BlackSwan_86 84 Posted May 3, 2018 My first contact with japanese music was GACKT - Lu:na, around 2000. Short after that album i listened to Dir en grey's six ugly and Kisou and felt totally in love with visual kei. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Reiko 75 Posted May 8, 2018 On 5/8/2017 at 4:19 AM, raphael said: I'd say my first favourite band was probably DIR EN GREY or An Cafe circa 2006, but only because I was completely unaware bands similar to them existed. I was flipping through channels one day and managed to catch The Final and Escapism PVs on IMF (International Music Feed) and instantly fell in love. I obsessed over DEG and An Cafe for a good half year, probably, until I discovered that there was a slew of bands out there and it wasn't confined to just those two, as vastly different as they are. So after a little bit of searching and discovering with the limited resources I had, I'd say that RENTRER EN SOI was my real "first favourite", followed very closely by UnsraW. IMF was my first exposure as well. I had definitely been into anime openings, but I saw a cut of L'arc doing Driver's High at the 15th Anniversary concert and the video for MUCC -Libra. After that, I started getting random stuff off of kazaa. It took me a few years to really get deep, but the first band I went really hard on was Diru. Malice too, but not like Diru. One really funny thing is that I saw Diru in 2006 at the Family Values Tour in Cleveland. I had never heard them before that, but my friends had, and they bought a CD there. They liked the cd (Marrow of a Bone), but they never got into Japanese rock beyond that. Little did I know that getting into them would send me down this rabbit-hole. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
