X JAPAN Wraps Up North American Tour

October 15, 2010

X JAPAN, the biggest rock band in Japan, wrapped up its first-ever North American tour last weekend with an SRO show at New York's Roseland Ballroom. Over the course of the seven dates, all played at theatre-sized venues, X JAPAN easily demonstrated why they've sold 30 million units and filled the 55,000-seat Tokyo Dome a whopping 18 times.

X JAPAN hadn't played venues this small in more than 20 years, so they tailored their "stadium-sensibility production" to the theaters, bringing in everything from lasers to pyrotechnics to CO2 to a jumbo screen.

If you missed seeing the band this time, they will be back, as 2011 will see a full-on North American tour.

The members of X JAPAN have been writing and recording what will be their first album to be released in North America and to contain English lyrics. According to mainman Yoshiki, about half of the album will feature some of the band's most popular songs from throughout their career, with all lyrics re-recorded in English, and the other half all brand-new songs.

A report from ABC News' "Amplified" can be seen below.

X JAPAN — Yoshiki (drums, piano),Toshi (vocals),Pata and Sugizo (guitars) and Heath (bass) — has its roots in the life-long friendship of Yoshiki and Toshi who met when they were four years old. While still in high school, they formed the band, known at the time simply as "X," and over the next 13 years, X JAPAN released five studio albums as well as six live albums, 10 compilation albums and 15 video albums, and attained iconic status in Japan. With the late-90s breakdown of Yoshiki and Toshi's friendship, combined by the sudden death of then-guitarist Hide, the band called it quits. It wasn't until 2007 that Toshi and Yoshiki reunited, that X JAPAN was reformed, and that the band put America back in its sights.

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