Glacier (styled as GLACIER) is a visual kei rock band from Okinawa, Japan. Makoto, Nao and Aki have been friends since they were elementary schoolchildren. The three members started the band in Okinawa. They released a CD single Nangoku Shà Âjo from a Japanese record label Crown Records on 23 July 2008.
Glacier means a mass of ice on the mountains or rivers. Originating in Okinawa, their music style might be categorised as Okinawan music.
The band then moved to Tokyo. They expressed the intention to retain Okinawan influence on the lyrics of the title song "Nangoku Shà Âjo" from the first CD single Nangoku Shà Âjo. Makoto, who wrote the lyrics, told that he constructed the words for the listeners to remind southern islands because he wanted them to understand easily the band's hometown and feelings. From this way of thinking, the band has begun to widen the Okinawan club pops as the point in their Okinawan entertainment.
The first album Ryà «kyà « Carmen 80's has been made with atmosphere of Okinawan music, using computer music and adding popular melodies like Kayà Âkyoku. Nao, who composed many songs in this album, said that these sounds were born naturally from his inside. Not only Okinawan club pops, but also southern islands were also one of the concepts of the album. So, a song "Ryà «kyà « Carmen", which was conscious of Spanish passionate sound, was recorded in the album. This song was the first to complete while the band were composing the songs for the album.
The band released a CD single SADISTIC LOVE on 17 December 2008. The previous work Ryà «kyà « Carmen 80's was released by Crown Records, a member of RIAJ, but the single has been released by an indie label this time. The song "Nangoku Shà Âjo" was one of the songs representative of the band, and it described a bittersweet young love story in Okinawa. As opposed to the song, a tune of SADISTIC LOVE emphasised a taste of House music, it also expressed an old-fashioned and smart atmosphere. Okinawa Radio or FM21.
They had a one-man concert at Naha, Okinawa, Japan on 14 August 2009. And they were invited to a special stage of a traditional event Tsuna Festa Yonabaru 2009 to perform a short concert at Yonabaru, Okinawa on 15 August.
The band released a CD single Kanasambana as the first work of their own label on 4 November 2009. Naoya Yoshida, who was a guitarist of Valentine D.C., took the post of sound producer on the work. The performance of the special stage at Tsuna Festa Yonabaru 2009 was recorded on a DVD attached to the CD. Love Chuppa, a radio programme of Okinawa Radio, broadcast a thirty-minute special programme featuring this CD Kanasambana and the band without the members' appearance. Not "Made in Japan" but "Made in Okinawa" was printed on the package of the CD Kanasambana.
Kà Âjirà Â, who was a support guitarist until the days before 8 November 2009, has joined to the band as a regular member at the one-man concert on the day.
Kà Âjirà  (guitarist) and Yà «ki (drummer) left the band on 25 November 2010.