PROFILE

ACID was originally created by Hideki after Siam Shade disbanded. The name itself usually stands for something negative, but the band seeks to turn this expression into something positive with the help of their music.

At the beginning, Hideki had a huge influence on ACID and they played a hard mix of new rock and emocore with heavy emphasis placed on his and Junpei's twin vocals. After he left the band, their songs became less focused on vocals and maybe turned a bit more pop-ish, but still keep their “heavy” sound due to having three guitarists.


BIOGRAPHY

Hideki, vocalist of the successful group Siam Shade, started – just like the other members - a solo career after the band's break-up on March 10th, 2002.

At the same time, auditions were held to form a new band around Hideki's vocals. ACID formed in August 2003, but the line-up was still incomplete. Especially since looking for a second vocalist seemed to take up a lot of time.


ACID’s live program was made up of both of Hideki’s solo albums at the beginning and, after one year of excessive touring through Japan, the group went into studio at the end of 2004 to record their “own” first album album. “ACID 1.5~Punk Drunker~” was released in March 2005.

With the end of Siam Shade, Hideki had finished a part of his life and didn’t want the people to always compare his new band with the old one when he was singing. That’s why he drew back to the position behind the keyboard at first and later on left ACID completely in June 2005 so that the band were able to go their own way. Furthermore, he says that this group is his pride and that he’d like to see them in Tokyo Dome one day.

In 2006, they released their third album, ACID 2.0 ～SPIRITUAL CIRCUS COMPLETE～ which was followed the next year by both a new single and a new album. The single, 0:00 A.M./Hanafubuki, was picked to be featured in the anime 'Tokyo Majin Gakuen~Kenpu-cho' while the album, PRAY FOR THE FUTURE came out that summer on June 6th.

Although they're currently short one member as Kim had to briefly return to South Korea for a year of mandatory service in that country's armed forces, ACID continues to release albums while touring like crazy; they have spent most of 2007 either on stage or between them. In September, they will perform three back-to-back shows on the 24th, 25th, and 26th at the Shibuya O-Crest after participating in the 'J-ROCK PRESENTS「BREAK GENERATION SPECIAL」' along side bands such as exist†trace and billy.

ACID themselves are a mixed up bunch of men from all over Japan (with the exception of Kim, who is Korean) with different ages and different tastes in music and hobbies. More than three years of band history proves that this mix still seems to work well and hopefully the band will continue to be just as successful.

LINE UP

* Guitar : Daisuke
* Guitar : Masamitsu
* Guitar : Kim
* Drums : Sei-ichiro
* Bass : Yuta
* Vocal : Junpei