Siam Shade

Siam Shade (stylized as SIAM SHADE) was a five-piece Japanese rock band, formed in Tokyo in March 1991. The classic line-up of Hideki on vocals, Natchin on bass, Kazuma on guitar and vocals, Daita on lead guitar and Jun-ji on drums, was solidified in May 1994. Playing a form of melodic hard rock that features twin guitars and twin vocals, they released six studio albums and enjoyed a decade of relative popularity before disbanding in March 2002. The members have reunited several times since 2007 for one-off concerts and short tours. Ryutaro Hokari of OK Music credited Siam Shade and their innate melodic sensibility for helping hard rock and heavy metal music penetrate the Japanese mainstream. Originally a visual kei band, they abandoned the image by the time of their second album in 1995, but the definition of the term broadened during the scene's boom in the mid-to-late 1990s, and they subsequently came to be considered a representative act of the "soft visual kei" subgenre. Outside Japan, the band is best known for "1/3 no Junjō na Kanjō", one of the ending theme songs of the Rurouni Kenshin anime.