統計情報 [online], Po przekierowaniu wpisać w pole nazwy artysty (jap. アーティスト) hasło X JAPAN, po czym kliknąć w pole wyszukiwania, Recording Industry Association of Japan(jap.).
CharlesCh.AaronCharlesCh., X Japan’s Incredible Ride: Meet Rock’s Most Flamboyant Survivors, „Rolling Stone”, 10 października 2014, Cytat: 30 years after forming in a suburb of Tokyo, the kings of Japanese glam rock are finally ready to take Madison Square Garden. (...) They are the avatars of Japan’s most epochal rock-inspired youth movement, „visual kei,” which reimagined Bowie, Iron Maiden, and the Sex Pistols as a fluorescent flowering of mascara sneers, severe frocks and skyscraper locks, all posing hard under the band’s howling tabloid slogan: „Psychedelic Violence Crime of Visual Shock.” Their first two thrash-metal singles were called „I’ll Kill You” and „Orgasm,” yet Yoshiki went on to compose and perform a piano concerto for the 10th anniversary of Japan’s Emperor Akihito (...).
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X Japan [online], sputnikmusic.com, Cytat: Genres: progressive metal, power metal, heavy metal(ang.).
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ThomasT.ConnerThomasT., X Japan: They’re huge (really), and they’re (finally) coming to the U.S., „Chicago Sun-Times”, 1 sierpnia 2010 [zarchiwizowane z adresu 2013-05-24], Cytat: Which band in this year’s Lollapalooza lineup has accomplished all of the following? (...) Created and popularized its own form of glam. Sold 30 million albums (...). The band is X Japan, the biggest rock band in Japanese history. The quintet came together in 1982 (originally called just X, but John Doe had something to say about it), disbanded in 1997 and re-formed in 2007. They started as a speed metal band with delusions of grandeur and evolved into a power-ballad powerhouse. Their shows are equal parts Anthrax and Céline Dion..
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ThomasT.ConnerThomasT., X Japan: They’re huge (really), and they’re (finally) coming to the U.S., „Chicago Sun-Times”, 1 sierpnia 2010 [zarchiwizowane z adresu 2013-05-24], Cytat: Which band in this year’s Lollapalooza lineup has accomplished all of the following? (...) Created and popularized its own form of glam. Sold 30 million albums (...). The band is X Japan, the biggest rock band in Japanese history. The quintet came together in 1982 (originally called just X, but John Doe had something to say about it), disbanded in 1997 and re-formed in 2007. They started as a speed metal band with delusions of grandeur and evolved into a power-ballad powerhouse. Their shows are equal parts Anthrax and Céline Dion..
