The following is a list of notable Japanese rock bands and artists. For an extended list of J-Pop artists, see List of J-pop artists.
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Abingdon Boys School Acid Android Acid Black Cherry Aldious Alexandros Amazarashi A9 An Cafe Androp Animetal Anthem Apryl Fool Aqua Timez Asian Kung-Fu Generation Ayabie
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B'z Baad Babymetal Back-On The Back Horn Back Number Band-Maid Base Ball Bear The Bawdies Beat Crusaders The Blue Hearts Bomb Factory Boom Boom Satellites Boøwy Boris Bow Wow Brats Bridear Brian the Sun The Brilliant Green Buck-Tick Bump of Chicken Burnout Syndromes
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Cali Gari Chatmonchy Church of Misery Cinema Staff Coldrain Crystal Lake The Collectors Cö Shu Nie Cocobat Crossfaith Cyntia Czecho No Republic The Cabs
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Dimlim D D'espairsRay Diaura Dir En Grey DISH// Do As Infinity Does Doll$Boxx Dragon Ash
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Earthshaker Elephant Kashimashi Ellegarden Exist Trace Ezo
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Fate Gear Flow Flower Flower Flower Travellin' Band Flumpool Frederic Fear, and Loathing in Las Vegas For Tracy Hyde
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Gacharic Spin Gackt Galileo Galilei Galneryus Garnidelia Gastunk The Gazette Gesu no Kiwami Otome Girugamesh Glay Globe Godiego Going Under Ground Golden Bomber The Golden Cups Granrodeo Guitar Wolf
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Hagane Hanabie. Happy End Hello Sleepwalkers Hi-Standard The Hiatus High and Mighty Color Hitsujibungaku The High-Lows HY
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I Don't Like Mondays. Ikimono-gakari Indigo la End
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JAM Project Janne Da Arc Jealkb Judy and Mary Jupiter
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kizu Kuroyume Kagerou Kagrra, Kana-Boon Keytalk King Gnu Kyuso Nekokami
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L'Arc-en-Ciel Lazy Ling Tosite Sigure LM.C Loudness Lovebites Lovendor Lucious Luna Sea
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Malice Mizer Man with a Mission Mary's Blood Matenrou Opera Maximum the Hormone Mejibray Mongol800 Monkey Majik Monoral Moonriders The Mops Mr. Children Mrs. Green Apple Mucc My First Story Morfonica
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NaNa Nemophila Nico Touches the Walls Nightmare Ningen Isu No Regret Life Nothing's Carved in Stone Novelbright Number Girl
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Oblivion Dust Off Course Official Hige Dandism Okamoto's Oldcodex One Ok Rock Onmyo-Za The Oral Cigarettes Orange Range Outrage (band)
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P'unk-en-Ciel Passepied The Pees The Peggies The Pillows Plastic Tree Polkadot Stingray Polysics Poppin'Party Porno Graffitti Princess Princess
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Queen Bee Quruli
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Radwimps Roselia Raise A Suilen
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Sabbat Sakanaction Sambomaster Scandal Seikima-II Sekai no Owari Sex Machineguns Shonen Knife Show-Ya Sid Sigh Silent Siren SiM The Sixth Lie Skin Southern All Stars The Spiders Spitz Spyair Stereopony Straightener Super Beaver Suchmos Sug Sumika Supercar Superfly Survive Said The Prophet
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The Tempters The Tigers Toe (band) Tokio Tokyo Jihen Triceratops Tube (band)
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Undead Corporation Unicorn Unsraw Uroboros Uverworld
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Vamps
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Wagakki Band Wands Wanima Wino
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X Japan
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The Yellow Monkey
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ZARD Zazen Boys Zone Zutomayo Zoobombs
See also List of visual kei musical groups List of musical artists from Japan