Acid was a Japan

Japan

Japan is an island nation in East Asia. Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies to the east of the Sea of Japan, China, North Korea, South Korea and Russia, stretching from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the south...

ese rock

Rock music

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 band originally created by Hideki after Siam Shade

Siam Shade

Siam Shade was a five-piece Japanese rock band, which broke onto the visual kei scene alongside a multitude of other artists in the early 1990s. They enjoyed a decade of relative popularity before disbanding in early 2002. On November 18, 2007, they reunited for a concert in honor of their...

 disbanded.

In the beginning, Hideki had a huge influence on Acid and they played a mix of alternative metal

Alternative metal

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 and emo

Emo

Emo is a style of rock music and its associated subcultureEmo may also refer to:- Businesses :* Emo , an Irish oil company and filling station chain* Emo Speedway, a racetrack in Emo, Ontario...

 with emphasis placed on his and Junpei's twin vocals. After he left the band in 2005, their songs became less focused on vocals and turned a bit more pop

Pop music

Pop music is usually understood to be commercially recorded music, often oriented toward a youth market, usually consisting of relatively short, simple songs utilizing technological innovations to produce new variations on existing themes.- Definitions :David Hatch and Stephen Millward define pop...

-ish, but still kept their "heavy" sound due to having three guitarists.

Acid formed in August 2003 through auditions held by Hideki. Their live setlist was made up of both of Hideki's solo albums at the beginning and, after one year of excessive touring through Japan, the group went into the studio at the end of 2004 to record their first album. Acid 1.5: Punk Drunker was released in March 2005.

With the end of Siam Shade, Hideki didn't want people to always compare his new band with the old one when he was singing. That's why he drew back to the position behind the keyboard at first and later on left Acid completely in June 2005 so that the band were able to go their own way. Furthermore, he says that this group is his pride and that he'd like to see them in Tokyo Dome

Tokyo Dome

Tokyo Dome is a 55,000-seat baseball stadium located in Bunkyo Ward of Tokyo, Japan.The stadium opened for business on March 17, 1988. It was built on the site of the Velodrome which was next door to the site of the predecessor ballpark, Kōrakuen Stadium...

 one day.

However, after losing a few more members (Kim left in 2006 to join the mandatory military services back in Korea

Korea

Korea ) is an East Asian geographic region that is currently divided into two separate sovereign states — North Korea and South Korea. Located on the Korean Peninsula, Korea is bordered by the People's Republic of China to the northwest, Russia to the northeast, and is separated from Japan to the...

, Junpei left in 2008 due to health problems, along with Masamitsu who left for unknown reasons), the three remaining members decided to disband and create a new band.
Mizuki Sakagami, who used to play with Daisuke in e.MU, joined them in 2009 as vocalist and they adopted Needless Lyrics as their new name.

Former members

• Masamitsu – guitar
  Guitar
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   (Left in 2008)
• Junpei – lead vocals
  Singing
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   (Left in 2008)
• Kim - guitar
  Guitar
  The guitar is a plucked string instrument, usually played with fingers or a pick. The guitar consists of a body with a rigid neck to which the strings, generally six in number, are attached. Guitars are traditionally constructed of various woods and strung with animal gut or, more recently, with...
  
   (Left in 2006)
• Hideki - keyboards
  Keyboard instrument
  A keyboard instrument is a musical instrument which is played using a musical keyboard. The most common of these is the piano. Other widely used keyboard instruments include organs of various types as well as other mechanical, electromechanical and electronic instruments...
  
  , vocals
  Singing
  Singing is the act of producing musical sounds with the voice, and augments regular speech by the use of both tonality and rhythm. One who sings is called a singer or vocalist. Singers perform music known as songs that can be sung either with or without accompaniment by musical instruments...
  
   (Left in 2005)

Discography

Albums

• 2005-03-16 - Acid 1.5: Punk Drunker
• 2005-12-26 - Acid 1.7: Spiritual Circus
• 2006-04-02 - Acid 2.0: Spiritual Circus Complete
• 2007-06-06 - Pray for the Future

Singles

• 2007-02-28 - "0:00 AM/Hanafubuki" - opening/ending theme to the anime Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpuchō: Tō
  Tokyo Majin Gakuen Kenpucho: To
  is a Japanese anime series, which premiered in Japan on the anime satellite TV network Animax. A large part of the Tokyo Majin Gakuen Franchise, it is loosely based on a series of Japan-only video games, and is directed by Shinji Ishihara....
  
  
• 2008-01-30 - "Sekai ga Owaru Made wa.../Fake"

Demo

• 2004-12-25 - "Acid 1 ~ Punk Drunker" - only sold at live shows)

1. "Business"
2. "Place of Love"
3. "Renewal My Soul"
4. "Zaisei"
5. "Precious Day"
6. "We Are What We Are"