J-rock artists/bands????
 

I'm desperate for new music in my playlist, I need to expand my artists list... CAN YOU GUYS HELP ME???? UM what I am looking for is j-rock (or visual kei) mainly, rich instrumentals and good vocals (preferably with sligh vibrato, cuz I love those).. I am VERY picky what comes to rock music and just music in general...so I've given up on trying to find something on Youtube, so you guys are my last hope!!...
The bands I know listened and wasn't interested were um... Alice Nine, BREAKERZ, SuG, L.MC...mmm what else...D.....man there's too many of them...lol The bands/artists I am already listening to are Laruku, VAMPS, GazettE, X JAPAN (a few songs), GACKT (surpise!), HYDE, MIYAVI.....nothing else comes to mind lol

SO BRING ON SOMETHING!!!!!!PLEASEEEEEEEEEE!!!

Acid Black Cherry is someone I highly recommend & I don't know if you know ABC but the frontman of ABC is the lead singer of Janne Da Arc

But yeah I really like ABC's material & it just so happened that currently from last Sept til this month , ABC has been releasing a single once per month & I think his 3rd album will drop next month

Highly recommended tracks to check out from ABC includes

- Black Cherry (not to be confused with Kumi Kuu's Black Cherry xD)
- 20+∞Century Boys
- Nemuri Hime (this's the 1st song I've heard of ABC & I really like it & have been following ABC ever since)
- Yasashii Uso

From the 5 singles release back to back project which will end this Wed , I really like all the tracks except for CRISIS but if I have to pick 1 , definitely Shangri-La is tops for me :heart

Chou is super sexy & the PV's well you know 8D :innocent

The last single that will be released this Wed which's titled Yes , it's super beautiful also :luv2 & it's described as the ultimate love ballad

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Other rock artistes I listen to includes

- SPYAIR
- SID
- B'z
- NEVER LAND (the project of BREAKERZ's lead guitarist AKIHIDE & I L.O.V.E his singing voice a lot ;_; , sorry DAIGO but no offense to you xD)
- DAIGO STARDUST

There're many others I like (aside from the obvious) so yeah haha

^I know ABC heard a vew songs, and heard Jane d arc also but i never really god hooked to neither music nor instrumentals, they are ok tho but i forgot to mention them, as well as Daigo, SID and B'z...gonna check the others now.

EDIT: check SPYAIR a few songs...i have to say I realy like these guys.

oh ok

well not really a super big fan of the following but they still have a few good songs in their discography :O

- UVERworld
- Aqua Timez (if they're considered as rock xD)
- abingdon boys school
- flumpool (their older works are still better D: , now everything sounds really ... boring X.X)
- school food punishment
- GLAY
- Himuro Kyosuke
- Saito Kazuyoshi
- Fukuyama Masaharu
- OLIVIA
- Anna Tsuchiya
- Kuriyama Chiaki
- LANDS (uh if that's counted in here :x)

If you're a GACKT fan then you probably know of MALICE MIZER so I'm not going to suggest them like I usually do to people who ask for Jrock~ XD You must have heard of Versailles as well?

Exist † Trace (awesome all girl Visual Kei group)


V-last.


D=OUT


vistlip


And (My current favourite rock band)


lynch.


NIGHTMARE


A(ACE)


BORN


ScReW


-OZ-


Mix Speaker's, Inc.


Onmyouza


Girugamesh


12012


ViViD


lolita23q (two videos because they have a new singer now, so the first video is the old singer and the second is the new singer)


Kiryu


That's everything I can think of off the top of my head. XD I kept thinking of lots of Oshare Kei bands but I didn't know if you wanted some of those either~

Without a doubt...the GazettE (and I'm glad you're already listened to them)

ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION
SID
TOTALFAT
DOES
NICO Touches the Walls
Piko
FLOW
HOME MADE Kazoku
Galileo Galilei
ONE OK ROCK
AQUA TIMEZ
ORANGE RANGE
SPYAIR
ViViD
Nightmare
Porno Graffitti
RADWIMPS

MASS OF THE FERMENTING DREGS.

Unique, powerful and flawless :D I love this group.

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Matenrou Opera





heidi.

ONE OK ROCK, definitely :yes

ONE OK ROCK. Hell yes. I got into them last year. For me... *opens list* I'll just give you my favorites.

abingdon boys school (not one song I don't like from them.)
BACK-ON
the HIATUS
KELUN (They broke up, but their 1st album was awesome.)
ONE OK ROCK
SID
STRAIGHTENER
UVERworld (they got their own unique style. Proglution album is my all time favorite album)
UZUMAKI (They're HARDCORE rock-techno type. I'm not one who into the hardcore stuff, but they're an exception I guess. lol I found out about them when Takuya from UVERworld was featured in their album)
Sakanaction (They're not rock-rock. They're more... rock-techno too? But not hardcore.)
Nothing's Carved In Stone (they mostly sing in English. They're not fluent but not worse as others. lol)

That's all I have I think... Lately, I've been into the Japanese underground and R&B group so I haven't checked out anymore Jrock artists.

More J-Alternative than J-Rock, but school food punishment pre RPG was amazing
I also love Tokyo Jihen.

thanks a lot everyone so far... ugh, i dunno what has happened with me but all those v-kei videos...they all just sound the same to me...WHY???? :thud i never had this kind of thing before >_> oh btw I already like 12012...but i think in this case i'm gonna give up on the VK stuff...sad sad sad...

i guess i need something like SPYAIR... what got me into their songs is the melody, every single one of them has a melody, not just a bunch of guitar riffs...and it's softer than v-kei... so i suppose this is what my brain, ears and mind is craving for.....

also I know UVERworld, listened some of the songs awhile back but they never got me hooked...
also I looooove ABS T.M.Revolution has some good sense of music there...lol