Nightmareden

**Nightmareden**is an original band in the Is it Love? universe founded by it's leader, Colin Spencer, when he was a teenager. It is fairly popular in the Carter Corp series and extremely popular in the Mystery Spell series, as it has many cover bands, concerts and fans among it. In Colin Spencer's story route, the band becomes extremely popular and mainstream as the band members become famous and are prone to the media limelight as it was one of the main focuses in the story. While in other story routes, including Adam's, the band stayed relatively second-rate, as the band didn't rise to fame and popularity like in Colin's route. However, it could have done just that and become famous without the player knowing since the band is not a primary focus in other routes, including Adam's route, as he is one of the main band members and he hardly paid any attention to the band's success in his route as he was more focused on his activist group, Safeplanet. Colin, like in his own route, is seen to get solo record deals in other story routes like Gabriel's and and Ryan's and has to quit Carter Corp so he can move to Los Angeles, California. His spot in the IT department is usually replaced by Carrie Kang. However, even when staying fairly popular, the band still has many groupies who want to have sex with Colin and Adam, which at one point made Doris quit the band out of jealousy, and make them hire the player as a replacement. Although, near the end of Colin's route, Doris has a fan that ends up becoming her secret admirer which she's smitten but embarrassed by, but is happy about since he helps her get over Colin.

The actual songs sang by Colin are preformed by the band *Color Out*, who created the soundtrack for the games and let 1492 Studios use the rights to their songs for the Is it Love? games which brought more popularity among them. The songs are only heard when the band is playing them, unlike the song  *'Gone Train Blues'* , which will casually play while the player is hanging out in a bar in the Carter Corp series or the song  *'Mercurial'*  by *Color Out*, which will play when Colin is singing at a concert. The song  *'Is it Love?'*  is never actually heard in the game, it is only heard in official trailers promoting the game, although it is Color Out's most popular song which trade-marketed the game.

Characters like Owen, Fiona, Daryl, Jake and Lisa support the band as their friend is a member in it, but dislike the music since it's not their preferred genre. Colin seems to have no problem with playing at small events like The Half Five or performing gigs at weddings even if he already has made it big, as seen at the end of Ryan Carter's season 2 during his wedding with the player, which shows that they are a humble band. Due to Doris' complicated relationship with Colin, they replaced her in season 2 of Ryan Carter's route with a woman named Ashley, who has the same personality of Doris. This would mark the 2nd time Doris quit the band. Ashley permanently replaced Doris as the bassist for the band in season 3 of Ryan's route until chapter 11 where it was revealed that Doris had rejoined, it was never revealed if Ashley stayed in the band or not though. In season 3 of Ryan's route, Nightmareden was planning on making a track with famous rap star, Joe KicksIn season 2 of Colin's route which takes place in six months, Adam suffered a gunshot wound from his right shoulder at the hands of the Creep who attempted to rob his store and wasn't able to play the drums anymore so he had to be replaced by his friend Derrick Tremblay who was a great addition to the band.

## Band Members

* Colin Spencer
* Adam Peterson
* Doris
* The Player (Colin's route)
* Derrick Tremblay (Colin's route)
* Ashley (Ryan's route)
* Raven Knight (Colin's Fan-Fic Route)

## Known Fans

* Matt Ortega
* Lisa Parker
* Drogo Bartholy
* Sarah Osborne
* Daryl Ortega
* Peter Bartholy
* Dorothy Rakoczy
* Lorie Bartholy
* Samantha Gautier
* Loan Huxley
* Fiona
* Joe Kicks
* Josh Spencer
* Malaïka
* Thomas Gordon
* Rosa
* Nao Arasaka
* Jason
* Josh
* Dad
* The Main Character (Gabriel)
* The Main Character (Matt)
* The Main Character (Adam)
* The Main Character (Ryan)
* The Main Character (Daryl)
* The Main Character (Peter)
* The Main Character (Sebastian)

## Characters That Dislike Nightmareden

* Samuel
* Owen Hobbad
* Nicolae Bartholy
* Dad (formerly)

## Gallery

Colin preforming in Nightmareden during a concertThe band preforming a concertNightmareden merchandiseNightmareden concertNightmareden concertBackstageThe Half Five: Bar where Nightmareden performsBand vehicleVan seatsVan seatsThe player's keyboard (old)The player's keyboard (new)Nightmareden posterNightmareden's sheet music
## Members

Founder/Song Writer/Lead Singer/Guitarist: Colin SpencerDrummer: Adam PetersonBassist: DorisSong Writer/Vocalist/Pianist: The Main CharacterReplacement Drummer: DerrickAshley: Replacement BassistSong Writer/Vocalist/Pianist/Violinist: Raven Knight
## Trivia

* It is the only original band in the Is it Love? series, as the games have used real life band names and singers before.
	+ Such as Nirvana and Pink.
* The song the player wrote in Colin's route was preformed by *Color Out*, but the lyrics are changed which is why the lyrics can't be heard when the instrumental version is playing.
* They only have a pianist in Colin's route, in other routes it's just 3 members in the band.
	+ Except for in Peter Bartholy's route, since Dorothy mentions that they have a pianist.
* Owen Hobbad supports the band, but dislikes it since he doesn't like heavy metal or rock music.
* Nicolae Bartholy dislikes the band as he believes it is too loud.
* There are two little figures of Colin and Adam, and since there's no other little figures of any other character, it is safe to assume that it is Nightmareden merchandise.
* Colin's story is canon since Dorothy Rakoczy is a fan of Nightmaraeden's pianist, and it seems to have world wide success.
	+ But they could have just hired another person to play the piano that wasn't the player.
* Drogo Bartholy has a Nightmareden poster in his room and also says the player from Peter's route has good taste in music when he hears her listening to them which submits his place as being a big fan.
* Despite usually being a male dominated band, the male to female band member ratio has been even throughout the series.
* The player is the only member of the band that doesn't have a tattoo.