◇ image via WikipediaX Japan
X Japan is a Heavy metal act. Their sound grew out of Colour, Bow Wow and Coldrain. Those roots explain a lot about how X Japan arrange songs and choose their tones. They run in the same orbit as Luna Sea, DIR EN GREY, Vamps, The Yellow Monkey and Lynch., sharing audiences, venues and reference points rather than a straight line of influence. Their influence carried into DIR EN GREY, Dezert, Esprit D'Air, Sadie and Black Light Burns, where the same ideas turn up rearranged for a later generation. Altogether the chart holds 22 connections around X Japan, reaching back through Colour and forward to DIR EN GREY. Follow any of those threads to keep travelling the influence between bands and genres on Starverb.
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X Japan connections
X Japan grew out of Colour, Bow Wow and Coldrain, shares an orbit with Luna Sea, DIR EN GREY, Vamps and The Yellow Monkey, went on to shape DIR EN GREY, Dezert, Esprit D'Air and Sadie. 22 connections mapped across roots, kindred and legacy.
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