High and Mighty Color

HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR is a Japanese music (J-rock) group signed to Sony Music Japan.

History

HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR is made up of six members, lead vocals (Maki), vocals (Yusuke), guitar (Kazuto), guitar (MEG), bass (mACKAz), and drummer SASSY. HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR is often referred to as the "sister-band" of popular Japanese band Orange Range. This is attributed to the fact that both come from the Okinawa area of Japan and both bands were discovered in the same music festival. The band started with the members Meg and Sassy working on a cover of a Metallica song, in time they were joined by Yusuke, Kazuto and mACKAz. At this time the band was known as Anti-Nobunaga.

In the summer of 2003 at a yearly music festival in Okinawa, the band played for a sold out crowd. The response was tremendous and made many major record labels took notice. Because of this, the group was able to produce an album titled "Okinawa 2003". At another festival known as the "Music Picnic Festival" vocalist Maki also grabbed the attention of record labels. Eventually Maki met the band through their labels and joined them. With the addition of Maki the band took on a new name, HIGH and MIGHTY COLOR (also called HiKara, HaMC, Handmc.) In time, the band was picked up by the Sony Label in Japan. They spent much of 2004 writing and recording, in late 2004 they released their first single "Over" which was only sold through Tower Record stores, it sold out in the time frame of a month and became immensely scarce, thus it was re-released the next year.

In 2005, the band released their first "Official" single titled "Pride" which was also used as the second opening for the anime Gundam SEED Destiny. Since then, the band has been riding a wave of relative success and have released a second album in April 2006.

Members

• Lead Vocals：Maakii (マーキー, mākī)
• Vocals: Yuusuke (ユウスケ)
• Guitar： Kazuto (カズト)
• Guitar: MEG
• Bass：mACKAz
• Drums：SASSY

Discography

Singles

#	Cover	Information	Sales
1st / Debut Single		PRIDE Released: January 26, 2005 Format: CD5" Oricon Top 200 Weekly Peak: #2	223,208 copies sold
1st / Remix Single		PRIDE Remix Released: March 24, 2005 Format: CD5" Oricon Top 200 Weekly Peak: #20	17,858 copies sold
2nd		OVER Released: April 20, 2005 Format: CD5" Oricon Top 200 Weekly Peak: #11	32,989 copies sold
3rd		RUN☆RUN☆RUN Released: June 22, 2005 Format: CD5" Oricon Top 200 Weekly Peak: #14	17,340 copies sold
4th		Days Released: August 17, 2005 Format: CD5" Oricon Top 200 Weekly Peak: #22	7,679 copies sold
5th		STYLE ~get glory in this hand~ Released: November 09, 2005 Format: CD5" Oricon Top 200 Weekly Peak: #19	9,776 copies sold
6th		Ichirin no Hana 一輪の花 Released: January 11, 2006 Format: CD5" Oricon Top 200 Weekly Peak: #2	75,372 copies sold
7th		DIVE into YOURSELF Released: July 26, 2006 Format: CD5" Oricon Top 200 Weekly Peak: TBR	TBR

Albums

#	Cover	Information	Sales
1st / Debut Album	File:G8VER Cover.jpg	G∞VER Format: CD Released: September 14, 2005 Oricon Top 200 Weekly Peak: #8	37,451 copies sold
2nd		Gou On PROGRESSIVE 傲音プログレッシヴ Format: CD Released: April 5, 2006 Oricon Top 200 Weekly Peak: #7	29,649 copies sold

DVDs

• "Video G∞VER" (February 22, 2006)

AWARDS

• 47th Japanese Record Grand Prix Rookie of the Year Award for 2005

US Performances

• April 28, 2006: Shiokazecon, Anime convention, Houston, Texas

External links

• Sony Japan artist page
• Official fanclub site (in Japanese)
• H&MC Fansite : Orange Asiku (in French)
• H&MC Fansite : INSOMNIA (in English)