He enjoys playing games. Another hobby of his since when he was younger is copying or arranging BGM in MIDI.
– When he was in high school, he made a demo CD with tracks he created by himself. He’d sell each for $3.
– He has been into composition and arrangement since when he was a teenager.
– Prior to his activities with the band, he mainly worked on animation soundtracks, movie music OSTs and personal record productions.
– He once said he doesn’t use complex harmony and rhythm on purpose because the band pursues a popular style. Still, he likes music that’s often variable and harmonically difficult.
– He said he likes “My Favorite Things” from the movie Sound of Music the most among his works.
– His favorite food is pizza.
– He doesn’t like excessive heat.
– When he was creating the band, he thought about singing but couldn’t find a drummer he liked, so he took charge of the drums as well.
– He’s said to be very interested in video editing and production. So, in addition to music videos, he actively uses video contents to promote performances and new songs.
– He posts various pieces of music on his personal YouTube channel, from demo songs of his own music, to assignments he made when he was a student at Berklee, to arrangement and mash-ups of established music among other contents.
Rock Kang
Stage Name: Rock Kang (락강)
Birth Name: Kang Seunghyun (강승현)
Position: Vocalist, Rhythm Guitarist
Birthday: January 1, 1994
Zodiac Sign: Capricorn
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rooster
Height: N/A
Weight: N/A
Blood Type: N/A
MBTI Type: ENFP
Nationality: Korean
Instagram: @fkrrkd
YouTube: 락강
Rock Kang Facts:
– He’s also a singer and songwriter. He was active in the Hongdae indie scene for more than a decade.
– Among all members, the’s the one with the most experience. He selected artists from the Seoul Metropolitan Government Office and performed at the Jarasum International Jazz Festival among other accomplishments.
– He has a severe visual impairment caused by an accident when he was in middle school.
– As he joined a school for people with visual disabilities, his attention was caught by a group of friends playing the same song without a music score. This inspired him and encouraged him into trying to pursue music.
– Before his accident, he was preparing to enter a science high school.
– He learnt to play instruments, as well as composition, arrangement and mixing by himself.
– He relies solely on his ears to arrange and mix music, which at first surprised even Gyeongpil.
– He started playing the guitar when he was in his late twenties.
– He once revealed that he practiced hard in order to catch up with the other members’ skills.
– He’s in charge of songwriting in RATGUILE. He mainly gets inspiration from Gyeongpil, who serves as the band’s main composer.
– He also works as a Korean language teacher. As of 2024, he teaches at a middle school in Seoul.
– He loves reading web novels. He also enjoys karaoke and playing the electric guitar.
– He doesn’t like cucumbers.
– He goes for a popular style in his solo releases.
– Unlike what his stage name suggests, he enjoys traditional pop ballads and acoustic pop, which, according to him, are good for “listening comfortably.”
– When performing individually, he usually sings while playing the piano. Since it’s a familiar instrument to him, he looks more relaxed playing it than the guitar.
Taeseong
Stage Name: Taeseong (태성)
Birth Name: Park Taeseong (박태성)
Position: Lead Guitarist
Birthday: September 28, 1996
Zodiac Sign: Libra
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Rat
Height: N/A
Weight: N/A
Blood Type: N/A
MBTI Type: INFP
Nationality: Korean
Taeseong Facts:
– Education: Korea University (New Material Engineering department, graduated). As of 2024, he’s integrating a master degree and a doctorate degree.
– He and Yunsu met at TRUSS (Korea University Club), a band club within the university. They were selected by fellow students as the best performing duo.
– Since he has been playing the guitar since he was a teenager, he has stable basic skills and is skilled in many tricks.
– He has contributed the most to establishing the style of a band that crosses all genres and is the busiest member during live performances.
– He’s acknowledged as a diligent performer as he plays chords, lines or solos.
– He has excellent engineering knowledge, and is in charge of overseeing sound and lighting during sound source recording or live performances.
– If there is a problem with a guitar, it seems that he buys parts and fixes them himself, as well as renovates them.
– He installed an effector on Rock Kang’s guitar. He also developed a simulation program by himself to find out whether the guitar would work normally.
– He is said to be a good cook. He often invites the other members to his house and cooks himself when he goes out to play, and is said to have the skills of a restaurant chef.
– He tends to wear a gas mask when there’s too much smoke during a barbecue.
– He loves sleeping, handling machines and playing racing simulation games. He also likes anything pleasant.
– He isn’t fond of annoyance and lack of fun.
Yunsu
Stage Name: Yunsu (윤수)
Birth Name: Kim Yunsu (김윤수)
Position: Bassist
Birthday: August 27, 1997
Zodiac Sign: Virgo
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Ox
Height: N/A
Weight: N/A
Blood Type: N/A
MBTI Type: ISTJ
Nationality: Korean
Yunsu Facts:
– Education: Korea University (History department, graduated).
– The other members recognize him as the one with the best instrument playing technique.
– He’s the member who finishes recording the most easily.
– He’s known for his passionate performances.
– He loves metal, especially death metal, black metal and metal core.
– He seems to enjoy the BGM “Metal Kkondae.”
– He loves rock band performances and believes he has a strong taste in music. In particular, he attends the Pentaport Rock Festival every year.
– Nickname: Mr. Pentaport (given to him due to his regular attendance to the festival) among others.
– He’s said to be the happiest when he runs around in slams or circle fits, which are unique to metal venues.
– He enjoys finding new albums as a hobby.
– He loves performing live, especially at concerts and festivals.
– He doesn’t like cold and rainy weather.
– He used to actively operate music review blogs. He started with indie, but later switched his focus on metal. While working on his blogs, he wanted to be part of a global band himself.
– He received an Excellence Award when he was at Korea University due to his outstanding advancement.
– He and Taeseong met at TRUSS (Korea University Club), a band club within the university. They were selected by fellow students as the best performing duo.
– He’s in charge of managing RATGUILE’s YouTube channel. He films and edits contents such as daily shorts and live performance videos.
– Early in the band’s career, he produced music videos for “WaterBoi,” “Chapagetti Party” and “찍먹.”
– Once, when preparing for a job interview, he added his position as RATGUILE’s bassist to his resumé. As he was asked about it, he played a video of the band on the spot and showed it to his interviewer.
Sanghoon
Stage Name: Sanghoon (상훈)
Birth Name: Lee Sanghoon (이상훈)
Position: Vocalist, Maknae
Birthday: October 22, 1998
Zodiac Sign: Libra
Chinese Zodiac Sign: Tiger
Height: N/A
Weight: N/A
Blood Type: N/A
MBTI Type: ISTP
Nationality: Korean
Sanghoon Facts:
– He loves driving and anything involving cars.
– Before debuting with RATGUILE, he used to sing ballads and pop songs at university club events, local events and on his YouTube channel.
– When Rock Kang, with whom he was close but did not come and go very often, contacted him to offer a vocal position, he thought it was a call to borrow money at first.
– One of his characteristics is his unique eight-color vocal management that is deemed to be “delicate, explosive and aggressive.” It can be said that he’s born with a natural voice and can play with a wide range of styles depending on the mood of the song, but without causing a sense of incompatibility.
– He can sing ballads, jazz, metal, hard rock and trot.
– What makes him stand out the most as a rock vocalist is his strong vocalization and fearsome range, ranging from 0 octave to 3 octave.
– He uses a so-called “mixed voice” that connects powerful voice and head voice without any sense of heterogeneity, and freely uses ultra-high-pitched shouting, scratch singing and falsetto.
– In terms of style, the artists he resembles the most is Kim Kyungho in his heyday with his unstoppable vocal range and brilliant performance.
– Sometimes he upload a variety of covers and live performances on his YouTube channel that are quite different from the music he usually sings and performs; however, he thinks this is better aligned with his personal preference.
– He once explained that long hair makes him feel good when he does head banging.
— He’s the band’s frontman.
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