Members: 

    * Hyde – vocals, guitar (some songs)
    * Tetsu – bass, backing vocals
    * Ken – guitar, backing vocals
    * Yukihiro – drums

Former members:

    * Sakura – drums (1992-1997)
    * Hiro – guitar (1991–1992)
    * Pero – drums (1991-1992)

P'unk-en-Ciel:

    * Tetsu P'unk – vocals
    * Hyde P'unk – guitar
    * Yuki P'unk – bass
    * Ken P'unk – drums
 

Biography: 

L'arc~en~ciel is a popular Japanese rock band, formed in 1991. The group has sold over 15 million albums, 30 million singles, and millions of other units, such as videos. and has been voted #58 in HMV Japan's "Top 100 Japanese Pop Artists" of all time.

In February of 1991, bassist Tetsuya Ogawa (Tetsu), later band leader, recruited vocalist Hyde along with guitarist Hiro and drummer Pero, and formed a band under the name of L'Arc-en-Ciel. After a year of gaining notoriety in their hometown of Osaka, Hiro left the band on June 12, 1992. Pero soon followed on December 30 of the same year, supposedly to join up with his friend Hiro again. To replace the two, tetsu convinced his friend Ken Kitamura (Ken) to quit his university studies (he was an architecture major at The Nagoya Institute of Technology) and join the band as the guitarist. Later, a new drummer, Yasunori Sakurazawa, was recruited after Tetsu saw him perform in a few shows.

In February 1997, drummer Sakura was arrested for illegal drug possession, and officially quit the band on October 4, 1997. This proved to be the lowest point in the band's history. When news of Sakura's arrest became public, there was an immediate official response. CDs were removed from the shelves and any of their songs that were used as theme songs were quickly replaced, such as The Fourth Avenue Cafe for Rurouni Kenshin which was immediately replaced with former theme Heart of Sword after only six episodes of running time. Although L'Arc's latest album True remained on the charts for two years, their next single The Fourth Avenue Cafe was postponed (it was eventually released in 2006.) 

Following the AWAKE and ASIALIVE tours, L'Arc-en-Ciel's members turned their attention back to their solo projects. tetsu began recording with a new band called Creature Creature. yukihiro rejoined acid android, which released its newest single, "Let's Dance", on 2006/04/05. acid android joined Mucc, another Japanese rock band, to perform two concerts in Shanghai, China in April of 2006.

HYDE composed the music for "Glamorous Sky", the theme song to the manga-based film, NANA starring Mika Nakashima, a j-pop singer. This was seen as a landmark step for HYDE, as it was the first time that he composed music for another artist. His most recent solo singles are "COUNTDOWN", the ending song for the Japanese release of American movie Stealth (released 2005/10/05), and "SEASON'S CALL", the opening song of new hit anime Blood+ (released 2006/02/22). Both singles topped the Oricon chart. HYDE's next solo album, "FAITH", was released in Japan 2006/04/26, accompanied by a five month tour throughout Japan between April and August of 2006. After signing on with Tofu Records, four small concerts were scheduled in San Francisco and Anaheim, California in the United States. HYDE made his U.S. debut in July of 2006, the first of L'Arc-en-Ciel's solo projects to extend internationally. On August 23, Ken released a solo single entitled "Speed."

On November 25th and 26th, 2006, L'Arc-en-Ciel played two shows at the Tokyo Dome to celebrate their 15th anniversary, entitled "L'Anniversary". A poll was created on the official website during the weeks before the concert which allowed fans to pick which songs they would like to hear at the event. The concert was later shown on the WOWOW channel on December 23, 2006. It was also broadcast on February 8, 2007 on Korea MTV.

Once L'Arc-en-Ciel reunited, the band released the single "SHINE", which was used as the opening song for the NHK-BS Anime, Guardian of the Sacred Spirit ~Seirei no moribito~. They have kicked-off their Mata Heart Ni Hi Wo Tsukero 2007 tour in Japan. L'Arc-en-Ciel released their first single "Seventh Heaven" last 30 May 2007, which topped the Oricon charts for 2 consecutive weeks. They have released new song called "My Heart Draws a Dream", used in Subaru's latest commercial. This single recently came out on 29 August 2007 and it made the #1 spot in the Oricon Weekly charts. Aside from this, L'Arc-en-Ciel will be releasing other new material: "Daybreak's Bell" is to be used as the first opening for the anime Gundam 00 which will be released on October 10th;in November 14th and until December 25th there will be a limited edition of a new single called "Hurry Xmas"; an album is set to be released in November 21st, entitled Kiss; two DVDs will be available in September and December (L'Anniversary Live and Chronicle 3 respectively).

Here are the new songs that they played on Mata Heart Ni Hi Wo Tsukero 2007 tour: ｢Spirit｣ ｢Yuki No Ashiato/雪の足跡/Footprints in the snow｣ ｢Bye Bye｣ ｢Pretty Girl｣ ｢砂時計/Hourglass｣ ｢ALONE EN LA VIDA｣ ｢THE BLACK ROSE｣

Recently, following the release of KISS Album, they have announce their TOUR 2007-2008 called "THEATER OF KISS" that will be held from December 22 to February 17.