Siam Shade

The classic line-up of Hideki on vocals, Natchin on bass, Kazuma and Daita on guitar, and Jun-ji on drums broke onto the visual kei scene alongside a multitude of other artists in the early 1990s and enjoyed a decade of relative popularity.

The band became close with Luna Sea, with Ryuichi Kawamura promoting Siam Shade in 1994 by playing their demo tape on his radio show.

[1] Two months later, Siam Shade released their major label debut single "Rain" on Sony Music Entertainment Japan.

[1] The band burst into the mainstream in late 1997 when "1/3 no Junjō na Kanjō", a single from their latest album Siam Shade IV, was selected as an ending theme for the Rurouni Kenshin anime series.

He has also played support guitar for Anna Tsuchiya and Damijaw (solo project of Janne Da Arc member Ka-yu).

Daita started a solo career, wrote the soundtrack for the movie Volcano High, and played support guitar for Kyosuke Himuro.

In 2012, he formed the American-based band Broken Arrow with vocalist Nik Frost, who sang on the Siam Shade Tribute album.

[8] Natin, now going by the stage-name "Natchin", has a solo career and in 2008 formed the band Big Bites with Anchang (Sex Machineguns) and Annie (The Yellow Monkey).

Siam Shade held a reunion concert, titled Heart of Rock, on November 18, 2007 at the Nippon Budokan, in honor of their manager who died the previous April.

This time for a free concert on July 17 at Zepp Sendai, entitled Siam Shade Spirits ~Return The Favor~, "to bring hope" to the victims of the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.

[19] In celebration of the 20th anniversary since their major label debut, the group held The Abiding Belief concert at Saitama Super Arena on October 18, 2015.

[21] The anniversary celebration ended with three Final Road Last Sanctuary concerts in October 2016; the Osaka International Convention Center on the tenth, the Nakano Sun Plaza Hall on the fifteenth, and the last taking place on the twentieth at the Nippon Budokan.

[22] On November 4, 2024, a message was posted on Natchin's official website that revealed he, Hideaki, Kazuma and Jun-ji had amicably settled a lawsuit they filed against Daita in 2019.

It was held at Osaka-jō Hall on February 9, 2025, under the title 1995 Siam Sophia-G, with the "G" referring to Garage Sale; a comedy duo who also debuted the same year and who served as hosts of the event.