Flow

Flow

 

This has to be one of my favorite bands of all time. Flow is a J-Rock band that I ran into when I finally started watching Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion after much procrastination last year. Just as I fell in love with the show, I also fell in love with their theme song, COLORS. Here’s some information about this very pwnsome band >=D

Flow is a five-piece Japanese rock band made up of two vocalists, a drummer, a bassist and a guitarist. The group’s base was created in 1993 when brothers Kohshi (elder: vocals) and Take (younger: guitar) began playing together. They formed Flow in 1998, and were eventually joined by Keigo (vocals), Got’s (bass) and Iwasaki (drums; joined in 2000). In 2001, the band released its first maxi single, “Flow #0″. The group then released two mini-albums within the same year, both of which took nationwide indie charts by storm. “Okuru Kotoba”, Flow’s first cover single, was released in January 2003. It remained on the Oricon indie chart for seven consecutive weeks and also hit an impressive #6 on the overall singles chart. In the spring of that year, their first full-scale album Splash!!! debuted at #2. In July 2003, Flow released the single “Blaster” on a major label, Ki/oon Records. In April 2004, they released “Go!!!”, which stayed on the Oricon Top 10 Chart for three weeks. In May 2004, Flow released their first major album Game.

A string of singles followed and in July 2005 the band released its third album, Golden Coast. Since the release of Golden Coast, Flow has released two singles with new A-sides, but one of these (“Around the World/Kandata”) was a double A-side release. “Colors” is the band’s fourth single. The songs “Go!!!” and “Re:member” both served as opening themes to the anime series Naruto. “Days” was the first opening for Bones‘ Eureka Seven anime, and “Realize” was the opening for the PlayStation 2 video games based on the same series. Flow performed live in America for the first time in Dallas, Texas on (September 2, 2006) at Anime Fest which was held at the Hyatt Hotel and Convention center in downtown Dallas. Flow performed “Colors” in 2006, the first opening for Sunrise‘s original series, Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion. Their song “Answer” is the first opening theme for the live action Japanese drama Tantei Gakuen Q. They performed “Night Parade” with the hip-hop band Home Made Kazoku. In February 2008, they released a new single entitled “Arigatō”, followed by Persona -trinity soul-‘s new opening, “Word of the voice” in June 2008. They performed Code Geass: Lelouch of the Rebellion R2‘s second opening theme “World End” released in 2008. Their song “Go!!!” was played at the 2008 Summer Olympics in the baseball game between Japan and Australia.

I can’t evene convey anymore how awesome their music friggen is. Just, you have to listen to it yourselves. Go on YouTube right now, type in Flow Colors, and start your adventure into awesomenessland!! ^_^

-Amorías