Over the last few years I really got into Japanese musicians — they are incredibly creative and I nearly always find their experiments with unifying very different genres surprising but pleasing to the ears.

So without a further ado I present you this list of various Japanese rock and metal bands I listen to.

➤ ultimate favourites

• coldrain
• Crossfaith
• Crystal Lake
• Earthists.
• From The Abyss
• Gyroaxia
• Hello Sleepwalkers
• Make My Day
• Noisemaker
• Prompts
• Sokoninaru
• The Cards I Play
• The Oral Cigarettes
• The Sixth Lie

➤ artists I listen to often

• 9mm Parabellum Bullet
• A Barking Dog Never Bites
• a crowd of rebellion
• a flood of circle
• A Ghost of Flare
• abstracts
• Band-Maid
• Blue Encount
• C-Gate
• climbgrow
• Fade In Solitude
• Falling Asleep
• FOAD
• Granrodeo
• Heresy
• Hitorie
• kami wa saikoro wo furanai
• mildrage
• My First Story
• Ogasawara Jin
• Oldcodex
• One Eye Closed
• One Ok Rock (I only like their earlier songs though)
• Paledusk
• Pulse Factory
• Sailing Before The Wind
• Survive Said The Prophet
• The Gazette
• Unvision

➤ artists I listen to on occasion

• 20/Around
• 5PM Promise
• Ace Collection
• Afterglow
• Alexandros
• Ares Inwords
• Argonavis
• Before My Life Fails
• Daybreak of Silence
• DISH//
• Eversolitude (ex. Solitude A Sleepless Nights)
• Field of Forest
• Graupel
• Half Time Old
• InFix
• INKT
• Irie Boys
• Keytalk
• Lumber Coated Rust
• Man With A Mission
• Mercy Personality !s Dark
• Never Fade
• Northern Crossroads
• Nothing's Carved In Stone
• Novelbright
• Praise
• Sable Hills
• Saintz
• Same Old Same Old
• Sighnool
• Street Story
• The Last November
• Trident
• Unbleed
• Winseth
• Winter Wakes
• You Exist
• yozitsu