Nightmare (band)

Nightmare (ナイトメア, Naitomea) is a visual kei rock band from Japan. They enjoyed mainstream success with the inclusion of "the WORLD" and "Alumina" in the anime series Death Note and are considered a major act in the ongoing visual kei scene.



To begin celebrating their 10th anniversary, Nightmare held a New Years' Eve Countdown show at ZEPP Sendai on December 31, 2009, along with their very first performance at Saitama Super Arena on January 9, 2010. The show was called "Nightmare 10th anniversary special act. Vol.1 [GIANIZM]", to which they played an overall of 27 Songs total.
The set list also included all of the song on the Special Album "GIANIZM", which had been released on January 1st. The band began their tour, "Request of Gianizm the Tour" in April 2010. On June 23, 2010, they released their 21st single, "a:Fantasia," which took #5 in the Weekly Oricon.
The band continued with their 2nd long tour titled "Nightmare 10th anniversary special act. Vol.2: re:START of TELL(ALL)ISM" in the beginning of July 2010. It began in Saitama and ended in Sendai. The final show of the tour was announced to be held at Nippon Budokan once more, marking this their 3rd time at the prestigious venue. Before the start of their Vol. 3 tour, they released another best-of album titled "Historical ~The Highest Nightmare," with several re-recorded tracks and one new song on October 20, 2010. Toward the end of October 2010, they started their last tour of the year titled "Nightmare 10th anniversary special act. Vol.3 Historical ~The highest NIGHTMARE~." They performed at Makuhari Messe for the very first time on December 25th, 2010 and finished up Vol. 3.
2011 will be another busy touring year for the band, starting with a few Dateotoko fan club members only shows and a short tour in the Spring.