List your Favourite Japanese Rock bands

Too many to mention! Hmm.. a few of my favs off the top of my head are:
L'Arc~en~Ciel
Tokyo Jihen
Sex Machineguns
Dir en grey
Siam Shade
Machine
MUCC
Girugamesh
 
Girugamesh
Phantasmagoria
SID
Rentrer en Soi
Miyavi (Dokuso acoustic period was the best IMO)
The Birthday
MARIA (All-girl rock/pop band ftw haha)
MUCC
MERRY
CaliGari
L'arc en Ciel
Kagrra
D
Luna Sea

and the list goes on...
 
Loudness
SexMachineGuns
EZO
Sigh
Concerto Moon
(they're Metal not Rock...but whatever...)


Maximum The Hormone
X-Japan
Ajico
Blankey JetCity
Boredoms
Dir~en~Grey
L'Arc~en~Ciel
Tokyo Jihen
Judy & Mary
Siam Shade
Polysics
PlasticTree
The Pillows
Janne da Arc
GO!GO!7188
VOW WOW
B'z
Malice Mizer
Luna Sea
Fujifabric
Drugstore cowboys...
 
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dir said:
that's only bands from the visual kei scene. thankfully the japanese indie scene is very much alive and flourishing..

shiina ringo/tokyo jihen
supercar
world's end girlfriend
GO!GO!7188

edit: and i can't believe envy's not mentioned yet
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World's End Girlfriend is good stuff but not really a band as theres only Katsuhiko Maeda...
 
pedialite said:
x japan
road of major
metal safari
blood stain child
do as infinity
loads of anime theme songs including digimon, naruto and full metal alchemist.

lots of other shit I probably dont remember..
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dude. road of major rocks.
i like taisetsuna mono.

haha thats the only japanese rock song that i like. so far.
 
I hope I'm not gonna start a flame war here, but contrary to popular belief, JRock does not consist of 95% Visual Kei. Yet I wonder why VKei bands form more than half of this thread's listed bands.

I would consider bands like Asian KungFu Generation to be JRock. Road of Major is JRock. Some Do As Infinity songs are JRock. GO!GO!7188 is JRock (and bloody awesome JRock at that). Maximum The Hormone is somewhat JRock. Frickin' heavy JRock, but still JRock.

Polysics are too mad to be JRock (but I frickin' love them. I My Me Mine, I My Me Mine, I My Me Mine, I My Me!)

I have no hate for VKei, I love VKei ballads (like GazettE's Cassis for example), but I'm kinda tired of getting excited of seeing threads about JRock. thinking that they are gonna talk about the bands I've listed in my 2nd paragraph, only to see that they're talking about Laruku or Dir En Grey or Phantasmagoria. Sure, VKei is PART of JRock, but I don't really think Jrock's 95% VKei :(

BTW a rip of X Japan's Reunion Tour DVD has been uploaded onto Youtube. Amazing work considering that they've disbanded for about a decade, especially Yoshiki and Toshi (can YOU drum like Yoshiki when you're 43?), and for some reason Heath sounded better now than the time X Japan was still active xD. Extremely surprising ending though, best if you just check it out yourselves.
 
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Another thing to note is that Japanese rock bands generally have really interesting bass riffs and solos. That's one I thing I like.

One thing I hate is how much they care about their appearances...
 
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