What are your top 10 "non-visual" J-rock bands?

[ruki11 965]

I haven't listened non-vk band since 2014, let me think for a while, they was..

DOES

WANDS

上杉昇

世界の終わり

ACID MAN

DIRTY OLD MAN

小坂梨由

field of view

rie fu

TK

sorry some are not bands, and don't tell me larc is not vk band, both their look and music style are

[Komorebi 2193]

1. Acid Black Cherry
2. L'Arc~en~Ciel
3. Vamps
4. Geek Sleep Sheep
5. Destrose
6. Mardelas
7. Ling Toshite Shigure
8. Galneryus
9. Spin Aqua
10. Flow

Had to think real hard. Do As Infinity I think are in the Jpop department, so I didn't include them... and Buck-Tick and Luna Sea I'm never sure if they count as jrock or vk...

[CAT5 9075]

On 7/20/2013 at 2:30 PM, CAT5 said:

Making this as a sister-thread to nero's thread.

 

 

According to my last.fm:

• 凛として時雨 (rin toshite shigure)
• 9mm Parabellum Bullet - most of their new music is MEH AS FUCK, but I still jam to a lot of their earlier work
• 八十八ヶ所巡礼 (88kasyo Junrei)
• LOSTAGE
• 緋と陽 (hitohi)
• ATATA
• ハイスイノナサ (haisuinonasa)
• mudy on the 昨晩
• オワリカラ (owarikara)
• THE NOVEMBERS

 

some slight changes, but as of now and in no particular order:

 

• THE NOVEMBERS
• 凛として時雨
• downy
• 八十八ヶ所巡礼 
• toe
• ハイスイノナサ
• cinema staff
• LOSTAGE
• nayuta
• akutagawa

[Nekonack 6]

Gacharic Spin (When Takae was vocalist)
Dollbox
Light bringer
Stereopony
Second Wall

Ozrin
Hurly Burly
Boom Boom Satellites
Mutant Monster
Knock out Monkey

 

Would have thought this whole "limit things to 10 bands" would be so difficult.   Anyways, there you go for what its worth.

 

 

[Pretsy 1343]

On 06/05/2016 at 4:06 AM, Carmelzors said:

1. Ringo Shiina + Tokyo Jihen

2. Midori

3. Ling Tosite Sigure

4. Boredoms

5. Cinema Staff

6. Melt-Banana

7. Happy End

8. Karasu

9. Indigo la End

10. Shishamo

 

Something like that for now. I tried to make sure that they are at least counted as "rock acts".

 

Update:

 

1. Ringo Shiina + Tokyo Jihen

2. Happy End

3. Boredoms and affiliated acts (ROVO, OOIOO etc.)

4. Cornelius

5. Ling Tosite Sigure

6. Melt-Banana

7. Maaya Sakamoto (pop/rock?)

8. JUDY AND MARY

9. Sigh

10. Cinema Staff

 

Guess that's in order - and what a surprise, Ringo again! (to be frank her SUNNY era is not really inferior to Ling's sellout era)

Edited September 7, 2016 by Alroy

[Ito 2438]

On 10/15/2013 at 9:06 PM, Ito said:

In no particular order...God this is so hard...and I am sure I am forgetting an important one lol.

 

• toe
• FAKE?
• School Food Punishment
• the god and death stars
• FACT
• Lynch.
• ATATA
• sgt.
• Abingdon Boys School
• CogeNdshE

And because I have a hard time choosing, here are some honerable mentions: 

Hidden Content

 

Jumping on the updated trend:

• toe
• envy
• mono
• KEEL (arguably not VK?)
• the god and death stars
• Lynch.
• Kinoko Teikoku
• Uchuu Konbini
• Boris
• School Food Punishment

[enyx 903]

I don't like to get too much into ranking or ordering bands, so I just listed them in alphanumeric order:

• 八十八ヶ所巡礼
• ATLANTIS AIRPORT
• Boris
• downy
• ハイスイノナサ
• 凛として時雨*
• school food punishment**
• Spangle call Lilli line
• THE NOVEMBERS
• toe

* This is an awkward one because it really only applies to their output up to and including  i'mperfect . Their recent output has been awful.

** This will probably be replaced with siraph if that band keeps on going in the same vein as their first EP suggests. So far the band is essentially all of the better parts of sfp minus most of the worse parts.

Edited September 7, 2016 by Pho

[MaikoMizu 167]

1- AKFG

2- Kids Alive

3- Scandal

4- SPYAIR

5- Flow

6- Back-On

7- Access

8- High and Mighty Color

9- Tricot

10- Jun Sky Walkers

[Takadanobabaalien 3607]

xxxx

Edited September 7, 2016 by Uglymouth

[beni 2149]

@Uglymouth, the topic is "top 10 non-visual J-rock bands". It's still on Japanese bands, just outside of VK. Give it another go!

[Takadanobabaalien 3607]

Oh damn xD Didn't read clearly :x sorry.

[indigo 389]

Not in a particular order, that would be too hard

 

- Age Factory (quickly becoming one of my favorite bands)

- THE NOVEMBERS

- The Birthday (even tho their more recent material is a bit stagnant, first 4 albums are so solid)

-  凛として時雨

-  Yellow Studs

-  THE BACK HORN

-  Envy

-  Lostage

- té

-  ゆらゆら帝国

 

 

Edited July 18, 2017 by indigo

[Original Saku 1593]

Currently it would be something like this;

 

• THE NOVEMBERS
• downy
• 凛として時雨
• 八十八ヶ所巡礼 

• アルカラ

• cinema staff

• NUMBER GIRL

• 夜の本気ダンス

• 和楽器バンド (this counts as non-visual right?)

• クリープハイプ

 

this is such a hard topic though, I left out so many other bands I'm currently enjoying the hell out of. not to mention all the singer song writers i left out since they are technically not 'bands' xD

[Atreides 454]

In no particular order:

 

1. Sigh

2. Zazen Boys

3. Yellow Magic Orchestra

4. Fujifabric

5. Sparta Locals

6. Dead End

7. Sadistic Mika Band

8. Suiken

9. M-Flo

10. YMCK

 

Honorable mentions edit in no order:

1. 88 kasyo junrei

2. ANTHEM

3. Loudness

4. Kuni Kawachi

5. Veiled in Scarlet

6. Sukimasangyo

7. The Pillows

8. Ogre You Asshole

9. High and Mighty Colour

10. Sabbrabells

Edited September 21, 2016 by Atreides

[robkun 4184]

Rebumping because I totally thought I did one, but I guess not o___o. No particular order.

 

 

1. Boredoms

2. Melt-Banana

3. Barbee Boys

4. Ulfuls

5. Mr.Children

6. Judy and Mary

7. Spitz

8. New Rote'ka

9. The Zip Guns

10. Folks

[koroshiyaichi 12]

1.Envy

2.The Pillows

3. きのこ帝国 Kinoko Teikoku

4. More the Man

5.Toe

6.Boris

7.Kohh (hip-hop)

8.Babymetal

9.Necronomidol

10.Maximum the Hormone

 

[sakurakurakura 154]

1. Psysalia Psysalis Psyche
2. COYOTE MILK STORE
3. TRMTRM
4. the god and death stars

5. THE MADCAP LAUGHS
6. THE NOVEMBERS

7. the piqnic

8. Lillies and Remains
9. 八十八ヶ所巡礼

10. VOLA & THE ORIENTAL MACHINE

[itsukoii 1300]

1. Victim of Deception

2. Crystal Lake

3. Infernal Revulsion

4. Desecravity

5. Inception of Genocide

6. Her Name In Blood

7. Ikd-Sj

8. Urobilinemia 

9. 兀突骨

10. Infected Malignity

 

tbh i don't venture out of vk unless it's for deathcore/death metal/metalcore, so that's what all of this is (minus ikd-sj, idk what they are)

[Anne Claire 392]

1. BLEACH & 385 (like, c'mon, do i need to say more?)
2. Melt-Banana
3. lloy
4. 八十八ヶ所巡礼
5. 光束夜
6. ミドリ
7. OGRE YOU ASSHOLE
8. downy
9. skillkills
10. Qyubere

[jaymee 405]

In no particular order...

 

1. Shiina Ringo/Tokyo Jihen

2. THE NOVEMBERS

3.  フレデリック (Frederick)

4. The Checkers

5. Thee Michelle Gun Elephant

6. SIM

7. Supercar

8. The Brilliant Green

9. Shishido Kavka

10. Bugy Craxone

 

Honestly this list was hard to make since I like most of these and a lot of other bands about the same, so I decided to go for listing up a lot of artists from different genres instead.

 

Recently been listening to more Lightbringer, which would probably appeal to VK fans, esp older fans that appreciate some of the neo-classic melodies of 90s VK.

 

Edited July 22, 2017 by jaymee

[TrentReznor 362]

Zigzo

The Birthday

The Mad Capsule Markets

The Back Horn

Thee Michelle Gun Elephant

Lili Chou-Chou (though it wasnt a "real" band)

Yen Town Band

Roach

Maximum the Hormone

 

 

I guess I would like Rosso too, but never listened to them on detail...just jumped from TMGE to The Birthday.

 

For the 10th one I would say something like Th eRockers or similars...but I'm not that into them to put them in a top...so just 9 

[Mamo 1172]

In no particular order

 

1. SWARRRM

2. Boris

3. Blood Stain Child

4. Asian kung-fu generation 

5. ACIDMAN

6. Head Phones President

7. Envy

8. Sigh

9. DAZZLE VISION (sadly disbanded)

10. HYDE (L'Arc~en~Ciel)

[Bear 1817]

Sigh

Sabbat

Abigail

Evil

Gnome

Framtid

Envy

Boris

Acid Mothers Temple

Flower Travellin' Band

Ghost

S.O.B.

 

 

That's 12. Can think of 10-15 punk bands I'd love to have on this list, as well as psychedelic rock bands from the 60's to the early 90's. Most of them are fairly obscure outside of Japan too, even among psychedelic rock fans which is a shame because Japan really nailed this type of the music back in the days.

[Mamo 1172]

On 7/2/2018 at 2:09 PM, Bear said:

 

Evil

Gnome

 

Ghost

 

Who are these? Is that Ghost the visual kei band? lol

Edited July 12, 2018 by Mamo

[Bear 1817]

Do you think I'd mention a visual kei band in a thread about non-visual kei bands?

 

Evil is a black/thrash band. Released one of the best albums in 2017.

Gnome is a mid 90's black metal who only released a couple of demos and a split. Under the Black Moon features some of the best black metal ever written tbh. One man band with Masanori "Wood"of Hurusoma.

Ghost was a psychedelic/acid/folk/experimental rock band which release a shitload of albums in the 90's and up until mid 2000's.