Visual kei artists

Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 121. Chapters: X Japan, Buck-Tick, Dir En Grey, Alice Nine, Miyavi, Hide, Nightmare, The Gazette, Glacier, Merry, Luna Sea, Ayabie, Rentrer en Soi, Versailles, D'espairsRay, Malice Mizer, Girugamesh, Psycho le Cému, An Cafe, Penicillin, Laputa, Vidoll, Phantasmagoria, Mucc, Plastic Tree, Onmyo-Za, Panic Channel, Blood, The Piass, Megamasso, Tinc, Kagerou, Sid, Uchuu Sentai NOIZ, Fanatic Crisis, Moi dix Mois, Pierrot, Zi:Kill, Kagrra, Doremidan, Anti Feminism, Eight, Sug, Kuroyume, 12012, LM.C, Sadie, Baiser, Strawberry song orchestra, Unsraw, Charlotte, Dué le Quartz, Baroque, Silver Ash, Schwarz Stein, Inugami Circus-dan, Cali Gari, GPKism, Guniw Tools, Luci'fer Luscious Violenoue, Mix Speakers, Inc, Aion, Lareine, Ghost, Luis-Mary, Raphael, Vistlip, Deathgaze, Duel Jewel, El Dorado, Skin, Exist Trace, Cascade, The Dead Pop Stars, D'erlanger, The Candy Spooky Theater, Aliene Ma'riage, Matenrou Opera, Blam Honey, Kra, Fairy Fore, BIS, Lynch, Shazna, Die in Cries, Color, D=Out, By-Sexual, Rice, Dio - Distraught Overlord, Kaya, Jealkb, Genkaku Allergy, Karma Shenjing, L'luvia, Devil Kitty, Nheira. Excerpt: X Japan Ekkusu Japan ) is a Japanese heavy metal band founded in 1982 by Toshimitsu "Toshi" Deyama and Yoshiki Hayashi. Originally named X ( ), the group achieved its breakthrough success in 1989 with the release of their second album Blue Blood. They started out as a power/speed metal band and later gravitated towards a progressive sound, at all times retaining an emphasis on ballads. After three more albums, X Japan disbanded in 1997. Besides being one of the first Japanese acts to achieve mainstream success while on an independent label, the group is widely credited for pioneering the visual kei movement, though most of the group's members toned down their on-stage attire in later years. They were formerly known for their excessively large hairstyles resembling fountains. As of 2007, the band has sold over two hundred million records and over two million home videos. On 4 June 2007 it was announced the band would reunite with a new song released via digital download in January 2008 and live performances scheduled for March and May. X was founded in 1982 while vocalist Toshi and drummer Yoshiki were attending high school together. The band began to actively perform live in the Tokyo area in 1985, its lineup at that time being completed by a number of changing support musicians. A first single, titled "I'll Kill You" was released on Dada Records in June and in November of the same year, the group contributed the song "Break the Darkness" to the samplers Heavy Metal Force III. To ensure a continuous outlet for the band's publications, Yoshiki founded the independent label Extasy Records in the following year on which a second single, "Orgasm", was released. The songs "Stab Me in the Back" and "No Connexion", recorded for the 1987 Victor Records sampler Skull Thrash Zone Volume I mark the group's first material featuring Tomoaki "Pata" Ishizuka as a support guitar player. He formally joined the group later that year. Likewise, guitarist Hideto "Hide" Matsumoto and ba