Tears of Ash

I don't mean Goth rock as in the goth rock/post-punk from the early 70s I mean like dark stuff. Which isn't necessarily goth rock, but many people wrongly associate it with that anyways.

As far as naming one, I suppose that Lucifer Luscious Violenoue, and her other band Fiction come pretty close as lots of their influences are american goth bands. Fiction has covered two Bauhaus songs, which should mean something about the nature of the band, IMO.

To be honest, I have never listened to X Japan. All the information I put in that article is from wikipedia and I thought that X Japan being the pioneers in the visual kei community.

Anyways, Visual Kei may have metal elements, but none of it is really true visual kei. Like X Japan started it, but they were never really solid visual kei, they just kind of started the genre but they aren't necessarily the best example of what Visual Kei is, and what it has blossomed into since they started it. Things change. Once what was considered vk is no longer considered as such. Like Sex Machineguns are metal, but not vk. and they're visuals are pretty much like xjapan.

But there's metal bands like, Onmyouza that dress up in old-fashioned garb and play. Even though they're metal, they still fancy a certain 'look' to go along with their music.

So I left out 'metal' because nowadays most metal bands are not visual kei. Except maybe for onmyouza and deathgaze.

And lots of people mistake certain hard rock vk bands for metal, when they shouldn't. Also, Japan labels genres differently than other places. If you think it sounds like a genre, it might be, but remember they're different. Things like Dir en Grey and Moi dix Mois would be considered metal by certain westerners, but in japan it's just hard rock.

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