ROTH BART BARON

Biography

Mifune Masaya and Nakahara Tetsuya first met in junior school and played tennis doubles back then. They started the band in university and spent most of the time on rehearsing and home recording at the beginning. The band's name, ROTH BART BARON, comes from the antagonist von Rothbart in Tchaikovsky's The Swan Lake. Mifune played the role in kindergarten which left a strong impression on him being the only antagonist at that time.

The band self-released three works including self-titled EP "ROTH BART BARON"(2010), five-track EP "Monster Mountain and Choirboys"(2012/12/13), and "Chocolate Demo"(2012/09/21). Songs from the early works, especially in "Monster Mountain and Choirboys" are still often performed on shows.

ROTH BART BARON signed to felicity and released their first full album "ROTH BART BARON's THE ICE AGE" in 2014. The album was recorded in Philadelphia with Jonathan Low and Brian McTear.

Second album "ATOM" was released in 2015. The recording was done at Hotel2Tango in Montreal. Music video for lead track, "bIg HOPe" was filmed with 360/ VR cameras.

Tours

ROTH BART BARON'S THE ICE AGE release tour 2014
ROTH BART BARON'S THE ICE AGE release tour in North America 2014
ATOM Tour 2015~2016 in Japan
ASIA TOUR 2016
6.18 / Shanghai, 6.19 / Beijing , 6.26 / Gachuurt ,6.28 / Taipei

Festivals

Summer Sonic 2015

BIG MOUNTAIN MUSIC FESTIVAL 2015

PLAY TIME FESTIVAL 2016

FUJI ROCK FESTIVAL '16

Member

MIFUNE Masaya (三船雅也) Vocal, Guitar

NAKAHARA Tetsuya (中原鉄也) Drums, chorus, musical saw, etc.

EP

2010 ROTH BART BARON (self-released)

2012/12/13 Monster Mountain and the Choirboys (self-released)

Demo

2012/09/21 Chocolate Demo (self-released)

Album

2014/09/24 ROTH BART BARON'S THE ICE AGE (felicity, PECF-1094, felicity cap-197)

2015/10/21 ATOM (felicity, PECF-1127 / felicity cap-238, Oricon Chart 222)