J-Roooooooooooooock!!!!: 10.Current Japanese rock music scene and musician

Japanese music scene has changed as the era and culture has changed. Musicians can make their songs known to people more than before because of internet. Before spread of internet, they should act many things to be known by people. It is so hard to do act because there were limited means, and those needed so much costs or hard to use, for example news parer, magazines, radio and TV, or hold live steadly. For obscure artists, to become popular was beyond their reach. but now, on the web, they can use the means like YOU TUBE or USTREAM to show their works. Shinsei kamattetyan is one famous example to become popular with internet. They distribute their songs on the blog or their live on the Niconico movie and you tube. With radical performance and unconventional character, they become topic of conversation and popular.

　　Sales form of music also has changed in these days. Nowadays, CD is not sold as well as before. It is rare that CD sales amounts to million. Instead of CD, now distribution of music's digital data on the network is popular. Also, songs are sold with the form of serial number that by input in the appropriate site, people can get the music data, or USB that contains music data.

In Japan, Loud rock music has been popular these days. Loud rock is one of the genre of heavy metal. Vocal uses shout, growl or grunts to make songs intense and heavy, and express their feelings. Guitar and bass melody also hard. Means of using electric sound is often used. Fact is famous group of loud rock, and they mainly performe in the U.S. Their sounds many elements like metal, dance, electronica and exteam, so very distinctive.

In Japan, Fear, and loathing in Las Vegas has become popular. They major debut in 2010, by releasing first CD on only tower record, but they become popular soon. Their tune take in not only element of loud rock like death growl and heavy sound, but also elements of trance like synthesizer, dance music and Auto-Tune that control vocal's voice, so it can hear like future music.

Soft and clear voice vocal's bands also popular. These bands has vocal that has high tone and clear, like juvenile voice. Their songs sound pop music rather than rock music. But their voice is so characteristic and beatiful therefore we can listen to the song comfortablly.

SEKAI NO OWARI is such band. But, their lyric is often so sad contrary to thesound. The gap is interresting.