NICO Touches the Walls
| Nico Touches the Walls | |
|---|---|
| Origin | Japan |
| Genres | Alternative rock, power pop, experimental rock |
| Years active | 2004–present |
| Labels | Management: Senha and Company (–2010) A-Sketch (2010–) Recording: Ki/oon Records (Sony Music Japan) |
| Website | nicotouchesthewalls |
| Members | Tatsuya Mitsumura - vocals & guitar Daisuke Furumura - guitar Shingo Sakakura - bass Shotaro Tsushima - drums |
Nico Touches the Walls (stylized as NICO Touches the Walls) is a Japanese rock band formed in 2004. The band members are: Mitsumura Tatsuya as the Vocalist/guitarist, Sakakura Shingo as the bassist, Furumura Daisuke as the lead guitarist & Tsushima Shotaro as the drummer. In the same year, they won the Lotte Prize at the Yamaha Teen Music Festival. Rising quickly, they signed to "Senha & Co." before signing to Sony Music Japan's Ki/oon Records in 2007. Their debut single, in a major label, "Yoru no Hate", was released in February 2008.
Along the career, the band has contributed to anime with their songs, such as "Broken Youth", "Diver" and "Niwaka Ame ni Mo Makezu", featured in Naruto Shippuden; their hit single "Hologram" chosen as opening theme for Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, as many others.
Formed in 2004, Nico Touches the Walls won the Lotte Prize at the 2004 Yamaha Teens' Music Festival. The quartet’s success really picked up since they made their indie debut with Senha and Company in 2006. They released two indie mini albums that year: "Walls Is Beginning" and "Runova X Handover". In 2007, Nico Touches the Walls signed a deal with Ki/oon Records. They released their debut mini albums "Eden", in June, and "How Are You?" in November the same year.
The band raised quickly from the indie scene to a top label. In 2008, they featured in a television commercial for Glico’s Pocky. Their debut single "Yoru no Hate" was released in February 2008, being an introduction single for the rock quartet, which reached number 64 on the Oricon Chart. They kept raising, and later their second single "The Bungy" was released on June 4, being a very different song from their previous style. The band also had the song "Broken Youth" featured as ending theme for the anime series Naruto Shippuuden, that year. "Broken Youth" became one of the band's most popular songs, reaching 24 on the chart in Japan. In the same year, their debut studio album "Who Are You?" was released on September 24 containing all their previous singles. "Who are you?" almost entered in the top 10, reaching number 11 in its first week. Later, Nico Touches the walls embarked on tour to promote the album, Titled "TOUR2008 Bon voyage,Etranger", the tour started in Shibuya, in a special concert named "We are NICO Touches the Walls. ～A Queen of the Night～", on October 15, and finished in Tokyo, on December 14.
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