Get ready for the sickness

I consider myself to be a J Rock and Visual Kei connoisseur. I have a never-ending need to find and hear new music and styles. I can say that starting this blog was a way to bring great bands to forefront. Yes, I know that there are so many J Rock blogs all over the web right now, and that I am just a little fish floating in a sea of other fans of a great scene and genre. The thing is,I feel that J Rock has got to be one of the most overlooked genres in music today. I went to Billboard.com and Rollingstone.com and I saw not one single article about Japanese Rock. Don't get me wrong; I really didn't expect to find anything about J Rock or Visual Kei anywhere in American magazines. I figured the most I would get is if I traveled to Anime Conventions and the like.

 I figured that it’s way past time to let the world know (especially in the United States of America) about these bands who kick ass and take names, social security numbers, and DNA samples whenever they turn on an amp and pick up a microphone. The bands that catch your attention not only with stunning beauty and cultural reverence, but with sickening bass riffs, and great melodic form.  The bands that have great bassists and drummers and mesmerizing guitarists. Bands that have vocalists who pound your eardrums, cerebral cortex, and soul with every syllable that bursts out of them with resounding roars, bellows, grunts, soothing harmonics and outright screams. The look is just the icing on the cake. 

I plan on showcasing bands who stand out to me and who have forged a niche in their own right. The intention is to cover all the nuances of J Rock/Visual Kei bands, from the looks, to the sounds,  and even bands who have disbanded but still brought their A game each and every time. Yes, I caught the J Rock virus a long time ago, and I plan on infecting others. Call me the “Typhoid Mary” of J Rock.

This is more than a communicable disease.

This is a plague.

There is no known cure.

You have been J Rock Infected.