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In the 1960s American and British counterculture figures created Psychedelic rock. However, in Japan, psychedelic rock took on a different flavor. While psychedelic rock was known for the drug intake of its performers leaving an impact on the hazy, drugged-out music, J-Rock performers tended to be drug-free, or even adamantly against the use of drugs (for example, Kosugi Takehisa, Haino Keiji, Nanjo Asahito)
From the late 1980s, popular heavy metal/rock bands such as X Japan helped define the Visual Kei aesthetic in Japanese rock and pop music. "Visual kei" is often focused upon in the West as a uniquely Japanese part of the Rock music scene. J-Rock was exported out of Japan, when in 1985, the heavy metal band Loudness, reach the american charts with the song "Crazy Nights". It gave atention to J-Rock world wide.
A fringe movement from the late 1980s in Japanese alternative rock took the form of noise rock, a sound popularised by bands such as Boredoms.
Visual Kei, , refers to a movement in Japanese rock which started in the 1980s and became widely popular in Japan by the 1990s.
ome fans believe that the visual kei movement was started "almost single handedly" by X Japan, however a rising trend of utilizing visual shock to gain membership in the independent scene was well in effect by the time X went major; they may be seen in this sense not as a catalyst for the movement, but a mechanism to involve dominant Japanese popular culture with it.
However, many of the magazines that later became visual kei magazines, most notably Fool's Mate, had been published since the early 80's, but had a focus on UK new wave artists, some aspects of which are visible in the look of visual bands.
Bands in the early 1990s such as Luna Sea, Kuroyume, Zi:Kill, Shazna, and Baiser along with previous bands Buck-Tick and X Japan encouraged a "boom" of this media culture.
These are Dir en Grey, they are also an awesome Jrock band.
These are the great Kagerou!
This is Malice Mizer, one of the projects of Mana beside Moi dix Mois
