Takayoshi Ohmura

is a Japanese musician and songwriter. Born in Osaka Prefecture, his first instrument was the piano, which he began playing when he was three years old. By the age of 11, he had started to play acoustic guitar, moving to electric guitar at the age of 14. By the age of 17, he had developed an interest in western hard rock and heavy metal music and devoted himself to it.

Ohmura attended the Guitar Institute of Technology (GIT) from 2002 at the Musicians Institute Japan in Osaka. He met and played with Vitalij Kuprij and recorded the CD Nowhere to Go with Richie Kotzen, Mark Boals, and Doogie White.

In 2005, Ohmura formed the band Cross Hard and released the album Eclipse from East on 25 May. In 2006, along with Cross Hard's bassist, Kaoru, he formed another band named Gloria and released the mini-album MOTIF on 26 March 2008. A second mini-album, Acrobatic Road, was issued on 21 January 2009.

Discography

Solo

• Nowhere to Go (2004)
• Power of Reality (2006)
• Emotions in Motion (2007)
• Devils in the Dark (2012)
• Devils in the Dark: Final Edition (2014)
• Cerberus (2017)
• I.RI.S (2019)
• Angels in the Dark (2020)

With other artists

• Eclipse from East (with Cross Hard) (2005)
• MOTIF (with Gloria) (2008)
• Acrobatic Road (with Gloria) (2009)
• V.A. – SOUND HOLIC – Metallical Astronomy (2010)
• BlazBlue Song Accord 1 with Continuum Shift (video game, with A.S.H) (2010)
• BlazBlue Song Accord 2 with Continuum Shift (video game, with A.S.H) (2011)
• Hard Corps: Uprising (video game) (2011)
• Alter War in Tokyo (with Date Course Pentagon Royal Garden) (2011)

External links

• Takayoshi Ohmura's YouTube account
• ESP Musician's Guitar Gallery