Veltpunch is a Japanese alternative rock

Alternative rock

Alternative rock is a genre of rock music and a term used to describe a diverse musical movement that emerged from the independent music underground of the 1980s and became widely popular by the 1990s...

 band which formed in 1997. They played at the SXSW music festival in Austin, Texas

Austin, Texas

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, USA, in March 2000. Their first major single, "Crawl", reached number 36 on the Oricon

Oricon

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 single charts in 2008 and remained on the chart for seven weeks. Crawl was also featured as an opening theme for the anime Nabari no Ou.

Albums

• Repeat 2000 Times (Mar 21, 2000)
• When We Drive (Mar 21, 2002)
• Question No. 13 (Dec 15, 2004)
• A Huge Mistake (Oct 5, 2005, 2nd Release Nov 3, 2006)
• White Album (Aug 1, 2007)
• Paint Your Life Grey (Mar 9, 2008)
• Black Album (Feb 17, 2010)
• His Strange Fighting Pose (Aug 3, 2011)