J-Rock

[Yumera]

Miyavi is the one for me! I love that little nutty boy >:3

[Macabre]

In short, jPop is the way to go. At least they admit to being pop unlike those who hide under a false fascade of rock. =p

If you want foreign rock that rocks go to the Netherlands.

Dir En Grey played at Ozzfest, so in terms of facades, I'd say that they really aren't fronting anything they don't have.

As for most other J-Rock bands, and even Dir En Grey a handful of years ago, I'd have to agree.

And by Nordic bands, are you referring to Within Temptation, and Nightwish, and such?

[Kikumaru]

Hmmm..I don't have too many I listen too, but..here goes:

X Japan

Gackt (his older work)

Miyavi (older work as well)

L'Arc~en~Ciel

Tetsu69

Iceman

Porno Graffiti (some is J-Rock)

Luna Sea

Asian Kung-Fu Generation

Kimeru (He does mainly pop, but I do like his rock songs)

T.M. Revolution (same could be said for Takanori. He mainly does pop, but his rock is good too)

Mad Soldiers

Nightmare

Maximum the Hormone

UVERworld

That's all I can think of at the moment

EDIT: Remembered one more

[Idunknow]

If you want foreign rock that rocks go to the Netherlands.??

And by Nordic bands, are you referring to Within Temptation, and Nightwish, and such?

If he is I'm also a big fan of those types of bands too.

[Totehi]

I listen Dir En Grey but I'm not such a big J-rock fan. Yokan, Amber and Embryo (single version) are songs which I luv from DEG.

I've also listened to Gazette and An Caf? and they have few nice songs

[Inai]

I'm not even sure where to start with listing what J-rock bands I love. o_o; I listen to J-rock almost exclusively. Though this isn't NEARLY all the bands I listen to, I'll list a few, in no particular order.

Dir en grey
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Versailles
Lareine
The GazettE
alice nine.
X JAPAN
L'arc~en~Ciel
Gackt
Miyavi
RENTRER EN SOI
Kagerou
girugamesh
MUCC
D'espairsRay
the Underneath
SuG
AnCafe
Vidoll
Phantasmagoria
PIERROT
Malice Mizer
Schwarz Stein
Psycho le C?mu

There's a LOT of bands I listen to and love that aren't on that list, too. On most of the RO servers I've played on I've made a guild dedicated to J-rock, though usually it hasn't gotten many members because I haven't done much to promote it.

[Chained Chaos]

Not a very big fan of J-Rock or Pop, to be honest. Nothing against it, personally, but in general the genre doesn't do it for me. However, I do like some of it. A little here and there.

Miyavi -- His regular stuff is okay, but get that boy with an acoustic guitar and you've got magic. Click the link.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=ROHAv3BDjFk

Srsly.

Also, I kinda sorta like Janne Da Arc, even if it's for a really odd reason.