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X Japan (エックス ジャパン, Ekkusu Japan) is a Japanese heavy metal band, which pioneered the Visual Kei movements in Japan. They were known for their musical genius and outrageous hairstyles, and was the first band to achieve the successful amalgamation of western heavy metal with an eastern tolerance of cross dressers. Their first hairstyles, consisting of basic blonde rocker hair with the occasional Mohawk, propelled them to popularity. Their subsequent innovations in the field of hair physics, often featuring gravity-defying locks arranged in complex classical motifs, has influenced every single J-rock artist and made them one of the greatest bands in Japan.

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  • X Japan (エックス ジャパン, Ekkusu Japan) is a Japanese heavy metal band, which pioneered the Visual Kei movements in Japan. They were known for their musical genius and outrageous hairstyles, and was the first band to achieve the successful amalgamation of western heavy metal with an eastern tolerance of cross dressers. Their first hairstyles, consisting of basic blonde rocker hair with the occasional Mohawk, propelled them to popularity. Their subsequent innovations in the field of hair physics, often featuring gravity-defying locks arranged in complex classical motifs, has influenced every single J-rock artist and made them one of the greatest bands in Japan.
  • X JAPAN, or X were created on 1982 by YOSHIKI and Toshi. After ten years pause after their Last Live concert at Tokyo Dome on December 31st 1997, the band restart activities on October 22nd 2007 when the band shot the promotional video of their new single: I.V. on the rooftop of the shopping center Aqua City at Odaiba, Tokyo.
  • X JAPAN are one of the most legendary bands in the visual kei scene. The band was founded in 1982, but after many years of mainstream success, they disbanded in 1997. However, they were later revived on October 22, 2007 and continue to have a successful run today.
  • X Japan is a Japanese rock band founded in 1982 by schoolmates Yoshiki Hayashi and Toshimitsu 'Toshi' Deyama. In the earlier years of their career they mostly played speed metal alongside some ballads, but in later years the speed metal shifted to a more progressive sound. They were not the first Visual Kei band, but they were certainly one of the movement's pioneers, and it is widely claimed that it was bandleader Yoshiki who is the Trope Namer for Visual Kei. X Japan are notable for becoming one of the first Japanese acts to gain notable success whilst being on an independent label, as well as the gravity-defying hair they sported in their earlier years (although in the early 90's the band began to wind down it's visual look, and by the time of the split in 1997, only hide's shocking pin
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Genres
  • Pop
  • Hard Rock
  • Heavy Metal
  • Progressive metal
  • Thrash/Power metal
Revision
  • 4599501(xsd:integer)
Date
  • 2010-07-09(xsd:date)
Label
  • Extasy, CBS Sony Japan, Warner Music Japan, PolyGram, Platinum
Origin
  • Tokyo, Kantō
  • Chiba, Kantō
Status
  • major, active
Logo
  • XJAPAN_logo
Name
  • X JAPAN
Genre
  • Heavy metal, power metal, speed metal, symphonic metal, progressive metal
ImageSize
  • 240(xsd:integer)
Caption
  • X Japan appreciates the subtleties and musical skill associated with having giant hair. .
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Members
  • Yoshiki, Toshi, hide, Pata, Heath, Sugizo
Years Active
  • 1982(xsd:integer)
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  • X
Years
  • 1982(xsd:integer)
  • 2007(xsd:integer)
Labels
  • EXTASY RECORDS
  • Atlantic East-West Japan
  • Sony Music Entertainment
  • Ki/oon Records
  • Polydor
  • MMG
  • Dada Records
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