X-Japan

Led Zeppelin? Black Sabbath? Deep Purple? These bands I just mentioned are bands that led the Heavy metal music that started in the late sixties. These bands paved the way for other Heavy metal bands. One band in particular is a band not from the states, but from somewhere foreign. That band is X-Japan.

X-Japan was formed in 1982 and hit the big times in 1989. They broke up in 1997. The band has gone through many line up changes and the only members that have been involved the entire time are the lead singer (Toshimitsu "Toshi" Deyama) and the drummer/pianist (Yoshiki Hayashi).

So I first heard of this band after playing Rock Band 2 with my brother. When we first played I.V. by X-Japan, I absolutely fell in love with how great every part of the song was. I liked the vocals, the drums, the bass and the guitar was totally sick. We did really well on the song and I always choose to play it whenever I can.

I.V. is one of their newer songs. They recorded the music video on October 22, 2007. All members of the band before the break up came to perform. The only member missing was their lead guitarist Hideto "Hide" Matsumoto. Hide passed away May 2, 1998.

With X-Japan being from Japan, it was hard to find their music on Itunes. I turned to YouTube and they didn't let me down. Every music I watched just made me like them more and more. My favorite song by them has to be "Rusty Nail". It's everything I look for in a song and it's just plain awesome to listen to music in a different language.

If your into music and listen to almost anything, I highly recommending listening to this band. You will definitely be blown away. And if your not, I'm sorry for misleading you:)