The Japanese Music Iceberg Explained
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- Опубликовано: 15 янв 2024
- Japanese music. Anime songs, J-Pop, J-Rock, J-Metal, City Pop, Visual Kei, Noise and many more. There's a lot to explore.
wow this is a huge video that took me forever to make! almost gave up on it lol but i know there's a few people out there who are looking for a videos about japanese music. so, you're stuck with me on this one :^) some sections are edited out/removed for copyright. 
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cant believe u forgot about
You missed the band that celebrate their 10th year last November 2023 with their concert in Yokohama arena.
Lame isn't he?
Band-Maid!
@@TheCyberMantis far more notable than many bands here.
Yes Band-maid !!!!!
Supporting incubus in Japan in may having befriended them at pointfest in the USA last year. Not a minor act at all.
My favotite Japanese bands are:
LOVEBITES I am fan and next
NEMOPHILA,
BAND MAID,
HANABI,
BABY METAL
All these band have incredible skilled musicians ones of the best in the world.🇵🇱
Y no están aquí! Porque motivo será!
You missed Galneryus, Lovebites, Nemophila, and Unlucky Morpheus.
Kind of missed one... BAND-MAID! They are my favorite band and it's disappointing they weren't on the list. 😠
Sheena Ringo / Tokyo Jihen (Tokyo Incidents) is an Iceberg in it's self. For Metal, Loudness was one of the few bands to chart in the west with the album Thunder in the East around 84'. Polysics (ポリシックス, Porishikkusu, typeset POLYSICS) is a Japanese techno/electronic band from Tokyo, who dubs its unique style as "technicolor pogo punk".
My favorites are: LOVEBITES and WAGAKKI BAND!
But I also listen to a lot of other Japanese bands as well.
So you included "Hanabie" way at the end, but somehow left out Band-Maid, Lovebites, and Nemophila who are all blowing up across the world and have actively toured on multiple continents in the past few years? Other major Japanese acts that should be in the top tiers who have been around for decades would be "Dreams Come True" (called "Do-Ri-Ka-Mu" by Japanese fans), Nagabuchi Tsuyoshi (folk rock/southern rock), Southern All-Stars (also somewhere in the Southern rock genre), and The Boom (Island rock out of Okinawa).
The only Japanese band that I love. With the vocals, bass, guitar, drums that best suit my style, Band maid.
Watch Rick Beato's sit-down discussion with the guitarist Marty Friedman that was recorded last year when you get a chance. Marty has lived and worked as a musician in Japan for more than 20 years after spending parts of the 1990's as part of the metal band Megadeth.
Marty gives a very interesting explanation between the way modern popular music in the West is constructed compared to how popular music in Japan is built.
Edit:
After finishing the video entirely, there are some names I'm really surprised you didn't mention. For example, the huge four divas of Utada Hikaru, Shiina Ringo, Ayumi Hamasaki, and Namie Amuro. These four solo singers were/are absolutely _huge_ in Japan, with Utada and Shiina still producing music today, having been active since the late 1990's. (Hamasaki might be, too, but I haven't kept up with her. Amuro retired from the business a few years ago.) Most people in the West who play PS games would recognize Utada from her music that has appeared in all the Kingdom Hearts games. Utada has the all-time highest selling album in Oricon history with her debut album First Love released in 1998.
Then, there is the big "girl's rock" movement that has been going on in Japan for the last 15 or so year. Drawing inspiration from 80's acts like Princess Princess and Show-Ya, all-girl rock bands started cropping up in the mid-2000's. Probably the most successful of these groups is Scandal, but there are other such groups that started about that same time, like Aldious and the now-defunct Destrose. You mentioned Hanabie, a relatively new band that is part of this girl's rock scene, but there are countless other such acts in just about every sub-genre of rock and metal you can think of. Bands like Band-Maid, Trident, Saiseiga, Hades, Yonige, Bray Me, Chili Beans, East of Eden, Lovebites, Hagane, Haze, Paleneo, Risky Melody, and a bunch of others.
If you're into anime music, I'm sure you're familiar with LiSa, another currently very popular singer/songwriter with huge numbers on her RUclips videos. Then other's I'd suggest like indie-rock Polkadot Stingray, proto-metal Ningen Isu, emo-esque One OK Rock, 80's style rock Whiskey Dust, pop-rock Vivid Undress, singer-songwriter Iieri Leo....and, I'll stop before I spend the rest of the afternoon typing. I'm supposed to be working right now.
great info, thanks for the comment! you seem very well versed with japanese music. i'm familiar with Marty Friedman, Megadeth and his solo career in japan; i have listened to some of his other interviews about japanese music/ japanese guitar stuff but not the video you mentioned. i'll check out those singers the other bands that you mentioned too, some of those all girl rock bands are on my list. i love TriDent, Band-Maid, Nemophilia, and Hanabie at the moment. thanks again for the suggestions!
@@bhristianbortes I have followed the Japanese music scene since about 2006 when I first came across Utada Hikaru. It's made up the entirety of my music listening for more than a decade. I have even traveled to Japan three times to see shows including going to Band-Maid's 10th anniversary tour final at Yokohama Arena last November.
There is a relatively small but incredibly rabid fan base for J-Rock acts in the US. If you went to the Hanabie show in Dallas last year, some of my friends were at the show with you
@@saldiven2009 that's great! i hope to travel to japan and see MTH one day. japanese music fans here in the US are definitely rabid lol i hope your friends had as much fun as i did at hanabie's dallas show
@@bhristianbortes Name-checking the great and internationally popular Hikaru Utada, The Pillows, The Jazz Avengers and the contemporary Visual Kei bands such a Jiluka.
Yeah bandmaid did a 44gig world tour last year starting in the Tokyo Garden theatre and ending in yokohama arena, including several usa festivals and the first Japanese band at Lopalooza since Japan 13yrs ago. They never repeated a set list and played 77 original songs most written played and produced by themselves. They were in the NHK festival this year and are quite possibly the most successful Japanese band abroad after babymetal, who are a highly hyped and manufacturered idol band (a lot of fun admittedly) they've been around for 10yrs and have around 140 songs in the can.
Lovebites and nemophila are also successful abroad. Most of the rock acts on this list will be well aware of bandmaid.
Hard to believe BandMaid and Lovebites weren't mentioned.
Excellent work, bro.
Your substantial content is much appreciated.
thank you very much, appreciate your support since my first mth video! i haven't forgetten about you
@@bhristianbortes Very kind of you, man.
Keep building yr channel. It's good stuff 🤘
This is genuinely one of the most interesting videos on the topic I've seen in a while. Completely moved outside of the box I expected it to be in and actually shed light on some things I've only seen references to in other media. Instead of, like, focussing on the usual check boxes.
appreciate that, thanks!
Missing your country's ichiban, #1best, most great export, Band Maid, would seem to be a fatal, or should I say fatale, mistake. Or perhaps barefoot assassins are not to your liking?
Best banger to start off the new year, keep up the great work! 🥰🤩😍🤩🥰
thanks!
@@bhristianbortes You're welcome; I also made a Japanese report playlist on my channel for you to check out, I just finished them last year. I believe that some of the people on your iceberg list is there, and I hope you enjoy my content too. 🥰😊😇😊🥰
Also, I'm surprised Sabbat didn't come up within that iceberg.
Thanks for your hard work on this! You missed a bunch but such is life.
Great job! Hard to cover everyone. Part 2? Boredoms,Boris, Church Of Misery,Acid Mother's Temple,Loudness,Zeni Geva/KK Null to name a few. GULCH and Maximum The Hormone videos were great too. Looking forward to what's next.
thanx lots of suggestions for new stuff but it seemed that many of the bands I know well were missed: Band Maid, Gacharic Spin have to near tier one & more obscure but brilliant bands such as: Sokoninaru, 88Kasyo Junrei, Midori's Jazz Core and Self Deconstruction's Power Violence but at least you had some noise and GrindCore which I'm lead to believe do not do well in Japan, at least not these days.
Cool video. It's nice to see people making videos on this scene.
As mostly a rock fan, much of this particular iceberg was either too mellow or too extreme for me, but it's always exciting to give new bands a try, so thanks. For other rock fans, I'll throw out some suggestions: Sloth Love Chunks, Ling Tosite Sigure, Noodles, Glim Spanky, Bloodthirsty Butchers, Mass of the Fermenting Dregs, The Cabs, Sparta Locals, my plastic JonBenet doll, Sokoninaru, Seagull Screaming Kiss Her Kiss Her.
You're a natural youtuber. Keep up the good work!
thanks, i really appreciate that!
hey nice list, I wasnt expecting diru to show up that early, since you mentioned them I recommend sukekiyo, they play some very beautiful and experimental stuff, also heavy at times, kyo is the vocalist
and since you mentioned Merzbow and his collab with Full of Hell, I also recommend the band Boris from Japan, they have a lot of collab with Merzbow, you simply blink and they will release a collab with him
theres a lot of other interesting acts that could make a part 2 like Yukiko Okada, Nipponia Nippon, that misterious tape song etc...
sukekiyo is sick! i'll check out boris too, heard of them but never listened. thanks
That was a nice video, I was surprised to see Pikarin as Tier 5
However, i was missing Gallhammer because you mention the band Mayhem.
Gallhammers singer Eri Isaka is actualy engaged with Maniac.
Some surprising honorable mentions. Pizzicato 5, The Peanuts, the group that laid a lot of the foundation for Idols and got me into Japanese music. I remember sitting in my living room as a kid and they came on Ed Sullivan. I was in love with Japanese music since, though it was some years before I knew it. Judy and Mary, they were very interesting. Show Ya and Shonen Knife, who really paved the way for all the girl/kawaii rock bands of today. Kyary Pamyu Pamyu. If you mention Hanabie you have got to mention Nemophila, Lovebites, and Band-Maid, all of whom are in stages of blowing up. And - Gacharic Spin. I don't see how they were overlooked. Scandal and Stereopony are two other bands that started the women rock band wave we are going through today.
And I left out Yasutaka Nakata, who with his own group Capsule, and later producing Kyary Pamyu Pamyu, Meg, and Perfume has had a profound influence on bringing Japanese music to the globe.
What about Band-Maid, Scandal, The Brilliant Green, Tommy february/Tommy Heavenly??? Props for Hako, Tricot and Otoboke Beaver!!
I started following Japanese band Scandal, and I went way down into the Japanese alt-rock/alt pop rabbit hole. Scandal, Htirorie, Akai Koen (赤い公園) and these are the "better known" bands. Inshow-Ha, Stereogirl, and Haku are some of my recent favorites. Bands even Japanese listeners probably aren't familiar with. But so much amazing music coming from Japan!
I would love to see ENDON on this iceberg as well, such an emotional Noisemetal/Noisegrind band from Japan. Their album "Through The Mirror" makes you want to be violent and melancholic at the same time. The also played some US tours and the singer always puts in 100% emotion, its insane. Sadly their member Etsuo Nagura died in 2020, on stage he played his noise synth setup like a guitar. While the band is starting to become active again, I hope they are doing well mentally and will have more success in the future.
I’m sorry but I watched a little then started to skim through. However what I am getting at is did you even mention Nemophila? My favorite heavy metal band. I know lots coming out of Japan.
Creo que es una lista de bandas antiguas que están jubiladas! Es inconcebible que no estén Nemophila y lovebites!
I'm putting this on my "to-watch" list.
Because of the language barrier (i guess), japanese music is generally not very known in Europe.
Which give to videos like these their interest.
Thank you for helping more people to discover all those artists.
Regards
TheSearjeremy
thanks, king. i hope more people discover great music around the world through videos like these
I'd say you missed several bands, but these 4 are definitely important. Band-Maid, NIngen Isu, Gacharic Spin, and Nemophilia.
I see you've already been told who you missed by plenty of comments.
I don't know if anyone's mentioned. Unlucky Morpheus yet, or Rose Noire.
Anyway, this is a great video and I really enjoyed it!
So many bands I've never heard of that I now have on my playlist!
Keep up the great work.
Love this video, I fell in to the Japanese Rabbit Hole in 2018 when I saw Chai as a support Band for Superorganism. There's Two OG Japanese bands that I'm surprised are not on your list. Shonen Knife (aka Osaka Ramones) have just completed their 40Th anniversary tour and arguably were the best known Japanese Band outside Japan (Until Babymetal took that honour) and also The Blue Hearts. Their song Linda Linda is one of the most covered japanese songs, they also spawned a K band called the Linda Linda's. You did mention Tricot though, prob my favourite Japanese Band at the moment.
thank you, just checked out shonen knife and i like them! very feel-good stuff. the blue hearts is also great, i like their song, "bomber on the moon." tricot is awesome, i almost saw them in dallas in 2018 but got sick and am still kicking myself over it...
@@bhristianbortes Shonen Knife are very old school punk. I saw them in Edinburgh last year, amazing live (as every Japanese band I've Seen). Tricot played Glasgow Last November but It was the same night as i was seeing another Japanese band, Chai (what are the Chances). They tour often so they will be back. I'm also going to see a Japanese band called Mass of the Fermenting Dregs in March. If you don't know them I can't recommened them enough. They play 90s UK indie music but with perfection. I've also saw Otoboke Beaver and Korea's Drinking Boys and Girls Choir. Need to tick MTH and Hanabie off my list now. Your videos are brilliant, looking forward to more.
@@DMCDObidon i'll definitely check them all out, thanks for the suggestions! much appreciated.
@@bhristianbortes
THE BLUE HEARTS Hiroto Komoto
Major debut in 1987
His representative songs are “Linda Linda” and “TRAIN-TRAIN”
Japanese punk band vocalist
Hiroto off the wall🤘
BAND-MAID and Scandal - you should know about both of these bands; they each just owned the number one sales spot in CDJapan's all genre category with their recent respective releases -which I believe is a first for both bands. Scandal just set the world record for longest lasting all female band with original members: 17 years. BAND-MAID just celebrated their 10th anniversary with all original members. I'll give you a nod for including BabyMetal, Wagakki Band, Imperial Circus Dead Decadence, Otoboke Beaver and Hanabie. You definitely missed several while you were favoring airtime for MTH: Galneryus, Yousei Teikoku, Unlucky Morpheus, Aldious, Bridear, Mardelas, Lovebites, Nemophila, Onmyo-za, Ningen Isu, and undead corporation. I trust you will correct this in your next video.
Where is Lovebites and Nemophila in that list ? :)
Lo mismo pregunto!
That was very interesting. I didn't know most but I did know many. I am not into noise or city pop but was aware the genres. You know that Necromidol imploded? Only Himari Tsukishiro is left, and she is pursuing her solo career as Isliel. Still doing metal-idol. The whole alt-idol scene is constantly churning. The 1st Japanese group I got interested in was Far East Mention Mannequins (FEMM) a EDM/Pop/Rap duo that quit at the end of 2023 after 10 years. For metal, I suggest checking out Ningen Isu, who've been around since 1987. Generally labeled as doom metal, Black Sabbath is an influence. Glad you liked Hanabie, check out a metal band they've played with, Nemophila. And for an interesting idol group check out Atarashii Gakko. They do their own choreography and have interesting music. I've managed to see three Japanese bands so far in the US: Band-Maid, Babymetal, and Nemophila. All do great live shows.
I've been listening to Japanese bands for a few years now but and mostly bands from the last 10 to 15 years at that so, probably unsurprisingly, I'd never come across Hako Yamasaki. WOW what a voice. Thanks for pointing her out to me.
The list seems from 10 years ago.
Today you cannot miss:
Yoasobi ("Idol")
Band-Maid ("Domination")
Lovebites ("Judgment Day")
Asterism ("Dawn")
Nemophila ("Dissension")
And you missed some of the best Japanese oldies:
Ningen-Isu ("Heartless Scat")
Show-Ya ("I am a Storm")
etc...
Which tier should the Sakamichi and Starto groups fall into? Mrs. GREEN APPLE also seems pretty popular, in fact they just won the 65th Japan Records.
"All The Footprints You've Ever Left And The Fear Expecting Ahead" by Envy was such a great trip when i heard a record for the first time during my short journey into screamo. Also i can recommend Exclaim if you love fast and noisy hardcore punk. They were great.
Part 2 plz 🙏
With the mentions of Death Side, SOB, and Corrupted, I thought that bands like Confuse or Gloom would have been mentioned as well. They’re pretty noisy and influential among a certain subset of punks worldwide and.
Great video!
Here are just some of my favourite Japanese bands, who weren’t included on this list:
Number Girl
Quruli
Yura Yura Teikoku
Les Rallizes Dénudés
Hanabie
Mari Hamada
Zabadak
Shingetsu
Ichiko Aoba
Kaneko Ayano
Ging Nang Boyz
yonige
toe
Sheena Ringo
Akina Nakamori
While music scene nowadays in Japan is heavily influenced by Vocaloid and anime songs, which have found a prominent place on the country's music charts. It is worth noting that the Vocaloid scene, which originated from the Niconico sub-culture in the late 2010s, has also contributed significantly to the growth and diversity of Japanese music.
However, I think this list of Japanese music already represents a comprehensive and varied range of musical styles and genres.
I don't know if an iceberg of Japanese musicians makes sense. There isn't enough room to squeeze in all the important ones. It ends up being a list of one person's favorite artists, which may not be of interest to anyone else. Maybe an iceberg of music genres would make more sense.
With no mention of Band-Maid, I can't take this list even remotely serious.
No kidding, and no mention of Lovebites, Mary's Blood, Aldious, Mardelas, Bridear, Trident, Disqualia, and a number of others.
What about Cassiopeia, Orquesta De La Luz, TOKYO SKA PARADISE ORCHESTRA, Hiromi Uehara and SOIL&"PIMP"SESSIONS? Idol and rock aren't the only types of Japanese music.
I would have loved to see Masayoshi Takanaka, Galneryus, Gyze and Esprit D'Air
midnight Pretenders was sampled in The Weeknd's Out of Time
I was intrigued to see this pop up, then realized you largely missed the most exciting scene in Japanese music today--the all-female metal and hard rock bands.
How the heck is Hanatarash that high and the likes of Envy, Melt Banana, etc lower than it? Lol, anyways some good picks, fucking love Corrupted! Also just toss in all harsh noise at the bottom haha
ICDD's position is deserved. Seemingly people only know them from osu!, and Geometry Dash as "the people who made the Orochi song" lol
They deserve more attention
What do you know about a band called polysics?
Dont wanna be the „you Missed this and that „ guy but For me les rallizes denudes and masayoshi Takanaka would be on the List too.
Also lets Not forget the Noisy crust and d-Beat scene.
Hey you have missed malice mizer , due le quartz ,hide with spread beaver etcc
Yeah tricot fan here too
Familiar with a lot of these, though the specific nuances was hidden from me. I am curious if I'm the only one that likes Candy Spooky Theatre. It's not like they're great, rather it holds a similar place that The Wall does in US movie culture. My favorite thematically is Kamijo and Hazaki. I find the way J-Rock interprets vampire themes really fascinating.
Ah yep there we go, Necornomidol / Imperiet TV.
Hit with Maximum the Hormone and Hako Yamasaki, missed with no Band-Maid, Tokyo Jihen / Sheena Ringo, Ado, Atarashii Gakko!
Overall D+ overview
Qué gran video historia de la música japonesa, me gustó mucho! Yo no sabia nada de nada de Japón, referente a lo musical. Comprendo también que los nombrados aquí, son de tú agrado . Tampoco podías nombrar a todos, que duda cabe! Hace cuatro años descubrí una banda que encendió mi curiosidad por el metal japonés, averigüe escuché y no me gustó casi ninguna, Lovebites un poco, igual Hanabie .
Soy occidental, tengo otros gustos.
Pero quiero felicitar al metalero japonés que ahora existe Nemophila, verdadera banda emblema que tiene muchas posibilidades de ser realmente exitosas internacionalmente ! Tienen todo para lograrlo, talento, carisma y a Mayu! Una verdadera cantante polivalente única fantástica! Una verdadera estrella de rock! Es mi opinión personal! Saludos desde Buenos Aires y gracias. 👍
haha I was at that same Hanabie show!
Me giggling because visual kei is on the ice berg
How you miss guitar wolf, mfs had a movie
You BETTER bring up Anthem in this! What Loudness was, Anthem should’ve been. They were the band that should’ve broke America to Japanese heavy metal.
More than half of them are unknown to average Japanese listeners. I wonder if this should be counted as Japanese music. In any case, there are too many artists in Japan, and most of them are useless and disappear without ever seeing the light of day.
where is boris. where is toe. where is fishmans. where is lamp. where is tricot. where is MIDORI.
Tricot got an HONORABLE MENTION
YEAH BB 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Gotta be honest
im a bit surpsired that
The Mad Capsule Markets were not mentioned? or i may have missed it?
However Tricot got mentoned !!!
yeah i missed a bunch lmao look at these comments! in my defense, i didn't make the iceberg but i def could've put more bands in this vid. japanese music is a very very broad topic so of course i was gonna miss some
@@bhristianbortes You did an awesome job though man.
The Mad Capsule Markets are their own iceberg lol.
Its really hard to find any info on them and why they split
but when both singers Kyono and Takeshi Ueda went their ways they still made amazing music that sounded very Mad Capsule like.
AA= the current band created by Takeshi Ueda is one of my top 5 bands ever. He also wrote and composed the song Gimme Chocolate and Awada Fewer for Baby Metal
Ooh,B'z!!
Wagakki Band just announced that they will be going on hiatus. 😢
NOOOOOOOOOO
Very sad ... I had not heard this :( .
My favorite japanese Babymetal, you missed Band-maid !!!!!, Scandal from Osaka, you missed again, ok for maximum the hormone.
how can you even make an iceberg for japanese music.. and I do feel this list is quite strange mix and definitely from a western perspective
Utada Hikaru
Ayyyye dallas fam
Also what about a Japanese math rock video?
hatsune miku and utaite must be below the iceberg
No Lovebites? And you can't talk about Japanese Rock and Metal with out Show-Ya and Shonen Knife.
Full of Hell & Merzbow made me a noise fan, just give yourself some time
Akibahara→Akihabara😊👍
No Band-Maid?
Seriously!
日本人より詳しい……
ENDLESS DISMAL MOAN MENTIONED!!!!
This could have been done by someone actually passionate about Japanese music and culture and able to pronounce it. The creator's anime taste speaks volumes. But it's not all his fault. Whoever made the iceberg butchered it. Sheena ringo is literally missing yet dir en grey isnt? Lol.
At least hasami group is safe.
I'm not gonna lie, seeing a bunch of old guys behind all these idol groups is kinda concerning. 😅
oh boy do i have news for you LOL
Idol groups are, almost entirely, created by entertainment companies rather than formed by the members themselves. They have auditions and select members from the people trying out. Since most such businesses are run be older men, it's unsurprising that older men are behind the groups.
It's not any different than the K-Pop world. The three largest KPop companies are all run by the men who created them (JYP Entertainment, SM Entertainment, and YG Entertainment).
I got introduced to Japanese metal music through the slam metal band Gorevent, and honestly I've been really missing out sticking with mostly western metal music