SPYAIR

SPYAIR are a Japanese rock band formed in Nagoya in 2005. Guitarist and programmer UZ, bassist and leader MOMIKEN, and drummer KENTA are the band’s long-standing members, joined in 2023 by vocalist YOSUKE after original singer IKE left. Their music mixes hard and alternative rock with anthemic pop melodies and electronic elements, and they have held on to the heavier influences of their early years.

After playing street and outdoor shows around Nagoya, SPYAIR made their major-label debut with ‘LIAR’ in 2010. They went on to headline Nippon Budokan and arenas and tour Japan nationwide, and their annual outdoor concert JUST LIKE THIS became one of their best-known live events.

They began playing abroad early in their career, especially in South Korea, and have since toured Europe, North and South America, and elsewhere in Asia. Their first world tour in 2018 visited 23 cities, including their UK debut in London.

Much of SPYAIR’s catalogue is tied to anime, including several songs for Gintama and Haikyu!! and themes for BLEACH, Mobile Suit Gundam AGE, and Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, among others. Their best-known songs include ‘Samurai Heart (Some Like It Hot!!)’, ‘Sakura Mitsutsuki’, ‘Genjou Destruction’, ‘Imagination’, and ‘I’m a Believer’. ‘Orange’, written for the film Haikyu!! The Dumpster Battle, became their biggest streaming hit.

IKE’s departure in 2022 left SPYAIR’s future in doubt, but UZ, MOMIKEN, and KENTA decided to carry on and opened the search for a new vocalist to the public. YOSUKE, a singer from Fukuoka, was chosen from more than 1,000 applicants and joined in April 2023. Since then, the band have re-recorded older songs with him and added new material to the catalogue.

‘Orange’ has since passed 200 million streams, and the band have returned to touring overseas. In March 2026 they released their seventh original album, ‘RE-BIRTH’, their first full-length record with YOSUKE. It brings together the singles released since he joined and new songs that gave him a bigger role in the band’s songwriting. Later that year, JUST LIKE THIS was held outside Japan for the first time.