Airstrike(エアーストライク)

Grind Neo Mixture Band

最狂のライブと最強のサウンドを追求し続ける孤高のミクスチャーバンド

2001年

千葉の同級生4人が集まり結成。
名前の由来は、海外の伝説の戦闘部隊から。

渋谷と池袋を中心にライブを開始。
ライブは破壊力をモットーに暴れまわる。
代名詞となるギタースピンをはじめる。

2002年

デビューアルバムの制作を開始。

2003年

ビデオ『YOU NAME IT』全国一斉発売。

メンバーの地元の後輩である秋葉大補が加入。

2004年

メジャーデビューアルバム『Airstrike』を発売し、
千葉県内の各CD店舗のチャートを総ナメにする。
全国的に名前を広げ、スマッシュヒットを記録した。

新星堂茂原店にてサイン会を開催。

『JAPAN TOUR 2004-WAKIN'G UP OVERDRIVE』17ケ所を敢行。

ビデオ『ONLY ONE』をリリース。

日本屈指のベーシスト『ykz』の田中秀基氏を、
サウンドプロデューサーに迎え、
日本詞をメインにした実験作アルバム、
『SIGN OF EXPLOSION』をリリース。

新星堂茂原店にて2回目のサイン会を開催。

『JAPAN TOUR2004-SIGN OF EXPLOSION』40ケ所を敢行。

DVD『NO LIMIT』世界一斉発売。

2005年

ミクスチャー界の新気鋭『BACK-ON』『PINKFRAMINGO MG』とともに、
当時異例のスプリットアルバム『Survive』とDVD『Survive』をリリース。

新星堂茂原店にて3回目のサイン会を開催。

『Survive Tour』5ケ所敢行。

MakotchがPS2『龍が如く』の主題歌を担当。

2006年

『DOUBLE STEAL』とともに『Red Cyclone Tour』6ケ所敢行。

DVD『NO LIMIT2』世界一斉発売。

2007年

『龍が如く 龍が如く2 ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK』(Makotch)発売。

4年連続『群馬にきた回数がNo1のツアーバンド』の称号を頂く。

2008年

メンバーの地元の後輩であるFjが加入。

2009年

新作シングルと4枚組アルバムの制作を開始。

2010年

メンバーの地元の同級生である吉野賢一と巧が加入。

2011年

『龍が如く THE BEST ORIGINAL SOUND TRACK』(Makotch)発売。

Airstrikeの活動と並行し、リーダーの三浦が、
日本を代表する最強PUNKバンド『THE STAR CLUB』に加入。

◆April 2001

The villains from Chiba gather up and create 『Airstrike』.
The name comes from an actual bomb squad that existed in America.
To be able to start doing live performances, they start composing songs.
Vo. Makotch and the band leader Miura compose tons of songs for a couple
of months with only about 2hrs of sleep per day.
Since they didn't have an MTR, they also forget tons of songs.

◆August 2001　

They start their live concerts mainly in Shibuya and Ikebukuro.
Both the band members and the crowd constantly go wild.
The band members never really talked that much during their performances.
after awhile they started spinning their guitars.
Miura apologizes many times to the live house for knocking over the amp.
NAKAOTTEPEI from Super Good Vibes becomes in charge of making fliers for the band.

◆March 2003　

『YOU NAME IT』, a collaboration video between
Airstrike and a professional body board team goes on sale.
>Miura, even though he can't swim, feels the sea calling for him.

◆August 2003

Airstrike sponsors their first event 『Airtrip』, in Honnou CLOVE.

◆January 2004

Airstrike releases their major debut album 『Airstrike』.
This piece was highly appraised by getting 1st place on the chart of
Shinseidou's total sales,
and 2nd place on the total sales chart in the Tower Records in Chiba.
An autograph event in Shinseidou in Mobara.
『Airtrip2』 took place in Honnou CLOVE
tickets were sold out.

◆February 2004　

『JAPAN TOUR 2004-WAKIN’G UP OVERDRIVE』(17 places)
The members were moved by all the great people that they met and the great experiences
that they had. Makotch and Saitou put their lives in danger by learning how to drive.
Makotch learns how to do the Stripper Jump.

◆March 2004　

『ONLY ONE』, a collaboration video between Airstrike and a professional body board team goes on sale.
Miura remembers the great time in Sadogashima (he was in elementary
school) when he almost drowned because he dropped his inner tube
mid-air.

◆May 2004

Airstrike performs in 『MISAKI SURF TOWN FESTA』 sponsored by Misaki-Chyou.
Maki Kuroudo calls the top Hip-Hop and Reggae artists together to perform in the event.
Airstrike and Mike Maki were the only 2 bands in the event.
It was a great experience.

◆July 2004

As a guest performer, Airstrike performed on a stage that was specially
built for a festival in Oohara-Chou Chiba prefecture,
They shoot their music video on Onjyuku Beach and in Oohara high school.

◆August 2004　

Airstrike releases their 2nd album, 『SIGN OF EXPLOSION』.
Tanaka Hideki (ykz/DADAS) produces it.
It includes the supporting song for Abe Yuuki,
a soccer player on the nation team for Japan,
and the ending theme song for TOKYO FM 『RADIO:DIGA』.
Airstrike has their second signing at Shinseidou.
Airstrike performs for the Beauty Volunteer
Event sponsored by the Beauty Association Of Chiba Prefecture.
Miura, of course, gets heatstroke.
Airstrike performs at an event that was taken
place at Kamogawa Beach that was sponsored by Kamogawa city.
『JAPAN TOUR2004-SIGN OF EXPLOSION』 starts.
Airstrike plays in 40 places for this tour.
Makotch and Saitou jeopardize their lives by driving again.

◆September 2004　

『NO LIMIT』, a collaboration video and DVD between Airstrike and a professional
body board team goes on sale all over the world at the same time.
Miura attempts to ride a skateboard, but cannot keep his balance,
flies up and falls down right in the middle of an intersection.
He tries to make the fall less painful,
but notices that he is not experienced in doing anything like that,
so he ends up hitting himself really hard on the asphalt.
Daisuke finds 100 yen in the intersection.

◆November 2004　

『Airtrip3-SIGN OF EXPLOSION TOUR FINAL』 took place in Chiba Look.
Tickets were sold out.
Saitou learns how to dive down from his drum set-a dangerous trick.

◆December 2004　

『Airtrip Special-The 2 Days』 took place in Honnou CLOVE.
Tickets were sold out for the second day.
Saitou dives down from the drum set and gets a brain concussion,
which makes him decide to stop what he did.

◆June 2005　

Airstrike releases a unprecedented triple split CD『Survive』 and DVD『Survive』
with PINKFRAMINGO MG and BACK-ON.
A third signing event takes place in Shinseidou.
Airstrike performs as a guest band at the Culture Center of Chiba
Prefecture for a beauty contest sponsored by the Beauty Association Of Chiba Prefecture.
Airstrike knocks the house down with 3000 beauticians.
We felt sorry for Makotch because he had shaved his head.
『Survive Tour』 starts.
Airstrike goes around 5 places in Japan.
The tour final took place in Club Asia in Shibuya.

◆July 2005

Airstrike starts working on their next album.
Worked in the studio and Recorded their songs twice a week.

◆November 2005

『Airtrip6-BACK-ON BABYROCK TOUR』 took place in Honnou CLOVE.　
Tickets were sold out.

◆December 2005

MAKOTCH sings the theme song for 『Ryuu-ga-gotoku』, a PS2 game.
Over 1,000,000 copies were sold, and since
all the members in Airstrike like playing games, they were really happy.

◆January 2006　

Over 100 songs for the next album were composed,
but due to Airstrike's search for the most aggressive and insane sound making,
they discard about 70% of their songs.
Their theme was no longer experimenting different sounds as they did in their 1st and 2nd albums,
but now they aimed for a world-class hybrid sound.
Miura bleeds from his face at the first concert of the year and has to stop the performance.

◆March 2006　

『Airtrip7-xxxxx-』 took place in Chiba Look.
Airstrike starts their recording for their next album and single.

◆June 2006　

『Airtrip8 -Live Hate Tragedy-』 took place in Honnou CLOVE.
Bands that represented Gunma gathered.
Miura faints at the after party.

◆October 2006　

Airstrike goes on the 『Red Cyclone Tour』 with DOUBLE STEAL from Osaka.
They go to 6 places all over Japan for this tour.
Daisuke splits his new guitar that he just bought 1 week ago during a concert.
Miura tackles his own amp in Shinjyuku.
His guitar breaks in half, and a big hole was left in his amp.

◆November 2006

『Airtrip9-Red Cyclone Tour Final-』 took place in Chiba Look.
『NO LIMIT2』, a collaboration DVD between
Airstrike and a professional body board team goes on sale.

◆May 2007

『Airtrip10&11 - The 2 Days』 took place in Honnou CLOVE.
To try and improve the acoustics of Airstrike,
they invite the staff from a show called Music Station on Asahi TV.
Saitou learns how to aggressively throws his chair for the drums around in the middle of the stage.
Miura shows his Chyarinko rendition for the first time.

◆August 2007

『Airtrip12 - Hybrid Rock』 took place in Chiba Look.
They spend 80,000 yen in 30 minutes for the after party.
Airstrike performs in 『THE SURFSKATERS 8』 at a stage that was special made in Ichinomiya.

◆December 2007

They finish the year 2007 with Gunma 3 Days.
Airstrike becomes the band that "most frequent came to Gunma on tour" for four years straight.

◆February 2008

For the first time in 8 years, the members for Airstrike changes.
Fj (Vo. and Ba.) from New Limit Exceed (not active now) joins Airstrike.

◆MIXTURE/LOUD/METAL/RAP/English lyrics/Japanese lyrics
We're a Hybrid Mixture Band with the philosophy,
"anything that ROCKS is ok!!"! Our activity constantly destroys the typically mundane.

◆There's nothing like our explosive live performance!!
(due to our extremely aggressive performances, we have an 80% tendency of breaking something,
and we've broken so many guitars over the past years....)
Please come and experience it for yourself!!

Thank you!!