Title: X Japan
Content:  X Japan's music developed in the wake of American and British glam and heavy metal music, and is characterized by driving speed/power metal compositions with symphonic elements (e.g. "Kurenai", "Silent Jealousy") and emotional ballads (e.g. "Endless Rain", "Forever Love"). Many of the group's songs make use of orchestrated passages, particularly on longer tracks such as the ten and a half minute "Tears", "Crucify My Love", and the twenty-nine-minute "Art of Life". The majority of the band's lyrics are in Japanese, the band's native language, however many instances show the lyrics alternating from Japanese to English and back. Examples of this include the spoken-word background vocals during the bridge of "Rusty Nail", and multiple lines (including the entire pre-chorus) of the song 
Title: X Japan
Content:  X Japan (エックス・ジャパン) is a Japanese rock band from Chiba, formed in 1982 by drummer Yoshiki and lead vocalist Toshi. Starting as a predominantly power/speed metal band with heavy symphonic elements, they later gravitated towards a progressive sound with an emphasis on ballads. Besides being one of the first Japanese acts to achieve mainstream success while on an independent label, the group is widely credited as one of the pioneers of visual kei, a movement among Japanese musicians comparable to Western glam. Originally named, they released their debut album Vanishing Vision (1988) on Yoshiki's own Extasy Records one year after finalizing their line-up including bassist Taiji, 
Title: J-pop
Content:  male bands who wore makeup, extravagant hair styles, and androgynous costumes. The most successful representatives of the movement are X Japan (formerly known as "X") and Buck-Tick. X Japan released their first album Vanishing Vision on the indie label Extasy Records in 1988; their album Blue Blood was released on CBS Sony in 1989. Blue Blood sold 712,000 copies, and their 1991 album Jealousy sold over 1.11 million copies. Surprisingly, X Japan were a heavy metal band, but guitarist hide later came under the influence of alternative rock, releasing his first solo album Hide Your Face in 1994 and launching his successful solo career.
Title: X Japan discography
Content: 1.The numbers are purely based on RIAJ certifications 
Title: X Japan
Content:  its ten years of production, several release dates were announced, but it remains unreleased despite Yoshiki's claim of its completion in September 2018. X Japan has released five studio albums, six live albums, and 21 singles. In 2003, HMV Japan ranked the band at number 40 on their list of the 100 most important Japanese pop acts. In 2007, Rolling Stone Japan ranked Blue Blood number 15 on its list of the 100 Greatest Japanese Rock Albums of All Time. In 2017, Loudwire named X Japan the Best Metal Band from Japan. It has been reported that X Japan has sold over 30 million records.
Title: X Japan
Content:   X Japan is considered one of the founders of visual kei, a movement among Japanese musicians comparable to Western glam, with the name itself believed to have been derived from their slogan "Psychedelic Violence Crime of Visual Shock". In 2011, Yoshiki briefly described their early years and the movement's development, saying "when we started the band, the problem was we didn’t belong anywhere. Because we were playing very heavy music, we were wearing tons of make-up and crazy outfits. So we couldn’t belong anywhere", "[We did our own thing and] that eventually became visual kei." He added "But visual kei is more like a spirit, it’s not a 
Title: List of Japanese rock music groups
Content: X Japan 
Title: List of musical artists from Japan
Content: X Japan 
Title: Untitled X Japan album
Content:  X Japan's new album was originally announced to be half new songs and half old songs newly recorded in English. In 2010, old songs said to have been re-recorded in English for the album included "Kurenai", "Art of Life", "Tears" and "Rusty Nail". However, this was eventually abandoned at some point in favor of entirely new material as Yoshiki said it did not feel right. Because it is the band's first record targeting a worldwide audience, "99% of the songs are in English." Yoshiki has questioned the reasons for making a full album in the era of streaming, but decided to make one with X Japan and 
Title: X Japan
Content:  sound that rejected the cookie-cutter principles of Japanese society." In 1998, Radio and TV host Bryan Burton-Lewis explained "In Japan, the image that we have of the X audience is rural kids going through a rebellion phase. They put their life into being X fans: they dress like it, they breathe it." In the documentary Global Metal, Yoshiki stated that the music industry and media hated the band and would not even interview them, "but eventually we sold 20 million albums, so they had no choice". X Japan has also been named one of the first Japanese acts to achieve mainstream success while on an independent record 

Question: What genre is X Japan?
Answer: heavy metal.
heavy metal music.
Heavy Metal.
Metal.
Metal music.
metal.
Heavy Metal Music.