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| I've been a fan of Heavy Metal since a child. My stepfather always used to listen to it. Any fans of Loudness? I became a big fan after listening to their Thunder in the East and was inspired to become a guitarist by Akira Takasaki's incredible talent. He beat out Eddie Van Halen and Yngwie Malmsteen as best guitarist in Holland with the release of the album Disillusion. I later became a huge fan of other Japanese bands such as Rajas, Blizard, Misako Honjoh, Marino, Make Up, XRay, 44 magnum, Anthem, Earthshaker, EZO aka Flatbacker, Dead End, Seikima II, Red Warriors, Vow Wow aka Bow Wow, Buck Tick, Gastunk, Hurry Scuary, Reaction, Presence Sabbrabells, Nokemono, Show Ya, Mari Hamada, Terra Rosa, Tilt, Ziggy, Action, D'erlanger, Fastdraw, Kuni, Color, Lazy, X later to be named X Japan(my fault, I was listening to X one day at work and a customer asked who it was because I guessed he liked the band and I said X and he said that was impossible because there is another band called X, the punk band from Los Angeles. I noticed that later with the release of the Album Art Of Life they changed their name to X Japan and asked him if he had anything to do with their name change and he said yes he had lawyers contact them saying that there is already a band called X and they had to change it. Its funny because the punk band X was laying dorment for a while.) Luna Sea, Mad Capsule Markets, Super Junky Monkey, La arc en ciel, Sly, Dir En Grey, Gackt, Malice Mizer, Moi Dix Mois, Laputa, Sex Machine Guns, Lareine, Shazna, La Mule, Siam Shade, Lucifer, and Raphael. I was listening to Japanese Metal concurrently with Korean Metal with bands such as Sinawe, Born Again, H2O, Baekdoosan, Black Hole, Black Syndrome, Dionysus, Avalance, Asiana, Foreign Legion, Eve, Armageddon, and Charisma. |
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