Fairy Fore was a Japanese visual kei

Visual Kei

is a movement among Japanese musicians, that is characterized by the use of make-up, elaborate hair styles and flamboyant costumes, often, but not always, coupled with androgynous aesthetics. Some sources state that visual kei refers to a music genre, or to a sub-genre of Japanese rock, with its...

 rock band. Their music was used for a few anime

Anime

is the Japanese abbreviated pronunciation of "animation". The definition sometimes changes depending on the context. In English-speaking countries, the term most commonly refers to Japanese animated cartoons....

 theme songs, such as their debut single "Love Sick", their second single "Vivid" and 4th single
"Jet".

Biography

Fairy Fore started as the band Fir~reforle in 1994. Their line-up was Takashi on vocals, Yasu on bass and Yoko on drums. Fir~reforle performed mostly in the Indies scene at Tokyo and released five demo-tapes, but were still unable to get their big break. However, in 1999 they finally started to get known when Akihide joined the band, and they got a few songs on the compilation album call "Cross*D Lovers". In 2000, they changed the band name to Fairy Fore and released the album known as "LOOP". 2001 found Fairy Fore releasing their first single, "Love Sick." This single was released by Avex Trax and in 2002 they released their first full album, "Heaven's Market."

On September 1, after two national tours, Akihide decided to leave the band.
They recruited two supporting guitarists, Fujiwara Eiji and Shuu. Together with them they released another single in November, “Youphilous”. A second press of the single followed on Christmas Eve.

Eiji became their new guitarist in 2004, and they toured a lot. One of the results of this tour was their very first DVD, called “Spice Shower”, which contained live footage from their concert at the Shibuya O-crest. In July they released their latest single called “Sentimental case”, but late July, Eiji left the band. The remaining three members did infrequent concerts and in May they released their third album: "Kono hana ga karerumade".

After a career of 11 years, they disbanded. They had a small, last tour in November and December which was called "Thank you for your million smile" and disbanded after the final concert on December 11. Right now First Guitarist Akihide is in the band call 'Never Land'. Yasu was in A band called 'Beauty Maniacs' but now he has joined the band "Acalli", and Yoko is in the band called "Orpheus"

Albums

• Loop (18 October 2000)
• Heavens Market (26 June 2002)
• Kono Hana ga Karerumade (4 May 2005)

Singles

• "Love Sick" (22 August 2001) 2nd opening for Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children
  Shin Megami Tensei: Devil Children
  is a spin-off from Atlus' own RPG series Shin Megami Tensei. The Devil Children games are developed by Multimedia Intelligence Transfer and published by Atlus....
  
  
• "Vivid" (7 November 2001) ending for Final Fantasy: Unlimited
  Final Fantasy: Unlimited
  was an anime television series based on Square Enix's popular Final Fantasy role-playing game franchise.Final Fantasy: Unlimited incorporates both 2D animation and 3D graphics, and takes elements from the Final Fantasy games with quite a few easter eggs, some obvious, others obscure...
  
  
• "Body Double" (6 March 2002)
• "Jet" (ジェット) (5 June 2002) 2nd opening for Beyblade 2002
• "Darling" (15 February 2003)
• "Youphilous" (24 December 2003)