Who's the best Japanese rock band (besides the obvious Sup Forumscore Boris/Fishmans/etc)?
Any that don't just sound like an imitation of Western bands?
Who's the best Japanese rock band (besides the obvious Sup Forumscore Boris/Fishmans/etc)?
Levi Stewart
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Isaac Anderson
Zeni Geva
Jose Flores
Hokago Tea Time
Aaron Martinez
The Gerogerigegege
Tyler Baker
Right now its toe
Ayden Price
I've been getting into BOWL lately. Their music is cool, and the lyrics are pretty nice, too.
I'm not sure what you mean by "imitation", though.
Evan Kelly
>I'm not sure what you mean by "imitation", though.
Any that don't merely borrow the ideas of Western bands and feed them through a Japanese filter
Daniel Gray
不失者
Liam Brooks
MUCC had a period where they were really cool and in between the swings of their darker, emo rock/punk early days and weird metalcore/electronica modern days.
Kuchiki no Tou, Houyoku, and Gokusai are neat albums with lots of variance and plenty of catchy melodies. Anything before or after these starts to slide off a bit.
Andrew King
Flower travellin' band
Gabriel Rodriguez
I'll need you to be more specific. You don't like sound-alikes? Because it's impossible to find someone with zero musical influences. Are you saying you want some that sound exclusively Japanese, not at all borrowing from western music? Those don't exist, and the closest you'll get are anisong bands like JAM Project.
Dominic Adams
Also Uchu Conbini was fuckin amazing for the time they were around.
Dir en Grey is neat too, but you'd probably only want to consider everything Withering to Death and before if you wanted to keep it strictly rock and not delve into metal.
GIRUGAMESH
Zachary Rodriguez
And Les Rallizes Denudes
Gavin Jenkins
From what I heard of JAM project it sounds pretty western.
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Kayden Long
Asian Kung-Fu Generation are pretty awesome
Fujifabric have a distinct sound too
Base Ball Bear and Sambomaster might also be worth your time
Caleb Wright
Irl I-no
John Gomez
hey guys what's that japanese rock album with the flowers on the cover you know the one
Easton White
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Ian Foster
Are there any other bands similar to Boredoms? You know, bands that will make me feel like my head is on fire while listening to them?
Owen Rodriguez
NUMBER GIRL
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Jason Perry
Call me a normie, but I love the pillows
Austin Bennett
Was about to post this
Last Dinosaur is a legitimate 10/10 song
Jayden Johnson
Genuinely surprised they weren't the first reply.
Matthew Walker
I legit did a project on them for my Japanese class in high school. I played a song by them and everything, pretty sure it was Little Busters lmao.
Nathaniel Green
no... it's really simple and blue with yellow flowers I think
Ethan Sanchez
Aint rock
Aiden Flores
This one?
Long Goodbye EP by Kinoko Teikoku
Ryan Watson
Maybe you'd like Wagakki Band, although I'm not a fan.
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They mesh rock music with traditional Japanese sounds/instruments.
Babymetal's Megitsune is a fan favorite and mixes traditional sounds including the iconic Sakura Sakura.
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I like Band-Maid quite a bit but they emulate Western rock (pretty damn well).
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Blake James
that's the one
ty user
Camden Jones
Good shit it is
Sharing b/c why the fuck not
きのこ帝国 (Kinoko Teikoku) –ロンググッドバイ (Long Goodbye) [2013]
>J-rock, shoegaze, pop rock
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Tyler Cox
thanks friend
Liam Sullivan
>Ajikan
>awesome
>ripping off Number Girl and then selling out for dat sweet anime $$$ is now considered awesome
>literally japanese Green Day
>have written the same shitty, uninspired mid-tempo pop-rock drivel for the last two decades
>any flare of inspiration and originality lost after their third record
John Clark
that's technopop bruh
Easton Collins
>japanese ROCK
>rock
>that isn't western
you need to take music appreciation 101
Ryan Rodriguez
Mass of the Fermening Dregs and these
Nicholas Long
The best band to have ever existed.
Second best.
>35 replies and no one has said anything about bloodthirsty butchers
Wyatt Rogers
>hurr muh semantics
you know what he meant
Jeremiah Cooper
Melt Banana
Owen Watson
ｷﾀ━━━━━━(゜∀゜)━━━━━━ッ!!
Cooper Rivera
not really. he's asking for japanese rock that isn't western sounding, that's impossible because then it wouldn't be 'rock'.
Liam Foster
Accurate
Ryan Harris
>yfw tricot is reddit's favorite japanese band
Caleb Cox
2ch memes not welcome friendo
there's bound to be something rock with traditional influences be it shamisen koto and whatever or even like enka and old pop
Even though shibuya-kei and picopop are pretty strictly Japanese they're still just rips on bossa nova and ye-ye, so it's tough to say
Owen Campbell
flower travellin band
Colton Foster
lamp even tho they arent rock per se
Colton Scott
>mfw giving a shit about what reddit thinks of your favorite band
>mfw actually visiting reddit to see what they think about your favorite band
>mfw changing your opinion based on what reddit said about your favorite band
>mfw this is not my beautiful feel
Cooper Young
Acid Mothers Temple
Joshua Butler
Yuzo Kayama
Great surf rock and ballads, and made the best movies
Eli Ross
I mean my opinion of 'em hasn't changed
I went to one of their USA shows and there was this big fat white guy wearing a Death Grips shirt yelling out memes and a bunch of (ugly) girls wearing JoJo shirts and I wondered what was up
When I googled pics of the show next day I saw some were posted on reddit and ended up finding out they have a subreddit for tricot.
Shit explained itself way too fast.
James Gomez
ももいろクローバーZ desu
Ayden Thomas
Oh not the best by any means but they fit the last part of your OP.
Logan White
I went to the Nashville show and it was an oddly normal crowd
It was in a tiny little dive bar so capacity wasn't that many people to begin with, but it was mostly just 20 and 30 somethings drinking and dancing and trying to play off Ikkyu's Engrish banter
Made me happy
Adrian Bennett
damn, I'm jelly, people got really autistic here at the San Diego gig whenever Ikkyu said anything
luckily there were some pretty rowdy drunk dudes jumping and pogoing on the front rows so I found peeps to just have a fun time with
Nicholas Bailey
Yeah whatever Dreyman
Parker Morales
t bh OP idol music might be your thing. Pretty much all non-idol rock music tries to sound as western as possible. It's pretty boring to me. Idol music is looked down upon but it can be pretty experimental. Marty Friedman basically quit life as a star in the US to live in Japan and work with idols because of how varying it is.
J-pop in general tends to have electric guitar in it and it's common to have a guitar solo.
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Aaron Torres
M I D O R I
Elijah Gray
Yeah I figure any of the west coast shows would be pretty bad even though they'd be bigger productions
Actually pretty glad I wasn't at the LA show instead
Julian Carter
Maximum The Hormone are pretty cool
Luke Hill
mouse on the keys are pretty great
Dominic Jones
Understandable since they're cute and fucking rock. One of the better bands itttbqh.
Luke Nelson
Yes. Easily the best Japanese rock/metal band. They don't get their heads too far up their asses like the vis kei dudes, and they aren't afraid of having fun.
Logan Carter
Fucking babymetal. Get that weeb trash commercial metal out of here. This thread is for respectable japanese bands, not blatant cashgrabs
Nolan Howard
Blatant cashgrab? It was given a tiny budget and created by a veteran respected metal producer in Japan.
Metal does not sell in Japan.
Luke Green
>Metal does not sell in Japan.
You ever hear about visual kei
Jaxon James
Babymetal is not that, and Visual Kei is not metal.
You know nothing about them. You're just parroting stereotypes.
Blake Cook
This
Samuel Diaz
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Lucas Jackson
Grayson Nguyen
>/daily/ on a date
Luis Ramirez
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant, The Back Horn's old stuff.
Adam Sanchez
[The] Boredoms.
Gabriel Jones
Melt Banane
Jeremiah Myers
Not really. Only a few visual bands and mid-2000's Okinawan pop-punk use any older instruments prominently. Japanese rock is cool because they have their own rock tradition separate from the UK or US ones. Usually Japanese bands will be influenced mostly by other, previous Japanese bands, unlike say France or Korea where every generation just copies whatever's happening in the UK or US with no reference to their own older shit
Ethan Walker
There's also a difference in their approach to chords. They generally preffer the more "ambiguous" sounds of dominant and diminished chords. Plus they often have longer progressions or add variation throughout the song.
David Price
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also does asobi seksu count, their lead singer is japanese
Levi Phillips
Cornelius
Brody Hughes
>mid-2000's Okinawan pop-punk
hahahahahahaha what
Alexander Roberts
Carson Morris
rarizu is the only answer
Hunter Young
Base Ball Bear
Aaron Myers
Ling Tosite Sigure
Gabriel Robinson
Acid Mothers Temple
Bentley Perez
this desu
Chase White
Acid Black Cherry is a mix of hard rock, ballads, and big band tunes. 2012 and L are my favorite albums.
Sadie is hard rock that delves into some metal, though they're practically a cover band of Dir en Grey up until "Madrigal de Maria," which, in my opinion, is their best album next to Master of Romance.
The other ones I'm majorly into are already mentioned (Girugamesh, Wagakki Band, Ling Tosite Sigure).
Wyatt Gray
B'z is one of the biggest rock bands in Japan. Twenty five albums IIRC, and they've been praised by Steve Vai and are the first Asians on the Hollywood Rockwall.
"Ultra Soul" is a huge favorite and a decent song, too. I like their redo of it on their album C'mon.
Aiden Martinez
I've always been fond of X Japan, but that's just because I'm a fucking sap who likes their ballads. Blue Blood is a p sweet album though.
Luis Cruz
midori
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kinoko teikoku
my dead girlfriend
lemon's chair
tokyo shoegazer
pasteboard
claws
melt-banana
etc etc
Carson Fisher
>third record
>they didn't hit their stride till their fourth record
Chase Fisher
desu
Ethan Martin
>Visual Kei is not metal.
Visual Kei isn't a genre, it's a visual style associated with genres.
Visual Kei is literally rooted in 80s Japanese speed and power metal.
Joseph White
Acid Mother's Temple?
Jaxson Collins
Phew
Aunt Sally
Ruins
Flower Travelling Band
you people have such a garbage taste, almost everything here is literally high-school-anime-club-core
Landon Barnes
visual kei was invented and popularized by successful japanese power, thrash, glam, speed metal, punk and hardcore bands in the 80s and early 90s tho
when visual kei went relatively mainstream in japan, thats when softer rock subgenres and non-rock subgenres started adopting the style.
Noah Gonzalez
Melt-Banana
Julian Watson
Galneryus
Aaron Myers
No user it's you who are no fun
Ryan Perez
>le fun meme xD
you think other people get into different music as an assignment or work?
Easton Barnes
How the fuck has nobody said toe yet?
Plebs.
Michael Evans
1. Flower Travellin' Band
2. J. A. Seazer
3. Takeshi Terauchi and The Bunnys
4. Les Rallizes Dénudés
5. GISM
6. X-Japan
7. Boredoms
8. Corrupted
9. Melt Banana
10. Dir En Grey
Evan Flores
read
you fucking autist