Hisashi

In 2017 he teamed up with Teru, Inoran, Pierre Nakano (Ling tosite Sigure) and Ery (Raglaia) to cover "Lullaby" by D'erlanger for the D'erlanger Tribute Album ~Stairway to Heaven~. In 2018 he teamed with Yow-Row (Gari) to cover "Doubt" for the June 6, 2018 hide tribute album Tribute Impulse.

Hisashi formed the side-band Rally with Teru (GLAY), Kouji Ueno (The Hiatus and ex-Thee Michelle Gun Elephant) and Motokatsu Miyagami (The Mad Capsule Markets). The band recorded the song "Aku no Hana" for Parade -Respective Tracks of Buck-Tick-, a tribute album to Buck-Tick. They have played in festivals. In 2012, Hisashi formed another collaborative side-project, Ace of Spades, releasing a single "Wild Tribe" and performing limited gigs. In 2013, Hisashi composed and recorded the theme "Monochrome Overdrive" to be used in the anime television series Z/X Ignition.

In addition to arranging the guitar lines and solos for all of GLAY's songs, Hisashi is the second most active songwriter and lyricist for GLAY, after Takuro. Songs written by Hisashi often display strong punk and electronic influences and his lyrics are typically more abstract and metaphorical than those of Takuro and the other members. He has also contributed a variety of instrumental tracks for the band's albums and live performances. In 2011, his track "EverKrack" was the first of his songs to be given an official music video. His next official video was in 2016, a fully animated production "Kanojo wa Zombie" for their single "G4・IV", which reached #1 on the Oricon singles chart on his 44th birthday.

He has been featured in works by other musicians: Yukinojo Mori's Poetic Revolution (track "Ango", with Takuro and Teru), "Letters", by Hikaru Utada, "Say Something", from the album In the Mood, and "Keep the Faith", from the album JUST MOVIN' ON～ALL THE -S-HIT, both by Kyosuke Himuro. On December 12, 2008, Hisashi was the special guest in the Blue Man Group show "Rock Day"; they played "Time to Start" and GLAY's song "However".　He featured as a guest musician on the BiS album "WHO KiLLED IDOL?", playing guitar on the song "primal.2". The song is a sequel to "primal." from 2011, which Hisashi praised highly on Twitter at the time of its release.

In 2004, Hisashi made a short cameo appearance with Takuro in the movie Casshern. From 1999 to 2007, he hosted a seasonal weekly radio program entitled Cyber Net City: Hisashi's Radio Jack on FM Fuji. In January 2009, he launched a regular TV program, RX-72: Hisashi vs Mogi Jun'ichi, which is shown on the third Monday of each month on channel Music On! TV with cohost Mogi Jun'ichi. The program has been released on a series of DVDs.

Hisashi Tonomura (外村 尚 , Tonomura Hisashi, born February 2, 1972, in Hirosaki, Aomori) , better known by his stage name HISASHI, is a Japanese musician best known as the lead guitarist of the rock band Glay. He is particularly associated with the brand Tokai, designing a series of personal signature guitars, based on their Talbo model.