Interview : Pata - X Japan - We Are X (DVD)

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Seven, nearly all, of the album's songs were released as singles, most of which also topped the singles chart and sold well. Only a few months after the release of Art of Life in , X Japan began recording and releasing singles that would appear on their next studio album Dahlia , which released in turned out to be their last.

The following year was also slow, until November 19 when the band began the tour for their next album, Dahlia Tour Around this time, is when the group dropped most of its original visual kei aesthetics in favor of a more casual look. The cover of the album was taken on the street of Broadway in New York City. The Dahlia Tour continued from into with quite a few dates cancelled after the March 13 show, because of Yoshiki's neck injury.

Besides a handful of releases, the beginning of was quiet for the band, with no concerts performed. Until September 22, , when it was officially announced that X Japan would disband as vocalist Toshi decided to leave the group.

Dahlia contains relatively little new material considering most tracks on it had been released as singles. The album is composed largely of ballads , with only a few tracks i. The track "Dahlia" is one of Yoshiki's last compositions in his signature blend of speed and symphonic metal. The ballad "Tears" was written and composed by Yoshiki about the death of his father, though credited as co-authored by one of his aliases Hitomi Shiratori.

The instrumental "Wriggle" is Heath 's only contribution to the band's catalogue, which he wrote with Pata. The album was released on November 4, , by Atlantic Records. In the third counting week of November it reached number one on the Oricon chart, with sales of , copies [4] and was certified platinum. It charted for 15 weeks, the shortest of all the band's major studio albums. But rock music absorbed my anger, especially. And Kiss was my entrance to that world. It was rock music, but it was so beautiful.

Those three albums changed me: they had beautiful melodies but were still very heavy. And when we started our own band we wanted to be even faster and heavier! But the fans who followed him always knew there was a Hide behind that who was a very solid character. He was very outspoken about freedom and doing what you want".

Hide is regarded as very influential to not only contemporary Japanese musicians, but also to his generation. X Japan is considered one of the founders of visual kei , a movement among Japanese musicians comparable to Western glam , [2] and subsequently are influences to many newer bands. When they disbanded, Hide was the only member to carry on with the look and had the most successful solo career.

Hide has been compared to Kurt Cobain and Jimi Hendrix with regards to his impact on Japanese youth, having been "elevated to a 'guitar god' status. Many Japanese felt stifled by convention and identified with his naughty rebelliousness; he became a cult figure.

The torch has been passed to us. Hide's backing band for his solo career: []. X Japan guitarist Pata made numerous live appearances with the band and also appears on a couple studio recordings.

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. This article is about the former guitarist of X Japan. For the guitarist of Buck-Tick, see Hidehiko Hoshino. Alternative rock heavy metal industrial rock. Musician singer-songwriter record producer.

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