Alice Nine

On tour

Pictures

Daybreak

Listen to, buy or share

Buy

Buy on Amazon Amazon Expand purchase options
  • Digital download
  • Amazon Amazon
  • 7digital 7digital
  • iTunes iTunes
  • Physical media
  • Amazon Amazon Search
  • eBay eBay Search
  • 6,786,205
    scrobbles
  • 81,377
    listeners

Tags

Everyone’s tags

Biography

Japan (2004 – present)

Alice Nine (previously known as アリス九號. and alice nine.) is a Japanese visual kei band consisting of five members: 将 (Shou) on vocals, ヒロト (Hiroto) on guitar, 虎 (Tora) on guitar and backing vocals, 沙我 (Saga) on bass and backing vocals, and Nao on drums.

Drummer Nao formed the band in 2004, recruiting vocalist Shou and guitarist Tora from the band ギブス which had just split up, and they were signed to the PS COMPANY indies label Indie-PSC. Their first single 「名前は、未だ無ひ。」 was released the same year. During their first year, they did small tours with other Japanese bands. Their first oneman tour was held in August 2005 in Japan. After a sold out gig in Tokyo the same year, Alice Nine became more popular in Japan, and went major on KING RECORDS under their current management PS COMPANY. In 2007 they were signed in Europe by CLJ Records.

Alice Nine have released four full albums, 絶景色 (2005), Alpha (2007), VANDALIZE (2009) and GEMINI (2011).

In May 2007, Alice Nine was performing their debut show in America, during the Jrock Revolution Festival at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. In December Alice Nine was doing their first performance ever in Europe. They were one of the five bands at J-ROCK INVASION EPISODE 1 festival in Cologne, Germany.

On June 2, 2009, a blog entry by vocalist Shou announced the changing of their name from アリス九號. and alice nine. to Alice Nine for media reasons. He explained that the Japanese transcription was beginning to lose its purpose as a means to “represent aesthetics” and that the English transcription was closest to the band’s original intention.
Read more… Edit bio

Top Albums

Events

Add event

Listening Trend

81,377listeners all time
6,786,205scrobbles all time
Recent listeners trend:

Start scrobbling and track your listening history

Last.fm users scrobble the music they play in iTunes, Spotify, Rdio and over 200 other music players.

Create a Last.fm profile

Shoutbox

Leave a comment. Log in to Last.fm or sign up.

  • GuilhermeDbanda

    love them

    8 May 2:53am Reply

  • hidoku

    shooting star is fucking perfect omg ;;;;

    2 May 11:20am Reply

  • rrumwolf

    The staff could put the albums VANDALIZE, Alpha and 絶景色 (and also the older singles) in this page of Alice Nine.

    1 May 7:45pm Reply

  • lisianeq

    I liked the PV of shooting star more than I liked the music. I thought the music would be more slow and sad... But still I liked it. I can't wait to hear Affection.

    29 Apr 6:13pm Reply

  • Phones666

    I don't really like Shooting Star...it felt so empty for some reason, like a lot of things were missing and that kind of made it boring imo. I hope Affection will be better.

    29 Apr 8:14am Reply

  • atsu-ko

    ah shooting star is a bit of a hit and miss compared to shadowplay (!!!) and daybreak. it'll take a few more listens for it to grow on me.

    29 Apr 12:55am Reply

  • Phones666

    Affection will be the b-side for the single. I think that's the song they wrote with the fans, right?

    22 Apr 5:10pm Reply

  • Phones666

    Agreeing with atsu-ko. Also really, are you sincerely thinking of reporting people for voting for certain images? Anyway, back on track: the band. I liked SHADOWPLAY (the song) a lot better than on a first listen. It's definitely a grower and I liked it a lot better than Niji no Yuki, good job Shou! I really really dig Scarlet too, excellent single!

    20 Apr 2:01pm Reply

  • mr.tu

    i miss good old alice 9 :( rip

    19 Apr 7:39pm Reply

  • atsu-ko

    also wow when did last.fm become such ~*~*srs business*~*~ y'all need to chill

    18 Apr 4:26pm Reply

  • atsu-ko

    ok tbh i didn't like scarlet at first listen but now it's grown on me. alice nine can do no wrong and has yet to really disappoint me.

    18 Apr 4:25pm Reply

  • lisianeq

    i'm so in love with scarlet omgomgomgomg <3

    18 Apr 1:05pm Reply

  • Killinstinct

    And below in a orange box: Remember: "Abuse of the Last.fm image system may result in you being banned from uploading images or from the entire site – so, play nice and respect the rules!" So stop uploading Limited Editions or I report you to the staff.

    18 Apr 12:19pm Reply

  • Killinstinct

    It's not what single users want, follow the image/cover rules and it says clearly that "If this album has multiple artwork, check if there is a release date to disambiguate. If that throws up nothing, use your best judgement and upload the artwork with the larger print run (most recognisable, popular)." WITH THE LARGER PRINT RUN = Regular Edition.

    18 Apr 12:17pm Reply

  • atsu-ko

    luckily last fm is not about what a single user wants [9000]

    17 Apr 9:33pm Reply

  • Cleverek

    Who the hell cares if it's limited or nor? The point is how it looks like. And those without band photo are ridiculous. [2] Well, luckily last fm is not about what a single user wants.

    17 Apr 7:57pm Reply

  • Killinstinct

    Well, I care and I don't want Limited Edition cover to pop up when I scrobble the songs. Also, Limited Edition covers should not be uploaded onto Last.fm, read the rules.

    17 Apr 12:26pm Reply

  • sp_faith

    Who the hell cares if it's limited or nor? The point is how it looks like. And those without band photo are ridiculous.

    16 Apr 6:12pm Reply

  • atsu-ko

    vv wow calm down no need to be a nazi about it

    16 Apr 1:26am Reply

  • jrasy9

    Saga ballads are always excellent, like birth in the death and Mugen -electric eden-. [3]

    14 Apr 3:00pm Reply
    • All 1055 shouts

Listening Now

Top Listeners