Anybody Here Into Japanese Bands?

[inkablotz]

Some of my favorite Japanese bands:

Garage:
Thee Michelle Gun Elephant
Guitar Wolf
Teengenerate
Supersnazz
The 5, 6, 7, 8's

Noise:
Boredoms
Melt Banana

Hardcore:
Gism
Yellow Machinegun
SDS
Exclaim

Punk:
Blew
Cradle To Grave
Cigaretteman
Pop Catcher
anything from Snuffy Smile

DJs and Dance:
DJ Krush
Fantastic Plastic Machine
Pizzicato Five

[pretty_pink_pistol]

ohh, i love pizzicato five and FPM. groovy music =] yellow machinegun is also a personal fave. i've heard of guitar wolf, but i haven't given them a try yet =]

[magnus7661]

i dunno who the band is but there is a song from witch hunter robin called "shell" i think it would be freaking awesome to have on rockband

[BeastofNature]

I love a ton of Japanese group, too many too count lol But I'll mention some.

Girugamesh
Dir en grey
D'espairsRay
the Gazette
Mucc
High & Mighty Color
L'Arc en Ciel
Vamps
Maximum the Hormone
Angelo
Back-On (Thank You Air Gear)
Bivattchee
FLOW
Asian Kung-Fu Generation
Orange Range
Suikimawitch (Gotta check out Golden Time lover, great song & the lyrics are mind blowing & powerful)
X Japan (Great to see I.V added, I'm purchaing a new Rock Band 2 so that I can get the song when I redeem the code to get the 20 free songs.)

& a ton of other Japanese pop artists (Yoko Ishida, Hitomi, Every Little Thing, Do As Infintety, RUI, Angela, and that's only a few) a well as other bands I might have for gotten to mention. High & Mighty Color got me into the metal scene of both Japan & American! Before then I listened to mostly Japanese pop (still love it though & H&MC is pretty much a mix of pop & rock lol).

I have been requesting some of these great artists to be featured on here. I believe that X Japan's I'V is only the beginning. ^_^

[Boskov]

I have soft spot for all the Zorn related artists I've heard.

Also really like stuff like Ruins (Tatsuya Yoshida, basically), Koenjihyakkei, Coaltars of the Deepers, Boris, Cuong Vu, Satoko Fuji (quartet, with other artists, etc) Boredoms, Mutyumu. Some fantastic Jazz coming from Japan in general.

[Gowienczyk]

Boredoms and Boris are obvious choices for me, but like aforementioned I do quite enjoy Thee Michelle Gun Elephant. In terms of others I can think of a few stuff all over the place that I'm interested in. Oh, and I'm starting to explore shibuya-kei musicians and bands like Buffalo Daughter, Cornelius, Fantastic Plastic Machine, Yukari Fresh, Kahimi Karie, Takako Minekawa and Pizzicato Five. From what I've heard of the aforementioned shibuya-kei artists I find it all very fantastic.

[_mg3b_]

Midori are pretty cool, T Square are fun, and I always enjoy Merzbow.