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Fact (ファクト Fakuto?, stylized as FACT) is a Japanese post-hardcore band which formed in 1999 in Chiba Prefecture, Japan. Their music makes use of common hardcore punk and punk rock elements that include fast guitar riffs and a highly melodic style. Clean and screamed singing styles are both used, and gang vocals are present in many choruses. Even though fact is a Japanese band, the lyrics to most of their songs are written in English. The members of Fact have hidden their faces during every video since 2009—wearing traditional Japanese Noh masks during the time they supported their FACT album, but abandoning the imagery in videos the next year in favor of either partially or fully concealing their faces.

In December 1999, Fact formed from the members of other bands in the Tokyo area. They then began to tour the local music scene in and around Chiba, Mito, and Tokyo. Originally, Tomohiro played bass and sang with support from Kazuki and Takahiro but, in 2002, main vocal duties as well as a third guitar were added when Hironobu joined. Hironobu had been a member of the band Second Base along with Kazuki before either of them joined Fact.

Continuing onward as a group, the band traveled to California in the United States of America for a short tour in 2003 and, in 2005, they released their first full-length album Never Turn Out The Light To Keep Myself on Japan's Bullion Records. The band later signed a record deal sometime between 2008 and 2009 with Vagrant Records to release their worldwide debut album Fact. The single "A Fact of Life" was released with an accompanying video in early 2009. In support of the album, Fact toured the U.S. accompanying U.S. bands including Iwrestledabearonce, Greeley Estates, Memphis May Fire, Senses Fail and A Skylit Drive. Their tour was abruptly cut short after a car collision early on, but another U.S. tour was rescheduled soon after.

Their third full-length album, In the Blink of an Eye, was released on January 13, 2010, and its first single, "Slip of the Lip" was released online with an accompanying music video. In the Blink of an Eye debuted at No. 6 on the Japanese Oricon weekly charts, becoming their first album to reach the Top 10.

Fact returned to the UK in support of "In The Blink of an Eye" for a second tour of the country between 24 May and 4 June 2010, with a headlining show at London's O2 Academy Islington and then playing as the support act for Breathe Carolina during the rest of the dates.

Members

Hironobu Onose(小野瀬 広宣 Onose Hironobu?) – lead vocals (2002 – Present)

Kazuki Sakurai (櫻井 一樹 Sakurai Kazuki?) – Rhythm guitar, backing vocals (1999 – Present)

Eiji Matsumoto (松本 英二 Matsumoto Eiji?) – drums, percussion, backing vocals (1999 – Present)

Tomohiro Takayasu (高安 朝浩 Takayasu Tomohiro?) – bass, backing vocals (1999 – Present)

Takahiro Onose (小野瀬 孝弘 Onose Takahiro?) – Lead guitar, backing vocals (1999 – Present)