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High And Mighty Color
Biography
High and Mighty Color got started via a Metallica cover band that played the clubs of Okinawa in the early 2000s, entertaining the soldiers of the (in)famous US military base in the southern Japanese island. The core members of H&MC, Meg and Sassy, met through this band and started working together. Playing Western rock covers helped them to develop understanding of modern Anglo-American rock, and soon they decided to extend their repertoire and started writing their own songs. By that time they also filled up the remaining positions in the band, although screamo vocalist Yuusuke took four months to be convinced to join. The group picked an amusing moniker of Anti-Nobunaga, signed to a small label and began to expand their touring geography.



Their work paid off in 2003, when they were spotted by a music scout from Sony on a rock festival in Okinawa. They got signed to a subsidiary of Sony, but moreover, the scout, who has seen Maki perform at another festival on the same year, came up with the idea of merging the two acts, adding a female vocalist to Anti-Nobunaga sound. Maki was reluctant at first, planning to aim for a student career, but after much pestering she caved in and joined the band that was rechristened High and Mighty Color.



Soon the group moved to the major label, and they didn't disappoint the investors, with the first single Over topping the indie Oricon charts for a month. Another single, Pride, got picked for the very popular anime show Gundam Seed Destiny, and the success it received paved the way for their debut disk Go Over that brought the band the well-deserved Rookie Award of the Year in 2005. The group had two more albums up to this point, Gou on Progressive (2006) and San (2007), and although those records didn't fare too well commercially, the releases, along with the singles and another anime theme song, this time for the wildly popular Bleach, help to keep High and Mighty Color among the prime contenders in the Japanese rock scene. ~ Alexey Eremenko, All Music Guide
Selected Discography

Goover
2006