Japanese rock bands?

I highly recommend Ellegarden.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLYpdrPmnz0

Heres some album recomendations:

Dir en grey's new album: Withering to Death. Awesome

Loudness- Thunder in the East. Classic

Metal Safari (just search for them on Google)

hide (pink spider is a great song)

Ritual Carnage-great Japanese thrash band with a American singer

Razors Edge- look for their album, razors rising on interpunk. Awesome hardcore.

I know of one really, really good group, but their out of a podcast only. They're called Kawayan. There are multiple ways to find them. I found them on iTunes by accident, and purposely on Google by looking up the Garage Band Users Club and Kawayan. They have insanely awesome guitarists and are mostly instrumental. They have a few lyrical songs, all of which are quite fun in my oppinion. Happy hunting.

The Candy Spooky Theater are also very good. SpreadBeaver, Gackt-Job, Plastic Tree, Phantasmagoria...

I'm also looking for 80's Japanese rock bands that sound like Loudness,Earthshaker.any suggestions?

the pillows are the greatest band of all time, not that they're metal.

Does anyone know of any bands that sound like Malice Mizer's Beast of Blood?

I have to agree with Dir enGrey very good choice!

How about Luna Sea? Many big bands favorite them.

Or how about Shonen Knife? Girl band, and their music is rather amusing and cute ^^

Maximum The Hormone - They're an awesome band.. their name sounds pervish but they are great.. their songs are mixed between pop, rock, rap and metal. I'm im love with them.

Thee Michelle Gun Elephant!!! Not particularly metal, but dirty garagey rock at it's best!!! (can anyone help on getting some Hoover's Ooover releases?)

Granted I'm not too familiar with many Japanese metal bands, but Sigh is definitely up there. More Avant-Garde than anything, but good if you get past the black metal style vocals.

Never was a fan of Dir En Grey they seem to be the most popular to come out of Japan that hit the USA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeXUsxF19gM

its a band called Kra and well this is the only song i like of them really. i haven't actually looked up any of there other songs.


oh and i love maximum the hormone..
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJI_oPLkqp4

and this is a great song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qJI_oPLkqp4

Maximum The Hormone the best

I have to admit, this bulletin is full of a lot of bands! Thanks to all who posted this stuff, cause I'm always scouting for new stuff! A lot of the bands that I've heard on here rock! And, I'm really glad somebody mentioned Shonen Knife! They may not be considered "rock", but they are really good! They did a great cover of "Sedated". Thanks all! ^_^

(Yes, I've seen some fo them in the US!)

I'll be in Japan (Tokyo and Kyoto) for about 2 weeks this summer - does anyone know of good English-language websites listing concerts in these cities?

In this site you can try most songs like
Gazette:
http://mp3.rockoladj.com.ar/play/NTc2MTc4

Just search for a song or artist and listen on-line.

Gazette.
They're my favorite band and really really good!
Just search for some videos on YouTube and see if you like them XD

Hi volks

Can anyone help me? We are a rock band from Austria and we want to give a concert in tokyo.

Did anyone of you know suchs clubs or agencies?

thxs

The bands listed are not Japanese metal, or rock. They are Visual Kei bands, which is a different genre. Some famous Japanese metal bands are, Loudness, Vow Wow, Earthshaker, Ezo, Anthem, and Onmyo-Za.

If i like Asian kung fu Gen stuff like haruka kanata and Maximum the Hormone (Zetsubou Billy none pointless screaming parts etc.) and the suggest for D'espair Ray was nice thanks....what do i look for.