Japan-Rock/pop

Hiya, just wondering which artists of this genre (if you listen to it) that are your favorites?

The idéa is to share views and to make recommendations of good bands/artists.

My favorites are:

+D'espairs Ray+ Combine a powerfull synth with heavy guitars. The singer has a very very good voice that he uses neatly. The Songs are to me very orginal. Hai to ame, reddish and yami ni furu kiseki are my favorites. This is japan visual rock at it's best!

MUCC singer is crazy, noone can do it like him. I've never heard anyone sound THIS crazy ever. Listen to Zetsubou. Watch the video at youtube. He screams until he can scream no more. The message in his texts owns: )

The back Horn. Texts good, guitars good, but the singer owns.

feel free to come up with more good artists !

Never heard japan bands,the only japanese I ve heard is the ken-shiro soundtrack,some nice guitar playing and looks really rock music...tough boy tough boy tough boy,was that somekind of classic back then???:original:

Susumu Yokota. He plays ambient and electronica...for more on him here




...and Nobukazu Takemura Pop and post rock...this is his best work to date

For some reason I have a Guitar Wolf album ("Loverock"). It's pretty crude, to say the least...

I've heard some Orange Range, but thats about it.

I've got TM Revolution, Asian Kung Fu Generation, and a couple anime soundtrack CD's.