Hey, we're anime nerds.
Logically some of us will listen to japanese music such as visual kei bands.

What I like about japanese rock is, besides the wicked image some of them use (I swear to god some of the guys in j-rock bands are sexier than MANY girls when they have their make-up etc on) is that their rock is a lot harder than the rock we have in many english speaking countries; in fact, many many rock bands are closer to metal than rock. Which of course attracts me.

X-Japan for example is clearly a heavy metal band. They are very good btw and have done some of the best ballads I've ever heard, you know a ballad is good when swedish girls who hate the japanese language still likes to make out to the songs.

A band I've listened to for a long time is Luna Sea, which is closer to rock than metal. They have some nice tunes, for example Anubis & Virgin Mary.

Right now I'm into Dir En Grey! Their music is really hard (for a j-rock band) and have many industrial elements. There is even fragments of death metal in some songs (insane screams & blastbeats).

So yeah, any other fans of j-rock around?