Achime was formed in 2008, Kwon Seonwook offered a band to Kim Sooyeol to do music after his discharge, and Jeong Wookjae and Park Seonyoung later joined the band.[2] They began to gain popularity through auditions in MySpace Korea.[3] They released their EP Flower of Lie (거짓말꽃) in 2009.[4]
In 2010, they released their first studio album Hunch.[5] The album was recorded for two and a half months, and they recorded in a recording studio under construction. Kwon Seonwook interviewed in the situation, "We weren't in proper condition while recording."[6] They have appeared in The EBS space and performed at the Pentaport Rock Festival and Jisan Valley Rock Festival.[2]
They released EP Hyperactivity in 2011 and had a solo concert in May.[7] They released their second studio album Overcome in 2012.[1] Kim Banya of IZM described the album as "The album maintains its "pessimistic," but refuses to express it in one pattern, and it does not like it being defined as a single genre, so it combines various attempts."[8] In 2013, they released the single Swtsxtn, but their sensational image album cover became controversial.[9]
The band then went on hiatus until 2017. Since then, they have released the singles Hide and Seek (숨바꼭질) (2017), Moratorium (2019),[10] God's App (2021) and Portrait (2022).[11]